Explore art and exhibitions with your class from wherever you are.
The Vancouver Art Gallery offers interactive Virtual School Tours led by experienced Art Educators, bringing artworks and ideas into the classroom through close looking, discussion and creative response.
Each virtual tour invites students to learn more about the cultural and social contexts of artworks and engage in lively discussions about art.
Every virtual tour includes a comprehensive Teacher Study Guide with background information about the artist(s) and exhibition, as well as pre- and post-tour activities to support learning before and after your virtual visit.
Virtual Tour Options
We currently offer virtual tours connected to the following exhibitions:
- That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature | Grades 1–12
- Jan Wade: Soul Power | Grades 3–12
- Susan Point: Spindle Whorl | Grades 2–12
- Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds | Grades 2–12
See below for more information about each program.
Registration
Registration for Virtual School Tours is open. Advance payment is required to secure your booking.
We do our best to accommodate your preferred date and time. To book a virtual tour, please contact us at learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca.
Current Exhibitions Explored:
That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature
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.
Jan Wade: Soul Power
Available for Grades 3–12
Vancouver-based artist Jan Wade creates mixed-media paintings, textiles and sculptural objects that draw upon her lived experience as an African Canadian woman of mixed cultural heritage. Inspired by the exhibition Jan Wade: Soul Power, this tour focuses on Wade’s practice of using found objects and recycled materials in her creations as well as her political, social, spiritual and material transformations.
Materials that your class will need: markers, index cards, paper and pencils.
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
Available for Grades 2–12
Susan Point is a Coast Salish artist from the Musqueam First Nation in Vancouver, BC. This tour includes a closer look at some of her prints, installations, sculpture and public art using Coast Salish design.
Materials that your class will need: paper and pencils.
Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds
Available for Grades 2–12
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuk artist from Nunavut, who creates large pencil crayon drawings which combine everyday life with her imagination.
Materials that your class will need: paper, pencils and markers or coloured pencils.
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