Art anywhere, at school or at home!
We invite students at home or in school to join us monthly for a live conversation with an AGO Art Educator. Sessions are 30 minutes long, with elements of wellness and art woven into the session. There is a small creative exercise for students, so they should have pencils, pens or crayons and paper at the ready.
Virtual School Programs are free of charge, thanks to the extraordinary support of The Michael Young Family Foundation.
Join us for a live monthly conversation with an Art Educator
Join Art Educators in conversation with educators from Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site in Gravenhurst, to discover the incredible work of Dr. Norman Bethune – a battlefront surgeon, medical pioneer, advocate for Canada’s universal health care and Chinese cultural icon.
Celebrate World Ocean Day with the AGO and Ocean Wise! Ocean Wise is a global conservation organization on a mission to build communities that take meaningful action to protect and restore our ocean.
The 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 minutes session, participants in the AGO Virtual School Programs will explore and discuss an artwork from the AGO Collection, with a focus on the Critical Analysis Process. Students are encouraged to respond to questions in this live session using the Q&A function of the Webinar. The session will also include 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 offers several artmaking courses. See all courses.
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
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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.
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.
Due to copyright restrictions on different artworks, you are unable to record the session on Zoom
Where do artists find their inspiration? Students gain insight into the process behind the creation of selected works from the AGO European, Indigenous & Canadian, and Contemporary collections.
Starting with the land, how do we hold conversations around Indigenous art and artists? In this facilitated experience, students will look at and discuss artwork that captures themes of Indigeneity.
Expanding on the concepts introduced in other Virtual School Programs, students will take a deep-dive into artwork in the AGO Collection by Black artists. Students will also consider concepts of identity through the history and presence of the African diaspora nationally and globally.