University of Regina and MacKenzie Art Gallery Renew Agreement

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The University of Regina and the MacKenzie Art Gallery have renewed a longstanding partnership agreement.

The 10-year agreement, which follows one initially signed in 1990, ensures the MacKenzie will steward and potentially exhibit more than 1,600 artworks owned by the university.

The relationship will allow joint projects in education, marketing and research, such as the simultaneous appointment of doctoral candidate Felicia Gay as a curatorial fellow at the gallery, where she is doing research and developing exhibitions in Indigenous art.

The relationship between the two institutions was set in motion in 1936, when Regina lawyer Norman MacKenzie bequeathed almost 400 works of art to the University of Saskatchewan, with provision for construction of an art gallery to house and exhibit the works.

The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery eventually opened at Regina College in 1953 and continued at the University of Saskatchewan's Regina campus through the 1960s, until it became part of the autonomous University of Regina in 1974.

The MacKenzie became independent from the university when it moved to its current location in the T.C. Douglas Building.

Source: MacKenzie Art Gallery