Education

Virtual Tour: A Walk in the Wild & Elaine Ling: Abandoned Namib Desert

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Every Wednesday and Sunday, 12:30pm-1:30pm on Zoom

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Learn about the artistic approach and vision of the AGW’s permanent collection through an informative and interactive virtual tour! FREE with pre-registration, public tours of the permanent collection are led by the AGW’s knowledgeable Gallery Guides, exploring themes in the Look Again! Exhibition.

Look Again! includes many of your favourite works and those which have truly defined the Gallery’s collection. Examine from up close the works of Emily Carr, Alex Janvier, members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and much more. Explore our critically acclaimed Collection from the comfort of your own home! The virtual tours are offered weekly Wednesday and Sunday. 

Requirements:

• A good internet connection
• A microphone and camera-enabled (optional) computer, tablet or smartphone, earphones
• The virtual tour will be delivered via Zoom. Please download prior to the tour.
• Attendees will also be able to phone in to the tour with the phone numbers provided once registered.
• Attendees register once and can attend any of the occurrences.

How to join: Once you have registered for the tour of your choice using the registration link, you will be sent an email with all the necessary information and details about how to access the guided tour.

If you have any questions please contact our Education and Public Programs Coordinator at shinch@agw.ca.

Look Again! The AGW Collection at 75 Years is supported by The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, Windsor Mold Group, the Graybiel Family and the Chandisherry Foundation, Mary and Bud Weingarden, Jennifer and Sean White, and Tepperman’s.

Join Micaela Muldoon, our new Coordinator, Digital Initiatives for a virtual tour and presentation of A Walk in the Wild, and Elaine Ling: Abandoned Namib Desert.

To register, click HERE. 

Requirements:
- A good internet connection
- A microphone and camera-enabled (optional) computer, tablet or smartphone, earphones
- The virtual tour will be delivered via the video conferencing app Zoom. Please download prior to the tour.
- You'll also be able to phone-in to the virtual tour. Phone numbers provided after registering.

How To Join: Once you have registered using the registration link, you will be sent an email with all the necessary information and details about how to access the guided tour, by phone, computer or tablet.

About:

A Walk in the Wild: American author Henry David Thoreau noted that when we walk, we prefer the fields and woods (over cities and gardens) as a way to return to our senses. “What business have I in the woods,” he said during an 1851 lecture, “if I am thinking of something out of the woods?” Many Indigenous worldviews recognize the sacred web of relationships that exist between all living things, with nature at the heart of stories about the interconnectedness of community and the land. Nature is held as sacred in nearly every faith. Most governments have laws to protect the wilderness of their nations, recognizing the importance of preserving the natural world as a space for solitude and reflection. List of artists: Gisele Amantea, Kenojuak Ashevak, Kaka Ashoona, Zadok Ben-David, Tom Benner, Grace Coombs, Charles Comfort, Ken Danby, Eegyvudluk, Abraham Etungat, Frances Marie Gage, Eldon Garnet, A.W. Holdstock, Dorothy Knowles, Elaine Ling, James E. H. MacDonald, Manly MacDonald, Kananginak Pootoogook, Pudlo Pudlat, Mary Hiester Reid, Catherine Reynolds, Arthur Shilling, Homer Watson, and Mary Wrinch.

Elaine Ling: Abandoned Namib Desert: The black and white photographs of Elaine Ling’s Abandoned: Namib Desert feature the interiors of an abandoned community of workers’ houses in Africa. Reclaimed by the desert, Ling used her camera to frame the sand overtaking a diamond-mining ghost town.