2016ANNUAL REPORT

“ The RMG has become one of Oshawa’s finest artistic and cultural supporters. With a great collection of art, diverse curating, and a great venue for both visual artists and live music (the acoustics are amazing!) the monthly First Fridays program has become the “must attend” event here in the heart of Durham. Inspiring!” - Jason

Joaquin Manay painting a mural live for shoppers to celebrate the Oshawa Centre expansion

Guests at RMG Exposed get ready to bid on their favourite works and support free community arts programming.

Cover: Guests engaged during a tour of Sarindar Dhaliwal: The Radcliffe Line and Other Geographies

Impact by the Numbers

Total Gallery Attendance

Highest daily attendance on April 10

21% increase

RMG Fridays April event

27,252

508 Program Growth:19% increase in OPG Second Sunday

participants

28% increase in Artist and Curatorial talks attendance

31% growth in RMG Fridays attendance

10% increase in volunteer hours

15% increase in gallery memberships

Overall Attendance Summary:

General Visitation

School Programming and Tours

Classes, Workshops and Other Tours

Outreach (Activities outside of the RMG)

Public Programming and Art Events

Guests enjoy the imagination and magic of Jay Dart: Greetings from Yawnder.

Facebook Followers

eNewsletter Subscribers

Twitter Followers

Instagram Followers

15% increase

267% increase

19% increase

120% increase

3,629

3,390

5,051

1,949* All percentage increase calculations are based

on the difference between 2015 and 2016 data and show results as of December 31, 2016

Olivie Petrie Chair, Board of Directors

This year marks the final year of the 2011-2017 Strategic Plan for The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. It is exciting to reflect on all that the gal-lery has achieved during the last five years to bring its planning prior-ities to life. CEO Donna Raetsen-Kemp and her superbly creative and talented team have transformed the gallery into an exciting hub of community and cultural engagement.

The planning priorities for the RMG in 2016-17 centered on deepening community engagement, stabilizing and strengthening operational capacity and planning for 2020. Through beautifully curated exhibitions, the ever-popular RMG Fridays, special events celebrating the diverse contributions made by our local communities to art and culture, and robust educational programming for artists of every age, the RMG has drawing an ever-expanding circle of art lovers into its community. This year in particular, the gallery team has outdone itself in finding ways to highlight and cel-ebrate its fantastic collection of works of artists past, present and future, leading up to threshold event for our 50th anniversary–Durham Reach–the most wonderful celebration of art and artists in our community.

Again this year on behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Donna for her extraordi-nary leadership of the RMG. Her incredible team, the volunteers, and the RMG mem-bership continue build a strong and vibrant environment for the arts. We thank also the City of Oshawa, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Council for the Arts for their ongoing support of the RMG. And, personally, I would like to thank my fellow Trustees for giving generously their time and talent to the Board’s work.

It has been a pleasure to serve as Chair of the RMG Board of Directors leading up to the gallery’s 50th anniversary year and look forward to many opportunities to reflect on and celebrate this milestone over the next year.

Donna Raetsen-Kemp Chief Executive Officer

Working Together with Our Communities

In 2016 we turned our attention to one important question “How might we work together with our communities?”

The RMG holds a reputation as a respected cultural institution on the national, provincial and local landscape. Over this past year, we ener-getically reached out into our communities to deepen our local roots, while upholding strong presence on the broader horizon.

Working together with you, we discovered the things that matter, in the arts and culture realm and beyond; creating a welcoming experience, an unwavering commit-ment to serve our complete community, expanding beyond the gallery walls, empow-ering young people and connecting diverse artists with their audiences. These priori-ties led the way in planning and decision-making.

We’re relentless optimists. In spite of financial challenges, we were able to deepen and grow programming and make improvements across the board. A level of financial equilibrium was achieved, and we continue to gather strength as we move through 2017.

In 2016 more people visited, volunteers rallied, artists shone and RMG Fridays con-tinued to soar. Awareness and affinity for Painters 11 and our extraordinary Per-manent Collection are building closer to home. A renewed kinship with local artists holds great promise.

On a personal note, I’d like to thank you for sharing your stories. As the year pro-gressed and the RMG’s 50th anniversary approached, your stories fuelled celebra-tion plans. You made us smile and stand in awe of a remarkable past. You instilled a deepened sense of pride that we are inspired to awaken throughout our community.

It’s heartwarming to see how much our board, staff, stakeholders, friends and sup-porters value and love the gallery.

You are the RMG.

I am excited for our future. Working together, we will flourish.

“If Arts and Culture are to continue growing and uniting a diverse range of people across our community and beyond, it’s pivotal that municipalities and cultural centres continue opening themselves to the public. In this respect the RMG is setting an instrumental example that is not only amplifying the art scene but also fostering a sense of inclusion, which is the bedrock of social change.”

- Christine

Guest takes in the work of Lucie Chan as part of the exhibition Liminal.

Linda Jansma Senior Curator

There were numerous highlights within exhibitions and collections in 2016. We began the year with the large-scale photos by Montre-al-based artist Holly King—an internationally known artist for whom this was a ten year retrospective. A photography retrospective of the National Film Board still’s division was also part of the winter’s offer-ing shedding light into that little known division of the NFB. The sto-ries told through those photographs coincided with an exhibition of

unknown photographs from The Thomas Bouckley collection where the public was invited to submit their responses to them.

Other exhibition highlights included installations by Jérôme Havre, Lucie Chan and Sarindar Dhaliwal, all artists considering their experiences as part of the Canadian diaspora. In the fall, we invited curators Vanessa Dion Fletcher and Lindsay Fisher to curate an exhibition where fantasy and reality, the internal world and the exter-nal world were examined through the work of five artists who identify as disabled: Alana McDougall, Syrus Marcus Ware, Alexis Bulman, Jennifer Martin, and Andrew McPhail.

The year was rounded out with new work by Durham Region artist Jay Dart and his imaginative world of Yawnder, as well as an examination of prohibition with images from the Bouckley collection.

23 works were added to the permanent collection, including an important collection of photographs by Robert Bourdeau and contemporary sculpture by Tim Whiten and Catherine Heard. Works from the RMG collection travelled to the Montreal Museum of Art, Ottawa Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery and Tom Thomson Gallery among oth-ers.

works found their homes inour permanent collection

23

curators brought together exhibitions9

16

writers, editors, and designers contributed to 6 publications

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The Images in Our HeadsSeptember 10, 2016 - January 7, 2017

Curated by Vanessa Dion Fletcher and Lindsay FisherAlana McDougall, Syrus Marcus Ware, Alexis Bulman, Jennifer Martin and Andrew McPhail

As the RMG continually strives towards expanding the artistic perspectives and abilities within our exhibitions and programs and in keeping with our core values of inclusivity and collaboration, Lindsay Fisher and Vanessa Dion Fletcher were invited to organize an exhibition that would focus on Deaf and Disabled communities.

The Images in Our Heads delivered the artists’ “imaginings of difference as a point of invention, magic, survival, resistance, celebration, and unexplored territory.”

Image courtesy of AJ Groen

“As an emerging curator, I took this opportunity for mentorship from Linda and to also work with Lisa Meyers, independent curator, artist and educator.

Our experiences with the RMG were transformative; the exhibition Lisa and I curated was my first. The opportunity to collaborate with Lisa was supported by Linda and the OAC and now marks a shift in my practice.”

- Rachelle Dickenson, Independent artist and curator

Holly King: Edging Towards the MysteriousJanuary 9 – April 17

Their Stories: Unidentified Portraits from the Thomas Bouckley CollectionJanuary 27 – May 1

Ask Children: Selections from the Permanent CollectionJanuary 30 – April 24

Lindsay Lauckner Gundlock: Familiarity in the ForeignApril 30 – June 5

Lucie Chan and Jérôme Havre: LiminalMay 21 – September 11

Sarindar Dhaliwal: The Radcliffe Line and Other GeorgraphiesMay 29 – August 21

jerm IX: The Singing AlarmJune 1 – August 21

York Wilson: A LegacyJune 11 – September 25

Land, Sea & AirAugust 13 – January 22, 2017

Last Call: Temperance and Prohibition in OshawaAugust 25 – January 4, 2017

The Images in Our Heads: Jennifer Martin, Alana MacDougall, Syrus Marcus Ware, Andrew McPhail, Alexis BulmanSeptember 10 – January 8, 2017

Robert Bourdeau: Edge of the VisibleOctober 1 – January 29, 2017

Jay Dart: Greetings from Yawnder!October 8 – January 15, 2017

Travelling Exhibitions Hosted by the RMG

The Other NFB: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division, 1941-1971January 23 – May 1

Collaborative Exhibitions Organized by the RMG

Holly King: Edging Towards the MysteriousThames Art GalleryMay 13 – July 10

Musée des beaux-arts de SherbrookeOctober 1 – January 22, 2017

2016 Publications

Holly King: Edging Towards the MysteriousEssays: Linda Jansma and Francine Paul

Jay Dart: Field Guide to YawnderEssay: Sonya Jones

Liminal: Lucie Chan and Jérôme HavreEssays: Pamela Edmonds and Ricky Verghese

Sarindar Dhaliwal: The Radcliffe Line and Other GeorgraphiesEssays: Marcie Bronson, Richard Fung, Linda Jansma, Anne Koval, Deborah Root, Laura Schneider, MJ Thompson

Exhibitions

Tim Whiten, Daughter Of Cephas, 2013

Senior Toronto-based artist Tim Whiten’s glass sculpture Saga-Ra-M, references the individual’s experience with reality through the use of puppets and their shadows. It was included in the RMG organized exhibition Puppet Act in 2015.

“Whiten works with a balance between the Sacred and Profane. The result is a simultaneous embrace of the intimate and the infinite, the everyday and the sublime and access for the viewer to new vistas.”

Recent Acquisition

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Castile, Spain 1990silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 1/3024.0 x 30.4 cm (image); 31.9 x 39.2 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Chemax, Yucatan Mexico 1986silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 2/3024.5 x 19.3 cm (image); 40.5 x 33.5 cm (board)

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933County Galway, Ireland 1980/85silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 3/3020.2 x 16.1 cm (image); 39.9 x 33.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Gooderham & Worts Distillery Toronto, Ontario 2002/2003silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 1/1527.4 x 35.0 cm (image); 31.7 x 39.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Gooderham & Worts Distillery Toronto, Ontario 2002/2003silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 1/1527.5 x 35.0 cm (image); 31.9 x 39.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Gooderham & Worts Distillery Toronto, Ontario 2002/2003silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 1/1527.6 x 34.9 cm (image); 31.9 x 39.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Gooderham & Worts Distillery Toronto, Ontario 2002/2003silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board AP27.2 x 34.4 cm (image); 31.7 x 39.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Nord Pas-de-Calais, France 1998silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board AP27.4 x 35. 0 cm (image); 31.9 x 39.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Nord Pas-de-Calais, France 1998silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board AP27.4 x 35. 0 cm (image); 31.9 x 39.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Ontario Canada 1978/85silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 3/3016.1 cm x 20 cm (image); 33.6 x 38.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Acquisitions

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Ontario, Canada 1985/86silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 1/3019.4 x 24.4 cm (images); 33.6 x 40.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Oregon, USA 1988/89silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 2/3023.0 x 33.0 cm (image); 33.5 x 40.6 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Saarland, Germany 1999/2000silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 3/1527.3 x 35.2 (image); 31.7 x 39.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Washington State, USA 1988/89silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 11/3023.8 x 30.2 cm (image); 33.5 x 40.5 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Saarland, Germany 1999silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board AP27.7 x 35.1 cm (image); 31.7 x 39.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Saarland, Germany 1999silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board AP27.7 x 35.1 cm (image); 31.7 x 39.4 cm (board)Gift of Sean Bourdeau

Robert BourdeauCanadian, b. 1933Saarland, Germany 1998/2000silver gelatin print on paper, mounted on mat board 3/1527.4 x 35.2 cm (image); 31.7 x 39.5 cm (board)

Michel DaigneaultCanadian, b. 1956Blue Tremor 2009graphite and acrylic on canvas183 x 152.6 cmGift of the artist

Catherine HeardCanadian, b. 1966Untitled (After Vesalius 1543, After Bartisch 1611, After Vidius 1575) 1993human hair embroidered on cotton, painted wood, engraved brass plaques168 x 65.4 x 49.0 cm, each of 3Gift of the artist

Alfred LaliberteCanadian,1878-1953Untitled (Portrait of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux) 1911plaster Cast55.0 x 37.0 x 23.2 cm Gift of Hilda Dunbar

Lindsay Lauckner GundlockCanadian, b. 1985Wind on the Ferry 2015digital C-Print71.1 x 55.7 cm (page); 57.2 x 38.1 cm (image)Gift of the artist

Tim WhitenCanadian b. Detroit, 1941Saga-Ra-M 2013glass, mirror, aluminum, stainless steel, MDF167 x 108 x 61 cmGift of the artist

Tim WhitenCanadian b. Detroit, 1941Daughter of Cephas, Constellation Series 1994graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil on paper97.4 x 127.2 cmGift of the artist

Elizabeth Sweeney Manager of Public Programs

The RMG continues to offer a wide range of classes, camps, school enrichment programs, and specialized activities to learners of all ages and abilities.

School enrichment programs, which are offered both at the Gallery and in schools across Durham Region, continue to be popular. These programs encourage students to look at and talk critically about Cana-

dian art and contemporary concepts, and historical happenings, while exploring and engaging their creative capaity.

In 2016, the department appreciably increased its programming offerings, while upholding its very popular OPG Sunday events, PA Day camps, Family Day events and March Break and summer camps which grew and were nearly fully regestered.

Unorthodox programming such as Yoga in the Gallery and Mindful Meditation were introduced as a means of reconsidering the usage of our curated spaces while broad-ening visitorship. Similarly, we introduced MiniMakers: a series of workshops aimed at making hand tools, electronics, lumber and hardware available for tinkering and sculptural building.

We also sought to connect the community with art and artists by coordinating pro-fessional development opportunities delivered by artists who were themselves cur-rently on exhibition in our curated spaces, or otherwise able to deliver topical work-shops such as abstract painting and writing.

In the spring, we launched a freshly branded Art Express tent with the mandate to foster greater support and awareness about art in our community, creating acces-sible opportunities for engagement, taking art and art-making outside of the walls of the gallery, and bringing interactive art activities aimed at families to events and celebrations throughout Durham Region.

free public programs were made available

63

school programs were delivered to students

204

artists of all ages nurtured their creativity with our classes and workshops

895

5253

Carla Sinclair Manager of Community & Volunteer Development

The RMG family is growing day-by-day with our capacity to attract, connect with, and serve our community.

Our ability to create a welcoming and accessible environment, while cultivating meaningful, multi-disciplinary and entertaining program-ming for all ages, has resulted in visible growth and diversification of our audience.

RMG Fridays has been instrumental in this success. Through a breadth of program-ming, each month the gallery welcomes guests to explore art and performance that engages, interprets, and explores larger issues from the local lense of the enter-tainers, artists, and culture makers. Creating space for diverse and marginalized or under-represented artists and visitors has also been a key priority and is an enor-mously rewarding, community building block for all parties involved. All of these efforts have contributed to our mass appeal as a vital cultural organization and agent of social change.

We have nurtured relationships with local business and like-minded organizations, inviting them to feature their own products and programs and network with our audi-ences and one another in hopes of connecting and strengthening our community and enhancing our programming.

The volunteer program continues to grow in numbers and offerings. The addition and enhancement of the RMG Youth Media Team has brought in a new set of volunteers who are eager to develop a valuable skillset and engage with gallery programming.

We have built a strong reputation as a destination and networking scene for perform-ing and visual artists, and a place of learning and engagement, and these positive effects have radiated into our community.

community members joined our volunteer family

48volunteers and166 5253

hours made our classes, camps, exhibitions, and events possible

“Volunteering at the gallery has impacted my path to university and beyond by providing new challenges and allowing me to grow as a creative and independent individual. The gallery has allowed me to develop extremely beneficial skills, including leadership and artistic that I will use in years to come.

Thanks RMG for providing a unique environment to volunteer in!”- Lucy Villeneuve, RMG Volunteer

Vanessa AlamboLyra AllardAdam AndrewsDenise ApostolatosGriselda Gonzalez-ArellanoDaniel ArnottSara AsgharShanice BakshDamian BaranowskiPatricia BayusGurpreet BhelayJasleen BhelaySteven BlandJonae BondRaechel BonomoKatie BottomleyAnn BoutchkoGage BreedonJoanne BriggsKira BrownSidney BrownOlivia BrumbillFrank BrumwellMarkus BruusgaardCheyenne BoydVince BulbrookHeather BulmanMarjorie BurnettColin BurwellKaren BurwellTimothy CadanSarah CaldwellAndria CalhounChristine CastleJoe CatalanoJanelle CaveCouncillor Bob ChapmanTiffany ChengSara ChiodoAlessandra CirelliTaylor ColbyJessica ComellaDenis O’ConnellTeresa CostanzoBrendan CoughlinMeg CoxMacKenzie Crawford-EadeDaina CreronStevon CyrusRhonda DaveyTiffany DaweEcho DayleIlda DeLucaErin DinneenKaren DixonShaun Downey Jordan, a member of the volunteer media team, getting

ready on the set of a video on Durham Region artists.

Volunteers

Michael DroletEmily DunlopMatilda EklundAvery Elizabeth SnellingPatrisha EstanislaoChristy FerenczOlga FilipowichChelsea FratturaRichard FreelandKaren GendronAlex St. GermainAvery GibbesIsabella GilewskiOlivia GilewskiHedore GionetRehanna GiorgioMeleana GiorgioJesse GrayBronwen GreenCarrie GrimleyAJ GroenWalter Vander GrondeSue HallKameille HamiltonAyesha HammadAngela HarrisonJaquelin HeichertVeronica HopperTyler HubbleJennifer HumphriesAlex HutchinsonDaniel IkwudoguElke IzmethAhmed JamiliCarol JeromeDayne JespersenYvan Lee JulesBarbara KirnerEvin LachanceDeb LaddStephen LangGraeme LavenderRylee LeClairLiz LeckyUrsula LeeSirena LemereCarlie MacKrellCaitlin MacLeanLicianny MatosSummer McConachieEvelyn McGrathJordan McKenzieGerald Wayne McLeodRebekah McMillanJessica MoffittKelly Morrison

Ornella MutonjiManal NasrallahAlyssia NelsonChristian NikiforukJamie NovakIsabelle NowellTricia Van OostveenTegan OsmondSafiya PatelKenzie PascoeSamantha PenderOlivia PetrieBrent PhillipsStephanie PollardCarly PorterSara PournaderPatrick PowerPramilla RamdahaniNatalie RaweMadison Rodrigues-RabyElaine RegasNicole RennieAnne ReadAmelia Rose RankineAlex RossIsabel RowdenLinda RydeSangavi SankarkumarSteven SchradeGord SedgewickNicole SharpKerri SmithAmanda StaplesGeorgia StavrakosNick SwerdfegerCaitlyn SwinerdGiuliana Taccone

Haiqa TahirMasla TahirAlex TelferTalia TerlouwJoan ThorntonVictoria TowrieSarah TurpinMaureen VerboomLucy VilleneuveAustin WaddellDebbie WakerKaren WallBruce WatsonKyla WellsChristopher WilliamsKimberley WintCathy WongIllianna WottonPandora WottonKendra ZielinskiPaige Zancanaro

The RMG is committed to supporting and strengthening our community. By working with numerous volunteers, community partners, and performers each year we’re able to enhance and diversify our programming.

We couldnt do it without you.

Community Partners:AWCCU FinancialBerry HillBrock St. BreweryCatherine HeardCommunity Innovation LabDJ LynzDriftwood Theatre, Taming of the ShrewDurham Region Film FestivalEmpty Cup MediaGirls Inc.JR HunterKeys to UsKKPLidijaMedia SignMoustache ClubMoustache ClubMy Vivid LifeO’Neill Collegiate Vocational InstituteOshawa Centre Oshawa OperaOshawa Youth CouncilPFLAG DurhamPride Durham RegionRandi-Mae Stanford-LeiboldThe City of OshawaThe LivingRoom Community Art StudioTop 5 DesignTrent UniversityUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology

Performers:2 Cute 4 CountryAdam McMasterAnnie SumiDarling and The FoxDezz & CarolFiuranGillian NicolaJamie Drake PercussionJennifer MizziJordan Klapman and Judy MarshakKate BoothmanKate ReidKim The LionKristine DandavinoLaurent BourqueMark V. Campbell & FriendsMelissa PaynePatrick DorieRory TaillonThe DooziesThe Unfaithful DogTrish Robb TrioUgly Horse

Building Community

Roanna Green Manager of Finance and Administration

2016 was a year focused on restructuring and building a solid foundation for the RMG’s financial future, with increased accountability to aid operations management.

We have made great progress in our budgeting process, cash flow management, and all financial reporting. RMG Team Leads and Department Managers are more connected with the budget prepara-

tion process and will become increasingly more involved in forecasting, as well as periodic reviews of all revenues and expenses.

In both financial and administrative practices, we identified key target areas where processes were streamlined for efficiency. With a focus on accuracy and maximizing limited resources, we have evaluated different forms and procedures, identifying needs and modifying practices as required. We will continue to do this throughout 2017, concentrating on Human Resources and administrative duties. Accurate and informative financial accounting will continue to be a priority as we finish the align-ment and reallocation of accounts.

We have great plans for the future of the RMG and it is exciting to help plan and par-ticipate in building a solid foundation which will support growth and sustainability for the Gallery.

Vince Bulbrook Treasurer, Board of Directors

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery experienced a surplus of $184,308 for the year ended December 31, 2016 compared to a deficit of $869,071 in the prior year. An operating deficit of $143,567 was offset by a gain in the endowment fund of $326,875. This compares to an operating defi-cit of $383,604 and a deficit in the endowment fund of $485,467in the year ended December 31, 2015.

The improvement in the operating results in 2016 were the result of expense reduc-tions of $425,357 that offset a decline in revenue of $185,320 from the prior year. A reduction in grant revenue of $268,289 was offset by gains in donations of $76,142, classes and school tour fees of $68,644 and exhibitions and catalogue sales of $10,955. There was also a reduction in fundraising of $11,406 in 2016 compared to 2015.

Grants that fund operations have been received at consistent levels with prior years. There were a number of special grants received in 2015 that were not received in 2016. RMG continues to apply for grants for special programs and exhibitions that become available. Expenses for the associated programs and exhibitions are only incurred when the grant applications are successful.

Increases in revenue from classes and school tour fees and exhibitions and cata-logue sales are important as they are recurring in nature and can reduce the depen-dence on grant funding. RMG will continue to expand these programs in the future. A program is being developed to improve fundraising in the community which will also reduce the dependence on grant funding.

In 2015 the RMG had one time expenses related to renovations of $37,531 and from a cancelled exhibit of approximately $40,000. There was a further reduction in exhibi-tion, artist and curatorial expense of $223,650, marketing and promotion of $40,462, purchases of works of art of $125,448 and salaries and benefits of $23,429 in 2016. These reductions were partially offset by increases in professional fees and human resource expenses. These expense reductions are an important element in the deficit reduction plan of RMG.

Founders

Mr. & Mrs. R.G. AllenMr. & Mrs. D. BrazierMr. & Mrs. W. CaldwellMr. & Mrs. P.T. CarswellMr. C.S. ClarkMr. & Mrs. W. EarleMr. & Mrs. F. EggertDr. M. EggertMr. & Mrs. D. FergusonMrs. Barbara HartMiss Florence HartMr. Gray HuntMrs. Marilyn KingMr. & Mrs. J. KraemerMr. & Mrs. H. LeeMrs. D. LittlefieldMr. & Mrs. R. MacKenzieMr. & Mrs. J. MitchellProf. & Mrs. C.T. MoreyMr. & Mrs. B. MuddDr. & Mrs. L.W. OxenhamRev. & Mrs. W. PattersonMr. & Mrs. J. SageMr. & Mrs. H.R. SchellMr. & Mrs. G. SquiresMr. & Mrs. R.H. StaceyMr. & Mrs. A. TocherMr. & Mrs. P. Van GilsMr. & Mrs. W.J. WellsMrs. Evelyn Wright

Benefactors

Mr. Thomas BouckleyMiss Isabel McLaughlinElizabeth Aleen AkedEwart McLaughlin

Honorary Members

Mrs. Sylva ArmstrongMr. Thomas BouckleyJack BushOscar CahenMr. & Mrs. Gerald & Brenda CarriganMrs. Jane DixonMrs. Kathleen ElliotHortense GordonDr. & Mrs. Gordon HareMiss Florence HartMrs. Gretta HastingsTom HodgsonMrs. Kay Hopkins

Miss Ada KellyMrs. Trudi LancasterAlexandra LukeMr. & Mrs. Arthur & Trudy LovellJock MacdonaldMr. & Mrs. E.R.S. McLaughlinRay MeadMrs. Jean MercerKazuo NakamuraMrs. Mae NurseMr. & Mrs. W NurseMr. Herm PincombeMrs. Lillian PincombeWilliam RonaldMrs. Ruth SedgewickDr. & Mrs. J. Murray SpeirsMrs. Gladys StanleyMrs. Helen TaylorHarold TownMr. & Mrs. P. WaxerMrs. Lisa WeissMrs. Elizabeth WolfeWalter Yarwood

Legacy Donors

Gord Sedgewick

Donors

Larry AshmoreKathleen BeattyGinger BoyleIan BriggsMiriam Carr Bob ChapmanJ. Doris CherkasPaula ChevierRobert DesjardinsJane DixonJudge & Mrs. Donald DoddsGordon DowsleyAngela Galer-GristGary Greenwood Loreen GreerChris & Sue HallH. Armour HannaTom HendersonMark HuardWm. IrwinRon & Melanie KitchenGel & Ruth LafargaRonald & Helen LambertArthur & Judy LovellGordon MacfarlaneAudrey MacLean

Carin Makuz George & Judy MarlowLois McDonaldMike McRaeRosario MelansonNancy Miller Elenna Monchesky John & Mallory Morris-SartzJoan & Ross MurrayGerard O’Neill Olivia Petrie Frank PolitanoBarbara Ponomaref Ken ReinhardtStephen & Maryke RowlandsFred & Barbara SchaefferWes SchellGordon & Ruth SedgewickIrene Seetner Jocelyn Shaw Wendy StevensJolene Waese Phil & Barbara Wooding

Members and Supporters

And 350+ other wonderful individual and family members!

Staff (as of December 31, 2016) Board of Directors

Donna Raetsen-Kemp, Chief Executive Officer

Administration and CommunicationsRoanna Green, Director of Finance & Administration Stephen Dick, Manager, Protection ServicesLucas Cabral, Communications + Digital Media LeadCarla Sinclair, Manager of Community and Volunteer DevelopmentElsy Gould, Visitor Services and Membership Co-ordinatorCheryl-Ann Zamulinski, Event Co-ordinator

Exhibitions and CollectionsLinda Jansma, Senior CuratorSonya Jones, Associate Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection Alessandra Cirelli, Assistant CuratorJason Dankel, Preparator

EducationElizabeth Sweeney, Manager of Public Programs Leslie Menagh, Gallery A Co-ordinatorJennifer Treleaven, Education Co-ordinator Parvathi Bhat Giliyal, Gallery Educator

Board ExecutivePresident, Olivia PetriePast President, Christine Castle Vice President, Christian Nikiforuk Treasurer, Vince Bulbrook Secretary, Bruce Watson

Board of TrusteesShaun DowneyJennifer Humphries Denis O’ConnellElaine Regas Nick SwerdfegerCheryl BlackmanKevin DoughertyShashi BhatiaGerard O’Neill

Council RepresentativeCouncillor Bob Chapman

A family creates together, contributing to the story of Jiggs, as part of Jay Dart: Greetings From Yawnder.