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Toronto, May 13th, 2020 – From July 2–12, 2020, Canada’s largest and oldest contemporary outdoor art fair, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF), will continue to…

Today we are sharing our plans for the 59th edition of Toronto Outdoor Art Fair with you. From July 2–12, 2020 we will continue to bring the artists and the public together, as we have every July sinc…

The 58th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair was our most dynamic edition to-date, and we are thrilled to share it with you all in our Annual Report.

Once again, we took over Nathan Phillips Square with our i…

Today, we are honoured to share the stories from three noteworthy Canadian artists, Joanne Tod, Edward Burtynsky, and recent award winner Cheryl Rock. 

We are heading into our final week of early-bird artist submissions for #TOAF59, and in the spirit of celebrating our artists past, present, and…

We were pleased to kick off 2020 with an inspiring showcase of this summer’s winners of the Emerging Artists by Emerging Curator Award at Propeller Gallery. Scenic Route: Emerging Perspectives, curated…

We sent out four questions to four TOAF award winners and we were delighted by new things we learned. The following conversations come as close to a casual in-person chat as possible with these wonder…

The TOAF team cares about the health and safety of our artists and the public we serve and remains mindful of doing all that we can to slow the rate of the COVID-19 infection in Toronto.

In this issue of our newsletter, we would like to introduce you to Cheryl Rock, an award-winning artist who tells stories of our shared human experience through her intricate hand-cut paper works. Her…

It is a delight to introduce you to a talented emerging ceramic artist, Marissa Y Alexander, who earned TOAF’s Best of Ceramics award – a $3,000 Cash and Purchase Award – supported by our cherished donors, Aaron Milrad & Brenda Coleman.

We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Marvelle Koffler, one of TOAF’s caring and graceful co-founders, on Tuesday morning, January 14, 2020.

Join us for a professional development opportunity Jan. 13, 2020 for visual artists of all disciplines looking to apply to juried art fairs including TOAF

We are happily busy with the Call for Artists open, and we believe that sharing stories of inspiring artists from TOAF is a wonderful motiv…

This year, Nelson Cheng’s rigorous architectural cityscape paintings earned him TOAF’s coveted Murray & Marvelle Koffler Founder’s award of $5,500. He was also shortlisted for this year’s Mayor’s Purc…

It is our great pleasure to introduce you to Amanda Arcuri, the winner of 2019 Best of Photography and Digital Media – a cash prize of $2,000 by our friends at Toronto Image Works (TIW).

We are happy to reconnect with you and start off our new season by taking you into the moody, vulnerable and fluid paintings of Steven Restagno, winner of the 2019 Best of Student Award.