Grants to New Brunswick Emerging and Established Artists to Develop New Artistic Works

Creation Grant

Agency

Foundation

GrantWatch ID#

174688

Funding Source

New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb)

Geographic Focus

Canada: New Brunswick;

Important Dates

Deadline: 10/01/25 11:59 PM

Grant Description

Grants to New Brunswick artists for the production of original arts projects. Funding is intended to enable artists to research, develop, and implement creative works in a range of artistic disciplines. Eligible applicants include professional artists who may be mid-career, emerging, or at the senior level of their careers.

The Creation program is designed to provide assistance to professional New Brunswick artists for the research, development and execution of original projects in the arts. Creation grants are intended to allow artists to devote some or most of their time to research and creative production. There are three categories under the Creation program:

Category A: For senior artists who have achieved a superior level of accomplishment and who have made a nationally or internationally recognized contribution to their discipline or to the arts in general.
Category B: For mid-career artists who have been practicing professionally in their discipline for a sustained period of time, and are able to demonstrate a regionally or nationally recognized contribution to their discipline or to the arts in general.
Category C: For emerging artists who can demonstrate their commitment to the development of specialized skills or knowledge in their discipline and who are producing a growing repertoire or body of work.

Eligible artistic disciplines include architecture, craft, dance, literary arts (including spoken word, storytelling, literary performance and literary translation), media arts, multidisciplinary arts, classical and non-classical music, theatre and visual arts.

Eligible genres for all artistic disciplines include those whose intent and/or content places creativity, self-expression and/or experimentation above the current demands and format expectations of the mainstream industry, and has a significance beyond being solely a form of entertainment.

For eligible expenses, see: https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=5

For eligible projects by disciplines, see Appendix 4 at https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=16

Recipient

Additional Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible for artsnb funding, an applicant must:
• Be a Canadian citizen, have an affiliation with a First Nation on Turtle Island, be a permanent resident of Canada or have an application for permanent resident in process;
• Have resided in New Brunswick for at least one year (12 months) prior to the application deadline;
• Must qualify as a professional artist according to the guidelines in Appendix 1: artsnb Definition of a Professional Artist - https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=11

For the Creation program, applicants must apply in one of three categories determined by their level of experience:
• Category A for senior-level artists
• Category B for mid-career artists
• Category C for emerging artists

Artists who present a project in a discipline other than the one in which they normally operate must have at least one presentation or work in that discipline in a professional context.

Collaborative projects or projects involving multiple artists as essential co-creators must include the additional information outlined in Appendix 3: https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=14

For artist criteria by discipline, see Appendix 5, https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=20

Ineligible

Please note that artsnb does not fund projects based in primary or secondary schools.

Please note that projects for which the applicant has already received funding from another artsnb program are not eligible.

For ineligible projects, see https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=4

For ineligible expenses, see: https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf#page=5

Pre-Application Information

Deadlines:
• October 01, 2025
• April 01, 2026

Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm on the deadline date.

If the deadline falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, it moves to the next business day.

Applicants will be notified by email of the results of the competition within 3 months following the deadline.

Letter writers may send letters of recommendation (optional) directly by email. Recommendation letters must be received by artsnb within one (1) week after the competition deadline.

An artist may submit only one application in the Creation program per deadline. An artist may receive only one Creation grant per fiscal year (April 1 – March 31).

For information on restrictions, see the Guidelines document in Supporting Documents below.

Application Toolkit: https://artsnb.ca/web/grants/application-toolkit/
Deadline Information: https://artsnb.ca/web/grants/deadlines/
Eligibility: https://artsnb.ca/web/grants/eligibility/
FAQs: https://artsnb.ca/web/frequently-asked-questions/

Estimated Size of Grant

Maximum Grant Amounts:
- Category A (senior artists): $16,500
- Category B (mid-career artists): $11,000
- Category C (emerging artists): $5,500

Term of Contract

Projects must be scheduled to begin at least one day after the submission date of the application.

Contact Information

Apply Online: https://artsnb.ca/oa

Letters of recommendation (optional) may be sent by email to prog@artsnb.ca.

The artsnb Program Officer can be reached at (506) 440-0037 or at the email above.

For further information, you may also contact:
artsnb
info@artsnb.ca
506 444-4444
Toll free: 1 866 460-ARTS (2787)

Mailing address:
PO Box 20336, Kings Place PO
Fredericton, NB, E3B 0N7

Physical address:
225 King St, Suite 201
Fredericton, NB, E3B 1E1

RFP & Supporting Documents

Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates / changes / addendums / conferences / LOIs.

https://artsnb.ca/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creation-Guidelines_Lignes-directrices-Creation.pdf

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