CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

YOUTH ARTS BURSARY PROGRAM

Through the Youth Arts Bursary program, the Canadian Art Foundation is pleased to provide project grants for youth-education initiatives created by public galleries and artist-run centres in Canada.

Guidelines

Purpose
Provide project grants for youth-education initiatives.

Eligibility
Professional visual arts organizations (e.g. public galleries, artist-run centres) in Canada.

Selection
Bursaries will be awarded based on artistic merit, qualifications of artists and educators, and ability to carry out the project. Programs should involve youths aged 5-18. Consideration will be made for projects that include professional visual artists and provide arts education opportunities to young people with artistic promise and financial need.

Organization information (maximum 250 words)
organization name
contact information (address, telephone, fax, email, Web site)
mandate
history
non-profit or charitable registration number
name of person making application

Project proposal (maximum 500 words)
description of educational activities
program schedule
number of artists involved
local school or community partners
description of student selection process

Budget
Include a detailed list of revenues and expenses:
artist fees and per diem
travel expenses
material costs
other funding sources

Support material
artists' resumes
statement of support from school or community partner
most recent financial statement

Deadline
June 1, 2006

Please include 4 copies of your application

Maximum grant is $5,000

Send applications to:
Canadian Art Foundation
Attn: Youth Arts Bursary Program
51 Front Street East
Suite 210
Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1B3

Past Recipients:

The Ottawa Art Gallery was awarded the bursary for the initiation of a new program based on art creation for youth in collaboration with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and professional artists. Inspired by the Gallery's exhibition "Off Grid," featuring artworks that respond to the nature of urban living, a group of high-school students will develop a collective art intervention over a six-week period.

Urban Shaman, a Winnipeg artist-run centre, received the award for "Pointing with the Lips," a mentorship program for inner-city Native Canadian youth of exceptional artistic promise. Working at Children of the Earth High School and at Urban Shaman Gallery, students worked with professional artists in a wide variety of media, learned how to write an artist statement, create an invitation, install an exhibition and prepare materials for the press.

The Ford City Discovery Centre in Windsor, Ontario, received the award for their Mural Arts program. The centre works with schools, social service agencies and local galleries to create art programs that serve a community that includes children from low-income families. For a six-week afterschool course taught by professional artists, participants created murals for the Windsor Essex Children's Aid Society playroom.