Call for applications to the MYB Fine Arts and Music Awards.

Applications are welcomed from individuals, groups or departments, and should be sent by email to Maria Smith, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic and Research at mlsmith@mta.ca.

The submission should be succinct and should include:

• a brief description of the project
• the itemized budget
• the budget item(s) for which the support is being requested
• the total amount requested from the committee
• other sources of funding (secured or applied for)
• the date by which it is anticipated that the funds will be spent

Please be guided in preparing your application by the formal terms of reference under which the Committee must operate.

It should be noted that the Committee is generally reluctant to approve requests to fund the purchasing of equipment. Also, application are looked upon more favourably when it is clear that the proposed project would be of interest to a constituency wider than any single department.

Student applications must include evidence of faculty supervision.

Bruce Robertson, Chair
Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Awards Committee

The money is to be used for projects which will, in a non-routine way, provide for some dimension of quality in the fields of Fine Arts or Music, or some special activity which could bring an extra measure of cultural development to an individual or to a group or perhaps whole Mount Allison institution or its constituency. It is suggested that the income not be used for projects which the University might ordinarily be expected to sponsor and also that it would be unwise to commit funds ahead to ongoing perennial projects.

The Fine Arts can be considered as those areas of human activity devoted to the expression of beauty which have been developed to a high level and which are recognized as requiring special talent and training or study in their mastery. Clearly then such a definition could include the special interests represented in our Fine Arts and Music departments and as well architecture, creative writing, dramatic art, the dance, elocution or debating. There may be other activities which qualify from time to time - that would be a matter for the Committee’s judgment, always bearing in mind the requirement of quality in any proposal or project.

Chair, appointed by the President - Bruce Robertson
Dean of Arts - Hans vanderLeest
1 faculty member from the Arts - Hannah Lane
1 person from the community - Janet Crawford