Sponsoring The Kingston Prize
Corporate Sponsors
The Kingston Prize could not exist without the continued generous support from the community. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our sponsors. We gratefully acknowledge their contribution to Canadian artists.
Become a Sponsor of The Kingston Prize
Your contribution sustains artists, elevates the lives of emerging artists, enhances public education, enriches the lives of viewers, and promotes Kingston and Gananoque as culturally vibrant communities.
Custom-built corporate sponsorship can be tailored to your business objectives
Talk to us about being a Prize or exhibition named sponsor.
Benefits of Sponsorship
- Brand exposure: banner ads, virtual and event space,
- Logo placement at exhibition events, in the catalog on the website, and in marketing and advertising materials
- Social media shout out (Facebook Instagram)
- Exclusive client entertainment opportunities:
- Connect with attendees at the gala opening,
- Host a private event
- Naming possibilities
Have we piqued your interest?
Interested in sponsorship? We would be delighted to discuss your ideas. Please use the form on our contact page to get in touch.
Event photos on The Kingston Prize website are courtesy of Ken Fuller.
A few questions answered:
What IS The Kingston Prize?
The Kingston Prize is a unique biennial competition of painted portraits and drawings of Canadians by Canadian artists. It follows in the footsteps of England’s wildly successful BP Award for portraiture and Australia’s 100-year-old Archibald Prize. Year after year these prestigious exhibitions continue to expand their audiences and set records for gallery attendance.
Submitted portraits are evaluated by an independent panel of arts professionals. From them, thirty paintings are chosen for the exhibition and tour. From that group is chosen the First Prize winner, with two Honourable Mentions. Latterly, the People’s Choice and a Students’ Choice were added. All the artists are celebrated during the Gala opening ceremony as the artists and patrons await the announcement of the judges’ selections.
The Kingston Prize has been held every other year since 2005 except 2021 (the competition was not held in 2021, during the global Covid-19 pandemic). Hundreds of artists from across Canada have submitted contemporary portraits to The Kingston Prize.
Who runs The Kingston Prize?
The Kingston Prize Association, administered by a volunteer board and centred in Kingston, Ontario, is supported solely by donations and grants. It receives no government funding. Most of our budget goes to artistic expenses – the artists, curator, installer, art educator, and the awards. We have run successful exhibitions biannually since 2005.
Who comes to see the exhibitions?
The exhibition is open to visitors at the host gallery at the end of each prize cycle. Visitors come from all over Eastern Ontario including Ottawa, and northern New York State. They are art lovers, artists, playgoers, tourists passing through the 1000 Islands and the curious. Many people make return visits.
The exhibition has travelled to other locations such as Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Gallery, the Art Gallery of Calgary, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Peel Art Gallery and Archives (PAMA) and Toronto’s Harbourfront Gallery, all to enthusiastic reviews. In conjunction with the National Capital Commission, there have been two outdoor exhibitions in Ottawa, in 2012 and 2013 along the Clarendon Lanes walkway and courtyard near the National Gallery and the Byward Market. In 2025, the exhibition will be held at the Arta Gallery in Toronto’s historic distillery district.
For art lovers the world over, all the exhibitions are available for viewing on our website.
Social media including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are all used to introduce The Kingston Prize portraits to viewers everywhere.
The Kingston Prize is a not-for-profit charitable organization. We currently receive no government funding. All donations of $20.00 or more receive a charitable donation.
With our appreciation...
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