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Inspired by the themes and organic elements found in current exhibition focused on the work of Métis artists from across Canada, Li Salay (Michif for “the sun”), use materials like wire, wood, and plaster bandages to create a small abstract sculpture.

Expand your gesture drawing to the next level, by investigating tonal and contour drawing. Learn how gesture can be a foundation for drawings with greater substance and detail. Tips and tricks to ‘see’ and draw correct proportions will help you build your drawing skills.  

The delight is in the details! Consider Hubert Hohn’s Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes as a story of local domestic architecture and how we often miss the details of things we see everyday. Turn Hohn’s photographs into multilayered reductive block prints of your own design, in order to tell a familiar story about your home.

Try Yoga in the Gallery Mondays at lunch this spring.

Join us, and 100 of your new friends, at your AGA for a special night designed by teens for teens. SWARM is the perfect opportunity to see what’s happening at the AGA, make friends with similar interests and be creative.

Bring in your favourite picture of yourself, a friend or family member.  Make a finger painting of the photo, then share a story about your new art work.

Time to celebrate the start of summer! After spending some time outside doing some sketches “en plein air”, come back to the studio to recreate your findings using plasticine as your paint! Squish, smoosh, and massage your way into a unique and summery artwork.

Looking at both historical paintings and contemporary art, learn how to construct your own landscapes using multi-media: collage and oil pastel. Visits to William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada will give you an opportunity see how a master artist edits, dissects, and re-constructs shape into recognizable images.

Get inspired just like the professional artists do! Come visit William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada in order to see the work of the contemporary Canadian artists who influenced Townsend’s more abstract work. Create your own exploration of modernist methods & techniques on a large surface with lots of bold colours and paint.

Discover and try new brush techniques. Tour images of Canadian landscape in William Townsend: Painting in Canada, and make an art work that explores dry brush and stippling.