Art Canada Institute  Art Canada Institute is a bilingual, non-profit research organization based out of Massey College, at the University of Toronto. Through a variety of programs, such as the Massey Art Lecture Series and the Canadian Online Art Book Project, the Institute aims to promote and support the study of Canadian art history. Established in 2012, the non-governmental initiative Art Canada Institute arose out of Founder and Executive Director Sara Angel's concern over the lack of authoritative resources on Canadian art and artists available on the Internet. A Trudeau Scholar and arts journalist with a background in publishing, Angel intended to address what she viewed as an absence of accessible and inclusive material on Canadian visual culture through the creation of the ACI, which has been described as "a comprehensive, multi-tiered, online-based resource for the general public on Canadian art history." Angel gained the support of John Fraser, who was the master of Massey College in 2010, the year she began her PhD at the University of Toronto. Fraser felt the ACI's goals were in harmony with Vincent Massey's vision of "the coming together of town and gown," and Fraser himself would later become the Institute's Founding Chair. Angel continued to build support over the next year and a half, but it was only after she was named a Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholar and was awarded a generous grant, which she put towards the fledgling ACI, that the Institute became a reality. Since that time the ACI has taken shape and acquired a board of directors, an institute advisory committee, a book project advisory committee, a commissioning editor and a list of over 50 contributing writers. In its aim to create a central, online, and contemporary resource for Canadian art history, the Art Canada Institute has brought together art historians, curators, and visual culture experts in the creation of original scholarship that reflects "the people, themes and topics that have defined Canada's visual arts heritage." The Institute is currently supported through private and corporate donations and is registered Canadian charity. In November 2013, the ACI launched its inaugural program the Online Canadian Art Book Project with the release of Jack Chambers: Life and Work by Mark Cheetham, the first in a series of free online e-books. The project is encyclopedic in nature and meant for a general audience, with authors, who include art historians and curators from across Canada, contributing original scholarship that addresses subjective topics such as an artist's significance. Intended to be accessible and inclusive each volume is published in English and French, and in multiple formats and all are freely available on the ACI website.