Guest post by Melissa Smith, Art Gallery of Ontario and CAGE executive member My favourite memory of Judy Koke, a leading museum educator and theorist, happened during the Youth Summer Party at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was the Chief of Public Programming and Learning, a significant leadership role, and was on the floor [...]
The CAGE conference is coming up soon -- May 3-5, 2018 in Ottawa. As part of a series about our workshop presenters and guest speakers, here is Nicolle Nugent's heart-felt and detailed account of working with Indigenous artist and teacher Peter Morin in 2015. If you like what you read here, come experience Peter Morin's [...]
The CAGE Conference is over, but certainly not forgotten by the members who made it to Halifax this year. Conference Report and photos coming soon! Members elected a new Executive: Senior Co-Chairs: Susan Rome (Vancouver Art Gallery) and Nicolle Nugent (Mackenzie Gallery) Junior Chair: Susan Fohr (Textile Museum of Canada) Secretary: Kelsey Balehowsky (Vernon Public Art [...]
No trip to Halifax would be complete without a trip to Canada’s Immigration Museum at Pier 21. CAGE 2017 participants will be visiting Pier 21, the Canadian Museum of Immigration. For our group, Pier 21 is offering a private tour concentrating on their arts programming. We will hear about their Artist-in-Residence program (during our visit, [...]
Don’t you hate those conferences where you only get to see the inside of an anonymous hotel meeting room? CAGE conference organizers always strive to offer participants a “boots on the ground” look at the creative scene at the cities we visit. On Day 3 of this year’s Halifax conference, participants will be treated to [...]
If a keynote speaker sets the tone, CAGE 2017 is off to a flying start. Amanda Cachia—a writer, curator and educator currently based in California but originally from Sydney, Australia—is deeply embedded in the study and practice of art curation and production through the lens of (dis)ability. The recipient of the 2014 Irving K. Zola [...]
The program is set, the hotel rooms booked, the food arranged--all the CAGE 2017 Symposium needs now is YOU. Maybe you're the only person in your education and programming department. Or maybe you're one of many. The CAGE symposium is always your best chance to meet colleagues, discuss issues that matter to you, and to [...]
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 [...]
