The Friends of the Yarmouth Art Gallery are offering a new program to bus students from their schools to visit the gallery! The Friends have earmarked $3000 to help students in the Tri Counties to visit the AGNS Western Branch and take part in the Canaccord Program. The program is free, and consists of school tours of the gallery plus a hands-on program while the students are there. Icing on the cake: The Friends will pay 75 percent of the costs of bussing students, up to $300. Just call 902 749-2248 or email Angela Collier <Angela.collier@novascotia.ca> We hope to see you there!
Category Archives: Youth Activities
December 8, 2014 – Gingerbread Sunday held
August 20, 2017 – Summer art classes held
Summer Art Classes
August 18 to 22, 2014 for ages 11 to 16
9am to noon
Young People‘s 5 day workshop “Then and Now”
from Caveman to Gaffiti Art with artist Maggie Mandell
(linking art history with today’s expressions in art)
Cave drawings to urban art.
an exploration of making a social statement.
We will explore today’s urban artists and make
a work based on our exploration.
Space limited, call the gallery at 749-2248 to register.
April 3, 2014 – Youth create birds in flight
April 6, 2014 2 p.m.
Family Sunday “Birds in Flight”
February 9, 2014 – Autism Arts Family Sunday
Family Sunday February 9, 2014 2pm Autism Arts Family Sunday
Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon designing and painting rain sticks that will form part of the Gallery’s musical instrument collection. Join in a musical circle with everyone having the opportunity to play the rain sticks along with other percussion instruments.
Admission 3.00 per child, please register.
Suggested for children and youth on the autism spectrum
Ages 10 and up. A parent and/or caregiver must accompany each child
No Experience Necessary!
January 20, 2014 – Photography in the lobby
November 8, 2013 – Rock felting workshop
Let’s Rock!
Children aged eight and up are invited to “Felt with Rocks” with Alice Pedersen in a free two-part hands-on workshop at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Yarmouth!
Alice Pedersen enjoys finding unique ways to turn objects found in nature into works of art. She spends a good portion of free-time “beach combing”. Rocks and stones are plentiful and finding a distinctive way to cover them intrigued her. Felting rocks and embellishing them evolved from doing what she enjoys most: unstructured, unplanned art.
The Let’s Rock workshops will be held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Yarmouth on Sunday, November 17th and Sunday November 24th, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
The Let’s Rock workshops are offered through the Art Gallery’s ArtReach program, supported by the Gallery and the NS Department of Education.
To register and for more information, call the Art Gallery at 749-2248.
November 19, 2017 – Family Sunday
Be Blue
Sunday November 10, 2013 2pm
Explore the world of blue through artists’ eyes. Create your own blue canvas to take home. All materials supplied.
An adult must accompany children. Cost 3.00 per child call 749 2248 or email agnsyarmouth@gov.ns.ca
October 18, 2013 – Student lobby exhibit
Our Identities, Our Stories, Our Land
AGNS Western Branch in Yarmouth is pleased to host an exhibition of self-portraits produced by students at l’École Rose des Vents in Greenwood and l’École acadienne de Truro working with artist François Gaudet.
The exhibition will be on display until November 9, 2013.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Western Branch
341 Main Street
Yarmouth Nova Scotia
For further information, please contact Kris Webster, Assistant Curator of Programs
websterk@gov.ns.ca (902) 424-6651
This exhibition was made possible through an ArtsSmarts Nova Scotia and GénieArts Nouvelle-Écosse partnership.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia supports ArtsSmarts Nova Scotia, with funding from the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage and the Nova Scotia Department of Education.
www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca @ArtGalleryNS facebook.com/ArtGalleryNS
August 25, 2013 – September is Maud month
Sept 3 -29, 2013 Reproductions of Maud Lewis artworks on display in Th’YARC lobby in partnership with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Western Branch.
Hal has also written and performed full-length plays, dinner theatre, and spent five summers with his company performing on the M. V. Bluenose.
Come and enjoy refreshments and good conversation.
Sept 14, 2013, 7:30pm
Maud Lewis Play at Th’YARC . Play written and directed by Hal Theriault.
Sept 21, 2013
Film Screening of Maud at the Gallery 2pm.
Sept 22, 2013 2pm Family Sunday
Maud-ify a “found piece”. Decorate/paint found items in the style and spirit of Maud Lewis. Have fun learning about Maud Lewis and how she transformed found items into pieces of art. Now it’s your chance to “Maud-ify” your own piece of artwork using bright beautiful colours. Limited space, call 902 749 2248 or email agnsyarmouth@gov.ns.ca register cost $5.00 per child – all materials supplied.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth Branch