Deadline: 15-Oct-21
Applications are now open for the Project Assistance: Visual Arts Organizations Program to support the development, enrichment, and creation of new or unique public programming and documentation, including exhibitions, dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new artistic or curatorial practices, community engagement, and audience development.
Eligibility Criteria
- Assistance through this program is available to Arts and Cultural Organizations and Arts or Curatorial Collectives that meet the following:
- Provide public programming in British Columbia and have done so for a minimum of one year.
- Compensate artists, and arts, museums and cultural practitioners fairly in keeping with community contexts and industry standards within the field of practice, including adhering to international intellectual property rights standards and cultural ownership protocols.
- Adhere to the Criminal Record Review Act, which requires that people who work with or may potentially have unsupervised access to children or vulnerable adults must undergo a criminal record check by the Criminal Records Review Program.
- Not currently receiving Operating Assistance from the BC Arts Council.
- Have submitted any overdue final reports on previous BC Arts Council grants by the submission deadline for this program.
- An Arts and Cultural Organization must also:
- Be a professional visual arts organization registered and in good standing as a non-profit society or community service co-op in the Province of British Columbia for at least one fiscal year prior to application. OR
- Be a professional visual arts organization by a local government, Indigenous Government, Indigenous Community Organization, or Métis Chartered Community in the Province of British Columbia for at least one fiscal year prior to application, with a community-based board of management that sets policy for the organization’s public programs and services. OR
- Be a professional visual arts organization operated by a public post-secondary institution in the Province of British Columbia for at least one fiscal year prior to application, with a community-based board of management that sets policy for the organization’s public program and services, and that offers public programming by professional arts, museums and culture practitioners in a dedicated gallery facility with regular ongoing access to the non-academic community.
- An Arts or Curatorial Collective must also:
- Be established and readily identified as a collective of independent B.C. visual artists, curators, and/or arts and culture practitioners, consisting of three or more individuals who are professionally active in their field of practice, each of whom must:
- have a minimum of two years of professional practice in their field, following basic training.
- have a demonstrated body of previous work as an individual practitioner.
- not be enrolled as a full-time student.
- be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident.
- have been a resident of British Columbia for at least 12 months immediately prior to the application deadline, and ordinarily reside in B.C.
- Have a demonstrated history of creating or presenting work as a collective and have a clear commitment to current practice.
- Have eligibility confirmed by a program officer prior to applying.
- Apply under the name of an individual member of the collective, who will act as the key contact person and be listed as the submitting officer within the online grant system.
- If the application is successful, this person will receive payment of the award on behalf of the group, be issued a T4A and be responsible for submitting the final report.
- Be established and readily identified as a collective of independent B.C. visual artists, curators, and/or arts and culture practitioners, consisting of three or more individuals who are professionally active in their field of practice, each of whom must:
Exclusions
Project Assistance is not available for:
- International travel as per BC Arts Council’s current COVID-19 policy.
- Community arts festivals.
- Operating costs.
- Project phases or activity that have begun prior to the submission deadline.
- Project or budget deficits and/or contingency funds.
- Capital expenditures (construction, renovation, or purchase of property or equipment).
- Feasibility studies, start-up costs, or seed money.
- International travel costs or fees of foreign artists visiting British Columbia.
- Community-based, user-pay arts societies and like organizations (e.g. choirs, bands, theatre troupes), unless this criteria is met.
- Fundraising activities, conferences, conventions, or projects that are secondary to the arts-related activity (e.g. competitions, or family, religious, or community celebrations or anniversaries).
- Subsistence to arts and cultural practitioners.
- Costs of producing demo recordings.
- Projects or activities funded through other BC Arts Council programs or its third-party delivery partners, including First Peoples’ Cultural Council, BC Touring Council, or Creative BC.
- Private or for-profit entities.
For more information, visit https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/project-assistance-visual-arts-organizations/