Art anywhere, at school or at home!
Visit us often for a new perspective on the AGO Collection: in person and virtually. We invite students at home or in school to join us for a live conversation with an AGO Art Educator.
Virtual School Programs for 2023-2024 has ended. VSP will be back Fall 2024. Stay tuned!
These sessions are free of charge to you, thanks to the extraordinary support of The Michael Young Family Foundation.
Virtual School Programs for 2023-2024 have ended. VSP will return in October 2024.
After exploring one artwork in the AGO Collection, students try simple drawing techniques inspired by elements and principles of design in the Visual Arts Curriculum, with a pencil and a piece of paper! If you have scissors, coloured pencils - bring them too!
Curriculum links: Visual Art
Discover how Indigenous artists have creatively interpreted the diversity of what we now know as Canada. Learn about the concept of decolonization, the history of Indigenous creativity, and indigenous teachings through art and conversation.
Curriculum Links: Visual Art, Social Studies, History, Language Arts
Take a deep-dive into work in the AGO Collection created by Black artists. Students consider concepts of identity through the history and presence of the African diaspora nationally and globally.
Curriculum links: The Arts, Language, Social Studies, History, Geography
Students explore interconnectivity through exchanges with partner institutions that provide opportunity for cultural exchange and artistic expression.
Curriculum links: The Arts, Language, History, Geography
Explore artworks by contemporary artists in the AGO’s collection to understand how artists have used visual media as a source of inspiration and wellness.
Curriculum Links: Visual Art, Social Studies, History, Language Arts
The weekly Virtual School Program sessions are free!
Please select the class in the schedule you would like to join and then register. A Zoom webinar link will be emailed to you.
Please feel free to forward the Zoom link to your students. Students do not need to download Zoom to watch the session; they will just need to click “View in Browser” when prompted.
Other options include sharing the session with your students via Google Meets/Classroom. You will need to make sure you accept conference audio when joining the session, otherwise you will not be able to hear the presenter.
The Zoom link shared with your students will be registered as the name on the invitation.
All students will have the name given on registration upon joining the session.
In each 30-minute session, participants in AGO Virtual School Programs will explore and discuss two artworks from the AGO Collection, with a focus on the Critical Analysis Process. Also included is a mini-wellness moment, and a mini-artmaking “spark” so you and your class can continue to think about the topic once the session is over.
Please note: this is not a full artmaking session. The AGO does offer several artmaking classes taught by professional artist/educators. Click here to see all the creative classes we offer.
Students may want a pencil and a sheet of paper as they tune into the sessions. The emphasis of this session is visual literacy, so we ask students to respond to questions posed by the Art Educators, using a keyboard and the Q&A function of the webinar. There will be no verbal replies. All comments are visible to all participants in the session, so here's a gentle reminder to please use the Q&A function respectfully.
If students are onsite, they may choose to write or sketch their responses on a sheet of paper. We would love to see them so please share your completed masterpiece #AGOSchools @AGOToronto
No.
All sessions will be done in a Zoom webinar; student responses are typed in. Participants will not be seen or heard, so no mic or webcam is needed.
Once registered, a Zoom webinar link will be emailed and will provide you access to all sessions in that grade level for the week.
No, only participate in the sessions you want to join. Each Zoom link is valid for the week, and you are welcome to attend as many sessions as you like throughout the semester.
No. Please use the Q&A function to respond to questions posed by the Art Educator. There are also no audio or verbal replies.
These sessions are presented live and not recorded.
We strive to provide unique sessions each week under the daily theme, however sometimes we may show the same work in the different sessions so students become more familiar with the art and they can discuss it from various perspectives.
Due to copyright restrictions on different artworks, you are unable to record the session on Zoom