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OAG recognizes that art can help make meaning of an ever changing world.

Enrich your students’ cross curricular learning at Art Gallery through For more information: inquiry based observation and direct engagement with our modern and con- [email protected] temporary art collections and featured exhibitions. 613.233.8699 +228

Our experienced guides encourage students to question, share their ideas and communicate an artwork’s personal relevance to their lives and community. 10 Daly Avenue Ottawa, ON, K1N 6E2 OAG EXPLORATORY TOURS introduce and enrich students’ understanding Charitable Number 137078960 RR 0001 of the purpose of the gallery, and the role of artists and art from Indigenous, diverse, local and international perspectives.

Our aim is to further promote students’ self-esteem, develop vocabulary and critical thinking skills, as well as foster an overall appreciation of art.

OAG WORKSHOPS are based on a specific artist’s work or exhibition theme. Students express their creativity and develop skills with various techniques, processes and materials through hands-on artmaking and experimentation.

FREE GUIDED TOURS BASED ON FEATURED EXHIBITIONS (45 – 90 minutes)

1. Exploratory Tour (Schools) Explore artworks and themes in featured exhibitions.

2. Overview Tour (Public) Discover the new OAG and gain an overview of exhibitions.

3. Firestone Gallery Tour (Public) Engage with the Firestone Collection of . FEATURED EXHIBITIONS RELATED WORKSHOPS (45 – 60 minutes) $2 per student October 11, 2018 to March 10, 2019 Nkweshkdaadiimgak Miinwaa TRANSFORMATIVE LANDSCAPES Bakeziibiisan – Michael Belmore miinwaa For Elementary students A.J. Casson | Confluences and Tributaries: Create a sculptural landscape inspired by Michael Belmore and A.J. Casson the exhibition Confluences and Tributaries: Michael Belmore and A.J. Casson. Have This exhibition will coalesce the work of fun transforming a 2D landscape painting two artists from different cultural and gen- into a 3D sculpture using various materials erational backgrounds, to bring together which mimic the landscape. Dis- the story of the Ontario landscape and cover how ideas of beauty and the land are the histories which go beyond its beauty. transformed by not only the materials used Michael Belmore’s sculptural works will but the differing colonial and Indigenous assert an Indigenous, Anishinaabe world perspectives. view. The places depicted in A.J. Casson’s œuvre are places which, historically, bore DARN LOGOS spiritual and cultural importance to the For High School students various Anishinaabe peoples of the region. Consider your relationship to standard- ized logos and products within consumer October 11, 2018 to March 10, 2019 culture. Do you augment your identity by Michèle Provost : Everything must go| purchasing these goods? Taking inspiration Liquidation totale from multimedia artist Michèle Provost’s In this exhibition, Gatineau-based mul- exhibition Everything must go/Liquidation timedia artist Michèle Provost presents totale, students will alter familiar logos a liquidation sale of a line of handmade with yarn, fabric, buttons, adding texture, home décor items, aesthetically based on colour and layers of meaning to express the legacy—both real and imagined—of one’s unique identity. Compare and reflect an iconic Canadian artist of the twentieth upon the purpose of brands versus artistic century. This exhibition questions the place concepts. of art and artists within a market-driven society. CREATIVE CALCULATIONS For all ages October 11, 2018 to March 10, 2019 With a focus on the rigorous manipulation Eclectic Geometric: of shapes and forms, including points, lines Permanent Collection Highlights and surfaces, this workshop brings math- ematics and art together. Create your own Revealing the multidisciplinary overlap geometric works inspired by artists from the between mathematics and visual art, this exhibition Eclectic Geometric. Experiment show brings together an eclectic range with ink washes and create stencils out of of work by artists who have engaged with everyday objects like a recycled can, or a the basis of geometry: from strict grids paper doily. Learn about composition from that flow logically and mathematically, the use of grids, layering of shapes, or to optical illusions, three-dimensional rhythmic patterns. explorations, and abstracted forms driven from nature. “THE FUTURE IS HERE AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL” — Karim Rashid October 11, 2018 to February 10, 2019 Karim Rashid: Cultural Shaping For High School Students Discover how you can shape the future This is the first large-scale presentation through design. “Design has a way of of iconic designer Karim Rashid’s work shaping people’s lives, their behaviour, in Canada to date. The exhibition fea- sensibility and psyche” says Karim Rashid, tures industrial designs imbued with the as evident in his large scale exhibition sense of environmental responsibility and Cultural Shaping. Students are asked to sustainability that is at the heart of much envision the far off future and the possible of Rashid’s current practice. Showcasing preoccupations, desires and needs of indi- unique objects and original sketches, viduals, local communities and the world. this exhibition includes over 200 award- Working with malleable materials you can winning designs. model an imaginary product and redesign our lives! October 17 2018 to January 13, 2019 Perspectives: Selections from the FIRESTONE SCHOOL PROGRAM Firestone Collection of Canadian Art This creative workshop explores some of The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art the most important works in the Firestone is a significant art collection that spans Collection of Canadian Art. Students learn the modern period (1890–1985). Originally about the history of landscape painting in FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: established by Ottawa-based collectors Canada and create their own artwork while Michael Belmore, Settlement [Ningaaseg] (detail), 2009 O.J. and Isobel Firestone in the early 1950s, gaining an awareness of design elements Miskwaabik miinwaa sin eshi jii-aak | Michael Belmore, Settlement (detail), 2009, copper and river rock. the collection contains over 1,600 works such as shape, line, colour and value. Michèle Provost, Armchair (Everything must go/Liquidation by influential Canadian artists, including totale) (detail), 2018, textile and found object. Maxwell Bates, Edwin Holgate, Arthur York Wilson, Gidai Matsuri, 1970, wool woven tapestry. Lismer, Henri Masson, Marian Scott and Karim Rashid, Doux Chair, 2010. Manufacturer: Vondom, Spain. Philip Surrey.