ArtsAccess

Two Unique Inter-regional Community Arts Initiatives

ArtsAcess

Transformation City 2006, featuring the work of participants from Beverly Junior Public School, Ogden Junior Public School, Orde Street Public School, St. George the Martyr Anglican Church and Toronto Community Housing-Hydro Block.

ArtsAccess is a three-year community arts initiative designed to engage the public in a range of creative activities in four Ontario municipalities, including Toronto, Thunder Bay, Brantford/Six Nations and Kitchener-Waterloo.

At the provincial level, ArtsAccess involves a partnership between the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery and Woodland Cultural Centre.

In each municipality, ArtsAccess partners work with other cultural organizations as well as with different community groups. In Toronto, the AGO is currently working with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario; City of Toronto, Museums and Heritage Services; Toronto District School Board, Jumblies Theatre and Regent Park Focus.

Artists provide the crucial link between all the project participants. Their role is to build relationships, lead workshops, organize exhibitions, connect public and community collections and make the completed work accessible through the internet.

For the AGO and its partners, ArtsAccess represents a shift in practice that moves beyond the delivery of on-site programming to the development of dynamic relationships both in and among communities.

ArtsAccess is being presented in tandem with Collection X, learn more.

Lead Partners:

The Ontario Trillium Foundation
virtualmuseum.ca

Generously Supported By:

With additional assistance from:

  • S. M. Blair Family Foundation