Starting as a pop-up exhibition and performance art space working with the ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival in North Bay, Ontario, the Black Box Gallery (now called Studio Project) has grown and changed to engage artists in a year-round capacity responding to the needs of the contemporary arts community. The Studio Project now operates within Nipissing First Nation territory which is part of the Robinson-Huron 1850 Treaty. Our venue within the decommissioned H.E. Brown machine shop, in North Bay, Ontario operates as a multi-purpose arts scene facilitating incubators, performance and various installations since 2017. 

The Studio Project is run through a volunteer collective of local contemporary artists following various artist-run models for operations. Each artist is representative of groups that have an array of mandates coming together to respond to the lack of visual arts spaces active in the North Bay area. From its inception, the artist-run centre  Studio Project has supported discourse-driven and socially engaged art, focusing on experimentation within performance, media and multi-arts.  Studio Project aims to become a leading artist-run centre in the world by supporting many projects locally building the careers of emerging and experienced professional artists.