Travel Grants to Inter-Arts Professionals
Summary of changes
Inter-Arts Travel Summary of Changes April/06 (click here for information)
Deadline
You may submit your application at any time (one per fiscal year
– 1 April to 31 March). Be sure to allow ample time to obtain and complete the application form, and to organize your support material. You are encouraged to apply a minimum of six weeks in advance of your departure date.
Program Description
Travel Grants to Inter-Arts Professionals assist Canadian inter-arts creators and independent critics and curators to travel on occasions important to the development of their artistic practice or career. These grants are intended for professional artists working in performance art, interdisciplinary work or new artistic practices (including artists and community collaboration in one of these three practices).
Travel related to research, development, creation or circulation (touring) of an inter-arts project is not eligible under this program (unless created in the context of a residency). Applicants may include these costs in an application under Creation/Production or Dissemination grants in the Inter-Arts Program.
You may obtain information on the Inter-Arts Program on the Council’s website at /interarts/ or by contacting the Inter-Arts Office.
This program has three components: Presentation Travel Grants, Travel to Artists’ Residencies and Professional Development Travel.
1. Support for Presentation Travel
This category supports travel undertaken in response to an invitation that is related to the public presentation of the applicant’s work or ideas in Canada or abroad. Hosts must be professional arts or cultural organizations. To be considered professional, an organization must pay a professional fee to participating artists. In your Travel Grant application, you must include written confirmation of the Canadian host organization’s intention to pay such a fee for the presentation or the activity.
Important: Travel for the purpose of attending an activity of an organization that has already received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts specifically for that activity or from a department of the federal government (including Canadian embassies abroad) is not eligible for support under this program.
2. Support for Travel to Artists’ Residencies
Travel Grants also contribute toward an artist’s travel costs to participate in a residency in a national or international artistic community. Hosts must be professional organizations.
Artists are responsible for securing their own place of residence. The applicant must have been chosen through a selection process and have obtained financial support in the form of a confirmed grant, artist’s fee, or a contribution to per diem and accommodation costs.
The length of the residency must not exceed 12 weeks. Artists who wish to participate in a residency of longer than 12 weeks may apply to the Inter-Arts Program.
3. Professional Development Travel
Professional Development Travel allows artists to attend workshops, symposiums and conferences and/or to participate in other professional development opportunities outside their home region.
Note: Critics, curators and programmers working with organizations (festivals, artists’ centres, etc.) may apply to the Audience and Market Development Travel Assistance program of the Canada Council for the presentation of their work or to develop new audiences.
Eligibility
Applicants must be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Resident Status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Canadian citizens need not be living in Canada when they apply.
All applicants must meet the Canada Council for the Arts’ definition of a professional artist, defined as someone who has:
- completed his/her basic training (or the equivalent)
- produced an independent body of work
- received the recognition of his or her peers through public presentation of work in a professional context, and
- maintained an independent professional practice for at least three years.
You may apply to the Canada Council for only one Travel Grant as well as one Grant to Professional Artists program (or to one deadline of that program) per fiscal year (from 1 April to 31 March).
Full-time undergraduate students at a school, college or university are not eligible to apply. Graduate students are eligible only if they meet the Canada Council’s definition of a professional artist, and if the project for which they are applying is not related to their program of study. (A letter from the applicant’s program director that verifies this information must be included with the application.)
All Canada Council for the Arts programs are accessible to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Note that meeting the eligibility criteria allows you to apply to the program. However, it does not guarantee that you will receive a grant.
Critics and curators must be practising independent inter-arts critics and curators. An art critic must have published a minimum of three articles, papers or exhibition texts on independent inter-arts artists and artworks. Curators must have completed at least three programs of independent inter-arts work that have been presented.
The following types of projects are not eligible for support and do not count in determining an applicant’s eligibility:
- commercial projects
- industrial projects
- student projects
- educational projects, and
- design or development of computer programs.
For Independent Critics and Curators Only
Grant Amount
Travel Grants are available in fixed amounts ($500, $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 or $2,500), depending on the extent of travel. Note that the amounts of $2,000 and $2,500 are available only to applicants who are travelling to or from northern Canada or to international destinations other than the United States and Europe.
Travel must be to a destination more than 500 kilometres outside the artist’s home region.
The grants contribute only toward the personal costs of travel and accommodation incurred by the artist, not to the transportation costs for artworks. Grants cover the costs of plane, train or bus fare and accommodation.
Application Forms
Or
- To submit your travel grants application form on the Internet go to GO! Grants Online
Further Information
Claude Schryer
Inter-Arts 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. 4204
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194
Fax: (613) 566-4332
April 2006