Some of the arts councils do. Several cities do, but this is the first for Canada this way. I've had people tell me from very.... I have been meeting with some of the provincial art councils in the last few months. They're looking at this as artists in residence.
We have galleries and museums across the country. We have dance communities who are beginning to think of visual artists in residence, so I'm seeing this as a bringing together of what used to be seen as silos of expression, because all the arts together express the soul of who we are.