From Water to Water: A Way Through the Trees
Anishinaabe/Ojibwa artist Bonnie Devine has been engaged to create a site-specific mural installation and mentorship project this fall at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
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William Kurelek: Jewish Life in Canada
William Kurelek's suite of paintings title Jewish Life in Canada was made to honour his friendship with the Toronto art dealer Avrom Isaacs.
Conversations Masterworks from the Collection
This selection of works from our permanent collection aims to convey something of its current breadth, taking particular pleasure in placing apparently disparate works in creative conversation with one another. Featuring works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Rebecca Belmore, Edward Burtynsky, Franklin Carmichael, Emily Carr, Kim Dorland, Sorel Etrog, Paterson Ewen, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, Gershon Iskowitz, A.Y. Jackson, Cornelius Krieghoff, Jean Paul Lemieux, Arthur Lismer, An Te Liu, Zachari Logan, Helen McNicoll, David Ruben Piqtoukun, David Milne, Michael Snow, Tom Thomson and others.
Rajni Perera: Futures
Rajni Perera is one of Canada’s most promising contemporary multimedia artists. Experimenting with mediums as varied as painting, sculpture and photography, the Toronto-based artist expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects exist in dystopian realms.
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline February 4 - May 28, 2023 About the Exhibition The McMichael and Remai Modern are proud to present a survey exhibition of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch and British ancestry. This exhibition looks back to McMaster’s past accomplishments and [...]
Virtual Curatorial Talk William Kurelek’s Jewish Life in Canada
William Kurelek (1927–1977), Jewish Immigrants Arriving on the Prairies, 1975, mixed media on board, 50.8 × 57.2 cm, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Photo: Michael Cullen, Dunnville, Ontario, © Estate of William Kurelek, courtesy of the Wynick / Tuck Gallery, Toronto Virtual Curatorial Talk William Kurelek's Jewish Life in Canada Wednesday, [...]
Teaching Artist Series with David McEown
TEACHING ARTIST SERIES A Watercolour Journey: from the Great Bear Rainforest to Antarctica with David McEown Program Description Award-winning artist David McEown will share his adventures circumnavigating the polar regions and exploring the wilderness of Canada’s West Coast. This live presentation will be followed by an hour-long live watercolour demonstration and [...]
Free Day at the McMichael
Free Day at the McMichael Join us at the McMichael on Saturday, May 6 and enjoy FREE admission all day in celebration of the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Free Drop-in Tours 11 am – Outdoor Tour of the McMichael 12:30 pm – Upper Level Highlights 2 pm – Lower [...]
The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism
In a time when our human relationship to the natural world is rapidly changing, this exhibition pulls together artists who are registering their experience in ways that intrigue, caution and entrance.
In Person Introductory Studio with Clarence Porter
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNERS’ PASTEL WORKSHOP In-Person Introductory Studio with Clarence Porter Program Description Have you wanted to try working with soft pastels, or tried them and felt they were unforgiving? Then this is the workshop for you! I call this my gentle boot camp for pastel beginners. From pastel surfaces to mark [...]
Curatorial Talk The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism
Curatorial Talk The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism Sunday, May 7 | 2 pm at the McMichael Please join us for a discussion of art’s role in the growing climate crisis, and the ways in which artworks open up a space for collective reckoning. Speakers: Sarah Milroy, Bill [...]
Matinées francophones
Matinées francophones Compris dans le billet d’entrée, inscription suggérée. Capacité : 20 participant.e.s Cette activité d’une durée d’une heure met l’accent sur les dernières expositions du McMichael et est animée par notre éducatrice principale, Maria El-Chaar. Matinée francophone : Meryl McMaster, Bloodline Le 13 mai 2023 à 10 h 30 [...]
New Orleans Night
New Orleans Night at the McMichael Celebrate Mother’s Day New Orleans style with the smooth sounds of the Red Hot Ramble band, which blends traditional jazz, blues and funk. Join us at 5 pm for dinner at CABIN (prix-fixe menu available, not included with admission), followed by a concert [...]
Mother’s Day at the McMichael
Mother's Day at the McMichael We’ve got two ways for you to celebrate with the meaningful people in your life this Mother’s Day Weekend. Grab dinner, enjoy extended hours at the Gallery and stay for a concert on Saturday night with the Red Hot Ramble Band, or gather with family [...]
Virtual Curatorial Talk The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism
Virtual Curatorial Talk The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism Winnie Truong (b. 1988), Self Sown, 2022, coloured pencil and cut paper collage, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, Collection of Belinda Stronach, Photo courtesy of the artist. © Winnie Truong Wednesday, May 17 | 7 pm [...]
Sublime Rage Curatorial Talk
Curatorial Talk Sandra Meigs: Sublime Rage Saturday, May 20 | 11:30 am at the McMichael Join contemporary artist Sandra Meigs, guest curator Jessica Bradley and McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy for a conversation exploring Meigs’ recent series of paintings created during her pandemic retreats in the woods of Algonquin Park. [...]
Sandra Meigs: Sublime Rage
For her exhibition at the McMichael, leading contemporary Canadian artist Sandra Meigs takes inspiration from the wilds of Ontario. Over the course of the various pandemic lockdowns, Meigs retreated from her home in Dundas, Ontario to the woods of Algonquin Park and Lake Calabogie. Compelled by this time in nature, Meigs created a series of vibrant and penetrating gouache studies, works that recall the legacies of such notable women modernists as Emily Carr and Georgia O'Keeffe.
The Uses of Enchantment
The Uses of Enchantment Inspired by the environmental message of the McMichael's new exhibition The Uses of Enchantment, this Sunday’s programming will take a closer look at our fragile natural environment and encourage participants to come up with some creative ideas about how to protect and save Mother Earth. [...]
View from the Pine Cottage 2023
Views from Pine Cottage McMichael Community Exhibition June – November, 2023 About the Exhibition Since 1965, the McMichael has provided outstanding adult art education through high quality, artist-led studio workshops. Today, this tradition continues with in-person art classes and successful virtual studio workshops that have allowed participants to make art and express their creativity [...]
Thinking in Colour: Pastel Workshop with Clarence Porter
Thinking in Colour: Pastel Workshop Two-day In-Person Workshop with Clarence Porter Program Description If you have been looking for ways to expand your facility with pastels, this workshop will take you out of your comfort zone by challenging the way you think about colour and their value relationships – high key, low [...]