CAGE Annual Conference: Moving Forward
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
June 1-3, 2023

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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Our first in-person national conference since the pandemic aims to foster an educational and inspirational space to
enrich connections, while exploring how we move forward as professionals and as a field.

Join professionals in the field of gallery and museum education to learn about resiliency, overcoming obstacles, decision-making, bouncing-back and moving forward, all while learning about improving arts engagement and taking care.

Keynote Speaker:

Crystal Mowry (she/her) Director of Programs at the MacKenzie Art Gallery

Crystal Mowry previously held the position of Senior Curator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery where she oversaw the gallery’s exhibitions, collections, and publishing activities for over a decade. As a curator operating primarily within the context of a public art museum, she treats her role as equal parts co-conspirator and translator, often seeking ways to support artists in the development of new projects that complicate institutional narratives and processes. Her curatorial work includes group exhibitions such as The Brain is wider than the Sky, I’ll be your Mirror, The Perennials, and Romancing the Anthropocene, one of the three zones commissioned by the City of Toronto for its annual Nuit Blanche event. Her solo projects with Ontario-based artists Maggie Groat, Ernest Daetwyler, and Deanna Bowen have received Exhibition of the Year Awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (now Galleries Ontario Galeries) and in 2020 she was a recipient of a Waterloo Region Arts Award. Her writing has appeared in various artist-focused publications on the work of internationally active artists Brendan Fernandes, Shary Boyle, Mark Clintberg, and Deanna Bowen. She is a member of advisory committees for C Magazine and Critical Distance Centre for Curators and regularly participates on industry juries, most notably for the Sobey Art Award (2015), the RBC Painting Competition (2018), and the Scotiabank Photography Award (2021). Crystal was born in Toronto where she completed undergrad studies in sculpture and installation at the Ontario College of Arts University before completing a Master in Fine Arts degree at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.  

 

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Fees

  • $405 – Regular Registration
  • $375 – Case Studies Registration
  • $200 – Student Registration
  • $175 – One Day Registration

Equity-Seeking groups are those that identify barriers to equal access, opportunities and resources due to disadvantage and discrimination and actively seek social justice and reparation.

NOTE: you must have a membership with CAGE to attend the conference. Here are the 2023-2024 membership fees:

  • $75 Institutional
  • $45 Individual
  • $30 Student
  • FREE for Indigenous Educators and Equity-Seeking groups

Agenda

June 1st Thursday – AGO 

  • 9:30-10:00 – Breakfast and Registration
  • 10:00-11:00 – Sharing: Getting to know you 
  • 11:00-12:00 – Keynote: Crystal Mowry (she/her), Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery
  • 12:00-1:00 – Go for your own Lunch
  • 1:00-2:00 – Keynote break out conversations
  • 2:00-3:00 – Tour of Indigenous Exhibitions with Emily Henderson – Associate Curator, Indigenous Art, AGO
  • 3:00-5:00 – Self-Guided Exploration of AGO/Free Time
  • 6:00 – Dinner, Joey’s Restaurant

June 2nd Friday – AGO 

  • 9:30-11:30 – Case Studies and Breakfast
  • 11:30-12:30 – Go for your own Lunch
  • 12:30-1:00 – Presentation: Muna Cann, Head of Public Programs and Outreach, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
  • 1:00-2:00 – Hot Topics
  • 2:00-5:00 – Talk and Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto: Candice Cavanagh, Curator of Public Programmes, Chris Mendoza, Learning Coordinator and Angelic Goldsky, Public Programmes and Learning Fellow will provide an informal panel discussion about MOCA’s approach to Museum Education and Public Programmes.
  • 5:00 – Dinner, Spaccio

June 3rd Saturday – Hamilton

  • 10:20 – Meet at Union Station for a 10:44 am departure. Arrive at West Harbour Station at 12:05 (1 hour 12 minutes)
  • 12:15-1:00 – Go for your own Lunch at Art Gallery of Hamilton Cafe
  • 1:00-3:00 – Radical Stitch Exhibition Conversation and Art Making Experience

 

Suggested Accomodations

The Art Gallery of Ontario is located on Dundas Street West between Beverly Street and McCaul Street. The closest main intersections are Dundas and Spadina and Dundas and University.