Board of Directors

Shelley Falconer

AGH President and CEO

Shelley Falconer’s 25+ years career includes national and international experience as an administrator, curator, educator and consultant. She has worked with a variety of important private and public collections/cultural/educational organizations including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, University of Toronto, Centennial College, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Toronto District School Board, Department of Heritage, Government of Canada, Sotheby’s London and Waddington Galleries, England.

Ms. Falconer has directed and managed numerous exhibitions and award winning projects including installations for Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Canada House in London, England and the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. She has also authored and produced numerous exhibition texts and catalogues including the publication Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling through Inuit Art and her award winning Art2Life: the Canadian Century digital project won a prestigious United Nations World Summit award for best in e-content and creativity.

Her academic background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art History, Museology and Arts Administration from York University, Sotheby’s England, Sorbonne, l’université de Paris and the University of Toronto. Ms. Falconer has a broad knowledge of Canadian and International art. She was a member of the University of Toronto’s and Centennial College’s adjunct faculty in Culture & Museum Studies and lectures widely on a variety of educational and art historical subjects.

Sara Angelucci

Sara Angelucci (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist working in photography, video, and audio. Her work in photography began as an exploration of it’s vernacular forms. Here she considered their original context and impetus to draw attention to conventions of image making, and the cultural role photography plays in framing particular stories, creating histories, and memorialization. Her interest lies in drawing our attention outside of the image frame, pointing to the social and historic conditions which are the unspoken basis of the image. Since 2013, Angelucci’s projects have deeply considered our fraught relationship with the natural world. She has worked with extinct and endangered bird specimens, created images with local forests, and is currently producing botanical images in Ontario and her family’s ancestral village in Italy.

Sara Angelucci completed her BA at the University of Guelph and her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her photography across Canada including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of York University, Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Vu in Quebec City, the Toronto Photographers Workshop, the MacLaren Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Richmond Art Gallery, and the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery in Halifax. Her work has been included in exhibitions in the US, Europe, and China including the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Beijing Biennale, and the Lianzhou Photography Festival. Her videos have been screened across Canada and abroad, at festivals in Europe, China, Australia and the U.S. She has participated in artist residencies at the Art Gallery of Ontario, NSCAD (Halifax), the Banff Centre, and at Biz-Art in Shanghai. Angelucci has been the recipient of numerous grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. In 2016 she received the prestigious Chalmers Fellowship from the OAC. She was longlisted for the Scotiabank photography award in 2022 and 2024. Angelucci is an instructor in photography at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.

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Dilk Dhanapala

Dilk Dhanapala is dedicated to providing highly personalized wealth management services to a select group of individuals, families and corporations. Dilk graduated from Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, and has achieved the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER designation. He has been providing financial, investment, insurance, trust and estate planning advice to families, professionals and business owners since 1995. Prior to joining BMO Nesbitt Burns, Dilk helped mentor many successful financial advisors and built a track record of high achievement. Dilk’s advisors appreciate his client-focused approach as well as the energy and enthusiasm he brings on a daily basis.

Brian Dickson

Brian Dickson is a seasoned financial services leader with over two decades of experience driving growth, fostering high-performance teams, and championing community engagement. Currently serving as Regional Vice President, for  Greater Hamilton at RBC, Brian oversees all retail branch locations, from Grimsby to Waterdown and all in between. His strategic focus includes employee engagement, talent development, and cultivating a “One RBC” culture while delivering exceptional results across key metrics.

Prior to this role, Brian held progressive leadership positions at RBC, including Community Manager in Stoney Creek and Manager Business Markets, leading a dynamic team of Business Account Managers through post-pandemic recovery. Earlier, he drove transformational initiatives in Regional and National Office roles. Beyond banking, Brian is deeply committed to diversity and community impact. He chaired RBC’s Royal Eagles Indigenous Employee Resource Group, fostering inclusivity across Ontario, and served as a United Way Associate, strengthening corporate partnerships. He holds an MBA from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University.

A dedicated leader and mentor, Brian balances his professional achievements with a passion for martial arts, holding a black belt in Tae Kwon-Do and Karate, representing Team Canada globally as an amateur Kickboxer and serving as Vice-President of Kickboxing Ontario. Brian lives in Burlington with his wife and two daughters.

Roger Ferreira

Roger Ferreira (left) is a Hamilton-based artist. Born in Winnipeg in 1961, Roger grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, where much of his family resides. He moved from Trinidad to Hamilton in the late 1980s and quickly established himself in the arts community. Over his 35-year career, Roger has explored the painting, printmaking and sculpture. Since his early days in Hamilton working on public mural projects with youth, he has always been a teacher—having taught at Columbia International College and in the Catholic school system for over fifteen years, he has built a substantive career as an arts educator in this city. He founded a downtown artist co-op and regularly worked with other artists to support exhibition practices in Hamilton. The works on view span his various material approaches and exemplify four main themes: his focus on family and Black culture, the landscapes of Canada and Trinidad, activism, and spirituality.

As an artist-instructor, he has developed various youth art camps, and taught with the T and T Association, the BYA, and the CILC and won a John Holland Award (Art/Culture, 1999). His designs assisted the ACCPI, Pot Pourri, the HYSO, ICAA and ACCA. Roger produced costumes in Caribana and Hamilton Mardi Gras and won a Volunteer Service Award (2004). He designed the poster and collaborated on And Still I Rise, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton (2005).  He has also taught at “Under the Willows” (Lynwood Hall).

Scott Galbraith

Gary Graham

CHAIR

The founding partner of Gowlings’ Hamilton, Gary Graham is a business law lawyer with executive management, and SME-ownership, experience. He has been actively involved, advising clients in the manufacturing, energy and broader public sectors for over 25 years. Gary is a former Sir James Dunn scholar. For five years in the 1990s, Gary served as president of Westinghouse Canada Inc. Outside of his practice, Gary has been actively involved with the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association (Chairman 1995), the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce (President 1998-99), Hamilton Utilities Corporation (2000-2004), Burlington Golf & Country Club (Director 2002-2008), Burlington Hydro Inc. (Chairman 2009-2011), McMaster Innovation Park (Chair 2005 -16), McMaster University (Board of Governors 2003 -2014), and Hamilton Club (Director 2014-).

Cameron Kroetsch

Cameron and his partner Derek moved to Hamilton in 2014 and have been huge fans of the Art Gallery of Hamilton ever since. When Cameron was first elected to Council in 2022 as Ward 2 City Councillor, he was delighted to put his name forward to sit on the AGH Board and looks forward to supporting the AGH as it continues to build its capacity to serve the Hamilton community. Cameron comes to this work with a rich education in the arts and humanities (BA, BEd, MA) and hopes to bring his expertise in policy and governance to the Board during this term of Council.

Eleanor McMahon

Eleanor McMahon is a seasoned executive with experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors. She spent the early years of her career working on Parliament Hill, including as press secretary to the Rt. Honourable Jean Chrétien. Later, she brought her consensus-building know-how to a variety of other roles including Vice-President at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Vice-President at United Way Ottawa. She served as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Burlington from 2014 to 2018 and was appointed to Cabinet as Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport and as the President of the Treasury Board.

A passionate advocate for the safety of cyclists, Eleanor founded the Share the Road Cycling Coalition in 2007 following the death of her husband, Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Greg Stobbart killed by a careless driver while on a training ride on his bicycle. Under her leadership, the organization united cycling groups across Ontario to make communities more bicycle-friendly, mobilized municipal leaders across the province, and pressed the Ontario government to toughen the law regarding individuals who drive while suspended. That legislative change, Greg’s Law, passed in 2009. In addition, she led the impetus that resulted in the Coroner’s Review into Cycling Deaths in 2012 which resulted in the 2013 launch of #CycleON, Ontario’s first Bicycle Policy in 20 years. Her advocacy helped to secure two other pieces of legislation – Ontario’s One Metre Safe Passing Law in 2015, and Careless Driving Cause Death and Bodily Harm, in 2017.

While in Cabinet, she led the cycling file jointly with the Minister of Transport. That same year, she announced a $125 million investment in cycling infrastructure in several communities across Ontario inclusive of $25M to the city of Toronto. In 2020 at the invitation of the federal Minister of Infrastructure, Eleanor advised the federal government on the development and launch of Canada’s first national Active Transportation Infrastructure Fund which was announced at $400M in 2021.

Following her public service career, Eleanor served as CEO of the Trans Canada Trail and at the University of Waterloo as Vice President University Relations. She continues to serve as a Director on several boards including the Art Gallery of Hamilton where she Chairs the Long-Term Sustainability Committee, and the 2022 Canada Games where she served as the federal appointee. She is currently Chair of the Board of the cycling charity that she launched in her husband’s memory, the Share the Road Cycling Coalition.

Eleanor currently leads her own consulting firm McMahon Public Affairs and Communications, supporting clients and organizations in a variety of sectors across Canada.

Susan Murray

Susan Murray is the founder and CEO of SA Murray Consulting Inc. (SAMCI), a national, non-partisan Ontario based government relations firm, and is currently Director of Blue Pier Administration Corp. Ms. Murray has contributed extensively to notable volunteer boards. She has served as Director on the Toronto Board of Trade, the MS Scientific Research Foundation board, the Shannon School of Business National Advisory Board at Cape Breton University, the Canadian Opera Company, and as Honorary Director and former Chairman of the Board at the National Ballet School of Canada. She has served on corporate boards including Irwin Toy, Dover Industries, and Marsh Canada Ltd.

Joe Pietrantonio

Joe Pietrantonio is a Partner and Managing Director with KPMG Corporate Finance Inc. He currently assists his clients with divestiture, mergers and acquisitions and capital advisory strategic advice. Previous to this role,  Joe worked with an investment banking division for a Canadian financier. Joe has been a member of the board and the administrative committee for Rygiel Supports for Community Living. Joe looks forward to working with the Art Gallery on achieving its many strategic goals.

Hanno Weinberger

A Docent at the AGH since 2012, Hanno has just begun his second term as chair of the Volunteer Association Executive. He enjoys conducting tours of temporary exhibitions as well as the AGH permanent collection. Hanno is a retired elementary school teacher. Over the past 17 years, he has served on the Governing Councils of two self-regulatory colleges in Ontario and serves as a public representative for four self-regulatory bodies. Over a period of three months this year, Hanno became a grandfather for the first time to three grandchildren.

Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson is a Canadian music legend, famed storyteller, and visual artist. Tom Wilson’s extensive career and tireless efforts as a musician has bestowed upon him numerous nominations and awards from the Hamilton Music Awards to the Polaris Prize to the Juno Awards, including certified gold and platinum records. After the success of his show at the Art Gallery of Burlington Beautiful Scars: Mohawk Warriors, Hunters and Chiefs, Wilson’s paintings are now on display in various galleries across Canada. His memoir, Beautiful Scars published by Penguin/Random House has become a national bestseller.