BMO Announces Winners For BMO 1st Art! Awards-Canada's Emerging Student Artists
- Prize money doubled this year to mark tenth anniversary of Awards - National winner receives $10,000 prize and 12 regional winners from across Canada receive recognition and reward for their exceptional creativity from the 10th annual BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/15/12 -- BMO Financial Group today announced one national and 12 regional winners of the BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. As Canada's only national graduating artist competition, BMO 1st Art! honours visual arts excellence in post-secondary institutions from coast to coast. This year's winners were selected from 235 entries.
Deans and instructors of undergraduate certificate, diploma, and degree arts programs are invited to select three graduating students who stand out from among their peers due to their skill and imagination. A panel of esteemed judges chooses an overall national winner and one winner from each eligible province and territory.
In celebration of this year's 10th anniversary for BMO 1st Art! the prize money has doubled. The national winner now receives $10,000 and the regional winners each receive $5,000. As the ultimate accolade, the national winner's artwork becomes part of the BMO Corporate Art Collection, which includes historical and contemporary Canadian masters such as Kenojuak Ashevak, Emily Carr, Paterson Ewen, Marc-Aurele Fortin, Lawren Harris, Ian Wallace and many others.
The remarkable works produced by the 2012 winners cover a range of themes in a variety of media. They include:
"This year's BMO 1st Art! submissions once again demonstrate the impressive scope and breadth of the young, artistic talent that exists across Canada," said Gilles Ouellette, President and CEO, Private Client Group, BMO Financial Group. "We recognize the passion and focus that these emerging artists put into each piece and we are proud to present their artwork to a public audience in the hopes of empowering and encouraging each of them to pursue their artistic dreams."
"BMO 1st Art! provides an unprecedented platform for Canada's graduating artists to showcase their unique works to a broader audience including the Canadian public and art industry experts and professionals," said Dawn Cain, Curator, BMO Financial Group, Corporate Art Collection.
Representing the best of Canada's newest generation of artists, all of the BMO 1st Art! winners' works will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), 952 Queen Street West in Toronto from October 3 - 28, 2012.
The winning pieces can also be viewed on BMO Financial Group's website .
About BMO Financial Group
Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly-diversified North American financial services organization. With total assets of $477 billion as at October 31, 2011, and more than 47,000 employees, BMO Financial Group provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.
For more than 194 years, BMO Financial Group has believed in community reinvestment and corporate and social responsibility in the communities it serves. In 2011, BMO contributed more than $66.4 million in donations, sponsorships and events in Canada and the United States to groups, organizations and programs that help build and sustain resilient, vital and healthy communities.
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BMO Financial Group
Beja Rodeck, Toronto
(416) 867-3996
Valerie Doucet, Montreal
(514) 877-8224
Laurie Grant, Vancouver
(604) 665-7596
To arrange to speak with any of the winners, please contact:
Holly Beetham
647-289-7087
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