ArtsSmarts

Amount:

$7,000.00

Type of Program:

Grants

Description:

ArtsSmarts is available to schools and school boards in the provincial K-12 education system. The program goal is to engage young people in artistic activity to develop supporters and practitioners of the arts by nurturing creative thinkers. Projects must incorporate artistic disciplines served by ArtsNL. These are dance, film and video, new media arts (computer animation, online art creation), multidiscipline (exploring two or more art forms), music (classical, modern, and traditional), theatre (including storytelling and circus), visual arts (including traditional crafts, photography, and pottery) and creative writing.

Comments on Funding:

The maximum grant awarded by ArtsSmarts is $7,000, and the minimum grant to be awarded is $1,000, or the total amount requested by the applicant if less than $1,000.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

May 31

Eligibility:

The applicants must be schools and school boards in the provincial K-12 system.

Only professional individual artists, groups of artists, or professional not-for-profit arts organization are eligible to work in schools on ArtsSmarts Projects.

Definition of a professional artist:

A person shall be considered to be a professional artist if that person satisfies 4 of the following criteria, including at least one of the criteria referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c):

receives or has received compensation which can be included in professional or business income,
has a record of income or loss relevant to the history of his or her work and appropriate to the span of his or her artistic career,
has received public or peer recognition by publicly disseminated critical reviews or appraisals or by similar means,
has presented his or her work to the public by means of exhibitions, publications, screenings, performances, readings, or by other means appropriate to the nature of his or her work,
is represented by a dealer, publisher, agent or similar professional representative appropriate to the nature of his or her work,
devotes a reasonable proportion of his or her professional time to promoting or marketing his or her work;
the person

has received professional training in an educational institution from a practitioner recognized in his or her profession, or
is self-taught within the established practices of the person’s cultural traditions,

has membership in a professional association, appropriate to his or her artistic activity,

whose membership is or categories of membership are limited under standards of the association, or
which is a trade union or equivalent appropriate to his or her artistic activity, and

holds copyright in his or her own work and has received royalty or residual payment based on that copyright.

Definition of a professional arts group:

A group of individual artists who work in one or more of the artistic disciplines supported by ArtsNL and that:

has the creation and/or presentation of works of art as its primary activity,
is composed of at least two individuals,
has all members meeting ArtsNL’s definition of a professional artist,
charges artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
pays individual members artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
has internal oversight of the group's finances and can produce an annual financial statement.

Definition of a professional not-for-profit arts organization:

A formal organization operating in one or more of the artistic disciplines supported by ArtsNL and that:

has the creation and/or presentation of works of art as its primary activity,
is registered, or operates as a non-profit arts entity,
has a board of directors overseeing the operations of the organization,
has a paid artistic director, general manager, or equivalent,
pays artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
has internal or external oversight of the organization’s finances and produces an annual financial statement.

Application Steps:

wait for ArtsNL to approve their registration,

submit additional documentation, if required.

Documentation Needed:

The applicant must submit:

1
a complete application on/before the application deadline consisting of a brief summary of the overall project at the school, a listing of the number of students and teachers taking part in the overall project, a listing of the grade levels taking part on the overall project, overall project start and end dates, a detailed project description and budget for each specific project, a detailed overall budget for the whole school project, résumé/bio for each artist involved in the project that confirms a professional arts practice as defined above, and confirms the individual’s province of residency,
2
support material.

A final report on all projects funded by ArtsNL is typically required within three months of the project end date listed on the application form.

Other Things to Note:

Only one application will be accepted from each applicant (i.e., school or school board) per application deadline. Up to seven specific projects may be included in a single application.

Program Contact:

ArtsSmarts - ArtsNL | Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council

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