Deadline: 15-Jan-23
The SaskCulture Art is providing schools and professional artists opportunities to collaborate on arts activities linked to educational outcomes.
Purpose
- Development
- Artists in Schools – Development provides small amounts of funding to schools and/or professional artists or arts professionals to build relationships with potential partners, develop projects or residencies, and/or research school or community needs. Partnerships between artists or arts professionals and schools do not have to be established to be eligible to apply for the Development stream.
- Projects
- The arts are an important pillar of society, enriching their schools and communities by enhancing their quality of life, while they allow the SK Art to learn about theirselves and about others. The Artists in Schools program encourages a creative environment and enriching educational experience that nurtures innovation and imagination. Exposing youth to new ideas stimulates positive change by exciting students to realize their full potential, acknowledge their role in society, and foster a lifelong learning in the arts.
- Artists in Schools – Projects provides support for collaboration between artists and schools to co-create an inquiry-based arts and learning project through their combined knowledge, skills, and experience. Projects are unique in their design and developed in response to the needs and interest of the school community while connecting to cross-curricular and cross-cultural outcomes.
- Residencies
- The arts are an important pillar of society, enriching their schools and communities by enhancing their quality of life, while they allow SK Art to learn about ourselves and about others. The Artists in Schools program encourages a creative environment and enriching educational experience that nurtures innovation and imagination. Exposing youth to new ideas stimulates positive change by exciting students to realize their full potential, acknowledge their role in society, and foster a lifelong learning in the arts.
- Artist in Schools – Residencies supports programs that engage students collaboratively in arts activities that are directly linked to cross-curricular and cross-cultural educational outcomes.
Funding Information
- Development: $1,000.
- Projects: $10,000 (one artist); $20,000 (two artists).
- Residencies: $40,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Development
- The school must be based in the province of Saskatchewan.
- The school is a provincial school, school division, Band school, Tribal Council, private school or Adult Basic Education Program that works with the Saskatchewan arts education curriculum.
- Professional artists and arts professionals are eligible to apply to this program if they meet SK Arts’ definition of a professional artist/arts professional and are Saskatchewan residents.
- Applicants must be in good standing with SK Arts, i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants on the submission deadline and when any grant payments are issued.
- Due to the four-week response time on these grants, SK Arts is only able to accept Development stream submissions in English. Applicants who find this challenging can request support from SK Arts’ Accessibility Fund but are encouraged to contact their Program Consultant and do this work well in advance of the submission deadline.
- Project
- The partnership between the school and Professional Artist must be in place prior to submission.
- The School Applicant is any provincial k-12 school that operates in a traditional classroom or school setting and works with the Saskatchewan Education curriculum.
- The School Applicant must be based in the province of Saskatchewan, may make no more than one application to Artists in Schools at any submission closing date, and must be in good standing with SK Arts (i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants) when the application is received and any grant payments are issued.
- An Artist Applicant may make more than one application at any submission closing date, up to the maximum allowable funding level as through residencies ($45,000/ year) and Independent Artist Program four-year maximums, although the review panel will consider the individual’s ability to undertake multiple projects when assessing the applications.
- The Artist Applicant must be in good standing with SK Arts (i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants) when the application is received and any grant payments are issued.
- In the case of $20,000.00 grants with more than one artist at least 50% of the artists, including the lead artist applicant, must be Saskatchewan residents and meet SK Arts’ definition of a Professional Artist.
- SK Arts values diversity, seeking to be inclusive and accessible to all its applicants and participants. For this reason, SK Art asks applicants to identify the school community you hope to engage with your project that may have been historically underserved or is otherwise considered marginalized (artists, schools or communities outside urban settings, Indigenous, People of Colour, Deaf or disability artist, 2SLGBTQ+, or a newcomer to Canada). This helps the SK Art assess whether the program is achieving its diversity goals.
- Residencies
- The partnership between the school and professional artist must be in place prior to the submission.
- The School Applicant is any provincial K-12 school that operates in a traditional classroom or school setting and works with the Saskatchewan Education curriculum.
- The School Applicant must be based in the province of Saskatchewan, may make no more than one application to the Artists in Schools or Artists in Communities program at any submission deadline, and must be in good standing with SK Arts (i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants) when the application is received and any grant payments are issued.
- The Artist Applicant must be a Saskatchewan resident.
- An Artist Applicant may make more than one application at any submission deadline, up to the maximum allowable funding level ($45,000/year) and Independent Artist Program fouryear maximums, although the review panel will, however, consider the individual’s ability to undertake multiple projects when assessing the applications.
- The Artist Applicant must be in good standing with SK Arts (i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants) when the application is received, and any grant payments are issued.
- SK Arts values diversity, seeking to be inclusive and accessible to all its applicants and participants. For this reason, SK Art asks applicants to identify the school community you hope to engage with your project that may have been historically underserved or is otherwise considered marginalized (artists, schools or communities outside urban settings, Indigenous, People of Colour, Deaf or disability artist, 2SLGBTQ+, or a newcomer to Canada). This helps the SK Art assess whether the program is achieving its diversity goals.
For more information, visit SaskCulture Art.
