Congratulations to Dulwich Hill local Joanna Mendelssohn on being awarded a Member of the Order of Australia — a richly deserved honour for one of Australia's most distinguished art historians, critics and educators. Joanna's remarkable career spans decades and disciplines. One of the first Fine Arts graduates at the University of Sydney, she went on to hold curatorial roles at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Newcastle Region Art Gallery and the SH Ervin Gallery before becoming art critic for The Bulletin, earning the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Prize for art criticism in 1991. As a long-serving educator at UNSW's College of Fine Arts and now Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Centre of Visual Arts, Joanna has shaped generations of art historians. Her most significant legacy may be initiating the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online — an invaluable national resource she continues to edit. Her most recent book, Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes, is a landmark contribution to our understanding of Australian cultural history. Dulwich Hill is immeasurably richer for having Joanna in our community. Congratulations on this thoroughly deserved honour.