No more procrastinating – write that grant application!
When: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Where: Fresh Ground, 256A King Street East, Kitchener ON N2G 2L1
Free: No charge – everyone is welcome
If you have a project you are trying to fund, why not set aside some time to figure out the funding and start writing the applications in the company of other artists and producers?
Drop in any time between 10:00 am and 8:00 pm.
You'll be able to circulate and see who is also working in the room, join them at their table, or sit down with an on-site advisor. We might be able to help you find a suitable grant for your project. We can give you a hand getting an on-line profile with a granting body. If you need help drawing up a budget or a time- line, articulating your project, its viability or impact, we can advise you.
Writing a grant application makes you a better artist.
Seriously: you have to articulate what you want to do; figure out who you are going to work with and where; make a timeline and a budget. And if you receive the grant you actually have to do the project - make art. The more art you make, the better you get as an artist – QED.
About the Advisors:
Sheila McMath is a curator, artist, facilitator, community organizer and current Artistic Director of Inter Arts Matrix. McMath’s work in the arts has maintained a balance of work with larger institutions and direct involvement with artist-run initiatives. She has been published numerous times in FUSION magazine and various exhibition catalogues. She acknowledges the Ontario Arts Council (Arts Response Initiative) for supporting her independent curatorial practice. Two of her curatorial projects are currently on tour, Specimen by artist Susan Low-Beer and Petrichor by artists Nicholas Crombach and Nurielle Stern. https://www.sheilamcmath.ca/
Isabella Stefanescu has been working with Inter Arts Matrix since 2007. She is a painter and interdisciplinary artist based in Waterloo Region. Since she received her first Canada Council grant in the last century, Isabella Stefanescu has worked on projects funded by the City of Kitchener, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, the Musagetes Fund, Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Trillium Foundation, KW Awesome Foundation, and the Good Family Foundation. Isabella has sat on numerous juries and selection committees, including several at the Ontario Arts Council, and served on the board of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
This event is co-presented by Inter Arts Matrix and CAFKA. Funding for this workshop comes from operating grants from the Region of Waterloo, the City of Kitchener, the City of Waterloo, the City of Cambridge, and the Musagetes Fund, held at Waterloo Region Community Foundation.