Highlights

• The mandate of La Collection Loto-Québec is to promote the creation of visual arts in Québec and help expose contemporary art.
• To date, Loto-Québec has provided over $5 million in funding to the visual arts community through La Collection Loto-Québec.
• The Collection’s corpus features over 4,300 works by nearly 1,200 Québec artists. It is one of the largest corporate collections in Canada.
• All works and artists are catalogued in accordance with standard museum procedures.
• From 1979 to 2003, during its annual printmaking competition, Loto-Québec awarded 35 professional grants of $10,000 to Québec artists and 175 grants to art students.
• Each year, a jury helps La Collection Loto‑Québec acquire nearly 200 works. Loto‑Québec is the only business with this kind of acquisitions program.
• Dedicated to its mission, La Collection Loto-Québec has held some 60 sales exhibits in Québec.
• The Collection tours regularly, thereby helping expose art and creativity not only at its fixed location, Espace Création, but throughout the province through its exhibit tours.
• In 2003, works forming part of La Collection Loto-Québec left Québec and travelled to the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Québec was showcased.
• Until 2004, the Collection launched over 60 arts-oriented events throughout Québec and, as such, was a vital partner for the arts in the province.
• Works from the Collection provide an added value for the hotels and restaurants operated by Loto-Québec. Each year, the works help place Nuances and Le Baccara among the few hotels and dining establishments to receive the highly coveted and prestigious CAA/AAA Five Diamonds rating.
• La Collection Loto‑Québec and its sponsorship program, which enables Loto‑Québec employees to engage with the visual arts community, play an educational and formative role among the organization’s employees.
• By giving its recycled presentation material to non-profit organizations in Montréal, La Collection Loto-Québec contributes to the company’s sustainable development efforts.