FIELD TRIP: Art Across Canada is a new online platform to deliver arts experiences with some of Canada’s most celebrated artists in a national partnership with leading arts organizations. From children’s programs to artist talks and workshops, these activities are designed to advance the work of our nation’s organizations through digital platforms for different age groups, on a range of subjects, that engage communities and support artists, particularly during the challenges presented during a pandemic.

Take a field trip to the McClure Gallery to join artists Jongwook Park and Saba Heravi talking about their solo exhibitions at McClure Gallery on Facebook Live - June 3 at 5 pm EST

Join CCAG live on May 13th at 6:30 PM for a performance of "Hecate's Palladio," a work by Jessica Mensch.

Take a field trip to the McClure Gallery to join curator Robert Graham on Facebook Live as he discusses his exhibition Three Montreal Photographers +

Join us on Zoom for an intimate discussion with artist, Hiba Abdallah, and archivist, Tamara Rayan. Moderated by curator, Sandy Saad-Smith the discussion will touch on some of the most compelling issues around the nature and meaning of the archive.

Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores how different social, technological, and cognitive processes shape and control the ways that we see the world around and within us. He will discuss his work with Josh Heuman, The Power Plant’s Curator of Education and Public Programs.

Kiki welcomes viewers to take a seat at her kitchen table for hot gossip and kocktails. During this iteration of Kocktails with Kiki, she will be sharing her secret recipe for success: markikis (dirty gin martini) and tarot cards.

In this virtual event from the Art Gallery of Alberta, artist Anna Hawkins will share her latest video work Blue Light Blue followed by a conversation with AGA curator Lindsey Sharman.

Take a field trip to the McClure Gallery and Centre des arts visuels for a free virtual art hive inspired by Montreal artist Judith Berry’s exhibition Waiting for Spring, Saturday March 27 10 am to 12 pm . All ages and abilities welcome!

Take a field trip to the McClure Gallery and Centre des arts visuels to join curator and master printmaker Paul Machnik on Facebook Live as he discusses An Artistic Dialogue: John Heward and Harold Klunder.

Early photographic processes have been the creative catalyst for four Canadian artists—Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Penelope Stewart—during their annual get-togethers and self-directed residencies for several years. All four convene with The Power Plant’s Assistant Curator, Justine Kohleal, to discuss their individual and group work.

Take a FIELD TRIP with the Art Gallery of Alberta for a virtual #AGAlive event. In this live discussion, the creative team behind 5 Artists 1 Love will discuss the origins of the 5 Artists 1 Love, celebrating black excellence and the upcoming exhibition, Black Every Day.

The Aga Khan Museum’s new bi-weekly podcast has launched. Extraordinary stories from the most interesting artists, writers, athletes, and thinkers on the kaleidoscope of Muslim experience.

Architecture – domestic, institutional, urban, rural, or imagined – is at the heart of Marie-Eve Martel’s reflections on landscape and lived space. Hétérotrophies uses the gallery to stage a spatial joust in which organic motifs reshape the architectural space.

Jon Sasaki’s new work, Untitled (2021), is viewable for the first time, online until February 16, 2021. This performance furthers the artist's ongoing exploration into industrial infrastructure in post-industrial societies and the possibilities of repurposing materials, tools and processes.

In this artist interview, painter Leanne M. Christie discusses how she came to her career as an artist and how she finds inspiration in moving through the city.

Want to see Leanne's oil paintings in person? Our latest exhibition, "Wayfinding," is on view now until January 31st 2021, featuring works by artists Leanne M. Christie, Sara Graham and Devon Knowles

Explore the work of hundreds of Canada’s best emerging creatives at GradEx 105!

The new online platform includes opportunities for industry members to connect with artists, designers, curators and researchers.

The digital artist book for An object, a gesture, a scene (II) has been composed to mimic the in-person experience of DeFreitas’ artworks in their viewing order. In addition to this digital publication, the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington has recently launched an exhibition catalogue featuring an essay on DeFreitas’ exhibition written by Curator Sandy Saad Smith.

Sara Graham is a Port Moody based artist whose work is concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city. In this artist interview, Graham talks about her multi-disciplinary practice and how her work responds to the transitional spaces that she observes in her community through the act of “slow walking”.

Her work is now on display as part of the exhibition Wayfinding at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam, B.C.

On November 15, 2020, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, University of Prince Edward Island, welcomed guest lecturer Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson to give a talk entitled "Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada." This month's Field Trip presents this talk in full, including questions and answers from the assembled audience.

Fall 2020 exhibiting artist Howie Tsui’s animation Retainers of Anarchy (2017) is set in the Kowloon Walled City (1898–1994)—a tenement once situated on the fringes of British-occupied Hong Kong that housed at least 33,000 people on its 2.6-hectare footprint, though unofficial estimates suggest closer to 50,000 inhabitants. Rarely patrolled by police, it was known by locals as “the city of darkness.” During this program, Tsui is joined by Greg Girard, renowned Canadian photographer, who spent considerable time in the Kowloon Walled City before it was demolished, documenting daily life. The program will end with questions from the audience.

While reflecting on their 17 year long support for each other's practices, Althea Thauberger and Kerry Tribe will informally discuss friendship, collaboration, frustration, and a long-term approach to integrating art and life.

This digital program highlights a multimedia theatre performance and documentary installation by Tiphaine Girault and Paula Bath in the exhibition 리듬풍경 ׀ RHYTHMSCAPE, currently installed at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Originating in South Korea, the exhibition features a variety of contemporary artistic strategies that measure the pulse of life, society and work.

Checking in on an Old Copper Beech is an interaction between Toronto-based performance artist Johannes Zits and a much-loved tree on Western University’s campus. This performance occurred in London, Ontario where the artist carried out research and work in residence at McIntosh Gallery throughout Spring of 2020.

Matilda Aslizadeh is a Vancouver based visual artist whose practice draws from a range of influences, including early cinema, painting and fashion. In this artist interview, Aslizadeh talks about the different art historical concepts behind her video piece Still Life. The artwork brings together video, photography and animation to cycle through stages of growth and decay, playing with traditional tropes of 17th century Dutch still life painting.

Laura Millard’s exhibition trace, on view at the Visual Arts Centre’s McClure Gallery, engages with the language of drawing and gesture in relation to the landscape while questioning the traces our actions leave behind.