Upcoming Programs & Events

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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

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Past Programs & Events

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