Library & Archives Unshelved: Back to School: Artists as Teachers and Students
This drop-in series, hosted by AGO librarians and archivists, gives visitors a first-hand glimpse of highlights from the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives collection. In this installment, we head back to school with some Canadian artists whose work has involved teaching the next generation. Join Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, for an archival view of artists as teachers and students – including Rolph Scarlett, Suzy Lake, Barbara Astman, Robert Markle, Dennis Burton and Tanya Mars.
Multisensory Museum Workshop
How can artists create more accessible and inclusive experiences of their work? Join Melissa Smith, the AGO’s Program Curator, Collaborative Learning at the AGO, and the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives for an introduction to the practice of multisensory artmaking and interpretation. This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of the key concepts of multisensory art. Participants will play with alt-text description, touch, smell, and/or sound to create collaborative translations of objects from the AGO library’s collection.
Close Looking: The Shadow of the Year with poems by Florence Wyle and wood engravings by Rosemary Kilbourn
Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing their creation, history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.
AGO Archives of Murray Frum and William Withrow at the opening of African Majesty in 1981
Join us to see the ways art reveals and shapes the world in which we live. Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.
Join Al Stanton-Hagan, AGO Archivist, and Mariah Coulibaly, Research Assistant, Frum Collection, Arts of Global Africa & the Diaspora, as they explore changing attitudes about African art at the AGO and in the West through records from the AGO Archives.
Web Archiving for Artists and Cultural Workers
Join librarians Sarah Lake and Hélène Brousseau from Concordia University for an online web archiving workshop.
Close Looking: The Jack Pollock fonds
Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.
Michael Snow: My Mother's Collection of Photographs
Join Michael Snow, Jean Gagnon and special guests for the launch of Snow's artist's book My Mother's Collection of Photographs.