The Ontario Association of Art Galleries presents
Building Now for the Future: Collections and Their Facilities

2005 OAAG SPRING FOCUS SESSION

Friday May 27, 2005
12:00 noon - 5:30 pm
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West, Hamilton
Registration: $75 OAAG Members, $110 General (includes lunch)

Building Now for the Future: Collections and Their Facilities is a peer-to-peer
opportunity to exchange information on public art gallery collections and their
facilities.

Our guests have been invited to speak to the following questions:
How and where does your institution house your permanent collection?  What
strategies do you use to meet the recommended environmental and handling
standards for visual art? What are the financial and physical advantages and
restraints of your current location and architecture? What do these mean for
your institution's future direction? How does your organization plan for and
implement acquisition strategies? How much of your collection is on exhibition
and how much is rotating storage?

Confirmed Speakers:
 Rhona Wenger, Director, The Grimsby Public Art Gallery
 Katherine Carleton, Project Manager, ArtsBuild Ontario
 Mary-Ellen Heiman, Executive Director, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant
 Gary Essar, Curator, Riverbrink - Home of the Weir Collection
 Celeste Scopelites, Director/Curator, Art Gallery of Sudbury


This will be an extended conversation of directors, curators, and conservators
including case studies and direct experiences in the housing, care and handling
of permanent collections throughout Ontario.

Participants will get an understanding of the excitement and costs of effecting
physical change to the gallery space.

AGENDA:

12:00 pm        Lunch

1:00 pm         Opening Address
                        Louise Dompierre, President & C.E.O., Art Gallery of Hamilton

1:15 pm         Building Now for the Future: Collections and Their Facilities
                Slam Session

4:30 pm         Curator?s Tours:
Heaven & Earth Unveiled: European Treasures from the Tanenbaum Collection
Patrick Shaw Cable, Curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton

Lasting Impressions: Celebrated works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Tobi Bruce, Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Hamilton

Contemporary Works from the AGH Collection: installations by John
Massey, An Whitlock, Richard Serra and Arnaud Maggs
Shirley Madill, Vice President & C.O.O., Director of Programs, Art Gallery of
Hamilton

The Spring Focus Session will be preceded by OAAG's Annual General Meeting and
followed by the 2005 OAAG Awards.  To register or for more information on the
day's events please contact Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot at 416-598-0714 or
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