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The Canadian Art Foundation is a charitable organization that fosters and supports the visual arts in Canada. The foundation celebrates artists and their creativity with a nationwide educational program of events, lectures, competitions, publications and other initiatives.
To learn more about a Canadian Art Foundation program, please click on the individual program links below.
As Canada’s leading visual arts magazine, Canadian Art is a prestigious, award-winning, quarterly magazine showcasing the best of contemporary Canadian and historical art. With dynamic images, layouts and writing we present the vitality and variety of the visual arts in Canada. Superb full-colour reproductions, luscious paper stock and elegant design are hallmarks of the magazine.
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Written by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes, A First of Book of Canadian Art provides a visual tour of our country’s cultural past, present and future. Geared to young readers and families, the book includes full-colour images.
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The Canadian Art Gallery Hop celebrates the visual arts and were created as educational vehicles to provide access and information for the art interested public.
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The Reel Artists Film Festival demystifies visual art through a showcase of illuminating documentaries on Canadian and international visual artists with many of the filmmakers are present to introduce their films and take part in special post-screening conversations.
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In collaboration with art institutions across Canada, the Canadian Art Foundation presents Art Talks: Canadian Art International Speaker Series featuring leading international art world figures who explore issues in art through insightful, often candid, presentations.
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The Canadian Art Foundation hosts presentations by leading artists and curators.
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The Canadian Art Foundation invites you to join our exciting new Toronto-based patron group for young professionals. The New Contemporaries promotes and creates access to our vibrant visual art community through specially designed programs and events where you will meet and mingle with art world personalities and fellow members.
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Organized as a fundraiser for the Canadian Art Foundation, the International Art Tours travel to selected high profile art events such as the Venice Biennale (Italy), Documenta (Germany) and Art Basel (Switzerland).
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Thanks to the generosity of Jed and Sarah Lind, the Anne Lind International Program provides opportunities for Canadian artists to engage with visiting international artists, curators and critics in a setting of professional exchange and enrichment.
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The RBC® Canadian Painting Competition, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, is a tribute to Canada's artistic talent and provides a forum to engage communities across Canada and celebrate the exceptional skill of our up-and-coming visual artists.
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The Canadian Art Editorial Residency is a national prize awarded to an art or art history student. The winning student hones his or her writing and editorial skills through mentorship with the editorial staff of Canadian Art magazine during the summer months.
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We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Canadian Art Writing Prize, which encourages new writers on contemporary art.
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The annual Canadian Art School Hop provides the opportunity for high school students to develop an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art. Through tours lead by a professional artist, students visit commercial galleries and artist-run spaces and meet other professional artists in their studios.
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The Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary program supports innovative youth-oriented visual arts education projects. Project grants are awarded to public galleries and artist-run centres in Canada for youth education initiatives that involve youths aged 5-18.
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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.
For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.
Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.
MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.
