2007 Annual Report Mendel Art Gallery

Touring Exhibitions
In 2007, Mendel Art Gallery Extension Services was responsible for coordinating the tours of five exhibitions
provincially and two exhibitions nationally, with a combined total of nineteen showings. The attendance for the
provincial exhibitions was 10,894 and the national attendance was 16,681 for a total attendance of 27,575.
Clifford Wiens, Heating and Cooling Plant,
University of Regina, 1967. Photo: Henry Kalen.
Courtesy of Clifford Wiens.
Rick Rivet, String Game #7, 2002, courtesy of
Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary
National Tours
Telling Details: The Architecture of Clifford Wiens
This exhibition was a career survey of Saskatchewan’s most acclaimed architect, Clifford Wiens. The exhibition
visually and verbally investigated the essential informing details of Wiens’ representative buildings and industrial
designs completed between 1958 and 1984. The exhibition was organized and circulated by the Mendel Art Gallery,
and curated by Trevor Boddy.
Venue location dates Attendance
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Winnipeg, MB Mar 2–Apr 27, 2007 3000
Mackenzie Art Gallery Regina, SK May 2–Aug 26, 2007 6346
Total attendance in 2007 for this exhibition 9346
Rick Rivet
This exhibition presented twenty-one paintings by British Columbia-based Rick Rivet, and constitutes a survey of
the artist’s work from 2000–2005. Originally shown at the Mendel in 2006, the exhibition was curated by Mendel
Associate Curator George Moppett and organized and circulated by the Mendel Art Gallery.
Venue location dates Attendance
Thunder Bay Art Gallery Thunder Bay, ON Jan 6–Feb 28, 2007 2100
Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Yorkton, SK Apr 19–May 20, 2007 359
Kelowna Art Gallery Kelowna, BC Sep 15–Nov 18, 2007 4876
Total attendance in 2007 for this exhibition 7335
The total attendance in 2007 for all national tours was 16,681.
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