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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 […]
“Artisan Social” in Leslieville – December 1
art soc map You are invited by your fellow volunteer Felicia Cohen to attend a craft sale with various vendors (including Felicia), on Sunday, December 1st. The event will be located on Queen E. in Leslieville, behind the Ceili Cottage. Click on “art soc map,” above, for details on how to get there.
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 […]
A Message from the Director & CEO – Participate in the 1st Annual Volunteer Engagement Survey – PLEASE READ AND SHARE WITH OTHERS
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR AND CEO Dear Volunteers, What’s happening? On Monday, we are launching the first annual volunteer engagement survey. This strictly confidential survey to measure volunteer satisfaction will be conducted from Monday, November 18 to Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 5pm. The survey will be available on-line and in hard copy and […]
Guggenheim staff and volunteer preview and talk
Please join us for a staff and volunteer talk and two viewings of the upcoming exhibition The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918. November 26 Preview 3 to 5 pm Talk 3 to 4 pm, with Tracey Bashkoff, exhibition curator, Guggenheim. Meet at entrance to Zacks exhibition. December 2 Preview 1 to 7 […]
You are invited to AGO Members’ Shopping Week: November 19-24
You are invited to AGO Members’ Shopping Week, taking place November 19 – 24. Members and volunteers enjoy 20% off everything in the shops – shopAGO, shopAGOkids, and Bowie shop – while staff receive their usual 25% items (excludes current sale items and jewellery, jewellery 20% Shopping Week only). In addition, shopAGO invites you […]
AGO to explore the ongoing influence of Alex Colville in major exhibition next summer
Nearly 100 works by the late Canadian icon to be displayed in largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date TORONTO — Nearly 100 works by Canadian icon Alex Colville (1920-2013) will be presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) next summer, marking the largest exhibition of the late artist’s work to date. Curated […]
Help Us Avoid Fires In Outdoor Garbage Bins
We have recently had a few small fires break out in the garbage bins outside both the front and side (McCaul Street) entrances. These fires were caused by cigarettes that were not completely extinguished, then deposited in the garbage bins instead of the ash urns. Please use the ash urns to depose of cigarette butts. […]
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 […]