Study : Employment standards within our network

In the fall of 2009, in collaboration with our colleagues from the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA), ARCA conducted a survey of working conditions in the artist-run centres’ network. The results of this study, the first of its kind on the national level, were intended to help workers of artist-run centres better communicate their needs to employers and funders in order to improve their work conditions and remuneration. The goal of this study was also to address the chronic high turnover of staff that uselessly undermines artist-run centres by depriving them of experienced human resources. Get full report here (PDF)