This talk features former artist-in-residence Sara Angelucci in conversation with artists Spring Hurlbut and Marla Hlady about their work, points of convergence and departure.
In the mid 1980s Canadian painter and printmaker John Hartman began to make visionary colour drypoints that combined his home landscape of Georgian Bay with stories, often placed in the skies of his images. Hartman presents a selection of his colour drypoint prints from 1985 to the present in terms of two key influences, the colour drypoints of David Milne and the aquatints of David Blackwood. See a selection of Hartman's prints as well as works by Milne and Blackwood from the AGO collection.
The Close Encounters Series
This summer, Sarah Milroy had the poignant task of drafting Colville's obituary for the Globe and Mail, focusing on themes of mortality and human frailty in his art. Her talk deals with a related theme: the way in which Colville's haunting works are structured around the tension and space between the self and those we encounter, and the essentially solitary nature of human experience. Join Milroy in exploring a selection of Colville's prints, drawings and watercolours from the AGO collection.
Listen to eight thought-provoking speakers as they discuss how cities and communities build themselves — socially, artistically, ecologically, through infrastructure, and more — to survive, and thrive, in difficult times. Featuring poet Mustafa Ahmed, University of Guelph’s Ajay Heble, People for Education’s Annie Kidder, WWF Canada’s David Miller, Aboriginal Professional Association of Canada’s Gabrielle Scrimshaw, SiG@Waterloo’s Frances Westley and more.
Join deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Hammer Museum for an intimate conversation about the drawings of Lawren Harris.
Youth arts programs are intended to make a difference in the lives of young people and the world they inhabit. However, when it comes down to outcomes, indicators and how, exactly, measurement of subjective experience happens, things can get a little fuzzy. This problem is compounded by the fact that we're often asked to measure effects that may not manifest for years, counting chickens well before they hatch.
Designed by American sociologist Charles Ragin to handle both qualitative and quantitative data, qualitative comparative analysis is a research method that uses set relations to study social phenomena. The core of the method uses boolean algebra to simplify logical statements to determine the sufficiency and necessity of particular conditions for particular outcomes.
The Lodz ghetto photographs of Henryk Ross are striking for both their historical content and emotional power. Having survived World War II, his collection reveals an intimacy that remains undiminished today. Join us for a discussion with contributors to the exhibition publication, Bernice Eisenstein, Michael Mitchell, Robert Jan van Pelt, and Eric Beck Rubin.
There is no richer genre in photography than landscape, true since the first days of the medium when explorer/photographers brought back pictures of distant lands. Today landscape takes on a new urgency, as Earth’s terrain is under threat. But contemporary photographers do not have uniform approaches to landscape: some remain faithful to visions of untrammeled nature, reveling in the venerable tradition of the Sublime, while others take an opposite view, arguing that the hand of humanity is so heavy and malign, that the wounds and scars on the planet must be acknowledged.
Los Angeles–based painter Silke Otto-Knapp (German, b. 1970) is known for her complex, delicate paintings based on landscapes, set designs and choreographed movement as well as her unconventional portraits of artists, poets, writers, models and dancers. On the occasion of her exhibition of recent paintings at the AGO, Knapp spoke about her current work.
