Deadline: 13-Apr-22
The Ontario Arts Council is inviting applications for its Indigenous Artists in Communities and Schools Projects.
Categories
The program has five categories:
- Community arts projects: to help cover the costs of participatory activities that promote learning, collaboration, and/or engagement in the arts
- Indigenous languages through the arts: to help cover the costs of artistic and community-engaged projects in which the primary purpose is the transmission of Indigenous languages through the arts
- Training for community artists and animators: to help cover the costs of Indigenous artists and animators working in community and non-arts settings to seek training and mentorship opportunities that will strengthen their community arts, arts training, or arts education practice
- Indigenous artists in schools projects: to help cover the costs of activities that promote learning, collaboration, and/or engagement in the arts
- Indigenous artists in northern fly-in communities: supports (a) applicants from fly-in communities working anywhere in Ontario, and (b) applicants from anywhere in Ontario working in fly-in communities
Note: Applicants may apply to only one category.
Purpose
The program supports projects that bring together Ontario-based Indigenous artists or Elders to:
- work with individuals or groups of people from a community on collaborative activities that create a meaningful arts experience and transmit artistic skills and knowledge
- teach art workshops in schools during the upcoming school year, engaging children and youth in creative, active, hands-on, and in-depth arts experiences
Funding Information
- Community arts projects: maximum $15,000
- Indigenous languages through the arts: maximum $15,000
- Training for community artists and animators: maximum $15,000
- Indigenous artists in schools projects: maximum $15,000
- Indigenous artists in northern Ontario fly-in communities: maximum $17,000
Eligibility Criteria
- professional artists and Elders who self-identify as First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, and are Ontario residents
- ad hoc group and collectives comprised of individuals, of whom at least 50 percent identify as Indigenous
- not-for-profit Indigenous organizations, centers and councils
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Elders and language/knowledge keepers who are engaged in an artistic practice
- Helpers may be co-applicants or named in the project and included in the budget
- Ontario schools run by First Nations or Indigenous Education Authorities, applying to bring in Indigenous artists
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part-time teachers
- Note: They may only apply for a project happening at the school where they are employed if a letter from the school is provided stating that they are doing the project outside of employment hours.
- applicants must be Ontario residents
Ineligible
- students
- municipalities, colleges, and universities
- teachers employed full-time by a school board, private school, or a school run by a First Nation or First Nation education authority during the period of time the project will take place
For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.
For more information, visit https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/indigenous-artists-in-communities-and-schools-proj