Aboriginal Curatorial Residency: A Collaborative Project of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada
Deadline
28 May 2007
Your completed application and all support material 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.
Program Description
This partnership initiative between the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada provides a two-year (September 2007 – September 2009) development opportunity for one mid-career curator of Aboriginal ancestry to work in a challenging museological environment.
The residency emphasizes the investigation and use of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada under the mentoring and engagement of the Gallery’s professional staff. In addition to conducting research and providing assistance on the collections, the curatorial resident will prepare, over the course of the two-year residency, an exhibition for the Gallery’s “On Tour” program.
Eligibility
- The curatorial resident must be of Canadian Aboriginal origin (First Nations [Status and Non-Status], Inuit and Métis people) and be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada (as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada).
- Eligible individuals are curators or art historians whose experience and/or education demonstrates their commitment to further development in the curatorial profession within an art museum environment.
- Applicants must have extensive knowledge of contemporary art, both international and Canadian, including art by artists of Aboriginal ancestry within Canada.
- Applicants must have curatorial experience, with responsibility for exhibition organization and cataloguing.
- A working knowledge of English and French is desirable
Grant Amount
This program provides an honorarium of $42,000 per year to the curatorial resident. In addition, the resident is eligible for one annual return trip to his or her home location, to a maximum of $3,000 per year.
The National Gallery of Canada, with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, will be responsible for all professional expenses associated with the residency, including the costs of office set-up and supplies and exhibition research and presentation. Personal expenses such as transportation to and from Ottawa at the beginning and end of the residency, accommodation rental are not eligible.
Application Form and Guidelines
Aboriginal Curatorial Residency: Collaborative Project of CCA and NGC (PDF Acrobat format. This form cannot be completed online; please print.)
OR
To apply for a grant online go to GO! Grants Online
Further Information
Jim Logan
Visual Arts Section Officer
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5266
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: 613-565-5194
Fax: 613-566-4332
April 2007