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Okanagan Edge and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce are partnering to showcase some of the region’s most exciting entrepreneurs through the “Top 40 Over 40” program.
Sponsored by BDO, the “Top 40 Over 40” recognizes high-achieving professionals in our community and showcases their accomplishments. This marks the seventh year the chamber has conducted a “Top 40” showcase. Honourees will be featured throughout the year on Okanagan Edge.
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Nataley Nagy has served as executive director of the Kelowna Art Gallery since 2010.
During her tenure she oversaw numerous exhibitions, publications and community-based projects that celebrate the work of local and regional artists, while bringing important national and international art to the people of the Okanagan. Her many initiatives have led to innovative and groundbreaking collaborations with First Nations artists and communities, and helped foster greater awareness of the histories, cultural legacies and continuing vitality of the visual arts.
In all of her undertakings, Nagy works to promote understanding that art is not only important in itself, but that creativity is a universal human inheritance. She believes that fostering the creative potential of everyone is the best means of creating mutual understanding and developing collective and sustainable solutions to contemporary challenges.
Nagy brings nearly 35 years experience in the visual arts sector to her job at KAG. Before assuming her position at KAG, she was executive director of the Textile Museum of Canada from 2002 to 2009 and oversaw the digitization of a 12,000 textiles. She also served as executive director of the Art Gallery of Windsor from 1993 to 2001, where she was responsible for fundraising, planning and construction, leading to a new, purpose-built $27 million facility. She’s also a former board member of the British Columbia Museums Association, the Canadian Museums Association, past president of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, a current member of Canadian Art Museum Directors’ Association and a Tourism Kelowna board member.
This Top 40 honouree has been actively contributing to the community since her move to Kelowna in 2010. She’s volunteered and participated in a number of community events, and is currently a member of the Ogopogo Rotary Club.
Nagy is a graduate of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute (2007), and was awarded an honorary doctorate of human sciences from the University of Windsor (1998). She is also a graduate of the arts administration training program at Banff Centre for the Arts (1986), and holds bachelor of arts degrees in law and English (honours) from Carleton University (1984).
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