Saskatoon marks two years without a public art gallery

Former city councillor Pat Lorje is feeling pretty confident in her vote eight years ago against building a replacement for the Mendel Art Gallery.
On Nov. 30, 2009, Lorje alone voted against a plan to construct a new gallery at River Landing and to move the Mendel from the City Park riverbank location it had occupied since 1964.
At the time, the Meewasin Valley Authority was expected to move into the old Mendel building; the new gallery, priced then at $58 million, was expected to be finished b