ANNUAL REPORT 2016 / Bryce Kraeker 1 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2016 / President

Looking back, and looking forward…

A milestone is commonly defined as a In looking towards the future, the At the opening of the Gallery on significant or important event in the life, Gallery launched a special anniversary September 21, 1956, the first President progress or development of a person fundraising campaign, which we of the Board, Gerald Eastman, or organization. 2016 was certainly called “60 for 60”. The goal was to expressed the vision of the Founders in a milestone year for the Kitchener- raise $60,000 in honour of our 60th establishing a gallery with the purpose Waterloo Art Gallery. anniversary, with funds earmarked of showing the “art of today”. He stated to support one of our key strategic that, “it is our conviction that art is for With the celebration of its 60th priorities: the growth of our public all people in the community. An art anniversary, the Gallery took the time programming with a view to engaging gallery, in our opinion, should be an to both reflect on its founding legacy the next generation of art lovers in our activity in which we can all be members and focus on its future vision. We increasingly diverse community. The and participate fully just as we do in revisited the stories of the Gallery’s 60 for 60 Campaign was enthusiastically our schools and in our churches”. These early Founders, a group of community embraced by the community and words remain as true today as they did builders with access to a bicycle shed to date, we have raised $175,000. 60 years ago. and a dream of forming an art gallery Donations to this campaign are that would become a cultural leader welcomed until Canada Day. regionally and nationally. I would like to take this opportunity to With the help of three volunteers, recognize the seven community leaders Judith Stephens-Wells, Kris Schumacher, who comprised the Campaign Cabinet and Senta Ross, the Gallery was able to and led the fundraising efforts. A huge identify and locate every single living thanks to Honourary Chair Jamie Martin descendant of the Gallery’s Founders and Cabinet members Bob Astley, (including two of the original Founders, Sandra Dare, Murray Gamble, Lori Gove, both of whom are in their late 90s!). Mark Schumacher, and Ross Wells for These descendants were invited to a all of the time, energy and commitment dinner at the Gallery in honour of their they put into the campaign. forebears on April 23, 2016. With some travelling from as far away as Michigan, the energy in the room was electric as 94 people gathered to share stories of their parents’ and grandparents’ legacy.

IMAGES: (cover) Edward Burtynsky, Salinas #2, Cadiz, Spain, 3/6, 2013. Digital chromogenic colour print. 121.9 cm x 162.6 cm (unframed). Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Collection. Courtesy of Edward Burtynsky, 2014. Image courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. © Edward Burtynsky. (previous page) A.Y. Jackson (centre) opens KWAG’s first exhibition, “Tom Thomson”. Gerald Eastman and Donald M.C. Shaw present, 21 September 1956. PHOTO: Courtesy of University of Waterloo Library. Kitchener Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Shirley Madill 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT 2016 / Executive Director

In the fall, a stunning exhibition of Our collection also grew in numbers, \ photographs by Edward Burtynsky adding works by Annie Dunning, entitled Infinite Change celebrated Kim Adams, Scott McFarland, and a donation of photographs by the Carol Wainio. We are proud of our 2016 has been a memorable one for the Governor General award-winning recent publications. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. We had artist, making the Gallery the holder much to celebrate as we reached the of one of the largest collections of his In addition to presenting and promoting Gallery’s 60th anniversary. We focused work in Canada. innovative exhibitions and programming on three areas aligned with our Strategic activities, we continue to work diligently Plan priorities: cultural diversity, Guest curators Edwin Outwater, Artistic toward the goal of increasing our level artists working in the region, and our Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo of self-generated revenues. In 2016, Permanent Collection. We encouraged Symphony, and KWAG volunteer we enjoyed the continued support of our local, national and global audiences Senta Ross continued our Community our sponsors, and with the help of our to discover new art, artists and ideas, Curator program. Senta added greatly Board, staff, and 60 for 60 Campaign thus honouring our Founders’ vision in to our understanding of the Gallery’s Cabinet, we raised over $175,000 in exhibiting the art of today. The Gallery history through her research on the support of public programming. presented eleven exhibitions, had one Gallery’s Founders. Her exhibition of the highest attendance years to Celebrating our Own consisted of works We were also grateful and honoured date, increased youth engagement, produced or donated by these early to receive a 10.5% increase from and developed multilingual tours in ten supporters and featured the work of Ontario Arts Council for excellence in languages besides English. Thank you artists who have worked or currently organizational effectiveness and artistic to our members and visitors for sharing work in the region. programming. We take our position as a our milestone year with us. leader in our community very seriously; Our fresh and imaginative education and this vote of confidence from our peers To launch this special year, we hosted public programs inspired audiences and was important to us. the exhibition titled The Fifth World. engaged visitors through activities that Curated by Wanda Nanibush, this ranged from interactive studios, art- We find ourselves in a unique position significant exhibition featured ground- making workshops, panel discussions, and thrilling moment in our history. As breaking work by a group of young artist and curator talks, and other gallery I reflect back at our 60th anniversary indigenous artists responding to activities. We continued to experiment celebrations, I am filled with pride for creation myths. We featured two with new ways to encourage learning our long and pioneering history, as exhibitions in the Eastman Gallery, by positioning ourselves as a center for well as our role as a leader in the local, demonstrating the Gallery’s ongoing rigorous discussion. We also piloted a national, and international art worlds. commitment to supporting new work: successful intergenerational program, Our original mission, to support the Matilda Aslizadeh: Resort and Annie continued our art and wellness programs vanguard of contemporary art, has Dunning: Echo/Locations. During the with resident doctors and seniors, and grown into an even more purposeful spring/summer, six regional artists worked hard to create events to make vision: to inspire our audiences, engage produced new work inspired by the the museum more accessible with events them with living artists, and celebrate permanent collection in Our Mutual such as Feast for the Senses and a today’s most important art and ideas. Friend. Still Lives was an exquisite family picnic and corn roast in concert exhibition of selected works from the with Ron Benner’s installation. I want to thank the individuals and permanent collection that included organizations that support us in all we a recent acquisition of a major work do. Even as I reflect fondly on the past by Canadian artist Carol Wainio titled year, I look ahead to an exhilarating Season’s End. Our annual exhibition of future. With the community’s continued student work, Expressions celebrated support at every level, KWAG has a its 41st year. bright future ahead.

IMAGE: Kent Monkman, Miss Europe, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 213.36 cm x 335.28 cm. Collection of Daniel L. Bain. PHOTO: Joseph Hartman. © Kent Monkman. Crystal Mowry 5 CURATORIAL REPORT 2016 / Senior Curator

partnerships on two publications KWAG’s 60th anniversary provided

\ produced and distributed by Black Dog the opportunity to celebrate the role Publishing, our first endeavour with a a Permanent Collection can serve in The present rearranges UK-based publisher. both an institution’s history and the the past. We never tell the imagination of the community for which story whole because a life 2016 was book-ended with exhibitions it is held in trust. For Our Mutual Friend isn’t a story; it’s a whole that sought imaginative new contexts we commissioned five KW artists to Milky Way of events and for thinking about sovereignty, create new work “in conversation” we are forever picking out colonialism and possible futures. In with works from the Collection. constellations from it to fit The Fifth World, a dynamic exhibition Edward Burtynsksy’s Infinite Change who and where we are. curated by Wanda Nanibush, the work examined the impact of industry on of a younger generation of indigenous the environment while introducing Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (2013) artists made visible the poetics in our public to nearly 40 of the works resistance, and imagining a sovereign donated to KWAG in 2014, a supplement Contemporary curatorial work often future. In Matilda Aslizadeh’s Resort, to the 53 works already housed in the unfolds in the full awareness that the a fictional narrative about an island collection. The language of memoriam narrative told in an exhibition offers one paradise protected by a massive wall, and the role that collectivity plays in story, but not necessarily the only story. visitors encountered a future where the honouring the past informed Stilled With progressive thinkers—many who desire for land overrides one’s ability Lives. Among those works were two are artists—the foundation of the work to be empathetic. With his evocation recent acquisitions: David R. Harper’s that we do is shifting in important ways. of seduction and exploitation, The Gathering, was the first installation With this in mind, our visitors were Kent Monkman’s The Four Continents acquired by KWAG in nearly 15 years invited to reflect on the past through examined the reverberations of and the first donation made by the artist the present as represented by the colonialization as told through colliding to an institution; and Carol Wainio’s varying voices and perspectives shared artistic canons. Season’s End, a majestic work by by artists, unearthed in the Permanent one of Canada’s most celebrated Collection, and developed by the guest In the spring/summer, we honed in on contemporary painters and a former curators who shaped our 2016 program. unconventional communication as a Kitchener resident. This work was theme to connect our exhibitions. purchased to remember our late KWAG Precedents for collaborative storytelling Edwin Outwater stepped away from his colleague Caroline Oliver with memorial can be found in our history of role as Music Director for the Kitchener- funds collected in Caroline’s honour partnerships and publishing. In 2016 Waterloo Symphony to serve as the and with the assistance of the Canada we continued to make strides in those ninth community curator. His exhibition, Council, a fitting tribute to someone areas by sending a reconfigured version titled Portals, focused on works that who fiercely supported the arts within of our Imitation of Life exhibition to drew him into either an imagined space the region. Finally, Celebrating Our the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and or an unanticipated dialogue. Guelph Own, a project by Community Curator presenting our Ron Benner installation artist Annie Dunning took echolocation Senta Ross, traced the efforts of the in partnership with Contemporary Art —a communication strategy practiced gallery’s Founders and the artists who Forum, Kitchener and Area (CAFKA). by humans and other species—as the shaped generations of local artists. Our publishing efforts continued in two point of departure for her exhibition of Senta’s comprehensive research into forms: online interviews and printed new works, one which was acquired by the gallery’s history was a perfect way books. We published online interviews the gallery for the Permanent Collection. to close the year and a reminder of our with Matilda Aslizadeh, Annie Dunning, Marking an exciting return to our responsibility to keep that story—and and Ron Benner; this forum offered us outdoor garden projects, Ron Benner’s others—alive for future visitors. another avenue to demonstrate the Trans/mission: 101 doubled as a lesson relevance of conversation to curatorial on the transformation and migration of work. Our “in print” initiatives included maize, one of the most abundant crops a beautiful catalogue for the Circling found in the Americas. the Inverse Square exhibition, and IMAGE: Installation view of The Fifth World. PHOTO: Robert McNair. Jennifer Bullock 7 COLLECTIONS REPORT 2016 / Assistant Curator & Registrar ACQUISITIONS 2016 /

As might be fitting for a significant Other exhibitions featuring the \ anniversary milestone, we were able to Permanent Collection were Stilled Lives realise a long time goal of updating our and Our Mutual Friend, both curated Collection Management system, which by Senior Curator Crystal Mowry. In had remained unchanged since 2003. addition, we were pleased to showcase To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the In 2016 we purchased a new database: a selection of our newest acquisition of night we first opened our doors back EmbARK, by Gallery Systems. Among photographs by renowned Canadian in September 1956, we sought to give its many capabilities is the potential to photographer Edward Burtynsky. the Permanent Collection a heightened make the Permanent Collection holdings Infinite Change featured 33 photographs presence, both within our walls and out available online while still protecting taken by the artist between 1983 and in our community. The Collection tells the artists’ copyrights. We anticipate 2010. the story not just of the Gallery’s growth making use of this capability in the next but of the many people who did–and year. Off-site, an additional 60 works from do–so much to contribute to the growth the Collection were on view, through of our community. Over the course of the year, we loans of Permanent Collection artworks exhibited the ninth and tenth to fellow cultural institutions as well Through the summer, we reached installments of our Community Curators as through considered placement of outside our viewing gallery walls and series of exhibitions. Portals was guest artworks in alternative venues within placed reproductions of three paintings curated by Edwin Outwater, Music the community. We were pleased held in the Permanent Collection on Director for the Kitchener-Waterloo to participate in Arthur Shilling: The the streets of Uptown Waterloo. Each Symphony. Edwin explored the Final Works, organised and circulated painting was chosen for the story it tells mystery and magnetism that art can by the Art Gallery of Peterborough. about the history of the arts in the city: express to pull a viewer in to deeper We continued our long standing Ice Break on the Grand River, by Homer contemplation. To curate Celebrating relationships with community partners Watson (1855-1936) who was born Our Own, guest curator Senta Ross of such as Miller Thompson, Region of Carol Wainio Carol Wainio Kim Adams and raised in Kitchener. Internationally Kitchener delved deep into local history Waterloo Administrative Headquarters, (Canadian, b. 1955) (Canadian, b. 1955) (Canadian, b. 1951) renowned in his own lifetime, he to find and celebrate the contributions and the Centre for International Season’s End, 2012 Camouflage Carabus, 2011 Hanjin, 2012 never tired of painting the region’s of the many people who have supported Governance Innovation. Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas HO scale model parts countryside; North Shore (Georgian Bay) and enriched the local arts community. 198.12 x 304.8 cm 111.8 x 152.4 cm 15 x 13.5 x 11 cm by A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974), which he Each of the 22 works in her exhibition Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Collection. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery personally promised to the Permanent was accompanied by a biography that In memory of Kitchener-Waterloo Art Collection. Donated by the Artist, 2016. Collection. Gift of Barbara Fischer, 2016. Collection just two months after acting told a piece of that larger story. Gallery employee Caroline Oliver, a as Master of Ceremonies at our first ever keen supporter of the arts. Purchased Kim Adams Kim Adams exhibition opening; Main Street (which with funds donated by the family and (Canadian, b. 1951) (Canadian, b. 1951) depicts a view of Kitchener as it was in the support of the Canada Council Shine, 2012, French Kiss, 2012 1944), by Ralph Conner (1895-1951) who for the Arts Acquisition Assistance HO scale model parts HO scale model parts founded what became the KW Society Program, 2016. 22.4 x 19 x 8 cm 18.2 x 20.4 x 14.6 cm of Artists and worked tirelessly to Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery support the local arts community. Annie Dunning Collection. Gift of Barbara Fischer, 2016. Collection. Gift of Barbara Fischer, 2016. (Canadian) Spectre #1, 2016 Kim Adams Scott McFarland Gicleé print on Hahnemuhle paper (Canadian, b. 1951) (Canadian, b. 1975) 61.0 x 76.2 cm Ruscha Allied, 2012 Cigar and Sickle, 2002 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery HO scale model parts Chromogenic print Collection. Purchased with funds 18.4 x 26 x 15.5 cm 154.9 x 125.7 cm (framed) donated by Senta Ross, Kitchener, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in honour of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collection. Gift of Barbara Fischer, 2016. Collection. Gift of Daniel Faria, 2016. Art Gallery’s 60th Anniversary. IMAGE: (page 7) Carol Wainio (Canadian, b. 1955), Camouflage Carabus (detail), 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 111.8 cm x 152.4 cm, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Collection. Donated by the Artist, 2016. PHOTO: Courtesy of the artist, Galerie René Blouin, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, and Trépanier Baer Gallery. © Carol Wainio. EXHIBITIONS 2016 / 9

22 January — 20 March 2016 THE FIFTH WORLD Sonny Assu, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Jordan Bennett, Nicholas Galanin, Ursula Johnson, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Meryl McMaster, Skeena Reece, Travis Shilling, Charlene Vickers

Curated by Wanda Nanibush

The Fifth World was commissioned in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Tribe Inc., a Saskatoon-based centre for evolving Aboriginal media, visual and performing arts. Featuring a range of media, The Fifth World examined sovereignty and responsibility in the work of a new generation of Indigenous artists. Of this exhibition’s origins, Nanibush writes:

This exhibition’s title is inspired by Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who writes about this concept in her novel, Almanac of the Dead: “The world that the capitalists envision is the one-world economy, that is their fifth world. But the fifth world is a new consciousness in the hearts of all human beings, the idea that the earth is shared and finite, and that we are naturally connected to the earth and with one another.”

Last year we danced in the Idle No More movement where we recommitted to fulfilling our responsibilities to the earth and water. Every movement, protest, border crossing, blockade, walk, song and dance is in defence of the defenceless and the necessary. Every assertion of Indigenous sovereignty on the land is a dreaming. As massive resource extraction and global warming continue, Indigenous bodies and land are where capitalism will have its last stand. This dreaming is also a profound critique of colonial thought which subjugates the body to the mind, the woman to the man, all humans to the white man, the animal to the human, the individual will to the government, truth to the lie, peace to war, water to the tailing pond, creativity to the clock, and the earth to the economy. Art is not separate from these struggles. Indigenous artists already live in this great imagining named the Fifth World. 22 January — 27 March 2016 11 RESORT Matilda Aslizadeh

Curated by Crystal Mowry

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh is primarily concerned with the shifting nature of images—including their ability to represent failure and promise. Her influences are vast–ranging from the esoteric to the popular—and her video work often recontextualizes material from “authorless” productions shared online.

For her exhibition at KWAG, Aslizadeh premiered a new video projection designed for a panoramic screen. Featuring a combination of staged actions and repurposed imagery found on the Internet, Resort explores the complex history of colonization through a fictionalized narrative set on an isolated tourist resort.

The locale of Aslizadeh’s resort reflects the social and geographic realities of many of its real-world counterparts. It maintains a physical wall to keep select people in and others out. Its value is determined by how effectively the resort’s visitors can be convinced of the total bliss within its walls. Aslizadeh picks apart the artificiality of this premise through characters who have conflicted relationships with the land on which the narrative is set. In Resort, we meet an estranged couple, an unsuccessful real estate agent, and a Captain Cook-type figure. Immersive and theatrical, Resort lays bare the correlation between land and capital while inviting us to ponder the costs associated with an exclusionary paradise.

IMAGES: (page 8 + 9) Installation views of The Fifth World. PHOTO: Robert McNair. (page 10 + 11) Installation views of Resort. PHOTO: Robert McNair. 12 March — 21 August 2016 2 April — 22 May 2016 13 PORTALS EXPRESSIONS 41—OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD Selections from the Permanent Collection Artworks by almost 300 students from Public, Catholic, and independent schools; KWAG’s Youth Council Barbara Astman, Louis Belzile, Milutin Gubash, James Kemp, Rose Lindzon installation; works from KWAG’s Permanent Collection including Harold Feist, Ray Mead, Paul Sloggett

Curated by Edwin Outwater, Music Director for the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Organized by Nicole Neufeld, Director of Public Programs

Portals was part of an ongoing series of Community Curator projects designed to activate the Permanent Collection through fresh perspectives. Edwin Outwater, Music Director for the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, was invited to develop an exhibition that would seek out the common ground shared by both music and visual arts. Of his process, he offers:

I find the paintings I relate to the most are the ones that draw me in. The ones that pull me, almost by force, under the surface, and reveal more and more as time passes. I love these paintings for their sense of mystery and magnetism. I love the doors they open for me.

For this small exhibition I have chosen paintings with these qualities. These works catch your eye, invite you in, fire up your imagination, and never leave you. Spend some time with each one. See where they take you. Feel your imagination and emotional landscape change as you fix your eye on the whole canvas, or just a detail or technique. The entrance is flat and still, but the other side of the portal is an inner world of infinite possibility and constant change and motion.

Each spring, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery showcases the artwork of elementary and secondary school students from the Waterloo Region. Expressions 41 celebrates the abundant creativity and many talents of today’s youth alongside artworks from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Our Place in the World invited students to consider what it means to be members of local and global communities, and reflect on where they fit into the “big picture.” The artwork in the exhibition captured the diversity of ways students see their surroundings and expresses what it means to be an integral part of their communities, big and small. The student artwork in Expressions 41 takes us on this expedition of the world around us through the eyes of the Region’s youth.

Insight The Insight installation is the culmination of an artist residency program delivered in partnership with St. Peter Catholic Elementary School. The program is a unique opportunity for students to work closely with a professional artist in their classroom to develop a project from beginning to end for Expressions 41. Local artist Karoline Varin worked with students to explore the idea of how we communicate and connect with one another. Together, they explored questions we all grapple with, especially in today’s digital age. What does it mean to be connected, within our own community and on a larger scale? What is necessary to build good connections with each other? Do connections help us define our place in the world at a particular moment?

IMAGES: (page 12) Installation view of Portals. PHOTO: Robert McNair. (page 13) Installation view of Expressions 41. PHOTO: Robert McNair. 28 May 2016 — Fall 2017 15 TRANS/MISSION: 101 Ron Benner

Curated by Crystal Mowry | Presented in partnership with Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener + Area

Equal parts activist and artist, Ron Benner combines photography and installation, often in the form of site-specific installation. Through these means, Benner reflects on the histories of oppression that intersect with the corporatization of our food sources.

In Trans/mission 101, Benner invites us to see the potential for education in our immediate environs. The 101 of its title is both a reference to the Gallery’s address and a colloquial short-hand for an introductory lesson. Situated on the Centre In The Square’s exterior grounds along Queen St. North, Trans/mission 101 is composed of three garden beds in the shape of the aforementioned numerals. Photographic images that connect us to other geographies are interspersed with various ornamental plants, including different varieties of maize. Frequently found in Benner’s gardens, maize has been cultivated in the Americas by Indigenous farmers for thousands of years. It is a crop with limitless possibilities; it can be found as an ingredient in processed foods, used medicinally, and processed as a fuel. Its history as an entirely human-dependent crop, its export with the advent of colonialist encounter, and its radical alteration through genetic modification contribute to the symbolic value that maize brings to Benner’s work. One can’t help but ponder how little we know about food and water and the other things that sustain us. What have we risked in the name of industry? What have we lost?

21 May — 4 September 2016 ECHO/LOCATIONS Annie Dunning

Curated by Crystal Mowry

Over the course of a decade, Guelph-based Annie Dunning has honed an interest in forms of interspecies collaboration. Her previous projects combine both curiosity and playfulness in what might be seen as the inverse of an anthropocentric environment, amplifying modes of productivity that can be found in the behaviours of non-human organisms such as fungi, birds, and wasps. Consistent throughout Dunning’s work is the desire to find a form of communication that is independent of language, a form or agency that is not merely our own.

Echo/Locations marked the premiere of Dunning’s latest efforts: new photographic works and new audio sculpture. The title of the exhibition is a reference to the method of echolocation—a form of wayfinding that is practiced by both humans and animals. It allows one to navigate through one’s surroundings by parsing echoes for crucial information about the objects in its vicinity. Independent of vision, echolocating can help one understand scale, distance, and risk while also being a useful tool to communicate across vast spaces and between species.

IMAGES: (page 14) Installation view of Echo/Locations. PHOTO: Robert McNair. (page 15) Installation view of Trans/mission: 101. PHOTO: ©2016 Scott Lee. 3 June — 4 September 2016 17 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND A Conversation with the Collection

Robert Achtemichuk, Lisa Birke, Patrick Cull, Laura De Decker, Barbara Hobot and works from the Permanent Collection by Kim Adams, John Howlin, Wanda Koop, Alfred Laliberte, Stanley Lewis, Jan Menses, Jules Olitski, Man Ray, William Ronald, Tony Urquhart, An Whitlock, Joyce Wieland

Curated by Crystal Mowry

27 August 2016 — 27 August 2017 CELEBRATING OUR OWN Selections from the Permanent Collection

Carl Henry Ahrens, Ralph Ashton, Jack Bechtel, Jane Buyers, Ralph Conner, Melissa Doherty, Elizabeth Eastman, George Eitel, Kenneth K. Forbes, Kathleen M. Geil, Art Green, Bruce Herchenrader, David Peter Hunsberger, A.Y. Jackson, Doug Kirton, Nancy-Lou Patterson, John N. Schlachter, Jeremy Smith, J. Harold Smyth, Tony Urquhart, Homer Watson, Phoebe A. Watson

The Permanent Collection, much like our exhibitions, reflects the many complex relationships that individuals may have with Guest curated by Senta Ross, Community Curator any given history; a collection can be a record of what we aspire to, cultivate, witness, negate and imagine in our respective and shared worlds. Moving beyond a traditional institutionally-directed approach to how meaning is ascribed, we invited five Celebrating Our Own was dedicated to the art in the Permanent Collection that demonstrates the vitality of cultural practice artists based in the region to select works in the Permanent Collection with which they feel a sense of kinship. and support within Waterloo Region. Ranging from the early 1900s to the present, this selection provides a rich array of visual expression. From Homer Watson, a painter much admired by Queen Victoria, to Melissa Doherty, a graduate of the University In the last sixty years, our definition of conversation has flexed to make room for the increasing influence of technology on of Waterloo Fine Arts program who is producing exciting new work, these individuals have enhanced our cultural landscape daily life. Real-time conversations can unfold virtually and instantaneously, using language or other forms of code. For each during their lifetimes and beyond, and have helped to define us. of the artists in Our Mutual Friend, different forms of conversational research are crucial to the creation of their work. Whether it is by drawing inspiration from the work of others or seeking out conceptual allegiances, the artists in Our Mutual Friend The 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery provides the opportunity to celebrate its significant demonstrated how their efforts are connected to a broader culture of ideas, efforts that mirror those of the gallery’s founders. milestones and achievements. The Founders’ vision for the Gallery was to show the best of contemporary art, a mandate that continues to this day, demonstrating KWAG’s commitment to sharing the work of today’s artists. “Connecting people and ideas through art” resonates in everything it does.

IMAGES: (page 16) Installation view of Our Mutual Friend. PHOTO: Robert McNair. (page 17) Installation view of Celebrating Our Own. PHOTO: Robert McNair. 16 September 2016 — 11 January 2017 19 INFINITE CHANGE Edward Burtynsky

Curated by Crystal Mowry

11 September — 4 December 2016 STILLED LIVES Works from the Permanent Collection For over thirty years the work of Edward Burtynsky has focused on how industrialisation has rapidly changed the natural David Blackwood, Paul Caponigro, Will Gorlitz, David R. Harper, Andre Kertesz, William MacDonnell, world. His subjects have included industrial architecture in the form of factories in both China and North America, the depletion Shelley Niro, Mary Hiester Reid, Carol Wainio of natural resources from mining and oil extraction, and the radical transformation of landscapes in pursuit of progress and efficiency. Though the particularities and locations of his subjects may differ from series to series, Burtynsky’s work has Curated by Crystal Mowry redefined the sublime as it pertains to contemporary photography.

Memory and impermanence as subjects have fascinated artists for ages. Regardless of their medium of choice, artists have Infinite Change focuses on the recent gift of forty works to KWAG by the artist—a supplement to the fifty-three works that were found ways to communicate beyond their lifetimes, repurposing symbols and imagery from shared histories. In this sense, they brought into the collection in 2000. Many of the works included in this exhibition reflect Burtynsky’s increasing use of an aerial act as time-travellers, showing us what has passed and premonitions of what is to come. vantage point—a viewpoint generally associated with scientific, rather than artistic, inquiry. In his Oil series, we see aerial views of Alberta fields transformed by oil extraction. Vast black reflecting pools fill these compositions, demonstrating that despite Within museums, the Permanent Collection is the equivalent of memory. It is a resource that continually reflects the spirit of the the awareness of limited resources, industry seems impervious to the threat of collapse. In the Water series, we see examples Gallery and the community for which it is held in trust. Always growing, the Collection accumulates new meaning with every of agricultural landscapes rendered unfamiliar through two extremes: intensified irrigation and drought-resistant farming. public appearance, every loan and every reproduction. Brown and ochre veins cut through these compositions, suggesting a microscopic view of biological material, rather than a macroscopic view of reconstituted land. The works in Stilled Lives examine how stasis and change can co-exist within a single form. In spending time in their company and considering their stories up until now, we are reminded of how meaning—in both art and real life—can be made through For Burtynsky, such interventions on the land become a radical form of abstraction. In his Mines series, images of the physical poetic juxtaposition or a purposeful shift in context. procedure of mining for precious metals in Australia reveal voids left in the landscape, an example of what the artist has described as “a lasting testament to our ambitions”. These images effectively trouble our understanding of beauty and horror in relation to consumerism. They show us the lasting impact of progress as an actual scar on the land, yet presented in a visual language that is seductive. Ours is a time wherein experiences of the sublime have been traded for dominion. These works detail, in startling clarity, both the geographic and philosophical contexts for human progress.

IMAGES: (page 18) Installation view of Stilled Lives. PHOTO: Robert McNair. (page 19) Installation view of Infinite Change. PHOTO: Robert McNair. PUBLICATIONS 2016 / 21

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Circling the Inverse Square An Te Liu Brendan Fernandes: Still Move Published by the Kitchener-Waterloo Published by Black Dog Publishing Published by Black Dog Publishing Art Gallery London UK in partnership with: London UK in partnership with: With texts by Shannon Anderson Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Dan Adler Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. Rodman Hall Art Centre | Brock With texts by Pablo Larios, Ken Lum, University; Saint Mary’s University Art Kitty Scott, Andrew Berardini Gallery; Southern Alberta Art Gallery; and Varley Art Gallery of Markham. With texts by Christina Cuthbertson, Shaun Dacey, Hendrik Folkerts, Anik Glaude, Robin Metcalfe, Crystal Mowry, Stuart Reid, and Jess Wilcox

11 December 2016 — 12 March 2017 THE FOUR CONTINENTS Kent Monkman

Curated by Crystal Mowry

Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry whose work has been lauded for its humorous and sexually-charged critique of Canada’s colonial past. Working across a variety of mediums—including painting, installation, film and performance —Monkman reimagines how betrayal and self-preservation are entangled efforts that underline our national history. Often with the aid of his alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkman creates scenes in which seduction and sexual conquest serve as analogies for the historical representation of First Nations peoples and land by European and settler artists.

The Four Continents is comprised of a series of paintings made between 2012 and 2016 and shown together for the first time. \ ONLINE In this series, Monkman takes as his point of departure Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s epic frescoes which were commissioned for a private residence in Würzburg, Germany. In Monkman’s reinterpretation of the Rococo masterwork, each continent is The Paradise of Others Ear on the Wave, Ink on the Spore Ron Benner: Trans/mission: 101 personified by a Two-Spirit sovereign with Miss Chief playing the roles of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Tiepolo’s allegory is Crystal Mowry in conversation with Crystal Mowry in conversation with Stacey Ho in conversation with updated to include architectural wonders and notable figures from history amidst chaotic crowds. The colours found on each of Matilda Aslizadeh Annie Dunning Ron Benner the four cardinal points of the Medicine Wheel figure prominently in the installation, honing our focus on notions of alignment and interrelatedness. The subtle inclusion of emblems of modernity such as abstract art, commercial luxury goods, and mechanized warfare allude to the multiple ways in which trade and theft are manifest in global narratives. Through a dizzying series of juxtapositions, Monkman invites us to consider how frisson and fiction can be found when cultural histories and artistic canons collide.

IMAGE: (page 20) Installation view of The Four Continents. PHOTO: Robert McNair. Nicole Neufeld 23 PUBLIC PROGRAMS REPORT 2016 / Director of Public Programs

complement his garden installation, The Gallery expanded our Walk the \ Trans/mission: 101. Over 300 people, Talk: Gallery Tour programming to reach including representatives all levels of a broader audience. Stroller tours for In 2016, the Public Programs department government and both cities, attended infants and toddlers with their caregivers sought to reach a broader audience the day’s activities. Throughout the year, brought in an enthusiastic group of new by growing our existing programs the Gallery also hosted a five-part local participants and growing attendance. to encourage new participants, history series related to the Gallery’s The Multilingual Tour initiative leveraged leveraged established partnerships to founding and the Public Programs volunteer enthusiasm to allow us to offer expand programs, and celebrated the department worked with the Curatorial exhibition tours in different languages, longstanding role of the Gallery in the team to animate artworks included in including Cantonese, French, Italian, community. The result: a 22% increase the Pop-up Gallery around the City of Mandarin, Polish, and Spanish. The in participation in Public Programs over Waterloo with related arts education initiative allowed us to develop a training the previous year. initiatives, both onsite and online. program volunteers who were deeply knowledgeable about our exhibitions and The Public Programs department Our Family Programs continue to be a programs at the Gallery. expanded a number of the Art and vital part of the Gallery’s community Wellness community outreach initiatives. engagement and included two new Attendance at Cornerstone programs This year, KWAG revisited a partnership initiatives in 2016. Drop-in Family Art such as artist and curator talks, with the Alzheimer Society Waterloo Hangouts are delivered at the Family exhibition tours, and vault tours Wellington to offer an intergenerational Centre in Kitchener in partnership with increased by 51%. Additionally, the program called Seniors in the Studio: Family and Children’s Services. Like Gallery extended opportunities to learn Artists in the Community Bridging Family Sundays, this program offers more about current issues and ideas in Generations. This program brought hands-on art making activities and helps contemporary art. This year’s annual together Grade 6 students at Queen us connect with new audiences. The panel discussion tackled the timely topic Elizabeth Public School and participants Gallery also offered weekly drop-in art of Art and Activism with Carol Condé with dementia and their care partners, laboratory experiences on Saturdays and Karl Beveridge, Wanda Nanibush, and was an incredible testament to during the winter and spring in 2016 and Kirsty Robertson. The Open the capacity of art to act as a catalyst called Creation Station. Family Sundays Conversations program encouraged for deeply meaningful experiences. continued to receive resounding public discussion and dialogue on the The Gallery also grew our partnership community support and the Gallery topic of social responsibility and making with KW Habilitation to offer a series endeavoured to bring in special guest profound social change. of ongoing gallery tours and studio workshop leaders throughout the year. activity workshops for adults with As always, KWAG had family-friendly School Programs are at the core of the developmental disabilities. Additionally, activities at festivals across the Waterloo Gallery’s education initiatives and include we expanded our partnership with Region throughout the summer. Expressions, Gallery tours and studio the McMaster Department of Family workshops, programs in the classroom, Medicine to include specialized The Gallery’s studio programs offered and our Youth Council. Participation in workshops for students as part of their diverse opportunities to connect our annual exhibition of student artwork Wellness Week initiatives, as well as our participants with their creative side and reached 290 with contributions from existing Art of Seeing program. with the artistic practices of local artists. students in Junior Kindergarten through Our Art Camp programs welcomed Grade 12. School Programs reached 6,296 KWAG’s 60th anniversary presented enthusiastic participation from campers students throughout the year at WRDSB, an opportunity to deepen the public’s and received rave reviews once again. WCDSB, and independent schools. understanding of the Gallery’s history Extending creative learning all year, our KWAG’s Youth Council contributed to and role as community resource. As kids’ classes and DIY Workshops for community outreach initiatives, including a cornerstone of the Celebrating 60 adults offered participants opportunities Ambush the Arts, CAFKA activities and programming, the Gallery feted its to tap into their creative side and the Kitchener Youth Action Committee birthday with an open house and corn experience the satisfaction of making. Awards, and hosted special guest artists roast that included a participatory throughout the year, including the City of performance by artist Ron Benner to Kitchener Artist in Residence. PHOTOS: (from top left, clockwise) image 4 + 6: ©2016 Scott Lee. Jennifer Laurie 25 DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 / Development Officer

Members Black and Gold, the Gallery’s annual \ The Gallery raises over 50% of its major fundraiser, underwent some budget from the private sector annually big changes. The event moved to with the ongoing generous support Bingemans and two-time Olympian and of our members, both individuals Pan Am medalist Mandy Bujold was the and businesses making up a sizeable emcee. RBC Wealth Management Private contribution to our bottom line. In Banking and RBC PH&N Investment 2016 we were pleased to offer our Counsel was our Diamond Sponsor, members new benefits including acknowledging the Gallery’s 60th advance purchases and discounts on anniversary. The new venue featured a The year that just passed marked the Gallery programs and events. Our reception sponsored by Bush Henderson Gallery’s 60th anniversary–six decades Sneak Preview Member Receptions Investment Team, a sit down dinner of connecting people and ideas through allowed member-only advance access and silent and art auctions. This year’s art. From those early days in the bike to exhibitions including The Fifth World committee worked hard to engage shed to the present, the Gallery’s success curated by Wanda Nanibush¸ Resort by new support for the silent auction and has been due to the enthusiasm, support Matilde Aslizadeh, Echo/Locations by over 50% of silent auction items came and engagement of the community. Annie Dunning, Our Mutual Friend: from new donors. In addition, we had a A Conversation with the Collection, terrific live auction overseen by charity 60th Anniversary Trans/mission: 101 by Ron Benner, auctioneer Martin Julien and featuring To prepare the Gallery for the years Stilled Lives: Works from the Permanent items from WestJet, Knar Jewellers, ahead, the 60 for 60 Campaign was Collection and Edward Burtynsky: artist Doug Kirton, and a stunning launched in the spring at an event Infinite Change. live-edge walnut table by Drift Design. sponsored by Bush Henderson Once again we enjoyed a terrific art Investment Team. The goal was to raise Members also had the chance to meet activity sponsored by Bush Henderson $60,000 for the Gallery in support of its with gallerist, curator and art dealer Investment Team. The 50/50 draw was exhibitions and programming. Thanks to Stephen Bulger and Heather Beecroft, again a huge success with a $500 prize the incredible generosity of donors from an expert in Inuit and Indigenous art as for the lucky winner. The event raised across the region, we raised $175,000! part of the Collectors’ Series. over $54,000 to support the Gallery’s programs and exhibitions. The assistance and commitment of our Special Events Campaign Cabinet were instrumental In addition to a roster of 60th anniversary in obtaining this outstanding result. events, the Gallery again hosted its main Chaired by Jamie Martin, the cabinet fundraiser, Black & Gold, and culinary included Bob Astley, Sandra Dare, experience, Feast for the Senses. Murray Gamble, Lori Gove, Bryce Kraeker, Mark Schumacher We were thrilled to have chef and Ross Wells. Ryan Murphy of Public for our February Feast for the Senses where he drew inspiration from The Fifth World, an exhibition curated by Wanda Nanibush. In the fall, chef Jonathan Gushue of The Berlin worked his magic with sommelier Wes Klassen and presented a fantastic evening of food and beverage pairings inspired by the works of Edward Burtynsky. Feast for the Senses is sponsored by GOWLING WLG.

In terms of other key revenue sources, The KWAG endowment fund continues \ in 2016, 28% of total revenue came from to play an important role in our long- the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, term financial plan for secure and who continue to provide core annual consistent funding of operations. funding that is fundamental to the The investments performed well this Gallery’s operations. Provincial and year and as of December 31, 2016, the national arts funding organizations market value of our locally managed such as the Ontario Arts Council, endowment fund was $452,442 while The Canada Council for the Arts and the value of the Allan MacKay Curatorial In 2016, KWAG launched a three-year the Arts Investment Fund represent Fund was $153,937. These represent initiative to celebrate the Gallery’s 60th our other critical partners, contributing increases for both funds from the prior anniversary and position KWAG for approximately 14% to KWAG’s year. During 2016, $10,047 of the success for the next 60 years. We are operations and programming during Allan MacKay Curatorial Fund, incredibly grateful for the overwhelming the year. established by the Musagetes Arts support this campaign received over and Culture Fund, was used to support the past year. This was also a leading The remainder of funding is provided the Edward Burtynsky exhibition contributor to the year-end surplus by public support from individuals, Infinite Change. achieved of $75,586, which represents a foundations, corporations and public significant increase from 2015 and past programs. As mentioned above, Thank you to all of the donors and years and simply would not have been specifically for this year, this also partners who have supported KWAG possible without all of your support. includes fundraising for the 60 for 60 for the past 60 years and we hope will campaign. In total, this accounts for continue to do so for many years to more than 50% of total revenue. come. The Gallery had quite a year!

On the expenditure side, in 2016 we increased spending by almost $75,000 to deliver another remarkable year of exhibitions and public programming for the community.

IMAGE: (page 26) Installation view of Echo/Locations. PHOTO: Robert McNair. 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES 2016 / GALLERY STAFF AND ARTIST EDUCATORS 2016 / 41

President Executive Committee Nominations Committee Executive Director Development Officer Gallery Attendants Studio Assistants Bryce Kraeker Bryce Kraeker, Chair Bryce Kraeker, Chair Shirley Madill Jennifer Laurie Lauren Seifried Cameron Ball Mike Aiken Judith Stephens-Wells (until September) Aleksandra Isakov Reetu Kambo Leah Caravan Shannon Jackson VP, Finance and Treasurer Shelly Mitchell Senior Curator Assistant Curator (from November) Anna McWebb Reetu Kambo Judith Stephens-Wells Board Members Crystal Mowry and Registrar Meghan Stronge Brittany Wyllie-Stevens Shehnaz Banduk Jennifer Bullock (from September) Brian Bourke Nell Crook VP, Development Finance Committee Murray Gamble Director of Finance (until May) Exhibition Mike Aiken Reetu Kambo, Chair Alexandra Hardy and Administration Curatorial Assistant Terrina Reitzel Installation Crew (until May) Jeff Howald Doug Kirton Shelly Mitchell Linda Perez Robert Achtemichuk Bryce Kraeker Sarah Marsh Nicholas Breton Shelly Mitchell Rohinton Medora Contract Jennifer Bullock VP, Internal Judith Stephens-Wells Kris Schumacher Director of Preparator Artist Educators Nell Crook Judith Stephens-Wells Thomas Scott Public Programs Joshua Peressotti Christine Ball Barb Hobot John Wolfe Nicole Neufeld (until August) Sarah Badran Samantha Howarth Endowment Fund Management (returned in February Shannon Muegge Elissa Barber Shannon Jackson Board Members John Wolfe, Chair from maternity leave) (from November) Linda Boyle Sarah Kernohan Shehnaz Banduk Jeff Howald Allie Brenner Kaitlyn Webb Patience Brian Bourke Shelly Mitchell Julie Burdett Josh Peressotti Nancy Campbell Bryce Kraeker Manager of Public Programs Kate Carder-Thompson Linda Perez Murray Gamble David Paleczny Public Programs Coordinator Soheila Esfahani Tait Wilman Alexandra Hardy Thomas Scott –Interim Alexandra Krueger Pamela Glew Doug Kirton Rick Vandermey Annabelle Girard (started maternity leave in July) Sarah Granskou Sarah Marsh (until February) Karoline Varin Samantha Howarth Contract Photographers Rohinton Medora (from July) Isabella Stefanescu Scott Lee Kris Schumacher Permanent Collection Committee Stephen Lavigne Robert McNair Thomas Scott Doug Kirton, Chair Director of Marketing Living Fresh John Wolfe Lois Andison and Communications School Programs Alistair MacLellan Karen Rickers Jennifer Bullock Coordinator Catherine Mellinger Murray Gamble (until December) Kate Carder Thomson Jason Panda Tom Motz Carmen Rowe Crystal Mowry Lauren Seifried Isabella Stefanescu Graphic Designer Visitors Services Arlene Thomas Liz Morant Judith Stephens-Wells and Volunteer Karoline Varin Coordinator Julie Lynch

Shirley Madill, Executive Director is Ex-Officio on all committees PROGRAMMING PARTNERS + COLLABORATORS 2016 / 43

The Gallery is pleased to acknowledge and thank the following partners and collaborators for their work with us in 2016. Waterloo Catholic District School Board Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery By working together and sharing our ideas and resources, we enhance the artistic life of our community. › Providing curriculum connected School Programs for Co-partner for Brendan Fernandes: Still Move publication students of all ages › Expressions 41 and Insight program › Educator professional development workshops Southern Alberta Art Gallery \ PUBLIC PROGRAMS Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre › Co-op student placements Hosting institution for Imitation of Life, co-partner for › Multicultural Festival An Te Liu and Brendan Fernandes: Still Move publications and co-publisher of Sarah Cale (forthcoming) publication Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington Waterloo Region District School Board › Seniors in the Studio: Artists in the Community Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony › Providing curriculum connected School Programs for Bridging Generations (intergenerational program) › Family art activities for the Family Pre-Concert Experience students of all ages Varley Art Gallery of Markham › AfterpARTies following Signature Series Concerts › Expressions 41 and Insight program Co-partner for Brendan Fernandes: Still Move and › Program partner at summer outreach festivals › Educator professional development workshops co-publisher of Sarah Cale (forthcoming) publications City of Kitchener › Co-op student placements › Family art activities for Discovery Square › Seniors in the Studio: Artists in the Community Bridging › Kidspark KW Habilitation Generations (intergenerational program) City of Waterloo › Kitchener Youth Action Council Awards › Workshops for adults with developmental disabilities Host site for Pop Up Gallery project › Ambush the Arts, National Youth Arts Week event Waterloo Public Library McMaster University, Department › STEAM Heat festival Centre In The Square City of Waterloo of Family Medicine Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection › We Are Waterloo Portrait Project › Art of Seeing program partner › Pop Up Gallery Project › Wellness Week programming partner \ EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATIONS Centre of International Governance Innovation Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection Coalition for Muslim Women Night/Shift Art Gallery of Grand Prairie › Meet the Men Who Stand Beside Us (festival) › Festival partner Co-partner for An Te Liu publication › Calligraphy workshops Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection NUMUS Black Dog Publishing The Family Centre › Concert series Publisher of An Te Liu and Brendan Fernandes: › Family Art Hangouts (family drop-in programs) Still Move publications Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics › Art in the Car Park (festival) Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection The Registry Theatre › Pre-show family art activities at The Registry Theatre Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener and Area Joseph Schneider Haus › Programming in conjunction with Family Sundays (CAFKA) Waterloo Region Headquarters › Programming in conjunction with Family Sundays › Extracurricular festival Co-presenter for Trans/mission: 101 Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection

Kitchener Horticultural Society Shadow Puppet Theatre Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver City of Kitchener › Programming for Trans/mission: 101 › Drama activities and puppet workshops at Family Sundays Co-partner for Brendan Fernandes: Still Move publication Long term loan of work from Permanent Collection

Kitchener Public Library University of Waterloo Rodman Hall Art Centre / Brock University › Programming in conjunction with Family Sundays › Canada Day festival Co-partner for Brendan Fernandes: Still Move publication › Program partner for Discovery Square art activities › Department of Fine Arts interns through the › Do-it-Yourself Festival Experiential Learning program › Partner for visiting artists talks Corporate Circle/Donors Beverly Harris and John H. and Sarah Marsh 45 DONORS/FUNDERS/SPONSORS/MEMBERS 2016 / Double R Steel Tim Seegmiller Janet M. Panabaker Ian Mclean Graham Mathew Peggy Jarvie Joy Roberts David McCammon Photography Professional Corporation Doug and Lynne Kirton Senta Ross Juanita Metzger and Institute of Bryce and Kelly Kraeker Paul and Paula Rostrup Trent Bauman Corporate Directors Hartman and Brenda Krug Anthony Salomone rych mills Manulife Dr. Desta Leavine Marcia Schofield Bruce and Shelly Mitchell Rae & Lipskie Investment Rex Lingwood and Peter Sims Crystal Mowry and Counsel Inc. Wendy Mitchinson Richard Vandermey and Eric Roesler Sunlife Financial Shirley Madill Trish McKegg-Vandermey Leah Neumann Waterloo Manufacturing Dr. Red and Susan Mather David J. Westfall Frank and Marie Nowak Company Ltd. The Menich Family Andrea and Ted Witzel George and Dora Peppall Anonymous (2) Tom and Liz Motz Carl Zehr and Sandy Chris Mirko Petricevic Edwin Outwater Anonymous Roy Pletch Directors’ Circle $5000+ David Paleczny and Geoffrey and Ann Power Andrea Parks Mary Reynolds Friends Of Kwag $50+ Roland and J. Elaine Rees Bob and Judy Astley David and Joan Petras Michel and Lynda Allard Frank & Kathleen Rogers Mr. Michael A. Barnstijn and Karen and Warren Redman Ian and Ruth Atkinson Eric Rumble Ms. Louise A. MacCallum Paul and Rita Ross Robert Blake Dr. Malcolm B. and Pamela Bierstock Rob Schlegel and Bruce and Mary Boucher Anne E. Shantz Murray and Jennifer Barnes Michael and Michele Boucher Alison A. Smith Terry Ann Gamble Mark and Kris Schumacher Alexandre Boussetta Charles R. Smith Randall Howard and Jim and Val Stinson Julie Burdett Mendel and Judith Somer 60 For 60 Campaign Thomas Scott Allan MacKay Curatorial Momentum Developments (*indicates member of the Dietmar and Endowment Fund, Bruce Paquette Judy McMullan David J. Westfall Barbara A. Campbell and Edward and Mary Sopko Campaign Cabinet) Mary Ellen Sommerfeld established by The Region of Waterloo John A. and Joyce Pollock John and Michelle Wolfe John D. Tennant Rafael Sorkin and Bob and Judy Astley* Sorbara Law Musagetes Arts and Arts Fund Dr. Michael S. Casey Fatma Husein Bush Henderson TMMC Culture Fund Scotiabank Gallery Circle $3500+ Partner Club $250+ Anne Childs and F. Gary Hale Fred Standeven Investment Team William Uffelman Ontario Arts Council Sorbara Law Ross Wells and Carmeta Abbott Scot Dalton Dwight and Kathy Storring Carey Homes Ross Wells and RBC Foundation Sun Life Financial Judith Stephens-Wells Thomas and Roswita Ball Paula de Lorenzi Marilyn Truemner Manfred and Penny Conrad Judith Stephens-Wells* Rand Family Fund TD Bank Ingrid Bloos Elizabeth Dell Judy Turner and Bill Feeney Family Foundation John and Michelle Wolfe The Kitchener and Waterloo The Gamble Family Curator’s Circle $1000+ Mary and Ted Brough Margaret Dickson Jim Tubb The Cowan Foundation Community Foundation Waterloo Catholic District Mike Aiken Jane Buyers and Don Druick John and Marilyn Dippell Paul Van De Kamer Carmen and James Austin Dr. Richard Christy Ben and Norma Fear Ransom Vrooman The Dare Family* Friends of Kwag Donors - Community Fund School Board Equitable Life Anne Childs and - The Musagetes Fund Waterloo Region District Dr. Kerr and Shehnaz Banduk Dr. Shah and Donnita Deen Doug Ferguson Mark Walton Alexandra Hardy Garry F. Hale - The John A. Pollock School Board Marina Barnstijn Jane G. Hill Jerry and Marg Finnen Bev Harris and Fatima Garzan Family Fund Doug and Aggie Beynon Jeff and Anita Howald Douglas Fraser Donor $25+ Alf Bogusky and Ivan and Carol Hurlbut Dianne Fries Fred Blayney Tim Seegmiller Richard and Jean Haalboom - The Waterloo Region Acquisitions The Gamble Family* Record – Lyle S. Hallman Jon Fear and Family Anne Pappert Dr. Roderick and Fatima Garzan Bruce Brubacher Anne Brydon Alberta Jack Shelley Gerger and Judy Ginsler Lori Gove* Funding Organizations Foundation Kids to Ken and Norah Rae GOWLING WLG and Foundations Camp Fund Senta Ross Nancy Campbell Jacob and Grace Jutzi Roger Payne Cynthia Hiebert Home Hardware Stores Ltd. Canada Council for the Arts Young Canada Works Ron Craigen and Reetu and Dalvir Kambo Richard and Jean Haalboom David Livingstone Margaret McCreery Thomas Scott and Marilyn Harder Leslie Macredie KPMG Museum Assistance Program, Other Gifts Sandra Dare Karen McCardle Barb and Jim Heldmann Mary Pappert Bryce and Kelly Kraeker* Department of Project Partners/Sponsors The Sears Family Jamie and Renee Martin* Canadian Heritage Christie Digital Ron and Betsy Eydt Jackie Hatherly-Martin and Giselle Holst Gregory Ursu Roger and Cathy Farwell Keith Martin Theron and Joy Kramer Kerri Van der Meer Melloul-Blamey City of Kitchener Crowne Plaza Gifts In Memory of Construction Ltd. City of Waterloo Kitchener-Waterloo Len Robitaille Jon Fear Joyce MacCallum Terence Kroetsch John and Janet Panabaker Government of Canada, Equitable Life of Canada Anonymous Dr. Arnold and Jamie and Renee Martin Jennifer Laurie RBC Wealth Management Summer Career GOWLING WLG Mary Ann Fleming Harald A. Mattson Martin and Charlotte Levene & RBC Phillips, Hager Placements Initiative KPMG Gifts In Memory of Joseph Fung Rohinton Medhora Sonia and Tony Lewis & North Investment Counsel Kitchener and Waterloo Paul Sandham Xiaopu Fung Thomas and Jocelyn Mennill Glen and Claire Machan Senta Ross Community Foundation Wendy Schell Lori and Peter Gove William and Doreen Motz Donald and Esther MacKay Mark and Kris Schumacher* Manulife Alexandra Hardy Eleanor and Robert Mueller Eric Maki BLACK & GOLD 2016 / 47

Diamond Event Sponsor Picard’s Peanuts Carlson Wagonlit House of Angels National Ballet of Canada Board Game Cafe & Tavern Artist Donors Jennifer Laurie RBC Wealth Management Stag Shop Travel Waterloo Idea Exchange Oiseau Salon The Bauer Café Robert Achtemichuk Katya Pern | RBC Phillips, Hager & The Bay, Conestoga Mall Centre in the Square J.M. Drama Alumni / ONE AXE Pursuits The Berlin Restaurant Jane Buyers Senta Ross North Investment Counsel Channer’s Men’s Apparel Registry Theatre Paul Puncher Men’s Clothier The Charcoal Group Susan Coolen Elaine Tustin-Smith Silent Auction Donors City Café Bakery Kathie Jordan Design Pelee Island Winery of Restaurants Patrick Cull Sharon Wigle Supporting Sponsors Abe Erb Cocoon Apothecary Kiss Kiss Shoes Petsche’s Shoes Ltd. The Clay and Glass Gallery William Eakin (RBC) Annette Woloszyn Miller Thomson LLP Aga Khan Museum Come Alive Fitness Kitchener Golf - Princess Cinemas The Culinary Studio Soheila Esfahani Airways Transit Community CarShare Doon Valley G.C. Puslinch Lake Golf Course The Frugal Decorator Cathy Farwell Black & Gold Sponsors Amma Yoga Creative Landscape Depot Kitchener Waterloo Queen Street Yoga The Lighting Shoppe Anne Filiatrault Event Volunteers Audi KW Anita’s Skincare Spa Crowne Plaza Symphony Rita Ross THEMUSEUM Michael Flomen Pat Arsentault Bush Henderson Apollo Cinema Kitchener-Waterloo Knar Jewellery Royal Ontario Museum The Power Plant Allan Harding MacKay Barb Billo Investment Team April March, Personal Trainer David’s Tea Knight Realty Brokerage Inc. Roylco The Waters Urban Barbara Hobot Greg Billo Cook Construction Art Gallery of Ontario Delta Waterloo K-W Sewing Machines Rumners Wobble Spa Retreat Doug Kirton Julie Burdett Diefenbacher Baden Integrative Health Destination Inn & Suites La Cucina Schreiter’s The WORKS Gourmet Eileen MacArthur Maritza Estrada Donovan Sieber /Chiropractic & Co Drayton Entertainment Langdon Hall Seasons Fine Clothing Burger Bistro Sandra Martin Carolyn Ferguson Henry Walser Funeral (Dr. Pierre Plante) Drift Design Lazer Tag Cambridge Sharon Morton Toronto Summer Music Robert McNair Leanne Kim Home Limited BATL | The Backyard Axe Envie Intimates Legacy Greens Shaw Festival Towne Bowl James Nye Milena McCormack KPMG Throwing League Erban Corner Les Diplomates B&B Sherri Flegel, RMT Urban Body Health Spa Margaret Peter Bruce Mitchell Pelee Island Winery Belgian Nursery Factory Shoe (Executive Guest House) Shirley Madill VIA Rail Canada Roslyn Ramsay Jeremy Mitchell Programmed Insurance Beverly Hills Weight Flowt K-W Lily’s Professional Hairstyling Skydive Toronto Vicanie’s Allyson Schmidt-Reeves Nicole Mitchell Brokers Inc. Management Clinic Fred Astaire Dance Studio Living Lighting Sole Restaurant and Bar Victoria St. Market Bill Schwarz Shelly Mitchell Toyota Motor Manufacturing Bingemans Frederick Street Inn Lost and Found Theatre and Blackshop Restaurant Vincenzos Ron Shuebrook Katya Pern Canada Inc. Boston Pizza Gardiner Museum M&M Food Market St. Jacobs Outlet Mall Waterloo Region Museum Judith Stephens-Wells Senta Ross Bowring Sunrise Gina’s Spa Mark Nunes Stag Shop Waterloo Region Record Jean Stevenson Elaine Tustin-Smith In-Kind Sponsors Breadbaron Sandwiches Grand River Film Festival Meadow Acres StationHouse Catering Co./ WestJet Karoline Varin Direction Printing Bruce Street Grand River Glassworks Garden Centre Waterloo Fire Rescue Words Worth Books Black & Gold Patsy Vautour Factory Shoe, Kitchener Family Chiropractic Grand River Rocks Mel’s Diner Steam Whistle Brewing The Yeti Café Organizing Committee Sharon Wigle Martin’s Family Fruit Farm Cambridge Butterfly Hauser Company Store Merry-Hill Golf Club Studio Fuzion Pat Arsenault Annette Woloazyn Nestlé Waters Canada Conservatory Henna4You Moksha Yoga Studio Sweet Dreams Teashop Barbara Billo Rui Yang Niagara Helicopters Camerons Flower Shop Herrle’s MT Space The Adventurer’s Guild Julie Burdett Xinyi Yang PHOTOS: ©2016 Scott Lee. VOLUNTEERS 2016 / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / 49

Nicole Neufeld \ Each and every day throughout the year, the Public Programs team brings a deep commitment to connecting our publics with new and creative ideas through their enthusiasm for art and innovative arts programming. My deepest and warmest thanks go to Alex Krueger, Shirley Madill Public Programs Coordinator (until August, maternity I would like to extend my gratitude to the President of the leave), for always delivering programs with integrity and Board, Bryce Kraeker, and the Gallery’s Board of Directors for imagination and Karoline Varin (since July), for your fresh their invaluable support and advice over this memorable year. perspectives and insightful approach; to Kate Carder- A very special thank you to the Senior Management team— Thompson, School Programs Coordinator, for your Shelly Mitchell, Director of Finance and Administration; Crystal thoughtful approach to working with diverse audiences Mowry, Senior Curator; Nicole Neufeld, Director of Public and striving to inspire all; to all of our Artist Educators, Programs and Jennifer Laurie, Development Officer—and Christine Ball, Allie Brenner, Samantha Howarth, all KWAG staff for their collective efforts in making the year Steve Lavigne, Julie Lynch, Catherine Mellinger, such a success. To artists, colleagues, community partners, Carmen Rowe, and Lauren Seifried, your shear enthusiasm volunteers, audiences, contributors, members, sponsors—our and unwavering commitment to connecting with our publics work is possible only because of you, and for that I express my is enormously invaluable. To all of you, your support for our deep and sincere thanks. Special acknowledgement goes to publics, the Gallery, and our team is truly inspiring! our public funders—Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council; City of Kitchener; and City of Waterloo—for without this support we would not be able to accomplish what we do. Shelly Mitchell Lois Andison Marketa Divinova Aleksandra Isakov Abida Meerasa Ala Shadid Thank you to our Visitor Services Coordinator Julie Burdett Pat Arsenault Hilary Dow Olya Jaworsky Martha Merrall Christie Shen and her team of Gallery Attendants: Leah Caravan, Crystal Mowry Beatriz Asfora Yasmine Du David Junca Bruce Mitchell Taylor Singh Lauren Seifried, Megan Stronge, Nell Crook, Terrina Reitzel. Curiosity guides most of the work that we undertake within the Cameron Ball Sara Dutra Reetu Kambo Jeremy Mitchell Isabella Stefanescu These dedicated staff members welcome visitors, answer curatorial department. In 2016, our team excelled at digging Sindura Bandla Ruby Eagle Yasmeen Khan Nicole Mitchell Judith Stephens-Wells general inquiries about exhibitions, classes and public talks deeper to find creative solutions to every exhibition design Shehnaz Banduk Maritza Estrada Leanne Kim Tom Motz Nancy Townes and process registrations for programs. We were open to and administrative challenge. My sincerest thanks to Assistant Mikayla Barney Orel Fargas Doug Kirton Laman Muradova Elaine Tustin-Smith the public for more than 2700 hours and welcomed more Curator/Registrar Jennifer Bullock for working tirelessly to Hannah Barret Anne Filiatrault Shannon Kivavia Sagal Muse Sua Vang than 30,230 visitors and participants and this team was help us achieve and set new goals for the care and visibility of Elizabeth Baxter Shirley Fu Bryce Kraeker Nathan Nederpelt Patsy Vautour instrumental in making everyone feel at home. the Permanent Collection; to Linda Perez, Curatorial Assistant, Grace Bedwell Caroline Ferguson Sydney Laurie Sarah Ocean Sofia Velikov for the generosity and mindfulness that underlines all of our A special thank you as well to our 116 volunteers who Shanika Benjamin Murray Gamble Brittany Law Liz O’Reilly Chloe Wei interactions with artists; and to Preparators Josh Peressotti contributed over 3300 hours of their time in 2016. Barbara Billo Hannah Gardiner Linda Leblanc Salome Parez Sharon Wigle-Clayton (until September) and Shannon Muegge (from November) for We could not do all that we do without all of you! Greg Billo Jack Giesen Yan Li Mansi Patel Arianna Williams tackling every installation with calm and expertise. Thanks also Isabel Blurton-Jones Breigha Gillespie Destiny Katya Pern John Wolfe to our KWAG colleagues, volunteers, students, casual staff, Brian Bourke Crystal Gomez Louangsombath Flor Ponciano Annette Woloszyn donors, artists and gallery visitors who continue to promote Alyssa Bussolaro Lauren Grant Donna Louks Gabbie Ratajczak Rui Yang the value of visual arts within our region. Liz Buzza Angela Grasse Alice Lu Senta Ross Xinyi Yang Nancy Campbell Alexandra Hardy Timothy Luckhurst Zahra Saidhersi Sharon Yau Yating (Kiney) Chen Melika Hashemi Milena McCormack Eric Salazar Natalie Zapata Maria Chowdhury Violet He Courtney Magnus Chris Sargent Lily Zhang Devon Chrecholia Frank Heinrich Dale Mann Leticia Schuelter de Regan Zink Jeffery Cui Jeff Howald Sarah Marsh Lima Rachel Dang Jinwen Hu Zoe Mayirou Kris Schumacher Kevin Dias Dawn Huang Rohinton Medhora Susan Seredynsky

IMAGES: (back cover, top to bottom) KWAG on Benton Street, opening October 18, 1968, Imperial Oil Collection. PHOTO: KWAG Archives. KWAG's first location, Bicycle shed. PHOTO: KWAG Archives.