DISTINGUISHED
ARTIST

EMERGING
ARTIST

Congratulations to our ten 2024 Emerging Artists

Ten outstanding  2024 Emerging  Artists  were announced on June 20 2024. For more details on these Emerging Artists see their individual webpages and meet them via their profile video.

LG Arts Awards Foundation Board Chair Arlene Strom says “We are proud and honoured to invest $100,000 in the careers of these outstanding artists. Our artists  enrich our province immeasurably, and these 10 artists have much to share with us!”

2024 Emerging Artists

Kate Black writer

Nicole Charlton Goodbrand dancer

Marjie Crop Eared Wolf visual artist

Gabrielle Després violinist

Braxton Garneau visual artist 

Erina Harris poet

Skylar Kay poet

Anna Kuelken filmmaker

James Odin Wade playwright

Lynda Williams writer

About the
Lieutenant
Governor of
Alberta
Arts Awards

The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation was established in 2003 and its first awards program for Distinguished Artists was launched in 2005. The Emerging Artist Awards program began in 2008.

Since then, 84 Emerging and 26 Distinguished Artists have been recognized with this prestigious award. Recipients span the rich offering of visual, performing, film, design and literary professional arts in the province. These outstanding artists continue to contribute to Alberta’s rich cultural fabric in communities across the province – and across Canada.

The Honourable Salma Lakhani Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ALBERTA

Salma Lakhani is a community leader and volunteer who is guided by her deep commitment to the values of pluralism and inclusion and her dedication to championing those who face barriers in life. Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, she came to Canada in 1977 as a stateless person after all Ugandans of Asian origin were expelled from that country. She is a proud Ismaili Muslim who has offered longstanding service to a range of organizations, including NorQuest College, the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, the Aga Khan Foundation Canada, Kids Kottage, Sorrentino’s Compassion House, the Alberta Cancer Board and the Zebra Foundation.

She began her duties as the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta on August 26, 2020. She serves as Patron of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards.

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