Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq to get new artwork following auction [Video]

Visitors to the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq may soon see some brand new art hanging on its walls.

“We want our collections to represent the people that live in our city,” said Stephen Borys, the gallery’s director and CEO. “If you look at our collection over the last 100 years, does it fully represent who lives in Winnipeg? No.”

That’s why the gallery wants to beef up its collections with more works of First Nation, Metis, and Inuit artists, along with contemporary artists.

“The goal is here to be able to have just more latitude to acquire works that celebrate what Canada is all about, who lives here, who we serve as an art museum,” Borys said.

To get that done, the gallery has dipped into its permanent collection of around 30,000 works of art, selecting 35 that went up for auction over the past two years. Borys said these include …