Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards
The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, worth $15,000, are awarded annually starting in 2005 for outstanding artistic achievement by Canadian mid-career artists in the disciplines of Dance, Inter-Arts, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts and Writing and Publishing.
The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Fund originated from a generous bequest by the late Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton to the Canada Council for the Arts in 1967. Until 2005, the annual revenues were used to award senior grants in Visual Arts and Music.
The winners of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards are selected by peer assessement committees among the successful mid-career applicants to Canada Council programs - one in each discipline.
Through a nomination process, the peer assessment committees of the Grants to Professional Artists programs during the 2008‑2009 fiscal year selected the most outstanding professional mid-career artists among the successful applicants.