Artists in Communities Grant Program (Canada)

Deadline: 10-Sep-22

The Saskatchewan Arts Board is seeking applications for its Artists in Communities Grant Program to provide funding to organizations, professional artists or arts professionals for projects and residencies.

Artist in Communities provides opportunities that enable community-based organizations and professional artists/arts professionals to offer arts-related activities that are linked to local communities through partnerships. These partnerships are supported in forms of projects and residencies. Projects and residencies that come out of strong partnerships between the community organization and artist, that are developed, and that have well-planned objectives have higher success rates.

Types of Grants

Artists in Communities — Development provides small amounts of funding to organizations and/or professional artists or arts professionals to build relationships with potential partners, develop projects or residencies, and/or research community needs.
Artists in Communities — Projects allows eligible applicants to engage in the arts through performances, exhibitions or workshops led by a professional artist(s) or arts professional, and presented either as a series or as a single event and/or to work with an artist in the research and development of an artistic residency.

Funding Information

Community organizations, professional artists or arts professionals can apply for up to $1,000 to support eligible expenses, and an additional amount related to artist travel if justified. Travel must be limited to within Saskatchewan and is intended for Saskatchewan artists only.

Eligibility Criteria

The community organization must be based in the province of Saskatchewan. The community organization can be any incorporated for-profit company or non-profit communitybased organization, e.g., business, institution, health care, justice facility, municipality, First Nation, Métis local, post-secondary institution, artists collective, Band Council, etc.
Professional artists* and arts professionals are eligible to apply to this program if they meet SK Arts’ definition of a professional artist or arts professional and are Saskatchewan residents.
Applicants must be in good standing with SK Arts, i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants on the submission deadline and when any grant payments are issued.
Due to the four-week response time on these grants, SK Arts is only able to accept Development stream submissions in English. Applicants who find this challenging can request support from SK Arts’ Accessibility Fund but are encouraged to contact their Program Consultant and do this work well in advance of the submission deadline.
To be considered a professional artist, an individual must meet at least three of the following criteria in a manner appropriate to their art form:
The individual has received training and/or acquired knowledge and experience in a manner typical for their art form.
The individual has begun creating a body of work since the conclusion of that training.
The individual has been recognized as professional by others working in the same art form.
The individual has received compensation for their artistic work at a level consistent with those of other professionals working in the same art form.