Deadline: 27 April 2018
The AMY Project has partnered with The JRG Society For The Arts to co-present the inaugural JRG Grant for Artists with Disabilities.
This grant aims to sponsor artists with disabilities in preparing and presenting artwork across a variety of disciplines. The motivation for the award is the life of Justin R Grant, a Halifax filmmaker who died of ALS too early in his life. Art-making was his passion.
The JRG Society of the Arts is a newly established organization that exists to honour the life and work of Justin R. Grant through supporting the work of artists with disabilities. JRG Society for the Arts has a broad and encompassing understanding of the term disability, seeing it as any physical, mental or emotional state which the individual needs to overcome in order to deal with the activities of daily life.
Funding Information
The maximum value of grant to be awarded for 2018 is $3500, which will be distributed to one successful applicant.
Eligible Expenses
- The grant will fund any costs related to the development and/or presentation of an artistic work, including sustenance for applicant, materials, fees to collaborating artists, and production/exhibition costs.
- This grant is not intended to be a scholarship for artistic studies or professional development training.
Eligibility Criteria
- For the 2018 iteration of the JRG Grant, applicants must:
- Be under the age of 35 and/or be in the first 5 years of their artistic career
- Identify as a person with a disability/disabilities
- Be seeking funds in support of developing and/or presenting an artistic project
- Reside in Canada
- Projects can be in any artistic discipline (i.e. filmmaking, visual art, theatre, dance, writing, etc). Applicants who are not successful in 2018 may re-apply in future years.
- They welcome and encourage applications from artists with disabilities who experience multiple structural barriers to resources and artistic development opportunities, i.e. women; transgender and non-binary artists; Indigenous artists; Black artists; artists of colour; queer artists, low-income, poor, and working-class artists, etc.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Canada
For more information, please visit JRG Grant for Artists with Disabilities.