We launched the Ottawa Talks Art & Architecture Series in 2017 to provide an educational program for our Members, build our Endowment Fund, and support our grants program. The Art & Architecture Series includes tours of public and private art collections and public and private architectural spaces.

In 2018, we continued the Art & Architecture Series and launched the Artists’ Studio Series. For more information, click here.

The cost for each series is $250, which Members are asked to donate directly to the Ottawa Art Society Fund at the Ottawa Community Foundation. To donate, click here.

To showcase and support visual arts organizations in Ottawa.

The Ottawa Art Society encourages a sense of curiosity in the visual arts by organizing tours of public and private art collections, public and private architectural spaces, and tours of artists’ studios. The revenue generated from these tours, from private donations, and from our fundraising activities allows us to provide an educational program for our Members, build our Endowment Fund, and award an annual grant to a visual arts organization in Ottawa.

Each year, the Ottawa Art Society awards a grant of $2,500 to a visual arts organization in Ottawa. Grants have been awarded to the Ottawa Art Gallery Expansion Fund (2016); the Carleton University Art Gallery (2017); the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) (2018); the Ottawa Arts Council in support of the Project X: Photography Award (2019); SAW Nordic Lab (2020); the Ottawa School of Art Bursary Program (2021); PAL Ottawa’s PAL Place (2022) and Studio Space Ottawa (2023). For more information, click here.