Deadline: 30-Apr-21
The British Columbia (BC) Arts Council is offering its Scholarship Program to support the development of B.C.’s rich diversity of future artists and arts and cultural practitioners.
The BC Arts Council is an agency of the provincial government established under the Arts Council Act for the purposes of:
- Providing support for the arts and culture in British Columbia;
- Providing persons and organizations with the opportunity to participate in the arts and culture in British Columbia; and
- Providing an open, accountable, and neutrally administered process for managing funds for British Columbia arts and culture.
Strategic Directions
The strategic plan lays out four strategic directions for the BC Arts Council, and is intended to facilitate more equitable access to arts funding, and is informed by the current context facing the arts and culture sector in B.C.:
- Sustainability and Creative Development
- Equity, Diversity, and Access
- Indigenous Arts and Culture
- Regional Arts and Community Arts.
Values
The BC Arts Council’s values guide all decisions and activities, from program design to the peer review process. We strive for constant improvement under these values in how we serve artists and cultural organizations throughout B.C.:
- Artistic Development and Achievement
- Indigenous Engagement and Cultural Vitality
- Equity, Access and Diversity
- Collaboration and Partnerships
- Engagement and Participation
- Recognition and Promotion
- Fair and Transparent Governance.
Funding Information
- The maximum award is $3,000 for each term of full-time studies (Summer 2021, Fall 2021 or Spring 2022), up to a maximum of $6,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Recognized fields of practice include in this program:
- arts and cultural administration
- community-engaged arts practice
- contemporary and traditional applied arts (carving, ceramics, furniture, glass, graphic design, industrial design, illustration, jewellery, beading, metal arts, textiles)
- Deaf, Disability and Mad arts
- dance (performance, choreography)
- literary (creative writing, fiction, graphic novel, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, publishing, screenwriting, spoken word)
- media arts (animation, audio/sound art, film, interactive digital media, new media, video)
- multi- and interdisciplinary arts practice
- museum studies (collections management, conservation, curatorial practices, museum education)
- music (performance (instruments, voice), composition, conducting, music production)
- theatre (performance, directing, technical & design, musical theatre, circus arts)
- visual arts and curatorial (drawing, painting, photography, installation, sculpture, mixed media)
- To be eligible, you must:
- Be at least 15 years of age
- Be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident who ordinarily resides in B.C., having lived in the province for at least the 12 continuous months prior to an application being submitted.
- Temporary absences to attend school are acceptable. For more information, please review the Determining B.C. Residency page.
- Be enrolled in a program of study that is: a fine arts diploma, degree or certificate program, or professional dance training, at a recognized college, university, institution or academy, in any country in one of the recognized fields of practice (listed above), or a pre-professional half-day dance program in combination with high school studies.
- Be a full-time student with an equivalent course load for one or two terms between Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022.
- A full-time student is defined by the educational institution or by a combination of half-day dance and half-day high school studies.
Note: You do not have to know at the time of application if you are accepted into your program.
Exclusions
Awards are not available to support the following fields of practices or program types:
- Apprenticeships, residencies or mentorships
- Architecture or interior design
- Basic workshops, seminars, individual projects
- Business training
- Fashion design
- History of art or general art appreciation
- Journalism
- Literature or language study
- Music, dance or art therapy
- Studies of an essentially academic nature
- Summer-only programs
- Teacher training (including fine arts education programs) or music/dance pedagogy
For more information, visit https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/scholarship-awards/