Posts tagged “Margaret Machell Study Grant”
Congratulations to Shirin Divanbeigi – our 2018 Margaret Machell Study Grant Winner!
Established in honour of a long-time staffer, the Margaret Machell Study Grant gives AGO volunteers an opportunity to build upon their skills and knowledge base in the areas of: excellence in collections; leadership in interpretation; and extraordinary visitor welcome. Winners are selected a sub-committee of the Volunteer Executive. This year Shirin Divanbeigi will receive the […]
Margaret Machell Study Grant 2016 Winner Denise Desouza Earns Volunteer Management Certificate
The deadline for applications for this year’s Margaret Machell Study Grant is coming up quickly! Now’s your opportunity to get a little support to pursue a course or experience that will enhance your volunteer work at the AGO! See Holly’s post from October 6 for more details. One of last year’s winners, Denise Desouza talks […]
Congratulations to our Margaret Machell Study Grant winners!
The Margaret Machell Study Grant gives AGO volunteers an opportunity to build upon their skills and knowledge base in the areas of: excellence in collections; leadership in interpretation; extraordinary visitor welcome. Additional consideration for this year’s proposals included: alignment to volunteer role, benefit to other volunteers in addition to individual, individual performance, and priority in […]
YouTube & Margaret Machell
YouTube really has everything — even inspiration for a Margaret Machell Study Grant. For Gallery Guide Roxy Blardony, the inspiration was watching a video of Pharrell Williams’ song Happy being performed by Deaf teenage campers. “A friend posted the video on her Facebook page, and I was fascinated, even though I have no family or […]
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 […]
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 […]
Margaret Machell Study Grant — Application Deadline July 15
Who knows? You may have the winning project in mind – but to win, you first have to apply. Each year, the Margaret Machell Study Grant, administered by your Volunteer Executive (VE), is offered in financial support for an art-related project. The project might be a course, workshop or conference – something that would develop […]
Margaret Machell Study Grants: apply now
Is there some art-related project you’d love to carry out – perhaps a course, workshop or conference – that would develop your skills, expand your knowledge, and enhance your work here at the AGO? If so, you may be a great candidate for a Margaret Machell Study Grant, administered by your Volunteer Executive (VE). Each […]