Visual Artists Creation Projects

Overview of the Visual Artists Creation Projects program:

The Visual Artists Creation Projects program is a funding opportunity by the Ontario Arts Council which aims to support Ontario-based visual artists to create or publish new work. The program aims to reflect the range of artistic practices in the visual arts, and to support excellence, regional activity, diverse artists and communities. Also, the program has three categories, based on years of professional practice and public presentation of work: Emerging artists, Mid-career artists, Established artists.

Benefits of the Visual Artists Creation Projects program:

• Each subcategory of this program corresponds to a specific grant amount specifically:
• Emerging: $5,000
• Mid-Career: $7,500
• Established: $15,000

Eligibility criteria of the Visual Artists Creation Projects program:

• To qualify for this program, the following criteria must be met:
• Professional emerging, mid-career and established visual artists who are Ontario residents
• Established: artists with an extensive body of work and with history of national and international exhibitions and/or those who have achieved a wide degree of recognition. You must have been practicing professionally for at least 15 years (meaning public presentation of your work) to apply to this category
• Mid-career: artists whose professional careers have passed the early stages, who have produced a reasonable body of work and have attained a fair degree of public exposure. You must have been practicing professionally for at least 8 years (meaning public presentation of your work) to apply to this category
• Emerging: artists in the early years of their professional careers who have a small exhibition record. You must have been practicing professionally for at least three years (meaning public presentation of your work) to apply to this category
• Artists working in collaboration
• If you create work in collaboration with one or more artist(s), all of the collaborative team members must meet program and category eligibility criteria. Select one artist to apply on behalf of the group. If a grant is awarded, this lead applicant will receive a T4A and will take responsibility for the final report. Describe the collaboration in your artists statement and submit artistic examples showing past collaborative work. If you are part of a collaborative team application, you may not apply as an individual artist to the Visual Artists Creation Projects program at the same deadline. If awarded a collaborative team grant, members must skip a year before reapplying to the program.
• Note:
  • Applicants must have creative control over the project and hold copyright to the proposed work.