About Us
Preserving Canadian Art
Visual art is at a critical stage in history. Digital art is eclipsing hand-made art. Knowledge of traditional techniques and materials is disappearing. There is an urgency to preserve our art heritage.
Kristin Krimmel
2020
Image “Pas de Deux” by Pnina Granirer
Our Mission
Our goal is to ensure that legacies of lesser-known Canadian artists are archived properly for posterity, seen, studied, appreciated, and collected.
We are a foundation dedicated to receiving artwork, financial donations and other assets (including artists’ journals, ephemera, and other material that comprises a visual and/or intellectual “portrait” of any particular artist).
We manage operating funds and the inventory which is the art collection.
We actively preserve, care for and promote artwork.
CAPF operates largely using a volunteer workforce, directed by professional staff to oversee acquisition, cataloguing, and storage of artwork. Liaisons are being created with institutions having permanent collections. Three of the four directors are artists or art professionals. The other offers professional and financial management and quality assurance strengths.
“Art is not just room, space and wall decoration. Art is heritage in the making. In turn, heritage is a collection of periods of the past, like a mirror into which we can look to compare and to learn where we are and where we can go.
In building heritage, there is no end to the exploration of creativity. Heritage is the past , present and future of a civilized society.”
— Hans Christian Behm, 2024
