July 13, 2018
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is improving the process and clarifying the policy for grant recipients on submitting final reports. These changes were made possible thanks to the transfer of information from our previous grants database to Nova, our online granting system.
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June 26, 2018
Ottawa-based theatre director Sarah Conn is the recipient of the 2018 Pauline McGibbon Award . Sarah received the award yesterday at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards , presented by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre. Sarah Conn ...
June 22, 2018
Over the next three months, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC)’s third-party recommender programs will be moving to Nova , our online grant application platform. The first of these to go online is the Exhibition Assistance program which is now accepting applications until Ja...
June 21, 2018
Photographer Nadya Kwandibens is the recipient of the 2018 Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award . This award, created in 2012, celebrates the work of Indigenous artists and arts leaders who have made significant contributions to the arts in Ontario.
Nadya will ...
June 20, 2018
The 2018 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today at Toronto’s Sprucecourt Public School . The winners were selected by two juries of young readers from the school – a jury of grade 3 and 4 students selected the recipient of th...
May 3, 2018
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is pleased to announce that Sophie Edwards , who is based on Manitoulin Island/Mnidoo Mnising, has been hired as the new Northeastern Representative . Sophie takes over from Darlene Naponse, who was most recently OAC’s Indigenous Community Eng...
May 3, 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today. The Schwartz Awards are the only Canadian literary award where student jurors work together to choose the winning books.
The 2018 winners will be decided by two stu...
April 24, 2018
We must update Nova (our online granting system) from 8 p.m. ET on April 26, 2018 to 4 a.m. ET on April 27, 2018 . During this timeframe, you will not have access to Nova.
If you are working on applications/assessments prior to this date and time, please ensure that y...
April 12, 2018
Earl Lee , of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, is this year’s recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Heinz Unger Award .
This award is presented biennially to Canada’s most promising emerging conductor. It recognizes excellence in ...
April 12, 2018
Staffing updates Kateri Gauthier , who was previously the Program Administrator for ICF (as well as for OAC’s Indigenous Arts and Multi- and Inter-Arts sections), has been promoted to ICF Outreach Coordinator .
Kateri is Anishinaabekwe who was raised in Niswaakamog (Su...