Underground: The Curatorial Experience
Spring 2012
Secondary students in grades 10-12 have the opportunity to gain visual arts work experience. Participants assist our exhibit coordinator, Bob MacIntyre, with selecting artwork, framing, and hanging parts of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s exhibits. Over 3-4 days they will go behind the scenes to understand how galleries connect with artists both at the BAG and a variety of Vancouver art centres.
Artist Apprenticeship Project
February – May 2012
Burnaby Art Gallery offers senior secondary students 30 hours of work experience in this program. The group takes the perspective of a professional artist creating a commission. They learn from local artist Jay Johnson to create the artwork for, develop, and promote their own installation exhibition. Students are involved in gallery aspects related to exhibiting their artwork including curatorial, preparation, presentation, and marketing. Project completion coincides with Youth Week.
“It’s a really cool experience; completely different from anything I’ve ever done.” Past participant
Port City Connect II links three classrooms in port cities across the continent. Burnaby Art Gallery is collaborating with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Shambhala School in Halifax, NS, Burnaby Central Secondary in Burnaby, BC, and Columbia Preparatory School in New York, NY, USA.
Through an exchange of small scale artwork mailings, students explore ideas about their cities as working ports, and how their lives are affected directly and indirectly by their port community. Please click here to view the 2009 virtual exhibition. The movie takes a moment to load, please be patient.