Virtual School Tours
The Gallery is pleased to offer interactive virtual group tours to enhance your next visit and help you enjoy the exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Each tour is led by one of our experienced Art Educators and is an opportunity for you to learn more about the cultural and social contexts of artworks on display and engage in lively discussions about art.
Every virtual tour includes a comprehensive Teacher’s Study Guide, which features background information about the artist(s) and the exhibition you will explore, as well as pre- and post-virtual tour activities.
We are currently offering five virtual tour options based on the following exhibitions:
- Jan Wade: Soul Power (Grades 3-12)
- Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono / The Art of John and Yoko (Grades 3-12)
- Susan Point: Spindle Whorl (Grades 2-12)
- Stories that animate us and Sun Xun: Mythological Time (Grades 3-12)
- Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds (Grades 2-12)
See below for more information.
Registration for virtual tours is open. Advance payment is required to secure your booking.
To book a virtual tour, please contact us by email at learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS EXPLORED:
Jan Wade, Memory Jug, 2016 (detail), acrylic, found objects, Collection of Surrey Art Gallery, Photo: Dennis Ha
Jan Wade: Soul Power
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. The 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.
Yoko Ono, Photo: Bjarke Orsted, © Yoko Ono
GROWING FREEDOM: The instructions of Yoko Ono / The art of John and Yoko
This tour celebrates the work of world-renowned artists Yoko Ono and her late husband, John Lennon. Students will be introduced to Yoko Ono as a ground-breaking conceptual and performance artist and will be invited to view and participate in the creative process by following text instructions provided by Ono. The tour also focuses on the collaborative projects for peace undertaken by Ono and Lennon.
Materials that your class will need: paper, pencils and tape.
Susan Point, Swanisit Brings Salmon, 1981, screenprint on paper, Courtesy of the Artist, Photo: Kenji Nagai, Courtesy of Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
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.
Cindy Mochizuki, Amabie, 2020 (detail), video, Courtesy of the Artist
Stories that animate us and Sun Xun: Mythological Time
This tour takes a closer look at the work of artists Sun Xun and Cindy Mochizuki and examines their use of animation based on legends, mythology and oral histories from their respective homelands in China, Japan and Canada.
Materials that your class will need: paper, pencils, coloured markers and/or coloured pencils. Postcards will be provided to the students.
Shuvinai Ashoona, Earth Transformations, 2012, Fineliner pen, coloured pencil and Conté crayon on black paper, Collection of Martha Burns and Paul Gross
Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds
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.
The Richardson Family
Jessica Yan Macintosh and George Macintosh
