We are so lucky! Partners in Art are ‘game-shifters’. They have adopted the contemporary art scene, raising critical dollars with ever chic style and strategic savvy. PIA enables organizations such as OCAD, MOCCA, The Power Plant (the list goes on) to flourish..and with their leverage..to support an exchange of ideas, the internationalization of the Toronto scene and new commissions. Thank-you Partners in Art– you are extreme philanthropists.
- Sara Diamond, OCAD President
Partners in Art makes an extraordinary contribution to the aesthetic culture of our community by being true partners with leading edge arts organizations and helping them to realize and communicate new ideas. PIA is an enlightened and enlightening group of patrons!
- Gail Dexter Lord, Co-President Lord Cultural Resources
Partners in Art, a savvy patron group, has made its name as a major player by providing key support for art initiatives in the city. The group reflects a shift away from conventional volunteerism and toward a new model of patron engagement based on proactive involvement.
- Ann Webb
The very name “Partners in Art” embodies a spirit of active collaboration towards the creation of culture-an objective that is also at the core of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s mandate and mission. The efforts of PIA have been key in supporting the success and advancement of MOCCA’s artistic and operational vision.
- David Liss, MOCCA Artistic Director and Curator
PIA understands and promotes the necessary element of collaboration for the creation and support of modern art in Canada. Its efforts have positively benefitted countless artists and cultural organizations since 2002. We all owe our gratitude to this important organization- a worthy recipient of the 2013 MOCCA award.
- Gilles Ouellette, President and CEO, Private Client Group, BMO Financial Group
Having had the privilege of collaborating with PIA over the years, and having witnessed its impact in the city since 2002, there can be no doubt that this is a most unique organization, deeply committed to a dynamic cutting-edge vision for the arts in Canada – a vision that continually pushes the envelope while facilitating artistic excellence, critical thought, shared experiences and learning, inclusivity and dialogue – some of the elements that are essential for a pluralist,open minded,civil society.
- Doina Popescu, Founding Director, Ryerson Image Centre
Partners in Art, a savvy patron group, has made its name as a major player by providing key support for art initiatives in the city. The group reflects a shift away from conventional volunteerism and toward a new model of patron engagement based on proactive involvement.
- Ann Webb
The deep collegiality and flexibility Partners in Art has instilled to their ambitious project is already promising for the definition of a collective future through the means of art and it might even draw a model for what a 21st century art institution should be.
- Anne-Marie Ninacs, independent researcher and curator, Professor of Fine Arts at the Universite du Quebec
PIA is a visionary group. Its initiatives in contemporary art in Toronto have been a major boost to the city and to contemporary art in Canada. With astute and critically engaged observation, the group has been able to redefine not only the scope but also significance of private financial support for contemporary art. The commitment to sustaining a long-term vision is especially laudable: with their educational mandate the group builds continuous renewal and expansion into its every endeavour. Its support and outreach work is not only creating greater access and better reach of contemporary art with the ecology of Canadian culture, but it is also giving contemporary art institutions in this country a whole new platform and forms of leverage in the international context.
- Barbara Fischer, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, U of T
L’esprit de collégialité et la flexibilité remarquables dont fait preuve Partners in Art dans son ambitieux projet donnent déjà espoir pour la construction d’un avenir commun grâce à l’art et pourraient même constituer un modèle de ce que devrait être une institution artistique au 21e siècle.
- ANNE-MARIE NINACS, CHERCHEURE ET COMMISSAIRE INDÉPENDANTE, PROFESSEURE À L'ÉCOLE DES ARTS VISUELS ET MÉDIATIQUES DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL
“Working with Partners In Art has made so many things possible for Gallery TPW. Through commissioning new works, PIA’s support allows us to have longerterm conversations with artists and audiences, enabling us to collaboratively work on all stages of a project, from research through creation, presentation, and education. Aside from the generous provision of financial resources, PIA’s unique form of support importantly includes a level passion, deep inquiry and trust which creates the conditions for the generation of new ideas and bold vision to be realized. PIA’s sustained investment in a diversity of Toronto’s arts organizations has helped to create new relationships and expanded communities amongst us, linking the local to the national and international in ways that truly create shifts in how we can understand this arts ecology. For our organization, and surely for the cultural life of the city of Toronto as a whole, the impact of the work of PIA cannot be overstated.”
- Kim Simon Curator, Gallery TPW
The LandMarks project is a brave and necessary venture.
- Robert Enright, C.M. Research Professor, University of Guelph and Contributing Editor of Border Crossings magazine, Winnipeg, MB
LandMarks2017 is a truly visionary project, one that has never been attempted before. When it succeeds, this national project will be a model for the world.
- Susan Stewart, Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr, Vancouver, BC
