About Us
The Fredericton Arts Alliance has been supporting, promoting, and advocating for the visual, musical, literary, and performing arts in the Fredericton region since 1999.
Operated by a volunteer working board and two contract staff, the FAA strives to create an inclusive platform that empowers local artists and enriches the lives of the Fredericton region’s residents.
We, the Fredericton Arts Alliance, respectfully acknowledge that we meet and carry out our activities on the traditional and unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik.
Who we are
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Katie FitzRandolph
PRESIDENT
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Monica Smart
VICE PRESIDENT
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Kitty Maurey
TREASURER
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Vacant
SECRETARY
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Sabine Campbell
BOARD MEMBER
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Rachel Forrestall
BOARD MEMBER
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Russ Hunt
BOARD MEMBER
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Nuzhat Khan
BOARD MEMBER
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Roberte Melanson
BOARD MEMBER
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Gary Weekes
BOARD MEMBER
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Bridget Spence
ArtsNEWS EDITOR
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Meaghan Stewart
SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
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The Fredericton Arts Alliance (FAA) is an incorporated association authorized to operate within the Province of New Brunswick.
Its objectives are:
To support and promote artists and the arts in the greater Fredericton region through the following types of activities:
Provide arts related news and information to the public
Provide employment opportunities for artists
Provide arts educational programming, lectures and residencies in the community
Organize public forums during elections focused on arts issues
Increase public awareness and appreciation of the arts
For full Bylaws, please click here.
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We’ve partnered with other institutions to create documentation to help navigate turning your passion into a profession. Click the links below for resources.
Employment: Arts and the Law (June 2012)
Artist's Guide to Contract Law
Our History
2001
In its first full year of operation, the FAA begins the publication of the ArtsNEWS, which has developed into a free weekly e-bulletin highlighting the events happening in the city’s vibrant arts scene.
2003
A Municipal Arts Policy is created for Fredericton.
The Charlotte Street Arts Centre (CSAC) becomes a home for artists’ studios, exhibitions, performances, arts organizations, dance studios, a cafe, and more.
2005-2011
Jointly with the YMCA, the FAA organizes an annual open studio tour called Art Trek, inviting artists to open their workspaces to visitors for a day.
The organization runs its first major fundraising gala—formerly known as High on the Arts, and now called For Arts' Sake—complete with live music and silent and live auctions of fine art and craft.
Money raised from the FAA's annual galas enables the organization to continue the administration of its programs and initiatives.
2015
The FAA initiates Art in the Schools,
a project bringing artists into Fredericton-area schools to work for extended periods with teachers and students.
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to all of the organizations projects. Some had to be postponed entirely; Arts in the Schools and Art off the Streets could simply not be conducted under the required conditions.
2022
For Arts' Sake, the FAA’s annual fundraising gala and art auction, proves successful upon its return to the CSAC's Jim Myles Auditorium.
1999
The Fredericton Arts Alliance is created by founding member Charlotte Glencross and others.
That same year, the FAA begins its other flagship project, the Artists in Residence program, which takes place in Fredericton’s Historic Garrison District every summer.
Since its founding, the FAA organizes a forum on arts issues for every municipal, provincial, and federal election, giving candidates an opportunity to state their views on cultural matters.
2005
This year and for many years following, the FAA works with students at the UNB Law School’s Pro Bono program to develop booklets on various aspects of the law for artists, including copyright and contract law.
2009
The FAA receives status as a registered charity, allowing the organization to offer income tax receipts for donations. This enables the FAA to receive grants from foundations that only give to registered charities.
The FAA is instrumental in laying the groundwork for the creation of artsLink NB, a new body to represent artists in the province's Anglophone community as a counterpart to the Association acadienne des artistes professionel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (l’AAAPNB).
2016
Art off the Streets is begun as a way to link clients of the city's Homeless Shelters with artists.
Other activities, though, turned out to be possible with enough creativity and hard work. The Artists in Residence program is successfuly reinvented to run online, through various forms of social media, in 2020 and 2021.
Board meetings from April onwards, as well as the 2020 and 2021 Annual General Meetings, are conducted via Zoom. Even the 2020 annual fundraising gala and art auction is conducted by an online auction site.
