The BC Arts Council is currently accepting applications for its Individual Arts Grants to support Media Artists 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About The BC Arts Council - Individual Arts Grants to support Media Artists
The BC Arts Council is offering the Individual Arts Grants Media Artists Program to support professional independent media artists in British Columbia in creating and producing original media-based artistic works.The programme supports independent media arts practices across film, video, sound art, digital arts, and immersive media projects that are not part of commercial entertainment industries.
Benefits of The BC Arts Council - Individual Arts Grants to support Media Artists
- Maximum grant amount: $25,000
The BC Arts Council - Individual Arts Grants to support Media Artists Requirements
To be eligible, you must:
- Be an independent media artist, who has completed all basic training (not necessarily in academic institutions).
- Be recognized as professional by other practitioners working in a similar artistic practice.
- Be committed to working full-time at your practice when financially possible.
- Demonstrate you are an established independent media artist or arts and culture practitioner in your CV or resume, by having:
- Completed appropriate and relevant training in your field of practice. Training may include post-secondary institutions, traditional knowledge transfer, a series of professional level workshops, or apprenticeship with a qualified practitioner.
- Completed appropriate and relevant training in your field of practice. Training may include post-secondary institutions, traditional knowledge transfer, a series of professional level workshops, or apprenticeship with a qualified practitioner.
- Created and completed at least one project on which you held final creative control as the lead artist, that has been professionally presented as part of a public program for which a professional fee was received (CARFAC, IMAA, or equivalent). Eligible activities may include exhibition in a professionally curated exhibition for which you received professional fees as described above or having a film you directed screened at a professional film festival for which a professional fee or screening fee was received.
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- Have received at least one grant to assist with the creation of work through the First Peoples’ Cultural Council arts program.
Commercial activities, works resulting from commissions or pay-to-play activities do not contribute towards establishing eligibility.
Culturally specific practices where compensation is not traditional may still be eligible. Contact a Program Advisor to discuss before applying.
To be eligible, all applicants must also:
- Be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada.
- Be a B.C. resident who ordinarily resides in B.C. and has lived in B.C. for at least 12 continuous months immediately prior to the application closing date.
- Have final creative control over the proposed work (for example, director’s credit).
- Fairly compensate artists, arts and culture practitioners, technicians, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers. Compensation must align with project and community contexts and relevant industry standards within the field of practice.
- Engage skilled artistic, curatorial, editorial, and administrative leadership for project or service delivery.
- Follow international intellectual property rights standards and cultural ownership protocols.
- Follow the Criminal Records Review Act which requires that people who work with or may have unsupervised access to children or vulnerable adults must undergo a criminal record check by the Criminal Records Review Program.
- Be applying for either the first or second time with a project. If you have applied twice unsuccessfully for the same project, the new proposal must be substantively changed.
- Not have any overdue final reports on previous BC Arts Council grants.
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Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
17 June, 2026
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