At the end of March, after almost 35 years in the museum education field, Patricia Sullivan is retiring from the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University. Pat attended her first CAGE symposium in 1991 and has served as Case Studies Chair, Junior Chair and Senior Chair for CAGE. Pat has been instrumental in gathering, [...]
Live in the Hamilton areas? Want to know more about the Ontario Arts Council "Artists in Communities and Schools Projects Program?" On Thursday, February 23rd the Ontario Arts Council will be holding an information session about their new Artists in Communities and Schools Projects Program at the Norfolk Arts Centre; it is free to attend. [...]
Maybe you were able to come to CAGE Vancouver 2016. Maybe you heard some of our amazing speakers, including Jean-Luc Murray (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal) and artist Justin A. Langlois. If not, don't worry. CFUV, the University of Victoria's radio station, has you covered. Their arts education podcast ARTSCAPE interviewed Murray and Langlois as part of [...]
Two years ago, CAGE Symposium in Regina welcomed Jane Sillis from engage, CAGE's UK counterpart. After extensively sharing our practice over the course of three wonderful days, we realized that art educators in Canada and the UK have more similarities than differences. One location of mutual interest? Obviously visual art and wellbeing, judging from engage's [...]
By Lorrie Gallant, Education Program Coordinator at Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford Ontario. In the language of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory “Ongweheonweh,” means first, original or natural people: "We have fought battles that were not our own. We have suffered sickness and diseases that were put on us. And despite the effort [...]
Dear Art Educators, Two Rivers Gallery may be looking for you! From our friends at Two Rivers: Applications are now being accepted for the Public Programmer position at Two Rivers Gallery. Reporting to the Director of Public Programs, the Public Programmer plans and facilitates various educational programs at the Gallery and in the community for [...]
GUEST POST by Brenda Feist All photos by Brenda Feist Approach from Soho I spent two weeks in NY this past July, visiting family and wandering the streets and museums of Manhattan. I'd made a promise to a friend to visit the New Museum on Bowery, but as I was staying up [...]
Another spring, another CAGE Symposium. But no two are ever the same. This year, not only were we warmly welcomed by Regina's Mackenzie Art Gallery and the Dunlop Gallery, we heard from our U.K. colleague organization, engage, about new interpretive models, and experienced the MAG's Moving Forward, Never Forgetting project. More to come in a [...]
Drawing in the Name of Freedom installation Montreal Museum of Fine Arts “With great freedom comes great responsibility.” Variously credited to heavy-hitting thinkers from Voltaire to Spiderman, the famous quote could just as easily be applied to education spaces within art museums. Often more flexible in their programming than main gallery spaces—which are programmed months [...]
A guest post from Nicolle Nugent, CAGE Senior Chair When is the last time you stopped to consider the effectiveness of your gallery’s interpretive models? How many times do you find yourself standing in front of audiences and asking the same three or four questions, often having a strong idea as to where the discussion [...]
