Our Sponsors

The Carleton North Community Foundation has generously and consistently supported art education for all ages as well as other initiatives at the Gallery.

In 2023/24 the CNCF provided the Gallery with a $25,000 grant to offer Art Programming to our community.

This grant provides funds both a continuation and an evolution of the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery’s longstanding commitment to providing art education for children, youth, and adults within our community. Programs are regularly updated to reflect the evolving artistic landscape, community interest, and the Gallery’s exhibition schedule. This grant also assists the Gallery visual art programming to local schools through Professional Day Art classes as well as the Art in the Classroom Program.

We value and appreciate the strong partnership that has been forged between the Carleton North Community Foundation and the Gallery. CNCF has helped the gallery to continue to thrive, enabling us to widen our reach and broaden our offerings in service to the community throughout the Saint John River Valley.

The River Art Centre provides a space where art is created by youth, adults and seniors in a variety of activities and Art Education Outreach programs are thriving in schools up and down the valley.

We look forward to offering another fabulous year of summer art camps, art workshops, and art focused activities and events. 

Sincere thanks and appreciation,

Karen Birnie, Chair
Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery Board

2022

Art Teacher mentor for the summer students, Summer Camps for children.

pARTicipate Arts & Nature Festival

2021

pARTicipate

Community Programming

2020

Digital art exhibitions and education website content

Artist in Residency Grant: Theresa McKnight

Staffing to maintain COVID protocols grant

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The District of Carleton North is an essential partner of the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery, supporting the Gallery operations in substantial and essential ways. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director the Gallery community thanks the Town, Mayor Andrew Harvey and the District Councillors for their unwavering support for the visual arts and artists in our community. We look forward to another successful year at the Gallery and the River Art Centre despite the new realities we are all learning to live with.

The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is a significant and important supporter of the arts in New Brunswick and has been instrumental in Carleton County through its support in the development of the River Art Centre Studios at the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery.

In 2022, the Foundation supported the Art in the Classroom project which brings artwork by local artists into classrooms along with a curriculum package for the teachers.

In 2019, the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery held a Critical Writing Workshop with six emerging , mid-career and well established New Brunswick artist-writers.

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The Government of NB’s Department of Tourism, Heritage & Culture continues to be a significant supporter and resource for the development of creative initiatives in support of the arts for our region.

The Board of Directors is grateful for the support of the New Brunswick Government. Having received a number of grants in 2019 we are only too aware that each grant made a significant difference to the success of our programs, to the operations of the Gallery and support the River Arts Centre, and through us, the Visual Arts and artists in our region.

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The Harrison McCain Foundation generously supports the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery every year.

In 2019 the McCain Foundation awarded the pARTicipate festival a $10,000 operating grant for the inaugural 2019 festival and pledged their continuing support over the next two years.