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As of September 2024 Native Women in the Arts (NWIA) has joined other Indigenous organizations across the province as a recommender for the Ontario Art Council’s (OAC) Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials (IVAM) program.
IVAM supports Ontario-based First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists
working in the visual arts, crafts or traditional/customary practices by
providing Grants of $500 or $1000 help cover the cost of buying art
materials and supplies.As a recommender NWIA will receive and
assess IVAM applications from artists and make recommendations to the OAC for funding. Recommended applications are then forwarded to the OAC for payment directly to the artists.
NWIA will review applications on an ongoing basis starting in
September 2024 until January 31st, 2025, or until our allocated budget for the IVAM program is spent (whichever is first).
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
The Ontario Arts Council supports Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and
Métis) creativity and celebrates the vitality of diverse cultural and artistic expression. This program is for Indigenous applicants only. In the
application you will be required to state your Indigenous nation and
community and clearly speak to your lived experience. Indigenous OAC staff members administer the program, and all applications are assessed by Indigenous organizations.
In keeping with a mandate to advance Indigenous cultural and artistic
expression by Indigenous women and other Indigenous gender
marginalized folks, recommenders NWIA will prioritize supporting
First Nation, Métis and Inuit Women as well as other gender
marginalized Indigenous people though this program. NWIA respects trans women as women and uses the term gender marginalized to be inclusive of all women, transfeminine people who may not identify as women, trans men and transmasculine people, Two Spirit, non-binary and gender queer Indigenous people.
ELIGIBLE ART FORMS
Art forms include, but are not limited to: basketry (birch bark, black ash, willow, etc.), beading, birch bark work, carving, drawing, drums, rattles and instruments, glass, hide tanning and fur processing, installation, jewelry, leather work, metal work, mixed media, moccasin making, painting, photography, pottery, printmaking, quillwork, sculpture, textile art (embroidery, quilts, weaving, etc.),regalia, traditional tattooing, tufting, woodworking (snowshoe making, tamarack goose making, etc.)
Please refer to the Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials web page for
details on eligible applicants and expenses.
https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/indigenous-visual-artists-materials
APPLICATION PROCESS
1. Artists visit OAC’s IVAM program page and choose a suitable
recommender to apply to from list of OAC IVAM Recommenders
2. Artists fill out an application form through OAC’s online application
platform Nova and submit it to the recommender of their choice.
3. Recommenders review and assess applications.
4. Recommenders submit assessments to OAC (NWIA will submit our
recommendations to OAC within 30 days of receiving application from
artist).
5. OAC notifies artists of their results through Nova.
6. Awarded artists enter their SIN number and acknowledge their notification letter in Nova.7. OAC mails grant cheques to artists.
Applications for funding through the IVAM program must be submitted
by artists through OAC’s online grant application system Nova.
Before applying artists must create an online profile in Nova.
Your application will include:
1. Your answers to application questions
2. The name of the recommender you are applying to
3.Artistic examples – images or video documentation of your own
(8 images maximum)
4. Artist resumé (optional but recommended)
Complete instructions and details on the required elements of an IVAM
program application can be found within the application itself in Nova.
OAC can arrange offline submissions for persons with limited
internet access, and/or oral applications for Indigenous persons if
requested.
For additional information, read the Alternative Application Processes
page or contact the IVAM program administrator Maggie Lucas
mlucas@arts.on.ca 437-538-3626 Toll-free in Ontario: 1-800-387-0058
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Artists who have a conflict of interest with a particular recommender organization may not apply to that recommender. An artist is in a conflict of interest if they are: an employee or board member of the recommender organization, a member of a committee or jury reviewing IVAM applications for the recommender, or an immediate family members of those described above.
DEADLINE
The 2024-2025 Ontario Arts Council’s Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials program (IVAM) is now open and closes Jan 31, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
NWIA will review applications on an ongoing bases until Jan. 31st, 2025, or until our allocated budget for the IVAM program is spent
(whichever is first).
NWIA CONTACT
Contact Artistic Director of Native Women in the Arts- Quach George at events@nwia.ca if you have any questions about NWIA as a
recommender, or regarding applicant eligibility and/or eligible art forms for the IVAM program.
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