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Workscene Gallery fonds
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Grants

File consists of correspondence and applications for cultural and travel grants and grants not attached to a particular project or exhibition

Administration files

Series comprises material related to running the gallery and includes legal documents, leases, ANNPAC information, corporate seal and address stamp, floor plans, promotional material, art rental information, gallery log books, gallery attendant’s manual, grants related to administration, and membership information. Arrangement is alphabetical by file title with the exception of the corporate seal and address stamp which are housed separately in the final box of the series.

Workscene Gallery

Workscene Gallery fonds

  • LA.SC057
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1996

Fonds documents Workscene Gallery as an artist collective, artist-run gallery and publisher in Toronto, including photographs, negatives, slides , photo albums, one poster, newspaper clippings, invitations, guest books, log books, exhibition catalogues, one video tape, address stamp and corporate seal.
Contains series:

  1. Members and associate members files
  2. Exhibition files
  3. Executive Committee files
  4. Financial records
  5. Publications
  6. Correspondence
  7. Administration files

Workscene Gallery

Correspondence

File may contain sent correspondence including responses to applications for membership, confirmation of gallery rental, letters of support, and correspondence to members about the transfer of the Workscene Gallery records to the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario. Correspondence received may include membership requests, resignations or withdrawals from the collective and applications for employment.

Members and associate members files

Series consists of artists’ CVs, artist statements, photographs and slides of the artists’ work, exhibition invitations, pamphlets and catalogues and published material about the artists from other sources, press releases and reviews who were members or associate members of the organization. Individual files contain some or all of these; the presence of slides or photographs is noted. Arrangement is alphabetical by artist name with the members followed by the associate members as indicated in the file titles.

Workscene Gallery

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence sent and received by the executive of the gallery. Copies or drafts of correspondence sent include responses to applications for membership, confirmation of gallery rental, letters of support, and correspondence to members about the transfer of the Workscene Gallery records to the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario. Correspondence received includes membership requests, resignations or withdrawals from the collective and applications for employment. Individual files contain some or all of these. There was no correspondence in the series for 1995.

W. Mark Sutherland (member)

Typical file contents include artist's CV, artist statements, photographs and slides of the artist's work, exhibition invitations, pamphlets and catalogues and published material about the artist from other sources, press releases and reviews who were members or associate members of the organization.

Executive committee files

Series consists of members, executive and annual general meeting minutes; the secretary’s rough notes for the meeting minutes; register of directors; files of the communication, fundraising, hospitality and maintenance committees which reported to the executive committee. These files are of the Workscene Co-operative Corporation, Workscene/Ruby-Fiorino Gallery and the Workscene Gallery as noted. The arrangement of the files in this series respects the original order of the creator. The meeting minutes were filed by year with the secretary’s notes filed separately. The materials in all files are roughly chronological

Financial reports

File consists of annual and quarterly financial reports. The reports from 1988 until the fiscal year end of May 1992 are attributed to Workscene Co-operative Corporation, reports after this date are attributed to Workscene Gallery.

Income tax returns

File consists of forms filed, notices of assessment and copies of financial reports. The returns were filed by the Workscene Co-operative Corporation from 1975-1994; also included is an incomplete return for 1995 for Workscene Gallery Art Association Toronto Inc.

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