Tag: collection
Friday, January 22, 2016
#MuseumSelfieDay at the RMG
Wednesday January 20, 2016 was #MuseumSelfie Day and the RMG's staff and guests got into it by snapping some pretty fabulous and creative photos in the gallery. Carla Sinclair, Manager of Community and Volunteer Development, gets expressive with Rita Letendre. Donna Raetsen-Kemp, CEO, gets up close and personal with Jock Macdonald. Leslie Menagh, Manager of…
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Ray Mead: Living Within
Ray Mead: Living Within came together quickly as a result of a change in the RMG’s programming schedule. Whenever I go through the racks in the vault, Mead’s work begs for my attention so organizing this exhibition was an incredible pleasure. Bringing together over thirty works by Mead that range from the 1940s to 1990…
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Friday, August 7, 2015
Fall On The Move
This fall, we are exploring how artists have conveyed the overlapping themes of memory, migration and movement with two exhibitions: Moving Image and Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance. In Moving Image, Senior Curator Linda Jansma explores how the theme of movement manifests itself in the RMG’s permanent collection. Selected from our collection of over 4,500 works,…
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Monday, July 27, 2015
New Acquisition to The Thomas Bouckley Collection – Oshawa Strike
This post comes to us from the desk of Sonya Jones, Associate Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Ontario holds the Thomas Bouckley Collection. The Collection was donated to the RMG by the late Thomas Bouckley, amateur historian and collector of Oshawa's history. The entire computerized collection…
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Conversation Pieces by Ramune Luminaire and Judith Mason
Since 2011 Ramune Luminaire and Judith A. Mason have been working on a series of collaborative drawings that explore experiences of relationship through mark-making. Through a series of non-verbal exchanges, each artist takes their turn adding to what is on the paper. In time a composite image emerges; a visual dialogue of call and response. …
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Reflections on the Thomas Bouckley Collection
Assistant Curator Megan White reflects on her year at the RMG and shared with us her favourite photos from the Thomas Bouckley Collection. For more photos from the collection, follow vintageoshawa.tumblr.com Town Clerk’s Office, 1912 I love the photographs in the Thomas Bouckley collection that strongly capture a single fleeting moment. Even though this photograph…
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