Make new art connections and spark conversations! If you are an older adult, join us for our virtual Seniors Social program, a live weekly series that combines conversations with art and art making. The AGO believes that providing opportunities to experience art and art making increases wellbeing.

In this session we will explore ideas of childhood memories through portraiture. We tend to romanticize childhood, but for some of us it wasn't simply carefree—instead it was riddled with feelings of constraint, frustration, solitude. We'll take a close look at two paintings, the first by Jan Albertsz Rotius and another by William Kurelek, to examine how certain memories, experiences, expectations, and feelings from our childhoods continue to inform who we are today.

Please have ready cardstock and pastels or pencil crayons to make accordion portrait books exploring aspects of ourselves that have changed, or stayed the same, over time. You can take a look at other Portraits of Resilience ahead of time for some inspiration.

Live sessions will contain automated closed captions.

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