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Groundwork

A professional development and peer mentoring retreat for New Brunswick artists

Professional development. Artist-run workshops. Newtorking.

Groundwork Call for Participants

Groundwork is a pilot professional development and peer mentoring retreat for New Brunswick artists that will take place from July 3-10, 2026. We’ve selected our peer mentors and are now ready to open up applications for participants!

The week-long retreat will have three elements:

During the day, participants will take part in a number of professional development workshops in subjects such as marketing and branding, budgeting, and business development, run by ArtsLink staff and industry professionals who have experience working with artists.

Spread amongst the professional development workshops will be a number of artist-run workshops with one on one peer-mentoring opportunities:

    • Writing and speaking about your work with writer and ArtsLink NB Programming Director Jericho Knopp
    • Grant-writing with printmaker and grant writer Natt Cann
    • Longevity and sustainability in your art practice with visual artist Theresa MacKnight
    • Collaboration in practice with musician Charles Harding
    • Creative wellbeing with illustrator Kaitlin Hoyt

    The third element of the retreat is the informal networking opportunity. The retreat will be at Camp Pascobac, a true summer camp experience. Participants will all stay in bunkhouses on-site. This sustained proximity will lead to organic networking opportunities after the day’s sessions, when the participants eat dinner together, or sit around a campfire, talking about their lives and creative practices.

    Call details:

    🗓️ Dates: July 3-10, 2026. We are looking for artists who can attend the full retreat.

    📍 Location: Camp Pascobac, located on the Beautiful Belleisle Bay at 85 Pascobac Lane, Kars, NB

    🔍 What we’re looking for: artists who have the time and energy to commit to a week-long professional development retreat, and an eagerness to learn from other artists.

    💰 Cost: Free! The event and accommodation are covered

    Please note: 

    • We’ll have a few communal meals, but otherwise you’re responsible for your own food for the week. Pascobac has a fully outfitted kitchen that can be used to cook! 
    • Participants will be sleeping in bunkhouses (roughly 3-4 per bunkhouse), and as such will have limited privacy.
    apply here

    Deadline

    🗓️ Application deadline: May 10, 2026

    Participants should hear back by May 15, 2026.

    As a provincial entity, ArtsLink NB acknowledges that it carries out its work on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but in fact, recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. 

    We, the members of ArtsLink NB, pay respect to the descendants of this land and to the elders — past and present. We honour the knowledge keepers and seek guidance as we strive to develop closer relationships with the Indigenous People in this land that is called New Brunswick.

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