CRAFTS & DESIGN

FUNDING, GRANTS & AWARDS

• Canada Council for the Arts

  Canada Council for the Arts is the national arts funding agency. This site provides information about the council’s grants to media artists, including travel grants, and grants available to aboriginal media artists. The council also administers a number of important awards and prizes.

• Community Arts Councils

  A number of municipalities and regions in Ontario have arts councils which are involved in encouraging and promoting local arts and cultural activities, and funding local organizations. Some offer grants or awards for artists. All have information of interest to local artists:

  1. Council for the Arts in Ottawa
  2. Guelph Arts Council
  3. Hamilton and Region Arts Council
  4. Kingston Arts Council
  5. London Arts Council
  6. Mississauga Arts Council
  7. Quinte Arts Council
  8. Scarborough Arts Council
  9. Thunder Bay Regional Arts Centre
  10. Toronto Arts Council
  11. Waterloo Regional Arts Council 
  12. Windsor and Region Arts Council

• Fusion - The Ontario Clay and Glass Association

  The FUSION Scholarship Endowment Fund provides assistance to worthy members in financial need who wish to continue their studies in the field of ceramics or glass.

• Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts

  This fund assists non-profit organizations to undertake projects that contribute to the advancement of the crafts in Canada, and Canadian visual arts organizations to undertake projects that contribute to the advancement and understanding of the fine crafts in Canada. Individual fine crafts professionals are also eligible to apply, but only to the Research and Policy Development Assistance component of the program.

• Ontario Arts Council (OAC)

  OAC is the province’s primary funding body for professional arts activity. This site has information about project grants that may be available to individual artists. The OAC also administers a number of important awards and prizes:

  • Craft projects: Grants for Individuals
  • Craft Projects: Grants for Collectives and Organizations

• Ontario Crafts Council (OCC)

  OCC offers approximately $15,000 though an annual program of awards, scholarships and supply grants to student and craft professional members. Grants are organized into scholarships, grants for excellence in any craft discipline and for specific craft disciplines.

• Ontario Handweavers and Spinners (OHS)

  OHS has a number of scholarships and awards available annually.

• Saidye Bronfman Award

  This is Canada's foremost distinction for excellence in the fine crafts. The $25,000 prize is awarded annually to an exceptional craftsperson. In addition, works by the recipient are acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization for its permanent collection. As of March 2007 the Saidye Bronfman Award will become an eighth Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, reserved exclusively for fine craft artists.

• Winifred Shantz Award

  The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo assists those in the field of contemporary ceramics by awarding $10,000 annually to a potter or clay sculptor for innovative professional development.

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