Canadian Community Arts Initiative

  1. To unite artists, critics and persons interested in art and allied and related subjects for fellowship and mutual suppport in promoting common aims and to assert the creative importance of art in the national and community life of Canada.


  2. To promote an improvement in the welfare, recognition and professional standing of practicing artists in the community.


  3. To prote activities which will tend to increase the appreciation, enjoyment and use of art and works of art in Canada.


  4. To promote enquiry into the solution of problems related to the growth of Canadian culture and to stimulate public interest in such matters.


  5. To establish, promote, support and encourage art galleries, museums and other institutions and organizations engaged in activities connected with art and art appreciation.


  6. To assist the coordination and encouragement of activities of groups and individuals tending to furthere the objectives of the Corporation by providing a clearinghouse for information and ideas.


  7. To publish, print, distribute and support books, magazines, pamphlets and publications of all kinds devoted to the interest of arts and artists.


  8. To improve the growth of emergin and established artists through educational activities and programs.


  9. To promote, encourage, give financial assistance to, subscribe to, become a member of and cooperate with societies having similar objectives, in all parts of the world.


  10. To cooperate, with organizations in Canada having similar objectives to those of this Corporation.


  11. To organize, plan, market, produce and hold or participate in events, seminars, conferences, lectures, exhibitions, shows, festivals, workshops and performances relating to or containing any single multidisciplinary or multiple artistic activities including but not limited to visual, performing and literary arts.


  12. To do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the arraignment of the above mentioned objectives.