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Lending Library Donation Drive: 2025

Calling all packrats! Do you have any art supplies, books, or magazines gathering dust in the corner of your studio? Did you inherit a collection that you’ll never get to using? Did you buy a giant floor loom thinking that this was the year you’d finally get into weaving only to leave it untouched for half a decade? 

If this oddly specific scenario (or the more general one) applies to you, keep reading!

ArtsLink NB is organizing our second annual donation drive for the lending library! Our lending library provides members with free rentals of books and equipment to help their artistic careers. We have over 700 books and 50 pieces of equipment, but we’re looking to expand.

We are looking for donations of new or gently used:

? Documentation equipment (cameras, lights, tripods, recorders, etc)
? Presentation equipment (screens, projectors, speakers, microphones)
? Creation equipment (easels, presses, light tables, paper cutters, etc)
? Books about art theory, technique or history
? Books about business
? Exhibition catalogues for New Brunswick or Canadian exhibitions
? Books by local publishers
? Books about or by New Brunswick artists

Our drop-off days are as follows (from 10 am to 4 pm each day):

Please fill out the donation form below if you plan donate.

The ArtsLink NB Community Studio

The ArtsLink Community Studio is a flex space that can be booked by members free-of-charge for use as a short-term workspace, studio, meeting, or event space.

This initiative responds directly to member feedback which, across disciplines, outlines a lack of adequate studio spaces to create, rehearse, and share work.

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Early-Career Artists Survey

ArtsLink NB is conducting some sectoral research to help inform our future programming.

We are hoping to hear from artists of all disciplines who are 29 years of age or under, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could assist us by either taking the survey if you fit the target demographic or distributing this survey to those who do. 

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Statement from ArtsLink NB on Status of the Artist Legislation

More than two dozen artists, arts and culture workers, and politicians in a group photo on the steps of the NB legislature.
Supporters of the Status of the Artist Act gather on the steps of the New Brunswick Legislature for an historic photo. In the front row (left to right) are Jean-Pierre Caissie, Executive Director of artsnb; Amy Ash, Associate Director of ArtsLink NB; Robert Gauvin, Minister of Public Safety; Julie Whitenect, Executive Director of ArtsLink NB; Senator René Cormier; Premier Susan Holt; Carmen Gibbs, Executive Director of AAAPNB; Jean-Philippe Raîche, President of AAAPNB; Isabelle Thériault, Minister of Tourism Heritage and Culture; Philippe Beaulieu, Past President of AAAPNB; and Tara Francis, Mawi’Art Board Chair.)
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