Close Looking: The View from the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1921

Join Marilyn Nazar, AGO Archivist, and Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, as they examine a set of snapshots in the AGO Archives that form a panoramic view from the front door of the newly-opened gallery building in 1921. We will take a close look at the photographic evidence and consider what it can tell us about the early gallery, the historic moment at which it emerged, and its place in our neighbourhood.

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Close Looking: Canadian Wild Flowers

Join Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, as she discusses the AGO’s early editions of Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Wild Flowers (1868 and following) illustrated by Agnes Fitzgibbon. We will take a close look at some of the book’s remarkable illustrations and their history of production, and explore what it means to include illustrated books in an art museum collection.

Indigenous Arts Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Please join the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives and friends for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Indigenous arts and artists. Our aim is to put the AGO’s thousands of artist files, books, and magazines to use as reference material to build Wikipedia content on topics related to Indigenous arts from across Turtle Island. Collaborators include Wanda Nanibush, AGO; Jamie Lee Morin and Desmond Wong, University of Toronto; artist Zeesy Powers; and Stacy Allison-Cassin, York University.

Library & Archives Unshelved: Highlights from the AGO Archives

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. For this installment, AGO Archivist Marilyn Nazar looks back at the first 100 years of AGO’s history through photographs, scrapbooks, architectural plans, catalogues, and other documents from the archives.

Copyright & Fair Dealing for Creative Women* Entrepreneurs

Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, OCADU, 3rd Floor, Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul

Join Lindsay Dykstra and Christie Bates, lawyers at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, for a discussion of how copyright law and fair dealing provisions affect your creative practice. Lindsay and Christie will cover key copyright provisions that will help you harness and manage your copyright. They will also provide practical legal tips to help improve your creative practice.

Library & Archives Unshelved: Love-In

This drop-in event hosted by AGO librarians and archivists gives visitors a first-hand glimpse of highlights from the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives collection. For February’s event, Head of Library & Archives Amy Furness will share texts and images on the theme of love from the archives of artists including Barbara Astman, Florence Wyle and Sorel Etrog.

Artist File Fair with EMILIA-AMALIA, no. 2

In keeping with E-A’s year-long inquiry, this File Fair event is centred on inviting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour), womxn and trans artists to start a file at the library, archive their contributions within Canadian art history and contribute to institutional memory.

Artist in the Archives: Pamila Matharu in Conversation with Gabrielle Moser

Join artist Pamila Matharu for a screening of stuck between an archive and an aesthetic, a new experimental documentary recently featured at A Space Gallery as part of the 32nd Images Festival of Independent Film + Video.

Library & Archives Unshelved: Artists at Play

Librarian Donald Rance presents a selection of artist books and multiples, featuring pieces by Yoko Ono and more. This collection will explore the ways that artists have experimented with games and play in their work.

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