Hello Everyone, One thing I love about Toronto is the abundance of culture and creativity – whether one experiences it here at the museum or at art-making studios, at the theatre, through film, at literary festivals or at street festivals. Culture is really what makes Toronto great. Yes, Toronto is a finance, tech and sports […]

Hello Everyone, Tomorrow (Saturday) we are opening an exhibition by Sarindar Dhaliwal entitled When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours. It is on the first floor in the Lind Gallery. It is a bold and beautiful exhibition and when you go to see it you will be impressed by both […]

Learn the history behind the 11-panel archival pigment print by Toronto-based artist Suzy Lake. “I wanted the sense of the rhythm of sweeping, not the figure, to become strong enough that the audience would feel it,” said artist Suzy Lake on her work Rhythm of a True Space #2 (2008-2009). An 11-panel archival pigment print that features […]

Hey All, in a meeting this week a question came up about volunteer content on the blog. This post is a short reminder that there are lots of ways to share information in the volunteer community: The AGO Volunteers Facebook Group – type “AGO Volunteers” in your Facebook search bar (you need to be member […]

This week, I would like to acknowledge a very special person, someone whom, sadly, we lost last Friday – Trustee Emeritus Carol Rapp, who passed away at age 89. Carol loved the AGO. She loved art, she loved artists, and she loved new ideas. Many of you knew her – she had been part of […]

Two of the featured artists in the exhibition We Are Story offer environmental insight. Since January 2023, the group exhibition We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition has been on view at the AGO (128, The Edmond G. Odette Family Gallery, and 129 The Robert & Cheryl McEwen Gallery), showcasing the vitality and range of contemporary Canadian photography. This […]

Hello Everyone, On Tuesday, I returned from two weeks’ vacation where we visited remote corners of the UK (Shetland Islands) and had lots of social time with family in English towns. It was wonderful and I needed the time to re-charge – having said that, I’m pleased to be back at the AGO, just in […]

The volunteer blog will be dormant for the next couple of weeks, for holidays! Please look to a return to posts the week of Monday July 17. In the meantime, make sure to keep with up with the most current news through Foyer, our new online magazine profiling the collection, exhibitions and general goings-on at […]

For the first time since 2019, we’re hosting AGO Summer Art Camp! Beginning on Tuesday July 4 and running throughout the summer, we look forward to welcoming almost 200 summer art camp volunteers, aged 15-18 years old, here at the Gallery. Please help us make them feel welcome in the volunteer lounge.

Writer, multidisciplinary artist and designer Tarralik Duffy’s work is a love letter to her hometown of Salliq, Nunavut. An intuitive connection to her Ancestors and a deep reverence for Inuit culture and tradition have informed her dynamic practice over the years – from jewellery making to large-scale soft sculpture. In her work, Duffy references objects […]