Yellowknife Artist-Run Community Centre

Yellowknife Artist-Run Community Centre (now a ‘centre-less centre’) was founded in 2011 by a group of like-minded friends who wanted to see contemporary art thrive in the Northwest Territories. Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre is a non-profit organization facilitating the production and presentation of Yellowknife and Northwest Territories artwork. It brings artists and art organizations together and encourages collaboration. Our mission is to inspire and nurture expression through the presentation, production, and interpretation of multidisciplinary art forms for the benefit of the community. Our vision is a community where individuals are empowered to create positive change through art. Our goals are to provide a venue for arts practice and non-commercial exhibition of arts; to provide a forum for networking and collaboration between artists, art organizations and the community; to stimulate/foster community development through diverse art practices. Over the years, YK ARCC’s dedicated volunteers have facilitated unique and dynamic programming (shows, house concerts, workshops, symposiums, public art sculptures, residencies) while facing the challenges of artist-run centres everywhere; (peaks and valleys of funding, etc) and a few challenges particular to the North (prohibitive rental rates, transient population). In August 2019 the Yellowknife Artist-Run Community Centre established the Art Gallery of NWT—a mobile gallery as a solution to the lack of non-commercial exhibition space in Yellowknife and the Territory at large. The gallery is made from a converted cargo trailer, designed to take art across the city and on the road. We showcase northern talent (& occasionally a visiting artist) and we bring art to the people!