The Woodland Cultural Centre continues to be a recommender for two Ontario Arts Council Programs: Exhibition Assistance & Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials. Deadline to apply is January 15, 2018 at 4:00 pm.
Purpose: The program provides grants of $500 to $1,500 to assist individual artists with costs related to presenting their work in an exhibition.
Eligibility: This program is open to Ontario-based professional visual artists, craft artists, media artists and artist collectives who have a confirmed, upcoming public exhibition. Exhibitions in Ontario, in other Canadian provinces and in international locations are all eligible. Students enrolled full-time in undergraduate or graduate level studies are not eligible.
Deadline: January 15, 2018 at 4:00 pm.
The minimum grant is $500; the maximum is $1,500.
INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTISTS’ MATERIALS
Purpose: The program supports Ontario-based First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists working in the visual arts, crafts or traditional/customary Indigenous art forms to create art work. Grants of $500 help cover the cost of buying art materials and supplies. This program funds Materials and art supplies, e.g. wood, fabric, thread, stone, leather hides, sinew, beads, needles, photographic printing, inks, metals, paint, canvas, paper, pencils, etc. Small tools, for making the art work, or for harvesting or gathering materials, e.g. blades, carving tools, awls, scissors, etc., cost of transporting or shipping materials and supplies.
Eligibility: Artists who self-identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit. Applicants must be Ontario residents with a permanent physical address in Ontario.
Deadline: January 15, 2018 at 4:00 pm.
The maximum grant is $500.
For more information, please contact the Arts Department at arts@woolandculturalcentre.ca
