2018 Second Round Travel Grant Recipients
Photo: Andrea Nixon performs in Toronto during Canada Music Week
During the second round of travel funding in 2018, award in July, the Edmonton Arts Council (EAC) approved support for 65 artists and projects travelling to 29 different cities in 10 different countries.
Travel grants have long been an important offering from the Edmonton Arts Council as we encourage collaboration, professional development, and exhibition opportunities that either aren’t available in Edmonton or that provide artists with a larger audience. Similarly, EAC’s Executive Director, Sanjay Shahani, feels strongly about the need for artists to travel for networking and to showcase their work. “It’s important to give artists opportunities to connect with artistic communities, and to support artistic collaborations. Artists need to be at major events, gatherings, and conferences to connect with their peers. If we can provide a small contribution towards helping them go to events—for instance, supporting a band playing at a major festival in front of producers and presenters to potentially get booked—that’s important.”
“It’s important for our artists to collaborate with international artists, so that the work that they’re doing here in Edmonton has staying power, so it’s not just shown and seen in Edmonton, but has the potential for touring, for dissemination, and for distribution.”
Even in the digital age where meetings can happen over Skype and artists can be discovered on YouTube and Instagram, travel is vital to starting and growing careers in the arts. “Travel is just one really important piece of sharing an artist’s work, it allows artists to build relationships which you can’t do any other way,” Shahani says. “Most art forms require collaboration, most art forms require relationships between artists and arts communities.”
If you’ve got a travel opportunity in mind and need support, the deadline for the final round of 2018 travel grants is October 1, 2018. Click here for more information; applications open on September 1, 2018. The EAC grants team is willing and able to provide consultation before an artist chooses to apply; if you’ve never applied to an EAC grant before, are wondering if your project is eligible, or have any other questions about creating a strong grant, email your questions to
[email protected] or call 780-424-2787. Artists residing in Edmonton for at least one year can apply for up to $750 to support travel for the purposes of training, development, presentation, touring, networking, and/or marketing.
The current travel grant recipients sought out unique opportunities, or were invited to showcase their work, around the world. Diverse art projects and training opportunities—in visual arts, dance, music, writing, installation, theatre, poetry, and film—were supported from Calgary to Tel Aviv. Get some inspiration for your own projects and opportunities by seeing what our current travel grant recipients are working on—and where they’re going.
26 Artists travelled within Canada to:
Toronto
St. John’s
Winnipeg
Whitehorse
Montreal
Inuvik
Charlottetown
Guelph
Calgary
18 artists travelled to the United States to:
Austin
Palo Alto
Norfolk
Snowmass
Shelburne
New York City
Chicago
Rock Hill
Shafer
New Orleans
21 artists travelled internationally to:
Frankfurt
Orebro
Brighton
Mexico City
Cali
Havana
Santandar
Seville
Gothenburg
Tel Aviv
Below is a full list of our second round of 2018 Travel Grant recipients, recommended by EAC’s jury review process and approved by EAC’s Board of Directors:
Singer-songwriter Andrea Nixon travelled with her bandmates, Brennan Cameron and Cody McLauchlin, to Toronto to perform during Canadian Music Week in May 2018.
Derina Harvey, Scott Greene, Stephen Pinsent, and Edward Smith travelled to St. John’s Newfoundland as the Derina Harvey Band to perform at the George Street Festival.
Trevor Peters and Annaliza Toledo will be travelling to Winnipeg as Fresh Canvas Art Co. to paint a large outdoor mural for the Wall-to-Wall Festival.
Musicians Frank Bessai and Marco Claveria toured Yukon as the Marco Claveria Project.
Musicians Stephanie Blais and Paul Cournoyer toured in Monteal as Post Script and performed at Les Francofolies de Montreal music festival.
Frederick Kroetsch travelled to Inuvik, Nunavut to film a short documentary called “Quinn’s Camera” with Crystal Fraser.
Musicians Adam Brown, Timothy Brown, Daniel Cleary, Christopher Segger and William Wallace travelled to Frankfurt to tour as the band Striker.
Musicians Gavin Dunn, Dwayne Martineau, Chris Quesnel, Jeff Stuart, and Brad Tebble travelled to Austin to perform as the band The Hearts at the SXSW Festival and Conference.
Brittany Graling, Jennesse Graling, and Jasmine Ma are travelling with Thomas Scott aka DJ Thomas Culture to Orebro, Sweden to perform as The Sissy Fits at Live at Heart music festival.
Fabiola Belarmino de Farias Amorim, Mattia Berrini, Silvia Buttiglione and Vladimir Machado Rufino travelled to Palo Alto as the Vaughan String Quartet to participate in the 2018 Stanford String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University.
Kurtis Cockerill, Nicholas Daves, Alexandra Vissia, and Andrea Vissia went to Brighton, UK to perform as Vissia in The Great Escape Festival.
Chorister and singer Louise Ashdown will be travelling to Norfolk, Connecticut to participate in Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop.
Visual artist Chelsea Boos will be travelling to Mexico City to meet with designers, fibre artists and other artisans.
Photographer Amber Bracken travelled to Snowmass, Colorado to participate in the Advanced Mentored Study Program, Visual Storytelling and Documentary Photography Projects at Anderson Ranch.
Stacey Cann is travelling to Charlottetown to perform Shield at the Art in the Open Festival.
Poet Vanessa Cardona travelled to Cali, Columbia to conduct research for her play Three Ladies, about the civil war in Columbia.
Poet Liam Coady is travelling to Guelph to perform in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.
Writer Alison Dowsett travelled to Toronto to attend the Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference.
Lauren Gillis travelled to Shelburne, Vermont to perform as Lucette at an outdoor concert at Shelburne Museum.
Lyne Gosselin travelled to Havana with aerial act Duo Flippy Hoop to perform at International Festival Circuba.
Writer Rayanne Haines travelled to Toronto to attend the Canadian Writers Summit.
Jake Hastey travelled to Montreal to attend a training seminar with strength trainer Charles Poliquin.
Samantha Jeffrey is travelling to Toronto to present her play Alberta #4 at the Rendezvous with Madness Festival.
Visual artist Madeline Mackay travelled to Santander, Spain to present and exhibit her work at Impact 10 International Print Conference.
Candace Makowichuk will be travelling to Calgary for the opening of her exhibition at Jarvis Hall Gallery August 24 – September 8, a collection of 20 pieces from her time as the Cemetery Artist in Residence.
Jessica Marsh travelled to Toronto to represent JAM Music Company artists Altameda, Joe Nolan and Mariel Buckley at the Canadian Music Week Showcase.
Conni Massing travelled to Urban Stages Theater in New York City to attend a workshop and reading of her play Matara, which will be performed in Edmonton at Workshop West Theatre in November.
Visual artists Syr Morrison and Chynna Howard travelled to Chicago to take a course in aerosol arts at Aerosol Academy of Art to assist with participating in the City of Edmonton Graffiti Prevention Mural Program.
Flamenco dancer Jane Oglivie travelled to Seville, Spain for professional development in Flamenco dance and song and to discuss the Edmonton Flamenco Festival with potential participants.
Jacqueline Ohm, host of CreativeMornings Edmonton, will travel to Iroquois Springs in Rock Hill, New York to attend the CreativeMornings Summit Camp.
Skye Oleson-Cormack will travel to Gothenburg, Sweden to display her photography installation “A Conversation with My Body” during EuroPride festival.
Chantal Schultz is travelling to Shafer, Minnesota to work an internship at the Franconia Sculpture Park.
Leila Sidi is travelling to Montreal to showcase his hand-built guitars at the Sonore Festival, an exhibition of high-end handcrafted guitars.
Writer Gail Sidonie-Sobat travelled to Toronto to attend the Canadian Writers’ Summit.
Publisher and writer Matthew Stepanic travelled to New York City to attend the ModMag conference about contemporary and indie magazines.
Choreographer and performer Kate Stashko is travelling to Tel Aviv, Israel to attend the Gaga Winter Intensive to receive instruction in Gaga dance and prepare for teacher training.
Musician Maddie Storvold is travelling across Canada to tour her new album and meet with musicians, labels, casting directors, and agencies.
Visual artist Jesse Thomas travelled to New Orleans to conduct research at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to inform an installation he’s been invited to work on for NOLA 300 Luna Fete, the city’s tercentennial celebration.
Musician Erin Wong travelled to Toronto to attend the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute to receive training in baroque violin and bow.
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