Assistance to Art Museums and Public Galleries for 2010-13
NEW THIS YEAR: CADAC Financial Reporting
Deadline
1 November 2009
Program Description
This program offers financial assistance to art museums and public galleries in support of work that advances knowledge and enjoyment of contemporary visual art. For this program, visual art includes architecture, fine craft and photography.
The Canada Council for the Arts recognizes art museums and public galleries as institutions that collect, preserve, present and interpret works of art from the past and present. In doing so, these institutions give shape to the meaning and value of works in the visual arts, locating these works within a critical and historical context.
The Canada Council regards public art galleries and art museums as a fundamental link between artworks and Canadian audiences.
This program provides financial assistance for the following activities in contemporary visual art:
- collections management
- curatorial research
- presentation of exhibitions
- publication
- public programming activities
- audience development
- administration, and
- promotion.
Eligibility
Note that meeting the eligibility requirements allows your institution to apply to the program. It does not, however, guarantee that it will receive a grant.
Incorporated, non-profit Canadian art museums and public galleries with a mandate to serve the public may apply to this program. Applicant institutions must have a history of at least three years of ongoing programming in contemporary visual art and must employ professional staff, including a full-time director and full- or part-time curators responsible for contemporary programming. (A full-time director may also serve as the institution’s curator.)
Applicants must maintain a permanent, dedicated gallery facility that is open to the general public on a regular and ongoing basis. They must show evidence of support from other sources (public and [or] private).
Applicants that currently do not receive support through this program must have been awarded, in the last three years, at least two project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts towards contemporary art activities.
Both collecting and non-collecting public art galleries and art museums are eligible to apply to this program, as are galleries attached to a larger administrative entity, such as a university, a public library or a cultural centre. University art galleries must serve a public function in the non-academic community.
For this program, a collecting institution is considered to be one that is actively involved in research on, and the acquisition and preservation of, contemporary artworks as an ongoing institutional function. These activities are in addition to the institution’s public presentation and interpretation activities. The Canada Council recognizes collections of contemporary visual art as those that include all media usually defined as “fine art,” such as painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture and installation; the documentation of conceptual art and performance art; architectural maquettes and drawings; fine craft; and photography, film and video.
A non-collecting institution is one that is chiefly involved in the presentation and interpretation of artworks. While it may own artworks, it is not involved in ongoing acquisition activities.
This program is accessible to Aboriginal arts organizations and arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Grant Amount
Grants awarded through this program start at $10,000, with no upper restriction on amounts requested. Grants will not exceed 25 percent of an institution's total annual revenue.
CADAC Financial Reporting
NEW THIS YEAR: CADAC
The Canada Council for the Arts is collecting financial information through a new national online database called CADAC (Canadian Arts Data/Données sur les arts au Canada). This system will enable arts organizations applying for operating funding from public funders who are members of CADAC to submit their financial information in the same format.
The following are member partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver, the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Toronto Arts Council.
Application Form
This application form consists of all documents below.
Further Information
Visual Arts Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, and enter the appropriate extension number
Applicants east of the Manitoba/Ontario border (except those in Toronto) should contact José Niaison, at ext. 5269
Applicants west of the Ontario/Manitoba border and those in Toronto should contact Melinda Mollineaux, at ext. 5268
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4332
July 2009