WAC The Winnipeg Arts Council Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with charitable status, charged by the City of Winnipeg to distribute funding to arts organizations and artists, to manage the City's Public Art Policy, and to foster development of the arts for the people of Winnipeg. As a pre-eminent city-building organization, the Winnipeg Arts Council focuses on the quality of life in the city and how arts and culture determines Winnipeg's reputation as a City of the Arts, both nationally and internationally. The Winnipeg Arts Council currently receives just under $4.1 million for this purpose along with another $500,000 designated for the Public Art Program.Grant ProgramsGrants are made available to not-for-profit arts organizations and individual artists and arts administrators working in all artistic disciplines. Applications are peer assessed, and the existence of high professional standards, community and audience support, and financial viability are key considerations in arriving at grant recommendations.Public ArtIn 2001 WAC was directed by City Council to develop a Public Art Policy for the City.
healing and empowerment through creative endeavourVisionTo enable consumers of mental health services to engage in artistic expression that promotes recovery, empowerment and community.MissionTo provide studio space, community and opportunity for creative initiative to facilitate mental, spiritual and economic health. Artbeat Studio is a mental health consumer initiated, peer directed, and recovery oriented program. This community-based studio accommodates artists whose mental health, social connection, and income make it impracticable for them, individually, to acquire a workspace where they might advance their artistic technique safely and securely. The artists are supported and mentored in managing their own workplace, production, and marketing within the operating parameters of the studio.Artbeat Studio accommodates a group of nine artist applicants per six month period.ServicesAccess to safe, secure and well equipped studio space.Opportunities for self-directed creative exploration and development of technique.Access to materials, tools, and process expertise in visual arts (painting/drawing, sculpture, pottery, video) and performance art (poetry/prose, plays/theatre, music, dance)
New Work at the GalleryWe've got some amazing new work.Gurevich Fine Art is excited to have a series of new pieces by a range of our artists such as Aganetha Dyck , Deborah Danelley , B ette Woodland , Robert Sim , Edward Becenko , Christian Worthington and vintage Japanese Kimonos (pictured here, photography by Brett Howe).We are happy to tailor tours to meet the needs and interests of your group. Collaborate with us to schedule your visit to Gurevich Fine Art.Stay in touch with Gurevich Fine Art
Aceart is an Artist Run Centre dedicated to the development, exhibition and dissemination of contemporary art by cultural producers. aceartinc. maintains a commitment to emerging artists and recognizes its role in placing contemporary artists in a larger cultural context. aceartinc. is dedicated to cultural diversity in its programming and to this end encourages applications from all contemporary artists and curators including those identifying as members of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered), Aboriginal (status, non-status, Inuit and Metis) and all other culturally diverse communities.