From left to right: Erin Thadani, David Fleck, Ed Phillips, Barbara Glaser, Stephen Jost, Mary Henderson, Erin Prendergast, Holly Procktor. The Volunteer Endowment Trust (VET) is a fund created and sustained through the continued financial support of the Volunteers of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The fund is held in Trust by the AGO Foundation, […]

Greetings from Halifax, I am currently on the East Coast for the first time meeting with my counterparts at the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization (CAMDO) Spring Conference. One of our Lawren Harris paintings, Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay, is also in Nova Scotia as part of an exhibition honouring the centenary of Davis Day (Nova Scotia’s commemoration of […]

A new month, a new year of savings for AGO volunteers! The 2025/2026 Attractions Ontario, and Toronto Attractions Reciprocal Agreements are ready and updated! IMPORTANT: This year, the documents are hosted online and will be updated as changes occur. Here are the login credentials, so you can access current offers, directly, at any time: These […]

Dear Volunteers, The Art Rate Monitor program is returning this July, and running through to December 2025. New and improved, the Gallery’s Marketing team is looking to conduct a test run, with our technological partners, WXM, on Monday June 23, at 12pm in Walker Court (immediately following our AGO 125 Birthday Bash Town Hall) Marketing […]

By now, you’ve all saved-the-date for our special 125th Birthday Town Hall As part of this occasion, we’re shining the spotlight on some of the many artworks you know and love from the AGO Collection, using some of those featured on the AGO 125 Iconic Works list as our pool of options.  Here’s how you […]

The Gallery’s hours around the upcoming July 1 statutory holiday look a little different this year. Read below for more details on the statutory holiday and which days the Gallery will be open: Statutory Holiday  Gallery Hours   In addition, in celebration of Ontario’s first-ever Group of Seven Day on Monday, July 7, 2025, the […]

Hello Everyone, This past Wednesday, we had over 5,000 visitors, with lines back to Queen Street West. The galleries were alive with people engaging with the art, lining up (again!) to experience Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, and enjoying the breath-taking soundscapes performed by Maria Chavez in Walker Court as part of the Luminato Festival. And […]

Hello Volunteers, I’m happy to share this invite with you! – please see details below and make sure you RSVP your attendance (this helps ensure we have set-up and refreshments, for all! HERE: https://forms.gle/9RNTfsHrvALqvGvK7 – Holly Please join us for our June 2025 Town Hall celebrating the Gallery’s 125th Birthday on: All staff and volunteers […]

Hello Volunteers, Our in house I.T. team has been working hard, since the Fall cyberattack, to restore AGO systems and data, while strengthening security. The link below leads to a folder called Launch Videos that includes both the recent 1) AGO Values: Working Together Town Hall, and 2) the Joyce Wieland: Heart-On exhibition launch video […]

This past weekend, AGO volunteers came together to attend a private celebration of life for AGO volunteer Karen Pai (1945 – 2025) who passed away on vacation in Phuket, Thailand, earlier this year. Karen joined our volunteer program in 1991, with nearly 35 years of service as an AGO volunteer, first joining as a historical […]