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Whether you’re looking to amplify your outreach, engage new audiences, or bring fresh artistic energy into your work, hosting an ArtWorksTO project is a great way to do it.

As a host, you get to work with a program participant in one of our three streams on a project you propose, advancing your goals and nurturing the next generation of artistic talent.

There is no direct financial cost to participate.

Why become a host organization?

  • Receive full support: artist fees ($5,000) covered, plus guidance from Toronto Arts Foundation
  • Access fresh, diverse creative talent
  • Advance your equity and inclusion goals

Get inspired by what’s possible with ArtWorksTO!
Previous host organizations have collaborated on exciting, youth-led media projects such as:

  • A vibrant educational video series about bees for PollenateTO
  • Bold branding and design for Toronto’s Newcomer Day
  • Custom-designed gifts for international delegates visiting the City
  • Interactive art exhibitions and creative workshops for guests at the Westin Hotel

Apply to become a Project Host for any of our below mentioned ArtWorksTO Programs

artworksto NEWCOMER PROGRAM

The ArtWorksTO Newcomer Program is a workforce development initiative of Toronto Arts Foundation that supports newcomer artists in the Greater Toronto Area.

Neighbourhood Arts Network and Work in Culture invite GTA-based organizations to apply to collaborate with talented newcomer artists on a short-term creative project in media arts or arts education.

Two project streams:

  • Media Arts: video, graphic design, illustration, videography, photography and content creation
  • Arts Education: workshops, facilitation

Media Arts & Arts Education Project Host Application Deadline: September 8, 2026

Contact: stephaniedraker@workinculture.ca

newcomer program project host guidelines

Applications and Info Session Registration are available on:

Work in culture artworksto page

ArtWorksTO Indigenous program

Through ArtWorksTO, youth media artists who are Indigenous will be provided by our organization with a $5,000 paid contract, administered by our program, to complete a media arts project of your organization’s choosing.

ArtWorksTO participants are skilled in media arts disciplines including videography, graphic design, digital illustration, animation, digital photography, social media communications, and UX design.  

Application Deadline: This program is currently closed for applications. Please check back.

Indigenous program project host guidlines

Please contact Program Lead, Kennedy Salloum, at kennedy@torontoarts.org

artworksto YOUTH program

The ArtWorksTO Youth program connects Toronto based Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour youth (ages 18–29) with fully funded, paid contracts in media arts — including video production, digital storytelling, illustration, graphic design, photography, and content creation.

As a Project Host, your organization offers a short-term, creative work opportunity that supports skill-building, portfolio development, and professional growth for emerging artists from equity-deserving communities.

Project Form Submission Deadline: This program is currently closed for applications. Please check back.

Youth program project host Guidelines

Credit & Logo usage

2026 Credit & logo usage guidelines
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A few examples of artworksto final projects                                           

3 booklets of OCAD University kept on a yellow table - says Welcome to OCADU
Leah Flanagan – Program Brochure Graphic Design for OCADU continuing education 2023
Four women media artists posing for a picture behind an ArtWorksTO cardboard frame which says Celebrate and Creativity
Blue MBK – Event Photography for ArtWorksTO Youth Program Graduation 2025
Map of Toronto showing different neighbourhoods and illustration of geese and other city icons and TORONTO mentioned in the space representing Lake Ontario
Janie Hao – Illustration for print on Totebags for City of Toronto’s Official Gifts Program
City of Toronto skyline with the CN tower in the center - taken from a height - at dusk
Mike Regis – Video still of short promotional video for Toronto Employment & Social Services
A photographer is doing a photoshoot and posing for him are dancers performers dressed in their costumes with Soul Pepper Theatre ad in the background
Robbie J. Harper – Photo shoot for Toronto Fringe Festival’s 2026 marketing campaign
Webpage of Feminist Art Collective showing various artists and programs in a grid
Rubiat Fusigboye – UX/UI Web design for the Feminist Art Collective
Creative Champions Network cover page with illustrations of people and artwork in the background
Mujda Hakime – Cover Page Graphic Design of Creative Champions Network Resources Deck
Little Jamaica map illustration with neighbourhoods, key elements and points of interest list
Doug Rodas – Digital Illustration Print for City of Toronto’s cultural hotspot
digital illustration of a family having a picnic where the kids are playing and the dad is relaxing lying down on a checkered mat in a park - cost of child care? written
Serene Chan – Digital Illustration with Infographics for City of Toronto’s Child Care Fee Subsidy Program
Whyisnave Suthagar – Social media campaign development for City of Toronto’s SDFA division
Three women posing for the picture in front of a poster for an event named Branded
Tyler J Sloan – Event Photography for Branded Youth Entrepreneurship Conference 2023
scene of a street in Toronto with the TTC bus number 36 for Finch West - other cars in the traffic with people and shops in the background
Mars Kaid – Video still of promotional video for ArtWorksTO Youth Program
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