John B. Aird Gallery

Originally opened in 1975 and formerly called the Macdonald Block Gallery in the heart of Queen’s Park, the seat of the Government of Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Due to fiscal restraints, the gallery was directed to close, but due to the efforts of Canada’s legacy art societies – Ontario Society of Artists (OSA), Sculptors Society of Canada (SSC), the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC), the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), and the Ontario Crafts Council, the gallery re-opened as an independent not for profit organization in 1985. The gallery was named the John B. Aird Gallery in honour of the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1980-1985) and his support for arts and culture. The Aird is a generous, safe contemporary art exhibition space where visual culture can be shared and explored by an audience as diverse as its makers.