Public Art Stimulus Fund APPLICATION

1. Purpose of the Public Art Stimulus Fund

The purpose of this Public Art Stimulus Fund (PASF) is to have an allocation of funds to support one to two project(s) per year that can assist a professional artist or a Prince Albert professional arts organization, business, or non-profit organization partnering with a professional artist, to complete a public art project. Maximum of $5000 granted annually, per project. Preference will be given to matched funding applications.

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2. Eligible Applicants

4. Grant Amount.

Grants will be up to a maximum of $5,000 per applicant per year. This grant is intended to stimulate public art projects and include other sources of funding for such projects. Projects will not be funded retroactively and any project beginning prior to the date that the application is submitted will not be considered. 100% of the total amount granted to a project will be forwarded to the applicant with confirmation of project approval. A follow-up report is required, see section 10.

6. Project Description

The public art is to be in a public location, accessible to all. Eligible Projects include temporary public art.

7. Do you have any other partners with this project?

• If you are an artist partnering with an organization or business, please list the name, contact person, phone number and email address, as well as what they are contributing to the project in the chart below.
• If you are an organization or business partnering with a professional artist, please also attach their CV and/or 2-3 examples of their work

8. Project Timeline (Include dates and actions to be completed below or attach)

*The Public Art Project must be completed within a year from which this funding is approved. Projects will acknowledge support from the City of Prince Albert, though the Public Art Policy.

Please attach your project timeline and include the following information in your document:

• Deadline
• Action
• Who will complete the action

9. Project Budget: (Please attach your documents below. Budget MUST Balance or the application will not be considered)

• Project budgets must pay artists appropriately using CARFAC rates.
• Ineligible expenses include administration, staff wages, travel, and general operations, food or beverages(unless a material of the public art), prizes, planning, marketing, and promotion.
• Eligible Expenses include: materials, fabrication artist fees, installation fees, costs associalted with unveiling, documentation (i.e. photography).
• Please include the budget for the full project, not just for the grant amount requested.
• Project Total Revenue and Total Expenses must balance.

Please use the following format:

10. Follow-up Requirements

• Successful applicants will be required to submit a Follow-up Report within forty-five (45) days of the project completion.
• Follow-up Report forms will be forwarded to successful applicants.
• In addition to the completed Follow-up Report, we require the following financial accountability for the complete grant amount: photocopies of actual receipts, cancelled cheques or a schedule from the community’s audited financial statement which verifies program expenditures.
• A refund will be requested from members that do not submit the required follow up report information or for unused funds or funds spent incorrectly. No future funding applications will be accepted if the follow up report is pending. 

Please Note:

• Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

A Public Art Selection Jury evaluates the applications against the program purpose and criteria. All decisions are final.

Applications will be directed to:

Judy MacLeod Campbell

Arts & Culture Coordinator, Community Services
City of Prince Albert.