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	Justin Muir


Title and Organization:		Executive Director, BALCONE
Gender and Age:		Male, 27
Location:		Vancouver, British Columbia
Country of Residence:		Canada
Country of Birth:		Canada
Nationalities:		British Canadian
Languages:		English



Website:		http://www.balcone.org
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About Me

Justin Muir is an arts administrator, curator and director. He graduated with honors in visual arts from the University of Victoria in 2004. He worked as the executive director of the Langley Arts Council from 2005-07. He currently works as the business manager for the Federation of Canadian Artists on Granville Island in Vancouver. He is also the president of the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, and is on the board of directors for the Assembly of BC Arts Councils. In 2006, he founded Balcone, a nonprofit art society dedicated to the promotion and support of Canadian artists outside of conventional gallery structures.

He is primarily interested in contemporary art's precarious potential to both impel and expel social engagement, collaboration, and intervention between culturally diverse peoples. His career objective is to contribute to the enhancement of Canada's cultural capital by introducing innovative new programs to nonprofit arts organizations. By merging divergent artistic institutions and ideologies, he continues to explore new territory for the understanding and function of art in our society.