CMA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jon Tupper, President
Director
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1040 Moss Street
Victoria, BC V8V 4P1
250-384-4171
f. 250-361-3995
jtupper@aggv.bc.ca
Jon Tupper is the director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. He graduated from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. After a brief (and self-described "underwhelming") career as an artist, Jon became the executive director of Winnipeg's Plug In Gallery. He was appointed to the position of associate director of curatorial affairs of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1986. He subsequently became the director of the Walter Phillips Gallery and associate director of creative residencies in media and visual arts at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and later served as director of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
René Binette, Vice-President
Écomusée du fier monde
2050 Amherst Road
Montréal, QC H2L 3L8
514-528-8444
f. 514-528-8686
ecomusee@globetrotter.net
René Binette is the director of the Écomusée du fier monde in Montreal, and teaches art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He has a background in art history, cultural events programming, and cultural management. He has been a board member for the Association québécoise pour le patrimoine industriel (Quebec Association for Industrial Heritage) since 1988, a member of the executive committee for the Montreal Museum Directors Board since 2001, and a member of the Comité institutionnel d'éthique de la recherche avec des êtres humains de l'UQAM (Institutional committee on the ethics of research on human remains at UQAM), since 2003.
Bill Greenlaw, Vice-President
Executive Director, Heritage
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage
Heritage Division
1747 Summer Street
Halifax NS B3H 3A6
902-424-4986
f. 902-424-0560
greenlbe@gov.ns.ca
Bill Greenlaw is executive director for heritage for the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage. He also serves as director of the Nova Scotia Museum, Canada’s largest decentralized museum system that includes 27 sites in locations across Nova Scotia and provides stewardship for the provincial collection of more than 1 million specimens and artifacts. Further, Bill is secretary for the Nova Scotia Museum Board of Governors, vice-president of the Alliance of Natural History Museums of Canada , and a member of the editorial board for the Virtual Museum of Canada.
Kirstin Evenden
President/CEO, Glenbow Museum
130 - 9 Avenue SE
Calgary AB, T2G 0P3
403-268-4100
f. 403-265-9769
Kirstin Evenden has been President and CEO of Glenbow Museum since January 2009. Evenden has worked in a number of capacities including art curation, education, and publishing at Glenbow since 1993. Most recently, she was the Vice-President, Access, Collections and Exhibits at Glenbow and as such was responsible for exhibitions development, collections management, programmes and new media content development. Evenden led the Glenbow’s New Media Initiative from 2003-2006 which has positioned the Museum as a Canadian leader in museum digital content development, developing significant partnerships with the public and private sector to accomplish the task. Evenden graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1992 with a Masters in Fine Arts (Art History), has a diploma in Arts Administration from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., and received her Bachelors in Art History and French from Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec. She is a member of the Virtual Museum of Canada’s Editorial Board and the Canadian Museum Association’s 2008 National Museum Awards Jury.
Michale Lang
Executive Director and Chief Curator
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Box 160, 111 Bear Street
Banff AB, T1L 1A3
403-762-2291
f. 403-762-8919
Michale Lang is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Until recently, she served as Vice President of Access, Collections and Exhibits at Glenbow Museum. In March, 2007, she completed managing the development of Glenbow’s $9 million, 24,000 square foot permanent exhibit, Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. She also served as Vice President of Program and Exhibit Development, Manager of Programs, Coordinator of Volunteer Resources and Family Public Programmer at Glenbow; Coordinator of Programs, Olympic Hall of Fame and Museum in Calgary; Operations Manager, Alberta Ballet School of Dance; and Curator at Fort Calgary Historic Park. She began her career in museums as Executive Director of the Lac La Biche Mission Historical Society in Lac La Biche, Alberta. Michale has a Master of Education Degree in Administration and Curriculum Development from Gonzaga University and a Master of Arts Degree in Historic Resource Management.
Nataley Nagy
Toronto ON,
Nataley Nagy has over 20 years experience in the arts sector. She is an alumnus of the Banff Arts Administration Training Program (1984). Before joining the Textile Museum of Canada as Executive Director in 2002, she managed a wide variety of complex arts projects in her roles as Director of Galerie SAW Gallery/SAW VIDEO (1988-92), Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council (1988-93), and as Executive Director of the Art Gallery of Windsor (1993-2001). During her tenure at the AGW, Nataley oversaw the capital campaign and building project that relocated the gallery first, into a six-year interim location in a regional shopping centre and then, into a brand new, purpose built $27million facility. She received an honorary doctorate for her contributions to arts and culture from the University of Windsor. She has worked independently assisting with art projects for the Toronto Zoo, the City of Detroit and the City of Hamilton. Nataley is a member of the Canadian Art Museum's Directors Association (CAMDO) and Vice President of the Board of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.
Diana Nemiroff
Director
Carleton University Art Gallery
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa ON, K1S 5B6
613-520-2600 x1355
f. 613-520-4409
diana_nemiroff@carleton.ca
A CMA member since 1988, Diana Nemiroff has 25 years experience in Canadian museums. She began her career at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts before moving to the National Gallery of Canada. There, she built a national reputation as a curator of contemporary and modern art. She has numerous exhibitions and publications to her credit, including such landmark shows as Jana Sterbak: States of Being (1991), Land Spirit Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (1992), and Crossings (1998). Born in London, England, and raised in Montreal, she has a BFA and an MA in Canadian art history from Concordia University.
Nancy Noble
CEO, Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
604-730-5323
(f) 604-736-5417
nnoble@vanmuseum.bc.ca
www.vanmuseum.bc.ca 
Nancy Noble is the CEO of the Vancouver Museum. She graduated with a BA in history and an MA in museum studies from Leicester University, England. Nancy has worked in museums in Canada for over twenty years, spending several years working in Saskatchewan’s historic park system before moving to the Manitoba Museum as director of research, collections and programs. She currently sits on the board of the Alliance for Arts and Culture in Vancouver and was recently involved in the development of a Cultural Strategic Plan as part of Vancouver’s Creative City Task Force.
Dr. Andrée Gendreau, Past-President
Director of Research and Evaluation Division
Musée de la civilisation
P.O. Box 155, Station B
Québec, QC G1K 7A6
418-643-2158 x222
f. 418-646-1664
agendreau@mcq.org
Director of the Research and Evaluation Division at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, Andrée Gendreau has been on the CMA board since 2001. She holds a PhD in anthropology (1982). After two years as secretary general for Fonds FCAR, a Quebec research grant agency, Andrée turned to museology, co-ordinating a working group on collections development for the Musée de la civilization, and managing research and exhibition publications. She was appointed director of the research and evaluation department in 1997, and then director of the collections department in 1999. Andrée is also an associate professor at Université Laval and was president of the Association des Sociologues et Anthropologues de la Langue française from 1993 to 1997.
