Creative spaces
The Conseil believes that the city’s artistic vitality depends directly on the creative conditions provided to artists. This means it is essential to work together to provide them with creative spaces that are affordable, tailored to their needs and conducive to their development.
Close and continuous collaboration
Since 2019, the Conseil has been working actively with the City of Montréal’s culture department to implement the action plan for artists’ studios.
This joint effort makes it possible to ensure a more consistent approach, optimize resources and take more effective action.
The Conseil is also implementing its own initiatives to concretely support the development of creative infrastructure, ranging from forward-looking programs to support tools and spaces for reflection.
A collective project
In line with its 2026–2030 strategic plan, Pour les arts, pour le monde, the Conseil intends to serve as a catalyst for cohesion within the ecosystem by rallying public, private and community partners around forward-looking projects and investments.
It wants to give the community a voice in major debates and critical issues, such as the sustainability of creative spaces in Montréal.
These approaches are based on a collaborative approach that brings together the artistic community and a wide range of partners from the social economy, collective real estate, philanthropy and public institutions, both locally and nationally.
Together, we help design and implement innovative, agile and sustainable solutions.
Deux programmes structurants, en collaboration avec la Ville de Montréal
Montréal Creative Spaces: The CAM in action
Tools and documents
Bilan – Laboratoire d’innovation pour les espaces de création
This document provides an overview of an innovation labconducted with the cultural ecosystem and its partners, with the aim of collectively developing concrete solutions aimed at improving access to affordable and sustainable creative spaces tailored to artists.
Second edition of the cultural real estate project support program
This document presents the lessons from the second edition of the Conseil’s cultural real estate project support program (2021–2023) by identifying the main opportunities and challenges related to human resources, spaces, financing and business models required for the sustainability of their creation sites.
Financer un projet immobilier culturel – guide à l’intention de la communauté artistique montréalaise
This document is a practical guide for the Conseil and is intended to support cultural real estate project owners by presenting available funding sources, key stages of financial arrangements and best practices for the successful completion and sustainability of creative spaces.
Introduction à la mise en œuvre d’un projet immobilier collectif d’ateliers d’artistes
This document is a practical guide for the Conseil and is intended to support cultural real estate project owners by presenting available funding sources, key stages of financial arrangements and best practices for the successful completion and sustainability of creative spaces.
Les baux et les arts – guide
This document is a practical legal guide by Éducaloi to help artists understand, negotiate and manage leases for their studios, specifying their rights and obligations when renting a creative space.