SPAO is home to the only 2 year photographic arts diploma in Canada, a unique 6 month artist residency, numerous evening and weekend photography skills classes, and the only gallery in the region dedicated to lens-based art. Established in 2005 as an alternative to photography education, SPAO has seen immense growth and operates more like an artist-run-centre. In 2016 moved to a new purpose-built building complete with the most well-appointed darkroom in the region, lighting studio, digital media lab, and the wheelchair accessible SPAO Centre Gallery. SPAO works hard to cultivate a community of distinct artistic vision, critical dialogue and technical expertise in the photographic arts through exhibition, partnerships and education.
77 Pamilla St, Ottawa, ON K1S 3K7, Canada
Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts & Amphitheatre (KIRA) was established in 2016 in an effort to support the creativity of artists. We hope to promote excellence in the arts both here in Canada as well as in the International scene, all the while benefiting the local community of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, by becoming a cultural destination. A residency at KIRA creates a rewarding and stimulating experience for any participant seeking to advance their artistic journey.
130 Prince of Wales St, St. Andrews, NB E5B 1R3, Canada
Vision, Mission, Mandate and Values of Regart, Center for Contemporary Art Artists Vision Established in Lévis since 1986, the artist-run-centre Regart intends to ensure a dynamic presence in today’s visual art with audiences in Chaudière-Appalaches and Québec territories. Through original promotion and diffusion interventions, Regart works to develop and promote the practices of professional artists from the regional, national and international scenes, while maintaining privileged ties with the community. Mission On the artistic front, Regart is interested in the hybridization of forms of expression, the encounter and the mixture of practices. Thus, it encourages the merging of visual arts with other disciplines, or even other modes of apprehension of contemporary culture. By integrating this approach to hybridization, both in creative processes and in exhibition presentation contexts, Regart opens up to represent a diversity of perspectives that differ from the usual contextualities of diffusion. Mandate Presented mainly in the gallery, Regart’s programming highlights productions that are hybrid. Through out-of-the-wall events, infiltrations into the public space, singular collaborations and publications, Regart opens a wide range of reflections allowing artists to broaden their fields of artistic intervention. Thus, the center promotes experimentation and research through special projects that bring artists to recontextualize their […]
5956 Rue Saint-Laurent, Lévis, QC G6V 3P4, Canada
VOX is an artist-run centre founded in 1985. Its mission is to support research and presentation initiatives as well as enable artists, exhibition curators and other researchers to contribute to art experimentation, to reflection and to development of multiple forms of critical discourse around image-making and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. Its main activity is exhibitions, most often complemented by publications, documentation spaces, film screenings, conferences and online projects. The exhibitions and other artistic events that the centre produces are grounded in long-term work with artists, and often designed as collective projects that encourage discussions and debates about art and contemporary society as well as public meetings with diverse audiences. VOX is a non-profit organization and a member of the RCAAQ as well as Art actuel 2-22.
2 Rue Sainte-Catherine E Suite 401, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4, Canada
THIRD SHIFT is an annual festival of public contemporary artworks that takes place in Saint John, New Brunswick and online. THIRD SHIFT 2021 will take place from August 19 – 22, 2021. Established in 2015, THIRD SHIFT holds space for new experiences and communal exchange through the exhibition of temporary public artworks in Saint John and online. In 2020, THIRD SHIFT expanded to include digital art including animations, short films, interactive online experiences, live coding, virtual performances, and more. THIRD SHIFT will continue to support physical and digital installations (see COVID-19 FESTIVAL FRAMEWORK for more details). For more information about THIRD SHIFT and to see installations from last year’s festival, please visit the festival website. When we are having these calls it is important that all applicants think about their relationship to the land; THIRD SHIFT offers an opportunity to re-imagine and engage with the natural and built environment in what we now know as Saint John. The land on which THIRD SHIFT takes place is the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Peoples first signed with the British crown in 1725. The treaties […]
Saint John, NB E2L 5B2, Canada
The mission of the FCA is to advance the knowledge and appreciation of art and culture to all Canadians, offering education, exhibition, and communication in the Visual Arts, and to support and promote emerging to professional member artists.
1241 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S1, Canada
Ayatana offers intensive research program for artists to learn about ecology. We host specialized residency on birds, sound, plants, insects, biology, water, mushrooms, death, geology, evolution and microscopy. Ayatana’s residency location changes every year.
Ottawa, Canada (Nomadic)
Réseau Art Actuel is a portal dedicated to the promotion of current contemporary art, and to the many activities and practices of a rich and diverse network. Réseau Art Actuel presents an impressive body of information on current contemporary art in Quebec. Its calendar enables users to find, according to date and city, the activities currently taking place in over 125 different locations throughout Quebec, including 60 artists-run centers. The platform provides increased visibility, and access to professional information intended for the arts community. It also plays a unique role in bridging highly specialized practices and members of the general public who wish to be informed. Réseau Art Actuel is an initiative of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ). The RCAAQ is a national advocacy organization whose mandate is to support, bring together, represent, and promote Quebec’s artist-run centers.
2, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, espace 302, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1K4
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St. Boniface Hospital 409 Taché Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H 2A6, Canada
Artcite Inc. is a non-profit, artist-run centre for the contemporary Arts, dedicated exclusively to expanding the visibility of contemporary arts within our region and advancing the professional presentation, promotion and animation of contemporary art forms. Incorporated in 1982, Artcite Inc. is a registered charitable organization and is a member of Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference [ARCCC], and Artist-Run Centres & Collectives Ontario [ARCCO] and is directed by; its membership, a volunteer board, and a team of staff members – the majority of whom are practicing professional artists themselves. While primarily a visual arts centre, Artcite strives to continually expand traditional definitions and understandings of contemporary art by exploring the multiplicity of Canadian artistic practice representative of the diverse social and cultural make-up of this region. We endeavour to exhibit, present and support regional, national and international artists who work in various media and disciplines, and who are at varying stages of their careers, with particular support for emerging, new generation and culturally under-represented artists. Our mandate extends to the promotion of professionalism in the arts. This means that we support the artists we exhibit by paying professional artist fees at nationally established rates. In our efforts to create progressive, inclusive, and engaging forums for critical dialogue, […]
109 University Ave. W., Windsor, ON
Artexte is a library, research centre and exhibition space for contemporary art. Our unique print and digital document collection holds over 27 000 documents covering the visual arts from 1965 to the present, with an emphasis on the art of Canada and Québec. Our online database can be found at e-artexte.ca
2 Sainte-Catherine East, room 301
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Old Courthouse Cultural Centre 7 Seymour St West Kamloops, B.C. V2C 1E4
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258 Richmond Street, London, Ontario
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1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
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594b Dundas Street West Toronto Ontartio M5T 1H5
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1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Art Metropole (est. 1974) is a not-for-profit artist-run organization with a focus on the production, dissemination and contextualization of artist-initiated publication in any media, especially those formats and practices predisposed to sharing and circulation.
163 Sterling Road, Toronto, ON M6R 2B2
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170 St. Helens Ave. Toronto, ON, M6H4A1
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401 Richmond Street West suit 104 TORONTO Ontario M5V 3A8 CANADA
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25 Polson Street unit 1, Toronto, Ontario