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Editorial — Montreal, March 15, 2018
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Sometimes it’s useful to step back and let the news speak for the dynamism in our artist-centred network. Here’s wishing everyone the courage to keep doing what you do, today and everyday.
Anne Bertrand
Director, ARCA
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What's up in the network?
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Artist-Run Centres in the Visual Arts:
Canada-Wide Aggregated Data for 2010-16
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Back in 2011 or 2012, thereabouts, ARCA met with Canadian Arts Data / Données sur les arts au Canada (CADAC) management to request access to data pertaining to artist-run centres receiving core funding in the Canada Council’s Visual Arts Section but was informed that such data would have to be purchased. Since then, CADAC has gone through a succession of transformations, likely in response to input from a consultation held in the summer of 2013, at which time ARCA reiterated its interest in having access to its own data to share with its members. CADAC collects and aggregates data from participating agencies across Canada. The attached report pertains to the second-last year of the Canada Council’s former operational model, representing a partial portrait, both financial and statistical, of our network. Total public-sector revenues for artist-run centres receiving core funding in 2015–16 was $15,010,200, of which $6,873,960, or 45% of total funding, came from provincial-level agencies. These figures illustrate the importance of provincial funding in the overall financial health of arts organizations, and represent a major indicator of regional equity, one of ARCA’s ongoing priorities.
> Provincial Public Funding Data 2015-2016
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The Governor General Awards in the Visual and Media Arts 2018
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In an annual ceremony, the Governor General’s Awards (or GGs) are given to recognize lifetime achievements by artists in the visual and media arts, and in craft, as well as other arts professionals. Laureates participate in a group exhibition at the National Gallery, and receive a $25,000 gift presented by the Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Reception speeches are typically very poignant, recipients often expressing disbelief at the unexpected recognition, and conveying humility despite the most impressive accolades by the nominators in their words of introduction. For an overview of artist-run representation at the GGs since the creation of the award, see ARCA in the Loop, No. 3, March 16, 2016.
> See list of 2018 GG winners and video portraits
> To nominate a candidate
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Glenn Alteen’s Outstanding Contribution
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ARCA wishes to congratulate Glenn Alteen, founder, curator, and program director at grunt gallery, and winner of the Governor General’s Outstanding Contribution Award for 2018. We also thank Lorna Brown, Vancouver-based artist, curator, and writer, for nominating him. Glenn is one of many senior visionaries in the artist-run network, whose engagement has produced hubs of dynamic, interdisciplinary, and intercultural communities across our network. grunt gallery is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, on unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples, which has benefitted a great many art professionals since its foundation in 1984, as a pass through its extensive physical and searchable online archive demonstrates.
For more info, see grunt’s website post and the word of thanks from Glenn in the gallery’s newsletter.
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articule Congratulates Adrian Stimson for his Governor’s General Award
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A well-deserved bravo to Adrian Stimson of Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation, who has just been awarded the Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts! articule had the pleasure of presenting his performance 150 BLOWS! during VIVA! Art Action in fall 2017.
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News from the Common Field
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The national network of independent visual arts organizations and organizers in the United States, Common Field has just launched its new website. Of special interest is the archive from the organization’s 2017 Convening in Los Angeles, including “Field Perspectives the pdf,” a digital publication containing all essays commissioned from arts publications in preparation for last year’s Convening, plus a video showing Convening highlights.
Founded in 2013 and launched in 2015, the Common Field network has more than 700 members across forty-three states. Programs include national convenings, grants, research, resources, forums, meet-ups, and advocacy.
> For an overview of recent developments at Common Field
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27th Annual Melva J. Dwyer Award
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The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is pleased to announce that Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, edited by Heather Davis and co-published in 2017 by McGill-Queens University Press and Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), has been awarded the 27th annual Melva J. Dwyer Award.
Desire Change was selected from among 14 Canadian art and architecture titles nominated for the 2018 award including ARCA’s Grey Guide to Artist-Run Publishing and Circulation. A complete list of nominees is available here.
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CCA Grant Application Deadlines
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The Canada Council for the Arts has just announced dates for its 2018–19 grant programs. > More info
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MOMENTA 2019
Call for submissions from Canadian artists
Deadline: April 8, 2018
Theme: The Life of Things
Curator: María Wills Londoño
MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image launches its call for submissions from Canadian artists for its upcoming edition, which will take place in September and October 2019. Drawing on the theme The Life of Things, proposed by Colombian independent curator María Wills Londoño, the biennale’s 16th edition will present a wealth of exhibitions featuring the work of more than thirty artists from the local and national scenes as well as from elsewhere in the world. > More info
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Public Art National Call for Proposals to Emerging Artists: Passage
Call seeking dynamic, impactful image that conveys the theme of ‘passage’- en route; on the way; on a journey; an act, process, or instance of passing through or over; on the move; transition... The winning image will be reproduced on exterior quality graphic film and installed on the York Street Steps for a one-year period starting in spring 2018. Deadline for submissions April 16, 5 pm (EDT). Open to all Canadian visual artists, photographers, graphic designers and illustrators between the ages of 18 and 35. All genres will be considered – figurative, abstract, collage, trompe l’oeil, optical illusion, pattern, etc. > More Info
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Call to Artists: Elgin Street Renewal – Public Art
Request for Qualifications (RFQ): Artist in Residence
Deadline: Monday April 23, 2018, 4 pm EST
Budget: $150,000 CND plus HST
Information: Melissa Black, Public Art Officer, 613-244-4261
The City of Ottawa’s Public Art Program invites artists to submit qualifications for an Artist in Residence opportunity to design, fabricate and install a permanent artwork for Elgin Street as outlined in the Call to Artists. This three-stage competition is held in accordance with the Public Art Policy. > More info
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Inspiring practices
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Human resources and training opportunities in the network
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—Gallery Gachet
(9 West Hastings Street, Vancouver)
The Expressive Arts Group (Mondays 1 – 3 pm) began as a program through the West Coast Mental Health Network. If you are interested in attending, please call 604-687-2468.
—Pollyanna 圖書館 Library
(100-221 E Georgia Street, Vancouver)
March 20 – April 24, 2018
A semester of science fiction readings and screenings organized by Juli Majer. The semester’s first of five reading groups taking place Tuesday, March 20, 7 – 9 pm will study the subject of Multiple Perspectives and Worlding. For a full project calendar including screening dates and ancillary events, visit polly-anna.ca/activities.
—Fillip
Means of Production/Workshop Series
Fillip is pleased to announce Means of Production, a new occasional series of free, theoretical workshops investigating the material conditions of contemporary artistic practice. Here are the next two workshops :
||| Criticism with Steffanie Ling
April 28, 2018, 2 pm – 4 pm PDT
(305 Cambie Street, Vancouver)
Steffanie Ling is a curator at VIVO Media Arts and co-founder of Charcuterie, a journal for experimental art writing. Her work has appeared in C Magazine, San Francisco Art Quarterly, and Brooklyn Rail. Her book Nascar: Stories was published in 2016 by Blank Cheque and Cuts of Thin Meat, a book of minimal poems, was released by Spare Room in 2015.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/2FxQa6a
||| Research with Mercedes Eng
May 26, 2018, 2 pm – 4 pm PDT
(305 Cambie Street, Vancouver)
Mercedes Eng is a writer and teacher based in Vancouver, unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. She is the author of two books: Mercenary English (Mercenary Press 2016) and Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (Talonbooks, 2017)—both of which are long-form documentary poems grounded in lived experience, autonomous research, and community participation.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/2InYFOP
—Oboro
(4001, rue Berri, local 200, Montréal)
April 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22, 2018, Noon – 5 pm
Registration: February 14 – March 29, 2018
The Many Faces, Fazes and Facets of Stop Motion: A Step-by-step, Image-by-image guide to High/Low Animation. Workshops with Frances Adair Mckenzie, Eva Cvijanović and Allison Moore. > More info
—Centre CLARK
(5455 avenue de Gaspé, #114, Montréal)
Institut du Savoir Clark
Hot-Dog SketchUp with Éric Lamontagne
Workshop / Saturday, March 17, 2018, 1 pm – 5 pm
Price : 55$ - Only 10 places available
RSVP : hotdogsketchup.eventbrite.ca
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Cool and Free Viewing at Vithèque
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Vidéographe is pleased to present Revolutions, an online program that brings together seven videos works by Canadian artist Istvan Kantor and selected amongst the 29 works included in the USB box set Istvan Kantor – Video Anthology, produced by Videographe in 2017 and curated by Etienne Desrosiers.
The program Revolutions, assembled by Karine Boulanger, curator of Vidéographe’s collection, includes major works produced from 1982 to 2016. This selection reflects the futuristic, activist or aesthetic veins and showcases the artist’s constant reinvention.
Until May 7, 2018
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