Joan Chalmers

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Name Joan Chalmers

Born May 30, 1928 (age 95) ( 1928-05-30 ) Toronto, Ontario Awards Order of Canada, Order of Ontario
Organizations founded Craft Ontario

Margaret Joan Chalmers, CC OOnt (May 30, 1928 – December 2, 2016) was a Canadian philanthropist and supporter of the arts.

Joan Chalmers Joan Chalmers turned philanthropy into activism The Globe and Mail

Born in Toronto, Ontario, she and her parents, Floyd and Jean Chalmers, founded the annual Chalmers Awards in 1972, which donates $25,000 CAD to artists in dance, theatre, crafts, film, the visual arts and music.

She was involved with the traveling exhibit, Survivors in Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage, which as a collaboration among 24 prominent Canadian women artists and over 100 breast cancer survivors.

While celebrating her 70th birthday in 1998, she announced that she would provide 20 arts groups with a total of $1 million in funding.

Chalmers is the partner of former singer-songwriter Barbra Amesbury.

She died on December 2, 2016 in Toronto, from injuries suffered in a fall.

Honours

In 1985 Ms Chalmers received the Diplôme d'Honneur from the Canadian COnference of the Arts

In 1987 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

In 1987 she was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa from NSCAD University.

In 1992 she was promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 1993 she received the Ramon John Hnatyshyn (RJH) Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts.

In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Ontario.

In 1994 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Waterloo.

In 1997 she was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.

In 2001 she received the Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts in the Outstanding Contribution category.

References

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