Canada Council increases support for international market access
via The Canada Council for the Arts
The
Canada Council for the Arts announced today that it is adding $2
million to its existing support to individual artists and arts
organizations to access international markets, bringing dedicated
international market access funding this year to $7 million.
The increase will expand opportunities for artists to strengthen
their artistic practice and engage more members of the public with their
work as part of a broader suite of market access initiatives.
“Market
access is a critical component in how artists enrich the lives of
Canadians,” said Canada Council Director and CEO Robert Sirman. “This
support is part of a broader strategy of the Canada Council to give
artists the tools they need to not just make art but also reach the
broadest possible public with their work.”
Changes to the Council’s support to market access include the following:
- $500,000 has been added for international touring in the performing
arts. The funds will be awarded to projects that were recommended by
peer assessment committees in the current fiscal year. - The maximum grant level for international touring in the performing
arts will be increased next fiscal year from $50,000 to $75,000. - New market access strategies will be introduced in writing and
publishing by reallocating existing resources, and in media arts through
targeted interventions, to strengthen competitiveness in a rapidly
changing marketplace. The objective of these strategies is to help these
sectors pursue new market opportunities online and adapt to the
technological changes in each sector. These initiatives support both
national and international access and more details will be released in
coming months.
The increased support for market access comes from in-year budgetary
reallocations and is expected to grow even further in 2013-14.
The
Canada Council for the Arts is Canada’s national arts funder. Its
grants and payments to artists and arts organizations contribute to a
vibrant arts sector. Its awards celebrate creativity by recognizing
exceptional Canadians in the arts, humanities and sciences. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO operates under the general authority of the Canada Council.
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of clay and then cast in reinforced resin. During the clay modelling
stage, studio lighting was tuned to match the final installation site to
allow adjustment of the form and control the shadows that give Voyage
its life and rhythm.
The sculpture is 14 m long, 3.6 m high and roughly 8 cm deep.”
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Transpire: An Installation of Porcelain Artwork by Julie Shepherd
Opens at the Logan Gallery on Friday 29th June at 6pm. All welcome.
Continues until the 4th August.
Gallery open 10am – 5pm Tuesday to
Friday.
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The Fabric of Clay: Alexandra McCurdy
Black box with raffia, 2009
Porcelain, wire, beads, raffia
13 x 13 cm
The Fabric of Clay: Alexandra McCurdy
in collaboration with Burlington Arts Centre
Curator: Gloria Hickey
Scotian ceramist Alexandra McCurdy is organised around the artist’s
ongoing engagement with textiles. Her work often directly reflects, not
only the surface ornament, but the structural patterning of fibre media.
As curator Gloria Hickey notes in her catalogue essay, McCurdy “has
never made pots about pots or ceramic history,” but “about textiles and
autobiographical ceramics.” The exhibition pairs McCurdy’s ceramics with
their textile and fibre companions and displays them against the
backdrop of the artist’s personal narrative. Saint Mary’s University Art
Gallery produced the full-colour exhibition catalogue in partnership
with the Burlington Art Centre.
Lorenzen Pottery: 50 Years in the Making
Curator: Victor Owen
The Fabric of Clay exhibition will be accompanied by a small
retrospective of the ceramics of Alma and Ernst Lorenzen- a Danish
immigrant and his Canadian-born wife- who were active in the Maritimes
for four decades, starting in the 1940s, and helped to introduce
modernist ceramics to the region. Dr. J. Victor Owen, of the Saint
Mary’s University Geology department, has assembled a detailed narrative
of their careers and examines the chemistry of their ceramics.
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