Public Tours

Organisée par Emily Laurent Henderson, conservatrice adjointe des arts et de la culture autochtones à McMichael, cette visite explore l’exposition unique en son genre de plus de 200 œuvres qui mettent en évidence les continuités culturelles de la vie à Kinngait face aux changements sociétaux spectaculaires survenus au cours de plus de cinq décennies. Cette exposition révèle des corpus d’œuvres négligés de certains des artistes les plus appréciés du pays, notamment Kenojuak Ashevak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Kananginak Pootoogook et Pudlo Pudlat, et présente au public des artistes jusqu’ici inconnus dont les œuvres ont été supprimées en raison des objectifs du programme d’impression qui donnait la priorité aux goûts des marchés des colons dans le Sud.

Cette visite guidée conduit les visiteurs à travers le panthéon de l’art canadien dans l’exposition Conversations, qui présente diverses œuvres soigneusement sélectionnées dans la vaste collection permanente du Musée. Conçue pour donner une idée de l’ampleur actuelle de la collection, l’exposition prend un plaisir particulier à placer des œuvres apparemment disparates en conversation créative les unes avec les autres. Conversations explorera des œuvres du Groupe des Sept, d’Emily Carr, de David Milne, de Kanaginak Pootoogook, de Rebecca Belmore, d’Edward Burtynsky, de Gershon Iskowitz et de bien d’autres encore.

Join a McMichael Docent for a guided tour showcasing highlights from both our permanent collection and special exhibitions. This tour offers a broad exploration of the Art of Canada, featuring iconic works by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, modern Inuit and Indigenous art, and contemporary movements. Gain insight into the stories, styles, and significance of these remarkable artworks while discovering the breadth of the McMichael collection.

This solo exhibition highlights a recent body of work by the leading Toronto-based conceptual artist Derek Sullivan. The works on display were inspired by Sullivan’s twelve-month site-study of Shift, a landart work by the American sculptor Richard Serra long-hidden in a field in King, Ontario.

Explore the powerful work of the late Canadian artist John Scott on an engaging tour led by a McMichael Docent. Through his raw and urgent graphic style, Scott’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures confront the pressing challenges and existential threats facing humanity today.

Curated by Emily Laurent Henderson, Associate Curator, Indigenous Arts and Culture at McMichael, this tour explores the once-in-a-generation exhibition of more than 200 works that foreground the cultural continuities of life in Kinngait in the face of dramatic societal change over more than five decades. This exhibition reveals overlooked bodies of work by some of the country’s most beloved artists including Kenojuak Ashevak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Kananginak Pootoogook, and Pudlo Pudlat and introduces audiences to hitherto unknown artists whose work was suppressed by the aims of the print program that prioritized the tastes of settler markets in the South.

This docent-led tour leads visitors through the Canadian art pantheon in Conversations exhibition, which features diverse works carefully curated from the Gallery’s extensive permanent collection. Designed to convey something of the collection’s current breadth and taking particular pleasure in placing apparently disparate works in creative conversation with one another. Conversations will explore works from The Group of Seven, Emily Carr, David Milne, Kanaginak Pootoogook, Rebecca Belmore, Edward Burtynsky, Gershon Iskowitz, and many others.