Arts Education and Outreach

Appleton Initiative At the WAG

The Appleton Foundation provided financial support for the APPLETON INITIATIVE AT THE WAG. The Foundation announced the pilot project funding of the WAG IdeasLAB program. under the Foundation’s APPLETON INITIATIVE.

Barry Appleton, National Director of the Appleton Foundation, said, “Qaumajuq and the WAG focus on connecting Canada’s North and South and raising awareness of important issues that affect us all. The WAG IdeasLab Summer Interns bring new perspectives and essential collaboration to this conversation, allowing increased connection with one of the world’s top places to promote and protect Indigenous art. The Appleton Foundation is a proud supporter of Qaumajug and its quest to find innovative new ways to amplify Indigenous art and voices as part of a process of healing and reconciliation. We are excited to see the WAG IdeasLab as our first APPLETON INITIATIVE grant at the WAG. We cannot wait to see where this WAG IdeasLAB experiment can go”.

Insurgence/Resurgence


The Appleton Charitable Foundation is supporting First Nations engagement and programming in connection with the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s INSURGENCE / RESURGENCE exhibition, which runs at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from September 2017 until April 2018.

The Canadian Friends of the 18th Biennale of Sydney


The Biennale of Sydney is the largest contemporary visual arts event in the Southern Hemisphere and amongst the largest in the world. Since its first exhibition in 1973, the Biennale has grown exponentially and is now recognized as one of the most highly esteemed art exhibitions in the world; promoting cultural development, raising world-wide interest in contemporary art, and showcasing art that promotes expressive innovation, analytical reflection, and a unique participatory experience.

The Canadian Friends of the 18th Sydney Biennale support Canadian artists being shown at the Biennale of Sydney. These are artists who are creating some of the most thought-provoking works; others are on the leading edge of a new thinking about art-architecture; some express the essence of our country; while others engage visitors physically and emotionally. The Canadian Friends are proud to showcase these Canadian works in the most preeminent of public exhibitions at the 18th Sydney Biennale 2012.

Vancouver, BC (Sept. 21, 2007) – Barry Appleton, National Director, GreenApple Program, and Chairman of the Appleton Charitable Foundation, shows off the trophy won by Victoria, BC as top Canadian city.
Former UBC Sauder Dean Dan Muzyka, National Director Barry Appleton and Professor James Tansey.
Barry Appleton meets with residents outside the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op.
Cape Dorset artist Itee Pootoogook talks about changes with our Director.
Barry Appleton speaks with artists at the West Baffin Co-op.
Midnight sun in the hamlet of Cape Dorset, Nunavut in June.
Kananginak Pootoogook, Kenojuak Ashevak and Jimmy Manning at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Barry Appleton at COP 15 in Copenhagen.
Barry Appleton at COP 15 in Copenhagen.
Barry Appleton and Jack Hidary.