Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | 2:45 PM ET
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Seven mid-career artists have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
Carrying a cash prize of $15,000 each, the prizes honour outstanding mid-career artists in each of the seven disciplines funded by the council: dance, integrated arts, media arts, visual arts, music, theatre and writing/publishing.
This year's winners are:
- Integrated arts - Toronto-based visual artist and Prof. Diane Borsato
- Theatre - Montreal set and costume designer Linda Brunelle
- Writing/publishing - Pender Island, B.C.-based poet Marlene Cookshaw
- Visual arts - Vancouver conceptual and installation artist Geoffrey Farmer
- Dance - Toronto dancer and choreographer Susanna Hood
- Media arts - Halifax-area writer and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell
- Music - German-born, Montreal-based contemporary classical composer Michael Oesterle
The awards were established from a bequest left to the council by the late Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton in 1967.
Past winners have included photographer Jeff Wall, singer Jane Siberry, composers John Weinzweig, John Burke and Alexina Louie, painters Guido Molinari and Fernard Leduc, sculptors Joe Fafard and Betty Goodwin, jazz musician and composer Brad Turner, writer Lynn Coady and director Claude Jutra.
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