Pavitra Wickramasinghe of Concordia University and Aude Moreau of the Université du Québec à Montréal announced as fellowship laureatesOn
May 10, 2011, at the Galerie de l'UQAM, the Claudine and Stephen
Bronfman Family Foundation presented the 2011 Claudine and Stephen
Bronfman Fellowships in Contemporary Art to
Pavitra Wickramasinghe of Concordia University and
Aude Moreau
of the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The awarding of these
postgraduate fellowships, each with a value of $55,000 over a two-year
period, took place in the presence of Claudine and Stephen Bronfman,
Catherine Wild, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia, Louise
Poissant, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at UQAM, and Dr. Claude Corbo,
Rector at UQAM.
From
left: Louise Poissant, Aude Moreau, Claudine Bronfman, Stephen
Bronfman, Catherine Wild, Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Dr. Claude Corbo | Photo by Denis Bernier Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowships in Contemporary ArtThese
two fellowships, awarded annually to a post-graduate student in Visual
and Media Arts in the Faculty of Arts at UQAM and in the Faculty of Fine
Arts at Concordia University, were created in December 2009 thanks to a
generous donation of $550,000 from the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman
Family Foundation. The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in
Contemporary Art is an invaluable aid in launching the careers of these
emerging artists. It allows them to develop their professional practice,
to engage in research and creation, and to gain teaching experience.
Read about how the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowships in Contemporary Art has allowed the inaugural fellows to devote themselves fully to the conceptualization, production and dissemination of their work.
