Posts by AnneFleming
Volunteer Profile: Get to Know Barbara Keilhauer, Gallery Guide
We continue an occasional series of volunteer profiles. This week Shelagh Barrington catches up with long time volunteer Barb Keilhauer, a 27-year Gallery Guide. What brought you to the AGO as a volunteer? I was born in Brooklyn, NY of proud Dutch heritage. I have always enjoyed music, singing. I met and married a Canadian […]
Remembering Anita Wisner
Friday Gallery Guide Anita Wisner passed away on March 21, after a long illness. She was a longtime volunteer at the AGO and a generous source of art knowledge for her colleagues. While she was unable to come in in to the gallery for past year or so, she kept in touch and hoped to […]
Behind the Scenes: AGO Audience Research with Madeleine Adamson
Did you miss the presentation by then-Audience Researcher Madeleine Adamson during the 2019 National Volunteer Week? Cara-Lynn Nisenbaum sat down to chat with her to better understand the importance of Audience Research work at the AGO. As AGO volunteers, we work to improve and enrich our visitors experience at the gallery each day. A lot […]
Prints & Drawings Talk for March: Delacroix’s Faust: The Good, the Bad, and the “Ugly”
The second Friday of every month, one of P&D’s knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the AGO’s P&D Collection. Talk by: Corrinne Chong, Marvin Gelber Fellow in Prints and Drawings Date: Friday, March 13Time: 11 am (arrive at 10:30 to view works on display!) Expansive in scope and evocative in […]
What Do People Do All Day? Gabriella Goutam and Habitat for Humanity
In this occasional series, Shelagh Barrington, Friday Evening Lead Gallery Guide, asks fellow AGO volunteers what they do when they’re not at the gallery. This week: Gabriella Goutam, Lead Information Guide Friday evenings (and 2015 Margaret Machell grant winner !) What does AGO Volunteer, Gabriella Goutam do when she is not at the AGO? Gabriella […]
Prints & Drawings Talk for February: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
The second Friday of every month, one of P&D’s knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the AGO’s P&D Collection. Talk by: Susan Davidson Date: Friday, February 14Time: 11 am (arrive at 10:30 to view works on display!) A look at 7 different artists and 7 or more ways of expressing […]
What Do People Do All Day? Peter Feldman and Art Conservation in Rouge National Park
Some of you may recall the children’s book by Richard Scarry entitled What do People Do All Day? It gave a cross-section of the many and varied daily occupations in a small town. In this new occasional series, Shelagh Barrington, Friday Evening Lead Gallery Guide, asks fellow AGO volunteers what they do when they’re not […]
Prints & Drawings Talk for January: Seriously Funny: Political Satire at the AGO
The second Friday of every month, one of P&D’s knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the AGO’s P&D Collection. Talk by: Brenda Rix, Manager, Print and Drawing Study Centre Date: Friday, January 10Time: 11 am (arrive at 10:30 to view works on display!) Humour can be a powerful weapon to […]
Let’s Survive Forever – Piecing Together Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room
The AGO’s very own (and very popular) Kusama mirrored room just celebrated its six-month anniversary. We spoke with Art Services Technician Angelo about the four-week installation process that preceded the May 25 public opening. The full Kusama show in 2018 had its own tech that showed the AGO team how all the pieces went together. […]
Behind the Scenes: Rebooting the Planet with Adrian Villar Rojas
This past spring during National Volunteer Week, volunteers were treated to a backstage view of the installation of Adrian Villar Rojas’s Today We Reboot the Planet by Conservator Sherry and Art Services Technicians Jason Laudadio and Angelo Pedari. For those of you who missed the talk, here is Sherry’s recap of some of the major […]