Deadline: 08-Feb-23
The City of Ottawa is seeking applications for its Creation and Production Fund to support local professional artists in the creation and production of new work or the completion of works in progress.
Funding is awarded to individual emerging, mid-career, and established artists in the literary, visual, media, and performing arts. The funding is intended to cover project expenses and/or up to three months of living expenses.
Objectives
- To support local professional artists of all disciplines and backgrounds
- To support the creation and production of new works in literary, performing, media and visual arts within Ottawa’s bilingual and culturally diverse community
Priorities
- Following the peer-assessed evaluation of submitted proposals, the Cultural funding support unit will look at prioritizing applications from the following Indigenous and equity-seeking communities:
- Anishinabe Algonquin Nation
- First Nations
- Inuit
- Métis
- IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, People of Color)
- People with visible and invisible disabilities
- Non-ambulatory persons
- D/deaf people
- Refugees / Immigrants / Newcomers
- 2SLGBTQIA
- People living in poverty
- Rural residents
- Francophones
- Seniors / Older adults
- Women+
- Youth
- The City of Ottawa recognizes that people identify themselves in many ways. Terms used to self-identify are continually evolving. People can change their identities or the ways they want to identify over time. With this understanding, the Cultural funding support unit uses terms recommended by community members through various consultations.
Funding Information
- Grant – Mid-career and established artists $5,500
- For artists at the mid or later stages of their professional artistic career. They have produced a solid body of work and have achieved a significant degree of peer recognition and professional public exposure.
- Grant – Emerging artists $4,000
- For emerging artists in the early stages of their professional career, having dedicated a minimum of two years to a professional artistic practice after completing basic training or an apprenticeship. They have produced a reasonable body of work to date and have had a fair degree of professional public exposure.
Eligibility Criteria
- Established, mid-career or emerging professional artists who:
- are 18 years or older
- are a current resident of the city of Ottawa and have lived in Ottawa for at least one year prior to the application deadline date, or are Anishinabe Algonquin and live within a 150 km radius of Ottawa
- have completed training in the artistic discipline for which they are applying; this can have been achieved through a combination of schooling, apprenticeship, mentorship or collaboration. This includes artists who are self-taught.
- are recognized by artists working in the same artistic tradition, have a reasonable body of professional work, have a history of public presentation or publication, seek payment for their work and are dedicated to the independent practice of art in their chosen discipline
Ineligible
- Projects that have been completed on or before the application deadline
- Projects submitted by managers or agents applying on behalf of an artist, ensemble, group or band
- Fundraising projects and initiatives
- Projects involving the manufacture and distribution of a product in multiple copies, such as producing copies of a CD or printing and publishing a book
- Self-promotion or marketing costs such as framing costs, catalogue production, album launches, etc.
- Works of art that are created primarily for commercial purposes
- Arts education/training projects
- Commissioned work (exception: music discipline)
- Documentation of art work
- Professional training or development
- Purchase of equipment, instruments, computers or software
- Presentations that occur outside the limits of the city of Ottawa, Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation or Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation
Restrictions
- An applicant may receive funding from the City of Ottawa’s Creation and Production Fund no more than once within a period of two years.
- An applicant may only submit one application at a time within this program
- An applicant may only receive one funding allocation for the same activity
- An applicant who has received City funding for a previous project must have completed the project and submitted a Final Report before reapplying. Subsequent applications will not be considered until the Final Report has been approved.
- City of Ottawa employees or elected representatives may not apply for individual cultural funding or awards. City of Ottawa staff are required to act in compliance with the City of Ottawa Employee Code of Conduct and all applicable laws and regulations.
For more information, visit City of Ottawa.