Jane Marsland has been an articulate advocate for the arts for many years and has served on a wide range of boards, advisory groups and committees.   She has managed arts organizations since 1970 and was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1982 to 1999.  Since 1999, Jane has been an Associate of ARTS Action Research working as a free-lance arts consultant and has worked with more than 100 arts organizations.  She has been the recipient of two arts community awards: a “Harold’  in 2001 and the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2002.  In 1995, she received the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding leadership in the arts.  In 2011, she was the winner of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Rita Davies and Margo Bindhardt Cultural Leadership Award.  In January 2012 Jane was awarded the first Metcalf Foundation Innovation Fellowship in the Arts to examine Shared Platforms and Charitable Venture Organizations and their applicability to the arts sector in Ontario.