Art Gallery of Guelph announces 2025 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators Call for Submissions

Art Gallery of Guelph announces 2025 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators Call for Submissions

December 6, 2025 – The Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG) is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 2025 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. Founded in 2012, the Middlebrook Prize is awarded annually to an emerging Canadian curator who is under 30 with the aim to foster social innovation and curatorial excellence in Canada. Hosted and administered by the Art Gallery of Guelph, the winner is selected by a jury of arts leaders and receives a $5,000 honorarium and mentorship in the development of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Guelph. Submissions will be accepted until January 31, 2025, at 5 pm ET, and the winner will be announced in March 2025.

By supporting and mobilizing Canadian creative talent, the Middlebrook Prize aims to inspire positive social change in an era of ongoing and unprecedented economic, environmental, social, and cultural challenges. “The Middlebrook Prize has a powerful impact for not only the applicants, but the cultural sector more broadly,” says AGG Director Shauna McCabe. “Supporting young professionals at a critical point in their careers, the winners are among the country’s best and brightest emerging curators with a clear sense of the transformative potential of the arts.” Curated by the 2024 Middlebrook Prize winner Dallas Fellini, the exhibition Some kind of we is currently on view at the Art Gallery of Guelph, closing January 5, 2025.

For more information and submission guidelines, please visit the Middlebrook Prize page on the AGG website or contact info@artgalleryofguelph.ca.

The Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators is made possible through the support of the Centre Wellington Community Foundation’s Middlebrook Social Innovation Fund and the Guelph Community Foundation’s Musagetes Fund.

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