Investing in the Arts

Over the past few weeks, I've been brewing some thoughts on what alternatives we have access to as an arts organization and cultural producer under the broader narrative driving the arts closer to business activities—entrepreneurship, social impact, investment, and job creation. Yet, unlike business activities, the arts in Canada face a narrowing market of known audiences and buyers, with very little means to develop new ones.

This dispatch is part 1 of a 3-part series of notes on challenges emerging from the question of how artists make money in the Canadian context.