June 9, 2016
Samuel Thomas
Beadwork artist Samuel Thomas is the recipient of this year's Ontario Arts Council Aboriginal Arts Award . This award, created in 2012, celebrates the work of Aboriginal artists and arts leaders who have made significant contributions to the ar...
May 30, 2016
Stratford Festival costume cutter and tailor Jennifer Wonnacott is the recipient of the 2016 Pauline McGibbon Award . She received the award today at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards news conference at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
This year marks the 35t...
May 20, 2016
Board member, Mary-Alice Smith.
Our newest board member, Mary Alice Smith , was appointed to the board on April 27, 2016. A life-long resident of northwestern Ontario, Mary Alice has spent four decades working with organizations and First Nations in Nishnawbe-As...
May 17, 2016
Province Challenging Attitudes on Sexual Violence and Harassment
Ontario's $2.25 million Creative Engagement Fund is funding 11 artistic projects that will provoke public dialogue on consent, rape culture and gender inequality to challenge attitudes that cause sexual...
May 12, 2016
The 2016 shortlist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards was announced today. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Schwartz Children's Book Awards – the only Canadian literary award where student juries work together to choose the winning ...
May 11, 2016
Statistics Canada 's release today of the Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators, 2010 to 2014 report is providing insight into the economic importance of arts and culture in Ontario and across Canada.
The figures in the report measure the contribution of cult...
April 27, 2016
Last fall, Ontario's arts community came out in force to participate in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (MTCS)'s consultation to develop a Culture Strategy for Ontario . Now is your chance to review the draft Culture Strategy and provide further input. This ...
March 24, 2016
Clelia Farrugia has been appointed Francophone Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council (OAC). Initially hired as Interim Associate Francophone Arts Officer, Clelia quickly stepped in when Acting Francophone Arts Officer, François Boivin, made the decision to leave O...
March 4, 2016
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is partnering with NDN Talent Collective to run the Aboriginal Musicians Travel Assistance program.
The program supports emerging and established Ontario-based Aboriginal musicians and songwriters/composers to attend performance...
March 2, 2016
Mark V. Campbell has been appointed to the board of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC). Mark is a co-founder of the Nia Centre for the Arts, an organization he left in 2015 that is devoted to exploring the arts and culture of the African diaspora. Based in Pickering, Mark ...