Fall 2022

Sep 21

School Bookings are available October 3 to December 16, 2022

Exhibition on view: Alicia Henry: Witnessing

Alicia Henry’s mixed media installations evoke narratives of community, humanity, and connectedness. Henry combines wood, paper, acrylic, canvas, thread, dye, cardboard, leather, and cotton in figurative works that explore ideas of collective identity. Fascinated by the human form, Henry’s figures allow us to address and redefine our understanding of the body—our own and those of our neighbours, family, and community—and consider how bodies hold and communicate memories and history.

Henry encourages an open reading of her work, inviting viewers to make their own connections and infer meaning. With guidance and encouragement from our education team, students will develop their capacity to express their ideas, reactions, and interpretations of the artwork with their peers.

Our interactive tours and studio workshops are adapted for each group to allow for age-appropriate engagement with students of all grades. In addition to the visual arts curriculum connections we have identified below, you can expect your students to leave with a basic understanding of what it means to be a part of a community, ways to talk about the body, and how to describe and discuss what they see in the Gallery. If you have specific outcomes in mind, please reach out to discuss how we can create something to suit.

This season’s school programs connect to Arts Education Big Ideas across grades K through 8, exploring how art can be a way to connect with and understand our community and our role within it.

If you have specific curricular connections that you would like us to address, please reach out to discuss how we can create something to suit.