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 July 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 former location presented accessibility challenges and required 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 through GoFundMe as part of our $200,000 goal to fund essential renovations, including a brand new interior, track lighting, new flooring, archive and library 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 and library storage
- Shelving and new plinths
- Washroom accessibility retrofit
- New accessible front door
- 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
- Digital invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary one-year regular membership*
- Official donation receipt
Emerald Supporter: $100–$499
- Small name placement on donor recognition wall in reception area of the gallery
- Physical and digital invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary three-year VIP membership**
- Official donation receipt
Amethyst Supporter: $500–$999
- Medium name placement on donor recognition wall in reception area of the gallery
- Physical and digital invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary ten-year VIP 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
- Physical and Digital invitations to all main gallery receptions and events
- Complimentary lifetime VIP membership**
- Official donation receipt
* Regular memberships come with:
- Invitation to participate in our annual members’ exhibition
- Invitation to participate in our annual fall sale (DTL)
- Access to members-only events
- Digital invitations to all main gallery exhibitions
- Voting rights at our Annual General Meeting
- 10% off all Artcite merch
** VIP memberships come with:
- Invitation to participate in our annual members’ exhibition
- Invitation to participate in our annual fall sale (DTL)
- Invitation to participate in our exhibition selection process
- Access to members-only events
- Physical and digital invitations to all main gallery exhibitions
- Voting rights at our Annual General Meeting
- 10% off all Artcite merch
Note: Member perks will kick in when we reopen in July 2025, and last for one year from that date. Member cards will begin mailing in mid-June.
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.
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