{"id":36427,"date":"2016-11-16T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=36427"},"modified":"2017-10-24T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T00:53:50","slug":"bmo-1st-art-invitational-student-art-competition-winners-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=36427","title":{"rendered":"BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition Winners, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bmo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36425\" title=\"bmo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bmo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bmo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bmo-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bmo-250x178.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">BMO Financial Group&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Art!<\/strong>\u00a0Invitational Student Art Competition celebrates the creativity of art students from post-secondary institutions across Canada. Deans and instructors of undergraduate certificate, diploma, and degree programs in visual art are invited to select from their graduating classes three students, whose ability and imagination place them\u00a0<strong>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0<\/strong>among their peers. A distinguished selection committee chooses a national winner and one winner from each eligible province and territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The national winner receives $10,000 and the regional winners each receive $5,000 for his or her artwork. BMO\u2019s corporate art collection includes historical and contemporary Canadian masters such as Kenojuak Ashevak, Emily Carr, Paterson Ewen, Tom Forestall, Marc-Aur\u00e8le Fortin, Lawren Harris, Thaddeus Holownia, David Milne, Margaret Priest, Denyse Thomasos, Ian Wallace and others.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">All winning entries will be on display at the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Art! 2016 exhibition, held at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">2016 Winners<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The winners for 2016 vividly demonstrate the excellence and promise of Canada&#8217;s newest generation of artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>NATIONAL WINNER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Levasseur \/ University of Alberta<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016national.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36424\" title=\"2016national\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016national.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016national.jpg 950w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016national-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016national-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>Everyone Changes, Digital drawing; digitally printed on metallic gloss paper, Edition 1 of 1, 91.44 x 91.44 cm; 36 x 36 in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the provincial winners and more information please go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmo.com\/bmo\/files\/images\/7\/1\/BMOfirstArt.html\">http:\/\/www.bmo.com\/bmo\/files\/images\/7\/1\/BMOfirstArt.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*Exhibition information:\u00a0November 17 &#8211; December 17, 2016. Opening Reception: November 16, 2016, 7-9 pm, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,\u00a0\u00a0Hart House at the University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle.\u00a0Gallery hours: Tue \u2013 Sat 12 \u2013 5, Wed 12 \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Justina M. Barnicke Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The winners for 2016 vividly demonstrate the excellence and promise of Canada&#8217;s newest generation of artists<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=36427\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36427"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36584,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427\/revisions\/36584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}