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After years of dreaming, planning, interviewing, and discussing how to steer the county’s future with a creativity-driven plan, Artworks Gwinnett announces that Lord Cultural Resources has been chosen as the official consultant for this exciting effort.

Over the next several months, experts from the New York City-based company will work with all facets of the county to develop this plan. The results will be a roadmap for a Gwinnett strengthened and enhanced by heritage, community, common future goals, and a “celebration of the good life” that is to be found here.

Kingston’s new Arts & Culture Master Plan 2022 creates a roadmap for how best the city government and community can help support the arts and culture locally.

During an online meeting Tuesday, March 1, the Common Council voted unanimously to adopt the Arts & Culture Master Plan 2022. It is the first such city-wide plan and is aimed at helping strengthen Kingston’s creative economy and supporting individual artists and arts organizations.

Lord Cultural Resources was the consultant used by the city to create the plan.

Kingston could soon have its first city-wide arts and culture master plan to help strengthen its creative economy and help support individual artists and arts organizations.

Joy Bailey-Bryant, president of Lord Cultural Resources, said her team was the consultant that helped the city create its arts and culture plan. She said the plan helps prioritize the community’s needs and identifies several opportunities, including fostering greater collaboration and communication in Kingston’s creative community and ensuring affordable and accessible space for artists and creatives.

The long-stalled Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor has a new blueprint for creating a local educational attraction and tourist destination.

Consultants that helped develop the strategic action plan were Lord Cultural Resources, based in Toronto; Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architects, based in Brooklyn; and Jon Stover & Associates, based in Washington, D.C. 

On February 6, the two-day international symposium of the Kolkata-based Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA) kicked off, close on the heels of the 2022 edition of the CIMA Awards, which took place the day before at Taj Bengal. 

Taking the conversation on museums forward was the day’s final session titled Contemporary Role of Museums and Universities in the 21st Century. “Science is at the basis of museums but we often don’t think about it,” said Gail Lord, president and co-founder, Lord Cultural Resources, a Toronto-based global cultural consulting practice which offers planning services for museums, art galleries and other cultural institutions. “Imagination is the accumulation of democracy, science and community. It’s about unconventional spaces, bringing the past and present together and thinking imaginatively.”

Christie, the global visual and audio technology company and official projection and display partner for Expo 2020 Dubai, has revealed its Christie 1DLP laser projectors are fascinating guests with stunning visuals in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Canadian contracting company EllisDon, alongside Lord Cultural Resources, NGX Interactive and kubik maltbie as strategic partners, were awarded the contract to design, build and maintain the pavilion. kubik maltbie engaged Christie partner Electrosonic and Eos Lightmedia to deliver the AV systems and interactive lighting systems respectively, to be installed in the pavilion’s public presentation spaces. 

Mystic Seaport Museum has announced it has received three grants totaling $519,999 from Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The museum said it will use this funding to support diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, or DEAI, training across all departments. The museum has hired the firm Lord Cultural Resources, which helps museums with DEAI principles, to help with the effort.

After standing unused for over 15 years, Niagara Parks Power Station has been reimagined to give visitors a fascinating exploration of the only fully intact, decommissioned hydroelectric power plant of its era remaining in the world.

Gail Lord, co-founder and president of Lord Cultural Resources and Dov Goldstein, principal consultant at Lord, spoke to David Adames, CEO at Niagara Parks Commission, Kim Viney, senior director of business development at Niagara Parks and Émilie Grenier, head of creative at Thinkwell in Montreal about the project.

New director Ngaire Blankenberg on challenges, strategies and priorities in her new role.

From 2008 – 2016, Blankenberg was European Director, Principal Consultant at Lord Cultural Resources, a global cultural consulting practice offering planning services for museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions, working with president and co-founder, Gail Lord.

Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s largest cultural professional practice, recently attended the launch of a new BIPOC Fellowship in Ontario, which has been developed by Gail Lord, president of Lord Cultural Resources, and Karen Carter, co-founder of Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue.