Community Engaged Arts

The Open Door granting program supports projects that demonstrate innovation, experimentation, risk-taking, partnership, the sharing of knowledge and leadership. Open Door provides catalyst funding for ideas with the potential to create transformative change in the arts sector.

Open Door supports the following types of projects:

Toronto Arts Council’s Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship program was created to:

Toronto Arts Council’s Newcomer and Refugee Arts Engagement program was created to:

• provide targeted support to organizations and collectives engaging newcomers and refugees through the arts
• support the integration and inclusion of newcomers and refugees to Toronto through the arts.

The program supports the research, development and realization of community-engaged arts projects. Activities involve professional Ontario artists and community members working together to develop and design a creative experience. These experiences may include co-creation. Skill building is a core component of projects. There are three categories:

This is a partnership program, between school boards and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), that supports community-engaged artists to work alongside teachers to engage students in creative learning involving creative and critical processes. School boards partner with the OAC over a seven-year period to build capacity for implementing school board-wide arts projects.

Purpose

This program supports the ongoing operations of Ontario-based, not-for-profit community-engaged arts organizations working in Ontario communities or schools.

Priorities

The program’s priorities are to support organizations that:

• generate and host high-quality, innovative work that cultivates a rich engagement between artists and participants or communities
• implement strategies to reduce or eliminate barriers to public engagement in the arts
• engage Ontario artists to work with communities and schools

Purpose
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) supports Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) creativity and celebrates the vitality of diverse cultural and artistic expression.

Indigenous Artists in Communities and Schools Projects is a multidisciplinary program supporting projects that bring together Ontario-based, professional Indigenous artists and arts professionals in communities and schools to provide access to the arts and create meaningful art experiences that transmit Indigenous artistic skills and cultural knowledge to participants.

This program supports Ontario-based Indigenous arts professionals and arts professionals of colour, or ad hoc groups/collectives made up of Indigenous arts professionals or arts professionals of colour for professional development and skill-building opportunities that advance applicants’ work and careers. It funds all contemporary and traditional art practices that are supported at OAC. Projects can include: study and training, mentorship, internship and apprenticeship and documentation of art work.

This funding supports organizations in delivering residence-based art summer schools that offer:

• an arts intensive training experience in any discipline through technical skills workshops with professional artists and instructors
• opportunities for young people from across the province to engage in the creative process

To be eligible for this funding, applicants must be:

This funding supports Alberta schools by subsidizing fees of professional Alberta artists of any artistic discipline that provide interactive arts residency projects for grades K-12.