Deadline: 1-Oct-25
The Toronto Arts Council is excited to announce its Black Arts Projects to support the creation, development and presentation of arts projects by Black organizations, collectives and individuals working across all artistic disciplines.
The Black Arts Projects Program supports arts projects by Black artists, Black artist collectives, and Black-led, Black-focused, and Black-serving organizations.
The Black Arts Projects Program provides support to individual artists, artist collectives of 2 or more Black artists working on a non-profit basis and incorporated non-profit Toronto Black arts organizations.
Categories
- Applicants may apply in one of two categories:
- Creation & Development: supports full creation, partial creation, or completion of work-in progress of an arts-based project at any stage and in any arts discipline. Project activities may include artistic creation in one or more stages of a project, including an arts education project (i.e., workshop(s)).
- Presentation: supports projects that primarily focus on presentation, including exhibition, presentation, and dissemination of work by Black artists in any arts discipline.
- Mentorship: mentorship for project grant recipients interested in connecting with artists that can support them in building or acquiring skill sets to develop their art practice. A mentorship option will be available in each project grant category and applicants will be asked to indicate which mentor(s) they would like to work with and provide rationale for the mentorship.
Funding Information
- Creation & Development: Maximum grant in this category is $10,000.
- Presentation:
- Maximum grant in this category is $15,000
- Maximum grant in this category including a mentorship component is $20,000
- Mentorship: An additional budget of up to $5000 is available as compensation for mentors and mentees.
- Duration: The Project Start Date must be a minimum of 4 months after the submission date.
Eligible Expenses
- Creation & Development: Expenses can include:
- Artistic, production and administrative fees and costs, including venue, publicity, marketing and outreach.
- Fees paid to collaborators, mentors and creative resources.
- Studio costs, materials and production elements that are essential to creation.
- Presentation: Expenses can include:
- Artistic, presentation, exhibition and administrative fees and costs, including installation, rehearsal, venue, and production
- Dissemination costs including publicity, marketing and outreach
- Fees paid to collaborators and mentors
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply to the Black Arts Projects Program, applicants must identify as a Black professional artist or artist collective, or be an incorporated not-for-profit arts organization. The payment of artists fees is a requirement of all categories in this program.
- You may not apply as an individual and an organization or collective for the same project at the same time. If you are one of the members of an applicant collective, you may also apply as an individual for an unrelated project in the same competition year.
- For Individuals:
- Individuals must be Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents or have an application pending for Permanent Resident status or be a Protected Person (approved refugee claimant) and, if requested, be able to provide documentation to verify this.
- Individuals must have been a resident of the City of Toronto for at least one year prior to the deadline, and live and work in Toronto for at least 8 months a year.
- For Organizations and Collectives:
- Organizations and collectives must be incorporated non-profit organizations or unincorporated collectives which operate on a non-profit basis.
- Organizations must be Black-led, Black-focused, and Black-serving, including a majority of Black members on its leadership team, including Board of Directors, Board Executive, and management.
- Creation & Development: Open to individual artists and artist collectives.
- Presentation: Open to individual artists, artist collectives and arts organizations.
Ineligibility Criteria
- This Program does not fund:
- Projects that have been completed prior to the announcement of results. Toronto Arts Council does not fund retroactively;
- Non-Black artists, organizations and collectives;
- Organizations and collectives that receive Operating funding from TAC;
- Undergraduate students;
- Schools that are part of Ontarios public or private education system.
For more information, visit Toronto Arts Council.