Our Partners
Development Team: La Cité des Artistes and RESO
In 2002, real estate speculation prompted a group of artists and their supporters to create a project that responded to the growing need for affordable Work/Live artist studios in Montreal. This project, since named “La Cité des Artistes”, is a non-profit organization with the primary purpose of supporting the visual arts, media art and crafts through the construction of affordable Work/Live studios in Montreal.
La Cité des Artistes primary goal is to introduce an exceptional form of real estate into the Montreal cityscape. This project would contribute to the building of a social economy by providing a new and much needed form of support for our artists. Creating a meaningful concentration to artists and the arts community in one area will stimulate not only the artists themselves, but the cultural scene and the Montreal art market.
Montreal will then be home to a unique and vibrant place were artists can live, create, produce and sell their works in comfortable conditions.
Le Regroupement économique et social du Sud-Ouest (RESO)
Le Regroupement économique et social du Sud-Ouest (RESO) is a social economy development corporations that works on the social and economic revitalization of the South-West borough of Montreal.
The RESO has the following mission:
To bring together the community of the South-West around projects which contribute to the social, cultural and economic future of the area, in a fair and sustainable fashion by engaging the area’s population in the process.
In 2003, the RESO and their community partners proposed an innovative redevelopment plan for the of the vacant Canada Post site, which responded to the needs of the population in the South-West borough and created a significant place for artists. CLC implicated RESO in defining the Les Bassins du Nouveau Havre project, and they are now tasked with coordinating the development of a cultural and touristic component of the project. RESO are now working as partners with La Cité des Artistes for the development of Work/Live Studios and a place of promotion for Montreal artists.