Sarah Fillmore is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, and Curator of the Sobey Art Award. Fillmore has worked with the AGNS since 2005. In her role as Chief Curator she oversees the provincial art collection as well as the gallery’s acquisition, interpretation, education, conservation and exhibition programs. She is curator of its artist-in-residence program and chairs the jury for the annual Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent prize for an artist forty or under.