CISVAF: Visual Arts Festival

Artists need plenty of inspiration to fuel creativity and discover innovative ways to funnel their passion into a career. This festival offers senior visual-arts students an opportunity to showcase and produce art, along with workshops run by top industry and art professionals. For educators, it’s a great way to spark new perspectives and art-making techniques to bring back to class.

Built around a new theme each year, the 2019-20 festival will explore “ARTivism: Ideas in Motion.” The positive message? Art is a time-honoured way to speak out about major issues and produce memorable change in local and global communities.

Whether it’s a workshop with an award-winning documentary filmmaker or robotics maker, or conversations with fellow artists, the festival offers a much-needed space to show, create, discover and talk about art.

CISVAF 2023

Details regarding the 2023 Visual Arts Festival are currently under review. Research is underway to host the event at a Toronto art gallery, hopefully the AGO or McMichael. News about CISVAF 2023 will be published on this page, our News feed and our social channels. Stay tuned, more to come soon! 


Visual Arts Festival 2020 - ARTivism: Ideas in Motion

Students in Grades 10-12 spent an exciting day on February 22, 2020 at Trinity College School participating in workshops led by professional artists. Workshop options included:

  • Print Making
  • Painting
  • Public Art
  • Photography
  • Zine Art
  • Installation Art

CIS Ontario would like to thank Trinity College School, our Festival hosts and their staff for all the hard work they put forth in organizing this event for our member schools.

CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CIS Ontario Visual Arts Festival 2020
CISVAF Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario Visual Arts Festival

CO-CHAIRS

Jessie Ironside
Director of Co-Curricular Arts
jironside@tcs.on.ca
Trinity College School

Sally McKay-LePage
The Arts (Visual Art)
smckay-lepage@tcs.on.ca
Trinity College School

For additional information, please contact:
 
Sheri Little
Executive Assistant/ Event Manager
slittle@cisontario.ca
647-330-8622

A key take-away is that art-making isn’t just fun; there are plenty of great careers to be pursued in the creative industries.