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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release


MELVA J. DWYER AWARD 2002


During the annual conference of the Art Libraries
Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) in March 2002
in St. Louis, the Melva J. Dwyer Award was
presented to Joan Reid Acland, for the bilingual
publication, First Nations Artists in Canada: A
Biographical / Bibliographical Guide 1960 to 1999
/ Artistes des Premières Nations au Canada: Un
guide Biographique / Bibliographique 1960 à 1999,
published in 2001 by the Gail and Stephen A.
Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
in Montreal.

The Dwyer Award is administered by the
ARLIS/Canada Chapter of ARLIS/NA, and is awarded
each year to an outstanding reference or research
tool relating to Canadian art and architecture.
The award was established in honour of Melva
Dwyer, former head librarian at the University of
British Columbia, and is adjudicated by a jury of
three Canadian art information professionals.
Jurors for this year's award were Diana Cooper,
University of British Columbia; Rosemary Haddad,
Canadian Centre for Architecture; and Irene
Puchalski, University of Toronto.

In making its choice, the jury noted that First
Nations Artists in Canada / Artistes des Premières
Nations au Canada succeeds as a scholarly
bilingual reference tool that will enable and
promote the study of contemporary First Nations
artistic production in Canada.  Over one hundred
entries provide hard to find information on each
artist, including date and place of birth, First
Nations affiliation, biographical information,
exhibition histories, names of collections owning
the artist's works, and an extensive list of
writings by and about the artists.

First Nations Artists in Canada / Artistes des
Premières Nations au Canada is one of the first
publications of the newly created Jarislowsky
Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia
University.  Dr. Acland, specialist in
contemporary First Nations art and architecture
and postcolonial theory at Concordia, spent the
last decade completing the research for this
reference work, which fills a gap in an important
area of Canadian art history.

The book includes a foreword by Gerald McMaster,
National Museum of the American Indian at the
Smithsonian Institution, as well as an
introduction by Dr. Acland. In his foreword,
McMaster describes this work as "the first
comprehensive reference on First Nations artists
in Canada."  Dr. Acland points out that the book
has been given the endorsement of many First
Nations Artists.

ARLIS/NA, founded in 1972, has over 1000 members
in the U.S. Canada and Mexico, and overseas, with
regional Chapters active across the U.S. and
Canada.  It is the only professional organization
in North America devoted exclusively to the
concerns of art information professionals.

For more information, contact:

Carole Goldsmith
Past Chair, ARLIS/Canada
Tel: 604-291-3268
Fax: 604-291-3023
Email: wisdom@sfu.ca

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