Grant Programs

  • Arts Circulation and Touring

    Open for Intake
    May 1, 2024

    Project Assistance

    Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories.

  • Accelerate Pilot Program

    December 1, 2022

    Project Assistance

    The Accelerate Pilot Program is a two-year initiative to improve access and reduce barriers to funding for equity deserving and regional arts and culture organizations and collectives.

  • Access Support

    Ongoing

    Project Assistance

    Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”).

  • Application Assistance

    Ongoing

    Project Assistance

    Application Assistance provides a contribution towards costs for artists and arts and culture practitioners who are Deaf or have a disability, to register for the online grant system, and create and submit applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts

  • Arts Impact Grant

    April 2, 2024

    Project Assistance

    Arts Impact Grants are responsive and flexible funding for arts and culture organizations and collectives. The intention of the program is to allow applicants to prioritize a specific project or group of related activities that will provide the most meaningful impact to their organization, artistic practice, or to their community.

  • Arts Infrastructure Program

    November 15, 2023

    Project Assistance

    Enables eligible organizations to develop and enhance spaces that support the work of B.C.’s arts and cultural practitioners.

  • Project Assistance: Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres

    Open for Intake
    May 23, 2024

    Project Assistance

    Supports eligible museums, Indigenous cultural centres and arts or curatorial collectives with the development and creation of artistic or cultural history programming and community engagement initiatives. Examples of eligible projects include exhibition development, documentation and dissemination projects, artists’ residencies, exploration of new museological and curatorial practices, community engagement projects, public programs, and collections management projects.

  • Operating Assistance: Public Museums and Indigenous Cultural Centres

    September 15, 2022

    Operating Assistance

    Supports the public program activities of public museums and Indigenous cultural centres that sustain an annual artistic and curatorial program that includes creation, development, presentation, collections, and dissemination activities.