Donation of over 1400 pieces of art, with 4 pieces going to the Presidents Art Collection. Kriekle is a Regina artist who studied at the University of Regina in the 1960s with Arthur McKay, Ted Godwin, and Doug Morton. Since then she has taught painting across the province, exhibited her own work in group and solo shows, and has been collected by the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the University of Saskatchewan, and the Canada Council Art Bank in Ottawa.
Donation of 344 working drawings and 4 pieces of finished artwork. Ronald Bloore was an important Canadian artist who was based out of Regina from the late 1950s to the mid 60s, a fruitful period during which he become one of the “Regina Five” along with Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ted Godwin and Douglas Morton. After the Regina Five period, Bloore relocated to Toronto to teach visual art and art history at York University.
Donation of Personal and professional materials relating to Psychology, donated by Patricia Clark. Brandt is a German-born writer and educator who studied various languages in Switzerland before emigrating to New York, where he developed an interest in psychology. He eventually ended up at the University of Regina in the late 60s, teaching there as a professor until his retirement in 1987.
Donation of 9.25 linear meters of architectural drawings and related material, amounting to over 4,000 drawings. Ian McDougall became a registered architect in the province of Saskatchewan in 1967, later achieving the same status in Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and California. He was a pioneer in social housing, as well as the use of computer aided design and drafting programs (CADD). In 1981, he designed and built a housing project in the Vista Heights suburb in Calgary, the first housing in Canada to use CADD. Articles relating to his work have been featured in publications of Architectural Record, Winter Cities, Western Living, and others. Furthermore, he was awarded three times by the Canadian Housing Design Council.
Donation of material from the gallery, primary relating to famed Regina artist Joe Fafard. Originally established in Edmonton as the Art Mart Downstairs Gallery in the 1960s, art dealer Doug Udell would, in later decades, expand the gallery with locations in Calgary and Vancouver. The Udell Galleries dealt primarily in contemporary Canadian art but was also a venue for American and international modern artists such as Gerhard Richter, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Adam Fuss, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. The gallery also made works available by artists such as Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Jim Dine, and Lucian Freud. Among the Regina artists represented by the gallery were Joe Fafard, Vic Cicansky, Wilf Perreault, and David Thauberger.
