Overview

Our Mission

Our mission is to engage the people of West Toronto with the arts and artists in their own community.

What We Provide

To achieve our mission, we provide innovative and quality programming and services designed to increase accessibility of the arts, reach and involve special and diverse audiences, create broad community awareness of the arts and develop partnerships and networks to sustain local art activity. Highlights of our activity:

Programming that engages thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds
Storefront Gallery in the heart of Islington Village with exhibitions, classes and performances
Advocacy for the arts
Presidents’ Legacy Scholarships for post-secondary arts education
Art Rental and Sales Program featuring artists across the Greater Toronto Area
Off site storage facility at low cost
Website, PR and Communications

Who We Serve

Thousands of students and hundreds of artists in our Arts Education programs
A membership of 55 local arts organizations
200 individual members
16 Scholarship recipients at OCAD, Royal Conservatory of Music, Kingsway Conservatory of Music, Humber College, Etobicoke School of the Arts, North Albion C.I., Sean Boutillier Academy of Dance, Richview C.I.
60 individual visual artists in our Art Rental and Sales program
14 tenants at our Whitlam Avenue storage unit
General public
Numerous project partners

Who We Are

We are a member supported, registered charitable organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors from business, the arts and the community and managed by a vibrant staff of artist-administrators.

Contributions We Make To Our Community

Provide opportunities for community members of all ages to develop their own creative talents and skills
Partner and support arts groups and organizations such as: MABELLEarts, Lakeshore Arts, Expect Theatre, Milkweed Collective, Toronto District School Board, U of T Centre for Community Partnerships, AGO, Humber River Shakespeare Company
Create innovative programs such as Art on the Move, Art Alley
Advocate for artists’ issues
Promote local artists’ work
Employ over 300 artists including musicians, dancers, actors, literary, film and visual artists
Reach over 70,000 households, 5 times annually with our Arts Insert in the Etobicoke Guardian
Engage over 150 volunteers per year

How We Are Supported

Operating funding for Arts Etobicoke comes from the City of Toronto, Culture Division and the Ontario Arts Council. The balance of our funding is raised through memberships, corporate sponsorships, donations, foundations, project grants, art rental and sales and fundraising events.

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