Deadline: 05-Aug-2025
The Toronto Arts Council is offering Visual/Media Arts Projects Grants for organizations and collectives to support projects involving the exhibition or distribution of contemporary visual or media arts.
What does this program support?
- The Visual and Media Arts Projects: Presentation Program provides funding to professional, non-profit Toronto visual arts/media arts organizations, collectives, curators or programmers to pursue one-time or time-limited projects involving the exhibition or distribution of contemporary visual or media arts and/or other activities that contribute to the development of the visual arts/media arts in Toronto (for example residencies, artists workshops).
Funding Information
- The maximum grant available in this program is $15,000.
Eligible Projects
- You may apply for the following types of projects:
- Exhibition: an exhibition must present work in a curatorial or critical context. Applicants exhibiting the work of their own members must likewise have a clearly defined curatorial or critical framework informing the selection and exhibition of work.
- Screening Series: a screening, including film/video festivals, must present work in a curatorial or critical context and must include some work from Toronto artists. Applicants screening the work of their own members must likewise have a clearly defined curatorial or critical framework informing the selection and screening of work.
- Lecture Series: a lecture series must present work in a curatorial or critical context. The audience development plan for the series must include a rationale on how the project contributes to the development of contemporary media and/or visual arts in Toronto. Applicants presenting their own members must likewise have a clearly defined curatorial or critical framework informing the selection of speakers.
- Residency/Workshop Series: the audience development plan for the series must include a rationale on how the project contributes to the development of contemporary media and/or visual arts in Toronto. Applicants that have residencies or workshops including their own members must likewise have a clearly defined curatorial or critical framework informing the selection of participants.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for this funding, an applicant must:
- Be an incorporated non-profit organization, an unincorporated collective operating on a not-for-profit basis, or an individual programmer or curator living in Toronto.
- A collective is defined as two or more artists, curators or programmers working together under a group name, either on a single project or on an ongoing basis.
- For collectives of two artists, both must be City of Toronto residents. For collectives of more than two artists, the majority of members must be City of Toronto residents.
- Organizations/collectives must be located within the City of Toronto and the activity for which the funding is requested must occur within the City of Toronto.
- Artists must be professional. A professional artist is someone who has developed their skills through training and/or practice; is recognized as such by others working in the same artistic tradition; actively practices; seeks payment for their work; and has a history of public presentation.
- The project for which the funding is requested must take place in the City of Toronto.
- The payment of artist fees is a requirement in this program.
- Applicants may receive only one grant per calendar year through the Visual/Media Arts program and may not apply to other TAC discipline programs.
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.
- Organizations or collectives that receive Operating funding from TAC
- Schools that are part of Ontario’s public or private education system
- Student exhibitions or screenings
- Educational and religious institutions, unless there is a clear separation in both programming and budget between their regular activities and their arts activities;
- Individuals; the creation or production of individual visual or media artworks
- Curatorial/programming research. Applicants must have already selected the artists or artworks they wish to present, or have developed clear critical or curatorial objectives and be able to provide a list of artists and/or artworks under consideration.
- Screening programs or festivals that do not include the work of Toronto artists, this is not intended to exclude works by non-Toronto artists.
For more information, visit Toronto Arts Council.