{"id":3889,"date":"2010-03-18T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:25:48","slug":"canadian-artists-in-the-urban-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/03\/18\/canadian-artists-in-the-urban-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian artists in the urban fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2094\/1675349009_8c1280e36f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Marcus Bowman, cross-posted  from <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2010\/03\/17\/artists-in-the-canadian-urban-fabric\/\">Spacing  Toronto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An unprecedented collaborative report  mapping the concentration of  artists in Canadian cities was released  last month. The study was a  result of the collective effort of the  cultural departments of the  cities of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto,  Calgary and Vancouver. Published by  Hill Strategies, and based on data  from the 2006 census, the report  paints a fascinating picture into the  make-up of Canada&#8217;s artistic and  creative communities.<\/p>\n<p>Each  city\u00a0 has its own trends in the way its artistic and creative   communities have located. Vancouver had the highest overall percent of   artists at 2.3% but has its artistic community spread widely throughout   the city. Toronto has by far the largest artistic community; it is home   to one in six Canadian artists. Toronto has also seen its artistic   neighbourhoods shift slightly since to 2001 to different areas of   concentration. Montreal has perhaps the most densely located artistic   community and is home to three of the country&#8217;s top five artistic   employment postal codes. The Montreal neighbourhood of the H2T postal   code (northward from avenue du Mont-Royal to avenue Van Horne between   St-Denis and Jeanne-Mance) is the most artistic in Canada with artists   accounting for 7.8% of its workers, ten times the national average.   Ottawa and Calgary have artist concentrations closer to the national   average, interestingly they also both have the largest income gaps   between artists and the rest of the workforce and the largest percent of   female artists. Maps of these trends are shown below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s artist neighbourhoods remain largely  concentrated as an  axis along rue St Denis with many established  communities continuing to  see their share of artists increase. Other  areas of growth included the  old port and Saint-Gabriel. Ottawa and  Calgary have artist communities  tightly located around their downtowns  while Toronto and Vancouver have  artistic areas concentrated around the  periphery of their downtowns. In  Toronto particularly, neighbourhoods  of artistic concentration are  located in pockets directly east and west  of the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2712\/4385208592_1218692b40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4385208838_873a05bba1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Maps showing artist  concentrations in Montreal (top) and the ten  highest concentrated  artist neighbourhoods (below)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Montreal had the top two  highest concentration areas of artists, both  adjoining in the plateau  neighbourhood. The Toronto neighbourhood of  Parkdale was third, Old  Montreal fourth, and the West Queen West area  fifth. The north Annex  neighbourhood fell from Toronto&#8217;s highest artist  concentrated  neighbourhood in 2001 to the city&#8217;s fourth most  concentrated area; the  sixth highest concentration in the country. The  only neighbourhood in  the top ten outside of Montreal or Toronto was  Vancouver&#8217;s Grandview  neighbourhood, centred around Commercial Dr, with  an artist  concentration of 5.1%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4385208666_23b78e297a_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2716\/4384447457_7803520940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Toronto showing overall  concentrations above and the 10 highest  neighbourhoods below<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The  report makes clear that the creative sector of the Canadian  workforce  is largely found in the country&#8217;s major urban centres. The  five cities  mentioned\u00a0 account for 38% professional artists while  representing only  21% of the total Canadian workforce. While the overall  workforce is  0.8% composed of artists, the country&#8217;s larger cities  consistently meet  or exceed this. Also of note, artists in Montreal,  Toronto and  Vancouver have a much lower earnings gap between artists and  the rest  of the workforce, standing at around -36% as compared -52%  nationally.  Across the country no city experienced a significant change  in artist  concentration as a percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/4385208624_dcd04411fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ottawa&#8217;s neighbourhoods,  Ottawa has a lower artist population for a  large city, similar to  Calgary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2774\/4384447271_3595fdcc00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The 10 neighbourhoods with  the highest concentration of artists in  Calgary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4385208816_5452619638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vancouver has the most spread  out artistic community,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4385208772_cc11621999.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> Vancouver&#8217;s 10 highest  artist concentrated neighbourhoods follow  the trend of being on the  periphery of downtown<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Pablo Pecora, maps by Hill  Strategies Inc <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marcus Bowman, cross-posted from Spacing Toronto An unprecedented collaborative report mapping the concentration of artists in Canadian cities was released last month. 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