Project Support
Mandate
The TFVA provides seed funding for projects that will make a significant contribution to the visual arts community in Toronto. By supporting these projects, the TFVA seeks to encourage excellence and creativity in a broad range of visual arts endeavours.
2008
10th Anniversary Special Awards:
Scholarships totalling $20,000 were awarded in the amount of $5,000 each to graduates of 4 Toronto area universities to help enable them to pursue their artistic careers. Recipients are: Jacqueline Pytyck, OCAD Faculty of Design, Josh Morden , Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Kenzie Brookes Thompson, University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and Kristie MacDonald, York University Faculty of Fine Arts.
Special Donation:
In 2008, TFVA donated $2000 to ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Sackville Street, Toronto. The centre is unique in the city as it provides art appreciation and instruction particularly to children in Regent Park. The donation reflects TFVA's mandate to promote a variety of activities relating to the visual arts in the city. The funds were generated by TFVA Trust Fund in the Toronto Community Foundation.
2007
The Art Gallery of York University to publish Kristan Horton’s book Dr Strangelove Dr. Strangelove. After repeated watching of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical cold war film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” artist Kristan Horton digitally captured 200 of the film’s scenes of weapons technology and cold-war brinkmanship. With a comic vision Horton restaged each individual frame using small household objects and studio debris. The digital record of all 200 paired images was reproduced in the book Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove and included in the artist’s exhibition of archivaly printed images shown at AGYU in the spring of 2007.
2006
Max Dean: to advance the development of a multi-media project. With collaborators Matt Donovan and Raffaello D'Andrea, Max Dean is creating "The Robotic Chair", which, through a continuing process of collapse and reconfiguration engenders an emotional and intellectual involvement with the viewer. Mr. Dean's art works use complex technologies to examine the relationship between the artist, the art object and the viewer.
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: to initiate a permanent Internet record of Toronto visual arts awards and their recipients. The CCCA is developing an image and text database to showcase the work and careers of Canadian professional artists and critics. The database is a teaching and a promotional tool that last year received over 14 million hits from 87 countries. The TFVA funding will enable them to create a separate section of the database that will highlight visual arts awards, the winners and their work.
2005
Issacs Seen: to support the publication of a catalogue to accompany the exhibition of works by artists represented by pioneering Toronto dealer Avrom Isaacs. Gallery 44 and YYZ: to enable these cooperating artist-run centres to publish a first book of critical writing about contemporary Canadian photography.
2004
Canadian Art Foundation: to initiate the Canadian Art Film Series to show and discuss films about Canadian and international artists. TFVA seed money supported this first public symposium led by professional art film makers and critics.
Toronto Alternative Art Fair International: in support of an international symposium held by this emerging "alternative" art fair venture.
2003
Contact, Toronto Photography Festival: to enable this organization of city wide exhibits to initiate an accompanying lecture series. Renowned photographer Geoffrey James delivered the inaugural lecture.