Ontario-Quebec Artist Residencies

Program for: Individuals

Purpose: The program provides Ontario artists with an opportunity for creation and professional development residencies in Quebec. Participating artists will be free to determine the residency’s objectives and how they will be achieved.

Interested candidates must submit a residency proposal that includes a one-to-three month stay in Quebec. Candidates are responsible for finding their own accommodations and making any professional contacts required for their projects.

Among the program’s aims are the following:

• Support and encourage artists by providing an environment and resources that will help them develop and present their work;
• Encourage artists and writers to develop their skills by giving them access to stimulating new cultural surroundings;
• Promote the exchange of artistic views and contribute to the establishment of lasting ties between writers and artists in Ontario and Quebec;
• Strengthen ties between artists and communities;
• Identify new arts creation, production and presentation networks;
• The grants provided by this program are intended to cover the following costs: the artist’s personal insurance, travel, accommodation and living expenses and the costs of purchasing, transporting and insuring the materials required to carry out the project.

Candidates do not have to submit a detailed budget with their application.

The Ontario-Quebec Artist Residencies program aims to reflect the range of artistic practices in the visual arts, arts and crafts, written and oral literature, theatre, music, dance, arts education and community arts and to support excellence, regional activity, linguistic and cultural diversity and Aboriginal and Franco-Ontarian identity.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for OAC project funding, a person must:

• be a resident of Ontario;
• be a Canadian citizen or a Permanent Resident of Canada or have an application pending for Permanent Resident status;
• be a professional artist. The OAC defines a professional artist as someone who has developed skills through training and/or practice, and is recognized as such by artists working in the same artistic tradition, and has a history of public presentation or publication, and seeks payment for her or his work and actively practises his or her art. Short breaks in artistic work history are allowed;

Artist collectives, groups and organizations are not eligible for this program.

An artist who submits a project in a discipline other that his or her career discipline must have presented at least one work in the project discipline in a professional setting. The support material must be in the same arts discipline as the proposed project.

We will not accept applications from artists whose reports for previously awarded OAC grants are overdue or incomplete.

New Deadline Date: April 2, 2012
Grant notification letters will be mailed out four months after the application deadline.

Guidelines and Application Form

• Guidelines  (print version)
• Application  (form-fillable Word)  (print version)

Final Report Form

•  (form-fillable Word)  (print version)

For more information

• Claudette Jaiko, Franco-Ontarian Arts Officer, 416-969-7427, toll-free 1-800-387-0058, ext. 7427, cjaiko@arts.on.ca.
• Martina Roncarelli, Program Assistant, 416-969-7417, toll free 1-800-387-0058, ext. 7417, mroncarelli@arts.on.ca.

For Results Announcements for this program, please click here.