$100,000 awarded at the Edmonton Arts Prizes presentation
May 3, 2023
This evening, the primary winners of the Edmonton Arts Prizes were announced and honoured for their excellence in music, visual art, film and literature at the awards presentation at Westbury Theatre. For the first time ever, the four separately formed arts prizes were jointly celebrated in a presentation that included Councillor Ashley Salvador, Métis Ward, Debbie Houle, Vice-Chair of the Edmonton Arts Council and Tina Thomas, CEO of the Edmonton Community Foundation.
Each of the twelve nominated artists received a prize, with $15,000 going to the primary prize recipient in each category, and two secondary prizes of $5,000 awarded to the runners up. In total, $100,000 was awarded to the artists.
Congratulations to the 2022 Edmonton Arts Prizes winners:
The City of Edmonton Music Prize
Primary winner: Cristian de la Luna
Runners up: Cikwes and King of Foxes
The Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize
Primary winner: Riaz Mehmood
Runners up: Madeline LeBlanc and Heather Shillinglaw
The Robert Kroetsch — City of Edmonton Book Prize
Primary winner: Matthew James Weigel
Runners up: Norma Dunning and Michael Hingston
The City of Edmonton Film Prize
Primary winner: Katrina Beatty
Runners up: Kyle Edward Ball and Frederick Kroetsch
“Congratulations to the winners of the Edmonton Arts Prizes. We thank our prize partners, peer juries and nominators for their commitment to Edmonton artists,” said Debbie Houle, Vice-Chair of the Edmonton Arts Council Board of Directors at the awards ceremony. “The prizes are truly emblematic of Edmonton’s ingenuity, creativity, and collaborative spirit. They bring well-deserved recognition to the recipients and our city, as well as providing the artists with a meaningful financial investment and vote of confidence in their artistic practices.”
The prize program is coordinated by the Edmonton Arts Council, in partnership with the City of Edmonton, Alberta Media Production Industries Association, Alberta Music, Audreys Books, CARFAC Alberta, Edmonton Community Foundation and Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
More information on the Edmonton Arts Prizes can be found here.
