Organization Description
Art Not Shame is a community-engaged, multidisciplinary arts organization serving youth and adults in Guelph and across Ontario. Founded in 2017, we strive toward a world where belonging is unconditional and creative practice is accessible, and both are recognized as fundamental to well-being, community-building, and possibilities for a just future.
Our work bears witness to the power of community-making through the arts, and art-making through community, to not only envision but to enact the more just futures to which we are striving. With a focus on speaking back to systemic forces that perpetuate cycles of shame and the undermining of self-worth (including racism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, and other intersecting forms of oppression), we seek to shape community by intentionally building supportive and transformative social spaces.
We are committed to:
- equity-seeking spaces and practices
- honouring complex histories and relationships to trauma, loss, privilege, and oppression
- the necessity of creative, supportive communities to our individual and collective well-being
- offering welcome, without the need for apology, fixing, or saving
We prioritize outreach and participation for community members who identify as Black, Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, and persons with disabilities, and/or living at multiple identity-based intersections in our local region.
Our Deep Purpose
Creativity: To empower participants to exercise their creative voice, knowing that everyone is uniquely creative.
Community: To engage in community-making through the arts. The arts give us greater access to ourselves and to each other.
Well-Being: To recognize that creativity and community are part of what makes us well. And to welcome and celebrate everything that makes us wonderfully, heartbreakingly, human.
Social Justice: To challenge systemic sources of shame as barriers to learning, self-acceptance and community-building, with care and accountability. And to use the arts to learn and unlearn together so we can work toward the well-being of all.
Job Description
Art Not Shame is seeking a Facility Operations Manager to help plan and coordinate the physical opening of the organization’s new accessible community arts facility. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Facility Operations Manager will:
- Coordinate inventory auditing and management;
- Collaborate with staff to create booking and scheduling systems for space rentals;
- Liaise with and coordinate external vendors for equipment, materials and supplies;
- Manage the organization’s physical transition from its existing office to our new space; and,
- Organize facility tours for potential users and other collaborators.