The Gallery’s Fall/Winter 2025–26 School Programs will run from September 23, 2025 to February 12, 2026.
School Tours + Workshops take place Monday to Thursday at 9:30 to 11:30 AM and 12:15 to 2:15 PM. School Tours without Workshops take place Monday to Thursday at 10:45 to 11:45 AM and 1:30 to 2:30 PM.
School Programs have a maximum capacity of 30 students and up to 6 adult chaperones at no additional cost. All programs require advance payment to secure your booking. If you cancel within a 14-day window, your booking fee is non-refundable.
Every tour includes a comprehensive Teacher Study Guide, which features background information about the artist(s) and the exhibition that your class will explore, as well as pre- and post-tour activities. It is essential to prepare your group for their visit using the Teacher Study Guide, available here »
Registration for the Gallery’s Winter/Spring 2026 School Programs opens on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM. Space is limited, and sessions fill up quickly, so please book early to ensure your spot.
Schools Programs Exhibition Schedule:
We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection
January 13 to February 12, 2026
Available for Grades 2–12
We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection asks students to question what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Students will examine how the ocean—and living in proximity to it—has shaped the work of Indigenous artists, their relationships to territories across land and water, and their connections to communities that have witnessed the tides shift for thousands of years.
Drawn predominantly from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition invites students to consider where we are on a deeper level, looking to the ocean as a way of understanding how this place is ever changing.
A Teacher Orientation will take place on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 4 PM.
Exhibition Preview
Watch this video with Gallery Educators Liz Scully and Rabiya Sididiqui for a preview of what you will see on your School Tour of the exhibition We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection.
That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature
April 14 to June 18, 2026
Available for Grades 1–12
That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature is the largest solo exhibition of iconic BC artist Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery in over twenty years. It explores in-depth the artist’s obsession with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, using close analysis of her paintings and writings to investigate how she understood nature and her relationship to it. This exhibition includes Carr’s early paintings of northern British Columbia, the work she made travelling in France, her representations of Indigenous subjects—particularly villages and totem poles set within the landscape—and her later paintings of the BC wilderness.
In the workshop component of this School Program, students will use oil pastels to create drawings in the Carr exhibition spaces.
