Deadline: 9-Dec-22
The Inuit Art Foundation In partnership with the Ontario Arts Council is excited to announce the Indigenous Visual Artist Materials Grant to support Ontario-based Indigenous artists working in the visual arts, crafts, or traditional/customary art forms to create artwork.
The Inuit Art Foundation is an official recommender for this grant and strongly encourages all Inuit visual artists to apply.
Funding Information
- Grants of $500 or $1,000 are available to help cover the cost of the following expenses:
- materials and art supplies, such as wood, fabric, thread, stone, leather hides, sinew, beads, needles, photographic printing, inks, metals, paint, canvas, paper, pencils, etc.
- Small tools for making the artwork or for harvesting or gathering materials, such as blades, carving tools, awls, scissors, etc.
- Purchase of materials or tools required to run or participate in workshops
- Delivery: cost of transporting or shipping materials and supplies
- Travel costs for gathering natural materials
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must self-identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit
- Applicants must be Ontario Residents
- Applicants must be individual artists or Elders; groups, collective and organizations are not eligible
- As part of the IAF’s mission to expand opportunities for Inuit artists, it only recommends Inuit artists for funding. First Nations and Métis artists are also eligible for the program.
- Other
- A grant awarded in this program year (September 2022 – March 2023) counts towards a recipient’s three-grant OAC limit for 2022
- You may submit one application to each recommender
- You may receive one Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials grant in the 2022-23 program year
For more information, visit Inuit Art Foundation.