MACKENZIE ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 01 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 4 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO’S MESSAGE 5 YEAR IN REVIEW 7 EXHIBITIONS 31 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS 35 NEW PROGRAM SPACE AND CAFÉ 37 DONORS & SPONSORS 41 PERMANENT COLLECTION ACQUISITIONS 63 COMMUNITY SUPPORT 64 MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS 69 BOARD OF TRUSTEES & STAFF 71 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CORE FUNDING PROVIDED BY: Image: Joane Cardinal-Schubert (Canadian [Káínawa], 1942–2009), My Mother’s Vision: The Warshirt Series — I am Yelling for All Things on Earth — I am Screaming!, 1986, acrylic, oil pastel, and 01 conte on paper. Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, gift of Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner, the Kampelmacher Memorial Collection of Indigenous Art. 02 Message from the President The MacKenzie was thrilled to be the recipient of the Message from the Executive Director and CEO Kampelmacher Memorial Collection of Indigenous Artwork As President of the MacKenzie this year, donated by Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner. This Recently the MacKenzie has been These changes, as well as the incredible exhibitions and Art Gallery’s Board of Trustees, I donation of more than 1,000 artworks not only fills in gaps in talking about re-imagining what an programming we have developed over the past year, have am pleased to share with you the our permanent collection, but also allows the Gallery to offer art museum in the 21st century can helped us get even closer to realizing the goals of our achievements of the past year. In educational resources for researchers, scholars and students. be. We have accomplished many Strategic Plan for 2018-23, which were threefold: to Create 2018/19, the MacKenzie advanced its things in the past year that move us Outstanding Visitor and Participant Experiences, Strengthen vision to become an immersive centre Thank you to the many individuals and businesses who towards this ambitious and timely Organizational Resilience, and Foster our Core Identity. A vital for art focusing on visitors and artists, sustain the MacKenzie through donations and participation transformation. art museum is at the core of democratic societies and most Indigenous culture and diversity in fundraising events. Together, we raised over $120,000 in business leaders agree that a vibrant arts and culture sector while remaining grounded in history, support of the Gallery through fundraising events such as I believe that the Gallery is a meeting creates a healthier, more productive, and more innovative education, and sustainability. Bazaart, Holiday Bazaart, and the MacKenzie Gala. We also place, to explore new ideas, and economy and higher quality of life. We are committed to extend deep gratitude to our members, donors, and corporate to foster creativity through visitor ensuring we are able to deliver this for generations to come. Over 88,000 visitors experienced the sponsors for their ongoing support. interactions. An art gallery or museum is not exclusively MacKenzie’s innovative public programs and exhibitions in a place to passively observe objects hanging on a wall. We are entering the new year by gaining momentum through 2018/19. This year, we were thrilled to reveal new projects Lastly, I extend a personal thanks to staff and volunteers More and more we are inviting visitors to explore their own planned artwork commissions, exhibitions and programs, that had been in the works for a few years: notably, the public for their passion and dedication to the Gallery, making it an creativity through hands on making opportunities and other facility and technological enhancements and organizational artwork on the outside of the building by Duane Linklater, exciting space for new experiences. interactive activities. We want the Gallery to be an immersive development. Come visit and you will soon see a further Kakike/Forever, that was installed in May 2018, and our new experience where you can stimulate all your senses, and renovation of the front of the gallery and welcome area. We café and programming space, Craft Services, which opened It is all of these people – staff, volunteers, donors, supporters, go away re-invigorated, inspired, challenged, informed and will also soon launch a completely re-designed website—an in November 2018. This report details how these projects, and visitors – who animate the Gallery as a vital community hopefully transformed. information portal directly linked to the above strategic in addition to our new and distinctive exhibitions and hub where encounters with art enrich the lives of everyone. objectives. programming, help foster transformative experiences of the To prepare ourselves to offer these new and expanded world through art. It is rewarding to look back on all that we have accomplished opportunities, we set a number of short-term goals. These I want to take this opportunity to thank our Board, staff and this past year, and equally as exciting to look forward to included launching a new brand and visual identity to volunteers for their dedication and passion for the MacKenzie! The MacKenzie acted as a creative hub for youth in 2018/19 what is to come. We continue to develop what will become communicate what is changing, the installation of a new café The MacKenzie is full of potential in the coming year with both inside and outside the Gallery. We serve 8,000 youth a robust welcome centre that you will soon see, and have and program space to facilitate new and more community further exciting announcements and developments. Don’t per year through gallery tours and hands-on workshops, and launched a new membership program and admissions model interactions and opportunities, and to mount a new major miss a thing by purchasing or renewing your membership we reached an additional 6,000 youth across the province with the aim of continuing to build strong visitor engagement public artwork on the façade of our building by artist Duane today. We look forward to sharing with you and hearing from through our Provincial Touring program. The BMO Learning and experience, while also strengthening the MacKenzie Art Linklater. I am gratified we have achieved all these goals and you! Centre bustled with parents and children creating art together Gallery’s sustainability for generations to come. more, and we have received enthusiastic responses. At the on Studio Sundays, thanks to the generous sponsorship of time of writing, we have just launched our new membership Great West Life, Canada Life, and London Life. program, and are about to embark on a new admissions model for the Gallery. These changes will allow us to expand our Gallery visitors of all ages discovered major exhibitions during programming, including new and diverse exhibitions, and to Thursday Night Lates, and the REALI (Recreation, Life Skills, invest in a better visitor experience, with expanded front-line Story Telling and Art Activity) program, which was presented Johanna Salloum staff and volunteers and information sharing, and allowing us Anthony Kiendl in partnership with the Regina Immigrant Women Centre, President, MacKenzie Art Gallery Board of Trustees to implement a more customized experience delivered in part Executive Director and CEO served immigrant and refugee women and their children through an enhanced level of visitor services. Saturday morning. 03 Photos: Don Hall 04 YEAR IN REVIEW 2018/19 Attendance Exhibition Openings In-House 73,915 Number of Openings 8 Out-of-House 14,731 Attendance 913 Total 88,646 Development Highlights Attendance Highlights Cash and in-kind contributions Special Events 7,868 from organizations $1,318,392 Facility Rentals 14,218 Cash and in-kind contributions from individuals $1,001,660 School and Youth Project Net result of three fundraising events $168,409 Tours 230 Gallery Shop net proceeds $18,178 Attendance 3,607 Total $2,506,639 Provincial Touring Artists and Exhibition Membership Program Program Membership proceeds (minus donation portion) $21,563 Tours 233 Active Gallery Memberships 571 Communities Visited 20 Attendance 6,788 Volunteers Volunteers 147 REALI Program (Recreation, life skills, Hours donated by Volunteers 2,591 storytelling and art activities) Workshops 47 Attendance 843 Community and Public Tours and Programs Tours and Programs 263 Attendance 9,424 05 Image: Germaine Arnaktauyok (Canadian [Inuit, Igloolik], born 1946), The Sun and the Moon, 2003, etching on paper, edition a/p 4/6. Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, gift of Thomas 05 Druyan and Alice Ladner, the Kampelmacher Memorial Collection of Indigenous Art. 06 EXHIBITIONS Mixing Stars and Sand: The Art & Legacy of Sarain Stump March 3 to June 24, 2018 Mixing Stars and Sand: The Art & Legacy of ranch hand in southern Alberta. His rapid Sarain Stump was a multi-faceted project acquisition of languages — including English that made a major contribution to the art and Cree — and extensive knowledge of history of the Canadian prairies. It focused Indigenous art, as well as his unmistakable on the art and legacy of Sarain Stump (1945 charisma — all led to a celebrated volume of –1974), Italian-born Plains Cree autodidact “image-poems” There is my people sleeping and polymath artist, writer, musician, actor (1970); a role in the Hollywood movie Alien and educator. He was hugely influential in Thunder (1974) alongside Donald Sutherland, Saskatchewan and internationally, particularly Chief Dan George, and Gordon Tootoosis; and from 1970 to 1974, but has been largely ultimately his assimilation into Plains Cree overlooked by the mainstream art world. culture. Stump worked with curator Gerald McMaster and later led the Saskatchewan Indian Co-curated by Gerald McMaster and Anthony Cultural College’s nascent Indart program, Kiendl, the exhibition featured a new, with notable students such as Edward Poitras, commissioned video installation by Edward Harry Lafond, and Raymond McCallum, Poitras; over two hundred works by Stump among others. in a variety of media, documentation, and ephemera, including the un-edited manuscript Propelled by the spirit of the times, including for a new book of image-poems never the activism of the American Indian before seen in public.