Harnessing the power of research to learn and generate new insights, enabling the arts community to be strategic, focused and adaptive.
Harnessing the power of research to learn and generate new insights, enabling the arts community to be strategic, focused and adaptive.
Mass Culture × Public Imagination Network
Mass Culture and the Public Imagination Network are pleased to announce a new partnership dedicated to strengthening the role of artists in public policy discourse across Canada. We are inviting artists from across Canada to join the Public Imagination Network and Mass Culture to participate in creative responses to issues of public governance and social justice.
If you are interested in contributing to a growing community of artists engaging in public discourse and shaping the systems that shape us, we encourage you to express your interest.
To submit your expression of interest, please fill in this form.
Mass Culture offers support in the realm of data, research and evaluation. You can meet with us for a free, exploratory session – no strings attached.
Mass Culture's Research Priorities are:
If you see alignment in the work you’re doing or would like to accomplish, and would like to collaborate or even partner on a project, reach out with a request to meet with Robin Sokoloski, Director of Organizational Development: robin@massculture.ca.
Mass Culture’s governance model is made up of four Working Groups. The nomination process begins in March and a new slate of Working Groups are approved during the AGM in September. If you’re curious and potentially interested in joining one of these groups email michelle@massculture.ca and we’ll set up a meeting for you to meet with staff and someone from the group. We recommend you review the 2023-2025 Strategic Plan in advance.
Mass Culture is a charitable organization (Business No: 118830371RR0001). In 2019, after a year of talks, Mass Culture took on the charitable number of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) to uphold the CCA’s 60+ year legacy by devising a system for arts research in Canada.
MC Minds (our blog, podcast, and videos) will inspire, educate, question, connect and journey through knowledge on arts and culture research topics across Canada.
Artifex is a crowd-sourced repository of arts research resources. Resources are organized according to the following categories: datasets; models and frameworks; tools; projects and programs; advocacy and policy resources; resource repositories; and other resources.
Mass Culture is an ever evolving organization, and in the interest of remaining a community-based network, any feedback on how you think MC can be made more effective and accessible is welcomed. Send your thoughts to michelle@massculture.ca.
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Mass Culture joins people together to develop and share knowledge for action.
Through a healthy network and a robust research support system, Mass Culture will support the development and promotion of community engaged arts research that enables Canada’s arts and cultural sectors to connect and make informed decisions towards a richly sustainable future.
You know all those interesting research papers, tweets with links, and email/social media threads discussing information you wish you had time to absorb. You KNOW it would add value to your work in the arts, but it’s overwhelming to read, let alone engage in.
Well… Mass Culture is striving to create the connective tissue needed to make arts research (knowledge, data, info.) more accessible, digestible, and meaningful. We want to build some creative solutions so that we as an arts sector know ourselves better, and can share the tremendous value that we offer with the rest of the world.
Mass Culture is primarily interested in building a system for research, since generating and sharing information helps us explore and understand. In Mass Culture’s activities, we maintain the integrity of research by creating space for professional arts research to be generated without aiming for a desired result. Although we want to make sure research is usable, how it is used will not direct the research. While Mass Culture is not an advocacy entity, individuals and organizations who engage in the Mass Culture network may end up using the research for their own advocacy purposes.
