ArtReach funding is intended for artists who live + work in Toronto. This includes only the City of Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough, but does not include the wider GTA. ArtReach cannot fund projects led by artists living/ working outside of Toronto

No, artists must be under 30 at the time of application

Equity-deserving communities are those that face systemic barriers to equal access, opportunities, and resources due to disadvantage and discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, income, gender identity, sexual orientation, Indigeneity, age, ability, language, health, housing status, neighbourhood, and/or immigration status, among other identity markers

This grant is for artists who have not received funding for their art before. Applicants to this grant cannot have received funding from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, or any other substantial arts funding for their artistic practice.

Applicants are allowed to have received funding for other endeavours (EG. as part of a collaborative, running programming).

Groups of artists working collaboratively may apply, however, one artist must be responsible for acting as the project lead and be accountable for accepting + managing grant funds, staying in communication with ArtReach staff, and submitting the final report. The project lead will also accept a T4A on behalf of the grant.

In the application, please share information about the collaboration and submit artistic examples showing past collaborative work

A note that as applicants can only apply for one project per year, so the lead for your group project cannot apply as an individual for their own project.

Grantees can receive a maximum of 2 Artist Creation Project grants. Because this grant is a continuation of CUE's artist grant, this means that grants issued by either ArtReach or CUE count towards this total