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Arts Patronage Activity
Visit the Canada Council web site at www.canadacouncil.ca
How does Canada Council support artists?
How would you apply for a grant for your art project?
Do you think it is important that Canadian artists be supported by
their Federal and local governments?
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Mosaics in Fountain of Centennial Square, Victoria, BC, 1962
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Find
an example of public art in your community. This could be a sculpture,
mural, wall hanging, garden landscape or many other things.
Who created this art?
Is it someone from your community?
Who is the patron?
Was the art a gift?
Part of a corporation's office building?
Part of a park or school?
How would your environment be different if there were more art objects
around you? Less?
Does art have to be something like painting or sculpture? What about
graffiti? Is that public art? Do people commission grafitti?
Visit the web
site of your municipality (try typing in the name of your City Hall
or even your public library's web site).
Can you find out anything about art in your community?
Does your town, city or province have an "Arts Act" or "Culture
Act" to support the arts?
Artists
often worked for the courts, creating manuscripts, paintings,
architecture and other works of art for kings and emperors. In
the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, the guild system grew
in Europe. People would enter training as apprentices to masters
in their fields, living in distinct quarters of their towns. Guilds
were set up for sculptors, builders, painters, weavers, potters
and others in the arts, in addition to the guilds for bakers,
brewers, cobblers and all types of merchants. This site explains
the guild system.
Guild
Hall
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Are there guilds
today?
Would artists and patrons benefit from a guild system in Canada?
Read what Bill Porteous and Jack Wise had to say about artists working
in our society.
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
Were the arts produced by guild members inspired by their society?
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