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2022 Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program Grants Announced

Toronto, November 24, 2022 – The Ontario Arts Foundation and The Gordon Foundation are pleased to announce the 2022 grants from the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program: Acquisition Grants Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington $15,000 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton $18,000 Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo $6,000 Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough $4,900 Ottawa […]

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Composer Afarin Mansouri is awarded the Kathleen McMorrow Music Award

Toronto, October 24, 2022 –  Afarin Mansouri (Toronto) is the recipient of this year’s $10,000 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award. The award recognizes the composition and presentation of contemporary classical music by Ontario composers. This award is in support of Mansouri’s new opera Zuleykha, which is sung in the Farsi language and features traditional Eastern music within the European

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Artist Miguel Hernandez Autorino awarded the Laura Ciruls Painting Award

Toronto, October 11, 2022 – Miguel Hernandez Autorino (Peterborough) 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 Miguel Hernandez AutorinoMiguel Hernandez Autorino is a Venezuelan artist and designer who immigrated to Canada in 2014 and is now living in Peterborough.

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Gina Wilkinson Prize 2023 – Call for Nominations now Open

Toronto, October 3, 2022 – Thank you to all our generous donors who supported Gina’s Prize during our 10th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign in 2022! Gina’s Prize is going strong and is now accepting nominations for 2023. Eligibility Theatre artists from underrepresented genders which includes cis women, trans women, and non-binary folks who have acquired foundational

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Anna Treusch honoured with the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design

Toronto, June 23, 2022 – Set and costume designer Anna Treusch is the 2022 recipient of the $25,000 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design.  The award is given annually to a professional costume designer in Ontario in mid-career to further enrich their career through research and travel. About Anna TreuschAnna Treusch works as a set and costume designer

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2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards presented to Brittany Luby, Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley and Philippa Dowding

Toronto, June 22, 2022 – The 2022 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today at North York’s Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School.  The winners were selected by two juries of young readers from the school – a jury of four students in grade 4 and one student from the grade 6 Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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Shortlists for the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards announced

Toronto, April 26, 2022 – Today, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) released the shortlists for the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.  The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student juries work together to choose the winning books. Student juries from Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School in North York, Ontario will debate the shortlisted

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Ontario Arts Foundation Disburses over $4.4 million to Arts Organizations Across Ontario

Toronto – April 5, 2022 – The Ontario Arts Foundation announced today that over $4.4 million in endowment income was paid to 258 arts organizations across the Province of Ontario. This represents income earned on endowments created by arts organizations and funded jointly by the private sector and the government through two matching programs:  the

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Fay Nass Awarded 2022 Gina Wilkinson Prize

Toronto  – March 10, 2022 – The Gina Wilkinson Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Fay Nass is the recipient of the 11th annual Gina Wilkinson Prize. Gina’s Prize recognizes woman-identifying theatre artists who, at any stage of their practice, place community and new creation models at the heart of their artistic leadership. Award Recipient Fay Nass lives on

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