Jocelyn Anderson to Head New Glenbow Art Institute

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Dr. Jocelyn Anderson

The Glenbow has a new role for Jocelyn Anderson as director of the JR Shaw Institute for Art in Canada, the Calgary museum announced Tuesday.

The institute, to launch in 2025, will explore and support Canadian art and artists with annual exhibitions, artists in residence, a research fellowship, internships and other programming.

It is being created thanks to a $10-million endowment from the Shaw Family Foundation, part of a larger $35-million donation to support the museum, which is undergoing major renovations. The remaining $25 million will allow the Glenbow to offer free admission in perpetuity.

Anderson was deputy director of the Art Canada Institute in Toronto before moving to the Glenbow, where she has led art publications, educational programs, online exhibitions and a research fellowship program.

She has taught art history at the University of Toronto Mississauga, including courses on nationalism and colonialism in Canadian art and the visual culture of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as art and design in British India.

Anderson completed her doctorate in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.