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 [...]
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 [...]
Who wouldn’t want to spend a Friday night making art? Participants at CAGE 2017 in Halifax will spend part of the evening of April 21st at the Wonder’neath Art Society, a neighbourhood resource supporting artistic development and community dialogue throught the arts. Bringing together professional artists and local residents in their studio space, Wonder’neath bills [...]
While in Halifax for the CAGE 2017 symposium (April 20-23), participants will explore the Nature of Nature, a celebration of photographer Thaddeus Holownia’s 40 years of production. The New Brunswick-based Holownia merges photographic and geographic histories. His attention to a subject often spans decades. Holownia himself says, “The meaning that resides in my bodies of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sherrie Levine's Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp) The CAGE symposium is just around the corner. The annual get-together of Canada's art educators is taking place in Vancouver March 31-April 2, 2016--and the star attraction is the Vancouver Art Gallery's MashUp exhibition. Want to know more about the full-gallery, top-to-toe installation? The Georgia Straight has [...]
