City of Montreal and le Conseil des arts de Montréal Announce New Subsidies for Visual Artists

Image courtesy of the City of Montreal, via Support Program 2020 guidebook.

This January, the City of Montreal and le Conseil des arts de Montréal announced new subsidies that are available for artists working in the visual arts and craft arts. This announcement is part of a global municipal action plan for the development and sustainability of artists’ studios in Montreal.

The amount allocated for research-creation spaces is more than doubled, and with the new funding of storage spaces, more uses and surfaces are eligible. The subsidy is described as:

“This program provides financial support for occupation of an artist’s studio for creation of original artistic expression or research. Professional artists in visual arts and crafts arts who rent or own a studio space (a building or part of a building) in a NON-residential property are eligible to apply.”

Applications for the 2020 program are now open (deadline is March 31, 2020 for 2019 leases). These changes were made possible thanks to a partnership between the Service de la culture of the City of Montreal and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. For more information, visit the City of Montreal website (English version and French version).

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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