Artist-Presenter Collaboration Projects in Canada

Deadline: 27-Oct-22

The Ontario Arts Council is seeking applications for Artist-Presenter Collaboration Projects to support relationship-building between artists and presenters during the continued suspension of OAC’s Touring and Market Development programs.

The program aims to develop the resiliency and sustainability of presentation in the arts sector by supporting collaborative partnerships between presenters, Ontario-based professional artists and arts organizations in all OAC-funded disciplines. Projects should build or maintain sustainable ways of sharing artistic works with audiences and communities within Ontario, nationally and internationally.

Aims

• The program aims to:
  • Help artists and presenters to connect and work more closely together
  • Support networking and knowledge, skills and resource-sharing, and strengthen artists’ abilities to grow audiences and reach new markets
  • Encourage new models of presentation, exhibition, dissemination and touring of artistic work, and new audience experiences for the pandemic context and beyond
  • Deepen public appreciation for the work of Ontario artists through meaningful audience development and engagement activities (in-person or virtually) (see definition)
  • Presentation activity in this program must carried out in partnership, and be supported by other activities that develop and engage audiences, or help artists reach new markets.

Priorities

• The program’s priorities are to support projects that:
  • Engage professional artists with fees paid by presenters, as appropriate
  • Can safely take place in a pandemic context
  • Increase access to and participation in the arts for underserved communities in Ontario

Categories

• These grant amount categories are defined as follows:
  • Focused impact: Projects that benefit or promote an individual Ontario-based professional artist or a specific group of artists, whether they have individual practices or are part of an ad hoc group, collective or organization. Touring projects are usually focused impact projects.
  • Sector impact: Projects that benefit or promote the sector, or a part of the sector, of Ontario-based professional artists and/or arts organizations more broadly. This could be a community of artistic practice (for example, craft artists or urban dance artists) or community of identity (for example, Indigenous artists or artists in northern Ontario).
  • Important: Due to the number of applications received and the limited funds available, grants awarded may be smaller than the amount requested.
  • Applicants may apply for up to 100 per cent of the project costs but are encouraged to seek revenue from a variety of sources, if possible.

Funding Information

• Focused impact: maximum $30,000
• Sector impact: maximum $30,000

Eligibility Criteria

• The following are eligible as either the applicant or a partner:
  • Ontario-based professional artists
  • Ontario-based independent curators and programmers
  • Ontario-based ad hoc groups and collectives of professional artists or arts professionals (including arts presenters)
  • Ontario-based not-for-profit arts organizations (including arts presenters)
  • Ontario-based, Canadian-owned for-profit book or periodical publishers eligible for funding in OAC’s publishing programs
  • Ontario-based not-for-profit Indigenous organizations, centres and councils including presenters.

Note: Applicants must have a history of working in or presenting a discipline supported by OAC: craft, dance, literature, media arts, multi and inter-arts, music, theatre or visual arts.

• An eligible partnership includes
  • The applicant (who submits the application and is responsible for the grant)
  • One or more eligible partners

Note: As partners are a key factor in granting decisions in the assessment of this program, you cannot make significant changes to partners if you are awarded a grant. If you are cannot complete the activity with the proposed partner, you may be required to return the grant.

• The partnership must include:
  • One or more presenters (with a history of acting as a presenter as defined)
  • One or more Ontario-based professional artists, ad hoc groups, collectives or arts organizations other than the presenter.

For more information, visit Artist-Presenter.

For more information, visit https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/artist-presenter-collaboration-projects