The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has committed the largest single gift in support of art education in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 108-year history.
The foundation’s generous lead gift of $12 million will support the AGO’s $25 million campaign to significantly enhance its art education program — $18 million for reconstruction and refurbishment of the Gallery’s existing education and public programming facilities and $7 million to create the AGO’s first-ever education program endowment fund.
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will commit $10 million to the reconstruction project, to be named the Weston Family Learning Centre. The foundation will also commit $2 million toward the endowment, to be named the Weston Foundation Teacher Training Fund.
“The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has a long and celebrated history of support for innovation in education,” says A. Charles Baillie, president of the AGO’s Board of Trustees. “Highly successful in business and deeply committed to art and artistic expression, the Weston family is testament to the power of imagination and creativity.”
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