Skills and Career Development: Indigenous Arts Professionals and Arts Professionals of Colour
This program supports Ontario-based Indigenous arts professionals and arts professionals of colour, or ad hoc groups and collectives made up of Indigenous arts professionals or arts professionals of colour for professional development and skill-building opportunities that advance applicants’ work and careers.
Offered by Ontario Arts Council (OAC)
Amount
Skills and Career Development: maximum $10,000 per grant; grants awarded may be smaller than the amount requested
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Who can apply
- individual Indigenous arts professionals and arts professionals of colour
- ad hoc groups and collectives made up of Indigenous arts professionals or arts professionals of colour
Important
: You may only receive a Skills and Career Development grant once every two years.
The activity for which you are requesting funding:
- cannot start before the deadline
- cannot finish before you receive your grant results
- must be completed no more than two years after you receive the grant results
Arts professionals
: are defined as artists, arts administrators, community animators, curators, programmers, technicians and arts educators who are engaged in creating, producing, promoting, performing, presenting, distributing and/or programming artistic work.
Indigenous
: Individuals who self-identify as First Nations, MĂ©tis or Inuit.
OAC is referring to people of colour based on the Government of Canada’s definition of “visible minorities,” which is “persons, other than [Indigenous] peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.”
Not eligible:
Ineligible applicants
applicants who have applied to and have not received notification that their application is unsuccessful for a Chalmers Professional Development Projects grant
applicants who have received a grant for this program and have not yet completed and reported on their project, or in any of the following programs
Chalmers Professional Development Projects
National and International Residency Projects
applicants who have received a grant in the professional development category for the Deaf and Disability Arts Projects program and have not yet completed and reported on their project
students enrolled full- or part-time at a college or university in an undergraduate program
graduate/post-graduate students enrolled in a course of study whose project is directly related to their arts discipline, field of study or thesis topic
About the funding
Skills and Career Development: maximum $10,000
Important
: Due to the number of applications received and the limited funds available, grants awarded may be smaller than the amount requested.
- Study and training: to help cover the cost of arts professionals’ attendance at conferences, master classes and workshops or training courses
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- Mentorship: to help cover the cost of developmental relationships between arts professionals and mentors
- Internship and apprenticeship: to help cover the cost of arts professionals working in temporary positions that emphasize on-the-job training. The applicant must initiate the internship/apprenticeship, and it cannot replace a current position at the group/arts organization
- Documentation of art work: to help cover the costs of professional preparation of materials that document an arts professionals’ skills, training and abilities
Eligible expenses can include:
- artist fees – payment to yourself or other individuals engaged in the project. Artist fees should be calculated based on time or contribution to the project. The program does not fund living and personal expenses – do not include these as the rationale for the calculation of artist fees.
- travel (out of town transportation, accommodation, meal allowance)
- tuition, registration or study fees
- mentor fees
- workspace/equipment rental
- purchase of small-scale equipment, software, electronics and similar materials required to carry out the project
- educational materials
- childcare and other dependant care fees enabling individuals to take part in the project (this does not include regular, ongoing expenses)
- expenses related to making the project accessible to audience members and project participants (other than the applicant) who are Deaf or have a disability
- Note: Applicants to this program who identify as Deaf or as having a disability may apply for supplementary funds for their own accessibility expenses through Accessibility Fund: Project Support.
Similar programs
| Program | Type | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achievement Incentive (AI) | Grant | Up to $17,000 | Open |
| Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJC) | Grant | Eligible training costs up to a maximum of $10,000 per trainee | Open |
| Chalmers Professional Development Projects | Grant | $7,500 per grant in each category (artists practicing 10 years or less, artists practicing 11 years or more, arts administrators) | Open |
| Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials | Grant | Grants of $500 or $1,000 to help cover the cost of buying art materials and supplies only | Open |
