Toronto Arts Foundation Awards

A jury of up to 12 members will review candidate profiles and make a recipient recommendation for each award to TAF Board of Directors, which will make final determinations. Jury members must have recognized expertise, prestige, credibility and experience along with a sense of history and perspective. Each jury is comprised of participants who are practitioners of the arts, organizers, programmers, producers, curators, critics, commentators and lay specialists. TAF will endeavour to ensure that the majority of jury members are arts and culture professionals. Nominations through this process are received from the public.

Congratulations to all the past winners of the Toronto Arts Foundation Awards!

Each year at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch we present some of Toronto’s finest artists.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mayor

in honour of David Miller

(based on Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)

Presented at the 2010 Mayors Arts Awards Lunch.

Read aloud by actor Eric Peterson. Created by Priscila Uppal.

Each year, with the help of our sponsors, the Foundation invites some very special guests to the Lunch including representatives from arts organizations celebrating milestone anniversaries and individual artists who have received other achievements and awards during the past year. Here are some of our special guests from the 2009 Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch.

Jian Ghomeshi has been the Master of Ceremonies for the Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch since its inception in 2006, and we're thrilled to have him back for the 2010 Mayor's Arts Awards Lunch.

The Toronto Arts Foundation supports artistic excellence and fosters emerging talent in many disciplines. Your donation makes a real difference to arts organizations and artists in Toronto.