Deadline: 20-Oct-22
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is seeking applications for its Artists in Communities and Schools Projects.
Purpose
- The program supports the research, development and realization of community-engaged arts projects in Ontario. Activities involve professional Ontario artists and community members working together to design, develop and realize collective creative experiences.
- Community-engaged art practices are forms of collective artistic expression. In this field, individuals who aren’t professional artists actively participate in the artistic process, and the artistic process is considered as important as the final artistic product. Both the social and artistic outcomes of community-engaged art have value.
Categories
The program has three categories:
- Planning: to help cover the costs of co-planning and co-designing community-engaged arts projects.
- Project: to help cover the costs of realizing community-engaged arts projects.
- Two-year project: This category is available to community-engaged arts collectives and organizations that have received two or more OAC project grants through community-engaged arts or arts education grant programs within the last five years. Activities must take place over the period of two years.
Funding Information
- Planning: maximum $7,500
- Project: maximum $12,500
- Two-year project: maximum $20,000
Eligibility Criteria
- professional artists, including co-applicants, who are Ontario residents
- ad hoc groups and collectives that have 50 per cent of its members residing in Ontario
- Ontario-based not-for-profit arts organizations and non-arts organizations
- school boards not partnered in OAC’s Artists in Residence (Education) program (for artist fees and travel expenses only)
- schools run by First Nations or Indigenous education authorities
Important: Non-arts organizations, schools run by First Nations or Indigenous education authorities, and school boards must have an arts partner. Arts partners can be professional artists, arts collectives, ad hoc arts groups, or arts organizations.
For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.
For more information, visit https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/media-artists-creation-projects