ARTBUS
Sunday, March 4, 11:30 am - 5 pm
Pick up at The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto |
FREE
RSVP 905 896 5088 / email
Spend a relaxing afternoon touring art galleries. Pick up at The Gladstone Hotel Toronto (1214 Queen St W). The tour will make stops at the following galleries:
Art Gallery of Mississauga - Con Spirito
Blackwood Gallery - Landscapes events reproducted
Burlington Art Centre - Various exhibitions
RSVP 905 896 5088 /
jaclyn.qua-hiansen@mississauga.ca
Art tells a story. Whether it's the question of Mona Lisa's smile or mystery of Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans, art has the power to ignite the imagination, evoke memory and inspire creativity. This March break workshop challenges participants to create tales based on art from the AGM's Permanent Collection.
Register at the Reader's Den, Mississauga Central Library.
Inspired by The Chronicles of Harris Burdick.
TELL ME A STORY
An Art-Inspired Creative Writing Workshop for Youth (Ages 10 - 19)
FREE
March 12 or March 14, 11 am - 1 pm
WALK THE TALK
Saturday, March 10th, 3 pm
FREE
Casual walk through of exhibition with AGM curator Stuart Keeler and art historian Ken Forsyth
RSVP 905 896 5088 / email
ABSTRACTION REVISITED
Saturday, March 17, 3-4 pm
"[Irving's art] expresses what Abstraction is
and can be, and makes a more convincing case for the emergence of individual genius."
- Joan Murray, art historian
The 45 minute lecture will be combined with a "walkabout" of Lila Lewis Irving: Con Spirito.
Join renowned Art Historian Joan Murray over Sunday afternoon tea, a presentation and discussion based on the methods of thinking and approaching the interesting and work of contemporary abstraction in painting. This accessible presentation is geared for first time learners of art, and the life-long enthusiast.
The use of Abstraction in Canadian art is a paean to a new found freedom. Beginning in Canada in the 1930s, artists sought to render non-objective work using different vocabularies. With the 1950s, a whole new aesthetic appeared, sometimes boisterous, sometimes more reserved. In the end, it is the energy levels of these paintings and sculptures that count -- and matter today.
