Grants, residencies and exhibitions open to artists in Canada — 96 active calls with verified deadlines, application fees and funding details. Updated daily.
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96 active opportunities linked to Canada — from local foundations to international programs accepting artists based in or targeting this region. Resolved from location fields, organizers, and verified metadata. Sign in free for the full filters, deadline reminders and calendar export.
Othersākihiwē festival
Indigenous music and arts festival in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
WorkshopPartial FundingBanff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta runs artist residencies and training programs. Art of Piano is a two-week program for emerging pianists to develop their musical voice with internationally celebrated faculty.
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
GrantFully FundedNew Brunswick Arts Board
The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb / Conseil des arts du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the province’s arm’s-length arts funding agency; its programmes are bilingual (English and French) and assessed by peer juries.
New Brunswick, Canada
CompetitionPartial FundingGriffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
Established in 2000, the Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the most generous poetry awards in the world, for a first-edition collection written in or translated into English.
Toronto, Canada
ResidencyEst-Nord-Est, résidence d'artistes
For thirty years this centre in rural Quebec, on the bank of the river, has done one thing: given artists and authors time to think about art without the obligation to show anything. Eight weeks of research and experiment outside exhibition logic. Each cycle hosts four artists and one author, and the cohorts are assembled deliberately so that the practices complement each other and enter into c...
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada
OtherPartial FundingNorth by Northeast
North by Northeast (NXNE) has run a music festival and conference across downtown Toronto every June since 1995, with 300+ artists over five nights. Its artist showcases follow a strict on-the-hour schedule of 40-minute sets, and the application is free — the organisers state there is no fee and never will be.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ResidencyFully FundedYWCA Edmonton
One-year Peck Visual Art Artist-in-Residence at YWCA Edmonton with Miller Art Gallery, for women visual artists who are Canadian residents.
Camp Yowochas / YWCA Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaWe combine the venue, the organiser’s country, city references and who the call is open to — not just keywords in titles.
Most international programmes work in English, and each listing states when the local language is required.
This varies. Fully funded opportunities and residencies often cover travel expenses or provide travel grants, while others only fund local accommodation.
Most listed opportunities are open internationally. Any citizenship or residency restrictions are structured and highlighted on the program card.
Art academies, museums, galleries, foundations and non-profit spaces. In the organisers section you can browse them by type, each with every call it has run and the months it usually opens.