Environmental Scan of Access Practices in Arts Funding Final Report

This includes framing access through an intersectional lens with respect to applicant eligibility, redistributing the labor of access from applicants to arts funding organizations, valuing the relational work of access done by applicants and staff, and attentiveness to the impact of arts grants on disability and other income supports for applicants. [...] I identify the following conclusions and key considerations for access practices in arts funding across Canada: • Center the co-creation of access • Center intersectionality theory in policy and practice • Center the dismantling of white supremacy in the arts 3 Section 1: Positionality, language, purpose, and methods Positionality statement. [...] I worked at the Canada Council for the Arts on this project as a student and Junior Analyst, under the supervision of the Equity, Access and Outreach and Research, Measurement and Data Analytics sections. [...] 2 Settler colonialism on Turtle Island, in the form of the settler states of the United States and Canada, involves the historical and ongoing theft of Indigenous lands and genocide of Indigenous peoples by European colonizers and imperialists. [...] Typically, across organizations, assessments for access support involve determining the reasonableness of the requested access support budget and confirming that the requested 20 access support is directly linked to the activities of the associated grant.