Visiting Foreign Artists Program

Deadline

1 June 2008

Your completed application must be postmarked on or before the deadline date.

The Canada Council will not accept applications postmarked after the deadline date, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email. You will not be contacted if your application is incomplete or late.

Program Description

The Visiting Foreign Artists Program provides grants to Canadian professional arts organizations to encourage visits by individual professional foreign artists of outstanding achievement. Organizations may invite an individual artist from any foreign country.

While in Canada, the visiting foreign artist is to direct workshops, teach master classes for professional artists and/or, for Inter-Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts, Theatre, Writing and Publishing, give artist talks. Visiting foreign artists will be expected to supplement the activities of their host organization rather than replace a staff member.

Eligibility

Professional Canadian arts organizations that have received at least one grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in the last three years are eligible to apply to this program. Organizations receiving operating funding cannot apply to this program for activities already supported by the Canada Council. Furthermore, they must state clearly how the activities of the visiting foreign artist would be distinct from their activities that the Canada Council is currently funding. This program will not support visits already funded by another Canada Council program.

Eligible organizations may submit up to three applications to each competition. Only one foreign artist may be invited per application.

All invited artists must be recognized as professionals in their discipline. The Canada Council defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in an academic institution), 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.

Grant Amount

Grants are available in fixed amounts of $500, $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, $2,500 or $3,000.

Application Form

Visiting Foreign Artists (Pilot Program) (PDF Acrobat format).
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.

Further Information

October 2007

Application form and guidelines

Visiting Foreign Artists Program (pilot program) (pdf, 241 KB)