August 9, 2009

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL - GRANT DEADLINES SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2009

VISUAL ARTS: GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS

The Visual Arts grant program assists artists to create and develop new work and to continue work in progress. The program is open to Ontario-based professional visual artists.

EMERGING ARTISTS - $5000.
DEADLINE DECEMBER 1

This category is for emerging artists and is reserved for artists in the early years of their professional careers who may have a small exhibition record. You must have at least 3 years of professional practice to apply to this category. Applicants may apply to only one category per year and should choose the category that is most appropriate to their artistic practice.

MID-CAREER ARTISTS - $7500.
DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15

This category is for artists in mid-career and includes artists past the early stages of their professional career who have produced a reasonable body of work and may have a fair degree of public exposure. You must have at least 8 years of professional practice to apply to this category. If you receive a grant in this category you are no longer eligible to apply to the Emerging Artists category.

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MEDIA ARTISTS: GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS

EMERGING MEDIA ARTISTS
DEADLINE NOVEMBER 16

To provide grants up to $10,000 to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms. The program supports those working in a range of media production formats, including video, film, audio and digital.

This program is open to Ontario-based emerging media artists. Eligible projects are independent productions initiated by the applicant (director) where the applicant has creative and editorial control. Projects with budgets under $75,000 are eligible.

MID-CAREER AND ESTABLISHED MEDIA ARTISTS
DEADLINES OCTOBER 1, 2009 AND APRIL 15, 2010

To provide production grants to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms. This program is open to Ontario-based professional media artists who have completed at least two independent works. Projects with budgets of $300,000 or less, in the following categories, are eligible: documentary, drama, experimental, animation, dance film/video, media art installation, new media and any fusion thereof.

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