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Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Organizational Profile
Mission Statement
The mission of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is to generate excitement, enhance interest, and build understanding of the visual arts among the general public, gallery members, and the arts community in the South Western Ontario region of Canada. This is achieved by operating and promoting a public art gallery in Kitchener-Waterloo that displays a high standard of excellence in its exhibitions, collection, interpretation, and preservation of art.
Artistic Role
Established in 1956 and currently operating in a 23,500 square foot facility, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is the oldest and largest public gallery in Waterloo region. Through a balanced and engaging range of exhibitions the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery presents the full spectrum of artistic experience to an equally diverse audience. We enrich and support the Waterloo region through the development of high-calibre exhibitions that cross the boundaries of time, media, geography and intent, and in so doing, new connections are forged between all. The Gallery cares for 3940 works in its permanent collection. Selections from the collection are regularly displayed and interpreted in dedicated exhibitions at the gallery and via off-site loans to other galleries or through outreach projects. Throughout its development, the collection has focused on Canadian painting with particular attention paid to Ontario artists, and in recent years emphasized works of 20th century Canadian artists of national scope. In this manner the Gallery continues to serve both a provincial and national role. Audience connections are developed through artists’ talks, videos, curatorial tours, text panels and in-house publications. The success of our projects is measured in terms of media attention, critical dialogue, colleague recognition, visitor attendance and comments, and membership growth. How completely we have met our programming goals, such as introducing new media, contemporary projects, and broadening experience for our visitors are also strong factors.
