Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation
The project that started it all for Brown Bread
It’s been one heck of a ride working with the Christchurch Art Gallery to build a new culture of giving around the visual arts in the city. Our mission from the start — to raise $5m in five years to buy five great works that mark this ever-changing time in Christchurch.
Four Annual Gala Dinners later, $3m of the $5m endowment raised by 168 generous individuals plus small businesses, a suite of commercial partners to support the gallery's exhibition and education programmes and we've now got a new hearty, art loving (and learning) community - a legacy to the community who helped fund the new Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in 2003.
The endowment, as well as commercial sponsorship, and fundraising for four of the five great works — including holding the national crowdfunding PledgeMe record for Back the Bull — totals a whopping $6m that Brown Bread has helped the Foundation bring in since 2013 (soon to be $7m by the end of 2017).
First it was Chapman's Homer, followed by Bebop, Everything is Going to Be Alright and Cosmos. Now we're onto the fifth and final great work - a bespoke Ron Mueck masterpiece for Christchurch.
Watch out this October as we launch the greatest crowdfunding campaign yet to invite those near and far to get 'on for Ron'.
