Nan Yeomans Grant For Artistic Development
Urgent Nan Yeomans Grant Application Update:
Resubmissions Required Due to Email Server Error
The Kingston Arts Council (KAC) regrets to inform applicants to the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development that technical issues with our email server may have resulted in the loss of some submissions. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate the understanding of our community.
To ensure fairness and to provide every applicant the opportunity to be considered, we are asking applicants to resend their applications to GrantsArtsKingston@gmail.com by Sunday, 24 November at 11:59 PM EST. If you have submitted an application but do not see this notice until after 24 November, please contact us at GrantsArtsKingston@gmail.com and/or ED@artskingston.ca — we will do our best to accommodate all applicants who were affected by this issue.
While we are actively working to recover affected submissions, we cannot guarantee that all applications will be retrieved. The resubmission request is intended as a precautionary measure to ensure that no eligible application is overlooked.
Action Required: Please Resubmit Your Application
If you submitted an application on or before Monday, 18 November and have not received confirmation of its receipt from KAC staff, we kindly ask that you resubmit your application to GrantsArtsKingston@gmail.com as soon as possible. We will continue to accept resubmitted applications until Sunday, 24 November. KAC staff will respond with a confirmation of receipt for all applications successfully resubmitted.
Even if you are unsure whether your application was affected, we encourage all applicants to resubmit their materials to guarantee their inclusion.
If you have questions or require assistance with your submission, please contact us at GrantsArtsKingston@gmail.com
We deeply regret any inconvenience this situation may have caused and are committed to ensuring a transparent and accessible application process. Thank you for your understanding and continued support of the arts in Kingston.
Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development
2024 Applications Open!
This year, we are thrilled to announce that the grant amount has been raised to $4,000, representing a 60% increase in funding!
The Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development supports promising young artists and artisans working in visual media to further their artistic growth and education. Awarded annually to one individual between the ages of 17 and 40, the grant is intended for training or focused creation to support the career development of a young emerging artist. This grant is made possible through an endowment fund administered by the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area, with the selection process administered by the Kingston Arts Council.
It was Nan’s wish to fund a grant for promising young artists and artisans developing their talents in the greater Kingston area. The Nan Yeomans Fund, established at the Community Foundation with her bequest, provides an annual award in her name. This is the first increase to the grant amount since the program’s inception in 2007, representing an exciting milestone for the program and enhancing its ability to impact the development of young visual artists in the early stages of their careers.
The deadline to apply is 18 November 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
PLEASE NOTE: Applications received on or before 18 November 2024 will continue to be accepted at GrantsArtsKingston@gmail.com on or before this Sunday, 24 November 2024 (please see notice above)
Eligibility
The grant is open to all emerging artists and/or artisans between the ages of 17–40 working in visual media who demonstrate financial need. The Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development defines an emerging artist as someone in the early years of their artistic practice/career. They must have produced a small body of work and they may have achieved some local recognition or limited public exhibition experience. Applicants must be at least 17 years old and no more than 40 years old at the time of application.
Visual Media includes the disciplines and cross-disciplines of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, pottery, weaving, spinning and sewing, glasswork, and metalwork, and also includes video and experimental filmmaking. Experimental sound work and performance art will be considered if the art practice in question has a visual component and/or speaks to a visual arts context.
All applicants must have an address in the Kingston area, which includes the City as well as the Townships of Loyalist, South Frontenac, Central Frontenac, North Frontenac, and Frontenac Islands.
Applications are assessed by a jury of peers based on eligibility, financial need, and artistic merit.
Deadline
18 November 2024, 11:59 PM ET
Important Documents
2024 Final Report | 2023 Final Report
Juror Application
About Nan Yeomans
Nan Yeomans was a prominent Kingston artist dedicated to supporting local and emerging artists in the visual arts. In her late twenties, she enjoyed three summers at Queen’s University Summer School of Fine Arts, and subsequently, she lived most of her adult life in Kingston. From then and for the rest of her 82 years she stayed busy with her art and her other responsibilities, but always found time to contribute to the community. She died in 2004, leaving all of her art and almost all of her estate to the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area.
It was Nan’s wish to fund a grant for promising young artists and artisans developing their talents in the greater Kingston area. The Nan Yeomans Fund, established at the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area with her bequest, now provides for an annual award in her name that is administered by the Kingston Arts Council.
Past Recipients
Kelsey Dawn Pearson
2023 Recipient
Kelsey Dawn Pearson is an artist residing in Katarokwi/Kingston. They recently graduated from Concordia University with an MFA in Print Media and hold a BFA from NSCAD. Pearson is a multidisciplinary artist using print, natural fibres and puppetry/performance as their main media. Pearson’s work explores themes of gender and body dysmorphia in relation to bodily connection to land.
Their work is supernatural, chaotic and colourful swampwater.
They explore themes of distorted reality, confront personal ethics, battle dysphoria, bridge fiction and the present through the use of portals, touch, feel and play…
In a world bordering ours.
Kelsey McNulty
2022 Recipient
Kelsey is a Canadian collage artist and animator. Her art is influenced by her career as a travelling musician and a desire to construct new worlds and see things from new perspectives. She draws inspiration from Eduardo Paolozzi’s screen-printed collages and his suggestion on the way images influence our reality. With a focus online and colour, she creates vivid scenes and landscapes and attempts to balance humour and introspection in her work.
Natasha Jabre
2021 Recipient
Natasha Jabre is a Kingston-based teacher and artist whose most recent painting series fills scenes of children and toys with colourful light. Her work, which includes drawings, paintings, and sculptures, has been exhibited locally and internationally.
Tonya Corkey
2020 Recipient
Tonya will use the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development to attend a table loom class and a residency at the Icelandic Textile Centre, where she will research and create a new series of sculptural works.
GHY Cheung
2019 Recipient
The Nan Yeomans Grant supported GHY Cheung's project in Hong Kong — a love letter in the form of several interventions that take their cue from "Friendship as a Way of Life." This series is part of a larger exploration of intimacies formed in displacement (temporary travel, permanent migration) and relationships sustained over long distances as potential sites of queer world-making.
Ella Gonzales
2018 Recipient
The Nan Yeomans Grant supported Ella to expand her artistic practice across mediums, including painting, video and installation. Upcoming projects will explore themes of inhabited space(s), migration, temporalities and cultural identity.
Jennifer Demitor
2017 Recipient
Jennifer's work uses the built environment to adjust our perceptions of the natural world and connect us to our surroundings. As the recipient of the 2017 Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development, Jennifer began a series exploring prevalent themes in her practice within the context of a new more permanent medium.