RBC Emerging Artist Award
 The Council for the Arts in Ottawa and RBC established the RBC Emerging Artist Award to recognize and encourage the achievements of Ottawa artists who are founding careers in the arts and are working towards becoming recognized professional artists while engaging with the community.
This award is a component of the CAO's annual award program. Award recipients will be chosen by selected panels of adjudicators. The Awards Committee will propose the selection panels to the CAO Board of Directors for ratification.
The recipient will receive a $5,000 award that will be presented at the CAO Arts Award Lunch presented in association with Founding Partner RBC. The two other finalists in this award category will receive $1,000 awards.
Nomination Deadline
January 13, 2012
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 two years;
- Be involved in Ottawa's professional arts community and work as a professional artist;
- Be recognized as an emerging artist as evidenced by their body of work;*
- Have received public exposure where selection was carried out by an objective, arm's length body;
- Have finished basic training;
- Not have previously received this award.
*Note: The CAO will use the Canada Council for the Art's criteria to distinguish between emerging and mid-career artists for various disciplines.
Evaluation criteria
- The nominee fully meets the eligibility criteria.
- The nomination is based on the value of the nominee's body of work.
- The nominee demonstrates commitment to further developing their career.
- Evidence of connections to Ottawa's arts community.
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.
Call for Nominations
- The CAO will invite applications from the public with an announcement in the CAO newsletter, on the Web site and by a special email to be sent to members and other individuals and organizations on the CAO's contact list. Artists cannot nominate themselves.
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 in association with Founding Partner RBC.
Application forms and materials:
- Application checklist
- Nomination form
- Nominee acceptance form
- Letter(s) of support
- Nominee's CV
- Nominee's Bio up to 100 words in length
- Artist statement including describing how the award money would further their career
- 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:
2012
2011
2010
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