April 10, 2017 Artist Opportunity Grant 2017 The Artist Opportunity Grant program invests in professional development opportunities for individual professional artists. In the first quarter of 2017, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $30,000 in 17 artists. During this period, 60 artists applied for a total of $132,613 in eligible requests. First Quarter of 2017 Recipients Dick Averns, Public Art and Social Practice Exhibition, Calgary Gary Burns, International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal Rachael Chaisson, BAiR Emerging at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff Megan Conley, Luminous Bodies Residency, Toronto Col Cseke, Back to Back Theatre International Training, Geelong, Australia Alexandria Inkster, Rencontre Interuniversitaire de Performance Actuelle, Montreal Leah Kudel, Young Glass 2017, Ebeltoft, Denmark Jean-Rene Leblanc, Artist in Residency program at the Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece Nikki Loach, ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival, Cape Town, South Africa Nicole Mion, New Aesthetics Training Program, Vancouver Yvonne Mullock, Alberta Foundation for the Arts International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York Eric Nyland, Cremona International Music Academy and Competition, Cremona, Italy Michelle (Shelley) Ouellet, Once Upon Water, Artist Residency, Azores, Portugal Lisa Schwartz, Nuno Felted Seamless Gament Workshop, Los Alamitos, CA Sisay Shimeles, Art-in-Residency at the Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa Javier Vilalta, Theatre of Objects Intensive in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Carol (Foon) Yap, Song, by Toad Recording Session and Performance, Edinburgh, Scotland In the second quarter of 2017, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $29,636 in 15 artists. During this period, 52 artists applied for a total of $111,985 in eligible requests. Second Quarter of 2017 Recipients Alice Nelson, The Puppet Illuminator Workshop, Regina Jiajia Li, An Improviser’s View of Notated Music at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff Simon Tumasz Jordan, Hello Moth at The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK Jacqueline Russell, Touring Hushabye to Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton Nikke Sheppy, Sage Hill Spring Poetry Colloquium to revise Fail Safe for Publication, Saskatchewan Pamela Tzeng, A Meditation on the End by Jo-Lee at Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance, Portland Ashley Bristowe, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Writing Residency, Banff Sarah Curts, Aerial Dance Festival, Boulder, CO Jaime Emond, SEEDS – Self-Esteem, Empowerment and Education through Dance, Santa Fe, NM Lisa Isley, Private fine art bookbinding instruction with François Brindeau, Boudès, France Lisa Lipton, Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency Programme, Arbroath, Scotland Mynthia McDaniel, Medalta Artist in Residency Program, Medicine Hat Sylvie Moquin, Training and Exploration, Montreal Mechthild Reinders, Felting workshops with Marjolein Dallinga & Dagmar Binder at Atelier du Bocage, Montbrun-Bocage, France Angela Smart, Canadian Operatic Arts Academy Summer Program 2017, Lucca, Italy In the third quarter of 2017, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $26,396 in 15 artists. During this period, 37 artists applied for a total of $76,135 in eligible requests. Third Quarter of 2017 Recipients Derek Beaulieu, INSIDE/OUT lecture series and residency at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, UK Molly Caldwell, Independent Residency September 2017 at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff Danielle French, SyncSummit, Los Angeles Brian Garbet, Brüel & Kjær Sound and Vibration Conference and Workshops, Plymouth, MI Benjamin Hayden, Merril Sci-Fi Collection Northlander Presentation, Toronto Mark Kunji Ikeda, lbs/sq” Intensive Training Program, Buffalo, NY Caroline Loewen, Geologic Time Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff Miesha Louie, Canada’s Music Incubator, Toronto Jenna Rodgers, Workshop: Mixie and the Halfbreeds, Toronto Carlos Rojas, Full-Year Residency 2017/18 at Medalta, Medicine Hat Chelsea Rushton, AWAKENING Artist Residency, Toronto Islands Angela Ryu, Midwest Clinic, Chicago, IL Lane Shordee, Collaborative Residency at the Dunlop Art Shack, Regina Makambe K Simamba, Our Father’s Residency, Toronto Kyle Whitehead, Draft for a Scenario performances, Mexico City and Oaxaca In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $32,864 in 20 artists. During this period, 39 artists applied for a total of $74,246 in eligible requests. Fourth Quarter of 2017 Recipients Tim Buckley, Residency, Banff Centre Patrick Chan, Circus Arts Aerial Straps – Aerial Research and Development, Calgary Anna Cooley, Female Director Apprenticeship Opportunity, Toronto and Vancouver Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, re:research with adelheid (Heidi Strauss) for emerging artists, Toronto Barbara England, Postgraduate Residency Studio Workshops, Kassel, Germany Lyle A. Fox, Banff Musicians in Residence Late Fall 2017, Banff Jason Owin F. Galeos, RUBBERBANDance Workshop Intensive 2017, Montreal Cathleen Gasca, Training Innovative Pattern Cutting for Graduates & Professionals, London, England Eveline Kolijn, Community & Concept: Presentation for the Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Conference 2018, Pullmann, WA Jamie Matchullis, Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive, Banff Mikhail Miller, Mexico City Exhibition, Mexico Brittany Nickerson, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver Jay Northcott, Assistant Directing Legislating Love, Calgary Alycia Pirmohamed, Folk Research Centre: Literary Conference and Arts Festival, Castries, St Lucia Darija S. Radakovic, Institut für Alles Mögliche Residency, Berlin, Germany Eric Rose, Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive, Banff Kathryn Smith, Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive, Banff Christina Visy, Midwest Clinic 2017, Chicago, IL Laura Wayne, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Residency, Erfoud, Morocco Elaine Weryshko, Mask Creation Residency, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Calgary Past Results Artist Opportunity Grant 2016 Accountability Reports and Year-End Financials
