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Canadian Agony Aunts give advice to women visual artists to help them overcome wayward arts juries, recalcitrant arts administrators, old-fashioned curators, uninventive journalists, predatory professors and conservative collectors. Each collaborative post is a mixture of several contexts in several towns and several eras. This artwork may offer hope that visual arts professionals may one day consider gender equity as imperative.
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Globe and Mail
AMES ADAMS
February 4, 2009
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Earnings by most Canadian artists are hovering at poverty levels.
The findings are derived from the 2006 census. It identified 140,000 Canadians as artists.
The study reports that artists over all are working for near-poverty-level wages, with an average annual earnings in calendar year 2005 of just $22,731, compared with $36,301 for all Canadian workers – a 37-per-cent wage chasm.
Artist earnings have been decreasing since 1990. Artists average earnings reduced by 11 per cent – to $22,731 from $25,433 – at the same time as the cultural-sector work force tripled in size.
The poorest-paid Canadian artist category is that of female visual artist, with average earnings in 2005 of $11,421, closely followed by female artisan/craftsperson ($12,307), female musician/singer ($12,449), and female dancer ($12,502).
Indeed, while there are more female artists than males (74,000 versus 66,000) in the country, female artists over all earn much less than their male counterparts: In 2005, a female artist earned on average $19,175, a male $26,714 – a span of close to 30 per cent.
While artists earn much less than the overall labour force, they're better educated than most Canadians. The Hill study reports that 39 per cent of all Canadian artists have at least a university degree at the bachelor's level, whereas for the overall labour force the percentage is 21.
The full report can be found at www.HillStrategies.com.
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