Virtual School Tours

That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature

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

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.

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.

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.