Arts Infrastructure Grant For New and Emerging Artists Program 2025 (Canada)

The Arts Infrastructure Grants for New and Emerging Artists program is a project-based program designed to provide one-time capital acquisition to emerging New Brunswick artists or newly-arrived immigrants to acquire equipment that will enable them to complete a project and strengthen their long-term artistic development.

Applicants to this program must demonstrate:

• A record of artistic achievement and quality of work;
• A clarity and rationale for proposed capital improvement or equipment acquisition, including identification of specific costs, tools and materials required; and
• The impact of the proposed funding on the artist’s career and ability to create new work.

Funding Information

• Funding amount of up to $3,000.

Eligible Expenses

• One-time acquisition of artistic equipment, technical equipment, software or peripherals necessary to advance the creation of future artistic works
• One-time capital improvements to enhance an artist’s studio, rehearsal, production or presentation space

Ineligible Expenses

• Ineligible expenses include:
  • Consumable art supplies (e.g. canvasses, clay, paint, etc.) used in association with ongoing artistic practice or for creation of a specific project
  • Routine rent or overhead expenses for artist’s housing, office, studio or retail space
  • Artistic or administrative salaries
  • Stipends or performance fees
  • Real estate purchase, including mortgage payments
  • Personal debt repayments.

Eligible Projects

• 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, selfexpression 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

• The proposed artistic creation element of this application must be original work and may not include projects completed for credit or as coursework in an educational context.

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

Ineligibility Criteria

• An artist is not eligible who has previously received a Creation grant in Category A or Category B, or who is presently in consideration for such a grant.
• Students attending an educational institution on a fulltime basis are not eligible.

Evaluation Criteria

• Jurors give equal weight to the following criteria in their evaluation:
  • Artistic merit Artistic quality of the applicant’s work; Artistic rationale for the project; Potential artistic outcomes of the project
  • Impact and feasibility Relevance of the project to the stated objectives of the program; Potential of the project to contribute to the applicant’s artistic development; Potential of the project to advance artistic practice; Applicant’s capacity and experience to undertake the project; Reasonable budget and realistic work plan

Application Requirements

• Architecture, Craft, and Visual Arts:
  • Please provide up to 15 still images.
  • (Performance artists only) Please provide up to 15 minutes of video material.
  • Please indicate the title, medium and dimensions or duration (as applicable) and date of each work.
• Dance, Media Arts and Theatre:
  • Please provide up to 15 minutes of video material.
  • Please indicate the title, duration and date of each work, and specify the applicant’s role in the creation and/or performance of each work.
  • (Scriptwriters and Playwrights only) Please provide up to 15 pages excerpted from storyboard(s) and/or script(s).
• Literary Arts:
  • Please provide up to 15 pages excerpted from manuscript(s) and/or publication(s) (Storytellers, slam poets, and performers only)
  • Please provide up to 15 minutes of audio and/or video material.
  • Please indicate the title, page count or duration (as applicable), and date of each work.
• Music:
  • Please provide up to 15 minutes of audio material.
  • (Composers only) Please provide up to 15 pages excerpted from music score(s).
  • Please indicate the title, duration, instrumentation and date of each work, and specify the applicant’s role in the creation and/or performance of each work.
• Multidisciplinary Arts:
  • Please refer to the specifications for each discipline involved in the project.

For more information, visit artsnb.