COVID-19 STATUS UPDATES
We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation daily, and will add updates regarding our service as the situation develops. Our most recent status is as follows:

June 10th ,2020
On June 15th, artverb* will cautiously OPEN for business. Our team, and clients safety will remain our top priority as we slowly ease back into day to day jobs.

We have taken many new steps and initiated new safety protocol and procedures to limit everyone’s exposure to COVID-19. Please read about our new safety procedures in detail.
Local Toronto artverb* jobs will resume the week of June 15th with some limitations on team size and scope.

Toronto~Montreal shuttles will resume July 2 with our MTL43 trip.

Toronto~New York art shuttles will resume again June 23rd with our NY147 trip.
Monthly shuttles will resume on a monthly schedule for the next few months.

Please contact us for bookings.

;the artverb* team

artverb* a Proud Sponsor of Canadian Fête Champêtre
On September 23rd, artverb* had the honour of being a major sponsor at Bruce Bailey’s Canadian Fête Champêtre to benefit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. We transported and installed almost all the art for this monumental event. Thanks to our green team who did such a great job!

A little recap of the event:
At Bruce Bailey’s Canadian Fête Champêtre to benefit the art acquisition fund of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $400,000 was raised in this groundbreaking gala. There were number of Firsts: first time an Ontario gala benefited a Quebec arts institution; first time the visual artists were VIPs at any Canadian gala; first time children age 4 to 17 were gala guests; first time 12% of the guests were under age 30; first time there was racial diversity at a Canadian gala; first time 12% of the guests were artists; first time those with “artistic capital” were seen as equals to those with “financial capital”; first gala with 18 performers; first gala mixing Quebec and Ontario philanthropists. The event hosted 520 guests in the countryside outside Toronto, with the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdewswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, delivering the keynote address.

I started artverb* in Toronto in the fall of 2003. My vision then was relatively simple: provide an affordable art transportation and installation service dedicated to serving the needs of Toronto’s visual arts community.

Currently artverb* has 3 large commercial trucks and our home base is still downtown Toronto. My vision now is focused on providing the highest level art installation and transportation services, and offering regular shuttles to New York City, and Montreal. Art fairs are also a major part of our business. We are the experts in North American art fairs. No other Canadian art handling company has more experience with the fairs than we do. We believe the future is in art fairs, so we regularly service all of them across North America, with special attention given to New York and Miami.

My vision for an art services company in Toronto looks different than others. For example, the reason why our trucks look different is because they reference New York City art shipping companies. Being in New York regularly for many years now, our business is now a reflection of their standards and processes for fine art handling. Our newer trucks were custom made to fulfill the high requirements of New York City art delivery. Of course, we have brought those standards to Toronto now. I strongly believe in Climate-controlled, air-ride suspension, high-security trucks. We currently have two trucks with these high standards: “Yoshi” and “Hiro”. When I first introduced “Yoshi” to Toronto, it raised the bar in Toronto, by having a superior inner-city art transportation service in a compact package. Our latest truck “Hiro” was also custom built for fine art transportation and in my opinion is arguably the best temperature-controlled and secure truck in New York & Toronto. I incorporated never-before concepts that improve temperature consistency and security that I believe sets us apart.

Trucks are just trucks though, our people are also what sets us apart.

I pride myself on having talented, smart guys that are personable and always professional. I have implemented high standards for safe art handling and installation, and we always use the best in art hanging tools and hardware available. Every job has at least one Lead installer/art handler present. Our Lead guys are the red blood cells of the artverb* blood stream. With at least three years of experience they are the best at leading a team and finding solutions for fixing your art emergency.

Some things haven’t changed though; we are still primarily an artist-run business, and we continue to focus on Toronto and its growth in the global art world. Also, being quirky artists ourselves, we have a deep understanding of the art world, but we also have a fun attitude towards it.

artverb* continues to grow and evolve organically, with changes of improvement happening constantly. I hope you will purchase a ticket and be part of the “green team” experience!