VISUAL/MEDIA ARTS PROJECT grants for organizations and collectives
Visual and Media Arts Projects provides funding to professional, non-profit Toronto visual and media arts organizations and collectives for one-time or time-limited projects involving the exhibition or distribution of contemporary visual or media arts and/or other activities that support the development of the visual arts/media arts in Toronto. Funding through this program contributes to the direct costs associated with an organization/collective’s visual arts or media arts project, including artistic fees, installation or technical costs, marketing and publicity costs, interpretation and documentation costs, administrative costs, etc. The City of Toronto provides the funding for this program through its Community Partnership and Investment Program.
General Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be incorporated non-profit organizations or unincorporated collectives which operate on a not-for-profit basis. A collective is defined as a group of three or more artists or two or more curators working together under a group name, either on a single project or on an ongoing basis.
Organizations/collectives must be located within the City of Toronto and the activity for which the funding is requested must occur within the City of Toronto.
The payment of artist fees is a requirement in this program.
Organizations/collectives may receive only one grant per calendar year through TAC.
This program does not fund student exhibitions or screenings, the creation or production of individual visual or media artworks, publication projects, awards or award ceremonies, or curatorial/programming research.
Applicants applying for exhibition and/or screening projects (including festivals) must present the work of visual and/or media artists in a curatorial or critical context and must have a well-focused audience development plan. Organizations/collectives applying to exhibit the work of their own members must likewise have a clearly defined curatorial or critical framework informing the selection and exhibition of work.
At the time of application, organizations/ collectives applying for exhibition and/or screening projects (including festivals) must have already selected the artists or artworks they wish to present or, at minimum, have developed clear critical or curatorial objectives and be able to provide a list of artists and/or artworks under consideration.