Enjoy creative time with the family!  Free every Sunday! Studio Sundays!

2-4 pm

Mackenzie Art Gallery

3475 Albert St. 

Studio Sundays, presented by Great West Life, London Life, and Canada Life, offer hands-on art activities and family-friendly explorations of themes in our current exhibitions every Sunday from 2 - 4pm, led by a trained Gallery Facilitator in the BMO Learning Centre.

The first Sunday of every month at the MacKenzie is Storytelling Sunday, where Gallery Facilitators read and tell stories related to works on view in the Gallery, followed by an exhibition-related art activity.

 Special Sundays throughout the year include guest artist-led workshops, musical performances and more in the galleries. 

SEPTEMBER 4: STORYTELLING SUNDAY: "ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER" & BUILD YOUR OWN MACHINE
Participants will explore physics and art by creating their own cause and effect machines, similar to that seen in Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go. 

SEPTEMBER 11: 3D DIORAMA BOX
Families will create their own 3-dimensional miniature worlds to share with others. Creating these spaces relates to the work of Theo Sims seen in The Candahar.

SEPTEMBER 18: BUILD YOUR OWN MACHINE
Participants can explore physics and art by creating their own cause and effect machines, similar to that seen in Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go.

SEPTEMBER 25: GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST PRINTMAKING
Families will explore the exhibition, German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, finding inspiration to create their own German Expressionist-style prints in the Learning Centre.

OCTOBER 2: STORYTELLING SUNDAY: "LUBA AND THE WREN" & WATER COLOUR MEMORIES (UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS)
Families will hear the story Luba and the Wren, a Ukrainian twist on the German folk tale: The Fisherman and his Wife. After the story, participants will create water colour masterpieces of their favorite memories.

OCTOBER 9: GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCRATCH ART
Families will create scratch art works in the style of German Expressionism. They may draw inspiration from the exhibition, German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, or create an image of their own.

OCTOBER 16: BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING
Families will explore portraiture in an accessible and fun way creating blind contour drawings.

OCTOBER 23: ARTIST STUDIO SUNDAY: SYLVIA ZIEMANN: IMAGINING THE PUPPET (PART I)
In this Artist Studio Sunday, Sylvia Ziemann will help families make an animatable puppet out of simple recyclable materials. Not quite human, not quite animal, these creates are fun to make, animate and make speak. What does your creature have to say? Puppets are a great way to release your inner rebel pet and activate a natural sense of play and creativity. This workshop is great for kids and adults or artists wanting to break out of creative blocks.

OCTOBER 30: GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST PHOTOSHOOT
Families will explore images of German Expressionism and, using themselves as subjects, use costume, hair, makeup and set design to create their own German Expressionist photographs.

NOVEMBER 6: STORYTELLING SUNDAY: "ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER" & BUILD YOUR OWN MACHINE
Participants will explore physics and art by creating their own cause and effect machines, similar to that seen in Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go.

NOVEMBER 13: GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCRATCH ART
Families will create scratch art works in the style of German Expressionism. They may draw inspiration from the exhibition, German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, or create an image of their own.

NOVEMBER 20: ARTIST STUDIO SUNDAY: SYLVIA ZIEMANN: IMAGINING THE PUPPET (PART II)
In this second Artist Studio Sunday with Sylvia Ziemann, families will be designing costumes for the puppets made in the previous workshop. Participants and new comers can also make more puppets. Ideas for marionette-style string animating will also be explored. Short puppet interactions and performing skits can evolve for those who wish to delve deeper into their puppet world.

NOVEMBER 27: BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING
Families will explore portraiture in an accessible and fun way creating blind contour drawings.

DECEMBER 4: HOLIDAY CELEBRATION!

DECEMBER 11: GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST PRINTMAKING
Families will explore the exhibition, German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, finding inspiration to create their own German Expressionist-style prints.

DECEMBER 18: WATER COLOUR MEMORIES
Families will create water colour masterpieces of their favorite memories.

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