Akimbo is a Toronto-based company that promotes contemporary visual art, video, new media and film locally, nationally and internationally via the internet. Established in November, 1999, Akimbo has built a subscriber base of more than 7,400 Canadian and international media and visual arts professionals and a client base of some of the country's most important galleries, museums, art institutions and film and video festivals.
Akimbo is focused and selective about the information we distribute, and readers get the most up-to-date and vital information about exhibitions, publications, performances, screenings, talks, lecture series, launches, calls for submissions, and jobs related and relevant to visual culture in Canada. Akimbo clients get better media coverage, more filled seats and bigger attendance numbers.
Content is distributed through email broadcasts to our subscribers plus posted to akimbo.ca, which boasts a large and dedicated readership from all over the world - our site visitors come from Canada, the U.S., Germany, the U.K., France, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland, Poland, Spain and many more countries. Every month, the site receives 4.4 million hits, 435,900 page views, and 117,500 sustained visits. Akimbo RSS feeds get 118,791 reads per month - that's in addition to our website hits and emails read by our 7,400 subscribers!
Akimblog is an independent publishing arm of Akimbo, featuring writers from across Canada and points in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Akimblog gets 27,000 page views per month.
Find out more about who our clients are, and what people are saying about akimbo, below.
Who are Akimbo's clients?
Public Galleries and Museums:
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), Art Gallery of Mississauga, aceartinc. (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Art Gallery of Windsor, Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), A Space (Toronto), Artspace (Peterborough), Art Gallery of Sudbury, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art (Kelowna), Arnica Artist Run Centre (Kamloops), Art Engine (Ottawa), Anna Leonowens Art Gallery (Halifax), Art Metropole (Toronto), Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Art Gallery of Calgary, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Artspeak (Vancouver), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), Burlington Art Centre, Convenience Gallery (Toronto), CRAM (St. Catharines), Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Waterloo), Campbell House Museum (Toronto), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Cambridge Sculpture Garden, DHC/Art (Montreal), Goethe-Institut (Toronto), Dazibao (Montreal), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), Dyan Marie Projects (Toronto), Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto), Eye Level Gallery (Halifax), Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop's University (Sherbrooke), Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury), Gallery 1313 (Toronto), Grimsby Art Gallery, Gallery Lambton (Sarnia), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Gendai Gallery (Toronto), Galerie Liane and Danny Taran Gallery (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Japan Foundation Toronto, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Toronto), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Koffler Gallery (Toronto), Kamloops Art Gallery, Loop Gallery (Toronto), The Latcham Gallery (Stouffville), Le Labo (Toronto), Living Arts Centre (Mississauga), MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels, McIntosh Gallery (London), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver), Museum London, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton), MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Mercer Union (Toronto), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Oakville Galleries, ODD Gallery (Dawson YT), Open Studio (Toronto), OCAD Student Gallery (Toronto), Ottawa Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), Propeller Centre for the Arts (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), RENDER (Waterloo), Red Head Gallery (Toronto), Roadside Attractions (Toronto), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Ryerson Gallery (Toronto), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound), Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto), Thames Art Gallery (Chatham), Tree Museum (Gravenhurst), Toronto Sculpture Garden, University of Toronto Art Centre, Vancouver Art Gallery, Varley Art Gallery (Unionville), Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Xpace (Toronto), YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto), Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation (Toronto).
Commercial Galleries & Enterprises:
A.K Collings Gallery (Toronto), Akau Framing (Toronto), Brayham Contemporary (Toronto), Bau-XI Gallery (Toronto), Bailey Fine Arts (Toronto), Birch Libralato Gallery (Toronto), BMO Financial Group, Camera Lucida (Toronto), Circuit Gallery (Toronto), Diane Farris Gallery (Vancouver), Diaz Contemporary (Toronto), Drake Hotel (Toronto), Elliot Contemporary (Toronto), Gladstone Hotel (Toronto), Gallery DK (Toronto), Headbones Gallery (Toronto), Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), Leo Kamen Gallery (Toronto), Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto), Muse Gallery (Toronto), 918 Bathurst (Toronto), Patrick Mikhail Gallery (Ottawa), Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain (Montreal), Pikto (Toronto), Toronto Image Works Gallery, Oeno Gallery (Carrying Place, Ontario),
Film, video and new media organizations:
Alliance Films (Toronto), Canadian Film Centre (Toronto), Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Toronto), Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Cinematheque Ontario, Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax), Charles Street Video (Toronto), Daruma Pictures (Toronto), Espace Videographe (Montreal), InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (Toronto & Montreal), Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto), National Film Board/Mediatheque (Toronto), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Ryerson University: Kodak Lecture Series (Toronto), Toronto International Film Festival Group, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Trinity Square Video (Toronto), Vtape (Toronto), Video Pool (Winnipeg), Western Front (Vancouver)
Festivals:
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), 8 Fest (Toronto), Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA), AluCine Festival (Toronto), The Artist Project (Toronto), Art for Real Change Festival (Toronto), Art Initiatives/ Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show & Sale (Toronto), Artsweek Peterborough, Beach Studio Tour (Toronto), Broken City Lab (Windsor), CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, City of Toronto-Nuit Blanche, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area (CAFKA),The Images Festival (Toronto), Junction Arts Festival (Toronto), Mayworks (Toronto), One of a Kind Show (Toronto & Vancouver), Parkdale Village BIA (Toronto), Subtle Technnologies Festival (Toronto), Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto Art Expo, Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week, Western Front New Music (Vancouver).
Organizations:
Art for Commuters (A4C) (Toronto), Artists Network Riverdale (Toronto), Arts Etobicoke, Arts Hamilton, Artscape (Toronto), Artists’ Health Centre Foundation (Toronto), AIDS Committee of Toronto, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, Art Dealers Association of Canada, Canadian Art Gallery Educators, Canadian Music Centre, Canadian Artists' Representation (CARFAC), Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA), City of Calgary, City of Toronto, City of Kitchener, City of Richmond, City of Hamilton, City of Mississauga, City of Richmond, Casey House (Toronto), Edmonton Arts Council, Humber College (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Nanopod (Toronto), Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG), Ontario Crafts Council (Toronto), Ontario Arts Council (Toronto), Photo Educators Forum (Toronto), Partners in Art (Toronto), RBC Painting Competition, Sobey Arts Awards, SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Collective], Scarborough Arts Council, Soundstreams (Toronto), Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Ontario-VAO (Toronto), Winnipeg Arts Council.
Performing Arts Organizations:
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), Theatre Centre (Toronto), Toronto Dance Theatre
Publishers:
Artexte (Montreal), Alphabet City (Toronto), Arc Poetry Magazine (Ottawa), Blackflash (Saskatoon), Broken Pencil Magazine (Toronto), BorderCrossings (Winnipeg), Canada University Press, C Magazine (Toronto), Coupe Magazine (Toronto), Canadian Art Magazine (Toronto), Coach House Press (Toronto), Cahiers métiers d'art ::: Craft Journal (Montreal), Descant: A Journal of Arts and Letters (Toronto), The Fillip Review (Vancouver), Fuse Magazine (Toronto), Magenta Foundation (Toronto), Public Access (Toronto), Prefix (Toronto), This Magazine (Toronto).
Schools:
Alberta College of Art + Design (Calgary), Al Green Sculpture Studio School (Toronto), Brock University, Centennial College (Toronto), Concordia University (Montreal), C1 Art Space (Toronto), Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), Fanshawe College (London), George Brown College (Toronto), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/School of Visual Arts (Dawson YT), NSCAD University (Halifax), Ontario College of Art & Design (Toronto), Ryerson University (Toronto), Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (Toronto), Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops), Toronto School of Art, University of Guelph, University of Lethbridge, University of Regina, University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario (London), University of Windsor, UBC Okanagan (Kelowna), UBC Vancouver, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, York University (Toronto).
Consultants:
What people are saying about Akimbo !
"Thanks for always doing such a good job helping us get our news out. I don’t know what the Canadian arts community would do without Akimbo!" Sara Kelly, Associate Direct, Open Studio, Toronto. July, 2010
"I just want to say a huge thank you for existing and providing a kick-ass service... we've been swamped with calls and emails from people all over the area - tours lined up with prospective tenants, etc. I'd recommend your service to anyone." Jeremy Freiburger, Executive Director, Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts, Hamilton. February, 2010
"Great response to the call for the CFFF- Akimbo really is the best system for announcing these things." Karen Mills, Public Art Management. February, 2010
"Thanks also for all the great work you do - you’ve certainly set a professional standard with Akimbos and bits. I enjoy getting them, and we’re always pleased with the ones you send out for us." Melissa Bennett, Gallery 44, Toronto. August 2009
"The Akimbo got a ton of positive comment from all the right movers and shakers !!" Bruce Bailey, Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto. April, 2009
"We've found that the Akimbo broadcasts make a huge difference in our online bids - they really help spread the word." Lucy MacDonald, Curator of Education and Community Outreach, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, referring to their annual auction Sweetest Little Thing. January, 2009
"I am delighted with the response that we have had to the publicity for the Wang show. It's a huge relief for me, in charge of a small museum, to be able to send the info to one source and know that the message is getting out." Liz Driver, Curator, Campbell House Museum, Toronto, September 2008.
"Akimbo provides a highly effective and efficient means to circulate up-to-the-minute information to a large network. It's affordable, reliable and usefully ''third party.' I love it." Clive Robertson - artist, critic, publisher, professor, April 2008
"Western Front Media Arts has certainly had notable responses from folks across the country thanks to your Akimbos. I get notes of interest from Toronto, Montréal, Banff, Winnipeg... It's obvious that folks are paying attention - Thank you Kim!" Alissa Firth-Eagland, Director / Curator, Western Front Media Arts, Vancouver, March 2008
"... thank you so much for posting our [call for proposals] ad. Truly appreciated. Great responses - literally overnight. We are thrilled. Akimbo is a professional and far reaching venue that really works." Gerten Basom, Cambridge Sculpture Garden, November 2007.
"I would like to say...officially...thanks very much for the Akimbo last week. The ad was beautiful and it got great reaction. ... I plan to use them for all my shows starting in October. " Patrick Mikhail, Director, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, May 2007.
"I wanted to let you know that we've had great media response - Radio Canada and Peter Goddard of the Toronto Star called - as a result of our akimbo for the opening of the show this fall." EJ. Lightman and Anne O'Callaghan, co-curators, The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst ON, September, 2006.
"Just a note to let you know that we are getting a good number of hits from your akimbo postings - we have a significant spike in hits each time one goes out and the number has doubled this month over last month. Also, CBC is continuing to put our news releases on air, including my ad for my NAC show (NAC has decided to start using akimbo as a result of my ravings and the results!), so we are very pleased with how akimbo is helping get the word out about the artists in Niagara." Tobey C. Anderson, Director, CRAMart, and Artist, St. Catharines, Ontario, June, 2006
"The Akimbos we use to find content for Alphabet CIty are a huge success, and bring us exciting material from all over." John Knechtel, Director, Alphabet City, May, 2006
"I have an account that tells me how many hits my website gets each day. Today, after the Akimbo listing, my North American hits increased by 500%! Incredible." Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Artist. November, 2005
"Thanks to the effectiveness of akimbos, our Christo lecture has sold out." - Andrea Seaborn, Marketing Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario, March. 2005.
"Akimbits is brilliant and I love the archive of info available at the same time. I predict that akimbo-ed will become a verb, kinda like 'google' has become --- you are invaluable to the community!" -- Rina Greer, Director, Toronto Sculpture Garden, December, 2004.
"akimbits is an excellent name* and a great idea." * akimbo is great, too. my fave songwriter is vic chesnutt, on strength of using the word akimbo in a song ("even her freakish nipples are akimbo").-- Dave Dyment, Artist, December, 2004.
"You're my hero, in a weird freakish art (not so much with the super powers doing away with evil and bad costumes) way." -- Steve Loft, Visual Artist/Curator/Writer, Winnipeg, September, 2004
"Kim "Akimbo" Fullerton - Best thing for art in T.O. The problem with art is that when it's presented to the public, it's often wrapped in sandpaper with a card containing offensively big words. Kim Fullerton, through her innovative Akimbo e-mail art news service and more recently with her promotions efforts, is making a real effort to make art accessible in Toronto. That's good for everyone." NOW magazine Best of Toronto Critics' Pick, 2003.
"I run a web-based nomadic gallery that is completely dependant on effectively communicating our current location as we move around all the time. Obviously, the art community trusts and respects AKIMBO based on the huge difference your service made on both our sales and attendance. I am now a believer. Thank you." -- Paul Butler, www.othergallery.com, November, 2002
"I wanted to let you know that we received an incredible response to the broadcasts you sent out, both for the job opportunity and the call for proposals for the residency. We'll definitely be in touch again!' - Charlene McNichol, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, October 2002
"We had great results with the last release. We seemed to have a lot of interest after the broadcast. Wonderful attendance at the opening despite weather. Studio 2 from TVOntario is doing a segment on the show. Canadian Art is coming to Owen Sound today to review the show. Absolutearts.com from Pittsburgh picked up the release and mounted a feature on the show which I think is still on their site. All this coverage was great to relay to the Board and City Council here at budget time." - Stuart Reid, Director/Curator, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, February 2002
"I think that your e-mail service is very valuable. The AGSM is located 2.5 hours from the Exchange District in Winnipeg and 4 hours from Regina so especially in winter it is difficult to get to larger urban areas. I can scan the e-mail quickly and print or save what I want to refer to later. I don't have stacks of paper piling up." - Chris Reid, Curator, Art Gallery of Southern Manitoba, Brandon, January 2002
"I cannot tell you how much I appreciate getting your notices! Keeps me up on what's up! I often forward to clients and others. I'm impressed with the quality and level of activities you send out...that's why I like it ...I do not have to edit...there is no "junk" -- no Sunday painters.... no Hype. I open and read every one. If I don't have time, they get held 'till the end of the day. Keep it up!" - Diane Farris, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, May, 2001
"Akimbo broadcasts are very useful and are what the internet is all about. Our community seems more like a family due to your efforts." - David Hlynsky, artist, Toronto, September 2001
"Thank you for the Akimbo broadcasts which we regularly post in our "current exhibitions" binders here at Artexte. " - Kristine Friedmann, Artexte, Montreal, October 2001
"I'd need a clone to attend all the good things you tell me about, but it's nice to know they're happening. Many thanks for letting me know." - Vera Frenkel, February, 2000