Kate Davis

Kate Davis, 12 year director of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, passed away of cancer earlier this fall. Today over 250 people attended a memorial for her in the foyier of the TC Douglas Building. I didn't work with her directly but had many conversations with her over the years. I think the one statement that one speaker said about her struck me as most truthful, that she always treated the artists as if they were the most important people involved in a gallery show. This might seem like the obvious approach, but it is not always true. She was always so positive and made every event amazing.
Kate Davis on August 13, 2008. Photograph by: Roy Antal, Leader-Post files