Artists in Schools Grant Program in Canada

Deadline: 10-Sep-22

The Saskatchewan Arts Board is seeking applications for its Artists in Schools Grant Program to provide schools and professional artists opportunities to collaborate on arts activities linked to educational outcomes.

Artists in Schools offers schools a chance to enhance arts-related activities that are linked to educational outcomes through partnerships with professional artists. The aim of the program is to expand access to meaningful artistic activities, increase student engagement in learning, cultivate cross-disciplinary learning skills and attitudes, and foster a lifelong interest in the arts.

Types of Grants

Artists in Schools — Development provides small amounts of funding to schools or professional artists to build relationships with potential partners, develop projects or residencies, and/or research school or community needs.
Artists in Schools — Projects funding assists schools to design an inquiry based project by contracting a professional Saskatchewan artist working in any art form to collaboratively engage in arts activities that are linked to educational outcomes in any curriculum K-12. Applications will be accepted in English and French.

Funding Information

Schools, 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.

Eligible Activities

The Development stream supports schools and artists/arts professionals to:
build relationships with potential artists, schools or community partners,
present experimental or introductory projects,
assess school or community needs,
conduct research, and/or
develop plans for longer-term projects or residencies.

Eligibility Criteria

The school must be based in the province of Saskatchewan.
The school is a provincial school, school division, Band school, Tribal Council, private school or Adult Basic Education Program that works with the Saskatchewan arts education curriculum.
Professional artists* and arts professionals are eligible to apply to this program if they meet SK Arts’ definition of a professional artist/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.