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Announcing our new Executive Director
The Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Vicki Van Chau will be the next Executive Director.
“Our Succession Project resulted in a comprehensive year-long plan with substantial onboarding time with current E.D. Sharon Stevens. Sharon has prepared fertile ground for Vicki to step into and we look forward to the continued success of our member-based organization” explained Nick Haywood, President AMAAS.
After almost a decade of leadership at AMAAS, Sharon Stevens is stepping down effective April 15, 2024.
Vicki Van Chau states “I look forward to working with past Executive Director Sharon Stevens and the Board of Directors, as AMAAS continues to be a cultural connector, bringing artists and organizations together through its programming initiatives and advocacy work. The work of AMAAS strengthens our community and allows media artists to thrive in a sustainable and supportive environment. This organization, along with its members, have been a huge part in fostering me into the media artist and arts administrator that I am today, and I want to pay that forward and continue developing relationships with media artists and organizations across Alberta.”
AMAAS (established as a non-profit society in 1991) has served media artists and organizations through advocacy, development opportunities and connecting media artists and media art organizations across Alberta.
We are grateful to Future Focus funders Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa and Calgary Foundations supporting our Succession Project.
Meet Vicki Van Chau
Vicki Van Chau (周倩瑜) is a filmmaker, media artist, arts administrator, and curator based in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. She was the Programming Director at EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, where she co-founded the PARTICLE + WAVE Media Arts Festival. As a filmmaker, she has directed and produced several award-winning short films that have screened across Canada and internationally. She recently curated an exhibition at Fort Calgary titled “Culture & Kin: Reclaiming the Chinese Narrative through Contemporary Art” that will be on display until May 2024.
She has received the Spirit of Helen Award (2014, AMAAS), the Horizon Alumni Award (2018, AUArts) and the Echo Award (2021, EMMEDIA) for her contributions to the media arts community. In 2022, she received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and was inducted into Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40. In 2023, she received Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for her contribution to the arts & culture in Alberta.
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AMAAS exists to advocate, educate, and celebrate the media arts in Alberta.
VISION
The media arts in Alberta is advanced through the generation of awareness, strengthening of connections, and continuous advocacy. AMAAS builds a sustainable and vibrant future for media arts in Alberta.
DEFINITION OF MEDIA ART
AMAAS defines media art as independent artist initiated and controlled use of film, video, new media, audio/sound art and related media.
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