Grants

Welcome to Ruckus Magazine’s Grant Listings. Here you will find an up-to-date list of organizations offering grants and other financial supports to artists in the Greater Toronto Area.

If you know of an organization that should be listed, or if you are part of an organization with a grant that you would like to see listed here, please email zalina@ruckusmagazine.ca.

Toronto Arts Council
The Toronto Arts Council offers several grant programs in the areas of community arts, dance, literary, music, theatre, visual and media art.

Website: http://www.torontoartscouncil.org/grant-main.htm

Ontario Arts Council
The Ontario Arts Council offers one-time grants for specific projects, which applies to individual artists. Some of the available program areas are music commissioning, playwright residency, and visual artists.

Website: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page16.aspx

Canada Council for the Arts
Many grants program offered by the Canada Council for the Arts are for professional artists to finance creation/production, professional development, residency and travel. In order to be considered a professional artist, you must have specialized training in the field, be recognized as such by other artists working in the same field, and have a history of public presentation or publication. The grants are divided into dance, inter-arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing.

Website: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/

Cultural Human Resources Council
The Cultural Human Resources Council’s Youth Internship Program, in partnership with Human Resources Development Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage, offers paid internships in various disciplines. The Council matches cultural organizations with entry-level or emerging cultural professionals who have graduated from college or university and have recently entered the workforce. You must be unemployed or underemployed and be between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusively).

Website: http://www.culturalhrc.ca/YIP/index-e.asp

The SOCAN Foundation
The SOCAN Foundation is funded by the Canada Music Fund to foster Canadian music creation. They have many grant programs including Composer Outreach Residencies, International Concert Music CD Promotion Program and Publication Grants.

Website: http://www.socanfoundation.ca/english/socan_foundation.html

FACTOR (The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings)
FACTOR is funded by the Canada Music Fund and assists Canadian talent in recording demos, albums, touring and other initiatives through their various programs.

Website: http://www.factor.ca/Programs.aspx

The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund
The Fund provides financial assistance to independent producers for the development and production of English and French language films, videos, and multimedia programs in a variety of subject areas using the formats of documentary, docu-drama, drama and animation to inform, educate, and/or instruct. The Fund will be phased out by April 1, 2009 due to recent budget cuts.

Website: www.cifvf.ca

The Remix Project
This youth-led urban arts project accepts 30 young people per six-month semester, divided into 10 people for each of the three streams: media arts, creative arts and the art of business. Those who complete the program can take out a micro-credit loan to start a venture of their choice.

Website: http://www.theremixproject.ca/

Exhibition Assistance Grants
The Ontario Arts Council’s (OAC) Exhibition Assistance program provides grants of $500 to $1,500 to assist individual artists with costs related to presenting their work for an exhibition. This program is open to Ontario-based professional visual artists, craft artists and media artists who have a confirmed, upcoming public exhibition. Exhibition venue can include restaurants, community centres, rented spaces, web-based exhibitions, art fairs, and studio tours; as well as public art galleries, artist-run centres, and commercial art galleries.

Grants are made through third-party recommenders (public art galleries, artist-run centres and arts service organizations) throughout the province. Artists must apply directly to a recommender located in the zone in which they live. Approved applications are forwarded to the OAC by the recommender once the decision to award a grant has been made.

Applications are accepted between August 2008 and February 2009. Recommenders establish their own application deadlines for Exhibition Assistance, or may decide to accept applications on an ongoing basis. Artists should contact recommenders directly for further information.

Visual Arts Ontario is a recommender for Region 3.

VAO requires the artist to submit the application form in triplicate. Only one copy of the support material is needed.

For more information and application forms visit the Ontario Art Council’s website www.arts.on.ca or call the VAO office.