Bay of Quinte MPP Todd Smith announced Ontario Trillium Foundation funding for Quinte Arts Council on December 3, 2021 which is allowing the council to rebrand and create a new website and app. (Photo: Alana Cameron/Quinte News)
“Artist members actually get a web page on the site and we are hosting workshops, professional development workshops through the site. We have their art on the site. Anybody who has an art-related event going on puts it on our events site and then we push it out through the site.”
It has been about 15 years since the council’s last rebranding.
“So we really feel like, since March of 2020, we’ve had to refocus. How do we best support the community? Things have changed out there. And this Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, our website was antiquated.”
Jarrell says they’ve also had to adapt to a new world where many events are hybrids of in-person and virtual.
That includes workshops which they will host from their updated gallery space on Bridge Street in Belleville.
“We are getting the technology so that we’ll have a small group of in-person if they’re comfortable and if we can. But, we’ll also be recording them so everything that we do from now on, we’ve got the equipment to record it so that it is available.”
The event app that is under construction will also promote events, offer tickets and provide directions to venues.
The Quinte Arts Council dates back to 1967.
Artist Terry Hart poses with her piece, “Going With the Flow,” which is on display in the updated space at Quinte Arts Council on Bridge Street, Belleville.
