Deadline: 15-Jan-22
SK Arts is pleased to announce the Core Support Stream Program 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 Core Support Stream recipients:
- have a four-year funding cycle,
- have a minimum grant request of $20,000 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 Core Support Stream may support eligible arts organizations that:
- are in good standing at SK Arts, i.e. in compliance with any SK Arts reporting, grant conditions and Concerned Status requirements; and
- have previously received funding through the PAOP Organizational Lite Stream, or currently receive funding through PAOP.
- Eligible Arts Organizations
- Are deficit-free at time of application, if a new entrant to Core Support Stream
- Are one of the following:
- legally registered in Saskatchewan under The Non-profit Corporations Act, 1995 or The Co-operatives Act, 1996
- a public institution in Saskatchewan that is operated by a government body, that is open to the public at least 120 days per year, and that maintains artistic control and separate financial records
- a literary book publisher or literary/arts periodical publisher legally registered in Saskatchewan under The Business Corporations Act
- 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
- Engage the paid expertise of arts professionals in the area of programming and administration
- Arts professionals have completed training through formal studies, mentorships or work experience, and are recognized by their peers as having reached the status of professional.
- Centre of operations resides within Saskatchewan
- Work and mandate are supported by strategic and operational planning and evaluation processes
- Conduct an annual audit, review engagement or independent financial review by an accounting professional not associated on an ongoing basis with the organization
- 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 PAOP purpose
For more information, visit https://sk-arts.ca/menu/grants/grants-by-type/arts-organizations/professional-arts-organizations-program.html