All applicants will be contacted, regardless of the outcome. Applicants for round 1 (Jan 7th deadline) should have received a response by February 28, 2025. Applicants for round 2 (Feb 3rd deadline) should have received their response by March 10, 2025.

This project has the very specific mandate of building bridges between Anglophone and Francophone artists in Quebec. While employing both in an otherwise unrelated project can potentially fulfill that mandate, you must also successfully argue that the project is creating unprecedented inter-community connections in so doing. Collaboration between artists of the two language groups is a fact of life in the province, and the mere presence of both on your creative team does not automatically constitute bridging.

Absolutely! Our Artist category also encompasses artist collectives, allowing you to apply for multiple people—provided you have a proven history of collaboration. For this path, just be sure to submit under the Artist bracket. Please note that the maximum requestable amount for collectives is $15,000, the same as individual artists. 

Sadly, no, you cannot judge a round in which you have an application in consideration, due to the conflict of interest. Yes, this applies even if you are applying to jury for a discipline your application is not a part of. However, if you have submitted a Trellis application for a different round, you can serve as juror for the round you are not part of without any problems!

Unfortunately, to keep the process fair for all, we can only accept applications submitted before the deadline—even one minute over is not admissible.

Of course! We recognize that art tends to break boundaries and resist simple categorization; in fact, we encourage works that mix existing mediums and pioneer new ones. Simply list your work as “Multimedia” on the application if it mixes two of the main categories. If the focus of your project is primarily community-based (e.g., interview series or artist spaces), list it as “Community Engaged Art”. Finally, if your project truly defies description, you can list it as “Other”.

Your application is evaluated by a blind jury, meaning all identifying information is scrubbed—including art samples and the names of your past works and collaborators. So don’t waste time including a dozen links; these are only for the use of ELAN staff to confirm you are a practicing artist and will not affect the jury’s judgment. Although we do include the Addendum in the jury materials, it will be scrubbed of anything that might identify you. As such, be sure to focus on organizational collaborations, prizes/fellowships/residencies, and other metrics of success, as these will be kept. However, should your Addendum exceed the one-page limit we stipulated, everything but the first page will be cut.

Given the tight-knit nature of Quebec’s anglophone artistic community, it is inevitable that jurors will be acquainted with some of the applicants and recognize their projects even with anonymization. As such, we ask our jurors to declare any conflicts of interest they become aware of after they review the applications, so they can be taken into account. So do not be discouraged from applying if you know a juror. Especially do not worry if you know an ELAN member—our staff has no say on the jury’s deliberations whatsoever!