Assistance to Artist-Run Centres
Deadline
15 October 2013
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information.
Program Description
This program offers financial assistance to artist-run centres that provide visual artists and their audiences with an informed and professional forum for research, production, presentation, promotion and dissemination of new works in contemporary visual arts. The program also contributes to various services offered to visual artists, in addition to activities such as discussions, symposiums or publications on issues arising from visual arts practices.
To be funded, organizations must demonstrate a professional commitment to the practices and concerns of artists in contemporary visual arts.
Eligibility of Applicants
To be eligible for this program, your organization must:
- be incorporated, non-profit and Canadian
- be directed by a board and the majority of the board members must be practising visual artists
- have a principle mandate to encourage research, production, presentation, promotion and dissemination of new works in contemporary visual arts
- maintain a permanent, dedicated space that is accessible to the public
- have maintained an annual program of artistic activities, accessible to the public, for a minimum of three years in a row, and
- pay professional artists’ fees to artists participating in your organization’s programming activities (fees must meet or exceed the national standards).
For this program, the visual arts include drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation, performance art, architecture and craft.
Your organization may also include video, film, new media, audio and interdisciplinary works in its programming. If your organization’s primary activities are in these fields, however, you must apply to the Media Arts or Inter-Arts programs.
Grant Amount
Grants awarded through this program start at $20,000, with no upper limit on the amount that can be requested. You might not be awarded the full amount requested.
These grants can be used for expenses that occur from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2014.
Application Form
Further Information
Visual Arts Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
To obtain further information about the Artist-Run Centres program, contact the appropriate Visual Arts Section Officer as indicated below.
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, and the appropriate extension number.
Applicants from the northern part of the Ontario and Toronto, the province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Vancouver Island, may contact:
François Dion, ext. 5268
Applicants from Ontario (Ottawa and western part of the province and Toronto), British Columbia (except Vancouver Island), Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, may contact:
Jim Logan, ext. 5266
TTY : 1-866-585-5559
Fax: (613) 566-4332
July 2010