Education Programs

Imagining Other Worlds at Urbanite

“As with every Urbanite, our goal as event organizers is to invite the community to come back to the AGGV at night, to explore, dance, and play!” Julia Pauselius, AGGV Facility and Events Coordinator.

Creative Exploration with Young Learners

By Geneva Noppers, Volunteer Student, UVIC

Through several thought-provoking activities, this fall’s educational workshops centered around a key theme: art is open to interpretation.

Interactivity in the AGGV: The “Activating Emily” App

Activating Emily is a fun and dynamic educational resource targetted at viewers of all ages. Utilizing both a conventional activity-book format and an interactive mobile app with image recognition technology, the experience of enjoying Carr’s paintings is enhanced through the “activation” of the gallery spaces.

The Aesthetic Perceptions of Art

By Jon Tupper, AGGV Director

What’s really happening when people encounter art? How does it affect them? It’s a mystery researchers have pondered for centuries. Here at the Gallery, I think of visitors regarding Emily Carr’s towering west coast forests; or an intricate Japanese print; or the ghostly digital trees in an installation such as Kelly Richardson’s The Erudition, which appears in our current show Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest.

What’s with Art & Writing?

By Sherry Willing, AGGV Education Coordinator

Using Art as a Stimulus for Writing: Young Writers Summer Workshop, a learning camp for high school aged youth, ran the second week in August in collaboration with the University of Victoria Writing Department. Annabel Howard, a professional writer, and University of Victoria Writing Instructor, led this creative group of young writers.

Exploring the Gallery with LE,NOṈET Survival School Learners

By Jennifer Van de Pol, Educator School Family Programs

In early August the Gallery had the pleasure of exploring the Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest exhibition with young learners (K-Grade 5) from SENĆOŦEN LE,NOṈET SCUL,ÁUTW̱ Survival School.

Heartfelt Work in New Extreme 2018

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Young artists from Stelly’s Secondary School, Shoreline Community Middle School and Lambrick Park Secondary School […]

Encounter

A new quarterly event was launched in February. “Encounter” is developed by the AGGV’s Education Department to enhance learning and […]