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Learn & Participate

NEW! The RMG Online Studio

This winter stay in, get cozy, and make some art! We are now offering virtual classes where our instructors join you LIVE from the RMG Studio. We provide the same instruction and encouraging feedback as our in-person art classes. Our small classes are hosted through the Zoom platform, you will be emailed a Zoom meeting link & passcode when you register.

What to Expect From our Learning Programs

21st Century Learning practices are holistic throughout the RMG, where celebrating different voices, contributing to well-being, and co-creating are at the heart of what we do. Our programming is designed to activate new perspectives, ideas, and connections by being open, taking risks, and peaking curiosity. We are committed to exploring the interdisciplinary role of art, sharing stories and meaningful contemporary ideas within our artworks. The RMG community is an inclusive, warm, and friendly home of animated spaces that support creative learning in unexpected ways.

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The RMG has art classes and camps designed for your budding artist! Our programs are designed for tots ages 2 to 4 and kids ages 5 to 12. Registration and payment are available online. Pre-payment and advance registration are required for all art classes. Please be sure to register at least 48 hours in advance. Refund subject to $15.00 administration fee. No refund after art class begins.
Friday Frames

Friday Frames

The RMG recognizes the challenges teachers, students and families face during these unprecedented times. We want to help and support online learners! With discussion, encouragement and collaboration let’s explore artworks that takes us on a journey, making connections to our own daily life and the world around us. Through an immersive and interactive storytelling experience,…

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Art at Home-School

Art at Home-School

Mondays, January 25 - March 29, 2021 (8 sessions) No class Feb 15 and Mar 15 | 10:15AM - 11:30AM $65 Members | $75 Non-Members Join these dynamic, meaningful, and engaging live art lessons that are taught in a relaxing and joyful way to you, at home. We create an environment that ensures children feel…

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Spring Art Challenge Kit!

Spring Art Challenge Kit!

Art Challenge Kits: *$50 Members| $60 Non-Members Looking for a fun way for the kids to spend the Spring Break? Do your kids like a challenge? Let’s play! We will provide some games, materials and instructions for some art making and a final art challenge. You provide the creativity and innovation to create amazing artworks…

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The RMG has art classes and camps designed for your budding artist! Our programs are designed for youth ages 11-14. Registration and payment are available online. Pre-payment and advance registration are required for all art classes. Please be sure to register at least 48 hours in advance. Refund subject to $15.00 administration fee. No refund after art class begins.
Friday Frames

Friday Frames

The RMG recognizes the challenges teachers, students and families face during these unprecedented times. We want to help and support online learners! With discussion, encouragement and collaboration let’s explore artworks that takes us on a journey, making connections to our own daily life and the world around us. Through an immersive and interactive storytelling experience,…

Friday FramesView More
Art at Home-School

Art at Home-School

Mondays, January 25 - March 29, 2021 (8 sessions) No class Feb 15 and Mar 15 | 10:15AM - 11:30AM $65 Members | $75 Non-Members Join these dynamic, meaningful, and engaging live art lessons that are taught in a relaxing and joyful way to you, at home. We create an environment that ensures children feel…

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We look forward to experiencing art with you! We are currently offering online art classes for adults. Registration and payment are available online. Pre-payment and advance registration are required for all art classes. Please be sure to register at least 48 hours in advance. Refund subject to $15.00 administration fee. No refund after art class begins.

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Do you want your kids to dive into creativity? We have got you covered! Our fun-filled, fine art camps are packed with inspired projects, interactive gallery activities, active outdoor play, and our RMG kids make memorable friendships! Here’s the best part: we take care of the mess and our camp leaders are awesome!
Spring Art Challenge Kit!

Spring Art Challenge Kit!

Art Challenge Kits: *$50 Members| $60 Non-Members Looking for a fun way for the kids to spend the Spring Break? Do your kids like a challenge? Let’s play! We will provide some games, materials and instructions for some art making and a final art challenge. You provide the creativity and innovation to create amazing artworks…

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The RMG is a place for families to experience art while they learn and play together. Join us for Virtual OPG Second Sundays for FREE family art activities each month. Virtual OPG Sundays activities can be found here as part of Virtual RMG!
Virtual OPG Sundays

Virtual OPG Sundays

Since the RMG is not able to safely host our popular monthly OPG Sunday events, we continue to offer virtual, family-oriented activities released during our regular OPG Sunday schedule. The RMG encourages families to take some time and enjoy the creative process through collaboration and cooperation. Upcoming! January 10: Painters 11 and Positive Spaces Let’s…

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Friday Frames

Friday Frames

The RMG recognizes the challenges teachers, students and families face during these unprecedented times. We want to help and support online learners! With discussion, encouragement and collaboration let’s explore artworks that takes us on a journey, making connections to our own daily life and the world around us. Through an immersive and interactive storytelling experience,…

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Virtual School Programming

2021-2020

Watch our promo video to get a taste of what we have to offer!

What to Expect

Students develop opinions and share their personal responses through a selection of artworks and themes. Our students are always doing, talking, moving and making.

Our Workshops:

  • Are truly cross-curricular using our 21st Century Learning approach.
  • Are differentiated in content for your grade.
  • Are dynamic, interactive, connected and loved!

Our programming is developed around our philosophy:

The arts teach...
  • That problems can have more than one solution.
  • There are many ways to see and interpret the world.
  • Complex forms of problem solving; situations are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
  • That the limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
  • Depth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines.

21st Century Learning model through the arts:

The 4Cs
  • Creativity
  • Collaboration
  • Critical Thinking
  • Communication
  • Our 5th C is Curiosity!

Booking Info

Choose from fun and dynamic sessions full of BIG IDEAS! We offer TWO delivery options:


RMG LIVE STUDIO SESSION: Watch the associated video and schedule a one hour corresponding studio workshop to your class live online. Studio art-making materials can be picked up or delivered to your school. Non-consumables must be returned to the Gallery. 1hr. $165 per class
RMG STUDIO LESSON PLAN: Watch the associated video and receive a PDF studio lesson plan that corresponds to the video content, FREE (materials and live instruction not provided).
Let us know which you prefer and we will arrange the program, studio times are flexible to suit your timetable. Just ask!

To book: Email: [email protected]

Learning & Engagement team: 905 576 3000 EXT 114

Friday Frames

Friday Frames

The RMG recognizes the challenges teachers, students and families face during these unprecedented times. We want to help and support online learners! With discussion, encouragement and collaboration let’s explore artworks that takes us on a journey, making connections to our own daily life and the world around us. Through an immersive and interactive storytelling experience,…

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Spirit of the Lake

This workshop discusses the important issues of cottage country and colonization. Using the dynamic work of Will Kwan, we debate ethics of the planting and production of manoomin. Responsibility, balance, and relationships, generates critical conversations about land, histories, and reciprocity. The studio project will use mixed media and painting techniques to create a finished landscape…

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Understanding global supply has never been more relevant, students learn how products are produced and traded on a global scale. They discover the history of the movement of items and people from different locations around the world. This workshop offers a wide range of perspectives about the world’s interconnected systems. The studio project uses an…

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The Art of Our Relationships

Art is a connector between us, artists often use the theme of relationships as a subject of their work. What can art teach us about the questions we should ask ourselves to enhance our emotional intelligence & self-development? The studio project uses mixed-media on watercolour to explore our different emotions and reinforce self-reflection.

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Learn more at the RMG! The RMG is pleased to offer special workshops and programs for community groups in the Durham Region lead by industry professionals.

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Virtual OPG Sundays

New art activities you can do with your family from home!

Since the RMG is not able to host our monthly OPG Sunday event, we have decided to offer virtual, family-orientated activities released during our regular OPG Sunday schedule. The RMG will be posting family-oriented activities that will encourage collaboration and cooperation. The activities are inspired by both our on-site and virtual exhibitions.

Virtual OPG SundaysMake Some Art!

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What is a Student Nurse?

Student nurses are to be found everywhere, underneath, on top of, running around, jumping over or slithering past patients’ beds. Doctors overlook them, mothers worry about them and patients love them.

A student nurse is courage under a cap, a smile in snowy white, strength in starched skirts, energy that is endless, the best of young womanhood, a modern Florence Nightingale. Just when she is gaining poise and prestige, she drops a glass, breaks a syringe or steps on a doctor’s foot.

A student nurse is a composite. She eats like a team of hungry interns and works like the whole nursing staff put together. She has the speed of a gazelle, the strength of an ox, the quickness of a cat and the endurance of a flagpole sitter. To the head nurse she has the stability of mush, the fleetness of a snail, the mentality of a mule and is held together by starch, adhesive tape and strained nerves. To an alumnus, she will never work as hard, carry more trays, make more beds or scrub on more cases than her predecessors.

A student nurse likes days off, boys her own age, the O.R., affiliations, certain doctors, pretty clothes, her roommate and Mom and Dad. She is not much on working 3-11, days off with classes, alarm clocks, getting up for roll call or eating corned beef every Tuesday.

A student nurse is a wonderful creature. You can criticize her but you can’t make her quit. Might as well admit it, whether you are a head nurse, doctor, alumnus or patient, she is your personal representatives of the hospital, your living symbol of faith and sympathetic care.

Author Unknown, 1963 Year Book