Posts by AnneFleming
“Art in the Moment” program gets a shout out in the Toronto Star
The AGO’s innovative program for visitors with various forms of dementia got a mention in a recent Toronto Start article on museum accessibility. Gallery Guide Tina Urman is featured, as she demonstrates how Group of Seven and Warhol pieces can be used for meaningful encounters. The whole article can be found here: http://www.thestar.com/life/2016/04/25/how-toronto-museums-are-helping-people-with-alzheimers-experience-art-even-if-they-cant-remember-it.html
Volunteer Bev Biderman inspires an opera!
AGO volunteer Bev Biderman has inspired an opera based on her book Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing, her memoir of learning to hear with a cochlear implant. The opera, titled TMIE, on the threshold of the outside world, music and libretto by Carlos Alberto Augusto, premieres in English this week in Lisbon, Portugal […]
Andrew Hunter on curating The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, with Steve Martin
The AGO is all abuzz about the upcoming Lawren Harris show curated by actor/art collector Steve Martin and our own Andrew Hunter. While the show has been in the works for several years, the recent announcement that Martin would be in Toronto in June for a “conversation” at Roy Thomson Hall with Hunter brings the […]
Volunteers Interact with Micah Lexier’s coin exhibit
Exiting the elevators at the fifth floor, volunteers may have encountered a work by Toronto-based artist Micah Lexier, entitled A work of art in the form of a quantity of coins equal to the number of months of the statistical life expectancy of a child born January 6, 1995. It features two cash boxed filled […]
Volunteers Connect at the AGO
The AGO played host this past November to Volunteers Connect, a semi-annual gathering of lead volunteers and staff from cultural institutions across the GTA as well as Hamilton and McMichael. Volunteers Connect is now in its fifth year. Participants meet for three hours, listen to two different presentations covering issues or programs of interest and […]
Prints & Drawings in February – Colour Field
Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs. 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 Prints & Drawings Collection. This month: Plane Vision: American Color Field Art Talk by Mary Kirby Date: Friday February 12 Time: […]
Toronto Star’s Once Upon a City Celebrates 116th Anniversary of AGO’s Founding
The Ontario Society of Artists, led by president George Reid, drew a stroke of colour across winter’s white canvas in January 1900 to create the Art Museum of Toronto – later to become the Art Gallery of Ontario…. So begins a fascinating look back at the beginnings of what’s now the AGO. The Star.com article […]
Art Exhibition features P&D volunteers
Liz Haney and Ortansa Moraru, currently volunteering with the Prints & Drawings department, are featured in an upcoming exhibition at the University of Guelph – Humber Art Gallery from Wednesday, January 20 to Friday, February 5. For more info on the artists see www.lizhaney.com and http://www.ortansa.com Do you have a show coming up? Let us […]
Prints & Drawings in December
Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs. 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 Prints & Drawings Collection. This month: Käthe Kollwitz Talk by Edith Layne and Marianne Seger Date: Friday December 11 Time: […]
Volunteer Annual Gathering a rousing success
Despite the three-week delay due to a surprise gas leak on Dundas St, a good time was had by all at this year’s Volunteer Annual Gathering, held (finally) on October 26. Volunteers from all departments, both current and “alumni”, enjoyed truffled popcorn, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, various libations and great conversation. Judy Koke (Chief, Public […]