To all of our donors, sponsors and members. Your generosity helps to sustain the arts and conserve
our culture for Niagara and more. Thank you for building tomorrow together.
Click the image above to visit our Virtual Donor Wall!
Some of Our Sponsors
Become a Sponsor
Sponsors play a very important role in the community. Whether your support is for a
special project, an exhibition, program development or other gallery operations, your
contributions are integral to the continuation of cultural advancement in Niagara.
The Niagara Falls Art Gallery recognizes all of its sponsors prominently in gallery
as well as through physical and virtual publications including its social platforms.
Special recognition avenues, such as name attachments to a project, are also availble
in some instances.
What's On @ Your Gallery
A Little About Us
The Niagara Falls Art Gallery is arguably the most diverse visual arts institution in the Niagara Region.
It provides Niagara with an important cultural resource through a unique mixture of both Arts Exhibition
and Arts Education services available to community residents and tourists alike.
As an exhibition facility, the gallery offers a dynamic annual display schedule through continual, limited
and special presentations. The exhibitions stem from either one of the 3 collections (Permanent, Niagara,
or William Kurelek) as well as work by aspiring and professional artists from within and beyond Niagara.
As an educational facility, the gallery offers outstanding arts education and interdisciplinary programming
throughout the region. An extensive list of arts & better living courses for ages 4+ through to
adults have been made available at the main location in Niagara Falls but also at two satelite
locations, St. Catharines and Welland, and on-site per request programs
accesible by schools and other organizations.
The Gallery is also the parent organization of The Niagara Children's Museum. This division leads the cross-science educational study programs that include areas such as stop-motion animation,
mock-archeological studies, structures & mechanisms and more. These hands-on, practical workshops are
available regionally and beyond.
Since 2000, the Art Gallery of Welland Project operated as both an online portal and physical location for art
services and programs for the residents of Welland. The impact of the COVID pandemic in 2020 forced a
temporary closure of the physical location as well as a restructuring for the project and it's municipal partners.
Physical services that were moved from the downtown core are still discoverable online, and available in person,
to the residents of Welland through a short commute to our head office in neighbouring south Niagara Falls.
Please note: As of 2024, a new, unaffiliated organization is physically
operating within Welland under the Art Gallery of Welland name. Our services remain discoverable online and
physically accessible at our Oakwood Drive location in Niagara Falls.
Why Your Support is Needed
The Niagara Falls Art Gallery is a not for profit, registered charitable organization. Most of its funding
is derived from the educational programs that it delivers which is in turn reinvested to support both these programs
and the gallery's conservational efforts.
The generosity of our donors help us sustain our mission to promote the arts within Niagara through the provision
of professional standards and services with innovative programming, education and exhibitions.
With Your Support We Can Continue To:
Provide community programming for the Niagara Region (child/youth/adult)
Serve the artistic community by ensuring access to professional services
Encourage students of all ages to participate in art related activities
Assist teachers through our Art Based Integrated Learning program
Service over 100,000 participants annually through the Niagara Region
Provide financially accessible programming throughout the Niagara Region
Exhibit Canadian Art for residents and visiting tourists
Conserve our visual heritage for future generations.
Become A Donor
RECOGNITION PROGRAMS We gratiously thank every donor for whatever amount they are able to give.
The Niagara Falls Art Gallery has also established a series of public recognition
programs for those able to provide generous donations at the following program levels:
NFAG FRIENDS: $200 - $499
Support the Gallery's cultural goals
and be recognized on our virtual donor wall
online and at the gallery
NFAG Supporters: $500-$999
Support the Gallery's cultural goals and conservation efforts by
virtually adopting an artwork from one of the collections
(some limitations - see Passion Patrons Below)
and be recognized on our virtual donor wall
online and at the gallery
NFAG Passion Patrons: $600
Support the Gallery's cultural goals and conservation efforts by
virtually adopting a painting from William Kurelek's Passion Series
and be recognized on our virtual donor wall
online and at the gallery
NFAG Benefactors: $1000+
Create a substantial impact on arts & culture in Niagara while
supporting the Gallery's cultural goals and
conservation efforts by virtually adopting an artwork from one of
the collections and be recognized prominently on our virtual donor wall
online and at the gallery, honourably mentioned at the current
AGM as well as appearing in possibly one or more publications
(social media or print).
All programs can be entered through either a single instance or through a recurring schedule.
Please inquire with staff.
Donations & Donor Programs
THANK YOU!
We gratiously thank every donor for whatever amount they are able to give. Thank you for your support!
Please note: Contributors to a Donor Program which includes a virtual adoption
will receive notification of their adopted piece within 30 days
of donation receipt. In order to receive your notification, please make
sure your address is included at checkout. If this is a gifted donation,
please also include their address along with any special message when
prompted to include a note to the Gallery at checkout.
Again we thank ALL Donors for their gracious contributions and becoming part of What's On @ Your Gallery today!
Fundraiser Events
Andy's Ride Event
Thank you for your interest in our fundraising efforts! We gratiously thank every donor for whatever amount they are able to give. Thank you for your support!
About Andy's Ride Annual Event
Currently the principal at St. Paul Catholic Elementary in the Peterborough
Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board,
Andy Sawada's formative years were spent in Niagara Falls where much of
his family continues to reside.
His uncle, Brian Smylski, was a former Executive Director of the Niagara Falls Art Gallery
(the Niagara Children's Museum's parent corporation) and was integral in the creation
of the NCM. Brian succumbed to a rare form of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in March 2011.
Both in memoriam of his uncle and in recognition of the importance of the education programming offered
by the Museum and Gallery, Andy began his annual fundraising campaigns as Andy's Run
in 2013. The donations raised from his marathon runs have since helped support these often underfunded services.
Andy's Ride is the evolution of the original running marathon into a cycling event whose route covers
from Peterborough to Niagara Falls Ontario. This new era annual event aims to continue raising the much needed, and
appreciated, indispensable aid for sustaining and developing vital, educational programming for the children
of Niagara and their families.
If you would like to join this cause, and/or become a donor, please follow the link below.
Please note: Tax Receipts can be issued for amounts of $25 or more.
Again we thank ALL Donors for their gracious contributions and becoming part of What's On @ Your Gallery today!
