Learn How to Fund your Craft and Design Projects 2023

Everything you want to know about applying for and receiving grant money. 

Craft Ontario, DesignTO and Harbourfront Centre, with the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), present a FREE webinar to learn how to apply to the OAC and bring your project from concept to reality!

• Looking for support to develop a new prototype?
• Want to take time to pursue a new idea, process, or project?
• Wondering how to fund a master class, residency, exhibition, or conference?

Find out about the OAC's Craft Project grant program, which supports craft-based practices through grants to Ontario-based artists, curators, ad hoc groups/collectives and organizations: https:// www.arts.on.ca/grants/craft-projects
The upcoming deadline for applications is October 25, 2023, 1:00 PM, EST.

Craft Ontario
Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
DesignTO DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that is best known for its annual DesignTO Festival, Canada's leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto's design week, Jan 19-28,
2024.
https://designto.org/

Harbourfront Centre Craft & Design
Craft & Design at Harbourfront Centre is a career-oriented artist-in-residency, incubator and training centre that uses a self-directed and transformative learning ethos, which is open to post-graduates and those with equivalent training, demonstrating a thorough and comprehensive understanding, conceptually as well as technically, in one of five areas: Textiles, Glass, Ceramics, Design, or Jewellery. We make long-term commitments to artists by offering a broad range resources and opportunities.
https://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/craft/

Ontario Arts Council
OAC is an arts funding agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sport, established in 1963 to foster the creation and production of art for the benefit of all Ontarians. We provide grants to Ontario-based artists and arts professionals, ad hoc groups/collectives and organizations in a range of arts activities and disciplines.
https://www.arts.on.ca/home