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              6 Archival description results for Artist run centres

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              C011 · Collection · 1972-2014, predominant 1972-1974

              Collection consists of materials accumulated by Margaret Griffin and Clara Gutsche, mostly relating to the founding and first exhibition of Powerhouse Gallery, now La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. Items also document The Flaming Apron craft store, and various exhibitions held at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. This collection contains items created by Margaret Griffin, Leslie Busch, Billie-Joe Mericle, and Stansje Plantenga, founding members of Powerhouse Gallery. Materials in this collection are primarily dated 1972-1974, with select documents dated 2001 and 2004. Some documents were annotated by Margaret Griffin and Clara Gutsche in 2014.

              Materials documenting the establishment and history of Powerhouse Gallery include: correspondence, newspaper clippings, proposals, descriptions, timelines, publications, posters, slides, negatives, a leaflet, a drawing, a paintings, and clothing. These materials primarily concern the Gallery’s first exhibition, Windows: From the Inside Out: Painting, Photography, Ceramic and Sculpture (1973), presented at 1210 Greene Avenue in Westmount, Quebec. Items also document various exhibitions held at Powerhouse Gallery and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, including: Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia (1974), The Past to the Present (2001), and Powerhouse: Where are we now? (2001). Materials concerning the activities of The Flaming Apron, a craft store in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, include: clothing, ceramics, and a newsletter. This collection also contains La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse publications, including Women’s Bookworks (1979) and Les Centrelles (2004), as well as items related to art and artist run centers in Canada.

              Collection is divided into 3 series:
              C011/A. Powerhouse Gallery/La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
              C011/B. The Flaming Apron
              C011/C. Art in Canada

              Griffin, Margaret
              Gail Bourgeois fonds
              P179 · Fonds · 1983-2002

              The materials relate primarily to Gail Bourgeois’ work as curator of the exhibitions “amour-horreur”, taking place at La Centrale Gallery, Montreal, in 1999, and “Powerhouse: Who We Are Now”, at the McClure Gallery, Westmount, Quebec in 2001. The fonds also documents other implications of Gail Bourgeois at La Centrale.

              The fond includes without limitations correspondence, submissions, newspaper clippings, publicity, photographs, and posters.

              Bourgeois, Gail
              Véhicule Press fonds
              P071 · Fonds · 1972-1998

              The fonds provides information on the editing and publishing work of Véhicule Press.

              The fonds consists of manuscripts, published and bound books, and publicity materials; production materials including correspondence, pamphlets, layouts and sketches for covers, printing templates, printing quotes, typescripts, page proofs with corrections, editors' and authors' notes, biographies of authors, curricula vitae, pictures of various authors and agendas; and posters and post cards that were printed for the Véhicule Art gallery.

              Véhicule Press
              La Centrale fonds
              P128 · Fonds · 1971-2013

              The fonds provides information on the administration, programming, and activities of La Centrale. It covers the gallery’s development from its beginnings in 1973 until 2013. The fonds documents the gallery’s history, as well as its role in the Montreal art scene. In addition to events and exhibitions, the fonds includes documentation concerning the Mois de la performance, Viva!, the Mois de la photographie, and HTMlles, and other Montreal-based events. It also contains biographical information on a significant number of artists based around the world.

              The fonds contains a wide variety of documents, including but not limited to, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, press clippings, publications, artists’ CVs, correspondence, photographs, posters and other publicity, programs, audio recordings and moving images, contracts, financial records, and objects.

              The fonds is organized into the following series:

              P128/A. Administration
              P128/B. Financial Records
              P128/C. Programming
              P128/D. Communications
              P128/E. Artists and Events
              P128/F. Publications
              P128/G. External Relations
              P128/H. Facilities Management
              P128/I. Legal Affairs
              P128/J. Membership
              P128/K. Human Resources
              P128/L. Surveys

              La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
              Optica Art Gallery fonds
              P056 · Fonds · 1971-1996

              The fonds provides information on the administration and activities of the Optica Gallery from its beginning in 1972 to 1996.

              The fonds contains such documents as exhibition programs, artists' curricula vitae and portfolios, audiovisual works from exhibitions, personnel and financial records, grants applications, and correspondence.

              The fonds is organized according to the following series :
              P056/1 Finances
              P056/2 Organization
              P056/3 Human resources
              P056/4 Programming
              P056/5 Exhibitions and activities

              Optica Art Gallery