{"id":6288,"date":"2010-03-18T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:59:05","slug":"artists-in-the-canadian-urban-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/18\/artists-in-the-canadian-urban-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists in the Canadian 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=\"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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Published by Hill Strategies, and based on data from<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/18\/artists-in-the-canadian-urban-fabric\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Artists in the Canadian urban fabric&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7832],"tags":[147,320,467,283,5092,1014,4880,125,153,5093,979,152,148],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-art-culture","tag-artist","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-hill-strategies-inc","tag-jeanne-mance","tag-marcus-bowman","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-pablo-pecora","tag-queen","tag-toronto","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artists in the Canadian urban fabric - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/18\/artists-in-the-canadian-urban-fabric\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artists in the Canadian urban fabric - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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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