Resource Type: Industry Insights

Creative Accessibility is a series of online webinars and panel discussions that explore disability art, the experiences of artists with disabilities and how to make art accessible. These workshops are beneficial not only for emerging artists with disabilities, but artists at all levels of their career with and without disabilities.

With twenty years in Canadian comedy, Erica Sigurdson shares some of her best practices for building your comedy business and increasing your income potential.

How does an artist make the leap from grad school to gallery? What does it take? What kind of prep do you need to do? How do you build up the confidence within yourself and your work to approach a gallery, pitch an idea, and make them believe in you? Then once you get that show, how do you pull it together?

Creative Accessibility is a series of online webinars and panel discussions that will explore disability art, the experiences of artists with disabilities and how to make art accessible. These workshops will be beneficial not only for emerging artists with disabilities, but artists at all levels of their career with and without disabilities.

Join Nic Dyson as he takes us through all the the dos and don’ts when first getting into the music scene.

The purpose of the Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts resource guide is to provide practical guidelines for respectful engagement with Indigenous Peoples. It is part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen respect for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis visual art and artists, and legal and moral rights in the lands commonly known as Canada.

This brief article examines the demographics, employment characteristics, and incomes of artists in Manitoba. The article also provides summary information about workers in arts leadership occupations and all occupations in the arts, culture, and heritage (a category that includes artists and arts leaders). The statistics are based on custom data that Hill Strategies requested from Statistics Canada’s 2021 long-form census.

Creative Connector is a national online arts hub for creatives with disabilities to find community and discover accessible opportunities in the arts. This informal presentation hosted by founder Lindsay Fisher will include information about how to become a member, what kinds of perks are available to members, and upcoming programming that you won't want to miss out on.

Join Sean Lee, Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability, for a presentation on principles and practices that have shaped the organization. Drawing from case studies and lessons learned, Lee will explore the boundary-breaking aspects of accessible curatorial practices, pushing beyond compliance-based understandings of access toward liberatory approaches. By examining disability arts as the ‘last avant-garde’ movement, as coined by Turner Prize-nominated artist Yinka Shonibare, Sean’s presentation focusses on the ways disability arts can disrupt dominant narratives of disability.