Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) and CARFAC Ontario and invite artists to learn about key legal considerations for their work’s future, covering essential aspects of wills and estates.

Are you an artist looking to secure your creative legacy and navigate the complexities of estate planning? Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) and CARFAC Ontario invite you to join lawyer Elizabeth Bozek for an insightful webinar designed to cover the essentials of wills and estates, with a special focus on the unique considerations artists face when planning for the future of their work.

Potential topics to be addressed include:

• Key concepts and considerations, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and the consequences of not planning.
• Practical advice on cataloguing your artwork, choosing an executor, preserving and valuing your creative assets, and addressing intellectual property rights.
• Tax Considerations: Understanding estate administration tax, income tax implications, and special provisions for cultural property.

Whether you’re an established artist nearing the tail end of a robust career or a younger artist wanting to proactively plan for the future, this session will provide essential guidance on ensuring your creative legacy is preserved and managed according to your wishes.

While the session emphasizes topics relevant to visual artists, the content is not exclusive to this field and welcomes insights applicable to artists across disciplines.

Date: Wednesday February 12th, 2024

Time:1- 2:30pm

Virtual via ZOOM

This session will not be recorded.

ASL interpretation and auto-captioning will be provided.

FREE to attend

Register here.

For questions regarding this session, please contact Flora, flora@carfacontario.ca

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario et le gouvernement de l’Ontario, et la Ville de Toronto par l’intermédiaire du Conseil des arts de Toronto de leur soutien financier.

Host Bios

Canadian Artists’ Representation/le front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) Ontario is the association of visual and media artists in Ontario. Our vision is for vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities in which we as artists are properly recognized for the role we play. As a Provincial Arts Service Organization, CARFAC Ontario serves and responds to the needs of our members, and visual artists across the province.

CARFAC Ontario is a regional affiliate under the umbrella of CARFAC National. Additional services, programs and projects are carried out by the individual affiliate organizations. By joining your provincial affiliate organization, you receive automatic membership in CARFAC National.

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For nearly 40 years, Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) has worked to empower Ontario’s creative community with access to summary legal advice, information, and education. ALAS is run by a group of volunteers who are entertainment and intellectual property lawyers, fellow creators, and law students. They generously donate their time to help those who may not be able to access more expensive alternatives. ALAS assists creators in three main ways:

• our educational sessions
• our bi-weekly legal clinic
• our legal database.

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Lawyer Bio

Elizabeth Bozek

Elizabeth is an estates and trusts lawyer and a legal educator with a particular interest in estate planning for art collections and artists. She is currently Director of Estate Planning at a national bank where she draws upon her expertise regarding estate, trust, and incapacity issues. She is also an Instructor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she teaches the Wills and Estates Law course for upper-year law students, and where she previously taught a tutorial on Property Law for first-year law students.

Elizabeth obtained her Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and her LLB from Osgoode Hall. She was called to the Bar in 2008. She has recently obtained her Trusts and Estates (TEP) designation from the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP), a Diploma in Art Profession Law and Ethics from the Institute of Art & Law in the UK, and her LLM in Tax Law from Osgoode Hall.

Elizabeth is involved in the estates bar, speaks frequently at legal conferences and seminars, and has written numerous papers on issues concerning capacity, estates, trusts, and tax law. She has also contributed content to the texts The Annotated Ontario Estates Statutes and Estate Litigation, as well as the Law of Trusts Diploma course with STEP Canada. You can find her next article on the tax implications of owning art as an investment in the STEP Journal later this year.

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