Mentor In Residence Mentor in Residence: Core Program Meet the artists and arts workers offering free mentorship in 2026! Mentors Learn more about the mentors and their offerings before clicking the register button below. Mentees may have a maximum of three (3) meetings with their selected mentor. Additional meetings can be requested and will be approved by program staff and mentor. Mentees may submit an additional registration form if they would like to meet with another mentor at any time. REGISTER HERE Meet The Mentors Pam Lau (she/her) is a photographer and educator. Ambassador for Canon Canada and Curatorial Advisory Board Member for PhotoED Magazine. Recipient of the Applied Arts Young Blood Photography Award and received Honourable Mention in the Community Artist category at the North York Arts Grow North Awards. Pam teaches Location Photography at Humber Polytechnic and has led workshops for ArtReach, Art Starts, North York Arts, Workman Arts, JAYU, and Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario. Frustrated with a culture of gatekeeping and lack of transparency, Pam co-founded Ecru; a grassroots educational initiative for those who face financial, cultural and institutional barriers to entering creative industries. Funding recipient of ArtReach, Park People, Helping Hands. She is a past mentor for Gallery 44 Mentorship for BIPOC Photographers, Canon FUTURES incubator, Business in the Streets Monetize Your Art program. Connect with Pam if you need support with: Grant or Proposal-writing/Review Project Design Communication Skills Improvement Strategic Planning Arts Education Professional Network Expansion Self-Care and Wellness Marta Keller-Hernandez (she/her) Originally from Spain, Marta is an arts administrator who moved to Toronto in 2012. She holds Degrees in Tourism and Humanities from the University of Alicante (Spain), and is a graduate of the Culture and Heritage Site Management program at Centennial College. In Toronto, Marta has worked with a wide range of arts and culture organizations such as Black Artists’ Networks Dialogue, Latin American Canadian Art Projects and Sur Gallery, Heritage Toronto, and Art Starts. Until September 2025, she was Managing Director at Mural Routes.She is also the recipient of the 2017 & 2022 Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship grant from the Toronto Arts Council in the capacity of mentor and a 2018 Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab fellow. Connect with Marta if you need support with: Community Arts programming Visual Arts & Public Mural Art Arts Administration Project or Grant-writing feedback