Value
up to $10,000Description
Emerging Curator Fellowship is designed to support the growth and development of curatorial talent by contracting an individual or ensemble of individuals to develop content for an online exhibition of Albertan visual art.
This fellowship supports online exhibitions of Albertan visual art. A contract worth up to $10,000 per proposal is available for this project. A maximum of one fellowship will be awarded.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible for a fellowship, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada:
- this includes individuals residing outside of Alberta
Proposals will be accepted from any of the following:
- emerging curators, that is persons with less than 10 years of professional artistic practice or less than 10 years of experience curating exhibitions in Alberta, Canada or abroad (equivalencies and combinations of experience will be considered)
- individuals, sole proprietors, or groups of individuals (for example, ensembles) working in professional partnerships or curatorial collectives as long as all members can be classified as “emerging curators”
- individuals enrolled in graduate level post-secondary education
Eligible Expenses
This fellowship supports online exhibitions of Albertan visual art. A contract worth up to $10,000 per proposal is available for this project. A maximum of one fellowship will be awarded.
Each exhibit will be posted on the AFA website and the Google Cultural Institute (GCI) website and is intended to create exposure for the AFA collection, especially for artworks that cannot be used in regular AFA programming.
- all artworks included in the exhibition must be from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection
Deadline Date
September 13, 2021Contact
Contact Name: Gail Lint, Art Collections Consultant - Exhibitions
Phone Number: 780-415-0253
E-mail Address: gail.lint@gov.ab.ca
Website: https://www.affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/emerging-curator-fellowship