Integrated Arts Program for Arts Professionals: Travel Grants
Deadline
You may submit your application at any time, but you may apply to this program only once each Canada Council fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). You are encouraged to apply a minimum of eight weeks before your departure date so you may, where possible, receive notification of the results of your request before your departure. Be sure to allow ample time to obtain and complete the application form, and to organize your support material.
The Canada Council will not accept applications received after your departure date, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email.
Program Description
The Travel Grants component of the Integrated Arts Program for Arts Professionals is for Canadian, professional artists and independent critics and curators working in integrated arts. Travel Grants offer three categories of funding:
1. Support for Presentation Travel
This category supports travel undertaken in response to an invitation that you have received, asking you to publicly present your work or ideas in Canada or abroad.
2. Support for Travel to Artists’ Residencies
These grants contribute to your travel costs to participate in a residency in a national or international artistic community.
3. Support for Professional Development Travel
This category assists you to attend workshops, symposiums and conferences, and (or) to participate in other professional development opportunities outside your home region.
Artists and Community Collaboration
This is an arts process that actively involves professional artists and non-arts community members working together on creative and collaborative projects. For more information, go to the Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP) link on the Inter-Arts Office web page.
Applicant Eligibility
You are responsible for providing all required information to confirm your eligibility and the eligibility of your proposed activities. The Canada Council will make eligibility decisions based on the information you provide in this application and will not contact you for additional information. If your application is found to be ineligible, it will be returned to you, with a letter of explanation.
- You must be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Applicants who are Canadian citizens do not have to be living in Canada when they apply.
- If you are a critic or curator, you must be a practising, independent integrated arts critic or curator. An arts critic must have published a minimum of three articles, papers or exhibition texts on independent inter-arts artists and artworks. A curator must have completed at least three programs of independent inter-arts work that have been presented publicly.
- If you are a professional artist, you must meet the following definition. Professional artists are those who:
- have specialized training in an arts practice (not necessarily in academic institutions)
- are recognized as such by their peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition)
- are committed to devoting more time to the artistic activity, if financially possible.
Professional artists in integrated arts must have maintained an integrated arts practice for at least one year before the submission of the application, and have at least one year of public presentation or publication in integrated arts.
- If you are a graduate student, you are eligible only if you meet the Canada Council’s definition of a professional artist and your proposed program of work is not related to your program of study. (You must include in your application a letter from the graduate student program director to verify this information.)
- You are not eligible if you are a full-time undergraduate student at a school, college or university.
Note that meeting the eligibility criteria allows you to apply to the program, but does not guarantee that you will receive a grant.
This program is accessible to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse regional and cultural communities of Canada.
Restrictions
- You may not apply to this program for support of the same activities that appear in any other current request to the Canada Council or that have already been funded by the Canada Council.
- You may apply for only one travel grant, one touring grant and one grant to professional artists in each Canada Council fiscal year (1 April to 31 March).
- If your application is unsuccessful in a program competition, you may resubmit it only one more time to a competition for the same program.
- You must submit any overdue final reports for previous Canada Council grants. Final reports must be received to and approved by the Canada Council before you may apply for a new grant.
Activity Eligibility
General Eligibility
The Canada Council for the Arts defines integrated arts as professional artistic activities with a singular artistic vision that combine art forms, or integrate existing art forms into its own distinct form. To be eligible for funding from the Integrated Arts Program, the proposed integrated arts activities must fall outside the framework of existing funding programs offered by the Canada Council’s Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, or Writing and Publishing sections.
Travel related to the following is not eligible for support: commercial projects, industrial projects, student projects, educational projects, and design or development of computer programs. For independent critics and curators only, travel related to projects on art history is not eligible.
Eligibility for Specific Categories
Travel Grants assist you to travel on occasions important to the development of your artistic practice or career. The three categories of support have the following eligibility requirements:
1. Support for Presentation Travel
Hosts must be professional arts or cultural organizations. To be considered professional, an organization must pay professional fees to participating artists, critics and curators.
2. Support for Travel to Artists’ Residencies
The host must be a professional arts or cultural organization. You are responsible for securing your own residency. To be eligible to apply for this category of travel grant, you must have been chosen through a selection process and have obtained financial support in the form of a confirmed grant, artists’ fees, or a contribution to per diem and accommodation costs.
The length of the residency must be 12 weeks or shorter. If you wish to participate in a residency of longer than 12 weeks, you may apply to the Integrated Arts Program for Artists (deadline, 1 May).
3. Support for Professional Development Travel
The professional development activity must take place in the context of a professional arts organization or with arts professionals in a mentorship or career tools enhancing capacity.
Grant Amount
Travel Grants are available in fixed amounts ($500, $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 or $2,500), depending on the extent of travel. Note that the amounts of $2,000 and $2,500 are available only if you are travelling to or from northern Canada or to international destinations other than the United States and Europe.
Application Forms
Or
- To submit your travel grants application form on the Internet go to GO! Grants Online
Further Information
Sue-Ellen Gerritsen
Inter-Arts Officer
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 4679
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: 613-565-5194
Fax: 613-566-4386
May 2009