MISSION & MANDATE
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts is a non-profit, community arts organization that co-creates and facilitates multidisciplinary collaborative arts engagement cross-culturally and primarily serves First Nations/Metis/Inuit Communities. Red Pepper works in partnership with social service agencies, community health and educational institutions, municipalities, band councils, neighbourhood residencies and other arts partners, to provide arts programming towards social justice, equity in cultural arts production, representation and arts access. Our services are collaborative and for each project we endeavour to create an environment and opportunities where all skill levels and learning styles are respected to achieve creative success within a wide variety of artistic media
VISION & VALUES
Red Pepper believes its artistic vision is evolutionary and is informed by the community’s vision, through collective generosity of spirit in creative collaboration. Each project is unique and is shared in reciprocity, from initial conception and formation of each endeavour. Our relationships have been formed over many years of wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary communal activity, relationship building, networking, and resource sharing. We provide high quality arts programming, committed to the community’s vision while always being aware of and responsive to the individual. We provide methods, materials and supportive skill-sharing enhancing individual expression within a communal context.
ACTIVITY PROFILE
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts was co-founded in 2002, and led by co-founder and Artistic Director Gabriella Caruso. Based in a 1000 square foot, storefront studio in Kensington Market, Red Pepper provides an active community-arts facility with diverse production capabilities. We design and facilitate small and large scale engagements in a wide variety of media including drawing and painting, story creation, mask making, puppetry, mosaic, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, magazine creation and publishing, digital media design and technology, photography, recording and music creation, video creation and production, textiles, theatre design and community-wide multidisciplinary festivals.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Red Pepper maintains a roster of associate artists who work with us throughout the year on our projects. They are experienced in a wide variety of art disciplines and cultural practices, working with us as either production staff or performers, depending on the unique needs of each project produced by our studio.
