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CMA Outstanding Achievement

Exhibitions

This award recognizes temporary, permanent, or traveling exhibitions that effectively and distinctively contribute to increase public understanding.

"Boarder X"

“Boarder X” brings life to the museum by demonstrating and celebrating how art can be inclusive and transformative. The touring exhibit focuses on celebrating Indigenous boarding culture and the connecting with the environment – whether that be among the mountains, the waves, or urban landscape. The audience engages with dialogues surrounding relationships with the land and how boarding culture unpacts sovereignty, the environment, politics and nationhood.

Artists express themselves through paintings, weavings, fashion, sculpture and installation, photography, film and performance. “Boarder X” involves all aspects of the community in the gallery, even creating skate ramps at every venue and encouraging local skaters and youth to take part! This barrier-breaking exhibit celebrates and critiques perspectives about the land, the past, and the present through its important and inspiring artwork. The exhibition actively changes the way audiences view galleries, public space and provides much needed access to art and board culture together."

"It’s an honour for the Boarder X exhibition and the amazing artists I respect to be acknowledged by the CMA. Boarder X is an exhibition that I’ve curated with care that combines Indigenous art, culture and ways of being on the land through skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing. This exhibition has toured coast to coast on Turtle Island for 6 years, at every gallery, it has made space for radical strategies to change minds and ideas of what and who public space is for, it has been and empowering to witness communities see themselves honored and included in these spaces. The spirit of this exhibition is dedicated to youth and to a mobilized community."

 

Attache ta tuque! Une virée décoiffante dans la culture québécoise

This award is presented to Musée POP for creating an awe-inspiring and exciting trip through popular Quebec culture. The exhibit offers a look at eight different important cultural aspects of Quebec and each theme is presented in a unique way. The interactive exhibition begins each section with a unique Quebecois expression while inviting the viewers to experience different facets of Quebec culture — ranging from the love-hate relationship with winter, to distinctive accents, to the love of hockey, and the legacy of First Nations Quebec’s culture.

Themes were inspired by a survey of 1000 Quebecers which helped support and include all aspects of Quebec’s culture. Viewers are able to participate and learn from the exhibit through games, sound showers, testimonials and even a fun children's course! The exhibition fosters Quebecers' sense of pride, while presenting the distinctive aspects of the welcoming land of newcomers as well as a unique showcase of Quebec society to foreign tourists.

"The Musée POP is very proud to receive this outstanding achievement award from the Canadian Museums Association. We especially want to thank Léger for his contribution to conducting the survey, the La bande à Paul team, particularly Martin Imbeault, Vanessa Landry for the exhibition’s design and scenography, Geneviève Murray for the research and writing, and the Ministry of Culture and Communications for providing financial assistance for its production. A special thank you to the people who gave an enthusiastic testimonial via video or audio, especially First Nations representatives in the Kuei area."

 

Tshilanu Ilnuatsh / Nous, les Ilnuatsh

This exhibition from Musée amérindien de Mashteuisath immerses its viewers in the culture of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh, particularly their relationship with the land. Created in consultation with the Pekuakamiulnuatsh, the multi-sensory experience transports the audience through various aspects and legends of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh culture and highlights the importance of auditory and visual transmission of knowledge of Ilnu culture.

The experiential exhibition invites visitors to participate in a number of ways – through its interactive animation space, gathering around a fire and learning from guides, storytellers, and community elders. The accessible, sensory exhibit was designed to be a place of transmission and exchange of past, present, and future Pekuakamiulnuatsh values and identity. Archaeological pieces and artworks from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh community reflect on its traditions and continued adaptations to society – allowing the visitors and the exhibition to demonstrate that the thriving culture of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh is still an inseparable part of the community.

"The Mashteuiatsh Amerindian Museum is honoured to receive the Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions award from the Canadian Museums Association for the Tshilanu Ilnuatsh - Nous autres permanent exhibition project. This exhibition is the result of more than three years of work that involved more than 100 people from the Mashteuiatsh community. Artists, artisans, elders and professionals contributed to the design and development of the exhibition. We would like to thank Ms. Louise Siméon, Curator of the Amerindian Museum, for her involvement and dedication and the team from the Boîte Rouge Vif in Chicoutimi, who supported us and produced the exhibition."