Engage Explore Enrich
A new tour and workshop program is developed for the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer exhibitions, providing the opportunity for your class to visit our gallery at least four times each school year. Our school programs are designed to incorporate core competencies and learning standards from the BC Curriculum and come with a comprehensive Teacher's Guide, available both in print and online.
Studies have shown that facilitated programs at art galleries can enhance students' creative and critical thinking skills, as well as impact them in four specific ways:
QUESTIONING // Students ask more complex questions
MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS // Students are more accepting of multiple interpretations
PHYSICALITY OF ART // Students are more likely to think about art in terms of its material properties
EMOTIVE RECALL // Students experience greater emotive recall of the program
OFFERINGS FOR STUDENTS + CLASSES
Teachers Guide
This is an in-depth booklet containing background information about the artist, exhibition, related vocabulary and suggested pre/post visit activities. It is intended to be a teaching tool used to enhance the students’ experience and to extend the learning outcomes covered within the gallery tour. The guide is provided to teachers prior to any scheduled tour.
Guided Tour
A guided tour is tailored to the needs and grade level of the group to ensure the most opportunities for engagement are provided. Tours target appropriate areas of BC curricula and are designed to challenge students through critical thinking, close observation, and thoughtful analysis of the works in the exhibition.
Art Workshop
This is a hands-on activity related to the techniques, concepts, and works of art in the exhibition. This is an opportunity for students to experience art making with a variety of media and reinforce specific concepts introduced on the tour. Activities range from drawing, painting, and printing to mixed media, sculpture, and collage.
SPRING
School programs are available for this exhibition from May 1 to June 30, 2023.
Exhibition on view // Sage Sidley: step, slither and scroll
Sage Sidley’s exhibition at the Vernon Public Art Gallery titled step, slither and scroll contemplates the existence of overlapping and connected digital and analogue systems on both the micro and macro levels. Her research includes investigating technological networks which we encounter daily. The ubiquitous use of the Internet is a good metaphor; every action a person executes is being intercepted and analyzed by third parties who collect all of this possible information. These collected data include who, to whom, from where to where, from when, until when, IP addresses of the devices of the Internet users combined with the other data. These collected data then serve various enterprises as tools to connect third parties to this personal information and preferences and choices of individuals using the web. These might be just business or commercial proposition in forms of targeted advertising, but also for nefarious purposes.
BOOKING OPTIONS
Self-Guided Tour (Flexible)
Available for all grades.
Looking for flexibility? This is a self-directed option for you and your students. Please book ahead of time to make sure we can accommodate your class as well as to receive the appropriate Teacher’s Guide to prepare for your visit.
$2 per student // Suggested donation
Tour Only (45 minutes)
Available for all grades.
Explore the current exhibitions, and engage with interactive activities in the Gallery spaces along side the gallery educator. Teachers are welcome to provide an in gallery worksheet or activity that accompanies the tour.
$2 per student // Suggested Donation
Guided Tour + Workshop (75-90 minutes)
Available for all grades.
Explore the exhibitions, engage with interactive activities in the Gallery, and create your own art inspired by the artwork on display.
$80 // $50 for Subsequent Visits
Customized tours and workshops are available and can be developed to explore topics and techniques that are particularly relevant to your group.
For more information and further questions Contact:
Sierra, our Learning and Community Engagement Curator
Email: education@vernonpublicartgallery.com
Call: (250)-545-3173
Booking Information
• All in-person tours can accommodate a maximum of 30 people
• All cancellations must be made at least 2 weeks in advance
• Supervisor-to-student ratio for preK-7 is 1:8, all other groups must have a minimum of one supervisors
• Payment is due upon arrival with Visa, MasterCard, cash or cheque (payable to the Vernon Public Art Gallery)
Homeschool and Alternative Learning Program rates are available for all school programs.
Please contact our School Programs Coordinator, Sierra, for details and to discuss options.