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VAA-AAV 2025 Submission to the Finance Comittee
List of Recommendations: Public Funding Supports 1. Increase funding by $330 million to protect arts and culture in Canada. 2. Expand program guidelines and eligibility requirements…
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VAA Pre Budget Submissions 2025
List of Recommendations: Operational Supports 1. Increase funding to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage, to assist arts organizations…
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VAA-AAV: Submission for the Finance Department Pre-Budget Consultations 2023
List of Recommendations: Operational Supports 1.Provide funding through Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts to help arts organizations employ and retain a…
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Canada Needs a Visual Artist Laureate
The visual arts community is concerned that Bill S-234, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate), died on the…
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Meeting in Ottawa on February 3rd, 2017
As part of their ongoing discussions, the members of the Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) met in Ottawa on February 3rd, 2017. Two main issues have…
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VAA Meeting – April 2016
The members of the Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) met by teleconference on April 5th. They applauded the recent announcement to increase the Canada Council for…
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First of its Kind “Research Map” Charts the Strengths and Weaknesses in Our Understanding of the Visual Arts Sector in Canada
Ottawa, June 15, 2011 – The Visual Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the release of a new research study: “The Visual Arts in Canada:…
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Press release: Re-Visioning the Visual Arts, September 16-18, 2011, Kingston (Ontario)
Ottawa, August 18, 2011- The Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) will hold a colloquium “Revisioning the Visual Arts” September 16-18th, 2011 in Kingston, Ontario, bringing together…
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VAA Meeting at the Textile Museum, Toronto, June 14, 2013
The Visual Arts Alliance members met on June 14 at the Textile Museum, located in Toronto and started working on the shared research agenda by…
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VAA Meeting – February 2016
The members of the Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) met the morning February 18, in Ottawa, in advance of the annual National Arts Service Organization (NASO)…
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Report from the Chair on 2014-15 Activities
In June 2014, Anne Bertrand, director of ARCA is appointed chair of the Visual Arts Alliance, after a year as co-chair with Lise Leblanc, director…
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VAA Meeting at RAAV, Montréal, December 13, 2013
The members of the Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) met on Friday, December 13, 2013, in Montreal. With the addition of two new members — the…