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Joan Lowndes Award

The Joan Lowndes Award, valued at $3,500, is given every year to an independent critic or curator in recognition of excellence and meritorious achievement in critical or curatorial writing contemporary Canadian visual and media arts. The winner is selected among the recipients of the program of Assistance to Professional Independent Critics and Curators.