Catherine Crowston

{{Short description|Canadian curator (born 1963)}}

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Catherine Crowston {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born November 20, 1963) is the executive director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta.{{cite web|url=http://www.youraga.ca/media-room/aga-board-of-directors-appoints-catherine-crowston-executive-director-of-the-art-gallery-of-alberta/|title=AGA Board of Directors appoints Catherine Crowston Executive Director of the Art Gallery of Alberta|date=25 June 2012|publisher=Art Gallery of Alberta|accessdate=7 March 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105051823/http://www.youraga.ca/media-room/aga-board-of-directors-appoints-catherine-crowston-executive-director-of-the-art-gallery-of-alberta/|archivedate=5 January 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/aga-confronts-history-not-including-black-artists-biennial-1.5752978|work=CBC News|author=Cummings, Madeleine|title=Art Gallery of Alberta confronts history of never including Black artists in Biennial exhibition|date=7 October 2020|accessdate=18 May 2022}} Crowston was previously the director of the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre and the curator of the Edmonton Art Gallery.{{cite web|url=http://canadianart.ca/features/2011/08/04/catherine_crowston/|title=Catherine Crowston: Partner in art|date=4 August 2011|author=Fung, Amy|work=Canadian Art|accessdate=7 March 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144722/http://canadianart.ca/features/2011/08/04/catherine_crowston/|archivedate=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}} She was awarded the Medal for Outstanding Achievement by the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.youraga.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Catherine-Crowston-Bio.pdf|title=Catherine Crowston|publisher=Art Gallery of Alberta|accessdate=7 March 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417214209/http://www.youraga.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Catherine-Crowston-Bio.pdf|archivedate=17 April 2012|url-status=dead}}

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