City of Kingston Arts Fund
The Kingston Arts Council and the City of Kingston have announced the recipients of the 2011 City of Kingston Arts Fund Grants.
The Grants were awarded in two categories, Operating Grants and Project Grants (see 2011 Recipient list link at right).
As part of the Kingston Cultural Plan, and thanks to Kingston City Council, an additional $50,000 was invested in CKAF this year, and was proportionally divided 70 per cent /30 per cent between Operating Grants and Project Grants. All CKAF applicants will be notified by mail as to the status of their grant request, and, in the case of the successful applicants, how they should proceed to redeem their grant.
Background
The City of Kingston Arts Fund initiated in 2007 and administered in partnership with the Kingston Arts Council (KAC), is intended to nurture the capacity and quality of Kingston arts organizations while fostering artistic excellence, stimulating economic development related to the arts, enhancing Kingston's quality of life for its citizens and attractiveness as a community, and aligning Kingston's arts funding with that of comparable cities around the province of Ontario.
Awarded annually, the City of Kingston Arts Fund is comprised of two categories: Operating Grants and Project Grants.
The Fund provides for approximately $130,000 in Project Grant funding per year, and approximately $300,000 in Operating Grant funding per year, to be awarded by the Kingston Arts Council. Applications, guidelines, upcoming information meeting details and Juror Nomination information is all available at the KAC's website.
The purposes of the City of Kingston Arts Fund include the following:
- The provision of operating and/or project financial assistance to non-profit arts organizations and collectives within the Kingston arts community;
- Support of excellence across a spectrum of artistic disciplines and levels of achievement;
- Encouragement of public awareness, understanding and appreciation of the arts in the City of Kingston and beyond;
- Increased access to quality local arts programming;
- Encouragement of community involvement;
- Encouragement of diversity;
- Cultivation of existing strengths, talent and resources for the enhancement of the arts sector and the City as a whole.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please visit www.artskingston.com, or contact:
Ted Worth, Grants Director [or] Sayyida Jaffer, Grants Assistant
Kingston Arts Council Grants Department
grants@artskingston.com. or 613-546-2999.
