Small-Scale Activities Component of Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples

Who can apply

To receive funding from the Canada Council, applicants must have a validated applicant profile and applicants must meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the profile.

1. For individuals and groups, this typically includes demonstrating past learning or training, past compensation for arts activities, a commitment to a career in the arts, and recognition by other artists or arts workers.
2. For organizations, this typically includes demonstrating incorporation as a non-profit organization, a mandate related to the arts, a history of arts activities and a history of paying professional fees and royalties to artists and arts workers.

Each funding opportunity offered by the Council also outlines the eligible applicants, activities and expenses for that specific funding opportunity. For further information, please consult our applicant profiles and funding opportunities on the Council’s portal.

First Nations, Inuit or Métis artist or arts/cultural worker

This profile is for First Nations, Inuit or Métis individual artists with a history of making and sharing contemporary or customary work with the public or individual arts or cultural workers whose work supports, facilitates, investigates or examines the work of First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists.

To be eligible for this profile, you must meet all the following criteria. You must:

1. be at least 18 years old
2. be a First Nations, Inuit or Métis person from the land now known as Canada
3. be committed to the creation, study, promotion, dissemination or exhibition or presentation of original contemporary or customary works of art and/or the critical discourse relating to it
4. have developed your arts or cultural skills through formal or informal training
5. have been compensated and/or recognized in a manner that is appropriate for your practice, community or Indigenous protocols, and have accomplished one of the following

• maintained an artistic or cultural practice for at least 1 year and completed at least 2 artistic or cultural activities that were made available to the public, or
• worked in an arts or cultural role for at least 1 year.