Deadline: 1 April 2025
The New Brunswick Arts Board is thrilled to invite applications for its Creation Grant Program to provide assistance to professional New Brunswick artists for the research, development and execution of original projects in the arts.
Creation Grants are intended to allow artists to devote some or most of their time to research and creative production.
Categories
- There are three categories under the Creation program:
- Category A: For senior artists who have achieved a superior level of accomplishment and who have made a nationally or internationally recognized contribution to their discipline or to the arts in general.
- Category B: For mid-career artists who have been practicing professionally in their discipline for a sustained period of time, and are able to demonstrate a regionally or nationally recognized contribution to their discipline or to the arts in general.
- Category C: For emerging artists who can demonstrate their commitment to the development of specialized skills or knowledge in their discipline and who are producing a growing repertoire or body of work.
Funding Information
- Category A: (senior artists): $20,000
- Category B: (mid-career artists): $20,000
- Category C: (emerging artists): $12,000
Eligible Projects
- Creation Project Eligibility Criteria by Discipline. Projects must be scheduled to begin at least one day after the submission date of the application.
- Eligible artistic disciplines include architecture, craft, dance, literary arts (including spoken word, storytelling, literary performance and literary translation), media arts, multidisciplinary arts, classical and non-classical music, theatre and visual arts.
- Eligible genres for all artistic disciplines include those whose intent and/or content places creativity, self expression and/or experimentation above the current demands and format expectations of the mainstream industry, and has a significance beyond being solely a form of entertainment.
Ineligible Projects
- Ineligible projects also include:
- Projects produced for the purposes of academic credit or as part of basic training;
- Projects produced as part of the applicant’s work as an employee of a private or public organisation or institution, including their work as an employee in education, academia, or journalism;
- Projects which are intended to form part of a new business, an organization or a production studio;
- Promotional projects such as the preparation and production of invitation cards, marketing or publicity materials, the preparation of a portfolio, the framing of works, or any other material for an opening or a launch.
Eligible Expenses
- Eligible expenses include:
- Subsistence (living allowance) up to $2,000 per month for the primary applicant only;
- Execution costs related to the realization of an eligible project including consumable materials, space rental, equipment rental, artist fees (e.g., for artistic collaborators), professional services, commissions and purchase of rights; and
- Transportation and accommodation costs for travel further than 150km.
Ineligible Expenses
- Ineligible expenses include:
- Capital expenses (e.g. equipment purchase)
- Costs for exhibition, framing, pressing, publishing, or administration.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for artsnb funding, an applicant must:
- Be a Canadian citizen, have an affiliation with a First Nation on Turtle Island, be a permanent resident of Canada or have an application for permanent resident in process;
- Have resided in New Brunswick for at least one year (12 months) prior to the application deadline;
- Must qualify as a professional artist according to the guidelines.
- For the Creation program, applicants must apply in one of three categories determined by their level of experience:
- Category A for senior-level artists
- Category B for mid-career artists
- Category C for emerging artists
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