Deadline: 2-Apr-24
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is inviting applications for the Public Art Galleries Operating Funding for eligible professional organizations that program and display public exhibitions of visual arts.
What does this Grant Support?
- This funding is designed to support your organization’s operations, which are specific to your organization’s mandate, strategic and/or business plan and activities as described in your application and/or reporting.
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AFA operating funding typically supports expenses such as:
- administration
- programming
- salaries and fees
- maintenance of equipment and fixed assets
- promotion
- other expenses as required to fulfill your organization’s mandate
Eligibility Criteria
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To be eligible for Public Art Galleries operating funding, you must:
- exhibit visual works of art and provide programs in the visual arts for the general public as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation documents
- engage in on-going development, implementation and promotion of visual arts programming as its core primary activity in an annual program for public presentation
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operate a gallery and/or exhibition space that:
- is accessible to the public for at least 1,000 hours each year
- fulfill the minimum requirements for the security and presentation of exhibited work
- employ at least one full-time equivalent administrative and/or artistic staff member responsible for planning and directing the gallery programs
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Your organization must:
- be a not-for-profit organization
- be registered and in good standing under the appropriate legislation and have been in operation in Alberta for at least three years
- have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
- contract with exhibiting artists and provide professional artists’ fees according to copyright legislation and schedules recommended by the Canadian Artist Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
- demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices, and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining an artistic mandate
- operate as a stand-alone arts organization at arms-length from municipalities, commercial enterprises, or organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from the Government of Alberta or its affiliates
- comply with all Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical data requirements
- have a board-approved cash reserve policy
Ineligible Criteria
- Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
- Organizations can only receive operating funding from one AFA grant program.
For more information, visit AFA.
For more information, visit https://affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/public-art-galleries-operating-funding
