Art Education & Resources for Your Time at Home
Submitted by Colborne Street Gallery
In addition to our art and artists posts on social media, we have recently added a collection of free online art education ideas, resources, lessons, and just plain ol' fun stuff for you and the kiddos while we all spend more time at home.
Keep checking back each week as we will be constantly updating. Much love art buddies!
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
You can access the Art Gallery of Ontario's (AGO) collection online. The AGO’s collection has close to 95,000 works ranging from cutting-edge contemporary art, European masterpieces, a vast collection of the Group of Seven, as well as established and emerging Indigenous Canadian artists, a photography collection that tracks the impact of the medium, and focused collections in Gothic boxwood miniatures and Western and Central African art.
Access the collection here: https://ago.ca/collection
Dorset Fine Arts, Visual Guide to Cape Dorset Graphic Artists
Dorset Fine Arts was established in Toronto in 1978 as the wholesale marketing division of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. The Co-operative is in Cape Dorset, Nunavut and is unique among the Arctic Co-operatives for its focus on the arts and artists of the community. The Annual Graphics Collection has been released since 1959 and the Co-op also represents many acclaimed sculptors and drawing artists.
In this post, we will be featuring the Visual Guide to Cape Dorset Graphic Artists. Until recently, drawings were used almost exclusively as the creative foundation for printmaking. The annual print collections are the public face of Kinngait Studios. The source of the images are a vast collection of original drawings, known collectively as the archives. In the early years, people still living in camps around Cape Dorset were given paper and pencils and asked to draw; almost everyone in the area turned up at the small craft shop with their first attempts. Some gave up eventually but many stuck with it, maturing as visual artists as the years passed. The archive is now a treasure trove of over 100,000 drawings by over 200 artists. In 1992, the collection was loaned to the McMichael to be housed, documented and cared for.
In the last decade, Kinngit Studios has launched a revitalized drawing program, introducing new media and larger paper. Artists have flourished with exciting and challenging work emerging from Cape Dorset in the past several years. Select galleries have focused almost exclusively on these contemporary drawings, opening the door for Inuit artists to join southern artists in creative collaboration and artistic exchange.
Browse beautiful drawings and learn about the artists by visiting their website at http://www.dorsetfinearts.com/drawing-guide
Art Canada Institute (ACI) Teacher Resource GuidesThe Art Canada Institute has free Teacher Resource Guides and they are amazing! Topics include: Colour, Language & Storytelling through the art of Yves Gaucher, Fundamental Principles in Computer Science through the art of Michael Snow, Astronomy through the art of Paterson Ewen, Multiculturalism through the art of William Kurelek, and so much more.
Access everything here: https://education.aci-iac.ca/en/teachers/resources
Art21
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit, Art21 works to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. For over two decades, Art21 has changed the paradigm for teaching and learning about the creative process. We love these artist videos and watch them all the time!
Access everything here: art21.org
Dozens of free colouring pages from Canadian artists!You're never too old for some colouring! Download the drawings and let your imagination take over for a while: cbc.ca/arts
David Hockney shares exclusive art from Normandy, as 'a respite from the news'For your viewing pleasure! David Hockney is in lockdown at his house in Normandy with his dog Ruby and two of his long-standing assistants, JP and Jonathan. He is in the garden most days, drawing the spring awakening on his iPad. In a BBC exclusive, he is sharing 10 of his most recent images (including one animation), nine of which have never been published before, for us all to enjoy at this difficult time, along with his thoughts on the role of art in life: bbc.com.
Stay tuned for more. We’ll be updating often.
