Posts by AnneFleming
Volunteer Appreciation Rap
In honour of National Volunteer Week 2014, staff members, including Melissa Smith (Gallery Guides), Elizabeth Petrova (Art Rental & Sales), Jennifer Rieger (Information Guides and The Grange) and Paul Ayres (Audio Guides), created a special tribute thanking volunteers for their efforts, which they performed at the end of the week. A video of the performance […]
Writing on the Wall – Artworks from Art Rental on display in the Grange
AR&S has collaborated with the Grange to display a new exhibition within the Members’ Lounge, entitled Writing on the Wall. Be sure to drop by and take a look. Here is official description: The written word has an important place in the history of The Grange. It is the former home of prominent historian and […]
Free After Three Runs Away to the Circus
You may have hearing pounding music or seen spinning bodies as you passed by the Weston Family learning Centre since it opened in 2011, and wondered what was going on. The AGO’s innovative Free After Three program has been engaging young people with art in ways that are meaningful to them – and fun! It’s […]
Meet Bright Ideas Contest Winner Margaret Johnson
Congratulations to Margaret Johnston for her winning Bright Idea: The People’s Choice! A Chartered Professional Accountant by training, Margaret has been a volunteer at the AGO since 2011. She started as a School Programs Gallery Guide and now works with Syrus Ware in the Free After Three program. Before the AGO, she was a Docent […]
For the Month of March, P&D takes visitors on a Date with DADA
OPEN DOOR – Every Wednesday from 1-8pm View original works of art from the Prints & Drawings Collection. This month, we will be featuring works by artists from the Dada Movement, including Jean Arp, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. If you would like to see prints and drawings from the collection by other […]
Brunch , Bacon, and Bright Ideas – a report from the latest Town Hall meeting
On February 20, the AGO held its first Town Hall of the year. Meeting highlights included: · The Getting To Know the Food and Beverage Department segment, where attendees were treated to delectable samples from all F&B outlets so staff and volunteers could understand what is offered and act as F&B ambassadors. · A brief […]
Time Tremors invades gallery, wins awards
Have you noticed families wandering around glued to an iPad? There’s a chance they’re not ignoring the art, but actually engaging with the AGO’s new award-winning Time Tremors app. Introduced last spring on a member’s family weekend, the app has become available full time since fall 2013. Based on a popular CBC kids show of […]
Just Like Me is on TV!
CP24 reporter Nalini Sharma visited the new kid-focused gallery over winter break and made this four part report featuring AGO Education coordinator Carrie Swartz: CP 24 Just Like Me video part 1 CP24 Just Like Me video part 2 CP24 Just Like Me video part 3 CP24 Just Like Me video part 4 […]
Rick Mercer Visits the AGO
CBC personality Rick Mercer visited the AGO last month with whirlwind visits to Conservation and to the Guggenheim exhibition – with a school group in tow! Check out the shenanigans here.
Free Performances in Walker Court enliven Wednesday evenings in February
Two upcoming events bring in performers to complement ongoing exhibitions. On Wednesday, February 5 at 7 pm, working in collaboration with seven female singers, artist Sarah Angelucci will present a public performance entitled A Mourning Chorus that explores the sounds of disappearing North American song-birds through the historic framework of women’s public mourning rituals. Angelucci’s […]