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Maggie Hutcheson is a seasoned museum professional, artist, curator, and educator consultant with a wide range of experience in arts, culture, and heritage organizations including CBC, Jumblies Theatre, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Foundation. She co-founded the longstanding community-engaged art collective ‘Department of Public Memory’ and authored the Ontario Arts Council’s handbook on practices in community-engaged art. With a PhD from York University, her doctoral research focuses on place-based memory practices. Prior to joining the iSchool in July 2023, she served as Lead Curator and Program Director for the Toronto Ward Museum’s Block Block program from 2018 to 2022, which received the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. As a co-founder of the Community Cultural Spaces Trust, she is dedicated to preserving affordable spaces for arts and culture in west-end Toronto. Hutcheson teaches in the Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program and welcomes opportunities to collaborate, support, and supervise undergraduate and graduate students.
Department of Sociology