Maggie Hutcheson

Dr. Hutcheson is a seasoned museum professional, artist, curator, educator and consultant. She has worked with a wide range of arts, culture and heritage organizations including the CBC, Jumblies Theatre, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation, MABELLEarts, Arts Etobicoke and the Toronto Ward Museum. Dr. Hutcheson co-founded the longstanding community-engaged art collective ‘Department of Public Memory’ and authored the Ontario Arts Council’s handbook on best practices in community-engaged art. She holds a PhD from York University, where her doctoral research focused on place-based memory practices and where she taught in the Community Arts Practice (CAP) certificate program.

Professor Hutcheson was the Lead Curator and Program Director of the Toronto Ward Museum’s Block by Block program from 2018-2022, for which the museum received the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. She is a co-founder of the Community and Cultural Spaces Trust, a land trust dedicated to preserving affordable spaces for arts and culture in west-end Toronto. She joined the iSchool in July 2023 and teaches in the Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program.

Dr. Hutcheson’s research interests include: city and community museums; museums as sites of social change; grassroots counter-monuments; place-based memory practices; co-creative and community-engaged artistic practices. She welcomes opportunities to collaborate with, support and supervise both undergraduate and graduate students.

• Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation