Guided Gallery Visits for Schools
Enhance your curriculum outcomes with a one hour guided visit to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery! School tours are led by our dynamic and experienced visual arts educator who utilizes a variety of engaging and effective teaching strategies to connect students to art, and art to your classroom. Students explore art from Canada and around the world, from the past to the present, engaging with the Gallery’s permanent collection and travelling exhibitions, using student-centered questioning strategies and fun, interactive |  |
activities such as looking games, critical thinking exercises, and sketching. Guided Gallery Visits must be pre-booked at least two weeks in advance. Lunch space is available.
Tuesdays-Fridays. Pre-booking is required. Kindergarten to university students are welcome. Cost is $2 per student.
For more information please contact the visual arts educator at 628-6112.
Student Studio Workshops
Student Studio Workshops are designed to compliment a Guided Gallery Visit. They provide students with the opportunity to learn about art hands on in the Schurman Family Studio with one of our imaginative and experienced education staff. Linked to the concepts and methods on exhibit in the gallery, student studio workshop activities may include, but are not limited to, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, and sculpture.
Working in an art studio can be messy so students are encouraged to bring an old t-shirt.
Student Studio Workshops must be pre-booked at least two weeks in advance. Lunch space is available. The Schurman Family studio is a peanut-free zone.
Tuesdays-Fridays. Workshop is one hour long. Kindergarten to university students are welcome. Cost is $5 per student.
For more information please contact the visual arts educator at 628-6112.
Arts Discovery Days, a project of Confederation Centre of the Arts in partnership with the PEI Department of Education, is a day-long program at the Centre which provides students hands-on workshops in theatre, movement, and visual arts. The content of the workshops links directly to the PEI Department of Education Social Studies curriculum for English programs. The first Arts Discovery Days took place February 6-8, 2007 for Grade 4 students and focused on the concept of exploration. Arts Discovery Days was offered for Grade 8 students from November 20-22, 2007 and focused on the concept of Canadian identity. This program was presented in partnership with pre-service teachers of the Faculty of Education, U.P.E.I., who facilitated pre-visit and post-visits in participating schools. It is our hope this program will eventually expand to include all grade levels, in both official languages.
For more information, please contact
Tamara Gough, Administrative Assistant
Confederation Centre of the Arts
902.628.6111
confederationcentre.com