Deadline: 1-Feb-23
ArtReach in partnership with the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) is seeking applications for its Grant Program.
Goal
- ArtReach supports community-based arts programming led by youth artists and youth-led groups/ organizations/ collectives. These programs must engage youth from equity-deserving populations in Toronto who face systemic barriers to accessing high-quality arts opportunities.
Funding Information
- Stream 1: Any applicant
- You can request up to $10,000 for your program
- Stream 2: If you have been funded by ArtReach before (as an individual artist, a group/ organization/ collective, or as a lead team member of a previously funded group/ organization/ collective)
- You can request up to $15,000 for your program
Eligible Projects
- ArtReach supports skill-building programs in emerging, popular, and traditional art. This includes but is not limited to hands-on art making in the following disciplines: music creation/ recording/ production, dance, drama/ theatre/ performing arts, creative writing, poetry, spoken word, carnival and circus, Indigenous arts, film, TV, radio, podcasting, culinary arts, photography, digital media, multimedia, visual arts, zine-making, street art, graphic design, textiles, storytelling, fashion design, aesthetics, floral design, etc.
- ArtReach also supports programs that provide artistic professional development (artrepreneurship) to youth participants. This includes the development of skills needed to succeed as an artist (EG. branding and marketing as an artist, arts administration, selling your art, exhibition planning, writing artist grants, portfolio development, legal considerations for artists such as copyright and IP, etc.). Artrepreneurship programs do not require hands-on art making as part of their programming.
Eligibility Criteria
- The programs they fund must:
- Be coordinated and delivered by individual artists 13-29 or groups/ organizations/ collectives where leadership positions and decision-making responsibilities are held by young people 13-29 from equity-deserving communities
- Be offered to youth participants aged 13-29 from equity-deserving communities who face systemic barriers to accessing high-quality arts opportunities
- Be a program and not a project
- Be delivered in Toronto, by a Toronto-based applicant, for participants in Toronto (this includes only the City of Toronto, Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke, not the GTA)
- Be free for participants to participate in
- Be first and foremost focused on the arts and artistic skill-building. Other benefits/ focuses must be secondary to a focus on the arts
- Be registration-based and serve the same group of participants throughout its duration
- They don’t fund:
- Drop-in style programming
- Events, festivals, etc.
- Personal or collective project
- Art therapy programs
- Programs whose primary activities are religious or political
For more information, visit ArtReach.