School Programs
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s School Programs provide exhibition tours and workshops designed for elementary and secondary school groups. These programs introduce tools to foster visual literacy and to promote critical thinking about the world around us through strategies of close looking and response.
Led by the Gallery’s education staff, School Tours and Workshops are a great way to learn more about the cultural and social contexts of art.
Winter/Spring 2025 School Programs will run from February 18 to June 19, 2025.
Registration School Programs opens on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 9 AM. Space is limited, and sessions fill up quickly, so please book early to ensure your spot. Find out more »
School Tour and Workshop at the Gallery, December 2024, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery
TOURS + WORKSHOPS
Grades: 2–12
Price: $250
Time: Offered Monday–Thursday at 9:30 AM and 12:15 PM
Duration: 2 hours
TOUR ONLY
Grades: 2–12
Price: $125
Time: Offered Monday–Thursday at 10:45 AM and 1:30 PM
Duration: 1 hour
VIRTUAL TOUR
Grades: 1–12
Price: $150 per class
Time: We will make every effort to accommodate your specific scheduling needs
Duration: 1 hour
TEEN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Students looking at Firelei Báez during a School Tour at the Gallery, December 2024, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery
TEEN ART GROUP
Ages: 15–18
Price: $495
Time: Thursdays, 4–7 PM | From November to February
ART EXCHANGE
Ages: 13–15
Price: Full-Scholarship, application required
Time: Mondays, 4:30–7:30 PM | From October to June
SELF-GUIDED VISITS
Students looking at Firelei Báez during a School Tour at the Gallery, December 2024, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery
Self-guided visits allow school groups to navigate any of the featured exhibitions in the Gallery on their own.
GRADE K-12
Price: Youth age 18 and under are free + $25 per chaperone for groups of 10 or more.
TEACHER SUPPORT
To help you get ready for your tour and help your students get the most out of their experience, we offer study guides and teacher orientations for many of our exhibitions.
Teachers’ Orientations
The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to offer complimentary tours of select exhibitions for teachers from across Metro Vancouver. Registration is required.
Teacher Study Guide
Riopelle: Crossroads in Time (2025)
Firelei Báez (2024)
Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey (2024)
Emily Carr: A Room of Her Own and HORIZONS (2024)
Rooted Here: Woven from the Land (2023)
Denyse Thomasos: just beyond (2023)
Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages (2023)
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me & Hard-Edge (2023)
Guud san glans Robert Davidson: A Line That Bends But Does Not Break (2022)
Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (2022)
Kids Take Over (2022)
GROWING FREEDOM: The instructions of Yoko Ono and The art of John and Yoko (2022)
Jan Wade: Soul Power (2021)
Sun Xun: Mythological Time and Stories that animate us (2021)
Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds and lineages and land bases (2020)
Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries (2020)
Cindy Sherman (2019)
Transits and Returns (2019)
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl (2017)
Preparing Your Students: How to Approach Nudes in Art
If you require a study guide from previous years not listed below, please contact learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca with your request.
The Richardson Family
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