This report was intended as a backgrounder for the September 2013 Canadian Public Arts Funders (CPAF) Visual Arts Professional Development Meeting and was later updated with data from Statistics Canada released in 2014. The report is based on data from CADAC (Canadian Arts Data / Données sur les arts au Canada), a web‐based system which has now been in place for four and a half years and is beginning to provide a rich source of reliable data on almost 2,000 Canadian arts organizations. CADAC includes data for organizations receiving an operating grant (annual or multi‐year) from one or more arts funders who are members of CADAC.
The financial and statistical data from 2007‐08 to 2012‐13, used in this report, provides funders with a means to monitor and analyze the finances and activities of significant components of the arts landscape in Canada. CADAC enables monitoring of visual arts trends such as exhibitions/screenings, attendance, artists fees, membership, programming costs, financial health, revenue generation, arts education, community arts engagement, professional development and use of technology to disseminate exhibitions. Overall, the Canadian visual arts ecology supports the creation and production of art, public access to works of art and sales of art.
Research and Evaluation Section, Canada Council for the Arts, March 2014
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The Visual Arts Landscape in Canada As Seen Through CADAC, 2011‐12 - Full Report (PDF 669 KB)