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Assistance for Artist-Run Centres

Deadline

1 November 2006 (for Annual Support Recipients only)

Program Description

This program offers financial assistance to artist-run centres that provide visual artists and their audiences with an informed and professional forum for research, production, presentation, promotion and dissemination of new works in contemporary visual arts. The program also contributes to various services offered to visual artists, in addition to activities such as discussions, symposiums or publications on issues arising from visual arts practices.

Centres that will be funded demonstrate a professional commitment to artists in contemporary visual arts, their practices and their concerns.

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Eligibility

You must be an incorporated, non-profit Canadian organization and must:

  • be directed by a board composed of a majority of practising contemporary visual artists
  • have a primary mandate to encourage research, production, presentation, promotion and dissemination of new works in contemporary visual arts
  • maintain a permanent, dedicated space that is accessible to the public
  • pay artists’ fees to those participating in your programming activities that are at least at the level recommended by CARFAC/RAAV, and
  • have maintained an annual program of artistic activities, accessible to the public, for a minimum of three consecutive years, if you are a new applicant.

For this program, the visual arts include:

  • drawing
  • painting
  • sculpture
  • photography
  • print-making
  • architecture
  • craft
  • installation.

Artist-run centres may also include video, film, new media, audio, interdisciplinary and performance artworks in their programming. However, centres with primary activities in these fields must apply to the Media Arts Section or the Inter-Arts Program.

Artist-run centres that receive multi-year or annual assistance from the Visual Arts Section and present a series of at least four performances each year, or that produce a major performance event, are also eligible for funding from the Inter-Arts Program.

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Grant Amount

Multi-year grants range from $20,000 to $100,000 per year and will be available for the two-year period of 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2008.

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Application Form

This application form consists of all documents below. These documents can be printed.  The form cannot be filled out on-line.

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Further Information

To obtain further information about the Artist-Run Centres program, contact the appropriate Visual Arts Section Officer as indicated below.

Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or (613) 566-4414 and dial the appropriate extension number

Applicants from Ontario (eastern part of the province, including Toronto), Quebec and Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador) and Vancouver Island are asked to contact: Sue-Ellen Gerritsen at ext. 4122

Applicants from Ontario (Ottawa and western part of the province, including Toronto), Nova Scotia,  British Columbia, the Prairie provinces, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are asked to contact: Jim Logan at ext. 5266.

Assistance for Artist-Run Centres, Program Assistant: Marlène Barré, ext. 4267

TTY (TDD) machine for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194

Fax: (613) 566-4332

Visual Arts Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P. O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8

August 2005