Who are we?

The Canadian Hungarian Artists Collective (CHAC), founded in 2002, is a federally chartered non profit organization. With its head office in Montreal, its current Canada-wide membership includes over 90 professional Hungarian descent artists and supporters of the arts.

CHAC‘s goals are to:

• create educational, collaborative and career-enhancing opportunities between artists in different regions of Canada

• provide a showcase for Canadian artists of Hungarian descent by organizing curated group exhibitions across Canada and internationally

• organize projects which invite community participation and advance the cultural awareness and enrichment of the community as a whole, creating dialogue on the benefits of multiculturalism

• assist the career development of emerging and immigrant artists

• offer members a socially supportive milieu and regular reunions which favor the cultivation of ideas and the continuing appraisal of skills and concepts

• maintain a web site and data bank for the organization and its members

• regularly disseminate professional information via bulletins and news letters

• organize fund-raising opportunities to accomplish the above goals

CHAC membership

Many Hungarian descent artists have made significant cultural contributions in Canada’s visual arts sector. Their works are in important museum collections, they are the recipients of awards and grants and noted for their community and cultural activism. As members of CHAC, these artists exchange technical and career enhancing information. The established artists become role models and mentors to emerging or more recently arrived immigrant artists. Within the vast visual arts network in Canada, it becomes particularly valuable for artists to feel that they are supported by an organization that is like an extended family, an organization that celebrates their artists’ achievements and sustains them through the impediments inherent in the career.

This is an organization that addresses the challenges of immigration. It is committed to illustrate how cultural heritage, ethnicity and immigration play a significant role in defining the artist’s process and imagery.