Deadline: 1-Mar-23
The Canada Council for the Arts has launched the John Hobday Awards in Arts Management that recognizes outstanding established and mid-career arts managers in Canadian professional arts organizations.
John Hobday, CM, served for 20 years as executive director of The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation and for 3 years as director of the Canada Council. He made a major contribution to improving the quality and professionalism of Canadian arts managers, to providing opportunities for their formal education and ongoing professional development, and to demonstrating the importance of the arts management profession to the growth and sustainability of the arts.
Purpose
Established through a donation of $1 million from The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation to the Canada Council. The John Hobday Awards in Arts Management were created to:
- recognize the arts management profession
- recognize excellence and accomplishment in this profession
- contribute to the professional development and revitalization of experienced managers
- contribute to the transfer of knowledge and experience from established and mid-career managers to the next generation.
Award Details
- Prize amount – Two awards of $10,000 each.
Eligible Activities
You can apply for 1 of the following activities:
- a short-term (less than a year), recognized program, seminar or workshop for professional renewal and revitalization
- a mentorship with an outstanding established or mid-career arts manager who is currently employed by a Canadian professional arts organization.
Eligibility Criteria
- Art management applies business administration techniques and processes to the art world. It includes running the daily business operations of art institutions either private or public.
- Arts Managers may be responsible for a portfolio of work such as marketing, audience development, education, production, fundraising, government relations, etc. They work in arts organizations of all kinds, such as producing, presenting and exhibiting organizations (theatres, opera companies, symphony orchestras, dance companies, galleries, museums, etc.), arts councils, arts service organizations, government, and many other related areas.
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Arts managers from any artistic field of practice supported by the Canada Council may apply for the awards. They must also:
- be currently employed by a Canadian professional arts organization. Your mentor must also be currently employed by a Canadian professional arts organization (if applicable).
- have a minimum of 10 years of professional activities (but not necessarily in consecutive years)
- have significant expertise in arts management in one or more of the fields of practice funded by the Canada Council (multidisciplinary activities, circus arts, dance, Deaf and disability arts, digital arts, traditional Indigenous arts/culture, inter-arts, literature, media arts, music and sound, theatre and visual arts)
- be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status, as defined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. You do not need to be living in Canada when you apply.
Ineligible
- Arts organizations, talent managers, booking agents or those who represent artists as managers are not eligible (this does not include gallery representation).
For more information, visit Canada Council for the Arts.