About the NTGA

The North Toronto Group of Artists (NTGA)
is a not-for-profit cooperative of artists
whose goal is to promote local fine artists
and culturally enrich our community

Our artist participants run the full range from emerging to mid-career to established. All works, from painting to photography, are original. Supporting our local community is a priority for the NTGA.  Our artists routinely donate works of art to be displayed in local shops and businesses.  Our artists also make their time available to local groups to give art lectures.

The purpose of the group is to provide opportunities for local artists to display and sell their works.  To that end, the NTGA produces two major annual events: our spring and fall Outdoor Studio Tours. We used to do an indoor show, but when the pandemic hit, “social distancing” forced us to move both shows out of doors, into our driveways and backyards, to create a safe environment for both the artists and our visitors. Since we were no longer constrained by indoor fire laws, that also allowed the group to grow from the initial 2 dozen artists to now over 50 artists in the ‘hood!

The NTGA is artist-led and artist-run; we are all volunteers who share in the work that is needed to put these two shows together every year. Admission to our shows is FREE. The NTGA provides these opportunities to view and purchase one-of-a-kind artwork from several dozen local artists. It gives the community a chance to meet the artists, and learn more about their work, and it puts artists in touch with local buyers. The NTGA showcases original art in a wide range of styles from realism to abstraction in oil, acrylic, watercolour, encaustic, mixed media and photography.

We look forward each show to engaging with our community once again, and thank everyone who comes out to support local art and local artists!