“Canada wide call for emerging artists with disabilities.
ABOUT THE GRANT
This grant aims to sponsor artists with disabilities in preparing and presenting artwork across a variety of disciplines. The grant to be awarded will be between $3,000 and $3,500, which will be distributed to one successful applicant.
ELIBIGILITY
For the JRG Grant, applicants must:
- Be an emerging artist
- Identify as a person with a disability/disabilities
- Be seeking funds in support of developing and/or presenting an artistic project
- Reside in Canada
Projects can be in any artistic discipline (i.e. filmmaking, visual art, theatre, dance, writing, etc). Applicants who are not successful may re-apply in future years.
We welcome and encourage applications from artists with disabilities who experience multiple structural barriers to resources and artistic development opportunities, i.e. women; transgender and non-binary artists; Indigenous artists; Black artists; artists of colour; queer artists, low-income, poor, and working-class artists, etc.”
For more information and to apply, please visit: https://www.jrgsocietyforthearts.com/emerging-artist
-from JRG Society for the Arts
