Posts tagged “AGO Youth Council”

Margaryta, Mixed Media, & the Margaret Machell Study Grant

“I’ve talked with people in the Youth Council about how there is appreciation for traditional art, and also for some new, non-traditional forms like performance art and sound art. My question was, what could we in the Youth Council make, physically make, that would be non-traditional art?” Margaryta Golovchenko, in her third year as an […]

Free After Three Runs Away to the Circus

You may have hearing pounding music or seen spinning bodies as you passed by the Weston Family learning Centre since it opened in 2011, and wondered what was going on.  The AGO’s innovative Free After Three program has been engaging young people with art in ways that are meaningful to them – and fun!  It’s […]

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 […]