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Happy Canada Day! Gallery Hours
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
2025 AGO Camps Start Monday, June 30
The Education & Programming (E&P) team is looking forward to running AGO camps again this year. Tiana Roebuck, Manager, Studio Learning & Programming
Models Wanted for Children’s Retail Photoshoot with shopAGO
The Marketing team is looking for children to participate in a retail photoshoot taking place on Monday, July 14. We will shoot from 9 am to 4 pm but only need volunteers for 1.5 to 2-hour time slots. The Marketing team is looking for: I know a child who’s interested! How can they apply?
Next Week: 2025 Summerlicious Launches at the AGO Bistro (July 4)
It’s Summerlicious time in the city, and the AGO Bistro is one of the 220 local restaurants participating this year! Summerlicious takes place from Friday, July 4, to Sunday, July 20. The Bistro’s Summerlicious menu will only be available on weekdays. The Bistro is offering a $34 three-course prix fixe lunch and a $45 three-course prix fixe […]
Joyce Wieland: Heart-On Digital catalogue for download
Hello Volunteers! Happy to share this link (with biggest Heart-felt thanks) to our publishing team. This is a digital copy of the Joyce Wieland catalogue, Joyce Wieland: Heart-On (supplied for internal AGO research only, please do not distribute!) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8b48ro9sepp88tpulchco/AGO.Joyce-Wieland.ENGLISH.2025.mar24_WM.pdf?rlkey=eoultfhjl870dhh6e0r53i8l0&st=jfbmxvuz&dl=0 This is the first time we’re sharing via Dropbox; our tests worked well but if you […]
Weekly Message from our Director & CEO, Stephan Jost
Hello everyone, There are many “big” weeks at the AGO, and this one is no exception. Congratulations and thanks to our Finance team. We received confirmation of an unqualified or “clean” audit. An audit is essentially a review of all our finances by an outside accounting firm who then tells us if we are doing […]
Exciting News on the Volunteer Endowment Trust winner (2025-26) voted by the Volunteers!
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, […]
Weekly Message from Our Director & CEO, Stephan Jost
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 […]
2025 – 2026 Attractions Ontario and Toronto Attractions Council Reciprocal Programs
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 […]
Returning Soon: The Art Rate Monitor
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 […]