Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association

Incorporated in May, 2005 as a non-profit society, Other Sights operates as a collective of Vancouver-based individuals with expertise in curation, project management, presentation, delivery and promotion of temporary art projects in public spaces. Other Sights is dedicated to challenging perceptions, encouraging discourse and promoting individual perspectives about shared social spaces. Other Sights seeks to create a presence for art in spaces and sites that are accessible to a broad public, such as the built environment, communications technologies, the media, and the street.

Operating outside of the gallery context, Other Sights develops new and unexpected exhibition platforms and provides support to artists, writers and curators interested in creating temporary, critically rigorous work for highly visible locations. We collaborate and share resources with organizations and individuals in order to present projects that consider the aesthetic, economic and regulatory conditions of public places and public life.

Board Members

Patrik Andersson, Lorna Brown, Clint Burnham, Colin Griffiths, Vanessa Kwan, Marko Simcic, and Jen Weih.

Staff

Barbara Cole, Executive Director

Interns

Elisa Yon, 2011; Karen Garrett de Luna, 2010; Holly Schmidt, 2009; Kate Sansom, 2008

Past Co-op Students

Lance Cardinal, Tony Charlie, Tom Hsu, Sanghyun Samuel Kim, Bahador Saray Sorour, Sarah Storteboom, Chelsea Trousdell, Shuai Zhao

Thank You

Other Sights operates on a project to project basis. Over the years we have been extremely grateful for the support from our members, funders, project partners and co-presenters, donors, and volunteers.

Funders

British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Canon Community Urban Agriculture Fund, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, and Vancouver Park Board Neighbourhood Matching Fund.

Project Partners and Co-presenters

Artspeak Gallery, Bonnis Media CoreVision, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Creekside Community Recreation Centre, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Environmental Youth Alliance, Gardeners without Borders, JJ Bean, Langara College Centre for Art in Public Spaces, Museum of Anthropology, Patch, Pendulum Gallery, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Design Nerds, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Vancouver Master Gardeners (affiliated with VanDusen Gardens), and the Vancouver Public Library.

Other Sights is pleased to be a member of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC). Visit ArcPost, an online resource for artist run culture.

Donors

Bob, Eric Deis Studio, Exchange-A-Blade, Home Depot, James and Daniel, Katherine, Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere, Lamoureux Architects, Landon Mackenzie, Sheila Mackenzie, Millennium Development Group, Origins Coffee Roastery, PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc, Roberts & Stahl Barristers and Solicitors, Second City Printing, The Model Shop, The Pallet Guy, and Yardworks.

Volunteers

Neudis Abreu, John Armitage, Emma Artis, Matthew Ballantyne, Chloe Bennett, Meaghan Buckley-Pearson, Stewart Burgess, Neil Chung, Kim Cooper, Gabe Daly, Ocean Dionne, Stephanie Doerksen, Louis Douesnard, Ekias, Gallop Fan, Gendreau, Sherry Gilbank, Lyndl Hall, Janet Hamilton, Helene, Henry, Kent Houston, Leslie Ann Ingram, Gerald Joe, Valerie Halpin Jones, Emmi Jormalainen, Tero Juuti, Maria Keating, James Kemp, Lois Klassen, Christian Kliegel, Alicia Medina Laddaga, Nigel Laing, Mike Levenston, Liz Lowacki, Maurizio Lozano, Kevin Lui, David MacWilliam, Anne Maisonneuve, Ariann Mangas, Chad Manley, Moshe Mastai, Dave Mason, Joanne McDonald, Dianne McNair, Alexander McNaughton, Stephanie Mauer, Pablo, Kristina Parusel, Patricia Phulijen, Catherine Pulkinghorn, Emilio Rojas, Maia Rowan, Holly Schmidt, Michael Schwartz, Stef St. Loe, Christine Strauss, Mike Taylor, Chelsea Trousdell, Julie Wall, Sandy Wang, Nikki White, Steve Williams, Antoni Wojtyra, Desmond Wong, Carol Zhang, and Michael Zife.