To celebrate the Year of the Arts in 2024, Business & Arts NL worked with Municipalities NL to encourage art commissions and projects across the province.

Our role included:

• Program design, planning, and implementation

• Supporting program communications and outreach

• Co-hosting public information sessions for prospective participants

• Designing a submission process that was simple and accessible

• Collaborating on the selection process

• Designing resources (including MOU templates, artist contract recommendations, communications strategy support and more) for project participants

• Working directly with each participating municipality to design Calls for Submissions, circulate calls to the arts community, assist with selection process, and artist contracting.

The result? Vibrant artworks sparking conversations in public spaces across the province, communities engaged in creative activities, and fourteen artists with 4 - 35 years’ experience each connecting to fresh opportunities and new audiences from Gaultois, to Englee, to Cartwright.