About

Toronto Arts Council is run by a volunteer board, volunteer committees and a small complement of professional staff. An advisory panel of distinguished artists and managers further assist with this work.

Toronto Arts Council’s volunteer board and committees are made up of artists, other arts professionals and arts supporters. To guarantee accountability, City Council appoints five of its members to Toronto Arts Council’s 29 member Board of Directors.

On average, TAC reviews 1,500 applications annually with grant requests that range from $2,000 to $800,000. In 2008, TAC funded 213 individual artists and 468 organizations for a total of $10.3 million.

Toronto Arts Council is run by a volunteer board

The following document outlines the roles and responsibilities of our Board of Directors.

Lists of members by discipline:

Toronto Arts Council & Foundation is pleased to provide information regarding employment opportunities in the arts sector, office or presentation space for rent, calls to artists for submissions in various artistic disciplines, and workshops for professional training to artists and arts administrators, including free grant writing workshops provided by Toronto Arts Council.

For information please visit Opportunities on our Toronto Arts Foundation site.

In addition to the granting program of the Toronto Arts Council, there are many other programs offered by the Toronto Arts Foundation. Visit OUR PROGRAMS on the Toronto Arts Foundation page for an overview of them all.

• Arts Awards offered to artists, arts administrators, philanthropists, community arts practitioners and arts educators
• Neighbourhood Arts Network
• Block by Block Creative City
• First Impressions arts awareness campaign
• Metcalf Policy Fellowship
• Incubate Grants development program
• Volunteer Network
• Reports Studies and publications produced by the Foundation
• Advocacy news and action