Organization

The reputation of the RCAAQ, founded in 1986, is based on an expertise of over 20 years in Contemporary Art. Over the years, it has become the meeting point of a network of some sixty artist-run centers and cultural organizations from all over the province of Quebec. It represents an interest community of over 2 250 professional artists and cultural workers. Each year, this network produces over 800 activities including exhibitions, performances, publications and symposiums. It also offers a program of continuing professional education for cultural workers and professional artists. All this activity generates over 350 000 visitors and participants per year.

RCAAQ Staff

Lucie Bureau, Jean Lalonde, Bastien Gilbert, Mathieu Gouin, Annie Gauthier

Board of Directors

The RCAAQ is administered by a 9 person board of directors. Three members of this board represent the Montreal region, two represent the Quebec City region and the remaining four the other Quebec regions. The board of directors is elected yearly. The current board was elected in November 6th 2008.

President

Vice-President

Treasurer

Geneviève Matteau has been an artist as well as an administrator of cultural organizations and artistic events for over seven years. She is the director of the Praxis art actuel artist-run center since 2005. She is active as an RCAAQ board member, as well as being a founding member of Viva ! art action and involved with Comité Relève.Entrepreneuriale Jeunesse de la Chambre de Commerce Thérèse-De Blainville (CCITB). She is also a member of Les arts et la Ville, le Réseau muséal des Laurentides and the Conseil de la culture des Laurentides. 

Secretary

Sylvie Côté is the administrative coordinator of Éditions Intervention, an umbrella organization consisting of Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, la Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec (RIAP) and the Inter, art actuel journal. She holds a BA specialized in political science and a certificate in business administration and public communication. She has been part of the RCAAQ board of directors as a representative of the Quebec City region since November 2007 and is a member of its executive committee, as secretary, since January 2008.

 Sylvie Côté

Administrator

Anne Bertrand obtained her diploma in visual arts from the University of Ottawa in 1986 after studies in ancient languages and literature. Since then she has been working in visual arts administration first at Artexte from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2001 to 2004, after a very fruitful foray of several years into the private and community sectors. In 2004 she became the administrative coordinator of Skol and since 2005 its artistic coordinator. She is particularly interested in the recognition of the specificity of the skills of visual artists as well as their economic development. As an artist she produces assemblages composed from materials found in her everyday life which are chosen for their shapes, colors and rhythmical patterns.

Anne Bertrand

Administrator

Born in Switzerland, Catherine Bodmer holds a degree from l'École des Beaux-arts de Lucerne (CH) and an MFA from UQÀM. From 1999 to 2002 she was the artistic coordinator of La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, and since 2004 she is the artistic coordinator of Articule. In 2003 she coordinated the Tiré à part / Off Printing symposium. Her artistic practice includes installations, in-situ works, photographs and digital images exploring the notion of physical and imaginary spaces as well as the position of the individual within these spaces. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, Mexico and Taiwan. In 2008 she received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in photography.

Catherine Bodmer

Administrator

Virginie Chrétien is the director of the Centre d’artistes Caravansérail (Rimouski) since 2008. Particularly interested in issues concerning artistic practice in a regional context, her own artistic work in visual arts focuses on production within artist residencies, in-situ interventions and multidisciplinary approaches (installation, performance, writing, drawing). Born in the Gaspésie region, she completed a BFA at Laval University and an MFA at UQAC. She was the vice-president of the board of directors of Espace Virtuel (Chicoutimi) from 2006 to 2008. She is also on the board of directors of the Coopérative de Solidarité Paradis de Rimouski.

Virginie Chrétien

Administrator

Born in Quebec City, Caroline Flibotte holds a BFA from Laval University. From 1998 to 2001 she was assistant coordinator of l’Œil de Poisson and assistant director of the Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec from 2001 to 2005. She is the director of l’Œil de Poisson since January 2005.

Caroline Flibotte

Administrator

Sébastien Harvey is currently the director of Espace Virtuel in Chicoutimi. He holds an interdisciplinary BFA in Art. He was one of the founding members of the Saguenay collective 3REG (exploring the concept of production under constraint) where he was involved as a board member from 2002 to 2006. He hosts a program on contemporary art in the artist-run center network on Radio-Canada radio in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. His film work has been presented in the Saguenay, in Quebec City and in Montreal.

Sébastien Harvey

Financial partners

The RCAAQ wishes to particularly thank the CDEC Plateau Mont-Royal Centre-Sud for its financial support of this Web portal. It also wishes to note the important contributions to our organization and our activities from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Conseil des Arts du Canada, the Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en culture, and the ministère de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité sociale du Québec.