News Release

Toronto, May 28, 2025 – The Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) are delighted to announce that the Guild Festival Theatre is this year’s recipient of the $25,000 Ray Ferris Innovation and Sustainability Grant. This annual grant recognizes advances in theatrical design and the promotion of environmental sustainability […]

Toronto, May 26, 2025 – Jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner is this year’s recipient of the $50,000 Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award. This year’s award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of keyboard artistry. Lerner will be presented the award on June 1st at the Jazz Bistro where she will be performing

Toronto, May 15, 2025 – Today, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) released the shortlists for the 2025 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student jurors work together to choose the winning books. Student juries from Birch Cliff Heights

Toronto – March 10, 2025 – The Gina Wilkinson Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Keshia Palm is the recipient of the 14th annual Gina Wilkinson Prize. Gina’s Prize recognizes theatre artists from underrepresented genders which includes cis women, trans women, and non-binary people with a demonstrated body of work, who are recognized by

Toronto – February 20, 2025 – On Tuesday, February 18, the rising stars of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals, competed in the seventh biennial Christina and Louis Quilico Awards, with Duncan Stenhouse claiming the First Prize of $5,000. Korin Thomas-Smith won the Second Prize of $3,000,

Toronto, December 17, 2024 – The Ontario Arts Foundation and The Gordon Foundation are pleased to announce the 2024 grant recipients from the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program: Acquisition Grants Art Gallery of Hamilton      $18,000Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University      $20,000Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery      $20,000Textile Museum of Canada 

Toronto ON, November 26, 2024 — Jaime Martino, Executive Director with Tapestry Opera, has been awarded the second annual Jini Stolk Creative Fellowship. The Fellowship was created in memory of arts leader Jini Stolk and continues her legacy by supporting the field of arts management through an award of $20,000 over two years to an

Toronto, November 19, 2024 – Zoey Roy is the recipient of the $15,000 Ontario Arts Foundation Artist Educator Award. The award is given annually to an Ontario resident who exemplifies excellence in arts education. About Zoey RoyZoey Roy is a celebrated Nehithaw-Dene Halfbreed Métis poet and community-based educator based in Ottawa, Ontario. Zoey Roy has

Toronto, October 29, 2024 – Héritier Bilaka is this year’s recipient of the Laura Ciruls Painting Award. The $7,000 award is given annually to recognize an Ontario based mid-career painter. About Héritier BilakaHéritier Bilaka is a Congolese / Canadian painter based in Ottawa. He obtained his first diploma in visual arts in 2007 from Academy

Toronto, October 15, 2024 – Composers Rashaan Allwood and Kalaisan Kalaichelvan are the recipients of this year’s $10,000 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award. The award recognizes the composition and presentation of contemporary classical music by Ontario composers. Beginning in 2024, two awards will be made annually to an applicant from each of the Ontario Arts Council