Call for artists - creating artworks with residents of Villeray

• Each selected artist will receive a fee of $3,000, which covers administrative fees as well as the design and facilitation of four two-hour workshops.

• The applicant must be an artist working or residing on the Island of Montreal.
• The applicant must have professional artist status.
• The project must focus on visual arts using sustainable, natural, or recyclable materials, or otherwise address this criterion.
• The applicant must have completed at least one project involving cultural outreach or mediation.
• The applicant must be available between June and September 2025 to conduct four workshops on weekday evenings at Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée.

Who is eligible?

• Professional artists working or residing on the Island of Montreal

Who is not eligible

• Companies and organizations that are not professional artists based or working on the Island of Montreal.
• Businesses that do not have a focus on visual arts using sustainable, natural, or recycled materials.
• Entities without prior experience in cultural mediation projects.
• Incomplete applications are not considered.

Eligible expenses

• Professional fees for artistic creation and animation (covering four workshops of two hours each).
• Administrative costs directly related to the project.

Eligible geographic areas

• Montreal Island
• Villeray District

• Quality of the artistic approach and relevance of the proposed project.
• Feasibility of the project.
• Original and innovative dimension of the proposal in relation to the program objectives.

• All written application documents must be submitted in PDF format; incomplete applications will be rejected.
• Each group of workshop participants will consist of approximately twenty people of various ages.
• The project is part of the collaborative "Racine" initiative within the Maisons de la culture network.