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Deadline: December 9, 2025;
Individual Arts Grants: Visual Artists supports professional visual artists, contemporary and traditional craft artists, and independent critics and curators with the creation of specific projects. Grants are available to support the research and creation of new artworks.
Applications may be made by individuals. Projects that involve two or more artists sharing creative control may also submit a single “collaborative” application under the name of one of the artists. The artist submitting the application must be eligible for the program as listed below. Collaborating artists are not required to meet all eligibility criteria but must include a resume, CV and/or biography.
What It Funds:
Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Creating or completing a body of work for exhibition
- Attending an Artist Residency to research and/or create new artwork(s)
- Curating an exhibition and/or other public programming
- Critical writing exploring intersections within Visual Arts or Media Arts practice
Amount:
The maximum request amount is $15,000. You may request up to 100% of the eligible project expenses.
Who It Funds:
To be eligible, you must:
- Demonstrate you are an established visual or craft artist or independent critic or curator in a CV or Resume, by having:
- Completed appropriate and relevant training in the discipline. Training may include education through post-secondary institutions, traditional knowledge transfer, or apprenticeship with a qualified practitioner.
- Have completed two or more years of artistic practice after basic training.
- Worked at a level that is recognized as professional by other practitioners in a similar discipline or by organizations in the discipline, demonstrated by:
- For visual or craft artists: having completed two or more professionally curated exhibitions for which you have received exhibition fees (CARFAC rates or an equivalent fee).
- For independent curators or critics: having curated two or more exhibitions or professionally published two or more works of critical writing for which you have received professional fees (CARFAC rates or an equivalent fee).
- Alternately, for Indigenous applicants who do not meet the above criteria: Have previously received at least one grant to assist with the creation of work through the First Peoples’ Cultural Council arts program.
Culturally specific practices with curated public display or engagement outside of typical exhibition formats, and/or where compensation is not traditional, may be eligible as exhibition credits. Contact a Program Advisor to discuss prior to applying.
