IN THE GALLERY // FOR ALL GRADES

Our interactive tours are adapted for each group to allow for age-appropriate engagement with students of all grades. In all cases, we employ a student-centered approach that encourages your students to find their voice and share with us what they see, feel, and wonder about the artwork on display.

Each tour is approximately 45 minutes in duration, depending on the engagement of the class, and includes in-gallery drawing activities and discussion.

In order to allow time for deep and meaningful engagement, we select only a few individual artworks to discuss in each tour. Please let us know if you would prefer a full guided tour.

Through immersive video and sound installations, Glacial Resonance shares Paul Walde’s concerns about the environmental crisis. With glaciers as the primary focus, Walde’s work explores how land use and human activity impact Earth’s ecosystems and what these effects mean for us all. On our tour, we will engage deeply with two artworks, Glacial and Requiem for a Glacier.

Glacial is a durational work featuring a detailed video portrait of a glacial environment with the sounds of a glacier melting. Together the video and immersive sounds offer a meditative reminder of the effects of climate change and the importance of preserving glaciers to sustain forest ecosystems and sources of water and for animals and humans.

Requiem for a Glacier is a multichannel sound and video installation that emerged from a site-specific performance featuring a 55-piece choir and orchestra performed live on the Farnham Glacier, in the Qat’muk area of the Purcell Mountains in southeastern BC.

Photo: Frank Luca.