From the Director

About the Interim Director and CEO

Photo: Dan Harper

Angela Cassie joined the Gallery in January 2021 as Vice-President of Strategic Transformation and Inclusion. Seen as a bold and inclusive leader, Angela was one of the key architects of a new vision for the Gallery, embodied in its strategic plan, Transform Together. As Interim Director and CEO, Angela will oversee the plan’s full implementation, while continuing to strengthen the Gallery's connections with communities across the country. She looks forward to working towards a future in which art has the power to build bridges, deepen relations, and advance a more equitable society.

Prior to her arrival at the Gallery, Angela spent ten years at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. She served in progressively senior roles until 2019, when she stepped down as Senior Vice-President, Program, Exhibitions and Public Affairs, to pursue a mini-MBA at the McGill Executive Institute.

Angela began her career at the Department of Canadian Heritage from 1998 to 2008 and was Regional Director of Communications and Executive Services (Prairies and Northern Region). Fluently bilingual, she also serves as President of the Board of the Société de la francophonie manitobaine, and recently completed the 2022 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference.