The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is a regional Canadian arts fund for artists living and working in the state of Ontario. OAC's grants and services to professional, Ontario-based artists and arts organizations support arts education, Aboriginal arts, community arts, crafts, dance, Franco-Ontarian arts, literature, media arts, multidisciplinary arts, music, theatre, touring, and visual arts. Photographers or researchers and organizations in the field of photography can apply for a range of grants for projects.

Director of institute is John Brotman. Carolyn Vesely (cvesely@arts.on.ca, phone +1 (0)416-969-7459) is one of the council’s Media and Visual Arts Officers.

Canada’s national arts fund is the Canada Counsil for the Arts. The Toronto Arts Counsil is a local fund.