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Saskatoon | Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan | Completed
Ceremonial sod turned for art gallery
BY SEAN TREMBATH, THE STARPHOENIX JUNE 8, 2013
More than four years after the initial announcement of the idea for a new art gallery at River Landing, officials gathered Friday to celebrate the beginning of its construction.
"It's very gratifying to see construction underway. We waited a long time for this moment," said Jason Aebig, president and chair of the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan's board of trustees, shortly after plunging a shovel into a box of coloured earth as part of a sod turning ceremony on Friday.
Aebig dug alongside civic, provincial and federal government officials, board members, and Ellen Remai, whose family donated $15 million along with a $20 million collection of Picasso prints to the project, which now bears the family name.
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