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History of the Memorial University Art Gallery/Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador
Memorial University’s Art Gallery, now known as the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, played a key role in the development of professional art in the province. Professionalism was a gendered process in which art school trained men replaced women in the curation of art. As the gallery promoted art and artists, there were unresolved tensions between those who wanted a broad representation of the province’s artists in the gallery and those who wanted the gallery to support a smaller number of artists. While curators at the gallery played a key role in the cultural renaissance of the 1970s, struggles over what constituted professional art and who should control the gallery remained.
