The Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Arts Access a Community

Arts Initiative

 What is Arts Access?
Arts Access is a community arts initiative designed to increase public involvement with art through a broad range of community–driven creative projects. Arts Access originally involved a partnership between art galleries in four municipalities, including Toronto, Thunder Bay, Brantford/Six Nations and Kitchener Waterloo.
A defining characteristic of Arts Access is that it involves professional artists working as the facilitators of community art projects. These artists not only provide skills and expertise, but they also provide a vital link between community and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.  Within the context of Arts Access it is the artists role to build relationships, lead workshops, organize exhibitions, connect public and community collections.
 
 Thunder Bay Projects
Below we have listed our projects:
“Big Boreal Adventure – Get Out and Go” – drawing frenzy event / creation of plaques for posts. Little Lions Daycare, City of Thunder Bay and other community partners
Dilico – front hall mural project with students
CDHowe School – ‘Water is Life’ – large painted mural in gym.
The Waking Rock – book project with St Josephs and a local home school group.
The Overpass Gallery - St. James School and The City of Thunder Bay
Making Memories, An Intergenerational Art Show – Alzheimer’s Society
Roseview Manor - Painted Door Project
Monty Parks - Community Living Thunder Bay
 Biidaajiwun Community Health Center,
Kan-Ni-Chi and The Thunder Bay Children’s Center- The “Shooting Gallery” photography project
Gron Morgan School- “Tolerance and Peace” - mural
Short-Term Assessment & Treatment Center in partnership with Northern Womens Bookstore
Eleanor Drury Children’s Theater
Gilles- “Art Attack”
McKitrick- Creighton Youth Center
Action for Neighbourhood Change- Spoken Word
Thunder Bay Public Libraries
 Versa Care
 
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*Note : The Waking Rock book is in it’s second printing and available at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery and Chapters.

 

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