ArtExpert, en collaboration avec MC Conseil inc, a réalisé un diagnostic et plan de développement des équipements culturels de l’arrondissement Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Cette analyse a doté l’arrondissement Ahuntsic-Cartierville d’un outil de planification stratégique de ses équipements culturels actuels et potentiels. Cette étude permet à Ahuntsic-Cartierville d’avoir un regard documenté et éclairé au niveau des produits et services offerts à sa population en matière d’activités culturelles. Plus précisément, ce diagnostic et plan de développement cible le réseau des bibliothèques et les équipements de diffusion culturelle.

*Client : l’arrondissement Ahuntsic-Cartierville

Cette étude documente et analyse les enjeux liés au contexte de la reconversion de l’église en La place des orgues : un centre de diffusion et de création. Ce document étudie l’environnement du projet, la nature de ses activités, et sa faisabilité financière. Le rapport fournit au Comité de sauvegarde de l’église du Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus d’Hochelaga-Maisonneuve des données fondamentales qui identifient clairement les conditions de réussite du projet.

*Client : Comité de sauvegarde de l’église du Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus

As an Arts and Culture Consultant Group, ArtExpert.ca carries studies addressing arts and culture issues for both governmental and private institutions on a national and international level.

Dans le but de réaliser une stratégie d’investissement pour les programmes Le Fond du Canada pour les espaces culturels (FCEC) et Le Fond du Canada pour la présentation des arts (FCPA) au Québec au cours des prochaines années, ArtExpert.ca a procédé à un état de situation sur certains aspects de la diffusion culturelle pour le compte de la direction des Affaires culturelles et Patrimoine de Patrimoine canadien. Conséquemment, des pistes ont été investiguées afin de mieux atteindre les objectifs de ces programmes au cours des années à venir sur l’ensemble du territoire.

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The Environmental Scan constitutes a major component of the Accès culture network’s effort and covers activities organized by 22 arts presenters (performing arts and exhibition facilities) in Montréal.

The Environmental Scan reveals that the network has presents over 2, 292 professional cultural activities, of which 2, 113 have been performing arts presentation. The network proposed 179 exhibitions, mainly in the visual arts, and attracted 603 812 participants (446 109 spectators for performing arts presentations and 157 703 visitors to exhibitions).

 

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ArtExpert.ca team unveils a study concerning the next generation of artists in Montreal

Montreal, March 24th 2010 – The ArtExpert.ca team unveils a study concerning the next generation of artists. This study confirms the feasibility of expanding the facilities of the compagnie des Deux Mondes to better serve the needs for production and performing arts presentations by organizations and emerging companies at “Aux Écuries”.

The present study leaves no room for doubt concerning the need not only to nurture this fertile and indispensible ground, essential to affirming Montreal’s cultural metropolis, but also to invest in new and emerging companies as integral and original sources of dynamic creation.

“This study confirms that there is an entire generation of theater and dance companies, of artists, in desperate need of sustainable funding. In Montreal, in 2008, their combined productions amounted to 405 days with a grand total of 3, 240 hours of training/rehearsal time,” confirmed Louise Poulin, Director of the study and president of ArtExpert.

Pierre MacDuff and David Lavoie expressed their enthusiast at the study’s conclusions:
“This project will grant an entire generation of theatrical performers the tools for production and performance which they have sorely lacked and aims to create a synergy between artistic organizations, a real community in terms of work and shared resources. From the perspective of the public, they will have access to performances that have realized their full potential in adequate material and technical conditions.”

ArtExpert contributes to the creation of a dynamic cultural milieu by supporting cultural and artistic organizations in strategic development and planning. The study can be downloaded by clicking on this link:

For further information, contact:
Louise Poulin, ArtExpert.ca 514-678-2163

ArtExpert, in collaboration with its partners from Toronto, Ginder Consulting, Janis A. Barlow & Associates and Phil Goldsmith Architect, undertook a strategic look at the Gallery’s current role and future potential and recommend the most effective and achievable facility expansion option, along with a blueprint as to how will be achieved a plan that provides guidance for planning and re-planning cycles that are inevitable as projects evolve and environmental influences change.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery reflects this though its engagement with the community.  It has amassed an extraordinary collection of aboriginal art and as a meaningful part of society it fulfills multiple roles:  displaying, collecting and conserving; educating through both formal school programming and general adult education; and takes its place as a centre of social interaction with programmed special events.  The Gallery fulfills a vital service to the people (including artists) of Northwestern Ontario as the only public gallery in the 1,000 kilometres between Winnipeg and Sault Ste. Marie.

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ArtExpert in collaboration with Ginder Consulting has been awarded a contract to undertake a strategic and operational review of provincial Arts and Culture Centres in Newfoundland and Labrador.

This review provides recommendations to the Provincial Government on the general operations of the province's six regional Arts and Culture Centres, and documents how the Centres can be more accessible and relevant to the communities they serve.

• Client: Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation Government of Newfoundland and Labrador                                                     Download report

In hoping to achieve the success of a Creative Arts Centre, the A-frame Gallery is assisted by ArtExpert and Ginder Counsulting in achieving its art space in Sioux Lookout. The consultant had work on giving direction to the group of artists, arts educators and arts supporters known as Sioux Lookout Creative Arts Circle (The Circle).

The A-frame Gallery in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, is a space committed to the development of a Creative Arts Centre in Sioux Lookout.

Founding Members of the Sioux Lookout Creative Arts Circle (The Circle). From left to right: Florence Woolner, Aileen Urquhart, Barbara Matousek, Theresa Crann, Brent Wesley, Donna Giles, Calamus Kenny, Erin Horvath, Cynthia Jackson, Nadine Arpin

In order to establish a realistic, long-term outlook with respect to capital projects, the members of the Forum des équipements culturels mandated a team under the direction of ArtExpert.ca to assess the overall situation. As a result, the present report identifies issues and needs based on the general condition of facilities (infrastructure) for creating, producing and presenting English-language theatre on the Island of Montreal. This report examines opportunities for cultural facilities for Montreal's English-language theatre community and determines which needs must be met in upcoming years. It also identifies the types of partnerships that the English-language theatre community should create in order to ensure the establishment of new infrastructure for creating, producing and presenting theatrical works on the Island of Montreal.

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• Client: Forum on Cultural Facilities, City of Montreal and Quebec Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women

This study ordered by the Federal Provincial and Territorial Working Groupon Cultural Investments focuses on a set of best practices in PPPs and of new mechanisms set in place to increase private funding to Canada’s arts and culture sector.

The study identifies the success factors forapplying these measures.

• Client: Department of Canadian Heritage. Read News Release
• Photo: With permission of Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Glenbow Museum

 

The Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program (CAHSP)

The purpose of this study is to help the Canadian Heritage arts policydirectorate gather information from organizations benefiting from theCAHSP’s Capacity Building Component. The goal is to perform asufficiently detailed analysis of the impacts of this component on thedevelopment of healthier Canadian arts and heritage organizations.

• Client: Department of Canadian Heritage.

Assessment of the performing arts dissemination in Montreal since the 80's.

• Client: City of Montreal
• Image: Michel Lefebvre

The new mechanisms for increasing private funding in the arts and culture in Canada

This study ordered by the Federal Provincial and Territorial Working Groupon Cultural Investments focuses on a set of best practices in PPPs andof new mechanisms set in place to increase private funding to Canada’s arts and culture sector. The study identifies the success factors forapplying these measures.

• Client: Department of Canadian Heritage. Read News Release
• Photo: With permission of Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Glenbow Museum

The feasability of a national training data base in the Canadian new media sector shows us that nearly 105 organizations and more than 130 specialised institutions have the mandate to develop the new media industry, as well as to ensure the continuous development and long-term viability of their profession.

• Client: Department of Canadian Heritage

• Photo: Claude Dagenais - Montreal International Game Summit 2005

This study presents, compares and contrasts Canadian and foreign data and policies with respect to professional development in the screen-based media sector. It evaluates how the Canadian National Training Program for the Film and Video Sector (NTP), administered by Telefilm Canada on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage, stands up to similar professional development programs in countries with similar strategies for their national screen-based media industries. The five countries selected for comparison are: the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Denmark and The Netherlands.

• Client: Department of Canadian Heritage

 

In its continuing mission to provide innovative solutions to human resource issues and to better understand the HR environment within the cultural sector, CHRC wishes to implement a database that would centralize all information sources on the training resources available to cultural workers within the Film and Television Industry. Purpose is to help artists and cultural workers of the Film and Television Industries to better know their possibilities in terms of training and professional development, to allow providers to avoid doubling their training offers and ultimately to allow determining the gaps in the different training sectors and areas available and to fill them.

• Client: Cultural Human Resources Council

To better serve the community and to adequately and harmoniously develop the performing arts sector in the country, the Canada Council for the Arts has wanted for some time to acquire the data needed to develop or revise its programs and policies. Specifically, this report gives organisations that manage performing arts facilities in Canada guidance and tools that will help them assess the impact on their operations, of any construction or renovation work, or even just simply managing such premises (for creation, production and/or performance purposes). This study aims to reinforce support mechanisms, and recommend changes to the programs and grant application forms of the various federal partners. In short, the study's findings are designed to improve the assessment process.

• Clients: Canada Council for the Arts in partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage. Download the report
• Photo: Martin Gagné. Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, Montréal

The research was designed to provide a clear picture of the state of dissemination of Canadian artistic products created by non-profit performing arts organizations, both in and outside Canada, over the last ten years. The four federal partners were engaged in an exercise to coordinate their efforts in support of performing arts dissemination in Canada.

• Clients: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, National Arts
• Centre, Canada Council for the Arts and Department of Canadian Heritage. Download the Summary