Suzanne Carte, who started a fund that gives artists free materials and helped create more chances for artists to work in the Art Gallery of Burlington's studios, is leaving in December to become director and curator of the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery at York University. The Burlington gallery announced the move on Instagram.

Carte founded the Artist Material Fund in 2014 and has grown it with the gallery since. It gives away usable art supplies free of charge, which the gallery says ties environmental responsibility to making sure artists can get the resources they need.

She also worked with colleagues on Community Generator, a program that gives artists and community organizations more chances to exhibit, learn and work in the gallery's studios. The gallery's free Family Open Studios this fall looks at the work of two Community Generator artists, Paper Pals Collective and Mahnoor Euceph.

The gallery credits Carte with expanding what a public gallery can mean to its community. Through exhibitions, collaborations and practical support for creative work, it says, she "brought artists and audiences into conversations about identity, belonging, labour, care and the world we share."

The gallery's full press release on her departure is posted at agb.life/media.