The Toronto School of Art is an independent non-profit

art school An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-second ...

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

teaching painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and digital arts. After fifty years of operating out of rental facilities, the school acquired ownership of a building at 24 Ryerson Avenue in

Downtown Toronto Downtown Toronto is the main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, bounded by Bloor Street to the northeast and Dupont Str ...

and has been located there since 2019. The school was founded in 1969 as Art School Toronto and prides itself as being operated "by artists, for artists." It does not offer degree programs but has offered a fine art diploma and certificate programs as well as portfolio and professional development programs. The school went bankrupt on 2012 and faced closure but was able to reopen, restructure, and eventually but its own facilities due to the support of benefactors. In 2019, enrollment surpassed 1,500 students, up from 500 in 2012.

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