News from Artscape and our community
Artscape Receivership Update – January 12, 2024
For over 30 years, Toronto Artscape Inc. has provided space for arts, culture and community in Toronto. In late August, Artscape announced that its primary lender was taking steps to…
Artscape Receivership Update – September 29, 2023
Over the past several weeks, Artscape has been collaborating closely with key stakeholders to find solutions that will allow its spaces to continue supporting artists and creatives. This time has…
Artscape Receivership Update – September 5, 2023
Following our previous public statement, we have been actively collaborating with key stakeholders to find solutions that will allow for spaces to continue supporting artists and creatives. The financial challenges…
Business Update – August 28, 2023
For over 30 years, Artscape has been providing spaces for arts, culture and community in Toronto. As of August, 2023, Artscape operates 14 projects which included Live/Work spaces, Community Cultural…
Funding for Deaf and Disabled Artists
By Camila Salcedo (camilasalcedoart@gmail.com) Deaf and Disabled artists can access specialized funding in Canada through provincial, federal and city-wide arts grant councils. Every grant council defines “Disability” in a different…
Grants For the Touring Musician
By Lukas Cheung Musicians are faced with an ever growing list of challenges when it comes to touring. Visas, changing restrictions, financial obstacles, rising gas prices and more. With all…
Navigating Arts Funding as Disabled Artists
by The Disability Collective (Emily Maxwell, Nathan Sartore & Ali Hand) While many granting bodies in Canada pride themselves on providing funding for diverse artistic endeavours, Canada's arts granting ecosystem…
Cultivating Abundance for Emerging, Interdisciplinary BIPOC Artists
By Shaina Agbayani ( www.greenhousetheatre.live) (@greenhousetheatre) There is a fertile space of opportunity in the current arts funding ecosystem to support emerging and interdisciplinary Indigenous, Black, and Racialized artists. All…
Tips For Reducing Income Tax Season Stress
By Calyssa Erb (www.calyssa.ca) So you’ve done the work of creating a grant application, sending it in, and… you received your first grant! Congratulations! You may not want to hear…
The Arts Grant Landscape of Rural British Columbia
By Marya Folinsbee (www.materialtheatre.ca) Being a working artist outside of Canada’s major urban centres - in small towns, rural communities, and remote areas - requires a particular kind of…
In any visual arts grant application, images are key.
Mentor Lyla Rye – www.mentorlylarye.com Most application proposals are for work that does not yet exist, and you can only show images of finished work. On top of these challenges,…
Catching up With Interdisciplinary Artist, Alison Klymchuk
Alison Klymchuk (she/her) is a Ukrainian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, born on Treaty 13 land in Tkaronto. I completed my BFA with a minor in Art History at the University of Victoria…
