About the Arts Council
Welcome
For a video introduction to PECAC, click here.
Picture an umbrella. 
PECAC is an umbrella organization. What does that mean?
Under this Arts Council’s umbrella, you will find:
Six annual festivals and events
Art in the County
CLIC: The Eastern Ontario Photography Show
PEC Jazz Festival
PEC Music Festival
PEC Studio Tour
The Maker’s Hand
Year-round programs
and collaborative Partnerships, within the County and with other Communities.
Is there room for more, under the PECAC umbrella?
Yes. Like other Arts Councils—large and small—PECAC stands on two feet: to sustain the arts and to develop the arts. A case in point is CLIC, which began its life, under the PECAC umbrella, as an Incubation Project and is now being sustained as a PECAC Annual Event.
If you have an idea for an Incubation Project in Prince Edward County, please get in touch.
If you would like to work with us as a community partner, please get in touch.
Who runs PECAC?
First and foremost: volunteers. PECAC strives to be—and is widely recognized as—a model community arts organization.
If you think of a Board of Directors as a rubber-stamping dozen that assembles, quarterly, around a polished mahogany table, we would like to offer a counter-example.
PECAC’s Board represents the year-round, hardworking volunteers who consistently aspire to excellence and who consistently deliver their vision, in every detail. Maybe that’s why, as one County newcomer remarked, ‘Have you noticed that you never meet a boring person when you work with PECAC?’
We do have an office where our part-time Administrator holds the fort. When you contact us, you will reach the office.
Who supports PECAC?
Let’s start by recognizing the people of Ontario, whose absolutely essential support comes to PECAC through an annual operating grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Thanks the OAC, the lights come on, the computer hums, we pay our rent, and County artists live to work another day.
While we’re here—and since the people of this province and the people of Canada don’t often get the credit they deserve—let’s take this opportunity to salute Prince Edward County’s municipal government, the Prince Edward County Community Foundation, Celebrate Ontario, the Trillium Foundation, the Cultural Strategic Investment Fund, and Prince Edward Lennox & Addington Community Futures Development Corporation.
For every hard-earned taxpayer’s dollar that sustains the arts, a PECAC volunteer gives ten hours—or more—to make this County, this province and this country a haven for all that is meant by ‘civilization’. Does that sound pretentious? Who wants to imagine their community, their province, this country without the arts?
The list of supporters goes on:
- PECAC depends on its members. We try not to ask for more that you can afford, because every membership says—loud and clear—that PECAC speaks for the arts in Prince Edward County.
- PECAC relies on County businesses for donations in cash and in kind. The Waring House, Books & Company, Huff Estates and Black Prince wineries are among those whose brands have become identified with supporting the arts.
Would you like to support the arts in Prince Edward County?
