Get the Grant! Ontario Arts Council Webinar

Ontario Arts Council Webinar

Join OCAD U Alumni Relations and Barbara Gilbert from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) to learn more about the Media Artists Creation Projects program. 

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Program Purpose

The Media Artists Creation Projects program supports individual professional Ontario-based media artists/directors working with film, video, audio, digital, new media, video and electronic games, and virtual reality as independent artist-controlled art forms in the production and post-production phases of their projects. The program has two categories:

Emerging Artist: You have completed at least one independent media work and are not currently enrolled in a formal media arts education program.

Mid-Career & Established Artist: You have completed at least two previous media works independently. Mid-Career artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 5 years. Established artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 15 years. Program Priorities.

The program's priorities are to support: projects that are innovative in content, point of view, form, style, technique or process projects that further the applicant's development as an artist. This arts council program is not intended to support commercial media production. There are other funders that support the commercial film, television, and game industries. Please read the eligibility criteria on the program webpage. In addition to considering the OAC's priority groups, this program also strives to support gender parity.

About the Speaker

Barbara Gilbert is the Acting Media Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council, where she manages operating and project programs for media artists and organizations such as distributors, production centres, and film festivals. She also manages the Accessibility Fund in support of Deaf artists and artists with disabilities and co-manages the Artists in Residence (Education) program.

Previously, Barbara was the Executive and Artistic Director of Le Labo: Toronto’s Francophone Media Arts Centre, where she developed and launched artist residency and mentorship programs. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Ontario Achievement Award.