Andrea Carson Barker
Arts Entrepreneur
Andrea Carson Barker is president of Arbutus Real Estate Ltd. and manages INDUSTRIAL ARTS, an industrial site in Markham Ontario, on the outskirts of Toronto, leasing to creatives and providing affordable studios, mentorship, business development and other opportunities for artists. Concurrently, she has set up the not-for-profit programming arm STEELCASE ART PROJECTS to manage a series of arts initiatives on site including a sculpture garden and a curatorial residency.
A former practicing art critic, her blog View on Canadian Art was one of Canada’s first and most widely read online resources from 2005 – 2015. She co-founded the daily online art auction site artbombdaily.com in 2011 and is co-publisher of Untitled: The Public Art Zine.
She is a member of the City of Toronto Public Art Commission and the acquisitions committee at the Varley Art Gallery in Markham.