External Grants
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Media Artists: Emerging
Purpose: To provide grants up to $10,000 to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms. The program supports those working in a range of media production formats, including video/film installation.
Eligibility: This program is open to Ontario-based emerging media artists. Applicants from other artistic disciplines wishing to incorporate film or video into their work may also apply. Eligible projects are independent productions initiated by the applicant (director) where the applicant has creative and editorial control. Projects with budgets under $75,000 are eligible.
One deadline per year
Deadline: November 15, 2010
Media Artists: Mid-Career and Established
Provides production grants to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms. Awards up to $40,000.
This program is open to Ontario-based professional media artists who have completed at least two independent works. Projects with budgets of $300,000 or less, in the following categories, are eligible: documentary, drama, experimental, animation, dance film/video, media art installation, new media and any fusion thereof.
Deadlines twice a year
Deadlines: April 15, 2010 and October 1st, 2010
Chalmers Arts Fellowship
The program provides financial support directly to artists so they may have the opportunity to dedicate themselves to individual creative pursuits. The program aims to provide such support at moments in artists' careers when a concentration on personal and/or artistic growth or renewal and exploration is most likely to have the greatest impact on their long-term artistic and career development.
Fellowships may be awarded to artists at any stage of their career development, from early to mature, and to artists working in a wide range of aesthetics and traditions that reflect Ontario's regional activity, linguistic and cultural diversity and Aboriginal and Franco-Ontarian identity.
Eligibility
This program is open to professional Ontario-based artists. In addition, in order to apply to the Chalmers Arts Fellowships program you must:
- be an individual working in any of the disciplines supported at OAC including crafts, dance, integrated arts, literature, media arts, multi-disciplinary arts, music, theatre or visual arts;
- have creative and administrative control, as well as overall responsibility for the direction of your project; have had an active professional practice for at least 3 years prior to the application deadline;
- have had at least 2 works and/or engagements that include a contract and/or payment (exhibition fee, commission fee, royalties, performance fee, salary, etc.) for the exhibition, distribution, performance, presentation, publishing, etc. of your work.
One deadline per year:
Deadline: June 1, 2010
Aboriginal Arts Projects
This program is open to professional, Ontario-based Aboriginal artists, including artists' collectives and not-for-profit Aboriginal organizations, centres and councils.
Deadline: February 16, 2010
Avance médias: grants to Franco-Ontarian media artists and organizations
Le programme Avance médias vise à aider les
artistes francophones indépendants qui utilisent
les arts médiatiques comme moyen d'expression
créatrice. Il accorde aux particuliers des
subventions de projet pour le développement ou la
production de nouvelles oeuvres
cinématographiques, vidéographiques ou de nouveaux
médias ayant un contenu de langue française.
Admissibilité : Il doit s'agir de projets
indépendants entrepris par le candidat et sur
lesquels il possède le contrôle et pleine liberté
d'expression créative. Seuls sont admissibles les
projets où la liberté artistique du réalisateur
n'est pas limitée par d'autres sources de
financement. Aucune restriction ne s'applique au
format des films ou des vidéos ni aux méthodes de
production technologiques. Ce programme appuie une
vaste gamme de genres: oeuvres dramatiques,
expérimentales ou d'animation, le documentaire, et
les installation vidéos.
Deadline Monday November 16th, 2009
Exhibitions Assistance
Supports media artists with costs of exhibiting works in galleries, etc.
Grant amounts: $500, $1,000, $1,500
Applications accepted from July to February. Check OAC website.
