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The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) has signed a series of partnership agreements that will enable the province's artists to further their craft and to have greater opportunities to produce.

The partnerships are designed to allow the province's artists to create in their community and to take part in out-of-province and even out-of-country residencies; to allow greater links with the aboriginal artistic community; and to better integrate emerging artists by establishing a Youth Art Commission.

A new regional financing program has been established, thus allowing professional artists to remain and to create in their own region. This program aims to increase sources of revenue for artists and artist collectives in the Saint John and Edmundston regions.

A three-year agreement has been reached between artsnb and the province of Quebec to facilitate creation residencies in each province. These residencies must be one to three months in length with grants of $3,000 per month with a $1,000 supplement for the artist's travel and materials.

In order to better represent the interests of aboriginal professional artists and to ensure they have access to artsnb programs, the Board has set up a Circle of Elders comprising both of the province's aboriginal communities.

Finally, in its continuing quest to allow emerging artists to break out onto the provincial scene, artsnb has announced the creation of a Youth Art Commission aimed at advising the Arts Board on matters of interest to the new generation of artists.