Access To Art

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recognizes and celebrates our visitors' diverse abilities and needs. To ensure art is accessible to all, we offer a variety of programs and services that support visits to the Gallery and participation in its activities. Access is about care; we hope to raise awareness about accessibility and we encourage all people to incorporate access in their everyday practice and lives. 

The AGO offers this platform for online programs and resources to all visitors and guests of the Gallery, creating an Access to Art Resource Hub for all our diverse communities:

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Family Events
Stroller Tour: KAWS: FAMILY
Saturdays: Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 2, 11 am

KAWS is known for larger-than-life sculptures of cartoon-inspired characters and paintings that focus on line and colour, KAWS creates playful art spaces. 

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Relaxed Visits
Tuesdays, December 5, 3 pm

The AGO is piloting new Relaxed Visit times, so you can visit in a relaxed and supportive environment.

What is a Relaxed Visit?

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Workshops
Art as Therapy: Painting to Music
Saturday, December 9, 10:30 am

Join us for a guided sensory journey where your creativity can flow. Allow your hand movements to be inspired by rhythm and music, translated through the playfulness of watercolours and other paints. No previous art experience is needed, all you need is an open mind and the enthusiasm to play with colour! 

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Workshops
Seniors Social: Inspired by Arnold Newman
Tuesday, December 12, 1 pm

Make new artistic connections and spark conversations! Join us for our Seniors Social program, a monthly workshop series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being. 

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Workshops
Yoga in the Gallery
Saturdays, January 27, February 2, March 23, 11 am

Grounded in creativity and self-expression, yoga and the arts make the perfect pair.

Unwind with a restorative morning yoga session, drawing inspiration from the art and architecture of the gallery. Led by certified yoga teacher, Karmit Ifrah, will these gentle Hatha yoga sessions promote balance, strength, flexibility, and stillness in the mind.     

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FEATURED PROGRAMS

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Multisensory Museum

Art galleries and museums have long emphasized the visual sense, but we're offering something different: special multisensory art experiences to help you understand your surroundings in new ways!

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From above, a photo of two people touching a sprawling textile sculpture called Big Softie. They reach into the guts, which are soft and dimpled and made from stuffed knee socks and nylon stockings, and examine the Unidentified Remains that are scattered amongst them. At the centre lies Big Softie’s heart, a red patchwork soft sculpture with tendrils extending outward.

Tangled Art Talks

AGO and Tangled Art + Disability partnered on a series of videos by six artists from Tangled’s community that showcase their artistic practices in response to the AGO.

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Deaf Culture Moments

Explore the AGO Collection with an Art Educator from the Deaf community who encourages discovery by creating customized deaf experiences with art.

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Access to Art past events by tag

PAST EVENTS

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Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982. Baked enamel on metal
Workshops
Art as Therapy: Inspired by Keith Haring
Saturday, November 18, 10:30 am

Beginning with an exploration of Keith Haring's vibrant colour, energetic linework, and iconic characters, participants will be invited to create larg

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Art as Therapy: Mark-Making for Wellbeing
Saturday, October 21, 10:30 am

Get curious with movement and mark-making! Participants will be provided an abundance of colourful art materials and then guided through a variety of therapeutic scribbling invitations.

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Pop art imagery of a red figure bending over backwards and four smaller green figures running over its body.
Workshops
Seniors Social: Inspired by Keith Haring
Tuesday, October 10, 1 pm

Make new artistic connections and spark conversations! Join us for our Seniors Social program, a monthly workshop series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking.

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A group of parents carrying babies behind strollers and looking at art
Family Events
Stroller Tour: KAWS: FAMILY
Saturdays: Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 2, 11 am

KAWS is known for larger-than-life sculptures of cartoon-inspired characters and paintings that focus on line and colour, KAWS creates playful art spaces. 

More Info
Smiling woman standing beside colourful Art Cart
Relaxed Visits
Tuesdays, December 5, 3 pm

The AGO is piloting new Relaxed Visit times, so you can visit in a relaxed and supportive environment.

What is a Relaxed Visit?

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Beige toned bedroom facing a draped window with a mirror in the left corner and a fireplace on the left wall.
Workshops
Seniors Social: Intimate Interiors
Tuesday, July 11, 10 am

Make new artistic connections and spark conversations!

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Carved mask of a face surrounded by a metal ring and standing on four thin metal legs
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Seniors Social: Narrative and Transformation
Tuesday, June 13, 10 am

Make new artistic connections and spark conversations!

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A number of floating reflective balls. Those in the foreground in focus and balls in the background are blurred.
Workshops
Seniors Social: Artistic Dots
Tuesday, May 9, 1 pm

Make new artistic connections and spark conversations!

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A detailed drawing in orange of a circular form and sun with a bird on the bottom right on a mustard yellow background.
Talks
Close Looking: The Shadow of the Year with poems by Florence Wyle and wood engravings by Rosemary Kilbourn
Monday, April 17, 11 am

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 inte

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Special Events
Slow Art Day Guided Visit
Saturday, April 15, 1 pm

Join us for Slow Art Day, a global event with a simple mission: to help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art.

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Special Events
Celebrating the Spectrum
Sunday, April 2, 10:30 am

On World Autism Day, Autism Ontario and the Art Gallery of Ontario invite you to join us in "Celebrating the Spectrum" 

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Talks
Foodways: Women in Food & the Culture of Gender
Thursday, March 30, 11 AM

The intersection of food with culture and history is understood through the study of “foodways”.

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