2011/2012

Blue Soup Seminar: Contemporary Art for the Young Collector (An Introduction)

Sunday, March 4, 2012, 1 pm – 2 pm
Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto

OAAG is offering a guided tour of The Artist Project to empower young collectors. The tour will introduce the process of collecting art: defining & selecting, researching, and purchasing. A small group of emerging collectors will be led through the show, featuring over 200 independent and contemporary artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds. This intimate tour will provide opportunities to engage directly with the artists, learn about collecting and ask questions in an informal gathering.

Amanda Tamul will lead the group. She is the Secretariat Coordinator of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in Criticism & Curatorial Practice and a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in Art History, Amanda is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the OCADU Medal of Excellence in 2007. Amanda has several years experience in Toronto galleries and auction houses, including art consultancy and coordinating independent educational workshops and curatorial projects.

This program is part of OAAG’s Blue Soup Series that offers educational programs for emerging arts professionals.

Registrant price: $15

OAAG has partnered with The Artist Project. For more information about The Artist Project visit www.theartistprojecttoronto.com/.

Registration
If you are interested in registering, please fill out and return the Registration Form. You may fax it to (416) 598-4128 or email members@oaag.org.

If you have any further questions or comments, please contact:
Amanda Tamul
Secretariat Coorindator, OAAG
Tel: (416)-598-0714
members@oaag.org

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Highlighting Heritage Week: iMuseum Symposium

Proceedings Now Online!

Toronto, February 21, 2012 –The Ontario Museum Association (OMA) and the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) symposium proceedings of iMuseum: New Tools for New & Traditional Audiences are now available online at:

http://www.museumsontario.com/en/handbooks_&_reports_37/0/17.html

Last March, over 100 museum and gallery staff gathered together at Harbourfront Centre to share the latest information on audience research and technology; they heard from special guest speakers, shared opinions, and participated in roundtables where representatives of museum and gallery audiences and the technologies that connect with them.

OMA and OAAG are pleased to present the proceedings of iMuseum online, which will be accessible from both the OMA and OAAG websites. OMA and OAAG are particularly proud to present the roundtable summaries from the symposium in both English and French.

The Proceedings feature presentations, papers, roundtable summaries and handouts about podcasting, videoconferencing, digital storytelling, interactive whiteboards and audience response systems, Virtual Museum of Canada lab projects, cultural mapping with youth, audience participation with Nina Simon, and much more.

Online content contributors include Sarah Beam Borg and Nicole Cahill, Cathy Blackbourn, Pierre Bois, Allan Busch and Paul Kortenaar, Jack Cunningham, Karin Davidson Taylor, Antoinette Duplessis, Barbara Gilbert, Sheila Knox, Steve Mavers, Erin McDonagh, Nina Simon, and Wendy Thomas.

OMA and OAAG gratefully acknowledge the participation of all presenters, participants, and volunteers who made the event a success, as well as the financial support of the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

For more information, please contact:
Ontario Museum Association www.museumsontario.com
Mary Collier, Professional Development Program Manager
416-348-8672/Toll-free in Ontario 1-866-662-8672
pd@museumsontario.com

OAAG would also like to recognize the contributions of Christine Castle, symposium moderator, editor and contributor, Cathy Blackbourn and Barbara Gilbert, symposium coordinators, and the Ontario Museum Association for taking the lead on the publication of the proceedings.

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Past Programs: Current Year

Life Long Learners Roundtable
Focus Group Session 1 & 2

November 23, 2011 and December 15, 2011

Ontario Association of Art Galleries
111 Peter Street, Suite 617, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2H1

The goal of these focus groups was to determine the usefulness of, and potential functionality to an iPhone
application for recording and journaling life – long learner’s experiences in museums and galleries.
We chose two focus group sessions – the first involved talking with museums professionals who make extensive
use with mobile technologies in their daily lives. The second group was geared towards non-professionals and
‘life long learners’ – people who engage with museums and galleries and artwork in a non-professional or nonwork
related way. Participants were picked through networking, and narrowed down by time commitment
availabilities by Ginger Scott (who assisted with this process).
We were particularly interested if all participants would find the proposed application useful, and also how users
of all ages and backgrounds journal their experiences with art works, galleries and museums.

Key Points - Session 1
• Usefulness of note taking apps for personal and professional life
• Use of photography on mobile phones important for journaling experience
• Desire to take note of the situated works of art in exhibit – layout, design etc.
• Agreement that email journaling is important for memory purposes
• Desire to incorporate a shared or social networking function to the App

Key Points - Session 2
• A general interest in questions of intent, material construction and artist background above all.
• Use of key words instead of full sentences was prevalent.
• Intent on recording dates, title of work, and artist names for label information.
• Emphasis on mode of display evident.

Registration
To Register, please contact Ginger Scott, Web Projects Coordinator at webprojects@oaag.org

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The Museum Professional Network: Careers, Connections and Community
Three-day ICTOP Annual Conference

October 24-27, 2011

Toronto, Markham, Niagara-on-the-Lake

Professional education for the museum and heritage sector has developed dramatically in recent decades, at least in some regions of the world. What changes are now being demanded of our museology pedagogies? In surveying the past and present of museum professional education, this conference will identify current communities of practice and promising ideas for the future development of the museum and heritage professions and the building of an international learning community through the auspices of organizations such as ICTOP-ICOM.

Keynote Speakers

Lynda Kelly, Manager Web and Audience Research. Museums and Social Media: Professional Challenges.
Emlyn Koster, Director, Institute for Innovative Learning, Annapolis, Maryland. President Emeritus, Liberty Science Center, New Jersey.
Collette Dufresne Tassé, Université de Montréal.
George Jacob, Khalsa Heritage Complex, Amritsar, India.

And a workshop by Phyllis Hecht and Deb Howes of Johns Hopkins University: The Community
Building Approach to Supporting Online Learning.

Keynote Presentations

*The Museum and Social Media: Implications for Professional Futures
*The Museum Field's Ultimate Accountability
*Revisiting Visitor Studies to Orient and Train Exhibition Designers More Adequately
*Cultural Resource Professionals: On the Cusp of a Generational Shift in Developing Nations

Other Presentations

* Designing Professional Development Curriculum for Emerging Trends: Diversity and Inclusion in the 21st Century
* Engaging Aboriginal People in the Preservation of Traditional Knowledge
* Methods and Tools for Fostering Cross-Pollination
* Bridging the Gap: Addressing Leadership within the Museum Sector
* Making Museum Managers: Case Study of Global-Minded Training Program
* What is it we do when we teach exhibitions?
* Building on Our Strengths: An Immersive Program for Educating Museum Professionals
* The Museum Professional Development and Training in Taiwan
* Challenges and Prospects for Chinese Museum Professional Education and Training
* Research Report on the Study of Museum Professional Development: A Global Perspective
* Collections Management as a Vehicle for Understanding
* Teaching Collections 101
* Museology versus Museography or Museology and Museography? Innovative training at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Registration
Please register online at: http://uofttix.ca/view.php?id=?796

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Environmental Guidelines
Two-day OAAG Workshop for Visual Art Professionals

October 17 & 18, 2011, 9 am to 5pm

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
72 Queen Street, Oshawa, ON L1H 3Z7

A Canadian Conservation Institute workshop facilitated by Jean Tétreault.

This is an introduction to the strategic preservation of the collection against agents of deterioration, especially those environmental ones, such as light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollutants. The module will be in the form of a traditional presentation, group exercise, visit to a storage facility and/or exhibit and exercises using computerized equipment.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
• understand preservation principles;
• understand the effects of relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants on objects;
• quantify the degree of preservation of objects in a given environment; and
• implement a preservation strategy based on an analysis of priorities, costs and benefits.

Units
Preservation principles and assessment
Background and examination of the notion of standards versus guidelines. Preservation parameters such as object integrity, its current access (visibility) and its future access (preservation).Notion of preservation target and assessment of the degree of preservation of collections by using risk management concepts.

Light
Sensitivity of objects to light and UV rays. Notion of dose. Preservation assessment of objects against radiation. Guidelines on lighting levels. Reflection and glare problems.

Relative humidity and temperature
Sensitivity of objects to humidity and temperature fluctuations. Preservation assessment of objects against humidity. Guidelines. Control strategies.

Pollutants
Sensitivity of objects to various airborne pollutants in buildings. Preservation assessment of objects against pollutants. Guidelines. Control strategies. Preservation assessment of a collection Preservation assessment using a simple computer program. Introduction to preservation indexes.

Improved preservation through a costs and benefits analysis.
Set action priorities based on preservation assessment results. Select strategic options based on a costs and benefits analysis. Prepare a preservation plan.

Who should attend?
Staff and volunteers involved in collection management including its storage and access.

Registration
OAAG members: $195 (includes lunch & workshop resources both days)
Non-members: $250 (includes lunch & workshop resources both days)

To register, contact:
Amanda Tamul, Secretariat Coordinator, OAAG
members@oaag.org, (416) 598-0714
Registration Form

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary Program.

Sincere thanks to The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries would like to gratefully acknowledge the Canadian Conservation Institute, Department of Canadian Heritage.

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Art Box: New (Short) Manifestos for the Visual Arts in Ontario
Boîte des arts : Nouveaux manifestes (courts) pour les Arts visuels en Ontario

Co-presented by ARCCO, CARFAC Ontario and OAAG
Coprésenté par l’ARCCO, le CARFAC Ontario et l’AOGA

Friday, September 30, 2011, 12 noon to 3 pm The Great Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto
Le vendredi 30 septembre 2011, de 12 h à 15 h Grand Hall, Hart House, Université de Toronto

WHAT THIS WILL BE: A (short) congress of provisional speakers VS an open plenary of ARCCO, CARFAC Ontario and OAAG members and representatives!
EN QUOI CECI CONSISTERA : Un court congrès d’orateurs provisoires VS une assemblée plénière ouverte composée de membres et représentants de l’ARCCO, du CARFAC Ontario et de l’AOGA.

* This event is free. Lunch will be served from 12 noon to 1 pm. Presentations from 1 to 3 pm (hard stop).
* Cet événement est gratuit. Un dîner sera servi de 12 h à 13 h. Les présentations se tiendront entre 13 h à 15 h (arrêt immédiat).

THE CHALLENGE: What is your vision for the visual arts in Ontario in 20 years time: tell us in five minutes or less!
LE DÉFI : Quelle est votre vision pour les arts visuels en Ontario dans 20 ans : exprimez vos idées en cinq minutes ou moins!

WANTED: Your new ideas for dynamic cross-pollination, dream-visioning together for a positive future for the visual arts!
RECHERCHÉ : Vos nouvelles idées en ce qui a trait à une pollinisation croisée dynamique, nos rêves et visions en commun aux fins d’un avenir positif pour les arts visuels!

SPEAK AT THE MIC Book your time: artbox@oaag.org.
PARLEZ AU MICRO Réservez votre créneau de temps : artbox@oaag.org.

Or just RSVP. Let us know you are coming so we have enough food: artbox@oaag.org.
Ou RSVP tout simplement. Laissez-nous savoir si vous planifiez participer afin que l’on puisse s’assurer d’avoir amplement de nourriture : artbox@oaag.org.


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Embedding Cultural Diversity in Toronto’s Arts, Cultural and Heritage Sector: The Way Forward
September 28, 2011, 9 am to 5pm

Columbus Centre
901 Lawrence Avenue West North York, ON M6A 1C3 

A Seminar facilitated by Lynne Teather and Clara Arokiasamy.

This one day seminar will focus on the sharing of best practice in embedding cultural diversity in services and workforce across the public sector. We are bringing together best practice models from Toronto’s arts and heritage agencies as well as from the health sector, academic institutions, community/NGO organisations and the City Hall.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module, participants will get an opportunity to discuss candidly key issues relating to implementing cultural diversity in their own organisations within a safe environment. 

Key Objectives

(i) To share best practice through the presentation and discussion of case studies in  the delivery of race equality and cultural diversity in the public sector in Toronto, Canada and London, UK;

(ii)  To explore capacities  among current approaches to collections, archives, engagement and audience development to facilitate the embedding of minorities cultural rights into the national story; and identify areas where improvements are needed;

(iii) Explore the extent of representation of minorities in the cultural sector and how the existing recruitment and selection and retention processes and training and development  programmes could be improved to  diversify the workforce and governance further to reflect Toronto’s growing minority population; 

(iv) To establish a standing working group on cultural diversity to take forward the ideas and recommendations from the proceedings of the day, as a key outcome of the seminar.

Who should attend?
Museum, library and archive professionals, academics, advocates, community members, politicians, and practitioners in the areas of collections, archives, community engagement, development and human resources.

Registration
$60.00 (includes breaks and lunch)
$40.00 for students or unwaged cultural/heritage or community workers.

If you are interested attending this unique and ground breaking seminar please respond via email to: jackie.armstrong@utoronto.ca.

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries would like to gratefully acknowledge the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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The Place of the Arts: A Province-wide Priorities Webinar
September 13, 2011, 1 pm to 3 pm

A Webinar facilitated by PASO/OPSA, Lynn Eakin of the Ontario Nonprofit Network, and Micheline McKay.

The purpose of the webinar information meeting is to share information, and provide an environmental scan of key messages relating to the arts community and broader not-for-profit sector.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module, participants will better understand government structure, share priorities for the arts and not-for-profit sector, and align our messaging to our various networks. The meeting will be non-partisan in nature, and designed for information exchange only.

Key Objectives
* The position of the arts in Ontario.
* Examine and evaluate Ontario's support of the arts.
* Public affairs insight and strategic advice for the cultural and not-for-profit sector (advocacy and government relations, policy analysis & research, organizational development).
* Raising awareness of the contributions of the arts in Ontario; Top Four Issues: Partnering with the government, funding reform, amend the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Art, and social finance innovation.
* Awareness of the position of PASO in regards to provincial funding to the arts: establishing a sustainable arts and culture policy framework, and acting as an advocate for the arts in matters of federal and inter-ministerial jurisdiction.

Who should attend?
Art service orgainization professionals, ASO colleagues, and key stakeholders.

Registration
To register in the webinar, please follow this link:
http://ontariononprofitnetwork.onefireplace.org/generalregistration2

Please complete your registration by Monday, September 12, 2011 at 5 pm.

Now Online! For access to the webinar: http://tasc.adobeconnect.com/p5bggs5daf6/

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries would like to gratefully acknowledge the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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Professional Development Excursion, Venice & Florence

May 29 to June 9, 2011

Venice & Florence, Italy

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries is facilitating a professional development and networking opportunitiy for public art gallery directors and curators from across Ontario to the 54th Venice Biennale, which features contemporary artwork from artists representing 87 countries. The delegation will also visit with other art institutions/organizations in Venice as well as Florence such as:

* Venice Biennale – Giardini, Arsenale, Archives
* Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
* Centre of Contemporary Culture, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
* Florence Biennale, Florence

Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the trip is to introduce attendees to directors, curators and other arts professionals from Italy and abroad in promoting the exchange of information, peer-to-peer professional development, and opportunities for research and collaborations.

This 10-day trip in early June is designed to enable art gallery directors and curators to reach new audiences provincially, nationally and internationally. The goal is to raise their individual and organizations’ profiles in Italy, as well as build new relationships and partners for future exhibitions.

Attendees will be provided opportunities to participate in gallery tours, meetings, and forums where they will meet key arts and culture contacts in the Italian and international arts community. They will have the opportunity to represent their own institution and programs at our Showcase reception.

Key Objectives
We anticipate that this opportunity could enable Ontario visual art professionals:

* to represent their organization/ institution in an international contemporary art practice setting
* explore new or differing practices displayed by other countries
* foster new networking partnerships leading to collaborations
* enhance international dialogue between institutions
* develop audiences and education opportunities for Ontario art institutions in a provincial, national and international framework.

Who should attend?
Directors, curators, academics, advocates and other arts professionals from public galleries and museums in Canada.

Registration
An estimated cost per person is anticipated to be $2500 CAD (including air travel from Toronto to Venice and return air travel from Florence to Toronto, six nights accommodation in Venice (shared apartment), four nights accommodation in Florence (shared apartment), group travel from Venice to Florence (bus or train), as well as admissions to selected museums).

If you are interested in participating in this unique and ambitious excursion, please respond via email to:
Amanda Tamul, Secretariat Coordinator, at members@oaag.org.

The Ontario Association of Art Galleries would like to gratefully acknowledge the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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2010/2011

iMuseum: New Tools for New & Traditional Audiences
March 24 & 25, 2011
Brigantine Room Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Facilitated by M. Christine Castle for OAAG/OMA

This symposium is scheduled just after March Break, to give museum and gallery educators an edge on the latest audience and technological research. Come learn from leaders in the field of museum education, share your success stories, meet colleagues and expand your knowledge.

Who should attend?
Museum and gallery staff with responsibility for public programming and exhibitions.

Registration
OAAG and OMA members: $195.00 + $25.35 HST= $220.35 (includes lunch & workshop resources both days)
Non-members: $250 + $32.50 HST = $282.50 (includes lunch & workshop resources both days)

What Do We Know About Our Audiences? What Can They Tell Us About Their Expectations of Us?

Confirmed Speakers:
• Nina Simon, author, The Participatory Museum and Museums 2.0 blog (via Skype) on participation
• Vishnu Ramcharan, Ontario Science Centre, on community engagement
• Judy Koke, AGO “How Do We Put the Audience At the Centre of Everything We Do?
• Syrus Marcus Ware, AGO Youth Council

Roundtable Discussions:
• What do we want from museums? What do teachers, students, and families need from museums?
• What do we want from online resources both in the museum and at a distance?
• Does generation matter? How does adult education and life-long learning come into play?
• Falk’s identity-related motivations
• Growing up in a digital environment

New Tools: How Are Educators Using Technology to Create New and Meaningful Experiences for Visitors both On and Off Site? What Have They Learned?

Confirmed Speakers:
• Patricia Bentley, Textile Museum of Canada, on the In Touch web project
• Dr. Kevin Kee, Brock University’s Centre for Digital Humanities on augmented reality
• Wendy Thomas, CHIN
• Doris Van Den Brekel, AGO

Roundtable Discussions:
• the Young Curators Project
• Podcasts
• Online docent training
• Geocaching
• Videoconferencing
• Smart Phones and their applications as educational tools
• Digital Storytelling
• Niagara 1812: Return of the Fenian Shadow iPhone gaming app
• youth-driven community mapping

Networking, idea-sharing, and much more! Register today to reserve your place at this important event.

The Ontario Museum Association and Ontario Association of Art Galleries gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage

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Effective Mentoring with Shawna Dempsey
One-day Workshop for Visual Art Professionals

February 23, 2011, 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, Ontario
OAAG Member Professionals $75, Students $40, General $95 (includes lunch)

12 noon Lunch
1-5 p.m. Workshop

In this four-hour workshop, Shawna Dempsey will explore the ins and outs of visual art mentorship: what is mentoring; what makes an effective mentorship program; sample structures; how to select good mentors; how to make effective pairings with trainees; ingredients of a productive mentorship; pitfalls and how to avoid them; managing expectations (realistic and unrealistic); and negotiating conflict and closure.

Led by experienced mentor and Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) Co-Executive Director Shawna Dempsey, this workshop is an excellent how-to for anyone considering setting up a mentorship program, anyone who will be mentoring, or anyone who works in peer-based arts education.

To register, contact:
Veronica Quach, Program Assistant, OAAG
members@oaag.org (416) 598-0714
Registration Form

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary Program.

Sincere thanks to the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.

Biography

In 1989 Shawna Dempsey began an artistic collaboration with Lorri Millan that has continued, full-time, to the present. This duo creates performance art, video, film, and print projects. Their artworks have been presented throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, in venues as far-ranging as women’s centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Dempsey and Millan also curate exhibitions and projects, and have organized exhibits for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo), Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival (Calgary), Gallery YYZ (Toronto), Gallery 1C03 (Winnipeg) and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, where they were employed as Adjunct Curators of Contemporary Art for three years.

Dempsey volunteers on numerous art-related boards and committees, and has formally mentored twelve individuals through various artist-run centre programs. She is currently co-Executive Director of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art.

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Curating Historical Canadian Art Today
OAAG Workshop for Visual Art Gallery Professionals

February 16, 2011, 9:30 am– 3:30 pm
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West, Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8

The day will revolve around four questions as they pertain to collecting and programming Canadian historical art, raising issues and questions for discussion. Four topics: two in the morning, two in the afternoon. Panelists have been invited to present for up to 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for questions/discussion. Case studies will be incorporated throughout all topics.

Contributing Curators:
• Cassandra Getty (Curator of Art, Museum London)
• Katerina Atanassova (Chief Curator, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
• Tobi Bruce (Senior Curator, Canadian Historical Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton)
• Alicia Boutilier (Curator of Canadian Historical Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
• Linda Jansma (Curator, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery)
• Georgiana Uhlyarik (Assistant Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario)
• Anik Glaude (Curator, Varley Art Gallery)
• Catherine Sinclair (Assistant Curator and Curator of the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, The Ottawa Art Gallery)

Registration
OAAG Member Professionals $75, Students $40, General $95 (includes lunch)

To register, contact:
Veronica Quach, Program Assistant, OAAG
members@oaag.org, (416) 598-0714
Registration Form

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary Program.

Program

9:30 am Registration

10 am “Who are our audiences?”
Panelists: Cassandra Getty and Georgiana Uhlyarik
Focus: How do we identify potential audiences and how do we reach them? Are the audiences for historical and contemporary exhibitions different? How do we attract younger visitors?

11 am “How, why and what do we collect?”
Panelists: Catherine Sinclair and Alicia Boutilier
Focus: Address issues of research, process and challenges with respect to collecting and displaying art from permanent collections in museums/galleries and the ideas and politics behind the “permanent” collection exhibition. When does “historical” become historical?

12 noon to 1:30 pm Lunch and Gallery Tour

1:30 pm “Who drives exhibition programming?”
Panelists: Katerina Atanassova and Anik Glaude
Focus: Address issues of systems and structures used to create exhibitions, from idea generation to marketing and public programming. Where does the curator fit into this process? How is the decision made as to what we put on our walls?
• Marketing pressures, curatorial focus and audience development
• Who drives the programming both practically and institutionally, and who believes they know their audiences?
• Where are curators located in the decision-making process?

2:30 pm “How and why do we collaborate?”
Panelists: Tobi Bruce and Linda Jansma
Focus: Using case studies, this panel will address potentials for collaborations. What focus is there for collaborations? Which innovative models can be applied? Can contemporary and historical art intermingle—how and why? Touring, co-productions and funding will be addressed.

Sincere thanks to the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

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Can’t make it to Banff?
Come to Oakville!

Dynamic Curating in the Age of Anxiety
Organized by Laura Paolini for the Ontario Association of Art Galleries

November 22, 2010
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Oakville Galleries
Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East
Oakville, ON, L6J 1L6
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Registration: $40 OAAG members, $45 non-members, includes lunch

Dynamic Curating in the Age of Anxiety offers emerging curators insights into the production of curatorial projects within, without, and around the cultural institution.

The goals of this workshop in the Blue Soup series is to offer emerging professionals (including students) insights into how to produce projects, with various relations to institutions (with, without, in opposition, etc) and exploring new innovative ways to be active cultural contributors, especially as previous modes of production (i.e. publishing, writing, etc) are equally at risk in the cultural sector.

What is dynamic curating? How does one 'curate dynamically?' What does it mean to be a dynamic curator? These questions are explored through lectures given by select professional curators.

Who should attend?
Dynamic Curating in the Age of Anxiety is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, emerging curators, visual arts administrators, and emerging artists who want to enhance their vocabulary of contemporary curating. In fact, many schools and particular graduate level professors have expressed interest in this program and feel their students can benefit from attending.

Speakers:

Lisa Daniels has been involved in a range of independent and private curatorial projects as well as with contemporary corporate art collections. Daniels is currently the Curator/Director at Gallery Lambton in Sarnia, Ontario.

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. He lives in Toronto and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery.

Maiko Tanaka is a Toronto-based curator interested in contemporary art and its multifold relationship to pedagogy. In 2009-2010 she participated in a Curatorial Residency at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto

TO REGISTER:

1. download the registration form and fill it in
2. fax it to (416) 598-4128
3. OR email it to Barbara Gilbert: members [ at ] oaag [ dot ] org

Thanks to:

C Magazine

YYZ

CARFAC

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OAAG celebrates 40 years on Friday, September 24, 2010.
The Great Hall, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
Join us. $75 (voluntary contribution). Luncheon seating for 80 people.
Please confirm your reservation: Barbara Gilbert members@oaag.org (416) 598-0714

9:30 am Continental Breakfast

10 am Smackdown: Historical VS Contemporary
Lisa Daniels, Moderator
Book Launch The Group of Seven Project 1920-2005

12 noon Luncheon.
Honouring OAAG’s Past Presidents.
Recalibration: Ontario’s Top 10 for the Next 40
Carol Good, Good Consulting, Facilitator
Picking up where the Visual Arts Summit left off, this focus session will generate roundtable reports on the top ten burning issues for Ontario’s public art galleries.

3 pm Annual General Meeting of Members.
Free.

4 pm 2010 Legendary OAAG Awards.
Access backstage all areas

6 pm Reception.
She King live on stage
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L’AOGA célèbre ses 40 ans le vendredi, 24 septembre, 2010.
La grande salle, maison Hart, 7, cercle Hart House, Toronto
Soyez des nôtres. $75 (contribution volontaire). Il y a 80 places pour le déjeuner.
RSVP Barbara Gilbert, members@oaag.org (416) 598-0714

9h30 Petit déjeuner continental

10h00 Smackdown: Historique contre Contemporain
Lisa Daniels, Modératrice
Lancement du livre Le Projet du Groupe des sept 1920-2005

12h00 Déjeuner.
En l’honneur des anciens présidents de l’AOGA
Recalibrage : Les Top 10 pour les prochaines 40 en Ontario
Reprenant là où le Sommet sur les arts visuels nous a laissé, cette séance de discussion enregistrée identifiera les 10 questions brûlantes pour les galeries publiques de l’Ontario.

15h00 Assemblée générale annuelle des membres.
Gratuit

16h00 Remise de prix édition classique 2010 de l’AOGA
Accès en coulisses.

18h00 Reception.
She King en direct sur scène

Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada

International Conference
Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Information,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
April 22-24, 2010
Special student rate: $50
All others: $150

takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/

Robert R. Janes, author of Museums in a Troubled World, will provide the
keynote address, "Museums and the End of Materialism," on Thursday, April
22, 2010.

On April 23 and 24, presenters from across Canada and around the world, from
academia and the professional sphere will meet in panels to consider

- Museology in Canada
- Curating Nation
- Exhibition Pedagogy/Historical Consciousness
- Objects/Collections
- Citizen Museology
- Partnering
- Revisiting "Creating Partnerships: An Inquiry into the 1992 Task Force
Report in Museums and First Peoples"
- Research and its implications in the Museum
- Museum Management
- Professional Development
- Community Development
- Dialogues: Museum Studies & Professional Pracices
- New Museology: Civics and Sustainability

See takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Programme.asp for
the complete programme.

Only a few spaces remain for this exciting undertaking. Visit
takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Registration.asp to
register online today.

Special student rate: $50
All others: $150

For more information takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/

2009/2010

Facilitating Adult Learning in the Gallery
with Jack Cunningham
March 26 & 27, 2010
Toronto

Organized by Barbara Gilbert for the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
This course has been developed by Cultural Careers Council Ontario to serve the training needs of the cultural sector.
Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.

Registration
$195 OAAG Members
$250 General
To register:
Download this registration form, fill it in and email it to Barbara Gilbert at members(at)oaag.org
or fax it to 416-598-4128

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary

This 2-day learning workshop, created by a specialist in adult education, will give you the skills to plan and develop learning modules that appeal to and motivate adults, as well as to develop activities and experiences to meet your anticipated learning outcomes. Approaching the gallery’s unique context for lifelong education, this workshop will explore the challenges of changing audience needs, understanding and planning for the needs of adult users, including different learning styles and cross-curricular opportunities.

The course takes place over a full day Friday and a full day Saturday. The syllabus covers the principles of adult education, the variety of instructional techniques that engage adults as well as practical tips on designing learning relevant to their needs. The workshop itself has been designed to model best practices with lots of opportunities for group work, presentation and practice.

• planning and developing workshops that appeal to and motivate adult learners
• developing activities and experiences to meet learning outcomes
• tips on group behaviour issues, organizing content, and learning styles
• how we learn, course outlines, course design and lesson planning
• writing goals and outcomes
• classroom setup and management
• tips on facilitation, teaching aids, and evaluations

Expect an interesting, useful and experiential workshop with room for discussion.

What is gallery education?
Gallery education is a new and changing body of practice that exists to broaden understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts (…). Gallery education continues to develop in response to changes in art practice, changes in audience needs, and changes in formal and informal education. Many galleries and art museums around the world now have gallery education departments, and gallery education programmes organised and delivered by gallery education staff, working with artist-educators, artists, teachers, professional partners and community leaders.

Gallery education includes:
• promoting visual literacy - helping people develop the tools and vocabulary to experience and respond to art
• unlocking creativity - stimulating people to explore their own creative potential, to make art themselves, and to pursue careers in the creative industries
• cultural empowerment - building people's confidence with and understanding of artists, galleries, arts centres, art museums.

(www.engage.org/about/whatis.aspx)

Jack Cunningham is a writer, performer, arts business coach and adult educator. Jack has over 25 years experience in Education and Training as well as an arts career as a playwright, producer and performer. He has designed adult training programs for Centennial College and Humber College where he also taught Organizational Management and became a training consultant to business and industry with the College’s Business Services division. He has taught at George Brown College in the Adult Instruction Certificate program and designed professional development workshops for the Toronto District School Board. Most recently he has designed and delivered workshops for The Cultural Careers Council of Ontario: The Business of Art – Career Planning for Artists and also Facilitating Adult Learners. Jack has a BA in English Literature from Concordia University, a Diploma in Counselling, Advanced Accreditation from the Canadian Society for Training and Development, and certificates in: Adult Instruction, Instructional Design, Myers-Briggs, Personality Dimensions/True Colors, and Life Skills Coaching.

Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO) Presents:
By Whose Definition, and by What Standards? A Panel on Cultural Diversity
Friday, March 19th, 3:30 - 6:00 pm
The Cameron House, 408 Queen Street West, Toronto

This panel will explore the use, meaning and affect of the phrase "cultural diversity" as it applies to the arts. The presenters will attempt to establish a working definition of "culture" that encompasses the term's origins, as well as current and ongoing applications. Alternatives to our understanding of "diversity" in the arts will be discussed; exploring aspects such as language, gender, geography, economics, and even disciplines, in order to place the term in an artistic context that reflects a variety of practices and mandates. Finally, the panel will discuss the efficacy of the term's use. Specifically, how does the use of this language encourage artists and curators in their programming to provide greater access to, and deeper understanding of, the diverse and marginalized within their reach?

Registration
Individual Rate: $18
Organizational Rate: $35 - 2nd person $15
ARCCO Members Rate: $30 - 2nd person $10

Register via email: arcco@bellnet.ca
Include in Subject Line: CDP Registration
Include in Body: Number of registrants, name(s), organization name (if applicable) and contact information (phone and email)
Or contact the ARCCO staff at the programming office: 519-672-7898

Please make all cheques payable to ARCCO and mail registration to:
Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO)
388 Dundas Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 205
London, Ontario N6B 1V7
*Please note spaces are limited and only reserved once you pay, so register ASAP to guarantee a spot. Light snacks will be provided. Refreshments available at the bar.*

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary

Presenter Bios

Iga Janik, Moderator
Iga Janik is a visual artist, curator and Executive Director of Artspace, Artist-Run Centre in Peterborough Ontario. Her practice includes work in performance, photography and video. She holds a fine arts degree from Concordia University, Montreal, with focus on studio production and contemporary art theory and criticism. Her administrative interests extend to her work in cultural policy and alternative governance.

Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Panelist
Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot is the Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) with prime responsibilities for exhibition coordination and student outreach. Previously she held the positions as outreach programmer for the Blackwood Gallery and the Art Gallery of Mississauga and as professional development and public programmes coordinator at the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. She sits on the Board of Directors for C Magazine and contributes to fundraising committees at the Art Gallery of Ontario and CANFAR. Suzanne is an artist and the former undefeated Pillow Fight Champion of the World.

Leanne L'Hirondelle, Panelist
Leanne L'Hirondelle is the Director/Curator at Gallery 101, Artist Run Centre. Previously, she worked under fellowship (Martin Mullins) at the Chicago Field Museum, Department of Anthropology. Prior to this, she was Collections Curator at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre; Director of Urban Shaman Inc, Artist Run Centre (Winnipeg) and taught at the First Nations University of Canada and the University of Saskatchewan. She has done independent curatorial projects and exhibited her work internationally. She completed a BFA Honours (University of Manitoba), MFA (University of Saskatchewan) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Art Theory and Criticism (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago).

Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Panelist
Victoria Moufawad-Paul is a video artist and the Programming & Exhibitions Coordinator at A Space Gallery. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts from York University in 2005 and is the former curator and executive director of the Toronto Arab Film Festival. Currently she is a member of Visual and Media Arts Committee of the Toronto Arts Council and sits on the board of directors at Trinity Square Video. As a curator and cultural critic she has published with Fuse Magazine, the Arab American National Museum, E-Fagia, the Journal of Canadian Peace Research, and YYZ Books. Moufawad-Paul's time-based artwork deals with anti-colonial struggle, diaspora and (mis)representation and has been exhibited in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Sanjay Shahani, Panelist
Sanjay Shahani is an arts professional with experience creating and producing documentaries such as Don't Pity Me, Jaromír Skr(ivánek, the series Different, Yet the Same: A Look at Canadian Cultures Today and the popular science docu-drama, A Journey Through the Universe. He has also produced theatre and is especially proud of his contribution to Twisted Metal and Mermaids Tears, a community-engaged, professional theatre work that represented the social and cultural plurality of the South Riverdale neighbourhood in Toronto. He founded a number of media arts organizations in South Asia and North America, and continues to act as volunteer advisor to culturally diverse performing arts organizations across the country, and as an educator, Sanjay has taught courses in the humanities and social sciences at post-secondary institutions in North America. At present, Sanjay manages the arts and culture portfolio for the Province-Wide Program at the Ontario Trillium Foundation. He has worked as a Theatre Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts and as Community and Multidisciplinary Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council.

ARCCO gratefully acknowledges its programming committee and the support of CARFAC Ontario, The Cameron House, Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG), and the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

International Conference
EXTRA-CURRICULAR: BETWEEN ART & PEDAGOGY
Part Two: Beyond Institutions
March 8 - 13, 2010

Organized and curated by Maiko Tanaka, Curator-in-Residence, JMB Gallery
JMB Gallery, Hart House, Toronto
For more information: extra-curricular.info

Free admission but pre-registration is required.
To register, send an email to info@extra-curricular.info with your full name, organization/position, phone number and sessions you plan to attend. Generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Hal Jackman Foundation, Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk Centre for International Studies, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

OAAG is contributing to the following components:

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Annette Krauss (Utrecht) “Towards critical links between art, education and activism”
Monday, March 8
7:00–8:30pm
(Hart House, Music Room)

This lecture will discuss and investigate the relation between art, education and activism – and whether the power of the conjunction “AND” (e.g. between art “AND” education “AND” activism) could provide a space for social participation, and ideally become a site for political and social negotiations. Through her practice, she attempts to formulate questions and generate practices that engage the social imagination towards critical links between art, education and activism; and, at the same time, tries to avoid being bracketed within these themes; to move towards synergizing these areas, and out of this develop specific ideas, cases, alliances and practices. Co-presented by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries

Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy
Part I. Between Institutions (February 15 – 19, 2010)
Part II. Beyond Institutions (March 8 – 11, 2010)
Location: Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
Open to the public, with registration
Free admission

Presented by the JMB Gallery Organized and curated by Maiko Tanaka, Curator-in-Residence, JMB Gallery

Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy, is an international conference and curatorial project exploring the relationship between art, education, audience development, and activism. The conference will take place in two parts: I. Between Institutions (February 15–19, 2010) and II. Beyond Institutions (March 8–11, 2010). It will be accompanied by special projects, installations, workshops, and residencies with internationally renowned artists, educators, and researchers, with keynote guests Annette Krauss (Utrecht, Netherlands), Xu Tan (Guangzhou, China), and Carmen Mörsch (Zurich, Switzerland). Collaborating organizations include Gendai Gallery (Toronto), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou, China), and Toronto Free Gallery.

The event will bring together practitioners working at experimental, critical, and radical crossings of art and education. Propelled by research on pedagogical art practices by Maiko Tanaka (Curator-in-Residence at the JMB Gallery), the conference and exhibition aim to develop new and critical models of exchange between the two fields and cultivate dialogical, affective, physical confrontations and meetings between artists, learners and publics. The two-part conference will be held at Hart House, at the University of Toronto. Focusing on “supplemental,” “extra-curricular,” and “in-between” spaces of the formal curriculum of academic institutions, the project will explore the various ways critical and radical pedagogy is employed by artists working through these spaces and beyond.

The conference includes art installations by Xu Tan and Adrian Blackwell, as well as performances, workshops, and film screenings at Hart House and off-site locations. Guangzhou-based artist Xu Tan will be developing a new phase of his ongoing participatory project Keywords School, scheduled to take place during Part I: Between Institutions. His project will be followed by an experimental architectural installation, Model for a Public Space (Speaker), produced by Toronto-based architect and artist Adrian Blackwell. The latter project will function as a site for the roundtable discussions and presentations for Part II: Beyond Institutions, and continues as a platform for open-ended public forums by student and community groups through to the end of March 2010. Part II also takes place in conjunction with Utrecht-based artist Annette Krauss's Visiting Artist Residency at the JMB Gallery. (Stay tuned information on Part II, coming soon).

Part I: Between Institutions (February 15-19, 2010) Presented in conjunction with Visiting Artist Xu Tan’s Keywords School installation and participatory project (February 15–19, Times TBA) as well as a book launch for Documenta 12 Education, the first part of the conference will focus on practices by artists, curators, researchers and educators moving within, between, and across institutional structures. It will include the following lectures and panel discussions:

February 16, 7:00–8:30pm, (Debates Room)
Keynote Lecture: Carmen Mörsch "extra-curatorial? documenta 12 education and its research between autonomy and assignment"
Carmen Mörsch is the Art Director of the Institute for Art Education (Zurich). She will give an overview of the Documenta12 Education Programme, its advisory board and research projects. Discussing the development of the Documenta 12 Education books, the talk will touch on the project’s achievements and challenges.

Wednesday, February 17, 10:00am–12:30pm (Debates Room)
"Between Classroom and Studio": Artists who blur the lines between their teaching and art practice within the traditional and extended notions of the classroom.
Panelists: Amos Latteier, Stephanie Springgay (on the work of Diane Borsato), Daisuke Takeya
Moderator: Carmen Mörsch

2:00pm–4:30pm "Between Art and Knowledge": Art as knowledge production addressing questions of what, why, and for whom.
Panelists: Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez, Srimoyee Mitra, Darren O'Donnell
Moderator: Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández

Thursday, February 18, 10:00am–12:30pm (East Common Room)
"Between Curating and Curriculum": Curators working with artists to create "educational curriculum" as exhibition, or curators on creative ways of working through institutional structures to support/produce pedagogically-oriented exhibitions.
Panelists: Andrew Hunter, Christine Shaw, Milena Placentile/The Pinky Show
Moderator: Maiko Tanaka

1:30pm–4:00pm
"Between the Gallery and Imagined Audience": A variety of perspective on "learning outcomes" - how they differ in the educational and art contexts and the ways of negotiating the contradictions, difficulties, and challenges of reaching "desired audiences/students" and outcomes expected from both instituting and individual bodies.
Panelists: Carmen Mörsch, Srimoyee Mitra, Kim Simon
Moderator: Michelle Jacques

The Extra-curricular conference, installations, screenings, and events will be open to the public and free for all with registration required for specific events. For more information on Part I. Between Institutions, (including updated schedule, registration info, the various discussions and events, guest speakers, panelists and their presentation abstracts) please visit http://extra-curricular.info/ or contact: Maiko Tanaka JMB Gallery, Curator-in-Residence maikotanaka@rogers.com 416-520-2855

To register, send an email to info@extra-curricular.info with your full name, organization/position, phone number and sessions you plan to attend.

STAY TUNED for information on Part II. Beyond Institutions (March 8–11, 2010) coming soon! Extra-curricular: Between Art and Pedagogy is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Hal Jackman Foundation, Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk Centre for International Studies, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

The Gallery is currently closed for renovations from January 4 to March 31, 2010. Please refer to the Gallery website for updates. Hart House is wheelchair accessible.

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Tel: 416-978-8398
Fax: 416-978-8387
Email: jmb.gallery@utoronto.ca
Web: www.jmbgallery.ca

Queer, Feminist & Postcolonial Perspectives and Gallery Education
A special meeting: Carmen Mörsch with OAAG members
Friday, February 19, 2010
10:00 am – 11:30 am
North Dining Room, Hart House
University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

A contribution of $15 is required for this special event (includes catering)
To register contact Barbara Gilbert at members [at]oaag[dot]org or call 416-598-0714

Professor Carmen Mörsch is in Toronto for four days only as Keynote speaker at Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy Part I. Between Institutions (February 15 – 19, 2010)

Prof. Carmen Mörsch is head of the Research Institute of Art Education (IAE) at the University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. A selection of projects that she has been involved in include: Kunstcoop© (1999-2001), a group of seven artists developed a programme of “artistic art mediation“ for the art association NGBK in Berlin, Germany (www.kunstcoop.de); KunstKur (2000-2002) a participatory art projects in Lohmen, a small village in Mecklenburg, Germany; Art for Change (2004-2005) Loraine Leeson; retrospective exhibition (1975 – 2005) and catalogue (www.ngbk.de); Interface Art (2005 - 2007) Mediation pilot project initiated by the Association of Free Art Schools in Lower Saxony, Germany (www.kunstschulen-nds.de) and a research on documenta 12 education programme.

Gallery Education informed by queer, feminist, post-colonial thinking

The presentation explores possible approaches towards gallery education as critical practice and research informed by queer, feminist and postcolonial thinking.

Participants will:

Understand educational process as a producer of such concepts as:
• Male and female
• Identity and alterity
• Educated and uneducated
• Included and excluded

Recognize contextual determinants for gallery education practice such as:
• Role of the market
• Working conditions
• Cultural capital
• Distinction, inclusion and exclusion

Gain awareness of gallery education as a direct result of institutional relationalities, including power relations, and how gallery education is able to temporarily shift the prescribed relations and rituals of the art space.

A PASO* Networking Event
Spring Forward!
A RESOURCE (SHARE) FAIR FOR EMERGING ARTS PROFESSIONALS

DATE: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
LOCATION: Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa
TIME: 12 noon to 4 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Career in transition? Launching in the professional arts? Write your own forecast for the future!

A rainbow of arts professionals in dance, theatre, new media, music, writing, graphic design, visual arts, fine crafts and the applied arts want to meet you!

• Bring your business cards and distribute freely!
• Meet over 100 successful professional arts independents!
• Connect with arts service organizations in your community where you can get assistance and inspiration to move forward in your arts career!
• Engage with your peer emerging professional arts workers!
• Explore the rich resources of ArtsCourt!

Confirmed Participants
Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Ontario ARCCO+ Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l'Ontario BRAVO + Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario CADA-ON + Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le front des artistes canadiens CARFAC Ontario+ Canadian Music Centre Ontario Region + Club SAW + Dance Ontario + Gallery 101 / Galerie 101 + The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa IFCO + Ontario Association of Art Galleries OAAG + Ontario Council of Folk Festivals OCFF + Ontario Crafts Council OCC+ SAW Gallery + SAW Video + The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa

*PASO is a budding coalition of Ontario provincial arts service organizations.

For more information on this event and to register (it’s totally free!)
CONTACT Demetra Christakos + Barbara Gilbert
Relentless Optimists, Authentic Arts Advocates, Practical Professionals, Experienced Ecstatics

Ontario Association of Art Galleries
111 Peter Street, Suite 617
Toronto ON M5V 2H1
Phone (416) 598-0714
Web www.oaag.org

Un évènement de réseautage de la coalition OPSA *

En avant le printemps!
UNE FOIRE DE RESOURCES POUR LES PROFESSIONNELS ÉMERGEANTS DANS LE DOMAINE DES ARTS

DATE: mercredi, le 3 février, 2010
LOCATION: Cour des Arts, 2, avenue Daly, Ottawa
HEURE: de midi à 16h

GRATUIT!

Carrière en transition? Vous vous lancez dans les arts professionnels? Écrivez votre propre prévision pour l’avenir!

Un véritable arc-en-ciel de professionnels en danse, theatre, médias, musique, littérature, design, art visuel, et métiers d’art veulent vous rencontrer!

Enregistrez-vous (c’est complètement gratuit!) pour obtenir votre sac (gratuit!) de “friandises”.

• Distribuez vos cartes d’affaires!
• Rencontrez 100 professionnels des arts!
• Faites des connexions avec les organismes dans votres communauté qui peuvent vous aider à aller de l’avant dans votre carrière!
• Rencontrez vos pairs!
• Explorez les riches resources de la Cour des Arts!

Participants confirmés :
Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Ontario ARCCO+ Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l'Ontario BRAVO + Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario CADA-ON + Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le front des artistes canadiens CARFAC Ontario+ Canadian Music Centre Ontario Region + Club SAW + Dance Ontario + Gallery 101 / Galerie 101 + The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa IFCO + Ontario Association of Art Galleries OAAG + Ontario Council of Folk Festivals OCFF + Ontario Crafts Council OCC+ SAW Gallery + SAW Video + The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa

*OPSA est une coalition bourgeonnante d’organismes provinciaux au services des arts.

Pour de plus amples renseignements
CONTACTEZ Demetra Christakos + Barbara Gilbert
Association Ontarienne des galeries d’art
111, rue Peter , Suite 617
Toronto ON M5V 2H1
Tel (416) 598-0714
Web www.oaag.org

FROM INCEPTION TO COMPLETION: A Capital Planning Workshop
Designed by ArtsBuild Ontario for OAAG Members

Monday, December 7, 2009 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Station Gallery, 1450 Henry Street, Whitby, ON
Registration Fee: $90 per person OAAG Members
Registration in advance: members[at]oaag[dot]org

This one-day workshop is designed for public art galleries in Ontario that are considering or currently managing a facility project. Presentations and discussions will address such questions as:

• Is your organization ready and adequately prepared to take on a facility project?
• What is the project’s impact on programming and operations?
• What are the major project decisions that you need to make?

This workshop offers an overview of the project planning cycle, the role of feasibility studies, real estate and building code issues, sources of support, volunteer management and use of consultants.
Staff and Board members are encouraged to attend together.

Fees and Logistics
Workshop cost of $90 per person includes GST, a $45 fee to ArtsBuild Ontario for licensed workshop content and 44 page capital project planning booklet, and lunch and all breaks.

To register:
Contact Barbara Gilbert at members[at]oaag[dot]org.
Download the registration form here.
Mail cheque for $90 payable to:
OAAG
111 Peter Street
Suite 617
Toronto ON
M5V 2H1

Workshop Leaders:
Janis Barlow
Principal, Janis A. Barlow & Associates

Janis Barlow has led a dynamic arts consulting practice in Ontario since 1981, specifically in the areas of strategic planning, feasibility studies and capital project management. She has facilitated over 100 strategic planning workshops for artist-run organizations, emerging community arts boards, arts councils, theatres and associations.

Adele Dobkowski
Executive Director, ArtsBuild Ontario

Adele Dobkowski has over 20 years of not-for-profit management experience. She has consulted and worked as an executive with organizations in a wide range of sectors, including arts, health, international development and education advising small and large organizations on strategic, marketing and development issues.

About ArtsBuild Ontario
ArtsBuild Ontario provides EDUCATION to build capital project management capacity, INFORMATION to assist stakeholders and funders to quantify the scope and prioritize the status of potential capital projects and SOLUTIONS to address the acute capital infrastructure crisis facing Ontario's small and mid-sized performing and visual arts organizations. Recognized leaders from Ontario’s performing and visual arts organizations established ArtsBuild Ontario to address the long-standing need for cultural infrastructure. ArtsBuild’s Board have demonstrated expertise in public and private sector finance, in real estate development, in the arts and in facilities management. ArtsBuild Advisory Committee members collectively represent 700 organizations across the province. www.artsbuildontario.com

Two-day workshop - Ontario Association of Art Galleries

Shake, Rattle and Roll: Meeting Shipping Challenges in the Post ETS Environment
Monday October 5 & Tuesday October 6, 2009
Presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
In conjunction with the Canadian Conservation Institute, Canadian Heritage

Registration Fee: $195 OAAG Members, $250 General
Registration Deadline: September 20, 2009 (There is a maximum of 20 participants)
Registration form: click here to download.

For more information or to register:
Contact Barbara Gilbert, Secretariat Coordinator (416) 598-0714, members [at] oaag.org

The workshop is designed to assist registrars, preparators, and operations managers in museums, galleries, and historic sites in making cost-effective choices in the planning and management of fine art and artifact shipment. Following a format that includes discussion, case studies, demonstrations, and hands-on group exercises, it will examine and offer practical solutions to art shipping and transportation issues.
There will be ample opportunity for participants to share information and expertise.

The workshop is being sponsored in part by PACART.

You may be eligible for a Travel Bursary from the Canadian Museums Association. Please visit the CMA website for details and application forms. For more information about this bursary, contact:

Veronique Chikuru
vchikuru@museums.ca
613-567-0099 x228

Workshop Content

• The Shipping Landscape in Canada
  
• Transportation options
  
• Shipping hazards and carriers
  
• How to assess shipping hazards
  
• How Things Go Wrong
  
• Susceptibility of art objects to shipping hazards
  
• Avoiding unnecessary hazard exposures
  
• Temperature and RH control
  
• Protective Packaging
  
• Basic protection and primary packaging
  
• Protective Packaging
  
• Shock isolation
  
• Vibration control methods
  
• Common concerns and how to deal with them
  
• Types of boxes and crates
  
• Design features on shipping crates
  
• Lightweight crating
  
• Double case systems
  
• Package design examples
  
• Cushion Design methods and tools
  
• International shipment phytosanitary issues
  
• Shock and vibration loggers
  
• Package performance evaluation
  

And:

• What makes a good shipper?
  
• Questions to ask when hiring a shipper
  
• Contracts 101
  
• Greenware Challenge (drop testing)
  
• Looking Forward – tools and resources
  

Course Instructor
Paul J. Marcon, P.Eng.
Conservation Scientist (Engineer) |Scientifique en conservation (ingenieur)
Canadian Conservation Institute | Institut canadien de conservation

REVISITING ART GALLERY FUNDAMENTALS: SECURITY PLANNING, EVALUATING ART OBJECTS, AND INSURANCE
April 22, 23, 24 2009
Ontario College of Art & Design

Art Gallery Fundamentals
April 22, 23, & 24, 2009
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
Registration fee: NOTE - corrected fees
OAAG members ($95/day or $50/half day)
General ($125/day or $70/half day)

You may be eligible for a Canadian Museums Association bursary to attend.
Click here for information about the CMA's Travel Bursary
Click here to find out about the CMA's Canadian Museum Studies Bursary.

Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.

AGENDA – Day One
Museums should take all practical steps to preserve and minimize the physical deterioration of all collections entrusted to its care, regardless of their financial value. While preventive conservation is acknowledged as a primary responsibility, museums must often make an informed decision and attempt to strike a balance between the need to use and the need to preserve, in some cases, considering the original purpose of the object. As part of their overall conservation practice, museums should develop specific and comprehensive plans to deal with all types of emergencies that might affect the collections and the facilities, both those that can be anticipated as well as unexpected crises. In all cases, however, the well-being of museum workers and visitors must be given priority.

- Canadian Museums Association, Ethics Guidelines

April 22, 2009
10:00 am
SECURITY PLANNING FOR YOUR GALLERY OR MUSEUM
Mike Ferguson, Director of Protection Services, Art Gallery of Ontario
Security paradigms for art institutions

• Security infrastructures for small, medium, and large institutions
• The process of security planning
• Balancing public access with collection security: protecting art objects yet still making them accessible to the public

Chris Ruhig, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Toronto
The impact of a crisis on an institution

• Setting priorities for emergencies
• Training front line staff in emergency preparedness
• Managing the public in a crisis – evacuation procedures
• Preparing for Natural Disasters: flood, fire, earthquake, tornado

(Lunch 12:15)

1:00 pm
OBJECT LOSS: PREVENTION AND RECOVERY
Alain Dumouchel & Sylvie Dubuc, Sergents Enquêteurs en oeuvres d'art, Sûreté du Québec Art Theft in Canada, an overview (statistics)

• Interpol Canada’s new unit on Art Theft
• Art thieves: who are they? what motivates them?
• Recovery of stolen art objects
• Preventing art theft: the Art Loss Register (www.artloss.com) and the Virtual Museum of Canada

Bonnie Czegledi, Art and Cultural Heritage lawyer
Legal Issues Surrounding Art Theft

• The paper trail
• The institution’s obligations to the public: the legal framework
• Recovery of stolen art objects

(Coffee 3:00)

April 22, 3:30 pm
Charles Reeve, Curator, OCAD Professional Gallery
Tour of Roger Ballen exhibition, Boarding House, OCAD Professional Gallery

April 22, 5:00 pm
Mike Ferguson, Director of Protection Services, Art Gallery of Ontario
Visit of AGO Galleries and Highlight of Emergency Systems in Place

April 23, 10:00 am
VALUING WORKS OF ART – part 1
Dennis Reid, Director, Collections and Research, Art Gallery of Ontario
Donating Works of Art to a Public Art Gallery

• Gifts of Certified Cultural Property
• Valuing Art in Canada: setting the context
• Soliciting Donations
• Accepting Donations: what to look for

(Lunch 12:00)

April 23, 1:00 pm
VALUING WORKS OF ART – part 2
Siegfried Rempel, Canadian Conservation Institute
Designated Institutions and Public Authorities

• ASHRAE Handbook requirements for Category A & B Designated Institutions
• How to upgrade your gallery to meet the requirements
• Maintaining your Category A or B Designation

April 24, 10:00 am
INSURANCE FUNDAMENTALS
Scott Dormer, Marsh Canada Limited, Canadian Museums Association Group Insurance Plan
Anton Antonov, XL Insurance
Insuring permanent collections

Christine Braun, Collections Manager, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Realities of Collection Care and Insurance

2008 / 2009

A PASO* Networking Event in collaboration with The Emerging Arts Professional Network

Spring Forward! A Resource (Share) Fair for Emerging Arts Professionals
Monday, March 30, 2009
10 am - 4 pm
FREE ADMISSION
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario

Career in transition? Launching in the professional arts? Write your own forecast for the future! A rainbow of arts professionals in dance, theatre, new media, music, writing, graphic design, visual arts, fine crafts and the applied arts want to meet you! Bring your business cards and distribute freely! Win prizes from Bloor Cinema, Musicworks, Soulpepper, Visual Arts Ontario, and many more! Meet over 100 successful professional arts independents! Connect with arts service organizations in your community where you can get assistance and inspiration to move forward in your arts career! Engage with your peer emerging professional arts workers! Explore the rich resources of 401 Richmond Street West, one of the great arts buildings in Toronto.

Did we mention that it is totally free? Join us!

Confirmed to date
ARTIST-RUN CENTRES AND COLLECTIVES ONTARIO (ARCCO) · CANADIAN ALLIANCE OF DANCE ARTISTS, ONTARIO CHAPTER (CADA-ON) · CCI - ONTARIO PRESENTING NETWORK · CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE - ONTARIO REGION · COMMUNITY ARTS ONTARIO · DANCE ONTARIO · CARFAC ONTARIO · EMERGING ARTS PROFESSIONAL NETWORK · ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL · ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF ART GALLERIES (OAAG) · ONTARIO CRAFTS COUNCIL · ONTARIO MUSEUM ASSOCIATION · VISUAL ARTS ONTARIO (VAO) · and many more

Happenings
10 – 11:30 am
Meet and Mingle
UrbanSpace Gallery (Main Floor)
The Emerging Arts Professional Network www.eapnetwork.ca
MEET Ella Cooper MEET Fayiaz Chunara + Marie Lalonde + Pierre Bois + Kim McBrien + Avril Loreti + Demetra Christakos + Barbara Gilbert + Alison Lindsay + Jewell Goodwyn + Kristian Clarke + Sarah Nasby + Kohila Kurunathan + Jason van Eyk + Stephanie Kervin + Zorica Krasulja + Amanda McKinney + Sara Lyn Potter + Richard Underhill + Jessica Volpe + Warren Garrett + Tammy Moorse + Rosslyn Jacob Edwards

11:30 am - 1 pm
Professional Meet-and-Greets
401 Open Door
Consultants Hosted by Meta Strategies (Suite 206)
MEET Liz Rykert MEET Diane Davy + Carol Good + Arlene Singh + Charles C. Smith
Composers and Musicians Hosted by Musicworks (Suite 358) MEET David McCallum MEET Allison Cameron MEET Jason van Eyk + Richard Underhill
Architects Hosted by Lundholm Associates Architects (Suite 369) MEET Michael Lundholm
Graphic Designers Hosted by Lisa Kiss Design (Suite 435) MEET Lisa Kiss MEET Sarah Nasby + Kohila Kurunathan

1 - 2 pm
Career Clinics
Visual Arts CARFAC Ontario (Suite 440)
MEET Kristian Clarke CARFAC ONTARIO MEET Jewell Goodwyn ARCCO
New/Avant-garde Music (UrbanSpace Gallery, Main Floor)
MEET Jason van Eyk
CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE ONTARIO REGION
MEET David McCallum MUSICWORKS MEET Warren Beck Richard Paul Concert Artists

2 - 4 pm
We're Talking About...
UrbanSpace Gallery (Main Floor)
2 pm Grant Programs for Emerging Arts Professionals
MEET Janice Lambrakos Ontario Arts Council
2:30pm Current Issues in Dance
SOCAN
MEET Rosslyn Jacob Edwards Dance Ontario
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR DANCE
MEET Elizabeth Chitty Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists, Ontario Chapter (CADA-ON)
3 pm Working in the Artist-Run Centre Environment
MEET Derek Liddington Xspace MEET Iga Janik Artspace MEET Barbara Gilbert Visual Artist
3:30 pm Online Marketing in the Arts
MEET Kim McBrien Visual Arts Ontario (VAO)

Contributing Sponsors 401 Richmond Street West, A Space, Bloor Cinema, GardenPhotos, Soulpepper, Toronto Image Works, Vtape, WilBe Bloomin

*PASO is a budding coalition of Ontario provincial arts service organizations.

For more information on this event CONTACT
Demetra Christakos + Barbara Gilbert + Alison Lindsay
Relentless Optimists, Authentic Arts Advocates, Practical Professionals, Experienced Ecstatics
Ontario Association of Art Galleries 111 Peter Street, Suite 617 Toronto ON M5V 2H1 Phone (416) 598-0714 Web www.oaag.org

"There could be balloons."

Best of all, admission is FREE!

Visit the website : Art Institutions and the Feminist Dialectic (http://feministdialectic.ca/en/)

Full program available here

Registration Fees: $195 OAAG Members / $250 General
Organized by Carla Garnet for the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

Emelie Chhangur
Christine Conley
Pamela Edmonds
Carla Garnet
Sophie Hackett
Johanna Householder
Kristina Huneault
Suzy Lake
Allyson Mitchell
Camilla Singh

Looking back over the past 35 years, Art Institutions and the Feminist Dialectic aims to explore through working groups and a series of dialogues the unique challenges and opportunities presented by the exhibition, acquisition and preservation of feminist art work by Ontario public art galleries, archives, universities and other public institutions. In an immersive, retreat-like environment, registered delegates will actively contribute to the symposium in working groups, leading to analysis of the following questions:

• How is the art museum a gendered space?
• How does feminist work affect new reading(s) of the public museum?
• What strategies have art curators developed for the presentation, housing and maintenance of feminist art?
• What challenges and opportunities does performance-based work present to public art institutions?
• Can the art museum successfully re-enact performance-based work?
• How do public institutions gain from a conversation with artists about works made as activism?

The symposium is funded in part through the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage. Participation by eight unaffiliated delegates including post-graduate students and professional artists is being supported by sponsorships received from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Pacific Art Services (PACART), the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA), the Rivoli and the Queen Mother Café.

To see the video by VJane Gordon, click here.

Storage Planning for Cultural Facilities
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
October 6 & 7, 2008
Registration Fees: $195 OAAG Members/ $250 General
The presentation of this workshop is supported by the Candian Conservation Institute and in part by Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

This workshop discusses the process of storage planning and design, including space analysis, layout, structural requirements, scheduling, and costing processes. Damaging agents such as temperature, relative humidity, light, pollution, contaminants, fire, theft, pests, and water are addressed. Information on determining appropriate storage techniques for different collection types, choosing suitable storage materials, and selecting appropriate storage furnishings and finishes is also provided.

Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:

- understand the importance of drafting written preservation and storage plans for their institutions
- identify and understand the causes of deterioration of museum or gallery collection materials
- create plans for new or upgraded collections storage areas
- determine appropriate storage techniques for different collection types, choose suitable storage materials, and select appropriate storage furnishings and finishes
- work through the process of storage planning and design, including scheduling, space analysis, layout, and structural requirements

Units:

Preliminary Considerations
General and introductory considerations for choosing locations for storage. Various equipment options for different types of objects.

Storage Planning
Importance of a collections care plan. Steps required for a successful storage plan that accommodates future needs. Advantages and disadvantages of various types of equipment, methods, materials, and supports.

Preventive Conservation
Damaging effects of temperature, relative humidity, light, pollution, contaminants, fire, theft, pests, and water. Some protection or control measures.

Storage Concepts
Prefabricated versus custom-designed equipment. Visual/open storage versus compact storage. Examples.

Project Design
Phased approach to a storage project. Security, fire, responsibilities of outside professions/trades and staff, building design, space layout, and storage equipment. Group exercise in planning/designing the upgrade of two storage areas in museum or gallery contexts as appropriate.

Upgrading Project
Grant process, collection relocation, and construction materials.

Post-project Activities
Monitoring space and equipment, warranties and performance bonds, resolution.

Target Audience
Staff and volunteers of cultural facilities who are responsible for improving or renovating existing collection storage, or for planning and developing new storage facilities or furnishings.

Facilitator

Siegfried Rempel graduated from Carleton University in 1973 with a B.Sc., and joined CCI in 1975. From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a Conservation Scientist in Photography at the University of Texas (Austin). Then he was the Manager of Conservation and Preservation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture until 1989, when he moved to Heritage Services/CCI to act in an advisory capacity. His current area of specialization is collections preservation.

Blue Soup Topic
Government Regulation and Emerging Visual Arts Professionals
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration Fees: $40 OAAG Members/ $45 General (lunch not included)
Organized by Darryl Bank for the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
The presentation of this workshop is supported in part by Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

Program Summary
How does government legislation and regulation like Ontario’s Film Classifications Act impact on public art galleries? The day begins with knowledge and skills exchange in a workshop environment from 10 am to 3 pm, followed by a panel discussion that will also be open to the public. Registered participants will gain practical skills from attending the workshop, including information on how provincial and federal government legislation is written. The day culminates in an open panel discussion where audience members will have the chance to discuss these critical issues with the speakers.

Blue Soup
Through case studies and presentations by established professionals, the Blue Soup series creates professional development and network opportunities for recently graduated and underemployed emerging arts professionals.

Content Contributors:

Taryn Sirove, PhD candidate, Queen's University
Taryn Sirove will present a historical overview of provincial legislation as it relates to Canadian media/video artists, and in turn, how this history informs her academic research.

Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Director of Freedom of Expression project, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv will discuss her organization's function as it pertains to artists and art organizations.

Linda Feesey, Board President, PleasureDome
Linda Feesey will discuss Pleasure Dome's history, focussing on the organization's stated non-compliance policy and their ongoing support of freedom of expression.

John Mitsopulos, Director, Policy Branch, Policy and Consumer Protection Services Division, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

John Mitsopulos will present a technical primer on how legislation is written and enforced in Ontario, and how individuals and organizations can impact that process.

FREE PANEL!

Following the speakers' presentations, the workshop is open to the public at 3:30 pm for a free panel discussion entitled Censorship, The Arts and Government Impact, which will run to 5:00 p.m. All are welcome. This panel will provide the audience with a chance to discuss a number of critical issues with the speakers, including censorship, prior review, and regulatory/legislative precedents.

Moderator: Aubrey Reeves, Programming Director at Trinity Square Video, Toronto.

An Evening of Networking and Conversation
EAP Connects
Hotshots (181 Augusta, Kensington Market), Toronto
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 6:00 p.m. tp 8:30 p.m.

The Emerging Arts Professional Network brings you a fun way to meet new people and network with established & emerging arts professionals.

The Emerging Arts Professional Network cordially invites you to the third monthly EAP Connects event in partnership with the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. EAP Connects is a monthly opportunity for members of the arts community to meet and network in an informal setting. EAP CONNECTS facilitates new connections between senior and emerging arts professionals, administrators, artists and creative minds from all disciplines.

Each EAP Connects event includes a little icebreaker to make you comfortable to meet and greet, so bring a friend or come by yourself and make a new connection.

Music, art, and refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by Hotshot

All proceeds from this event help to support the Emerging Arts Professional Network and its programs.

The Emerging Arts Professional Network www.eapnetwork.ca is a not-for-profit and community network of over 2,000 arts administrators, managers and artists at the start of their careers from across Canada. The EAP Network provides an online community network, career resource, subsidized management services and informal professional development opportunities for arts administrators, managers and artists. The EAP Network is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council and sponsored by Spin Globe. For more information contact info@eapnetwork.ca.

From Red Ink to Rethink:
Approaches to deficit reduction
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Monday, June 16, 2008, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration Fees: $150 OAAG Members / $195 General (lunch included)
The presentation of this workshop is supported in part by Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

Content Contributor
Heather Young, Accountant, Young Associates

Who Could Attend
Curators, managers, board members of galleries who are experiencing a deficit, or who foresee financial challenges for their institution. Managers of other arts and heritage organizations seeking practical, hands-on solutions to a deficit.

What You Will Gain from the Day

Essential accounting vocabulary, including definitions of:
- Deficit (operating, accumulated)
- Net assets (restricted, unrestricted)
- Other relevant financial statement terminology

Techniques for analyzing and reporting your institution’s situation:
- Technical (grant application forms, financial statements)
- Anecdotal (communications strategies for board, staff, stakeholders)

Financial analysis of your organization’s deficit
- Prepared by you using calculation tools that will be taught during the day

A kit containing calculation templates, checklists, definitions and other key content

Your next three steps towards eliminating your institution’s deficit, based on analysis and discussion.

Workshop Agenda

9:30 Registration (Coffee and muffins)
10:00 What Is a Deficit?
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Defining Your Deficit
12:45 Lunch
1:45 Deficit Reduction Planning: Taking On Your Deficit
3:00 Coffee break
3:15 Communicating the Problem
4:30 Wrap-up: draft your 3 next steps
5:00 Adjourned

Workshop Topics

What Is a Deficit?
- What’s the difference between an operating and an accumulated surplus/deficit?
- Where are these figures represented on my financial statements?
- How do I report them on grant application financials? (We will use the OAC operating grant application, and practice completing the form using specific scenarios.)

Defining Your Deficit
- How severe is my organization’s situation? How can I tell if it’s a crisis?
- Measure your deficit: Use a worksheet to calculate balance sheet and operating statement ratios
- What does it cost to carry a deficit? Use a worksheet to identify, estimate where needed, and sum your organization’s potential carrying and opportunity costs.
- How long does it take to eliminate a deficit? Use two worksheets to identify, estimate where needed, and sum your organization’s potential capacity to repay debt, using balance sheet and operating statement information.

Deficit Reduction Planning: Taking On Your Deficit
- Bottom line fixes: methods for solving the problem
- Cashflow fixes: methods for managing the situation
- Financial statement fixes: using accounting strategy and accounting policy to your advantage
- What are the key issues facing your institution, and which strategies offer the most appropriate approaches?

Communicating the problem
- Who needs to know ­ and when?
- What potential consequences might I expect once I release information on the deficit?
- How can I communicate disappointing financial results in an effective way?
- How much detail do I need to release?

Presenter Background

Presenter Heather Clara Young has worked in the field of arts management for close to twenty years. Her experience includes leadership roles with a variety of arts service organizations, theatre and dance producing companies, facilities, festivals and community organizations, in both professional and volunteer capacities.

Heather teaches accounting and financial management to diploma and continuing education students in Humber College’s Arts Administration programs. Heather was a 2004 recipient of Humber College’s Continuing Education Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution.

Her company, Young Associates, founded in 1992, provides consulting, financial management and bookkeeping services to both not-for-profit and commercial arts and cultural organizations.

Skills Development Workshop
Archiving the Exhibition:
Techniques in Documentary Photography
Art Gallery of Hamilton (123 King Street West, Hamilton, ON)
Monday, April 28, 2008, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Registration Fees: $195 OAAG Members / $250 General (lunch included)
Maximum Registration: 15

Content Contributor: Isaac Applebaum, Photographer

Program Summary
This practical workshop provides professional skills enhancement for photographic documentation of visual art exhibition installations of all media. The workshop will focus on exhibition documentation approaches, including difficulties presented by certain exhibition scenarios. A review of film-based and digital formats will be presented as well as post-production approaches available with digital files.

Requirements
Registrants must submit three photographs which illustrate their own challenges when documenting exhibitions. On the day of the workshop, each participant is asked to bring his/her own camera with its corresponding guide book. (Please note that most guide books are available for download from manufacturer web sites.)

Program Goals
- Provide participants with enhanced knowledge of photographic exhibition documentation
- Cover both film-based and digital cameras
- Provide in-gallery scenarios
- Introduce Photoshop / Post Production Methods
- Improve the capacity of OAAG member galleries to document their temporary visual art exhibitions
- Create awareness about the need for proper exhibition documentation

Intended For:
Curators, Assistant Curators, Gallery Assistants, Preparators, Installation Technicians, Registrars, Exhibition Coordinators, Photographers, Archivists, Visual Arts and Heritage Professionals.

Agenda

9:00 am - Introductory Plenary
9:30 am - Basic Exhibition Installation Photography
10:45 am - Coffee Break
11:00 am - Exhibition Walkthrough / Lighting Analysis
12:30 pm - Lunch
1:30 pm - Post Production: Exhibition Photo Review
2:45 pm - Break
3:00 pm - Group Critique & Problem Solving
4:45 pm - Question & Answer
5:00 pm - Adjourn

2007 / 2008

Blue Soup Series For Emerging Arts Professionals
Bringing Art to the Streets:
Visual Arts Programmers and Municipalities
Monday, March 31, 2008, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Gallery 1313, Toronto
Registration Fees: $45 OAAG Members / $55 General (Lunch not included)
Coordinated by Scott Sawtell for the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
The Blue Soup Series is supported in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada

Program Description:
This symposium will explore the role of the curator in taking visual art out of the gallery and into the municipal arena. Topics will include:

- Successful projects & how they started: curators from Dyan Marie Projects, UrbanVisions and Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area (CAFKA)
- Issues regarding working with municipalities beyond the gallery doors
- Integration Strategies
- Involving the community / Revitalization through art
- Promotional Strategies
- Benefits / Obstacles
- The Municipal Perspective: A representative from the progressive City of Kitchener will discuss the city's relationship with CAFKA and how the arts vitalize the City of Kitchener.

A kit will accompany the series.

Bringing Art to the Streets is useful for graduate students, emerging curators, visual arts administrators, municipal representatives and emerging arts professionals who want to gain insight and perspective into the possibilities of partnerships between arts organizations and municipalities.

Agenda

10:00 am - Introductions

10:10 am - Presenter - Sarah Beveridge, Curator, The MacLaren Arts Centre

11:00 am - Presenter - Dyan Marie, Director and Curator, Dyan Marie Projects
Initiating Artist - Nuit Blanche '"Bloor Nightlight", 2007

12:00 pm - Lunch Break

1:00 pm - Presenter - Rob Ring, Artistic Director, CAFKA

2:00 pm - Presenter - Brian Scott, Economic Development Officer, City of Kitchener

3 - 4:00 pm - Plenary

To register please complete the registration form available for download here and fax or email it to:

Ontario Association of Art Galleries
111 Peter Street, Suite 617
Toronto ON M5V 2H1
Tel: 9415) 598-0714
Fax: (416) 598-4128
Email: members@oaag.org

Registration fees are non-refundable.
Contact: Shay Gibson, Membership and Publications Coordinator
Tel: (416) 598-0714 Email: members@oaag.org

Audience Development and Evaluating Audience Experience
A one-day working session for professional outreach and gallery programmers in Ontario public art galleries
Facilitated by Barbara Soren Ph.D.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 10 am to 4 pm
Conference Suite, 111 Peter Street, Toronto, ON

Participation Fee: $150 OAAG Members (Lunch included); $200 General
Register by Friday February 29, 2008: Contact Shay Gibson, Membership and Publications Coordinator, members@oaag.org
Funded in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage

The key to the participation cycle is the arts experience….The key to this participation model, for all types of participants, is the intensity of engagement—mental, emotional, and social—in the arts experience. Only those that are capable of high levels of engagement in the arts experience become frequent participants. The implication of this insight is that occasional participants must be introduced to compelling arts experiences if they are to be converted into frequent arts participants.

McCarthy/Ondaatje/Zakaras/Brooks, Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts. The Rand Corporation: Santa Monica, 2004. pp. 62-63

Program Description:

This one-day session facilitated by museum consultant Barbara Soren will bring together up to 20 professional outreach and programmers from a range of gallery models across Ontario. Together we will define and capture what each participant sees as critical issues of audience development and participation facing gallery programming today.

The day will have both a workshop & working-group structure. Using a template on how to develop audience-based measures of success, participants will develop a plan for evaluating an exhibition or gallery program in their own institution. We will ask participants to bring with them materials that they currently use to help them to develop this plan. Roundtable discussions will contribute to a report that the consultant will write with quantitative and qualitative approaches already in use by programmers to describe their audiences. The report will recommend strategies for broadening, diversifying, and deepening audience participation in public art galleries. In addition to providing examples from the work undertaken in this area by the galleries participating in the project, the report will also recommend next steps for research in this important area.

Agenda

10:00-10:30 am
Introductions
Model for broadening, diversifying, and deepening audience participation
Audience-based measures of success template

10:30-11:30 am
Working groups
Mission/Mandate of Gallery
Aims/Goals of exhibit, education or public program
Description of exhibit, education or public program
Target audiences
Web presence

11:30-12:00 am
Large group
Reports, issues, questions from working groups

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 to 1:30 pm
Objectives and Outcomes for audiences
Evaluation strategies and Success indicators

1:30-2:30 pm
Working groups
Objectives and Outcomes to ensure your exhibit, education or program
broadens, diversifies, and deepens audience participation
Developing Evaluation strategies and Audience-based measures of success

2:30-3:00 pm Break

3:00-4:00 pm
Large group
Reports, issues, questions from working groups
Personal action plan: next steps for developing audiences and evaluating audience experience at your Gallery

How to prepare for the Audience Development and Evaluating Audience Experience working session …

1. Think about audiences you want to develop and evaluate for one of your exhibits, education or public programs.

2. Gather the following materials to bring with you to the OAAG working session (if they are available):

- Your Gallery ’s mission or mandate
- Aims or goals for audiences visiting the exhibit or participating in the education or public program
- A written description of the exhibit or program and related images
- A Web page describing the exhibit or program
- Target audiences that are attending or you expect to attend or use the website
- Evaluation tools or strategies that you currently use to evaluate audiences who
attend exhibits or participate in programs (e.g., attendance forms, surveys, program
evaluation forms, web metrics)
- Approaches you use to measure the success of your exhibits or programs for audiences who attend.
- Anything else that you think would be important to bring with you.

Consultant
Barbara J. Soren is an independent consultant who specializes in working with cultural and community organizations. As an educator, she has been working with museums and science centres, performing arts organizations, community organizations and health care facilities, and schools since the mid-1970s. Her work focuses on how people grow and learn throughout their lives in rich and meaningful contexts. Her consulting work, research, and teaching have focused on lifelong learning, how individuals develop and grow throughout their lives, and developing or building audiences across the arts. She has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science in Teaching from McMaster University. Both graduate degrees have focused on Arts/Museum Education. Barbara Soren also teaches a course called Museums and their Publics in Museum Studies/Faculty of Information Studies and is Coordinator of the Knowledge Media Design (KMD) Collaborative Program at University of Toronto.

To register please contact Shay Gibson, Membership and Publications Coordinator, by telephone at (416) 598-0714 or through email at members@oaag.org.

Blue Soup Series For Emerging Arts Professionals
Agents of Change: Talks with Gallery Directors
Two days: February 20 and March 13, 2008
Two guided one-day walking tours
Registration Fees, Two days: OAAG Members/Students $50; General $60
Registration Fees, One day: OAAG Members/Students $25; General $30
The Blue Soup Series is supported in part by the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.

Program Description:
A series of six talks will be presented by Toronto art gallery directors in their working environments over two days in February. Responding to the question, "How has your art gallery changed and where is it going?", the talks will reflect on gallery histories, their changing positions, and the challenges directors face today. Tours of current exhibitions will be provided (as available) and a kit will accompany the series.

Agents of Change is useful for graduate students, emerging curators, visual arts administrators, and emerging arts professionals who want to gain insight and perspective into the public art gallery sector in Ontario.

Agenda

Day 1- Wednesday, February 20, 2008

10:00 am - Vtape, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 452
Presenter - Lisa Steele, Creative Director

11:30 am - Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond St., Suite 124
Presenter - Scott McLeod, Director/Curator

12:45 pm - Lunch Break (The Grange - Lunch is not included in registration)

2:00 pm - Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West
Presenter - Matthew Teitelbaum, The Michael and Sonja Koerner Director & CEO

Day 2- Thursday, March 13, 2008

10:00 am - Susan Hobbs Gallery, 137 Tecumseth Street
Presenter - Susan Hobbs, Director & Principle

11:30 am - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen St. West
Presenter - David Liss, Director/Curator

12:45 pm - Lunch Break (Participants can break for lunch at the Golden Turtle - Lunch is not included in registration)

2:00 pm - Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue
Presenter - Gary Hall, Executive Director

To register please complete the registration form available for download here and fax or email it to:

Ontario Association of Art Galleries
111 Peter Street, Suite 617
Toronto ON M5V 2H1
Tel: 9415) 598-0714
Fax: (416) 598-4128
Email: members@oaag.org

Registration fees are non-refundable.
Contact: Shay Gibson, Membership and Publications Coordinator
Tel: (416) 598-0714 Email: members@oaag.org

Atelier
Jeudi 17 janvier et vendredi 18 janvier 2008
De la genèse à l’aboutissement : la planification des projets d’infrastructures - 1re et 2e partie
Hôtel Chimo (1199, rue Joseph-Cyr, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 7T4)
Membres de l’AOGA : pour vous inscrire, contacter Shay Gibson, coordonnateur des membres et des publications, members@oaag.org
Frais d’inscription : 95,00 $ (maximum de 10 personnes)
Date limite : le mardi 8 janvier 2008

Présenté en partenariat par Réseau Ontario, l’Association ontarienne des galeries d’art (AOGA) et ArtsBuild Ontario.
L’atelier aura lieu en français.
Cet atelier bénéficie du soutien de Patrimoine canadien, dans le cadre du Programme d’aide aux musées.

Pour les diffuseurs pluridisciplinaires et spécialisés
Jeudi 17 Janvier, 14 h à 16 h 45 (1re partie)
Salle Baffin-Cabot ­ Hôtel CHIMO
Vendredi 18 Janvier, 8 h 30 à 11 h 15 (2e partie)
Salle Baffin-Cabot

Présenté en partenariat avec ArtsBuild Ontario et Ontario Association of Arts Galleries, De la genèse à l’aboutissement est conçu à l’intention des petits et moyens organismes qui envisagent d’entreprendre un projet d’amélioration de leurs infrastructures. Les présentations et les discussions aborderont des questions telles que: Votre organisme est-il prêt à entreprendre un tel projet? Quels en seront les effets sur la programmation et les opérations? Quelles décisions clés devront être prises en relation au projet? L’atelier présentera également un survol du rôle des études de faisabilité, abordera les questions liées à l'immobilier et au code du bâtiment tout en se penchant sur les sources de soutien, la gestion des bénévoles et le recours aux consultants. Les participants y seront appelés à faire part de leurs expériences et de leurs principaux objectifs d’apprentissage.

L’hébergement à l’hôtel Chimo est disponible au tarif spécial de 99,00 $ par nuit (plus taxes). Pour obtenir ce tarif, les réservations doivent être faites avant le 10 janvier 2008, sous le nom de groupe « Contact ontarois », en composant le 1-800-387-9779.

Cet atelier est présenté dans le cadre de Contact ontarois.

Présentateurs

François Morrison, Trizart Alliance
Depuis 2000, François dirige l’équipe multidisciplinaire de Trizart Alliance dont le portfolio inclus le design, la construction et la réhabilitation de plus de 200 salles et lieux d’assemblées publiques, répartis sur 3 continents. Diplômé de l’Université McGill, François a œuvré dans le monde corporatif pendant plus de 15 ans, à titre de premier responsable des fonctions de gestion des ressources humaines, des relations de travail ainsi que de l’amélioration continue. Musicien et passionné de culture, François change de cap et devient entrepreneur en 2000. Chez Trizart, il est responsable de la stratégie d’entreprise, des relations avec les clients et partenaires, de l’administration ainsi que des modèles d’affaires des projets.

Louise Poulin, ArtExpert.ca
Expert-conseil en analyse stratégique, gestion organisationnelle et études de faisabilité, Louise Poulin possède plus de vingt cinq ans de carrière dans la gestion des arts et des industries culturelles. Elle a dirigé plus d’une vingtaine d’études et de projets d’implantation et conduit plusieurs exercices sur les états de situation, analyses et projets d’infrastructure. Elle est détentrice d’une formation sur l'orientation de programmation à Disney University à Orlando. Elle a assumé la direction d'événements culturels majeurs tels le Festival de théâtre des Amériques, le Festival international de mime, le congrès annuel sur l'industrie du disque et la programmation des arts au 350e anniversaire de Montréal. Pour la Société des casinos du Québec, elle a vu à l'implantation du divertissement dans les trois casinos. Louise Poulin est présidente du groupe de travail sur le Mentorat culturel à Montréal, membre fondatrice du Arts Canadian Consultant, membre des conseils d’administration de la Conférence canadienne des arts et de Culture Montréal.

2007 Fall Focus Session
Vital Engagement:
The Public Art Gallery and Effective Change in the Visual Arts
Monday October 22, 2007 and Tuesday October 23, 2007
W132, Schulich School for Business and Executive Learning Centre
York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario click here for map

Four intuitive conversations over two days for gallery directors, curators, educators, artists, independent visual arts professionals, and people who care about exhibiting visual art in public institutions.

Full Registration $195 OAAG Institutional Members; $260 General; $140 Professional Independents; $75 Students
Daily Registration $100/day OAAG Institutional Members; $135/day General; $75/day Professional Independents; $40/day Students
All registration fees include delegate resource kit, lunch and health breaks.
Register by Friday October 19: Shay Gibson, Membership and Publications Coordinator, members@oaag.org
Project Coordination Pamila Matharu

Monday October 22, 2007

9 am – 10:45 am
The Public Gallery and the Public Sphere
Kevin Dowler, Graduate Program of Communication & Culture, York University
Dax Morrison, Visual Artist, Details of Canada’s Public Art Galleries
Stuart Reid, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, on New Performance Measures for the Public Gallery

Welcome to New Canada: A critic, artist, and gallery director/curator evaluate how the public art gallery nourishes and negotiates its core mission (and serves its burgeoning multivalent audiences) in an ever-changing climate of variable funding paradigms, regulatory intervention, new patronage, and shape-shifting public and private interests.

11 am
Susan Bloch-Nevitte, Public Relations, Art Gallery of Ontario

Over the summer of 2006, the Art Gallery of Ontario encountered first-hand the impact of regulatory language in Ontario’s re-instated Film Classification Act (2005). Susan Bloch-Nevitte shares how the gallery managed the process, their subsequent research on museum practice concerning the exhibition of moving image works of art, and potential next steps for OAAG members.

11:45 am
OAAG Annual General Meeting of Members (Free admission)

12:30 pm
Lunch Break

1:30 – 4:30 pm
Community in Focus: Part One
Mary-Ellen Heiman, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, on A Sense of Space: The Blind Culture
Allyson Adley, Art Gallery of York University, & Sandeep Kler, Team Leader, The Spot, Jane-Finch Community Centre
Dana Samuel, Media artist/curator/writer, on The Networked City

Developing new initiatives, reaching out in new partnerships beyond visible limits: three thought-provoking projects undertaken in the past year by Ontario public art galleries.

Tuesday October 23, 2007

9 – 10:45 am
Change Makers: Fire from Ice
Ryan Rice, independent artist and curator
Haema Sivanesan, SAVAC
Christina Zeidler, Gladstone Hotel

Three arts producers—recognized catalysts for effective change in the visual arts—talk about how they made something new happen in Ontario: working outside of the institution, creating new possibilities of interaction, experience and collaboration.

11 am – 12:30 pm
Community in Focus: Part Two
Bonnie Devine, visual artist/curator, & Celeste Scopelites, Art Gallery of Sudbury, on Daphne Odjig
Colin Wiginton, Community Programs, Art Gallery of Ontario, on Arts Access
Deborah Barndt, Community Arts Practice, York University

Three programs that signal major institutional shifts: opening doors, re-aligning traditional relationships, making space for the new.

12:30 pm
Lunch Break

1:30 -3:00 pm
New World Order: The Independent Life
Kim Fullerton, Curator/ Akimbo Art Promotions
Clara Hargittay, Curator
Carla Garnet, Curator / Art Historian / Former Art Dealer

Career-shifting visual art professionals share their independent points of view: building a new professional life, unveiling a new calling, how to nourish body and soul (and save for retirement) in the New World Order.

3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Curating in a New World Order: City / University
Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Art Gallery of Mississauga / Blackwood Gallery, UTM

You’ve been hired to make new art happen in an established super-system. Now go!

4:30 pm
Exhibition Tour
The 2007 OAAG Fall Focus Session concludes with a tour by Philip Monk, Art Gallery of York University, of the exhibition FASTWÜRMS DONKY@NINJA@WITCH.

Followed by

5:30 pm
The 30th Anniversary OAAG Awards
Art Gallery of York University
Free Admission

Please join us for the 2007 OAAG Awards, our annual province-wide juried awards that recognize and celebrate excellence and achievement in exhibitions, curatorial writing, education programs and community partnership in Ontario’s dynamic public art galleries. This year, ten peer jurors recognize 18 galleries from 11 cities across the province with 21 Awards of Excellence. A complimentary Awards shuttle bus departs downtown Toronto from 100 McCaul Street at 4:30 pm. The return bus departs AGYU at approximately 8 pm for the Awards after-party at the Beaver Café, 1192 Queen Street West at Dufferin.

Media Contact Pamila Matharu, Coordinator, programs@oaag.org, (416) 598-0714

2006 / 2007

March 20th, 2007, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Troublemaking and Troubleshooting:
Exhibition Organization for Emerging Curators
Multimedia Studio Theatre (MiST), Ground Floor, CCIT Building
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
Registration fee - OAAG Members & University of Toronto students: $40
Registration fee - General: $45

Through case studies and presentations by established professionals, the Blue Soup series creates professional development and network opportunities for recently graduated and underemployed emerging arts professionals. Troublemaking and Troubleshooting is a half-day workshop that will introduce the main components of exhibition organization, by identifying the resources, tools and methods of contemporary curatorial practice. Professional visual art curators Rhonda Corvese and Alissa Firth-Eagland will share expertise and provide insight into how to make curatorial projects happen from the ground up.

Rhonda Corvese will address:

The Artist Curator relationship
Negotiation and communication
Production as a curatorial model
Research strategies
Networking: local, national and international

Alissa Firth-Eagland will address:

Pitching proposals and Calls For Submissions
The Artist/Curator model
Funding opportunities, partnerships and grants
Making contact with galleries, artist-run centres and alternative venues
Cultivating impact: promotion, publication, documentation

Getting There:

Participants are responsible for their own travel to and from Mississauga. Tickets for the intercampus shuttle bus can be purchased by non-students at Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle. Shuttle schedule available at www.utm.utoronto.ca/shuttle.

Rhonda Corvese is a Toronto-based independent curator and an Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU). Her curatorial projects often evolve in response to situations, where she strives to challenge the role of the curator, artist and audience in the presentation and engagement of contemporary art. She is fundamentally interested in exploring the dialogue between curator and artist in the creation of new work that exists beyond the gallery space and in the examination of contemporary Canadian art within an international framework. Recent projects include: The Idea of North, a sound art group exhibition in Norway, Iceland and Halifax (2005/2006); Iris Haeussler’s site-specific installation The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach (2006); a special project Berlin booth Berlin Constructions: Emergent Practices Today at the Toronto International Art Fair (2004); and the Berlin/Toronto Gallery Exchange (2004/2005). Three upcoming Toronto projects include: British artist Shona Illingworth’s The Watch Man, a video and sound installation at InterAccess (April 6-May 12, 2007) as part of Images Festival 2007; 25sec.-Toronto a video portrait of cultural mediators by Berlin-based German artists Angelika Middendorf and Andreas Schimanski at Prefix ICA (June/July 2007); and an AGYU project "in there", a one-night performance event on April 4/2007 in the Accolade East Building (AGYU), a series of process-based collaborative projects between Diane Borsato, Daniel Cockburn, Kristan Horton and the dance, music and theatre students at York University.

Toronto-based curator Alissa Firth-Eagland publishes, produces events, curates exhibitions and programs time-based works. Her multi-faceted approach sparks projects across a range of communities, institutions, and disciplines: single-evening performances, video screenings, multiple location shows; interventions in public spaces; and gallery exhibitions. She has coordinated projects for organizations like the TRANZ �‡ TECH 2003 Toronto International Media Biennial, Cultural Human Resources Canada, the Banff Centre, the Toronto Alternative Arts Fair International 2004, YYZ Artists Outlet and MUU Gallery (Helsinki, Finland). Through her practice, she champions creative experimentation with media. In 2005 she commissioned video artists who use their own presence in their works to perform live for the first time with her project, Feats, might. In 2006 she was awarded an Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Fellowship for independent research into print as a distinct forum for contemporary art. The inaugural issue of her curatorial publication project ALMANAC exhibited in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Melbourne, Australia; Stockholm, Sweden; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and in Cambridge, UK. In summer 2006 she was curator-in-residence at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art where she researched Nordic artists creating works that defy traditional artistic categories. In 2008 she will be presenting the first solo exhibition of Canadian video artist Gareth Long’s work at Oakville Galleries. Currently she’s commissioning new works for Sleepwalker Projects, her experimental window gallery on Queen St West in Toronto.

Finance for the Arts is a two-day workshop that will introduce emerging and mid-career arts administrators to bookkeeping, accounting and financial principles. Using case studies, break out sessions, and step-by-step workshops, this session will equally serve as a learning tool for senior staff members to brush up on best practices and financial management with emphasis on budgeting.

Learning Objectives:

- Review of standard accounting principles
- Prepare and analyze financial statements
- Acquire budgeting tools
- Identify direct and indirect costs for project budgets
- Clarify financial roles and responsibilities
- Overview of the financial planning cycle: organizing your fiscal agenda
- Managing cash flow

Presenter Heather Clara Young has worked in the field of arts management for close to twenty years. Her experience includes leadership roles with a variety of arts service organizations, theatre and dance producing companies, facilities, festivals and community organizations, in both professional and volunteer capacities.

Heather teaches accounting and financial management to diploma and continuing education students in Humber College’s Arts Administration programs. Heather was a 2004 recipient of Humber College’s Continuing Education Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution.

Her company, Young Associates, founded in 1992, provides consulting, financial management and bookkeeping services to both not-for-profit and commercial arts and cultural organizations.

*This two-day workshop will also include a tour of the Gardiner Museum’s recently re-installed Permanent Collections.

In collaboration with The Centre for Cultural Management

Human Resources for Cultural Managers workshop is aimed at mid-career professionals in management positions to address the need for human resources information and training. In collaboration with the University of Waterloo’s The Centre of Cultural Management. Part One of the course requires the completion of an online interactive tutorial learning experience for a certificate in Conflict Management for Creative Organizations. The second part of the workshop will be a peer-to-peer discussion focusing on retaining and rewarding staff, human resource policies, training development and managing staff performance. It can be used as a learning tool to improve communication, refine staff relationships and create functional job descriptions.

Learning Objectives:
- Managing workplace change;
- Addressing changing positions with the staffing structure;
- Re-evaluating job descriptions;
- How to give critical and supportive feedback;
- Coaching and Mentoring in the cultural sector;
- Performance management.

University of Waterloo Manageculture.com
Managing Conflict in Creative Organizations
www.manageculture.com

Many cultural organizations experience difficulty in meeting some of their goals because of internal conflict. In this course you will learn that, if managed properly, conflict can be a healthy and creative force in the organization. Sources of conflict are explored, as well different conflict styles. The role and guidelines for effective communication in managing conflict are explored in depth.

November 8, 2006 6:00 - 9:00 pm
The Art of Getting Published
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King’s College Circle, Toronto
Registration fee: $20

Content Contributors: Brian Joseph Davis, Terence Dick

FOCUS This session will be devoted to understanding the key elements of publishing reviews and critical texts on visual art and culture. Whether it is curatorial research or cultural analysis this workshop will explore the opportunities for print. By supplying an extensive list of magazine and periodical profiles, registrants will learn how to build relationships with managing editors, connect with the correct audience and the fine art of getting published.

Learning Objectives:
- Making contact;
- Pitching reviews;
- Understanding submission formats;
- Working with editors;
- Studying the market;
- Marketing your writing
- What’s on the Web: Learning about e-publishing.

Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer from Toronto. He was called a "genius" by Alex Ross for turning the writings of philosopher Theodor Adorno into a punk 7inch. Frieze Magazine also deemed the same project "serious hilarity...joyous and thoughtful."

In 2005 Coach House Books published Portable Altamont, his first collection of writings, which has garnered praise from Spin Magazine for its "elegant, wise-ass rush of truth [and] hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes." Davis is also a columnist for Eye Weekly and recently wrote about the death of the cassette for the Utne Reader.

His other projects have included Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played ( music made out of charred vinyl), Voice Over ( a text composed from a list of 5,000 film "taglines" which was then read by a professional voiceover artist) and Yesterduh (recordings of people trying to remember the words to Yesterday).

Terence Dick is a writer living in Toronto. His art criticism has appeared in BorderCrossings, Canadian Art, Camera Austria, Fuse, Mix, Parachute, C Magazine, Prefix Photo, and The Globe and Mail. He has written catalogue and exhibition essays for Stan Douglas, Lee Goreas, Peter McCallum, Matt Crookshank, Jennifer Murphy and Chris Rogers. He is also the editor of the online art review Akimblog (www.akimbo.biz) and music editor for Broken Pencil magazine. Terence has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy and Cultural Studies from Trent University and worked for eight years in education and public programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. He has given lectures and conducted workshops at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Music Gallery and Oakville Galleries.

Presented in partnership by the University of Toronto Art Centre and the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

Monday, September 18 - Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Two-Day Workshop Environmental Agents: Strategic Preservation of the Collection
Registration fee: $195 (OAAG Members & Students), $250 (General)
Bilingual Presentation
Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London ON

This is an introduction to the strategic preservation of the collection against agents of deterioration, especially those environmental ones, such as light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollutants. The module will be in the form of a traditional presentation, group exercise, visit to a storage facility and/or exhibit and exercises using computerized equipment.

Learning Outcomes:
- Understand preservation principles;
- Understand the effects of relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants on objects;
- Quantify the degree of preservation of objects in a given environment;
- Implement a preservation strategy based on an analysis of priorities, costs and benefits.

Agenda:

Preservation principles and assessment
Background and examination of the notion of standards versus guidelines. Preservation parameters such as object integrity, its current access (visibility) and its future access (preservation).Notion of preservation target and assessment of the degree of preservation of collections by using risk management concepts.

Light
Sensitivity of objects to light and UV rays. Notion of dose. Preservation assessment of objects against radiation. Guidelines on lighting levels. Reflection and glare problems.

Relative humidity and temperature
Sensitivity of objects to humidity and temperature fluctuations. Preservation assessment of objects against humidity. Guidelines. Control strategies.

Pollutants
Sensitivity of objects to various airborne pollutants in buildings. Preservation assessment of objects against pollutants. Guidelines. Control strategies. Preservation assessment of a collection. Preservation assessment using a simple computer program. Introduction to preservation indexes.

Improved preservation through a costs and benefits analysis.
Set action priorities based on preservation assessment results. Select strategic options based on a costs and benefits analysis. Prepare a preservation plan.

Visits to a collection storage room and/or an exhibit gallery
Application of concepts learned in class. Assessment of a site’s basic environment.

Target Audience: Staff and volunteers involved in collection management including its storage and access.

Facilitators:

Jean Tétreault studied at the University of Montreal, where he received a Masters Degree in Science (analytical chemistry). In 1989, he joined the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), where he is currently working as an adviser and researcher on environmental condition directives, pollutants, exhibit and storage products and strategy on the preservation assessment of collections. Mr. Tétreault was the President of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property from 1995 to 1997 and the principal author of directives on pollutant concentrations in museums and archives included in the "Museums, Libraries, and Archives" chapter of the 2003 ASHRAE Application Handbook. He has also presented numerous papers in Canada and Europe on exhibit and storage products. He is currently the acting manager of the Preventive Conservation Services Division of the CCI.

Clifford Cook received a Chemical Engineering Technology Diploma from Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Sciences in Ottawa. He joined CCI in 1978 and researched methods to preserve waterlogged wood and wood/metal composites. In 1987 he moved to the Historic Resource Conservation Branch of Parks Canada as an archaeological conservator. Cliff has recently returned to CCI as a Project Development Advisor in the Preventive Conservation Services. His teaching experience includes CCI workshops and college and university courses. He has presented and published papers on a variety of conservation topics.

Thursday June 15 & Friday June 16, 2006
OAAG Spring Focus Session Ottawa ON
Register now $150 OAAG/CMA members, $175 general

Please join us for the OAAG Spring Focus Session (followed by the 2006 OAAG Awards) in Ottawa this year, presented in conjunction with three OAAG member galleries, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, and Carleton University Art Gallery.

Agenda:

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Ottawa Art Gallery
2 Daly Avenue, Arts Court, Ottawa ON

4:00 pm
Annual General Meeting
Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Chair Mela Constantinidi, Director, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2005-2006 OAAG President
This meeting includes the election of the 2006-2007 OAAG Board of Directors. Those members in voting categories in good standing with the Association (2005-2006 membership fees due March 31, 2006 paid in full) are eligible to vote.

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Opening Reception
6pm Minister's Remarks
The Ottawa Art Gallery hosts a reception for OAAG members and the Ottawa community to meet the Honourable Caroline Di Cocco, Minister of Culture, Government of Ontario.

Friday, June 16, 2006
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa ON

9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Workshop: Effective Government Advocacy & Communication
Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Canada
Content Provider Jim Everson, Director of Government Relations, Canadian Museums Association

FOCUS This information workshop identifies tools for effective advocacy and communication. From distinguishing the key politicians and public service representatives to identifying and determining policy priorities, participants will discuss governmental structures and decision-making analysis. Through defining advocacy governance, coordination and roles and responsibilities, staff and board will be able to concentrate on best practices. Presented with the assistance of the Canadian Museums Association and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch with Keynote Address
Restaurant des Beaux-Arts, National Gallery of Canada
Speaking through Silence 2
Jan Allen, Curator of Contemporary Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Status of the Artist and Ontario Public Art Galleries
Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Canada
Moderator Diana Nemiroff, Director, Carleton University Art Gallery
Content Contributors: Pat Durr, Artist, Lorraine Farkas, Director, Planning, Research and Communications, Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CAPPRT) and Michel Perron, Director Général, Société des musées québécois (SMQ).

This session will provide an important update for OAAG members on the development of Status of the Artist in Ontario and how it affects Ontario’s public art galleries.

Background On October 17, 2005, OAAG was invited to contribute to an Ontario Ministry of Culture roundtable consultation with other Ontario non-profit arts producers on the topic of Enhancing the Socio-Economic Conditions of Artists. This was the fourth such consultation on this topic conducted by the sub-committee of the Ontario Minister of Culture’s Advisory Council for Art and Culture charged with Status of the Artist, one of the government’s stated deliverables arising from the 2003 election.

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Curator’s Tour
Emily Carr: New Perspectives
Charles Hill, Curator of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada

followed by

2006 OAAG Awards
Please join us in our 29th annual presentation of the OAAG Awards, a province-wide juried awards celebration that recognizes excellence and achievement in Ontario public art galleries in seven categories: Exhibition of the Year, Curatorial Writing, Design, Exhibition Design and Installation, Education Programs, Partnerships and Volunteerism.

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Reception
Water Court Foyer, National Gallery of Canada

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
2006 OAAG Awards
Auditorium, National Gallery of Canada

followed by

8:30 pm - midnight
Awards After-Party
Galerie SAW Gallery
67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa

2005 / 2006

October 20 - 22, 2005
Art Gallery of Ontario, Jackman Hall & University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto.

Group of Seven Roadshow: Art and Public Culture. 1920 -> 2005

This three-day symposium for educators, curators, artists and fans will explore the Group of Seven’s role in securing a place for art in Canadian public culture. From Arthur Lismer's leading work in arts education to the establishment of public galleries across the country, the Group of Seven defined and enriched notions of Canadian identity. The symposium will bring G7 educators, historians and fans together for a multi-disciplinary round-up addressing the Group’s ideas about art in the public realm -- then and now.

The Group of Seven Project 1920->2005 celebrates the 85th anniversary of the first art exhibition of paintings by the Group of Seven in 1920, and has been organized in collaboration by 29 public art galleries, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, with the assistance of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

Presenters and Panelists:
David Aurandt, Emily Falvey, Simon Frank, Janna Graham, Lise Hosein, Anna Hudson, Andrew Hunter, Lynda Jessup, Ivan Jurakic, Rachel Kalpana James, Kent Monkman, Dennis Reid, Stuart Reid, Seth Scriver, Anna Stanisz, Georgina Uhlyarik, Brandon Vickered, Peter Vietgen, Colin Wiginton, Douglas Worts, Liz Wylie, Joyce Zemans.

For more detailed information visit the G7 Roadshow Symposium Website @ www.oaag.org/groupofseven/symposium/index.html

May 27, 2005, 12 noon - 5:30 pm
Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, Hamilton

Building Now for the Future: Collections and their Facilities
2005 OAAG Spring Focus Session
Registration: $75 OAAG Members, $110 General (includes lunch)

Building Now for the Future: Collections and Their Facilities is a peer-to-peer opportunity to exchange information on public art gallery collections and their facilities.

Our guests have been invited to speak to the following questions:
How and where does your institution house your permanent collection? What strategies do you use to meet the recommended environmental and handling standards for visual art? What are the financial and physical advantages and restraints of your current location and architecture? What do these mean for your institution's future direction? How does your organization plan for and implement acquisition strategies? How much of your collection is on exhibition and how much is rotating storage?

Speakers:
- Rhona Wenger, Director, The Grimsby Public Art Gallery
- Katherine Carleton, Project Manager, ArtsBuild Ontario
- Mary-Ellen Heiman, Executive Director, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant
- Gary Essar, Curator, Riverbrink - Home of the Weir Collection
- Celeste Scopelites, Director/Curator, Art Gallery of Sudbury
- Margaret Haugt, Head of Conservation, Art Gallery of Ontario

This will be an extended conversation of directors, curators, and conservators including case studies and direct experiences in the housing, care and handling of permanent collections throughout Ontario.

Participants will get an understanding of the excitement and costs of effecting physical change to the gallery space.

AGENDA:

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Opening Address
- Louise Dompierre, President & C.E.O., Art Gallery of Hamilton

1:15 pm Building Now for the Future: Collections and Their Facilities
- Slam Session

4:00 pm Presentation of the 2003 OAAG Data Exchange
- Kelly Hill, Principle, Hill Strategies Research Inc.

4:30 pm Curator's Tours:
Heaven & Earth Unveiled: European Treasures from the Tanenbaum Collection
- Patrick Shaw Cable, Curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Tobi Bruce, Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Contemporary Works from the AGH Collection: installations by John Massey, An Whitlock, Richard Serra and Arnaud Maggs
- Shirley Madill, Vice President & C.O.O., Director of Programs, Art Gallery of
Hamilton

The Spring Focus Session will be preceded by OAAG's Annual General Meeting and followed by the 2005 OAAG Awards.

April 18, 2005
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto

In Print: Art Book Distribution and Retail Sales for the Visual Art Gallery
Registration: OAAG Members $95 / General $120

Due to the overwhelming request for a professional development learning opportunity to focus on the distribution of art gallery publications this one-day workshop will serve as a follow-up workshop for the In Print workshop held at Hart House, University of Toronto in September of 2004. The workshop will be geared to mid-career and senior gallery professionals and will feature publishers and distributors. It is being designed to meet the skill development needs of art galleries and other visual art professionals who want to know more about distributing their catalogues, alternative publications and artist books.

AGENDA:
Keynote Address: Distribution Challenges for the Art Gallery Publishers
Robert Labossiere, Managing Editor, YYZ Artists Outlet

Co-Publishing; A Case Study of Rodney Graham: A little thought:
Lisa Mark, Director of Publications, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Creative Sales & Marketing:
Denise Schon, Program Coordinator Book & Magazine Publishing, Centennial College

Appealing to Your Local Bookstore:
Marc Glassman, Proprietor, Pages Books and Magazines
Judy Wolfe, Management Consultant, Hot House

Curator's Tour:
Xandra Eden, Assistant Curator, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening

Learning Objectives
Appealing to your local book store;
Alternative forms of publishing;
Dealing with Distribution Companies: Contracts & Progress;
Publishers: The Benefits of Distribution;
Self-Distribution: Effectiveness & Costs;
Marketing: Identifying your audience;
Co-publishers / Partners; Case Studies: Successful Distribution

2004 / 2005

Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Studio Theatre
3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga

Making It Big: Coordinating Touring and International Exhibitions

Description:
Co-Presented with InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. Making It Big was a one-day workshop that provided mid-career curators/producers and senior staff with the tools and checklists necessary to organize successful large-scale and multi-venue exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Participants heard from experienced producers about factors relating to exporting exhibitions internationally and bringing large-scale artworks into Canada. A case study of the award winning soundtracks exhibitions provided participants with information about funding options, partnerships, curatorial themes, and how to publicize exhibitions successfully. Through panel discussions, participants gained a better understanding of the various aspects of organizing large-scale projects including; coordinating events, setting realistic timeframes, and making it big. This workshop was a must for cultural workers and curators who wished to learn the necessary skills to expand their repertoire to include successful international and large-scale exhibitions.

Leaders / Presenters:
Cindy Hubert, Touring Exhibitions Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario
Christine Braun, Registrar, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Scott Berry, Installations Coordinator, Images Festival
Natalie De Vito, Co-Director, Mercer Union
Christy Thompson, Exhibition Coordinator, The Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery
Catherine Crowston, Chief Curator & Director of Exhibitions and Programs, The Edmonton Art Gallery
Barbara Fischer, Director/Curator, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at
Mississauga

Monday, February 21, 2005, 12:00 to 4:30 pm
Cambridge Galleries

Exhibition Organization for Emerging Curators
OAAG Blue Soup Series

Description:
This event is a plenary workshop for emerging curatorial practitioners. The workshop will cover every aspect of organizing exhibitions. Registrants will leave with a checklist of requirements and understanding best practices. The instructors "case studies" will explore an exhibition from beginning to end, including partnerships, fees, timelines, and administrative needs.

Leaders / Presenters:
Alissa Firth-Eagland, Independant Curator
Ivan Jurakicis, Artist, Writer and Curator
Jooyeon June Rhee, Independent Curator

Tuesday, February 1 & 2, 2005
Burlington Art Centre

Financing for the Arts

Description:
Financing for the Arts was a two-day workshop that provided emerging to mid-career arts administrators with an introduction to bookkeeping, accounting, funding, and financial principles. It could be used as a learning tool for senior staff members to brush up on best practices and financial management with an emphasis on budgeting. Grant budget step-by-step information session accompanied the second day with the Ontario Arts Council to go through the operational grant requirements. Registration fee included a copy of "Finance for the Arts in Canada".

Leaders / Presenters:
Heather Clara Young
Carolyn Vesely, Visual & Media Arts Officer, Ontario Arts Council
Jonathan Smith, Curator of Collection, Burlington Art Centre

Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ontario College of Art and Design, Room 284 Level 2

Information Exchange and Roundtable Meeting for OAAG Gallery Directors with John Brotman and Carolyn Vesely, Ontario Arts Council

Description:
OAAG Member Gallery Directors were each invited to present a five-minute update to the roundtable on their recent gallery programming and activities, successes and challenges. Then, John Brotman and Carolyn Vesely presented an update on the Ontario Arts Council and funding for public art galleries. The last roundtable meeting of OAAG gallery directors with the Ontario Arts Council was held June 18, 2003 at the University of Toronto Art Centre.

Leaders / Presenters:
John Brotman, Executive Director, Ontario Arts Council
Carolyn Vesely, Visual and Media Arts Officer, Ontario Arts Council

September 27 & 28, 2004, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto

In Print: Art Books, Catalogues and Alternative Publications in the Visual Art Gallery
Coordinated by Bridget Indelicato with the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Registration Fees (includes lunch): $195 OAAG members, $250 general

Description:
This workshop was a two-day professional development learning opportunity for emerging and mid-career art gallery professionals that featured art gallery curators, book designers, editors, and gallery publishers from the Canadian visual art book publishing world, and an on-site tour of CJ Graphics, one of Canada's leading art book printers. This workshop was designed to meet the skills development needs of art gallery and other visual art professionals who want to know more about publishing visual art books.

This intensive learning opportunity was timed to coincide with Toronto's book festival Word on the Street (Sunday, September 26) and the Toronto International Art Fair (September 30 to October 4).

Learning Objectives:
• How to publish in collaboration with other institutions
• When to bring in contract editors, writers, designers and translators
• How to set and maximize publication budgets
• How to budget for different types of publications, from high-end productions to budget-friendly alternatives
• Key components of a production schedule, including proofing stages
• How to maximize the shelf life of art books
• Approaches to publication inserts (CDs, DVDs)
• Design alternatives for materials and bindings
• How a printing house operates

Publications discussed included:
Greg Staats: Animose (2002)
General Idea Editions 1965-1995 (2003)
Susan Kealey: Ordinary Marvel (2003)

Leaders / Presenters:
Keynote Speaker
Jessica Bradley

Presenters
Andrew di Rosa, SMALL design
Julie Bronson, Special Projects Coordinator, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Xandra Eden, Assistant Curator, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Lisa Kiss, Principal, Lisa Kiss Design
Barbara Fischer, Director/Curator, Blackwood Gallery
Greg Staats, Artist
Jennifer Rudder, Executive Director, Gallery Stratford
Petra Chevrier, Executive Director, Images Festival
Kerri Embrey, Managing Editor, YYZ Books
Maia-Mari Sutnik, Associate Curator of Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario
Syvalya Elchen, Copyright Administrator, Art Gallery of Ontario
Jay Mandarino, President and Founder, CJ Graphics Inc.
Jeremy Martin, Print Consultant, CJ Graphics Inc.

Friday, May 28, 2004
The Atrium, Oakville Town Hall
1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville

Sound / Resound: Visual, Media and Craft Artists Speak To Public Art Galleries
OAAG Spring Focus Session

Description:
Artists tell you what they need, want, and expect from Ontario's public art galleries. Professional visual, media and craft artists who have made their careers in Ontario were invited to the stage in free-flowing extended conversations or "soundings" to speak about their career experiences and to tell our plenary audience exactly what they need, want and expect from Ontario's public art galleries. What gallery activities meet artists' contemporary needs? How and what could and should public art galleries be doing to better address the needs of professional visual artists through the course of their careers?

Leaders / Presenters:
Mary Anne Barkhouse
Lyn Carter
Sarindar Dhaliwal
Mary Green
Susan Warner Keene
Tim Whiten
John Greyson
Marnie Fleming, Curator of Contemporary Art, Oakville Galleries

2003 / 2004

March 22, 2004
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto

Hyperlink: Creating and Developing Websites for Visual Arts Organizations
Coordinated by Bridget Indelicato for OAAG
Registration Fees: $115 OAAG members, $150 general

Description:
Hyperlink is a one-day interactive workshop that will inspire arts organizations to maximize the content and presentation of their websites. The workshop is intended for novice and experienced staff responsible for their gallery websites and is ideal for both organizations seeking to revamp their current sites and those starting from scath. Participants can expect to learn the key elements of successful sites in the visual arts arts sector and have a chance to get their current sites critiques by professionals.

Presenters:
Simon Abel, Principle, lab403, web designer and developer
Patrick Côté, Freelance web and print designer
John Dalrymple, Development Manager at the Textile Museum of Canada
Bill Kirby, Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (www.ccca.ca)
Michelle Teran, multi-disciplinary artist and designer

Agenda
9:00 - 9:30 Registration and coffee
9:30 - 12:45 Show and Tell: Web designers and developers discuss their successful visual arts organizations websites
1:30 - 2:30 Inspiring and Demystifying: Professionals share favourite websites and show you how to approach yours
2:45 - 4:45 Deconstructing your website: Critique session of arts organization websites

February 2 & 3, 2004
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound

Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Cultural Institutions
A Canadian Conservation Institute workshop hosted by OAAG

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Toronto

Crafting Your Career as a Curatorial Writer
Blue Soup Series

Leaders / Presenters:
Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Program Director, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
Catherine Osborne

Monday, December 8, 2003
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto

Self Promotion and Publicity
Blue Soup Series

Leaders / Presenters:
Tina Marano, Publicist, Canadian Film Centre
Jessica Goldman

Friday, November 21, 2003
Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Breaking Out: The Changing Educational Role of the Art Museum

Leaders / Presenters:
Key Note Speaker
Sarah Schultz, Director, Education and Community Programs, Walker Arts Centre
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Monday, November 3, 2003
Gallery 1313, Toronto

Setting Your Career Path or Inventing Your Business Practice in Visual Arts Administration
Blue Soup Series

Leaders / Presenters:
Kim Fullerton, AKIMBO Art Promotions and Consulting
Zoe Klein, Accountant, Zoe Klein and Company

October 1, 2003
Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock

Public Art Galleries and Their Municipalities
OAAG Peer-to-Peer Member Roundtable
Gallery Reports and Discussion 10:30 - 12:30
Ontario Municipal Act Information Session 1:30 - 2:30
Gallery Reports and Discussion 2:45 - 4:30

Description:
This roundtable session will bring together a diverse group of gallery (and municipal) professionals from around the province to discuss their experiences with their municipalities. Pertinent questions will be raised during the keynote presentation, to be followed up by the panel of 3 speakers and a discussion by all participants.

Program content audio-taped; kits produced.

Leaders / Presenters:
Peter-John Sidebottom, Ministry of Municipal Affaires and Housing

September 2003
Gibraltar Point, Toronto

Annual Board Retreat

Description:
The new Board (elected June 17, 2003) and Staff will meet for a one-day session to assess progress on objectives set out February 10, 2003* and to establish goals and objectives for 2004-2005.

On February 10, 2003, at our first Board/Staff Retreat since 1999, five short-term objectives were established with a view to the organization's stabilization: re-tooling OAAG's Committee structure; actively expanding membership; revitalizing OAAG's publications program; serving member needs; and developing the Web site.

Participants:
2003-2004 Board of Directors
OAAG Secretariat Staff

June 17, 2003, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Making Contact: Curatorial Strategies / New Collaborations
OAAG Spring Focus Session

Description:
Ten visual art curators and programmers from public art galleries, independent galleries and artist collectives were invited to consider and discuss the following questions in succinct ten-minute presentations: How do you make contact with artists? Stay in touch? Where do you get new information about artists? How do you see your role with your gallery or organization in connection with your art community? How do you define and manage your role?

Program content audio-taped; kit produced.

Leaders / Presenters:
Jan Allen, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Renée Baert, Ottawa Art Gallery
Alissa Firth-Eagland, Vtape, Toronto
Richard Hill, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Kineko Ivic, Greener Pastures, Toronto
Allan McKay, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Jenifer Papararo, Mercer Union and Instant Coffee, Toronto
Zack Pospieszynski, Peak Gallery, Toronto
Ben Portis, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Sarah Quinton, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

May 26, 2003
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

Bench Press: Building Media Relations and Effective Publicity Outreach for Visual Arts Organizations
Workshop and Plenary Session

Description:
Two professional development sessions for visual arts organizations were presented on one day. This workshop and plenary session provided strategies for building media relations and creating effective publicity outreach for organizations. These sessions were designed for small to mid-sized organizations without publicity departments.
Workshop Sixteen registrants discussed three diverse and challenging case models for institutional publicity with publicist Kim Fullerton.
Keynote Talk Gary Michael Dault spoke about how he as an arts writer takes on and researches his weekly column reviews.

Panels and Discussion
• Developing intelligent and creative story angles
• Targeting pitches to local and national press
• Building media contact lists
• Follow-up techniques
• Using email and the Web to disseminate information

Leaders / Presenters:
Topic Coordinator - Bridget Indelicato for OAAG
Workshop Presenter - Kim Fullerton, Akimbo Art Promotions

Keynote Speaker and Presenters
Gary Michael Dault, writer, Globe and Mail
David Giddens, senior producer, Media TV
Tina Marano, publicist
Catherine Osborne, Lola
Dara Rowland, publicist

April 7 & 8, 2003
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
City of Toronto Archives
Ontario Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre
Multicultural History Society of Ontario

Curatorial Perspectives on Historical Research and Writing
Study Tour (Offered in partnership with the Ontario Museums Association)

Description:
This two-day session, designed as a study tour focused on researching historical collections and writing for publication, and paralleled the investigation of this focus for contemporary curators at OAAG's 2001 Fall Focus Session, Current Curatorial Research and Writing in the Art Gallery Context. The OMA took the lead on this topic. OAAG provided administrative and implementation support.

The Study Tour offered curators and cultural journalists opportunities at several Toronto museums to investigate and share the value and challenges of original historical research in the museum and art gallery. Each day started with a plenary session: Day One, a panel discussion on Writing for Publication (museum/gallery catalogues, journals) and, Day Two, Sources for Curatorial Research (where to go, how to manage materials including archives, web, oral history).

The Study Tour used site visits including tours of Toronto collections to explore the value and challenges of original historical research. Each afternoon participants participated in two of four sessions taking place at museums, galleries and archives in Toronto on the following topics:

• Researching Decorative Arts or Researching Canadian Historical Art
• Researching First Nations Materials or Researching Ceramics
• Researching Historic Textiles or Researching Historical Photographs
• Researching Tools & Agricultural Equipment or Researching “Unheard Voices”

Project Funding - Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage
The OMA was the recording organization for registration revenue for this topic.
Program content audio-taped; kit produced.

Leaders/ Presenters:
Study Tour Coordinator - Cathy Blackbourn, Professional Development Project Manager, Ontario Museums Association

Presenters
Susan Burke, Manager / Curator, Joseph Schneider Haus Museum
Tobi Bruce, curator, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Rosemary Donegan, Independent, Toronto
Susan Hoffman, Waterloo County Historical Society
Karen McKenzie, Librarian, Art Gallery of Ontario
Lillian Petroff, Multicultural History Society of Ontario
Lisa Singer, Archives of Ontario

2002 / 2003

October 28, 2002
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton

Public Art Gallery Collections in Ontario
OAAG Fall Focus Session

Description:
This focus session will bring together senior directors, curators, and those charged with the development and maintenance of the provinces public art collections in order to discuss the role of collections in the public art gallery and the current state of those collections.
$100/130

Leaders / Presenters:
Jessica Bradley, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
Louise Dompierre, Director, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Shelley Falconer, Creative Director, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Dennis Geden, Director/Curator, WKP Kennedy Gallery
Bill Kirby, Executive Director, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art
Robin Metcalfe, Contemporary Curator, Museum London
Francine Périnet, Director, Oakville Galleries
Linda Street, Senior Advisor, Special Projects, Canadian Conservation Institute
Liz Wylie, Curator, University of Toronto Art Centre

Participants:
39 participants from a wide range of positions in 23 public art galleries and museums

October 4, 2002
Oakville Galleries, Oakville

Adventures in Moving Art Across Borders
Cultural Management Series

Description:
This one-day workshop brought together experts in the field of the international movement of visual art to examine the complex issues concerning import and export in relation to the public art gallery. Recent case studies were presented and discussed.
$100/130

Leaders / Presenters:
Marcie Lawrence, Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Gordon Butler, PACART, Toronto
Keith Wickens, Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program, Ottawa
Vladimir Omazic, Canada Customs, Exhibitions and Client Services Unit, Ottawa
Judy Steiner, Canada Customs, Exhibitions and Client Services Unit, Ottawa
Ian McMartin, Broker, Federated Customer Broker

Participants:
24 curators, directors, registrars, exhibition coordinators, technical art handlers representing 19 art galleries and visual art institutions

June 17, 2002
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto

OAAG Awards 2002

Description:
The annual OAAG Awards remains the sole juried awards program to recognize the unique and significant contributions of Ontario visual art galleries. A special OAAG Award of Merit was also presented to Glen Cumming in recognition of his long career in Ontario public galleries.
Sponsored through a unique three-year partnership with Manaca Inc. and Inco Limited.

Master of Ceremonies:
Liz Wylie, Curator, University of Toronto Art Centre

June 17, 2002
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

The Public Art Gallery in Ontario: Assessing the 90s, Moving Forward
OAAG Spring Focus Session

Description:
This workshop brought speakers together around the definition of the public art gallery as a "non-profit public institution that collects, preserves, and/or interprets, exhibits, and researches to advance the cause of visual arts" to discuss the status of the art gallery project in 2002.

Leaders / Presenters:
John Brotman, Executive Director, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
Gary Hall, President, Artist Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario
Kelly Hill, Research Manager, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
Robert Houle, Artist, Toronto
Francine Périnet, Director, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Terry Smith, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Culture, Toronto
Robert Windrum, Director, Gallery Stratford, Stratford

Participants:
47 curators, directors, administrators, artists, and board members from 32 art galleries and visual art organizations in Ontario

March 18, 2002, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie

Facilities Development: Successful Project Management
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT SERIES

Description:
This session centred around planning a capital project or upgrade of facilities. The content ranged from the importance of designating a suitable project manager to building design issues which impact on eligibility for federal programs, such as MAP, and stressed the need for solid planning and realistic strategies. Four case studies from recent major gallery capital projects in Windsor, Kingston, Barrie, and Burlington were presented by key personnel and offered insight into a range of decisions that need to be made throughout a complex project. Registrants were encouraged to look at an on-line component on project management offered by Cultural Management Institute, University of Waterloo.
Matching funds provided by MAP $100/120

Leaders / Presenters:
Siegfried Rempel, Canadian Conservation Institute
Dave Barr
Ian Ross, Director, Burlington Art Centre
David McTavish, former Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Lois Smedick, former President, Board of Directors, Art Gallery of Windsor
Tom McBride, President, Board of Directors, MacLaren Art Centre

Participants:
23 directors, curators, administrators from museum and gallery community

February 25, 2002, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener

The Copyright Act and the Art Gallery
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT SERIES

Description:
This very important session provided an update on recent and proposed changes to the Copyright Act as it pertains to the gallery and museum community, particularly with respect to the exhibition right and the use of digital images. Presentions focused on the difficulties in interpreting the legislation and in finding the funds to meet the recommendations put forward by CARFAC. There was consensus around the need for the art gallery community to become more involved in changes to copyright and work with other groups to reach fair and achievable fees.
Matching funds provided by MAP $100/120

Leaders / Presenters:
Loris Mirella, Copyright Policy Branch, Department Canadian Heritage
Audrey Churgin, CARFAC National
Yeti Agnew, Agnew Gladstone
Paul Hoffert, OnDisC Alliance
Richard Darroch, CMA
Martha King, Chief Copyright, National Gallery of Canada

Participants:
33 registrars, curators from museums and galleries

February 18 & 19, 2002, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa

Packing and Transport of Works of Art
CCI WORKSHOP

Description:
This workshop provided information about important issues and considerations when moving works of art, including techniques to manage and solve packaging and transporation problems. Participants also used CCI's PadCAD cushion design software, which aids in three-dimensional packing solutions, and were able to assess the impact of drops on variously packaged materials. Presented by the Canadian Conservation Institute. $150/180

Leaders / Presenters:
Paul Marcon, Helen McKay, Canadian Conservation Institute

Participants:
Registration limited to 20: 19 technicians, preparators, shipping coordinators

2001 / 2002

November 19, 2001, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

Curatorial Research and Writing in the Art Gallery Context
2001 OAAG Fall Focus Session

Description:
The fall conference brought together two panels of senior curators and directors charged with the fundamental roles of curatorial research and writing in the public art gallery. Through personal accounts from the panelists, the multi-faceted role of the curator as collector, presenter, writer, and collections maintainer was discussed. Each of the participants described their experience with the negotiation of artist's vision, curatorial voice, and requirements of the institution, with the practical limitations of assembling an exhibition. They also described their ascension through the gallery structure, noting the development of new curatorial training programs, and their observations on the major trends in contemporary curatorship. Matching funds provided by MAP. $75/95 ($20 lunch)

Leaders / Presenters:
Joyce Mason, moderator
Jessica Bradley, Curator, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
Shirley Madill, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Philip Monk, Curator, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre
Helga Pakasaar, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor

Participants:
56 curators and directors from across the province

June 4, 2001, 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto

The Visual Arts On-Line: Getting Plugged In
2001 OAAG SPRING CONFERENCE

Description:
On-line and new media programming offer the opportunity to enhance and augment the art gallery experience. The OAAG Spring 2001 Focus Session surveyed national and international art organizations and new media curatorial projects involving characteristics specific to the Internet: interactivity, chance, discovery and anonymity. $70/80 (including lunch)

Leaders / Presenters:
Marianne Heiggtveit, Visual Arts Officer, Canada Council for the Arts
Susan Crean, writer/critic
Nina Czegledy, international artist/curator and Chair, Internal Society for Electronic Arts
Adrian Göllner, artist/administrator
Shelley Falconer, Senior Manager, Special Projects, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Vincent J. Varga, Executive Director and CEO, McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Participants:
43 registrants attended presentations and panel