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April 22nd, 2009
Gallery Gachet’s Out of the Rain
Salient is pleased to announce our support of Gallery Gachet’s ‘Out of the Rain’ program.
As artists’ work space is at an all time low in Vancouver, we were pleased to support the program with subsidized work space at street level of our newly completed Flack Block at the corner of Hastings and Cambie. Participants will now have a consistent, dedicated space in which to create artwork for exhibition at Gallery Gachet June 5-28.
Initiated in 2005, the Out of the Rain program is an evolving unique initiative that brings together professional and marginalized artists to promote genuine solutions to homelessness, as well as develop new methods of art production, sustainable art practice, life stability planning, and dissemination. Special emphasis is working closely with those artists who face significant challenges (mental health, housing, addiction, poverty) to maintaining and sustaining a regular art practice but who, in the face of these challenges, persevere to make art as a means of survival and self-expression.
The Coordinators are also working to identify potential retail and internet art sales
opportunities, and researching and exploring alternative funding sources and potential partnerships to support the program’s sustainability.
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