Brokering & Collaboration
Connecting artists and community in projects that fuel growth and innovation, and revitalize places.
Our Services
Alliances with the arts can help invigorate your team, connect the community to your brand, and contribute to our thriving, modern province.
We are the go-to resource in Newfoundland and Labrador for organizations looking to collaborate with artists. Contact us if you need help engaging an artist for:
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Live entertainment
Locally-made Christmas card orders
Custom staff, customer, or thank you gifts
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Sharing your space for a short time, testing out a new artist-led workshop
Hiring entertainment
Conference support: entertainment, workshops, movement breaks, and more
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Artist-led team building, creativity workshops,
Public speaking coaching
Hiring actors for simulations and staff training
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Public art
Artist residencies
Design collaboration
Recent Partnerships & Projects
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Vessela Brakalova
Marc Fiset
Ian Gillies
Robert Hengeveld
Julie Lewis
Kevin-Barry Martin
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City of St. John’s
The Inn by Mallard Cottage
Quidi Vidi Artisan Studios
Quidi Vidi Brewery
The Wharf
Leaman Signs
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To add outdoor public artworks as another element to entice foot traffic down to explore and enjoy all that Quidi Vidi Village has to offer.
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St. John’s International Airport Authority
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To enhance travellers’ sense of arrival in Newfoundland as soon as they step off the plane.
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MINI St. John’s
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To create a mobile piece of public artwork that helped bring attention to the new 2023 MINI Countryman, and helped advertise Business and Arts NL’s Explore Art NL public art app.
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Up to twelve municipalities will have the opportunity to host an artist residency or commission a mural to celebrate the Year of the Arts.
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This project is a partnership between Municipalities NL and Business and Arts NL.
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To engage citizens, local businesses, and tourists in performances, workshops, artist talks, and open studio events
To foster the creation of works of public art in community centres
To reinforce community centres as important locations for human connection and building community identity.
To feature twelve artists, creators, and painters from across the province.
NL Health Services, Department of Health and Community Services
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This work will create the opportunity for over 100 artists to have artwork purchased or commissioned and displayed in mental health inpatient units across the province.
The most significant amount of artwork will be in the new Mental Health and Addictions Centre in St. John’s.
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Honour the voices of individuals and family members’ experiences with mental illness and substance use disorders
Actively incorporate the perspectives of Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, disability and migrant perspectives
Increase visual connections to land, place, nature and/or human experience as a means of stress and aggression reduction
Connect staff, patients and visitors within the facility to images of life and communities across the province
Foster dialogue and knowledge exchange
Engage the community at large and promote these facilities as a space that promotes the integration between arts, science, and wellness
Enhance the hospital experience with the healing power of art
Interpret the sensory and restorative aspects of the natural world
Some works will acknowledge the history of Mental Health and Addictions treatment in NL
Be of high quality
Make the hospital environment feel less institutional