SPRING 2013 ISSUE NEWS
Director & CEO Peter Caldwell during his visit to Ottawa. (Photo: Patrick Doyle)

In the Wings: Peter muses on CPAF’s music gathering; Critical Dialogues, strategic planning, a visit to Ottawa and Billyann’s farewell

OAC welcomes two new Board Members: Judith Gelber and Marie-Élisabeth Brunet

Strategic Planning Process Kicks Off

Zhe Gu Appointed Visual Arts Officer

Changes to Culturally Diverse Dance Training Projects Program

Audience Development Workshops

OAC Renews Partnership with Québec’s Conseil des arts et des lettres


RECENT RESULTS

Grant decisions are mailed to applicants approximately four months after the deadline. Overall grant results are posted on the website within one month after that, listed by deadline date. Click here for a listing of grant recipients.
DATES TO REMEMBER

Upcoming Program Deadlines

Culture Days Information Sessions

Critical Dialogues panelists.

From left, the late John P. Robarts, Ontario Premier from 1961 to 1971, speaking with Milton Carman, the Ontario Arts Council’s first executive director.
SPOTLIGHT
Milton Carman – Looking Back 50 Years After Heading OAC

The voice at the other end of the phone crackles with energy and resolution. Fifty years have passed since Milton Carman was the Ontario Arts Council’s very first Executive Director, but the years have neither dimmed his memory nor his confidence. He recently spoke to us from his home in Metchosin, on Vancouver Island. Read more

Download For Art's Sake - A History of the Ontario Arts Council 1963-1983



ARTS NOTES
Critical Dialogues panelists.

From left, Critical Dialogues panelists Andrea Fatona, Pamela Edmonds, Sally Frater and Vicky Moufawad-Paul.
(Photo: Bard Azima)

2015 Pan/Parapan American Games

Free Organization and Event Listings to Reach Tourists

2013 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts Finalists

Ontario Government Announces Music Fund

New Study on the Benefits of the Performing Arts Presentation

Critical Dialogues Symposium: A Day of Learning for Art Gallery Professionals

New Generation Artists’ Consultation

Recent Award Announcements: Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz, Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Fund, and K.M. Hunter

OAC-funded Artists Among the 2013 JUNO Nominees!

Staff Comings and Goings


Critical Dialogues panelists.

Participants at OAC's gathering of emerging visual arts professionals from Ontario’s north.

Back row, from left: Nadia Kurd, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Jean Marshall, Anemki Art Collective, Lora Northway, Definitely Superior Art Gallery Amanda Burk, Line Gallery, Alana Forslund, CAHEP, Suzanne Morrissette, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and Alex Maeve Campbell, WKP Kennedy Gallery.

Front row, from left: Josh Peltier, De-bah-jeh-mu-jig, Rose-Anne Cardinal, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Holly Cunningham, Near North Mobile Media Lab, Robyn Pollex, White Water Gallery. (Photo:François Boivin)
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