Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. Inspired by then iconic landscape paintings currently...
Create, share, curate in this interactive mini-gallery space for visitors! Collections tell stories about communities, people, and places. Art museums preserve and care for artworks so generations of people can learn from, engage with, and be inspired by them. Create your own art and add it to the...
Thinking about memory, portraiture, and family, explore painting in the style of Jean Paul Lemieux. Working from a photo of your choosing- with people as a subject, you will create works of art based on a family photo, special memory, or meaningful place. Bring your own printed photo...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. Inspired by then iconic landscape paintings currently...
Inspired by the rugged mountains and towering trees in the Group of Seven paintings, we’ll explore the use of stencils to mix and match our own landscape painting! Playing with underpainting and composition, use shapes to create unique and beautiful painted landscapes on canvas. Join artist Meggie Richards...
Join us for an evening of short films by Kent Monkman, a featured artist in the exhibition Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art. Known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history, Monkman is passionate about art and profoundly aware of how colonialism had...
In partnership with Alliance Francais Halifax, we invite you to join a guided tour of the exhibition Generations: The Sobey Family & Canadian Art in French. Admission is free during BMO Free Access Thursday, however registration through AFH is encouraged. Please visit Visite guidée de l'exposition Generations à l'AGNS for more...
Join artist Tayla Paul for an in-depth printmaking workshop. This linocut printing technique will be used to make holiday cards, using words or imagery that inspire you. Each participant will design and carve their own image, and have a chance to make a set of 4 cards. Great...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a Maud Lewis-inspired painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. On this date you’ll be...
Inspired by the sweeping landscapes and colourful skies in the Group of Seven paintings, we are excited to offer a half-day workshop with fibre artist Nancy Keating creating needle-felted landscapes. You’ll take home a beautiful and unique artwork at the end! No previous experience required, all materials provided....
Try a new technique used by the artist David Milne- playing with ink on wet paper! Visitors will have a chance to discover this wet-on-wet watercolour process and create a work of art to take home with them. Process-based activity, play and explore and discover new and unexpected ways...
Calling all young artists! Join us for a six-week session with artist educator Rosemary Young as we focus on painting! Explore watercolour and acrylic paint, but also fibre and air dry clay too! Workshop Details Saturdays from January 20 - March 2, 2024. Please note: there will not...
