Deadline: 15-Jan-22
SK Arts’ Sector Development Stream Program is now open to support professional arts organizations is directed through the Professional Arts Organizations Program (PAOP).
This program contributes to an eligible organization’s arts programs and services, governance, management, administration and operational function and provides multi-year support. Gallery and Media Arts Grants under the Professional Arts Organizations Program are supported by funding from Sask Lotteries through the partnership between SK Arts and SaskCulture.
Funding Information
PAOP Sector Development Stream recipients:
- have a four-year grant cycle,
- receive a minimum grant of $150,000 per year, and
- are subject to Fair Notice Policy.
Outcomes
The program provides support to professional arts organizations to achieve outcomes that:
- advance the professional arts and artistic practices in Saskatchewan;
- create meaningful opportunities for broad and diverse public engagement with the professional arts;
- contribute to professional practice and strengthen the artistic life of Saskatchewan communities;
- advance, strengthen and sustain the arts ecology in Saskatchewan;
- reflect the diversity of the local community and the arts sector through authentic relationships with Indigenous peoples and other traditionally marginalized communities; and
- have program objectives that are aligned with the mandate and strategic priorities of SK Arts.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts organizations and groups with a professional arts mandate in the areas of research, creation, production, presentation, exhibition and publishing, and/or the development of professional artists or community engagement with their centre of operations in Saskatchewan.
- PAOP Sector Development Stream may support eligible arts organizations that:
- are designated by SK Arts as being eligible for this stream and
- are in good standing at SK Arts, i.e. in compliance with any SK Arts reporting, grant conditions and Concerned Status requirements.
- Eligible Arts Organizations
- Have annual revenues of more than $1 million
- If SK Arts funding request exceeds 10 per cent of overall revenues, the organization must contact their program consultant prior to making application.
- Produce, present or contribute to the creation and development of professional artists’ work. Professional artists are recognized by peers in their art form as meeting the following criteria:
- Professional training and/or acquired knowledge and experience in their art form
- An emerging body of independent work
- Compensation consistent with professional peers for their artwork
- Have professional, paid positions in the areas of artistic and educational programming, outreach, marketing, development and administration
- Center of operations resides within Saskatchewan
- Work and mandate supported by strategic and operational planning and evaluation processes
- Conduct an annual financial audit
- Have been designated by SK Arts as being eligible for this stream
- Are registered and up to date with the Canadian Arts Database / Données sur les arts au Canada (CADAC)
- Work and mandate of the organization align with the PAOP purpose
For more information, visit https://sk-arts.ca/menu/grants/grants-by-type/arts-organizations/professional-arts-organizations-program.html