Joan Chalmers
Female, Person
1928 –
Who is Joan Chalmers?
Margaret Joan Chalmers, CC OOnt is a Canadian philanthropist and supporter of the arts.
In 1972, she and her parents, Floyd and Jean Chalmers, founded the annual Chalmers Awards, which donates $25,000 CAD to artists in dance, theatre, crafts, film, the visual arts and music.
She was involved with the traveling exhibit, Survivors in Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage, which as a collaboration among 24 prominent Canadian women artists and over 100 breast cancer survivors.
While celebrating her 70th birthday in 1998, she announced that she would provide 20 arts groups with a total of $1 million in funding.
Chalmers is the partner of former singer-songwriter Barbra Amesbury.
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