Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Announces the 2025 Project Support Award Winners (Part 2)

Rita Daniel, President of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, recently announced the recipients of the 2025 TFVA Project Support Awards. TFVA committee members chose the following projects after researching and carefully considering many others. These awards provide support funding for visual arts activities within the GTA that demonstrate excellence, originality, creativity and artistic merit.

Congratulations to awardees whose work will impact Torontonians, artists, and the city’s visual arts scene. Since TFVA was formed twenty-seven years ago, they have supported 80 worthy projects within the GTA.

Founded in 1998, the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts is an independent, membership based, non-profit organization that promotes knowledge of the visual arts to its members through an extensive education program, and provides support and recognition for artistic achievement to artists and art organizations in the GTA and surrounding area.

TFVA awarded five Project Support Awards this year, and is proud to announce two of the five Project Support Awards:

STEPS Public Art for three emerging, equity deserving mural artists of diverse backgrounds. They will create Yellow Oasis, a mural in Hillcrest Village on the west face of 840 St Clair Ave West to address ongoing vandalism. The mural will go up May-June 2025.

STEPS Public Art is a Canadian charity and social enterprise offering services in public art management, hoarding exhibits, cultural planning, and artist capacity building. They run charitable programs that support artists and foster vibrant and inclusive communities.

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Image: The Equilibrium mural, by artist Okuda San Miguel, photographed by Sharon Mendonca

Gallery TPW for educational support for the exhibition Smoke Signals & Reflections | The Celestial Collective, a contemplative journey and research initiative into the realm of Indigenous identity grounded through a desire for connection and joy. Smoke Signals & Reflections will create a welcoming space by Two-Spirit artists through multiple projects, inviting visitors into an environment that prioritizes a sense of reciprocity and kinship. The exhibition will run in the gallery from February 1 – March 22, 2025.

Gallery TPW is a non-profit artist-run centre, dedicated to supporting artists’ practices through exhibitions, residencies, partnerships, and community engagement in their multi-use gallery space in Toronto.

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Image: Jesse King

Our thanks to the 2024-25 Project Support committee for their hard work, and congratulations to all the Project Support Award recipients.

Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts
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