Sam Black Award for Education and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (Not offered again until Fall 2025)

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Award Details

Inaugurated in 1999, this biennial award pays tribute to legendary UBC figure Sam Black, a well-known artist and educator whose 41-year association with UBC began in 1958 as a professor of Fine Arts and Art Education.

This biennial award, consisting of a certificate and prize in the amount of $1,000, is deemed UBC’s highest honour in the Arts and Education disciplines (in conjunction with the Dorothy Somerset Award offered in alternate years). The Sam Black Award recognizes faculty members who have made outstanding education and development contributions to (and should include outstanding performance in) the fields of Art, Music, Creative Writing, and Theatre and Film and outstanding accomplishment in scholarship in the fields of the Fine and Creative Arts.

Questions?

Please review the FAQs, and contact research.prizes@ubc.ca.


Previous Award Winners

2021

  • Gayle Murphy (Theatre & Film)


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