Partnership Program

Toronto Arts Council has partnered with City of Toronto Museum Services and the Royal Ontario Museum to provide opportunities for artists to re-imagine and animate five Toronto Heritage sites and the ROM through engagement with their histories, local contexts, and communities. The historic sites are Scarborough Museum, Gibson House Museum, Montgomery's Inn, Todmorden Mills and Zion Schoolhouse, four of which are located outside the downtown core. Programming Grants provide opportunities for curators/producers to present a series of programs and events at selected sites and the ROM. Exploration Grants provide the opportunity for curators/producers to engage with community, landscape, volunteers and the site staff to explore ideas for future projects. Museum Services and the ROM contribute matching support in the form of space, historical knowledge and research resources, extended hours, staffing, marketing and promotion.

2014 Recipients

*2014 funds support projects that take place in 2014 and/or 2015

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Programing Grant recipient, Zion Schoolhouse

Alias Dance Project will use the historic Zion Schoolhouse to program a stimulating and interactive audience experience through original sound, visuals and movement.  With the collaboration of performance art and the use of technology, they will expand on the theme of sharing knowledge.
 

www.aliasdanceproject.com

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Programing Grant recipient, ROM

Article 11 will animate the ROM with the vibrant installation and performance platform Declaration, an interactive, multi-artist celebration of their right as contemporary Indigenous peoples to be artists and cultural workers. 

article11.ca

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Programing Grant recipient, Zion Schoolhouse

The Gifts and Occupations Collective will create an exhibition of site sensitive installations, sculpture and artist's multiples at Zion Schoolhouse. This project will investigate Froebel's pedagogy, in relationship to early education, modernism and the history of Zion schoolhouse. Friedrich Froebel laid the foundation for modern education, creating kindergarten in the 1800s. 

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Programing Grant recipient, Todmorden Mills

Mike Ormsby will create the Canoe Project; a multidisciplinary community arts project engaging artists, community partners and participants in canoe construction in response to the history of the Todmorden Mills Site.

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Programing Grant recipient, Todmorden Mills

Red Pepper Spectacle Arts will create a mosaic construction in response to the history of the Todmorden Mills Site.

redpepperspectacle.wordpress.com

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Exploration Grant recipient, ROM

Visual artist Bill Burns will develop and research a project at the ROM about animals, animal husbandry, the farm, the suburb and the city.  The project will explore our relationships to animals, farms and the city across cultures and disciplines. 

billburnsprojects.com

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Exploration Grant recipient, Todmorden Mills

Musician Mike Ford will explore an interaction between Todmorden Mills, its environs and song to inspire greater awareness of its history and place.  Ford will research the possibilities for site-animation using song workshops.

mikeford.ca

Animating Historic Sites and Museums Exploration Grant recipient, ROM

VSVSVS will formalize their research and further their knowledge of minerals through engaging with the ROM Galleries.  They will take their knowledge of how crystalline structures form to help generate new ways of making collective sculptural works that facilitate the public’s engagement and interaction.

vsvsvs.org