Ann MacDonald, an Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media and Director/Curator of the Doris McCarthy Gallery at UTSC, recalls her experience putting together the inaugural collection of the DMG.
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I visited her [Doris McCarthy’s] house because she said, “Come over and you can pick 10 artworks to start the [Doris McCarthy Gallery’s] collection.”
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You know, curators are known for handling everything with white gloves and all of this. Artists on the other hand, they treat their work very differently.
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I went to visit Doris at a place on the Scarborough Bluffs called “Fool’s Paradise” and she had this stick with a hook on it. It was an old broom handle
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and she reached up with the stick and pulled down one of those folding staircases that leads to an attic.
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She said, “Go up there”. I climbed up a ladder and got into this place. Her attic was, reeked of mold and dust,
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and there were a bunch of works in there. So, it was quite a contrast to how I was spending my time — and I was able to choose works from the attic to bring into the collection along with some larger ones that she had elsewhere that she included.
