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About Joyce Zemans, C.M.
A Member of the Order of Canada, Joyce retired this year from the positions of co-director and director of the MBA Program in Arts, Media and Entertainment Management in which she served for over 25 years. She is the former director of the Canada Council for the Arts, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts (now the School of Arts Media Performance and Design) and chair of the Department of Visual Arts at York University where she was honoured with a University Professorship. Her research focuses on cultural policy, curatorial practice, and twentieth-century Canadian art with a particular interest in Canadian cultural policy, the development of abstraction in Canada and the work of Canadian women artists.
Joyce has received honorary doctorates from Concordia U, Waterloo U, the Nova Scotia College of Art, and is an Honorary Fellow of OCADU. She currently serves as a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Arts Management and the Law, Washington, D.C; and the Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management, University of South Australia). She is, as well, a member of the advisory committees of the Toronto Arts Council, the Theatre Museum of Canada, the Art Canada Institute, the acquisitions committee of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the Communications Committee of Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.
Honours
2013 Queen’s Jubilee Medal
2003 Member of the Order of Canada
2002 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal
2013 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Concordia University
2004 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Waterloo
1997 Honorary Fellow, Ontario College of Art and Design
1995 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Recent Publications
Jock Macdonald Life and Work, Art Canada Institute, 2016
"Where Are the Women? Updating the Account!", with Amy C. Wallace, RACAR, Volume 30, no.1, August, 2013
Co-editor, with Griselda Pollock of Strategies of Engagement: Museums after Modernism (Blackwells, 2007)
“Policies and programs of support for senior artists” IFACCA: D’Art Research report, D’Art Topics in Arts Policy, no. 28, December 2007
“Advancing Cultural Diversity Globally: The Role of Civil Society Movements,” Global Flows, Dissent and Diversity: The New Agenda, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 2004
“Overview of the Arts and Cultural Sectors in Canada” for the Japan Foundation, Tokyo [in Japanese] 2002
“The Role of Arts and Culture in Revitalizing Urban Centers,” The United Nations University /Institute of Advanced Studies and the Ishikawa International Cooperation Research Centre, Conference Proceedings, Kanazawa, Japan, 2002
"Japan and the United States: A comparative cultural policy analysis," in A Comparative View of Japanese and American Cultural Policy, Sage Press, 1999 (Zemans co-edited this book)
"The Contemporary Role of National Cultural Institutions, McGill-Queen's Press, l995 (reprinted 1997)
Where is Here? Canadian Cultural Policy in a Globalized Environment (Robarts Centre, 1996)
Grants
Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency Project Title Role Award Amount$ Year Awarded Granting Agency
Joyce Zemans, C.M.
Senior Scholar; University Professor Emerita
BA (University of Toronto)MA (University of Toronto)
DLitt (Hon) (Waterloo U)
DFA (Hon) (Concordia U)
DFA (Hon) (Nova Scotia College of Art)
Honorary Fellow (OCADU)