JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
Finalists Announced
September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
Voting closes
October 18, 2025
Winners announced
This program of Catalyst Grants offers support to visual artists based in the Southern Gulf Islands to deepen their artistic practice and explore new concepts. This also provides an opportunity for local artists to prepare a future submission to the Salt Spring National Art Prize, the Parallel Art Show or contribute to other SSNAP-related activities.
SSNAP has partnered with The Wilding Foundation who has generously funded this program.
Entry is open to visual artists living in British Columbia School District 64 (Salt Spring ,Pender, Galiano, Mayne, Penelakut and Saturna Islands) and Indigenous artists in the southern Vancouver Island region for whom the Southern Gulf Islands are ancestral territories.
Grants may be used for the following costs:
Applications are to be submitted to the SSNAP Society (SSNAPS) by October 1, 2024. A submission must contain a completed application form, including a budget for the project or activity. The application form provides the applicant an opportunity to address the criteria outlined below.
Electronic submission of applications, including any images is required.
View Catalyst Grants FAQs.