Neutral Ground is an artist run centre whose mission emphasizes new art and new ideas. Working in the disciplines of visual and new media art, it creates and presents work that emphasizes critical and conceptual innovation or interdisciplinarity. The centre has a diverse programming history. You can visit Neutral Ground online at http://neutralground.sk.ca. Neutral Ground was the first artist run centre in Regina.
The Susan Whitney Gallery opened its doors in November 1979. In addition to Susan Whitney, at the time of its founding there were four other shareholders: Victor Cicansky, Joe Fafard, Jill Rawlinson, and Richard Spafford. Whitney became the sole shareholder in the late 1980s.
The mandate of this commercial art gallery was to exhibit and sell contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, tapestry, photography, and furniture, as well as Canadian folk art. A primary strength of the gallery was Saskatchewan artists.
In 1980 Whitney mounted the first of the Made in Saskatchewan exhibitions. The show was an unusual undertaking for a commercial gallery at the time. The show “included Doukhobor, Mennonite, Hutterite, Ukrainian, and French-Canadian furniture, rugs, quilts, carvings, clothing, paintings, samplers and ceramics. For most of its viewers, it was a first introduction to the vibrant material culture of the province’s ethnic heritage”.
This vibrant and nationally acclaimed commercial gallery participated in a number of international art fairs. Many of Saskatchewan’s most notable artists - Joe Fafard, David Thauberger, Victor Cicansky, Donna Kriekle and Wilf Perreault were represented by this gallery over the course of its twenty-six year history.
The Susan Whitney Gallery changed hands in 2005 and became the Nouveau Gallery.
The Bushwakker Brewing Company Ltd. was established in 1991 and is located on the main floor of the Strathdee Building in the warehouse district of Regina. The pub is considered one of Canada’s top five brewpubs. University professor, Bev Robertson, his wife Elaine and several other university professors own and manage the pub which serves as the venue for a wide variety of events which support both the cultural and charitable communities of Regina.