The Artery
Community Art Space in Kingston, Ontario
Artery is a new community space in Kingston, Ontario. Here you’ll find rotating exhibitions, screenings, workshops, community meetings, guest lectures, drag shows, artist talks, and the occasional beautiful mess.
Artery is a gallery space & gathering place where creative, cultural, and community voices flow together. We are available to book as a gallery space or a gathering space for individuals, community groups, clubs or organizations.
Ammenities
- 1200 square feet
- 150 person capacity
- Located directly on Kingston's Main Street - Princess Street
- Large storefront windows
- Track Lighting
- Air Conditioned
- High-speed internet
- Comfortable Lounge Area
- Podium
- Raised Stage
- Wheeled tables and chairs
- Accessible
- Movable multi-media centres for media art display or slideshows -2 of them!
- All gender bathrooms
Art Gallery Space
Artery is dedicated to presenting work from contemporary artists working in a variety of disciplines and strives to present art that reflects and promotes diverse perspectives.
Artery is available to emerging, mid-career, and senior artists, programmers and curators to book for your next creative showcase!
Art Gallery Rates
To help us cover the overhead costs of running the gallery, and hosting excellent shows, there is a base administrative fee of $100 and an additional rental fee of $100 per week. Artery also collects a 25% commission fee for each art piece sold. These fees and commissions include some marketing from Artery, the handling of art sales, space and staffing to host a reception, and overhead costs of the gallery.
Community Gathering Place
Artery is available to groups/clubs/agencies for meetings, lectures, poetry slams, talking circles, board meetings, 12-step programs, workshops and more. The space is available from 8am-11pm seven days a week. Please note that the space is not conducive for meetings of confidential matters between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri as it is a shared workspace.
Community Gathering Rates
To help us cover the overhead costs of running the gathering space, there is a base annual community membership fee of $100 for groups or $50 for individuals and an additional rental fee of $20 per 4 hours (negotiable to individuals/groups with financial barriers).
The REEL
The REEL (or Reelout Entertainment and Educational Library) is also located at 844A Princess Street in the Artery space.
Our library acquires queer, Canadian and international film and/or video on DVD/Blu-Ray formats for the purposes of fostering gender and sexual diversity education to citizens of KFL&A counties who lack accessibility to these resources or may feel isolated from queer culture, or may wish to increase their awareness of LGBTQ2SIA+ issues. Membership to Reelout Arts Project is $20 annually or $40 for agencies/organizations and allows you as a patron access to over 3500+ titles ranging from documentaries, short films, dramas, camp/cult classics, to iconic examples of queer representation in Hollywood cinema. You can check out a list of most of our films, we use MyMovie to digitally catalogue and there are many films the system doesn’t recognize, so please reach out if there is a film you’re looking for that’s not on TheREEL_Collection
We also have a small collection of LGBT/Film related books and our reading collection can be found on our Goodreads page or you can download a PDF listing of books available.
The library is open by appointment.
Call (613) 549-REEL for more details. 
