Department of Tourism and Culture

About the Department

Arts Funding and Awards

Arts Fund
The Arts Fund provides project funding that addresses the creative development of the arts to arts collectives, organizations, and non-profit societies. Projects include public participation/impact in Yukon and support the principles of the Yukon Arts Policy.
Intakes: 15th of March, June, September and December.

Advanced Artist Award
The Advanced Artist Award assists individual Yukon visual, literary, and performing artists, practicing at a senior level, with innovative projects or educational pursuits that contribute to their personal artistic development and to their community.
Spring Intake - April 1
Fall Intake - October 1

Touring Artist Fund
The Touring Artist Fund fosters the development of the arts by supporting Yukon visual, literary, and performing artists, ensembles, and companies to present their work publically at professionally curated national or international exhibitions, concerts, festivals, or showcases.
Intakes: 15th of March, June, September and December.

Arts Operating Funds
Arts Operating Funds support Yukon arts-based non-profit societies with on-going and year round activities that encourage the development of the arts and enhance the contribution of arts to Yukon. The support is aimed towards sustainable and effective planning, governance, and allocation of human and financial resources to meet arts mandates and activities.
Annual intake: February 15

Culture Quest
This program invests in projects such as events, training and development, partnerships, and commissions towards developing more cultural products for local and outside audiences to enjoy. It spans creation, celebration, collaboration, presentation learning or touring.
Intakes: Rolling.

Cultural Industries Training Fund
Funded by the Department of Education, this fund supports Yukon individual entrepreneurs, businesses, collectives, industry associations or organizations in the sound recording, film & video, publishing, visual arts & crafts, or cultural industry labour force with training and mentorship projects that increase economic and commercial potential of Yukon's cultural sector. 
Intakes: January 15, March 15, May 15, September 15.

Permanent Art Collection
The Friends of the Gallery Society buys art for the Permanent Collection through an open call process annually. For details, contact the Arts Curator.


Other Funding for Yukon Artists and Arts Organizations