Weekly Family Programs

Art Agents + The Making Place

Every Sunday from 12 to 4 PM, the Gallery offers unique activities geared toward visitors aged 5- to 12-years-old and their families.

Throughout the month of November, we will take a last look at the exhibitions Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty and Robert Rauschenberg 1965-1980, and then move on to explore new programming around the exhibition Transits and Returns, which will run through December and into the New Year.

All activities are free for children aged 12 and under, when accompanied by an adult. Adult participation is free for Members with Gallery admission.

Join our team of Art Agents as they bring the exhibitions to life. Then move on to The Making Place to experiment with themes, processes and materials that you see in the artworks on display in a number of engaging art-making activities. Drop in any time between 12 and 4 PM to take part.

The Making Place Activity

NOVEMBER 10: Painting the Territory

Many of the artists featured in Transits and Returns use pigments and other materials to trace the shapes of their respective territories, countries or homelands. For example, Carol McGregor—an Australia-based artist with Wathaurung and Scottish ancestry—maps out local plants on a traditional possum skin cloak. Maureen Gruben—who was born and raised in Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories—creates a pattern on stretched deer hide recalling the migration of the caribou.

Taking inspiration from our own environment, we will paint our favorite features from day-to-day life. What objects, plants or animals do you see on a regular basis? What colours, shapes and patterns do you notice all around you? Still-life objects will be arranged in the workshop space as a starting point to our painted compositions.