{"id":4183,"date":"2013-07-08T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2022-02-12T01:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T01:43:23","slug":"awards-and-scholarships-the-recipients-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/awards-and-scholarships-the-recipients-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Scholarships: The Recipient\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4183\" class=\"elementor elementor-4183\" wpc-filter-elementor-widget=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3733ea5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3733ea5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-457836c\" data-id=\"457836c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f642a30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f642a30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awards-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"3 awards signs\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awards-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awards-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awards.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I am the winner of the Lambton County Music Festival Lady\u2019s Sacred Concert Group.\u00a0 I would like to thank you for your contribution.\u00a0 Without donors like you, the prizes for this festival would not be possible.<strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Samantha<\/em><\/span><\/p><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I just wanted to send you a little note to say thanks for the donation to the Festival.\u00a0 I will be entering college in September and this money will help with my studies.<strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Melanie<\/em><\/span><\/p><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong>You were so kind in granting me your award, and it helped make my trip to Peterborough to compete at the provincial level possible. I won the Grade 10 vocal award!<strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Lauren<\/em><\/span><\/p><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">What is the impact of an arts award or scholarship?\u00a0 As these young winners of the Lambton County Music Festival\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/pages\/the-hugh-d-mckellar-fund\/\"><strong>Hugh D. McKellar Scholarship<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>told us this year, it is immense.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><strong>Awards and Scholarships<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">One of the most rewarding aspects of my job as Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Foundation is meeting and hearing from artists who are the recipient of a donor\u2019s arts philanthropy through an award or scholarship.\u00a0 The honour of knowing that they were selected by a group of their peers, received a financial reward,\u00a0can add it to their c.v. and use it to continue their professional development as an artist is indescribable.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Donors provide financial support to arts organizations for their ongoing operations and arts programs.\u00a0 But they may also be looking for a more permanent way to support an arts discipline they have a passion for. \u00a0\u00a0Awards and scholarships can play an important role in arts philanthropy.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">\u00a0The advantages of creating an award or scholarship are many.<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span class=\"plain_grey\">Awards provide financial support to an individual artist at various stages of their career development.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><span class=\"plain_grey\">Scholarships are highly important to students and emerging artists for continuing education or professional training.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><span class=\"plain_grey\">Awards are both recognition of success or achievement in a discipline and create opportunities for continuing professional development.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Through awards and scholarships, donors can receive long term recognition and provide a legacy that recognizes their personal passion for the arts. Knowing that their philanthropy will be enduring can be a big plus.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><strong>The Recipient&#8217;s Perspective<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Christina Petrowska Quilico is a classically trained and accomplished pianist. In a\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/pages\/interview-with-christina-petrowska-quilico\/\"><strong>recent interview\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>with me she comments on how big a role awards and scholarships played in her development as one of Canada\u2019s best known classical pianists.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I started piano lessons as a child at the Royal Conservatory, and was accepted into a program at Juilliard at age 14. During my career, I\u2019ve received Canada Council grants and doctoral fellowships. Awards and scholarships provided financial resources that really helped me, that allowed me to live and study in New York. As a young artist, you simply don\u2019t have the financial resources to support lessons, coaching sessions or auditions.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p><p class=\"half_line_spacing\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">\u00a0In 2000, Christina established the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/pages\/christina-and-louis-quilico-award\/\"><strong>Christina and Louis Quilico Award<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>at the Ontario Arts Foundation to honour her late husband, renowned baritone Louis Quilico, and to recognize the next generation of outstanding young singers, pianists and composers for voice.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Art photographer Larry Towell, recipient of the 2010 $50,000\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/pages\/paul-de-hueck-and-norman-walford-awards\/\"><strong>Paul deHueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography<\/strong><\/a>, told me he was sitting in his kitchen trying to figure out how to finance a trip to the Middle East to photograph people in a war zone. And then I called to tell him he was the recipient of a $50,000 award! This meant so much to him. He could now afford to go forward with his plans.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><strong>Awards for a Specific Purpose<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Awards can be directed for a specific purpose, for instance career development.\u00a0 \u00a0The\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/pages\/virginia-and-myrtle-cooper-award\/\"><strong>Prix Virginia et Myrtle Cooper pour la cr\u00e9ation de costumes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was established in 2006 by the late Dr. Virginia S. Cooper of Toronto. \u00a0This annual award is intended to enrich the careers of professional mid-career Canadian costume designers in Ontario through research and travel. Lea Carlsen, the 2011 winner of the Award, said that the $15,000 prize money would allow her to travel to Paris to study historical costumes, and then travel to Baffin Island to undertake a project to learn design techniques used by Inuit artists. \u00a0Both will deepen her knowledge and work in costume design.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">\u00a0In some cases, artists may apply the prize money very simply, for instance to buy more paint to continue their work. \u00a0Others may really need \u00a0to undertake much needed repairs to a home studio.\u00a0 As a bonus, under Canada\u2019s income tax laws, awards are exempt from income tax, and therefore bring even more financial reward to artists. (Scholarships are fully taxable.)<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">In every case, I have been warmed by the deep appreciation shown by these artists for \u00a0being recognized by their peers and rewarded for their talents.\u00a0 They are forever grateful that a donor has thought to fund an award. \u00a0I wish all donors could be present to hear the stories and positive outcomes from this form of philanthropy!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am the winner of the Lambton County Music Festival Lady\u2019s Sacred Concert Group.\u00a0 I would like to thank you for your contribution.\u00a0 Without donors like you, the prizes for this festival would not be possible.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Samantha \u00a0 \u201cI just wanted to send you a little note to say thanks for the donation to the Festival.\u00a0 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