VAA Pre Budget Submissions 2025
List of Recommendations: Operational Supports Increase funding to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage, to assist arts organizations impacted by increasing inflation rates, and respond to the record high number of applications submitted by independent artists. Change program guidelines and adjust eligibility requirements so that all arts organizations, including visual arts, are eligible toRead the rest of this page »
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 larger workforce to address the current labour shortage in the cultural sector. 2. Provide funding to arts organizations that is directed toward increasing day-to-day operational costs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic andRead the rest of this page »
CARFAC: Artist’s Resale Right
Artists welcome news on the Artist’s Resale Right Canadian visual artists are pleased that the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) is gaining momentum within the Federal Government. Recent news reports indicate that Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry are considering amending the Copyright Act to include the ARR. According to an interview publishedRead the rest of this page »
CARFAC : Artists Resale Right
Write to your Member of Parliament about ARR CARFAC and RAAV have been busy meeting with the Federal Government about the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR), and momentum is growing. Now is the time to write to your MP, asking for their support for ARR in a review of the Copyright Act, which is expected to begin this Fall. The ARRRead the rest of this page »
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Submission deadline: Monday, September 23, 2019 IN BRIEF The Visual Arts Alliance is seeking a consultant to work with its members to develop a concerted strategic plan to focus its advocacy goals and messaging, design a coordinated work plan and calendar, identify funding sources and prepare relevant funding applications. PROJECT OVERVIEW Members of the Visual Arts Alliance are seeking proposalsRead the rest of this page »
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 Order Paper in the House of Commons in November. The bill intended to create a two-year position of a parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate, similar to the Poet Laureate position. The purpose of the position isRead the rest of this page »
CSARN 2018 : Entering the “mystical age of ageism”
Addressing challenges that face senior artists Earl Miller recently attended the CSARN 2018 Annual Conference in Toronto on behlf of the VAAAAV. Here’s his report. CSARN (Canadian Senior Artists’ Resource Network) is a non-profit organization established to help professional artists “keep active and creative as they age”. It held its 2018 annual conference Maintaining Creativity 3: Relevance on April 19thRead the rest of this page »
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 been keeping the VAA members busy over the last few months. One of them is the creation and implementation of the New Funding Model (NFM) by the Canada Council for the Arts. The VAA hasRead the rest of this page »
Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2017
The Visual Arts Alliance wishes to congratulate the winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2017: Michelle Cournoyer, Filmmaker/animator Mike Hollboom, Filmmaker Shelagh Keeley, Visual artist Glenn Lewis, Visual artist Landon Mackenzie, Visual artist Philip Monk, Curator & writer Shelley Niro, Visual artist Pamela Ritchie, Jewellery artist, Saidye BronfmanRead the rest of this page »
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 the Arts’ parliamentary appropriation by $40M for the 2016-2017 year, and subsequent annual increases to reach a total of $360M by 2021. This increase is a most welcome investment in the arts in Canada. TheRead the rest of this page »