Akimbo Art Promotion & Consulting is a national digital media platform and independent publisher that promotes organizations, events, and opportunities in contemporary visual arts, film/video, photography, fine craft, new media, and public art. We are proud to be Canadian and a woman-owned company.
Our services include bespoke marketing campaign strategies and campaigns, content creation, and web posts, display ads, social media packages and email marketing.
We create valuable impact for our clients by reaching arts audiences, attendees, and arts professionals – including artists, curators, administrators, organizational leaders, and media – locally, nationally, and internationally. For more than 25 years, Akimbo has cultivated a specialized and highly dedicated audience of subscribers, readers, and followers.
Akimbo clients get better attendance, visibility and recognition, submissions, applications, interest and engagement.
Akimbo is focused and selective about what we promote and the information we distribute. Akimbo provides followers, subscribers, and online readers with valuable opportunities for career advancement as well as the most up-to-date information about exhibitions, events, performances, screenings, lectures, launches, selection announcements, services, and more. Akimbo will not distribute political statements, political campaigns, or any content that may cause harm to an organization, community, or individual.
Akimblog is the editorial wing of Akimbo. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, gallery and site spotlights, and editorial articles that provide first-hand accounts and critical analyses of contemporary art across Canada.
REVIEWS: Informed, insightful, and engaging writers from Halifax to Vancouver critique the compelling exhibitions that you need to see.
HIT LIST: Artists share the interests and obsessions that inform their work, feed their passions, and entertain them through long hours in the studio.
THE CRIPSTERS: This exclusive feature addresses disability and culture from the point of view of artists and art workers with disabilities. The Cripsters includes interviews, artist profiles, reviews, opinion pieces, and personal essays.
PLACES + SPACES: The Canadian art landscape is ever-changing. Akimbo keeps you informed of the work, communities, and future plans of established and new exhibition spaces throughout the country, including museums, galleries, artist-run centers and more.
Our Work on Indigenous Land
Akimbo team members work from various locations on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island. We gratefully acknowledge the Indigenous nations and people for their guardianship of this land. We’d also like to remind and reaffirm, as Canadians, our accountability to these Indigenous nations, and to all Indigenous peoples and communities, and to care for this land, its waters, and all of the biodiversity. All people who live and work here are responsible for honouring this place, people, and treaties, in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect.