Congratulations to all the 2010 Toronto Arts Foundation Award Finalists!
After receiving numerous well-deserving nominations for each of the five awards, the Foundation is thrilled to announce the short-list of 15 extraordinary finalists, the winners to be announced at the Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch on October 8th. Congratulations to: Lydia Adams, Art Starts, Art of Time Ensemble, BMO Financial Group, Constantine Caravassilis, George Brown College, Mallory Gilbert, Manifesto Community Projects, Jose Ortega, St. Joseph Communications, Supporting Our Youth (SOY), Menaka Thakkar, Jamie Travis, R.M. Vaughan, Michael Wheeler
The finalists are:
Arts for Youth Award:
Toronto Arts & Business Award:
RBC Emerging Artist Award:
Roy Thomson Hall Award of Recognition:
William Kilbourn Award for the Celebration of Toronto’s Cultural Life:
Winners of the 2010 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards will be announced on Friday, October 8, 2010 at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch. All recipients will receive an original work of art by Jon Sasaki, commissioned by the Toronto Arts Foundation.
The winner and two finalists for each award are selected by an arts savvy, multi-disciplinary jury comprised of practitioners, organizers, programmers, producers, curators and critics. Jury members are each chosen for their contribution of expertise, sense of history, unique perspective and range of experience. This year’s jury included David Angelo, Franco Boni, Natalie De Vito, Loie Fallis, Simon Foster, Ravi Jain, Marilyn Lerner, Andy McKim, Alexander Neef, Janice Price, and Susanna Rosenstock.
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