CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2010 SOBEY ART AWARD

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: MARCH 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: CANADIAN ARTISTS UNDER 40 The 2010 Sobey Art Award is officially accepting nominations for this year’s prize. The $50,000 award is Canada’s premier visual art award given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The five finalists of the 2010 Award will be announced in June, 2010. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal from October 8, 2010 to January 3, 2011. The winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award will be announced during a gala event at the Musée d’art contemporain in November 2010. The 2010 curatorial advisory panel is made up of five distinguished representatives from a Canadian art gallery in each of the five regions: the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and the North, and the West Coast and Yukon. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2010. For more information and nominations guidelines please visit www.sobeyartaward.ca . For more information please contact: Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1723 Hollis St., Box 2262, Halifax NS B3J 3C8
902.424.5169 phone | 902 424 7359 fax
gov.ns.ca | www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca