Many thanks to Melissa Smith for passing this volunteer opportunity along, through her work with Access. Full details below: The White Cane Week Experience Expo is a fantastic opportunity to not only make a great impact in our community, and a day to learn about living with vision loss, but also to meet new lifelong […]

Featuring lost-and-found home movies from the Prelinger Archives, alongside celebrated artworks by the likes of David Hockney, Patti Smith, Claes Oldenburg, Annie Pootoogook, Arthur Jafa and Mary Pratt, as well as snapshots, photo albums, letters, television, grocery lists, and social media, I AM HERE brings together a broad range of personal records from different time periods and […]

Hello Everyone, For the last few months, managers have been back on site for at least 3 days a week. It is really great to have so many of you back. We are in a much better place than we were in the winter – all provincial COVID health restrictions are now lifted, which means […]

For the second in our series of chats with curators for Museum Month, we sat down with the City of Toronto’s new Chief Curator to discuss a shared love of Robert Houle, the tyranny of the object and how museums can further social equity. It was a surprise and delight for residents of Toronto, when […]

Hello Folks,  I have to say that a couple of days of nice weather does put many of us in a good mood! Something else that puts me in a great mood is food – which I often enjoy at the AGO Bistro. In many ways the Food & Beverage team faced some of the […]

This June, the Gallery is hoping to begin hosting in-person talks again. You can register for FREE for these upcoming presentations (note: if, in addition to being a volunteer, you are a Member or Annual Passholder, please register as such). If you are neither, you can register by clicking on the Adult ticket (there are […]

Closes May 15!

Hello Everyone, This week’s news about the architect team for AGO Global Contemporary has been well received. Thank you to the Comms Team for rolling the news out. The process for selecting the team was incredibly demanding and rigorous but worth the effort. I am confident that we selected the most talented team for our […]

This week is National Volunteer Week, an important moment to share our heartfelt thanks for the contributions of our AGO Volunteers. To mark the occasion, AGOinsider caught up with Maya Kotlarenko, who has volunteered at the AGO for the past 14 years. Maya currently serves as Volunteer President—a surprising position for someone who “hated being […]

Happy National Volunteer Week everyone! It has been a rough 2 years apart, but we’re so pleased to be slowly welcoming you back! This week (especially this week) we pause to thank you for your commitment and dedication, enthusiasm and support through this challenging time! Whether you are greeting or guiding, helping patrons find prints […]