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Mission

To curate spaces, utilizing art and creativity, where the country can participate in public conversations of national interest.

Vision

A Canada that comes to know itself through its artists.

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The Institute
The Public Arts Institute of Canada is a federally incorporated non-profit organization.

With Love, Canada
Our flagship exhibition series is built around a single question: What does Canada mean to you? Each exhibition gathers local artists to the hosting city, across a wide variety disciplines, asking them to present works rooted in this question. Creating exhibition environments that encourage interaction and participation from the audience, using the art to guide conversations. Visitors don't just look at the work, they answer back. Every show adds new voices, new work, and a growing public record of how the country responds. The goal is one million answers, gathered through at least one exhibition in every province and territory, shaped by a wide range of artists who each bring something the conversation would be poorer without.

Canada is still reckoning with its past, whilst simatenously learning the distances and common ground between the people who share it. Those conversations are rarely easy, and art is one of the few places they can happen honestly. Providing a forum for respectful public debate rather than a lecture. We treat this as a project of national importance. This honest, thought-provoking reflection of what this country is, and what it could be, belongs to everyone in it.