Jacquelyn West (She/Her)

Cultural Industries Strategist

Art places. Culture spaces. Creative Economy.

At the centre of a network of urbanists, artists and public space specialists, Jacquelyn’s passion is supporting the Canadian creative economy and catalyzing new opportunities for our cultural and creative industries. Here, and abroad. Jacquelyn does this through several means and with great collaborators.

Believing deeply that creative access to public space and central real estate is an essential ingredient for the cultural sector to thrive, Jacquelyn has specialized over the past decade in cultural place development: particularly toward contemporary community hubs, affordable creative workspace, and creative industry clusters.

Jacquelyn’s projects have bridged private impact investment, contemporary mixed-use development design, and community need, into new vibrant cultural platforms and welcoming public spaces. She’s spearheaded temporary and permanent projects and contributed to other iconic cultural place projects in several capacities such as Development, Direction, Curation, Community. Jacquelyn brings a rare balance of vision and actualization.

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