CAGE Online Conference June 16 & 17, 2022 The program is FREE and open to individuals but highly recommended for art educators and those working in the museum or gallery sector. REGISTER VIA ZOOM DAY ONE DAY TWO Conference Schedule                         DAY ONE Indigenous Ways of Knowing [...]

OAEA Equity Speaker Series flyer_April 23.22 Dr. Therese Quinn is the Ontario Art Education Association’s next Equity Speaker Series presenter. She’s discussing social justice as related to her latest book, School: Questions about Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom. The date is Saturday, April 23, at 11AM. Registration information here.  

photo of Rachel Baerg Tuesday, April 20, 1:00 pm EST REGISTER Qaumajug: The New Inuit Art and Culture Campus Join Rachel Baerg, Head of Learning & Programs at the Winnipeg Art Gallery to explore the new light-filled spaces of Qaumajuq (“it is bright, it is lit”), an innovative new museum and 185,000 square-foot [...]

This is an exciting time of intense creativity and innovation in the field of art gallery education. Gallery educators are being tasked with bridging online and in-person audiences, repositioning and redefining the role that museums play within communities in a period of uncertainty and crisis. The CAGE Case Study Series offers Canadian Art Gallery Educators [...]

Our next commissioned blog post is by Khadija Aziz, who addresses the challenges and opportunities of teaching online workshops. I am a textile artist and educator and I have never taught or learned arts and crafts through an online platform until the global pandemic led to a quarantine. My favourite part about workshops is the [...]

Written by Miranda Jimmy, this post was commissioned by CAGE for National Indigenous Peoples Day. It is the first in a new series of posts for this blog by BIPOC artists, educators and activists commissioned by CAGE. Miranda Jimmy is a passionate Edmontonian and member of Thunderchild First Nation. We are grateful to Miranda for this [...]

With great regret but also with resolve, the CAGE Executive has decided to cancel the 2020 Symposium. We also understand that our membership will be very busy in the fall, likely in the process of updating and re-envisioning your programs. We decided to skip the 2020 symposium and come back well and re-energized in 2021. [...]

Re-posted with permission by the author, Miranda Jimmy Miranda Jimmy is a passionate Edmontonian and member of Thunderchild First Nation. Last May, she joined CAGE on Treaty Six Territory to share her work around reconciliation and decolonizing with our members. With Miranda’s permission, we are reposting her essay on the Royal Alberta Museum’s new building [...]

By Dara Armsden, Head of Education & Learning at the Art Gallery of Alberta Image 1: At the opening of the BMO World of Creativity: Time Travel to the Cubular Galaxy, March 2019. Image credit: Author Image 2:  An installation shot of student mural. Image credit: author OVERVIEW As a long-standing [...]