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 [...]
GUEST POST by Nicole Nugent This past spring the MacKenzie Art Gallery collaborated with the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District (Regina Downtown BID) to present reproductions of artworks from the MacKenzie Art Gallery Permanent Collection in the city’s downtown core, a project lovingly penned art{outside}. Our hope is that each visitor will connect with something [...]
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 [...]
MoCCA will soon make its way over from West Queen West to the expansive Tower Automotive Building in the Junction Triangle Source: Toronto’s MoCCA gets a new home, in an old space
The Canada Council for the Arts has written the obituary for a way of doing business, that, if left alive, may have someday resulted in there being more art funding programs than there are artists. That’s an exaggeration (artistic licence, ahem), but the assertion is real. For now, the Canada Council distributes $154 million in about 4,000 grants… [...]
The federal government's Canada Day fireworks display is rattling the National Gallery of Canada – literally. In a letter last October, gallery director Marc Mayer said fireworks launched from nearby Nepean Point pose "serious problems" for the gallery. But no relief is in sight for this year at least. Source: National gallery rattled by Ottawa’s [...]
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 by Paige Rosner, Glitter Enthusiast and Gallery Educator at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, AB Why would anyone want to present a case study? For that matter, why would we even invite you to do one in the first place? Well there are a few reasons that I can think [...]
