Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario
176 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 14 P1A 2A8 North Bay, ON, Canada

Registration is now LIVE! Check out the full schedule, and register for events at arcco.net/2020-members-summit

We're excited to have Creative Users Projects' Lindsay Fisher as one of our 2020 Summit Panelists! Check out their weekly listings service, Connector, which features accessible events happening across Canada.

Registration is now live ~~ Click through to read more about our 2020 Summit, and sign up to join us!

Posting Articule's open letter, as it's a useful document for Ontario ARCs as well. https://www.articule.org//open-letter-to-artist-centres-mo

ARCCO is Gathering Artist-run Centre Information for government organizations In an effort to ensure that all ARCCO member organizations are able to survive the coming weeks (and perhaps months) of suspended programming and limited operations due to illness, we've been asked to ask all of you (Artist-run folk!) a few questions about how prepared your centres are to take on the challenges presented by the pandemic, Covid-19. Please reply to this email at: [email protected] QUESTIONNAIRE Can you please let us know if there are specific concerns your organization is facing? Geographical? Demographics-based? Does your organization have an accumulated surplus that can weather a deficit or short-term cessation of operations? Are you able to pay your artists and workers regardless of event cancellations for the next 3 months? Will you see a loss in core funding/sponsorships/earned-revenues as a result of event cancellations?

Just wanted to wish long-time friends and ARCCO members the best of luck and Carmel-coated Kudos to...Definitely Superior Artist-run Centre in Thunder Bay!!!! On April 3rd this amazing group of Arts Activists opens their new purpose-built presentation spaces!! The opening of this new space is SUCH positive news for Artist-run culture across the country, especially for regional arts communities!! THANK-YOU, Rene and David and all at Def Sup for all the HOPE and JOY that you continue to project to all of us!!!

With the help of AMAZINg grant writers, Danielle and Amelia (Thank-you!!!) the new ARCCO Board of Directors developed and completed an Ontario Arts Council Arts Service Organizations Operating Grant this week. We are hoping that our most supportive funding partner will help us to completely RETHINK and REORGANIZE (with, of course, all of your help) over the next four to six months. Stay tuned to this page for news of our upcoming Artists Rights Summit slated for this May.

ARCCO UPDATE!!! We had a dozen members show up for our Special General Meeting on February 18th...a real show of strength and support from all over the province! It was a great START for a NEW ARCCO!! The new Interim ARCCO Board of Directors includes: Jonathan Middleton - Art Metropole - Chairperson... Dermot Wilson - Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective - Treasurer Tam-ca Vo Vam - Saw Gallery - Vice-Chairperson Matthew Kyba - Forest City Gallery - Secretary Anne Sophie Grenier - Modern Fuel Gallery Paul Walty - Le Labo - Regional Lucas Cabral - Artcite - Windsor This Interim Board is mandated to create and produce a full program of activities, and to act as the ARCCO Board of Directors until our next Annual General Meeting. The new Board will be posting our activities to our NEW Website ( http://www.arcco.net) and this Facebook page more regularly, to keep our valued members up to speed. And to continue to receive and consider YOUR suggestions for programming and services ARCCO can provide. THANKS to all who attended or sent in proxy votes for your support for the New ARCCO Initiative!! And to the NEW Board volunteers!! Welcome!!!

After our Nov. 25th meeting at Gallery 1313, we formed an Interim Advisory Group to assist with our efforts to reinvigorate both the Board of Directors and the organization as a whole. That group now includes: Dermot Wilson, Paul Walty, Phil Andersen, Josefa Radman, Jonathan Middleton and Christine Burchnall. ALL AMAZING ARTS ADMIN PROFESSIONALS!!

Hello ARCCO members past, present and future. I apologize for a LONG HIATUS between posts to this page.BUT...there is a bright light at the end of a rather long ARCCO tunnel!! At last...

Call for Executive Director / Appel à directeur-trice général-e - https://mailchi.mp//call_executive_director_appel_directio

ARCCO is looking for an Executive Director / The deadline to apply is July 8th, 2019. ARCCO cherche un-e directeur-trice général-e / La date de tombée est le 8 juillet 2019.

Exciting news for Canadian artist-run centres! CALL FOR NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN for the Lacey Prize for Artist-Run Centres in Canada $90,000 CAD in prize money awarded biennially. Nomination deadline, 30 August 2019.

Also yesterday a fire erupted at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Temple Mount in Old Jerusalem--no interior damage nor casualties were reported Read more: https://www.rt.com/ne/456655-al-aqsa-mosque-jerusalem-fire/

Our hearts are with the people of Paris, caretakers of Notre Dame, historians, art historians, & everyone around the world impacted by the tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral today. We hope after this disaster that the cathedral will one day return as the center of the city of lights.

An end-of-day snapshot at the ARCCO Partners Forum + Members Presentations/Think Tank Session that took place this past Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Peterborough. Many thanks go out to our presenters from Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario and Ontario Trillium Foundation; to Artspace for so graciously hosting the day's activities; and to our participants representing Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada, ARCA (ARCCC-CCCAA), and Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario member organizations from all across Ontario! Artwork by: Krista Belle Stewart Photo by: Anne Bertrand, ARCA (ARCCC-CCCAA)

The NRCC is looking for you! This is an open call for Artists, Members and Instructors.... please follow the link for more information on future calls for submissions and member benefits https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GB3D85G

The excitement is mounting over at the NOVAH Galleries on Lakeshore Drive, as we look forward to 50 NEW WORKS ABOUT THE EARTH!! Sarah Carlin-Ball has organized and curated a wonderful exhibit called Respect for Earth that will open for viewing on May 5th!