Canada Council for the Arts Funding to artists and arts organizations in Ontario, 2007-08 For more information or additional copies of this document, please contact: Research Office 350 Albert Street. P.O. Box 1047 Ottawa ON Canada K1P 5V8 (613) 566-4414 / (800) 263-5588 ext. 4526 [email protected] Fax (613) 566-4428 www.canadacouncil.ca Or download a copy at: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/publications_e This publication is a companion piece to the Annual Report of the Canada Council for the Arts 2007-08. www.canadacouncil.ca/annualreports Publication aussi offerte en français Research Office – Canada Council for the Arts Table of Contents 1.0 Overview of Canada Council funding to Ontario in 2007-08 ................................................................... 1 2.0 Statistical highlights about the arts in Ontario ............................................................................................. 2 3.0 Highlights of Canada Council grants to Ontario artists and arts organizations ................................ 3 4.0 Overall arts and culture funding to Ontario by all three levels of government ................................ 8 5.0 Detailed tables of Canada Council funding to Ontario ........................................................................... 11 List of Tables Table 1: Government expenditures on culture, to Ontario, 2003-04 ............................................................. 9 Table 2: Government expenditures on culture, to all provinces and territories, 2003-04 ......................9 Table 3: Government expenditures on culture $ per capita by province and territory, 2003-04 ..... 10 Table 4: Canada Council grants to Ontario and Canada Council total grants, 1999-00 to 2007-08 ...................................................................................................................... 11 Table 5: Canada Council grants to Ontario by discipline, 2007-08 .............................................................. 12 Table 6: Grant applications to the Canada Council from Ontario and total grant applications to the Canada Council, 1999 -00 to 2007-08 ....................................................................... 13 Table 7: Ontario – various comparisons with other provinces, 2007-08 ................................................... 14 Table 8: Grant funding by community, Ontario, 2007-08 ............................................................................... 15 Table 9: Detailed list of grants to individual artists in Ontario, 2007-08 .................................................... 18 Table 10: Detailed list of grants to arts organizations in Ontario, 2007-08 ................................................. 29 Funding to artists and arts organizations 2007-08 edition Research Office – Canada Council for the Arts Ontario 1.0 Overview of Canada Council funding to Ontario in 2007-08 • In 2007-08, the Canada Council for the Arts provided grants totalling $51 million to the arts in Ontario. • In addition to grants, $2.8 million in payments was provided to 5,606 authors through the Public Lending Right program,1 as well as $1.5 million in special funds in 2007-08. This brings the total amount of Canada Council funding to Ontario to $55.2 million. • The Canada Council awarded $6.8 million in grants to 653 Ontario artists and $44.2 million to 650 Ontario arts organizations in 2007-08. • Grants were awarded to artists and arts organizations in Ontario in each artistic discipline – dance, music, theatre, visual arts, media arts, interdisciplinary and performance art and writing and publishing. In 2007-08, the largest amount of funding went to music ($12.6 million). Theatre received the second largest amount of funding ($9.6 million), followed by writing and publishing ($8.2 million). • 4,295 applications from Ontario artists and arts organizations were submitted to the Canada Council in 2007-08, representing 29.1% of the total number of applications received. • Funding to artists and arts organizations in Toronto totalled $34.6 million in 2007-08, comprising 67.8% of the total funding going to the province. Ottawa received $3.5 million in funding, representing 6.9% of total funding, and Stratford received $1.4 million in funds (2.7%). 143 additional communities in Ontario received 22.6% of the province’s funding for a total of $11.5 million. • In 2007-08, Ontario artists received 29.1% of Canada Council funding to artists, and Ontario arts organizations received 34.1% of the funding to arts organizations. In total, Ontario artists and arts organizations received 33.4% of Canada Council funding. In comparison, the province makes up 38.8% of the Canadian population2 and 40.2% of Canadian artists.3 • 209 Ontario artists and arts professionals served as peer assessors in 2007-08, making up 27.1% of all peer assessors. 90% of Ontarian assessors were Anglophone, and 10% of assessors were Francophone. 1 The Public Lending Right program provides payments to authors whose books are held in selected Canadian public libraries. 2 Statistics Canada: Canada's National Statistical Agency. “Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada Provinces and Territories, 2006 and 2001 Censuses - 100% Data.” 13 Mar, 2007. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=101 3 Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Artists in Canada’s Provinces, Territories and Metropolitan Areas, A Statistical Analysis Based on the 2001 Census.” Statistical Insights on the Arts, Oct. 2004. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/publications_e/research/art_cult_hr/hm127427770317789375.htm Funding to artists and arts organizations 2007-08 edition 1 Ontario Research Office – Canada Council for the Arts 2.0 Statistical highlights about the arts in Ontario4 • With 52,500 artists, Ontario has nearly twice as many artists as any other province. Artists represent 0.8% of the provincial labour force, equal to the national average. • Toronto has an artistic concentration (1.6%) that is double the national average of 0.8%, ranking the city fifth among large Canadian cities. Ottawa (1.0%), Waterloo (1.0%) and Kingston (0.9%) also have an artistic concentration that is above the national average, Ottawa and Waterloo are tied for tenth in Canada. • 40% of the province’s artists reside in Toronto, compared with 21% of the province’s overall labour force. In terms of the absolute number of artists, the City of Toronto has about twice as many artists (21,000) as the City of Montreal (10,100), with Vancouver (7,300) having the third-highest number of artists. • In Toronto, Niagara Falls, Peterborough and Kingston, the growth in the arts labour force between 1991 and 2001 was at least 10 times the growth in the overall local labour force. In Toronto, the growth in the arts labour force was 13 times the growth in the city’s overall labour force. • Among large Ontario cities, artists’ average earnings are highest in Toronto ($34,100, the highest level in Canada), Ajax ($31,800, the third-highest level in Canada), Pickering ($31,000, the fourth-highest level in Canada) and Ottawa ($29,700, the fifth-highest level in Canada). • Ontarians spent $10.2 billion on cultural goods and services in 2005, 41% of the Canadian total. Cultural spending represents 3.0% of total consumer spending in the province. The $10.2 billion in consumer spending on culture is over three times larger than the $3.0 billion spent on culture in Ontario by all levels of government in 2003-04. At $851 per resident, Ontarians’ per capita cultural spending is third among the provinces. • In 2005, the three most popular cultural and heritage activities in Ontario were: reading newspapers (88% of the population 15 or older); listening to music on CD’s, cassette tapes, DVD audio discs, records, etc. (83%); and watching a video (rented, purchased, VHS or DVD formats) (80%). • In 2005, 43% of Ontarians 15 or older (4.31 million residents) attended a concert or performance by professional artists of music, dance, theatre or opera (excluding cultural festivals). This is slightly higher than the Canadian rate of 41%. 4 Sources: Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Artists in Large Canadian Cities.” Statistical Insights on the Arts, Vol. 6 Nos. 1 and 2, Mar. 2006. http://www.hillstrategies.com/resources_details.php?resUID=1000160&lang=0 This report provides an analysis of artists residing in 92 large municipalities across Canada. “Large municipalities” are defined as those cities with at least 50,000 residents in 2001. Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Consumer Spending on Culture in Canada, the Provinces and 15 Metropolitan Areas in 2005.” Statistical Insights on the Arts, Vol. 6 Nos. 1 and 2, Feb. 2007. http://www.hillstrategies.com/resources_details.php?resUID=1000215&lang=0 Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Provincial Profiles of Cultural and Heritage Activities in 2005.” Statistical Insights on the Arts, Vol. 6 Nos. 1 and 2, Oct. 2007. http://www.hillstrategies.com/resources_details.php?resUID=1000237&lang=0 2 Funding to artists and arts organizations 2007-08 edition Research Office – Canada Council for the Arts Ontario 3.0 Highlights of Canada Council grants to Ontario artists and arts organizations Prizes and awards The Canada Council for the Arts administers over 70 annual prizes, fellowships and awards to Canadian artists and scholars for their contributions to the arts, humanities and sciences in Canada. In 2007-08, some of the prize winners in Ontario were: Prize / Award Winner Community Bell Canada Award in Video Art Greyson, John TORONTO Governor General's