While the idea of the starving artist isn’t entirely a myth, it’s also true that there are plenty of opportunities for ambitious – and talented – people to make a living by making art. In Toronto’s thriving art scene, painters, photographers, sculptors, installation artists and others are making a name for themselves here and around the world.
While artists are of course creative, they also have to be savvy businesspeople, since they often end up working for themselves. So along with foundation classes in painting and drawing, it probably wouldn’t hurt to throw in some basic accounting, too.
Where to study
Brock University (St. Catharines) Visual arts: $5,478/year (plus fees)
Centennial College (Toronto) Art and design: $3,462-$3,544/year
Humber College (Toronto) Arts, visual and digital: $6,140/year
McMaster University (Hamilton) Fine art: $5,382/year (plus fees)
Ryerson University (Toronto) Image arts: photography: $4,027-$4,358/year, ryerson.ca
OCADU (Toronto) Drawing and painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture/installation, integrated media, illustration, environmental design, industrial design or material art and design: $7,078-$7,234/year, ocad.ca
Queen’s University (Kingston) Fine art: $5,560/year (plus fees)
Seneca College (Toronto) Art fundamentals: $1,673/semester
Sheridan College (Toronto) Art and art history or art fundamentals: $1,210/year
University of Guelph Studio art: $3,416/year
University of Toronto Art: about $7,000/year
University of Waterloo Fine art: $5,500/year (plus fees)
University of Western Ontario (London) Visual arts: $6,485/year (plus fees), uwo.ca