Toronto Arts Foundation Awards

2010 Award Descriptions

Arts for Youth Award – a $15,000 cash prize established in 2007 by Martha Burns, Jim Fleck and Jim Pitblado, this award celebrates an individual, collective or organization that has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to engaging Toronto youth in the arts. Past winners: 2009 Mammalian Diving Reflex, 2008 SKETCH, 2007 Arts for Children

Toronto Arts and Business Award – celebrates a local business which has made an important contribution to the arts in Toronto through innovative, transformative and entrepreneurial partnerships. Established in 2006, this award is presented in partnership with The Globe and Mail, Business for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Foundation. In addition to a work of art, the recipient of this award will be recognized for their achievement in the Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail. Past Winners: 2009 Scotiabank, 2008 Torys LLP, 2007 Robert Lowrey's Piano Experts, 2006 CIBC Mellon

RBC Emerging Artist Award – a $7,500 cash prize presented to an emerging Toronto artist working in the new media or performing arts discipline in celebration of current accomplishments and future potential. In addition, finalists will receive $1,000 each. Established in 2006 by RBC Foundation, this award is intended to support the development or completion of new work. Past winners: 2009 Anusree Roy, 2008 Weyni Mengesha, 2007 d'bi.young.anitafrika, 2006 Natasha Mytnowych

Roy Thomson Hall Award of Recognition – a $10,000 cash prize presented to an individual, ensemble or organization to recognize creative, performing, administrative, volunteer or philanthropic contributions to Toronto’s musical life. This award was established by the Volunteer Committee of Roy Thomson Hall in 1984 to recognize and thank the community that supported the conception, building and establishment of the new concert hall. In 2002, the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall asked the TAF to manage the award. Past winners: 2008 Richard Underhill, 2006 Jeanne Lamon, 2004 Molly Johnson, 2002 Roger D. Moore, philanthropist, 1999 Louis Applebaum, 1998 Maureen Forrester, 1997 Hart/Murdock Artists Management, 1996 Elmer Iseler/Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, 1995 Robert Aitken, 1994 du Maurier Arts, 1992 Lois Marshall, 1991 John Weinzweig

William Kilbourn Award for the Celebration of Toronto’s Cultural Life – a $5,000 cash prize presented to an individual performer, teacher, administrator or creator in any arts discipline, including architecture and design, whose work is a celebration of life through the arts in Toronto. Established in 1996, this award is funded through an endowment made possible by private donors who wished to celebrate and remember the life of William Kilbourn who died in 1995. Kilbourn was a writer and teacher who spent seven years as a member of Toronto City Council, and served as Toronto Arts Council president from 1982 to 1984. Past winners: 2008 Thomas Hendry, 2006 Albert Schultz, 2004 Djanet Sears, 2002 Joy Hughes, 2000 Rina Singha, 1998 Doris McCarthy

Images from the 2009 Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch