Our Sponsors

The Carleton North Community Foundation has generously and consistently supported art education and appreciation for all ages in Carleton County.

CNCF granted the gallery $28,000 in 2026 to support the various community programming workshops and events held at the River Art Centre and the Gallery. These grants support the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery’s longstanding commitment to providing art education for children, youth, and adults within our community and to provide a venue for professional artists to enrich our comunity and share their work. 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,

Elspeth Hagan, Chair
Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery Board

In 2023/24

$25,000 grant to offer visual art programming.

2022

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

pARTicipate Arts & Nature Festival

Community Programming

2021

pARTicipate

Community Programming

2020

Digital art exhibitions and education website content

Artist in Residency Grant: Theresa McKnight

Staffing to maintain COVID protocols grant

LEARN MORE

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 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 and working with the Mayor, Council and the Library administration on the planned expansion of the existing Gallery & Library facility.

Community Operating Grants:

• 2025 $15,000
• 2024 $10,000
• 2024 $10,000
• 2022 $10,000

Town of Florenceville-Bristol

• 2021 $20,000

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 2026, the Art Gallery received funding for professional development for the staff and significant contributors to the art education programing at the gallery. Jennifer Stead (ED), Jeremy Hansma (Admin Assistant), Jenna Ross (Ceramic Programing) and Susan Galbraith (Art in the Classroom) will travel to Ottawa for professional development at a variety of cultural organisations.

In 2023/24 through The Sheila’s Grant for infrastructure, the River Art Centre developed and expanded the clay studio.

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.

The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation has in supporting the development of the New Brunswick Art Centre Association which was registered as a charitable organisation in 2026. Many thanks for the support

LEARN MORE

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. Between 2016 and 2025 the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture  administered a Core Operating Grant for arts organisations in New Brunswick. In the last three year funding cycle, ALMAG received $12,000 ech year.

LEARN MORE

The Harrison McCain Foundation has generously supported the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery for a variety of projects including a contribution to administration costs from 2024-2026.

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.

In 2021 McCain Foods Inc. donated the renovated River Art Centre building to the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery as an adjunct building to be used by the Gallery as a creative space. Since then programming has grown to include a carving studio, a kiln room, two private art studios and an open shared working space upstairs. Downstairs there is a dedicate clay studio, an multipurpose art studio and Print Studio and a resource library.