2024 Mentor in Residence x Newcomer Week

Do you want feedback on a current project? Sign up for a 1-hour consultation with our Mentor in Residence during Newcomer Week, Maggie Hutcheson. Receive valuable insight and feedback on project development, project design, communication skills improvement, and more!

Maggie Hutcheson is a Toronto-based educator, artist, curator, organizer and consultant. She has worked with a range of arts and culture organizations including the CBC, Jumblies Theatre, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation, MABELLEarts, Arts Etobicoke and the Toronto Ward Museum. Maggie co-founded the longstanding community-engaged collective ‘Department of Public Memory' and authored the Ontario Arts Council’s handbook on best practices in community-engaged art. She holds a PhD from York University, where her doctoral research focused on place-based civic engagement through the arts. She was the Lead Curator and Program Director of the Toronto Ward Museum's Block by Block program from 2018-2022, for which the museum received a Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation, and she co-founded the Community and Cultural Spaces Trust in 2022. Maggie recently joined the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Master of Museum Studies program.

In these sessions, you will be able to share your current project idea for valuable feedback. Sessions are available on a first come, first served basis, with priority to newcomer artists, which can be defined as:

Living and/or working in Canada 7 years or less
Status: Permanent Resident or Pending Application Approval, Refugee or Pending Application Approval, or Canadian Citizen (under 7 years)

If you have any questions or require accessibility accommodations, please contact zyrelle@torontoarts.org

Once you submit this form, we will email you to connect you with your mentor based on your selected date and time. Please note that appointments must be booked at least 24 hours in advance.

Mentor in Residence x Newcomer Week: Portfolio Development Consultations is possible thanks to the support of RBC Foundation.

Name*

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Email*

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Phone Number*

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What is/are your primary artistic discipline(s)?*

e.g. visual art, music, photography, theatre, etc.

Postal code*

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Links to where we can see your work online:

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How long have you been in Canada?*

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What is your age range? This helps us learn about what groups of artists require this support.*

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Do you identify as 2SLGBTQ+? This helps us learn about what groups of artists require this support.*

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What is your ethnic identity? Please select all that apply. This helps us learn about what groups of artists require this support.*

Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and/or Inuit)Black African or Afro-Caribbean descent/African-CanadianEast/Southeast Asian (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, and other Southeast Asian descent)South Asian (Indian Subcontinent descent, e.g. East Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Indo-Caribbean, etc.)Middle Eastern (Arab, Persian, or West Asian descent, e.g. Afghan, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Turkish, Kurdish, etc.)Latino (Latin American or Hispanic descent)White (European descent)Other

What aspect of project development are you seeking support for? Please select all that apply.*

Project Design / Project DevelopmentCommunication Skills ImprovementAspects of a project, e.g. budget, description, workplaceOther

Select a date and time: (Virtual)

Please share your top 3 questions for your project-development mentor and/or tell us a little bit about your project.*

If you would like to upload a project-related document for review, please upload it here: (e.g. a project description, budget, workplan etc.)

Do you have any accessibility needs? If so, tell us how we can support your mentorship conversation.

Mentor in Residence x Newcomer Week: Project Development Consultations

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