Nan Yeomans Grant For Artistic Development
About the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development
The Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development aims to help young visual artists and/or artisans further their artistic growth and education. It awards one annual grant of $2,500 to an emerging artist under the age of 40, who may be practicing in any visual medium including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, pottery, fabric, glass, metal, film and/or video. All applicants must have an address in the Kingston area, which includes the City as well as the Townships of Loyalist, South Frontenac, Central Frontenac, North Frontenac, and Frontenac Islands. The grant is intended for training or focused creation that will contribute to the artist’s development and career.
Applications are assessed by a jury of peers based on eligibility, financial need, and artistic merit. The grant is made possible through an endowment fund administered by the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area.
Important documents
2020 Guidelines
2020 Application Form
2020 Application Handbook
Deadline
2021 Deadline TBD.
About Nan Yeomans
Nan Yeomans was a prominent Kingston artist dedicated to supporting local and emerging artists in the visual arts. In her late twenties, she enjoyed three summers at Queen’s University Summer School of Fine Arts, and subsequently, she lived most of her adult life in Kingston. From then and for the rest of her 82 years she stayed busy with her art and her other responsibilities, but always found time to contribute to the community. She died in 2004, leaving all of her art and almost all of her estate to the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area.
It was Nan’s wish to fund a grant for promising young artists and artisans developing their talents in the greater Kingston area. The Nan Yeomans Fund, established at the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area with her bequest, now provides for an annual award in her name that is administered by the Kingston Arts Council.
Past recipients
2020 RECIPIENT
Tonya Corkey
Everyone will be a was, 2020
Tonya will use the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development to attend a table loom class and a residency at the Icelandic Textile Centre, where she will research and create a new series of sculptural works.
2019 RECIPIENT
GHY Cheung
will you miss me when I’m gone, 2017
The Nan Yeomans Grant supported GHY Cheung’s project in Hong Kong—a love letter in the form of several interventions that take their cue from “Friendship as a Way of Life.” This series is part of a larger exploration of intimacies formed in displacement (temporary travel, permanent migration) and relationships sustained over long distances as potential sites of queer world-making.
2018 RECIPIENT
Ella Gonzales
Living Room, 2016, photo by Mark Kasumovic
The Nan Yeomans Grant supported Ella to expand her artistic practice across mediums, including painting, video and installation. Upcoming projects will explore themes of inhabited space(s), migration, temporalities and cultural identity.
2017 RECIPIENT
Jennifer Demitor
Threshold, 2016
Jennifer’s work uses the built environment to adjust our perceptions of the natural world and connect us to our surroundings. As the recipient of the 2017 Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development, Jennifer began a series exploring prevalent themes in her practice within the context of a new more permanent medium.
2015 Kevin Rodgers
2014 Leigh Ann Bellamy
2013 Mariell Waddell Hunter
2012 Ebonnie Hollenbeck
2011 Michelle Mackinnon
2010 Michael Davidge
2009 Vincent Perez
2007 Lisa Visser