JUDGE 

Our 2024 Judge is Maz McGann.

Maz established her Consultancy Firm, Play Your Part in 2015, focusing on arts & cultural management and community development. She has worked with dozens of Councils, arts and community organisations, small businesses and government on a range of initiatives, from research and evaluation to event management and strategic planning.

Maz has over two decades experience working in the community and cultural development sector, and in a variety of capacities in the visual arts and galleries sector. She works with the Regional Galleries Association since 2018, providing support for a range of programs and initiatives. Maz was the founder of the Barossa Women’s Arts Residency, which welcomed its first recipient artist in 2023. Growing up in regional Victoria, she studied Arts at Deakin University and moved to the Barossa Valley with her family in 2009.