Talks & Tours

Curatorial Tours: Loose Parts

Feb 16, 2023, 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM

sophia bartholomew, dances around a living tree (detail), 2022, wood, found materials and organic matter, string, C-clamps, and laminated sheets.

Join curator Hannah Keating for a guided tour of the exhibition Loose Parts, which includes work by sophia bartholomew, Akash Inbakumar, and Justin Mezzapelli.

Thursday Curatorial Tours are free and open to everyone. They provide deeper insight into the themes, context, and content of our exhibitions. Seating options are available. For more information about access and our facilities, please visit rmg.on.ca/visit/ or contact Hannah Keating at [email protected] with any specific requests.

No advance registration required.

Save the date! Join us for these upcoming Curatorial Tours:
 
March 23 – Powerful Glow, Lisa Myers
Join curator Lisa Myers for a tour of our special exhibition, Powerful Glow.
 
April 20 – Piecework, Erin Szikora
Join Associate Curator Erin Szikora for a guided tour of the exhibition Piecework, which includes work by Hangama Amiri, Alicia Barbeiri, Colleen Heslin, Jeremy Laing, Tau Lewis, Preston Pavlis, Jagdeep Rania, Moraa Stump, Joyce Wieland, and Alice Olsen Williams.

May 18 – The Ties That Bind, Sonya Jones
Join Senior Curator Sonya Jones for a guided tour of the exhibition The Ties That Bind, which includes work from the RMG’s permanent collection.

June 29 – Queering the Collection, Heather Riley
Join Project Coordinator, Digital Collections and curator of this show Heather Riley for a guided tour of their permanent collection exhibition, which explores themes of queerness within the RMG’s collection.
 
September 21 – Untouched Landscapes and Topographies, Erin Szikora
Join Associate Curator Erin Szikora for a guided tour of the exhibitions Untouched Landscapes, with work by Aaron Jones, and Topographies, with work by Anna Binta Diallo.

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