The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) awarded the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) with two awards on Nov. 18, according to a press release from Carleton.
At the OAAG’s 38th annual awards ceremony in Toronto, CUAG received two exhibition awards in the categories of “First Exhibition in a Public Art Gallery” and “Innovation in a Collections-Based Exhibition.”
The First Exhibition in a Public Art Gallery award went to Johnny Alam’s exhibition, “Art on a Green Line,” which explores artistic responses to the Lebanese Civil War. Alam, a Carleton PhD student, researches Lebanese artists in the war generation, according to the release.
The second award, Innovation in a Collections-Based Exhibition, was awarded to the “Not a new world, just an old trick” exhibition by Samuel Roy-Bois. Roy-Bois’ exhibition featured a wooden “gallery within a gallery” which contained a collection of more than 90 “idiosyncratic” artworks, according to the release.
