Help Us Build a New Home for Artcite Inc. In Ford City!
Artcite Inc. thrives on the generosity of supporters like you. We're excited to announce that we're moving our gallery to Ford City to create a fully accessible and welcoming space for everyone in our community. Our new location at 998 Drouillard Road will open in April 2025, featuring enhanced facilities to better serve you.
This move is a crucial step in our mission to continue offering innovative programs and exhibitions that inspire and engage our community. Our current downtown location presents accessibility challenges and requires us to vacate for a month each year. By relocating, we can provide consistent, year-round programming and fully accessible facilities, including a new reception area, a front office for public access to our physical archives, and two gallery spaces for major and local exhibitions, residencies, workshops, and community events.
We're aiming to raise $20,000 to fund necessary renovations, including new interior walls, track lighting, flooring, archive storage, and more. Your support is invaluable in helping us achieve our mission and continue our work in the community. For more information on who we are and what we do, scroll down to the “About Us” section below.
Thank you for considering a donation to Artcite Inc. Together, we can foster a vibrant, creative community and expand the visibility of contemporary arts within our region.
Your donations will directly support these essential renovations and improvements:
Renovations:
- Demolition and disposal
- New interior walls
- New track lighting
- New flooring
- Archive storage
- Shelving
- Washroom accessibility retrofit
- Threshold wheelchair ramp
- New exterior front and side doors
- Exterior signage
- Painting (interior and exterior)
Results:
- New main gallery for major juried exhibitions
- New community gallery for local exhibitions and programs
- New archive reference library
- New reception area and meeting space
- New community resource room
- Full wheelchair accessibility
- Year-round programming
As a token of our appreciation, we are pleased to offer a variety of complimentary reward tiers for your generous contribution:
Citrine Supporter: $25–$99
- Invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary one-year membership*
- Official donation receipt
Emerald Supporter: $100–$499
- Small name placement on donor recognition wall in reception area of the gallery
- Invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary three-year membership*
- Official donation receipt
Amethyst Supporter: $500–$999
- Medium name placement on donor recognition wall in reception area of the gallery
- Invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary ten-year membership*
- Official donation receipt
Sapphire Supporter: $1,000+
- Acknowledgement in gallery marketing materials and event signage for one year
- Acknowledgement in monthly newsletters for one year
- Large name placement on donor recognition wall in reception area of the gallery
- Invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary lifetime membership*
- Official donation receipt
* Memberships come with:
- Discounts and perks at various local businesses
- Invitations to exclusive “meet and greets” with exhibiting artists
- Invitation to participate in our annual members’ exhibition
- Invitations to members-only events and workshops
- Invitation to our Annual General Meeting
- Voting privileges at our Annual General Meeting
Note: Member perks will kick in on April 1, 2025 and last for one year from that date.
About Us
Artcite Inc. is a non-profit, artist-run centre for the contemporary arts, dedicated exclusively to expanding the visibility of contemporary arts within our region and advancing the professional presentation, promotion, and animation of contemporary art forms.
Established in 1982, we are a registered charitable organization directed by our members, a volunteer board, and a small staff, the majority of whom are practicing artists. We support local, regional, national, and international artists who work in various media and disciplines, and who are at varying stages of their careers, with particular support for emerging, new generation and culturally under-represented artists.
In our efforts to create progressive, inclusive, and engaging forums for critical dialogue, professional development, cultural exchange, and outreach between the contemporary artists and communities we serve, we also presents guest artist lectures; workshops and residencies; site-specific installations and public art projects; social advocacy actions; film and video screenings; multi-disciplinary performance events; and other special projects.
Image: Closing reception of Josinah Makotoko and Ricardo Rodriguez's BIPOC Residency project, Creative Output Theory: Last Call/Misfits Fashion Show, March 9, 2024, photo by Justin Elliott.
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