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The AGO Youth Council was a program run by and for youth ages 15-24 interested in art and the relationship between young people and art institutions. Collaborations with artists resulted in exhibitions, public art projects, interventions, large-scale events, drop-in programs, field trips, walking tours, and much more. Relationship building, eating together, and sharing life experiences was also a large part of the program. Members served on the Youth Council for one year and selected the next year’s members as a group at the end of their term. The program ran between 2000 and 2020.

Series contains materials related to the operations of the Youth Council, including program planning and proposals, meeting minutes, and correspondence. Series also includes final outputs and deliverables from projects, such as zines, as well as records related to exhibitions curated by the Youth Council and photographic and video documentation of programming.

The Gallery’s weekly Open Night program (held on Wednesdays) was managed by the Extension and Education Department starting in 1963. The program’s goal was to recapture the audience lost during the war and to function as a community service. Evenings included tours, lectures, films, and demonstrations.

Series contains records related to the administration of the Wednesday Open Night program, including programmes, memos, meeting minutes, correspondence, budgets, attendance reports, promotional materials, and newspaper clippings.

Series contains records related to seminars, conferences, and symposiums that Education staff from the Art Gallery of Ontario either participated in or organized. These events were specifically focused on art education, the role of education in galleries and museums, and other similar topics. Records include invitations, programmes, brochures, correspondence, news releases, minutes, transcripts, and lists of participants.

Subseries consists of records related to senior art classes at the Gallery School, including correspondence, brochures, attendance sheets, course descriptions, and course schedules.

Since the mid-20th century, the Art Gallery of Ontario has provided support and programming for visiting school groups at the elementary, high school, and college/university levels. Programs include tours, study groups, lectures, and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, live virtual school programs.

Series contains records related to the planning and execution of programs for school groups of students, including correspondence, lists of schools, programmes, statistics, feedback, photographs, exhibition-related educational programming, resource kits, tour booking and programming records, and self-guided tour materials.

Series contains records related to musical and music-related lectures, events, and performances at the Gallery, including Sunday Concerts and Free Noon Hour Concerts. Files typically consist of correspondence related to planning, programmes, schedules, announcements, artist contracts, news releases, proposals, newspaper clippings, and reference materials related to performers.

Series contains records related to partnerships, associations, and affiliations and relationships between the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Education Department and external individuals and organizations. Records in series relate to the use of Gallery spaces by external organizations for various reasons (e.g. annual general meetings), Gallery tours offered to external groups, and the Gallery’s participation in externally organized events and programs, including the development of art education/museum programs by other institutions. Typical files include applications for use of Gallery spaces, correspondence, internal work orders, invitations, news releases, and meeting minutes.

Series consists of two scrapbooks assembled and maintained by the Education Department, the contents of which reflect the early years of the Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Focus is primarily given to Arthur Lismer’s work at the Gallery as the Supervisor of Educational Work, the establishment of the Children’s Art Centre, and children’s classes and activities at the Gallery. Materials included in the scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, proposals, bulletins, programmes, course application forms, and invitations to exhibitions of children’s artwork.

Series contains records related to the general administrative operations of the AGO’s Education and Programming department. Files typically include departmental project proposals, policies, briefs, monthly and annual reports, bulletins and programmes, research materials related to art education, correspondence with the public regarding general inquiries, interdepartmental and internal correspondence, and staffing-related materials.

The Gallery School originated in the Saturday morning classes for children begun by Arthur Lismer in February 1930 and continued with the development of the Children’s Art Centre, which lasted from 1933 to 1947. The title “Gallery School” was first used around 1967. Between 1947 and the early 1950s, art classes were only offered for members’ children, for which the membership secretary was responsible. By the late 1950s, children’s art classes were well-established at the Gallery. Adult painting classes began in 1949, and teenage classes began in 1952. In 1974, the Gallery School moved to a new location in the basement of the Stage I building, which was referred to as the “activity space.” The specially designed Activity Centre was completed as part of Stage II, and the Gallery School officially moved into it in 1977. In 1989-1990, the school was renamed the Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School.

Series consists of records related to the functions, operations, and activities of the Gallery School, including publications, brochures, pamphlets, reports, correspondence, manuscripts written for operational purposes, teaching staff applications, and application forms for courses. Series also contains 2 banker’s boxes of index cards listing students enrolled in children, adult, and senior classes from approximately 1931 to 1968.