To learn more about the grants that the KAC administrates, visit:
– City of Kingston Arts Fund page
– Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development page
* = COVID-19 specific allowances or purpose
The Professional Development for Artists component of Explore and Create supports the career growth of Canadian artists and artistic groups by encouraging participation in a wide range of development opportunities. Grants fund activities that contribute to the professional advancement of Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines.
Deadline: February 3, 2021
The program supports professional theatrical exploration, creation, development, production and presentation, regardless of theatrical tradition, as well as initiatives that benefit the Ontario professional theatre community.
Deadline: February 4, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional dance organizations in Ontario.
Deadline: February 13, 2021
The program supports Ontario-based volunteer-led presenters (ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations), municipalities, colleges and universities to present performances, exhibitions, screenings and readings by professional artists, and associated audience engagement activities. The aim of this program is to develop audiences for the arts in Ontario regions outside of Toronto.
Deadline: February 19, 2021
Le programme soutient le fonctionnement des organismes professionnels du milieu de l’édition francophone en Ontario pour les aider à produire ou à présenter des œuvres de qualité à un vaste éventail de publics et de participants.
Deadline: February 20, 2021
Le programme soutient le fonctionnement des organismes professionnels francophones de service aux arts en Ontario pour les aider à offrir des services de qualité à un vaste éventail d’artistes ou d’organismes artistiques.
Deadline: February 20, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional arts service organizations in Ontario. Arts service organizations may have provincial, national, regional or local mandates.
Deadline: March 3, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional media arts organizations in Ontario. The program’s priority is to support organizations that demonstrate a consistent commitment to Ontario’s professional media artists, the media arts infrastructure and their role in the region.
Deadline: March 3, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit professional multi- and inter-arts organizations in Ontario.
Deadline: March 3, 2021
The program’s priority is to support visual arts organizations and artist-run centres that demonstrate a consistent commitment to Ontario’s professional artists, including the payment of exhibition and other professional fees, and to their role in the visual arts and/or craft infrastructure and the region.
Deadline: March 3, 2021
The program supports projects that bring together Ontario-based Indigenous artists or Elders to work with individuals or groups of people from a community on collaborative activities that create a meaningful arts experience and transmit artistic skills and knowledge; teach arts workshops in schools during the upcoming school year, engaging children and youth in creative, active, hands-on and in-depth arts experiences.
Deadline: March 4, 2021
The program supports Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) artists to research, develop and create new work and engage with their communities, as well as opportunities for Indigenous organizations and communities to strengthen their relationships with the arts.
Deadline: March 4, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, opera companies, orchestras, choral organizations and other music-mandated producers and presenters in Ontario.
Deadline: March 4, 2021
The program supports Ontario-based professional artists/curators, ad hoc groups/collectives and arts organizations to tour performances, exhibitions, screenings and readings for public audiences within Ontario, nationally and internationally. The work(s) being toured must be created and performed by professional artists.
Deadline: March 5, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional theatre organizations in Ontario. The program’s priority is to support organizations that demonstrate a consistent commitment to Canadian work.
Deadline: March 12, 2021
The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional literary organizations in Ontario, except for book and magazine publishers.
Deadline: March 26, 2021
Year-long Ontario Arts Council’s programs:
Exhibition Assistance (applications accepted by recommenders from September 2020 to January 15, 2021)
Indigenous Visual Artists’ Materials (applications accepted by recommenders from August 2020 to January 29, 2021)
Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators (applications accepted by recommenders from September 2020 to January 2021)
Recommender Grants for Writers (applications accepted by recommenders from September 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021)