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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce the launch of Landscape Artist of the Year Canada, the Canadian adaptation of the British hit series.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce a historic season of exhibitions that further the gallery’s mandate to protect, preserve and promote the art of Canada.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce the creation of a major interactive resource for the study and sharing of Inuit art from the Cape Dorset Archive.

On May 7, 1920, a group of artists calling themselves the Group of Seven mounted their first formal exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario).

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce a pair of fall exhibitions that offer illuminating perspectives on the Canadian landscape by two artists from Manitoba born more than half a century apart.

Exhibition of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis debuts at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection this summer Maud Lewis (1903 – 1970) Untitled (White Cats with Blue Eyes), c.1965 oil on board 35 x 40.5 cm Private Collection © Art Gallery of Nova Scotia   June 14, 2019, Kleinburg, ON – The McMichael [...]

 Record Attendance at Eigth Annual Moonlight Gala in Support of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection   June 12, 2019, Kleinburg, ON – The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce the success of its signature fundraising event, the Moonlight Gala, which was attended by a record number of guests despite the inclement weather, including Honorary [...]

Planting Seeds of Change June 10, 2019, Kleinburg, ON – On Sunday, June 23, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection’s Creative Learning Team and volunteers will host a community planting of the gallery’s new Indigenous Garden. The planting will commence with a ceremony led by Elder Shelley Charles, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, followed by an [...]

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection presents Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence and Janet Nungnik: Revelations a series of exhibitions exploring the artistic culture of the Arctic Itee Pootoogook (1951 - 2014), Late Evening 2010, coloured chalk on black wove paper, 56.2 × 76.6 cm, Purchased 2011, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa   May 14, [...]

 The McMichael Canadian Art Collection presents Louie Palu: Distant Early Warning in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Jerry cans with fuel and a caribou head with Arctic Char drying on its antlers seen at a base camp for Canadian Rangers Type 1 Patrol North of the Inuit Hamlet of Naujaat, Nunavut. [...]