The Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Artist Award
The Council for the Arts in Ottawa is pleased to welcome Ginsberg Gluzman Fage & Levitz, LLP, and Mann & Partners, LLP as sponsors of The CAO Mid-Career Artist Award. This award recognizes and encourages the achievements of Ottawa artists who have evolved beyond an emerging stage in their career to become recognized professional working artists contributing to the Ottawa arts community.
Three finalists will be announced at the CAO Sweatheart Cocktail for the Arts with the final award presentation taking place at the CAO Arts Award Lunch presented by RBC. The recipient will receive a $5,000 award. The two other finalists in this award category will receive $1,000 awards.
Nomination Deadline
December 15, 2009
To request a nomination form
(613) 569-1387 or council@arts-ottawa.on.ca
Or download the nomination form.
Guidelines for Eligibility
Recipients for this award must:
- Be nominated by an individual or group (nominators may not nominate more than one individual per category per year);
- Have lived in the National Capital Region for at least three years;
- Be involved in Ottawa's professional arts community and work a professional artist;
- Be recognized as a mid-career artist as evidenced by their body of work;*
- Have received public exposure where selection was carried out by an objective, arm's length body;
- Not have previously received this award.
*Note: The CAO will use the Canada Council's criteria to distinguish between emerging and mid-career artists for various disciplines.
Evaluation criteria
- The nominee fully meets the eligibility criteria.
- The nominee is clearly recognized as having developed beyond the emerging stage of their career.
- The nomination is based on the value of the nominee's body of work.
Greater weight will be given to the recipient's achievements and activities that have taken place in the last three years.
Application Process
- An individual, collective, or arts organization may nominate a candidate by filling out the appropriate forms and collecting/submitting support materials.
- Completed packages must be received by 5 pm on the deadline day.
- Packages can be mailed or hand delivered.
- Posthumous nominations will not be accepted.
- Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
- All applications will be forwarded to the attention of the Awards Committee. Further information may be requested at the discretion of the Executive Director and /or the Awards Chair.
Selection Process
- The Awards Committee will arrange a 3-member selection panel to create a short list of finalists and a final selection panel, consisting of the short list panel members and 4 additional members, to select the final award winner. The CAO Executive Director and the CAO Award Committee Chair will take part in the selection panels in an advisory capacity.
- The Awards Committee will propose the selection panels to the CAO Board of Directors for ratification.
- The nominee, who receives the greatest number of votes, will be deemed to be the recipient. The selection panel decisions are final. No additional approvals are required.
- The Award presentations will take place at the CAO Arts Award Lunch presented by RBC.
Application forms and materials:
- Application checklist
- Nomination form
- Nominee acceptance form
- Letter(s) of support (maximum 5 pages)
- Nominee's CV (maximum 2 pages)
- Nominee's Bio up to 100 words in length
- Artist statement
- Optional self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of application packages
- Support material list with titles, medium, year of production, etc
- Support material specific to nominee's discipline and labeled with the nominee's name:
- 10 digital images: JPG, 1024 x 768 pixels, files are to be numbered and sequenced
- 5 minutes of audio recording: CD or MP3
- 5 minutes of video recording: DVD, Mac compatible video file
- 5 pages of text: excerpt of writing (poetry, creative writing, original composition, script, etc.)
Past recipients
2009
2008
2007
2006
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