Absolutely, I'd be happy to.
Our curatorial department works with museums and galleries across Canada. I have a network of curators and experts who work across the country on exhibitions and programming. But our main point of contact in terms of acquisitions is with primary-market commercial galleries. They're galleries that represent living artists. They often have individuals in the studios who are seeing the work produced.
When there are exhibitions of those artists' works, we'll get an email or a PDF, or we'll go to see an exhibition in person. Usually we do research in advance as to the artist's past practice, as well as look into what upcoming exhibitions, publications, or milestones in their career they might be having. Then we make acquisitions based on that information.
When we're working with young artists, a big part of that is looking at what curators in the community are supporting their practice and spending time looking at their work and engaging. Definitely, artist-run centres are a huge step for those emerging artists, and we have a fair bit of awareness of those artist-run centres across the country and their programming.