Hello everybody! “September tries its best to have us forget summer”  – Bernard Williams September, the month of new beginning’s and fresh starts. Do you still feel that push to create new rituals? I imagine with that feeling of getting back into a routine, some of you will be missing your volunteer shifts at the gallery. We still […]

Hello everyone, I’m sure you’ll all agree that this summer has been different, for a variety of reasons. And now here we are at Labour Day weekend. We have all experienced the summer months in different ways. At the AGO, staff have been participating in AGOU, providing digital content online and re-opening to our public. […]

We are loving the new AGO Artist Spotlight series! Get to know some amazing artists. Check out profiles, interviews, artist-curated selections of their recent work, works-in-progress, research, and ideas: Julie Voyce Julie Voyce loves to paint, make toys, draw, put together decorations, assemble small books, print, make occasional pieces of jewelry and embroider. I love to paint, make toys, draw, put […]

Hello everyone, Earlier today I spoke at (an Employee) Town Hall. I always try to scroll through Zoom screens to see your faces. I spoke about the incredible work everyone has done to fulfill our mission on-line during closure and now on-site since re-opening last month. I am proud of what we have accomplished in […]

Volunteers, we’re looking for your feedback! This summer we piloted the AGO Volunteer Connector series, a weekly social drop-in Zoom call with rotating topics designed to keep our community engaged through the summer. At the time, we never imagined our community would be off-site for months ahead, so now we’re looking for ways to freshen […]

Thank you to everyone who cast their vote to support a project through the Volunteer Endowment Trust. The results are in! 85 votes were cast, and we’re thrilled to share that AGO volunteers chose to fund ongoing research and exhibition support for The Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs The Montgomery Collection is an incredible project, […]

Thank you to Prints & Drawings volunteers Susan Davidson, who sent along this recommendation for free learning resources, (click here) recently launched by the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. We like the looks of The University Lecture Series (offered on Demand), in particular: Toronto Through the Lens of Public Sculpture and Art & […]

For those of you who missed our recent AGO Volunteers Connector call with Stephan, we recorded the talk for you to listen to at your own leisure. We really appreciated Stephan’s candour and transparency in sharing his insights on this strange time. With that in mind, please note that this is an exclusive AGO volunteers […]

Hello everybody! Do you feel it? The crisp cool mornings and evenings of a slowly encroaching late summer dare I say early Fall?!? For many this is a long awaited time of cooler temperatures, sharpened pencils and the smell of autumnal leaves. For others (such as myself) the school anxiety and the loss of the […]

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Mindfulness workshop last week, as part of the AGO Volunteers Connector series, skillfully lead by Volunteer Council Member Barbara Glaser, and Gallery Guide (and expert facilitator!) Anne Hart. They’ve put together a resource list we’re sharing here (see also the Full list emailed earlier last week) and […]