ATTENTION VISUAL ARTISTS!
CANADA COUNCIL PROPOSES BIG CHANGES TO YOUR GRANTS
The community has until December 1, 2004 to express their views directly to Canada Council, via their website
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Visual artists in Canada - your attention is needed! Big changes are underway at the Canada Council - changes that will, if implemented, fundamentally affect the way visual artists approach their practice. The Visual Arts Section of the Canada Council is proposing a plan to significantly overhaul granting criteria, levels of support and the process of peer assessment. While the economic and professional status of the visual artist calls out for change, there is reason to fear that the Canada Council may be veering in the wrong direction. One of the dangers in their new proposal is the shift in the focus of granting criteria, away from creative process towards market-certified product . The primary concern is that the new system will not effectively advance the status of the artist.
The time available for arts community response to these changes is very short - they want the new granting system operational starting next April. That means they need to have their regulations locked-in much sooner - approved by the Council's board by December of this year. There are just a few weeks left. Members of the visual arts communities need to make sense of the Visual Art Section's proposals and make their opinions and suggestions known now - or live with the consequences later.
The majority of artists will get significantly less money. . .
. . . the real worry is that the new 'Key Moment' criteria would shift the Council's support away from intellectual creation - to market-certified product creation.
Artist Spring Hurlbut was applauded when she urged the Canada Council to "keep artistic creation as the central focus - Council has historically done a great job of supporting artists and it's work has distinguished Canada in the world."
. . . the economic professional status of the visual artist calls out for change.
Full text at:
Responses from Across Canada
A letter to the Canada Council from PAARC in Vancouver
http://www.arcco.ca/html/Information/download/PAARCresponse.pdf
A report from the RCAAQ in Quebec: English
A report from the RCAAQ in Quebec: English
Canada Council Web Links
Read about the proposed changes
Read about the proposed changes
E-mail your opinions to Canada Council
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