UFV Visual Arts Faculty Member and Outstanding Arts Advocate Arty Award nominee Grace Tsurumaru’s goal this year is to establish a scholarship of $1,000 to a deserving Bachelor of Fine…
Outstanding Artist in the Visual Arts Video/Film Arty Award Nominee Win Wachsmann and his wife created a TV pilot for the History Channel entitled Military Miracles, which chronicles the…
3D Visual Arts Arty Award Nominee Lonnie Jackson spent years travelling to many tropical paradises and fell in love with the cultures, colours, music and people in the warm, sun-drenched…
Producer and Outstanding Artist in Video/Film Arty Award Nominee Paul Lowey has produced everything from short corporate videos to multi-million dollar programs broadcast around the world. Abbotsford Arts Council ….
Making jewelry as part of the BC Teen Challenge program has inspired 3D-Visual Arts Arty Award Nominee Kaleigh Ross to someday design and produce a clothing line that will help…
Starting with her first poem published at age 13, Literary Arts Arty Award Nominee Emily Isaacson has published over 1,200 poems, establishing her as a noted poet of Canadian birth….
Just this year, 2-D Visual Arts Arty Award Nominee Cristal Sawatzky opened a fine art photography studio and art gallery in Historic Downtown Abbotsford where she hopes to support emerging…
Outstanding Arts Advocate Arty Award Nominee Deesh Sekhon owns and operates her own photography company and recently launched GirlKind Foundation, an organization that advocates and educates for change in cultural…
Outstanding Artist in Performing Arts – Theatre Arty Award Nominee Lynne Karey McKenna has not only been acting for 30+ years, she is also a therapist who specializes in creative…
Outstanding Artist – Post Secondary School Arty Award Nominee Chrissy Courtney aspires to one day run her own creative co-op, where she plans to focus on the combination of creativity…