Canada Council for the Arts - Grants

The Canada Council for the Arts is a national arm’s length agency created in 1957 to "foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."

To fulfil this mandate, the Canada Council provides grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations.

Eligibility Criteria

Professional artists in one of the following artistic fields may apply:

• dance
• media arts
• music
• theatre
• writing and publishing
• interdisciplinary work and performance art
• visual arts

Applicants must be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Resident status, as define by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The Canada Council defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by her or his peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), and who has a history of public presentation or publication.

Artists who are awarded a Canada Council grant will be required to devote a substantial portion of their time to their program of work during the period of the grant.

Canadian non-profit arts organizations – such as theatre companies, art museums, public galleries, artist-run centres, dance companies, orchestras and film co-operatives – that are staffed by arts professionals who create artistic works, or present them to the Canadian public, are also eligible, as are professional publishing houses.

Summary

How do I apply for a grant?

Contact the Canada Council. If you require information on a specific grant program, request the program information sheet (or, if you have already decided to apply, request an application form and guidelines for that program). If you need a listing of all grants available in your particular discipline, request the summary of grants available for that discipline.

Note that all Canada Council grant information is also available on their Web site.

Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Contact(s):
See National Contact.