Art-Official Inc. is a
Education in the Arts Charity located in Toronto, ON.
Services Provided by Art-Official Inc.
Art Metropole (AM) is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario, pursuing a focus on the production, dissemination and contextualization of artist-initiated publication in any media, especially those formats and practices predisposed to sharing and circulation. AM is a registered charity # 12287 1270RR0001, a member of the Canadian Museums Association (CMA), and the Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLI/NA), as well as the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO). AM was founded in 1974 as a division of Art Official Inc. (publisher of FILE Megazine) by the artists' collective General Idea. AM's mission statement was articulated as follows: "To collect, document, preserve, promote, and disperse contemporary art in non-traditional multiple media formats, information thereon, and to carry on all such activities as support these objectives."
