Northern Arts Projects

Who can apply

1. professional artists who reside in northern Ontario, for at least one year prior to submitting an application, and continue to live for at least eight months each year in northern Ontario
2. not-for-profit organizations with a head office in northern Ontario; non-arts organizations must demonstrate appropriate arts expertise and directly involve arts professionals as paid artists or advisory committee members
3. Canadian-controlled professional arts and literary book and magazine publishers with a head office in northern Ontario, including Canadian-owned for-profit publishers (see Program-specific definitions below)
4. ad hoc groups and collectives based in northern Ontario, and are made up of at least 50 per cent professional artists and/or arts professionals who reside in northern Ontario and continue to live for at least eight months each year in northern Ontario
5. northern Ontario-based First Nations and schools run by First Nations or Indigenous Education Authorities

Note: Co-applicant individuals, ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations are eligible. If awarded, the grant is split equally between the two applicants.

Read the Guide to OAC Project Programs for more eligibility information.

The activities for which you are requesting funding:

1. cannot start before the deadline
2. cannot finish before you receive your grant results
3. must be completed no more than two years after you receive the grant results

Northern Ontario

: includes the Far North, Northwest, and Northeast regions of the province. This includes the Manitoulin, Parry Sound and Nipissing districts and all regions north of these districts.

Arts professionals

: includes artists, arts managers, curators and arts programmers.

Professional arts and literary book and magazine publishers

1. have published no fewer than two eligible books or magazine issues (see below) in the 12 months prior to the program deadline, unless that publisher is an online magazine that has posted content regularly for the last 12 months
2. pay contributors’ fees or royalties and issue contributors’ contracts
3. primarily publish work by writers who are not owners, staff, or editors of the publication

Eligible arts and literary books

Eligible books, for the purposes of applications from professional book publishers, are created by citizens or residents of Canada, and are in English, French, or an Indigenous language.

Translations into French, English or Indigenous languages of Canadian-authored works are eligible if they meet all other eligibility criteria.

Eligible books are works of literary, artistic, or cultural importance in the genres of fiction; poetry; drama; comics and graphic novels; works for children and young adults; and creative and literary non-fiction (including but not limited to literary and arts criticism; autobiography, biography, memoir and essays).

Eligible magazines

1. devote the majority of their content to the publication of original art and literature, critical commentary on the arts or substantive cultural commentary
2. primarily publish work by writers and artists that are residents of Northern Ontario

Not eligible:

Ineligible applicants

colleges, universities and municipalities

for-profit organizations (with the exception of eligible publishers – see Program-specific definitions below

organizations receiving OAC operating funding; they may be a participant in a group project, but cannot be the applicant or co-applicant