Arts Habitat
Association Current Projects
Review
of City Regulations - Art Of Living Recommendation #2:
The Project:
In 2008 the Edmonton Arts Council published The Art of Living
a 10 Year Plan for Securing the Future of Arts and Heritage in the City
of Edmonton.
Arts Habitat
Association has been working with the City of Edmonton to address zoning
and bylaw concerens to help stimulate arts activities within the City
of Edmonton.
The working
team includes City departments Community Services, Bylaw Unit, Licensing
and Permits. Arts Habitat Association is acting as community partner.
The ultimate
project goal is to find and implement solutions toward a more sympathetic
regulatory environment that will catalyze, improve and increase opportunities
for a broad range of arts activities and space uses in the City.
A review
of zoning bylaws, definitions, licenses, permits and other civic regulations
was the basis of the research into what regulatory inhibitors are impeding
artists and arts organizations from thriving in Edmonton. The complete
scope of work included:
The Quarters Project
Artists Urban Village and Arts Habitat Association have partnered with
the City of Edmonton to create a new facility for artists and arts organizations
as an integral part of the redevelopment of the east side of downtown
Edmonton. Located at the corner of 102A Avenue and 96 Street in the Quarters
Downtown only two blocks from the core of the arts district including
the Citadel Theatre, the Winspear Centre, the Art Gallery of Alberta and
one block from the proposed new LRT station. The City of Edmonton has
identified this project as an ideal catalyst for the redevelopment of
the Quarters Downtown.
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ArtsHab
Alberta Avenue - ArtsHub Housing Cooprative 
ArtsHab
One - Open in 1999 ArtsHab One consits of 10 live/work spaces
and 3 studio spaces. Over the years it has been the home and studio to some
of Edmonton's most active contemporary visual artists, craft artists, musicians,
filmmakers, dancers, writers, actors and others. 
