Eastside Culture Crawl Information

The Eastside Culture Crawl Society is a visual arts organization dedicated to connecting the public with the visual arts. ECCS produces the annual Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design and Craft festival held in November that involves artists on Vancouver's Eastside opening their studio to the public. The event is focused on the area bounded by Columbia Street, 1 st Avenue, Victoria Drive, and the Waterfront and involves painters, jewellers, sculptors, furniture makers, weavers, potters, printmakers, photographers, glassblowers; from emerging artists to those internationally established. ECCS produces additional programming including Talking Art, juried exhibits, Studio 101 arts programming for inner-city children, and Moving Art Video series. The Eastside Culture Crawl began in 1997 with a handful of visual artists in three Strathcona area studio buildings. Since that time the event has grown to include more than 500 artists, craftspeople, and designers attracting an audience of more than 45,000 studio visits. The organization itself has evolved to represent the heart of the East Van creative community.