"Creativity lies within all people and is best expressed through the arts."


  
                                                                               
               
               
About ABS
 
 

 
Louis O'Coffey
David Craig
James Doran
Kim Hung Ho
Deborah Cardinal
Dorothy Loh
Leona Clawson
Scot Berry
Ulrike Rossier

Art By Subscription (ABS)

You’ve probably seen the Nina Haggerty Centre - but do you know who we are and what we do?

We are an arts centre for adults with developmental disabilities, supporting over 130 different artists. By providing people with an opportunity to change their personal narratives from stories about disability into a story about individual creativity and expression, the centre changes lives everyday.

We give a person who often spends most of their life being told what to do and how to do it the opportunity to become a part of a collective of artists like them and use a studio where they become the authority on what to make and how to make it. The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts is an essential component providing real quality of life and helping these artists develop their voices, giving their communities and families a new opportunity to appreciate who they are.

Our collective members are supported by seven practicing professional artists and over 10 volunteers. With the support of the Nina Haggerty Centre of the Arts (NHCA) our artists have travelled and exhibited their work in Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Brazil, the Art Gallery of Alberta, local festivals & libraries.

How can you support these local emerging artists?

Art By Subscription (ABS) is your low-cost opportunity to add unique visual art to your workplace and offer critical financial support to an arts centre that supports this vibrant collective of outsider artists. ABS is about building relationships between you and our collective. We will adapt your subscription to meet your needs; such as room or wall size and colour, and the number the space requires.

A subscription to ABS gives you:

  • One to three pieces of framed original art of your choice.
  • One-on-one consultation for art selection and placement at your location with the Centre’s artistic director, Paul Freeman, MFA. Paul will assess your space, and assemble a portfolio of available work for you to select from, alternately you and Paul can browse through the NHCA archive. Your art will be custom framed, matted, and installed to suit your space and compliment your corporate branding.
  • Refresh your selections: new work can be brought to you every three months.
  • A plaque recognising your generous support of NHCA for your walls; showing citizens and other businesses in the capital city region that you support people and the arts.
  • Additionally we recognise you with visual representation inside our front doors, on our website, at our AGM, and at our annual fundraising gala: Nina’s Cake Walk.
  • Your company will be recognized in our monthly newsletter Nina News, available on our website and is distributed to national media, MP’s, MLA’s and regional politicians, and foundations and boards.

As decor your subscription is 100% tax deductable, individuals & family subscribers will receive a charitable tax receipt. An annual subscription is $1,500.00; additionally we offer the opportunity to purchase multiple subscriptions at a reduced rate.

For more information please contact Jenn Elliott at jennelliott@ninahaggertyart.ca.