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Ontario Arts Council – Visual Artists Creation Projects

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Ontario Arts Council – Visual Artists Creation Projects — Ontario Arts Council
  • Who Can Apply: Professional emerging (3+ years), mid-career (8+ years) and established (15+ years) visual artists aged 18+ who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents and have lived in Ontario at least 12 consecutive months; not open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students.
  • The Focus: Creation of new visual art work in practices including painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, sculpture, performance art, photography, and electronic media.
  • The Funding: Grants by category: Emerging $5,000; Mid-Career $7,500; Established $15,000 (full grants only, no partial awards).
  • Key Requirements: Submit an application in Nova with basic project information, answers to the application questions, artistic examples (maximum 8 images or 8 minutes of video, or a combination), and a résumé of up to three pages.
DeadlineTuesday, November 3, 2026
AwardEmerging: $5,000; Mid-Career: $7,500; Established: $15,000. Partial grants are not awarded.
DurationProject cannot start before the deadline, cannot finish before grant results are received, and must be completed no more than two years after results.
Locationregional_state
ParticipationRemote
Career stagesEmerging, Mid-Career, Established
Disciplinesvisual arts, painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, sculpture, performance art, photography, electronic media
Age range18–
Application notesCollaborative teams may apply; all members must meet eligibility, and one lead applicant receives the T4A and takes responsibility for the final report. Awarded artists must skip a year before reapplying. Applicants must have creative control over the project and hold copyright. Artists who received a grant in the Media Artists Creation Projects program in the same year, or who have pending applications to Media Artists Creation Projects or Craft Projects, are ineligible. Deaf applicants and applicants with disabilities may apply for supplementary accessibility funds via Accessibility Fund: Project Support.
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