Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2016-09-27
Invested on: 2017-03-09
Claire Hopkinson realized her vision of connecting the city’s neighbourhoods through the arts as the head of the Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Arts Foundation. Her transformative, street-level arts programming, her support for emerging artists, and her dedicated advocacy and outreach efforts have had a broad impact on the city’s arts community and beyond.