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:

  • Live entertainment

    Locally-made Christmas card orders

    Custom staff, customer, or thank you gifts

  • Sharing your space for a short time, testing out a new artist-led workshop

    Hiring entertainment

    Conference support: entertainment, workshops, movement breaks, and more

  • Artist-led team building, creativity workshops,

    Public speaking coaching

    Hiring actors for simulations and staff training

  • Public art

    Artist residencies

    Design collaboration


Recent Partnerships & Projects

  • Up to twelve municipalities will have the opportunity to host an artist residency or commission a mural to celebrate the Year of the Arts.

  • This project is a partnership between Municipalities NL and Business and Arts NL.

  • 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.

    Read more:

    Spotlight on Our Creative Home with Municipalities NL and Business & Arts NL

NL Health Services, Department of Health and Community Services

  • 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.

  • Department of Health and Community Services

    NL Health Services

    Health Care Foundation

  • 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

  • Vessela Brakalova

    Marc Fiset

    Ian Gillies

    Robert Hengeveld

    Julie Lewis

    Kevin-Barry Martin

  • City of St. John’s

    The Inn by Mallard Cottage

    Quidi Vidi Artisan Studios

    Quidi Vidi Brewery

    The Wharf

    Leaman Signs

  • 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.

  • MINI St. John’s

  • 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.

  • St. John’s International Airport Authority

  • To enhance travellers’ sense of arrival in Newfoundland as soon as they step off the plane.

  • Genesis St. John’s

  • Showcase the new Genesis GV80, advertise Business & Arts NL’s Explore Art NL public art app, and build on Genesis St. John’s reputation as a creative, community-engaged brand. 


Contact Us

We can support your collaboration, whether that means simply making an introduction, facilitating the full arc of a commissioning process, or co-creating something entirely new. Don’t be afraid to reach out!

info@businessandartsnl.com