Ottawa, January 28, 2009 – Simon Brault, Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts since March 31, 2004, has been re-appointed by the Governor in Council for an additional five years to March 31, 2014.
"This is excellent news for the Canada Council," said Joseph Rotman, Chair of the Council. "For the past five years, Mr. Brault has brought to the organization his expertise, vision, and an extensive and
deeply-rooted understanding of the Canadian and international art scene. I am pleased that our professional partnership, forged over the past months, will continue. Together, we will continue to stand up for the arts and creativity in Canada. Mr. Brault is an exceptional colleague and I look forward with renewed enthusiasm to our continued collaboration."
There are currently seven other members of the Canada Council's Board of Directors, including Barbara Burley, Tom Hill,
Susan Mary (Dyer) Knight, Luc LaRochelle, Jerry Mazerolle,
Anna Porter and Jean Saucier. Biographies of Board Members are available.
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal Crown Corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957. The role of the Council is to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. To fulfill this mandate, the Council offers a broad range of grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations in dance, integrated art, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing and publishing. It also promotes public awareness of the arts through its communications, research and arts promotion activities.
The Council administers the Killam Program of scholarly awards, the Governor General's Literary Awards and the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Public Lending Right Commission operate within the Council. The Canada Council Art Bank, which has some 17,400 works of contemporary Canadian art in its collection, rents to the public and private sectors.
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