Individual Arts Grants: Professional Development

Individual Arts Grants: Professional Development is sponsored by BC Arts Council. This grant supports professional development for individual artists in various disciplines including Community Arts, Dance, Deaf, Disability and Mad Arts, Literary, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Publishing, Theatre, and Visual Arts.

Individuals | BC Arts Council Any Applicant Collectives Groups Individuals Organizations Any Field of Practice Community Arts Cultural Knowledge Sharing Dance Deaf Deaf, Disability and Mad Arts Disability Festivals Indigenous Cultural Centres Indigenous Cultural Practice Interdisciplinary Arts Literary Literary Arts Media Arts Multidisciplinary Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Any Program Individual Arts Grants Project Assistance Operating Assistance Individual Arts Awards Indigenous Arts Project Grants Individual Indigenous Arts Grants Arts Circulation and Touring - Individuals Community Arts Dance Deaf, Disability and Mad Arts Indigenous Cultural Centres Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province.

Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B. C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories.

Individual Arts Grants: Performing Artists Dance Deaf Disability Multidisciplinary Music Theatre Supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination, or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional, and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures.

Performing arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary, or other performing arts practices such as circus arts and comedy.

Community Arts Dance Deaf Disability Festivals Indigenous Cultural Centres Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Collectives Individuals Organizations Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”).

Community Arts Dance Deaf Disability Festivals Indigenous Cultural Centres Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Collectives Individuals Organizations Application Assistance provides a contribution towards costs for artists and arts and culture practitioners who are Deaf or have a disability, to register for the online grant system, and create and submit applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts Council grant programs.

Community Arts Dance Deaf Deaf, Disability and Mad Arts Disability Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Supports professional artists and arts & culture professionals to undertake specific learning activities to advance their practice or career.

Individual Arts Grants: Visual Artists Supports professional visual artists, contemporary and traditional craft artists, and independent critics and curators with the creation of specific projects. Grants are available to support the creation of new works. Applications may be made by individuals or on behalf of a collaboration of two or more artists sharing creative control of a project.

Independent curators and critics may apply to further their practice independently from art organizations or institutions. Applications may investigate visual and media arts and/or museum practice. Individual Arts Grants: Creative Writers Supports professional writers with specific creative writing projects.

Early Career Development - Individuals Community Arts Dance Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Early Career Development supports immersive and highly impactful opportunities, with measurable learning outcomes, for Emerging and Early Career Practitioners to: Develop their artistic or administrative practice. Participate in knowledge transfer, skill sharing, and reciprocal learning in the sector.

Expand their career experience, professional networks, and exposure. Build capacity in their identified community(ies) (for example, geographic, cultural, area of practice). Individual Arts Grants: Media Artists Supports independent media artists with the creation of specific projects.

Projects and works must be independent of commercial industries for film, video, and gaming. Community Arts Dance Deaf Deaf, Disability and Mad Arts Disability Literary Media Arts Museums Music Publishing Theatre Visual Arts Supports BC residents with full-time arts training costs after they finish secondary school.