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[Victoria Watcher]

Vancouver Art Gallery hits 85 per cent of $400 million fundraising target for new site

 

Construction to start this fall on 300,000-square-foot building

 

 

The groundbreaking ceremony marked a significant milestone for the project which has raised $340 million, or 85 per cent, of its $400-million fundraising target.

 

The project has received donations from the federal, provincial and municipal governments. It has also received sizeable private donations, including a $100 million from the Audain Foundation and $40 million from the Chan Family Foundation.

 

On Friday, the art gallery announced it has received a $5-million donation from the Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation.

 

It plans to launch a campaign to raise the remaining $55 million from grassroots donors.

 

“We’ll be asking people from all walks of life to contribute with the idea that any amount, any donation, is important, whether it’s $50 or $5 million,” said Kiendl.

 

 

https://www.timescol...ew-site-7557206

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why is our gallery so lame?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2023 - 03:01 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

This looks interesting.  I had never heard of her.

 

 

 

 

 

AGGV exhibit explores life and career of Sophie Pemberton

 

A contemporary of Emily Carr, Sophie Pemberton was one of the first Canadian women to find success as a professional artist abroad.

 

https://www.timescol...mberton-7576724

 

 

 

 

This is her dad of course:

 

 

 

PEMBERTON, JOSEPH DESPARD, engineer, surveyor, farmer, politician, jp, and businessman; b. 23 July 1821 near Dublin (Republic of Ireland), son of Joseph Pemberton and Margaret Stephens; m. 1864 Theresa Jane Despard Grautoff in London, England, and they had three sons and three daughters, including the artist Sophia Theresa; d. 11 Nov. 1893 in Oak Bay, B.C.

 

 

 

http://www.biographi...espard_12E.html

 

 

 

Golly, Pemberton got all three of his names onto Victoria streets.

 

 

 

 

By January 1852 Pemberton and his assistant Benjamin William Pearse* had divided the Victoria district into town, suburban, and country lands. After examining the survey systems of 11 colonies, including South Australia, New Zealand, and Upper Canada, Pemberton set the price of town lots at £10 each, suburban lots at £15, and country lands at £1 an acre with the minimum size being 20 acres. Land was also reserved for the governor, the clergy, a school, a church, and a public park. By December 1853 he had surveyed six additional districts on southern Vancouver Island.

 

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Although many colonists eventually left for the mines of California and the agricultural lands of Oregon and Washington territories, some 180 settlers bought over 17,000 acres of country land and about 150 town and suburban lots on Vancouver Island prior to the Fraser River gold-rush. Many were or had been HBC employees, and the company’s social hierarchy was transferred to the colony, with labourers buying the cheaper town lots while officers and clerks bought the more expensive country lands. Pemberton himself owned the Gonzales estate, a large farm near Victoria, and was identified with the HBC’s landowning élite, later dubbed the “family-company compact” by reformer Amor De Cosmos. In January 1857 Pemberton played Sir Lucius O’Trigger in Sheridan’s The rivals, one of the first theatrical productions in the colony.

 

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Pemberton retired from politics in 1868, and during the next two decades devoted himself to his family, his farm, his work as a justice of the peace, and corporate and real estate investments. In 1887 he and his son Frederick Bernard founded the Victoria firm of J. D. Pemberton and Son, surveyors, civil engineers, and real estate and financial agents. A real estate company in Victoria and a Vancouver-based investment company are descended from this firm. Pemberton Sr also imported and bred horses, and was described by his former assistant Pearse as a “bold and judicious horseman.” He died of heart failure while participating in a paper-chase* in Oak Bay.

 

 

 

* https://en.wikipedia...er_chase_(game)

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 September 2023 - 12:26 PM.

[Mike K.]

Pemberton Holmes!

[Victoria Watcher]

IN THE FLESH: THE NUDE IN ART, PAST AND PRESENT

 

 

Where: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St.
When: Dec. 9-March 31
Admission: Free on Saturday, Dec. 9; regular gallery admission rates from Dec. 10 onward

 

 

https://www.timescol...ression-7935756

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 December 2023 - 05:51 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Reliance is also re-imagining 6.7 acres of Victoria’s downtown around the Capital Iron lands on Store Street in what would be one of the biggest developments in the city, which could include a new home for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

 

https://www.timescol...lopment-8297591

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 February 2024 - 07:48 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

2020:

 

 

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is one step closer to a major expansion after Victoria city council voted in favour of a development permit this week. 

 

The future plans for the gallery include more exhibition gallery space, classrooms, a café, a gift shop, archival storage and offices, and a multipurpose room and meeting spaces. 

 

Jon Tupper, director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, says it's all about keeping the museum, established in 1946, relevant.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...nsion-1.5457045

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 February 2024 - 07:52 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

2019:

 

 

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) has had to delay the construction of its expansion due to rising construction costs and funding delays.

 

The NEXT Gallery, originally approved by Victoria City Council in 2015, would include an additional 11,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, an increase in lecture space from 80 seats to 175 seats and the installation of a cafe.

 

https://www.vicnews....expansion-59592

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 February 2024 - 07:53 PM.

[Nparker]

The AGGV can expect a new, expanded space around the same time as the redevelopment of Ship Point, the lower Wharf Street parking lots and Ogden Point.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nancy Noble, chief ­executive and director of the Art ­Gallery of Greater Victoria, said in an interview the gallery board is awaiting city council’s approval to begin a fundraising campaign to start building a new venue.

 

She said a new art gallery building could be as high as six storeys, but everything will depend on rezoning and ­permitting over the next several months.

 

“We are very anxious to make it happen,” said Noble. “Reliance Properties and Jon Stovell have been so great to work with on this project. I think everyone agrees that a new, larger gallery to display our collections will be a great thing for the province and the city.”

 

 

https://www.timescol...gallery-8561942

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 April 2024 - 03:55 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

2019:

 

 

 

 

A generous promise to help the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) expand in its current location on Moss Street, was honoured Wednesday, as the sister of the late artist Anthony Thorn dropped off a cheque for nearly $3 million.

 

The donation for the AGGV’s The NEXT Gallery project was promised to the AGGV by Thorn in January of 2014, but was tied up in real-estate holdings in Regina until recently when Thorn’s sister Lyn Goldman decided it was time to sell.

 

“We believe art galleries should be in spaces that are welcoming to people – where they feel comfortable. So Anthony loved this place,” said Goldman. “We made a legal agreement that he left his shares in our company to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. So they’ve been my partners for the last three or four years. I made a decision last year that I would sell the building and bring Anthony’s gift to the gallery.”

 

Anthony Thorn, an accomplished Canadian artist best known for using precious metals to create paintings and carvings, was inspired to donate after reading a Victoria News article on the gallery’s decision to redevelop its Moss Street facility rather than move downtown.

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....-donation-53729

[Victoria Watcher]

Introducing the Roy Henry Vickers Gallery - a Tofino landmark since 1986 and once in a lifetime offering of both business and property. Built in the style of a traditional Northwest Coast Longhouse, the rise of the gallery marked a turning point in Tofino's evolution from little known fishing village to the Westcoast Mecca it is today. The gallery is adorned with priceless details handmade by Roy and legendary carver Henry Nolla such as the massive cedar carved Eagle facade, hand adzed cedar plank walls & four 10' cedar totems. The interior of the gallery exudes a feeling of peace and tranquility, while the exterior is an iconic figure in Tofino's downtown core. Welcoming half a million visitors annually, the gallery is on everyone's Tofino to-do list and Roy's distinct artistic style is recognized across the globe. This is not only a unique investment but an opportunity to play a role the preservation of Tofino's sociocultural history.

 

https://www.realtor....t-tofino-tofino

 

$4,450,000

 

 

350 Campbell St
Tofino, British Columbia V0R2Z0

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 July 2024 - 06:11 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

it has painfully low numbers now (~1000/week).  i would think 5x more downtown.

 

^ AGGV.

 

 

This gallery in Tofino gets nearly 10x the number of visitors.

 

Welcoming half a million visitors annually (1,370 per day)

 

[Victoria Watcher]

The Vancouver Art Gallery says the construction cost of its planned new home has jumped from an original estimate of $400 million to $600 million, forcing a redesign.

 

The art gallery says construction costs across the country spiked by up to 60 per cent between 2020 and 2024, leading to the rise in the estimated cost of the project near Cambie and West Georgia streets in downtown Vancouver.

 

 

https://www.timescol...edesign-9457236

[Nparker]

I walked past the Vancouver Art Gallery site a few days ago; it's massive. I am an art lover, but this cost is outrageous.