Posts by Penny Williams
“Just Like Me” — strategy & success
As you probably already know, the new Just Like Me exhibition – in the equally new Kids’ Gallery – is a big hit with 5-12 year olds and their families. Lorrie Ann Smith (manager, Young Audience Engagement and Learning) smiles at the thought. The strategy is working!’ “These families are one of the AGO’s five […]
P&D January Talk – “Date with Kenojuak Ashevak”
This talk series is a monthly presentation in the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre (“P&D”): second Friday of each month prepared and presented by members of the P&D Volunteer Group 11 a.m. – noon; free of charge Friday, January 10 – Date with Kenojuak Ashevak, presenter Ortsana Moraru One of the images […]
P&D December Talk – “Date With Modernity: 1905-1925”
This talk series is a monthly presentation in the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre (“P&D”): second Friday of each month prepared and presented by members of the P&D Volunteer Group 11 a.m. – noon; free of charge Friday December 13 – Date with Modernity: 1905-1925, presenter Marianne Seger One of the images that […]
A Hit at the National Docent Symposium
“I’ve always found that the best training occurs when participants are really engaged with each other and sharing ideas, not just sitting and listening,” says Gallery Guide Charlene Livingstone. She’s explaining how she and colleague Frances Bleviss came to develop a highly interactive small-group training activity called Connections – and how it made its way […]
Lloyd DeWitt & and Pope Gregory XV
It’s a wonderful photo — and it owes a little bit to chance, confesses Gallery Guide Colleen Rae, who took it. On November 18, she and other Gallery Guides were in gallery 121 (part of the Tanenbaum Centre for European Art) with Lloyd DeWitt, the AGO’s Curator of European Art. She meant to take a […]
John Hartman: Looking at Milne & Blackwood — Close Encounters, Nov. 27
In the mid-1980s, Canadian painter and printmaker John Hartman began to make visionary colour drypoints that combined his home landscape of Georgian Bay with stories, often placed in the sky of his images. (Here below: Salvage, 2000, Collection of the Artist.) Join John Hartman as he presents a selection of his colour drypoint prints along […]
2013 Project, Margaret Machell Study Grant
Meet Alannah Dymond, a thesis-year Bachelor of Fine Arts student at OCAD University, and an AGO Youth Council volunteer. Alannah had a great idea – and then got to carry it out with the help of the Margaret Machell Study Grant for 2013. Her idea? “I wanted to visit a couple of art institutions, learn […]
Close Encounters, Nov 6: Alex Colville (Self and Other)
Close Encounters, like the monthly Talk, is a public presentation by the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre (“P&D”). It also has a couple of differences from Talk: it is less frequent, and it is by paid admission. This Wednesday evening, at 7 p.m., Sarah Milroy will show and discuss the work of Alex Colville. […]
Alex Colville — P&D November Talk
This talk series is a monthly presentation in the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre (“P&D”): second Friday of each month prepared and presented by members of the P&D Volunteer Group 11 a.m. – noon; free of charge November 8 – Date with Alex Colville, presenter Edith Layne “Morning,” 1981 – one of […]
Happy, Happy Hands-On Centre
It’s a little past 2 on a weekday afternoon. The Dr. Mariano Elia Hands-On Centre is now closed for the day, and Zavette Quadros, an AGO education officer working with the Centre, has begun to tidy up. She is distracted by a tiny thump on the far side of the glass wall behind her. A […]