AGH at Home is designed to deliver engaging exhibition and collection content for visitors to enjoy from the comfort of their own homes! Regularly updated with at-home activities, AGH Magazine articles, and behind-the-scenes videos, this platform brings the art gallery experience straight to your fingertips.
AGH at Home
Annie Pootoogook, Playing Super Nintendo, 2003-2004, ink, graphite and crayon on paper. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Acquired with the assistance of the Alfred Wavell Peene and Susan Nottle Peene Memorial, 2006. ©Dorset Fine Arts
Virtual Tours
Join us for a virtual tour of Gallery exhibitions from the comfort of your home!
virtual tour: emily carr, robert houle, and tom thomson
Join us for a virtual tour as we explore the paintings of Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, and Robert Houle – three artists inspired by place.
virtual tour: The Bruegel-Bosch Bus by Kim Adams
Join us for a virtual tour of one of the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s best known works, Kim Adams’s Bruegel-Bosch Bus!
Virtual Tour of the Artist’s Dream: Works of French Symbolism
Join us for a virtual tour as we explore the French Symbolist movement presented throughout our featured exhibition, The Artist’s Dream: Works of French Symbolism.
virtual tour: early snow: michael snow 1947-1962
Join us for a virtual tour as we explore the works of Michael Snow throughout the first fifteen years of his practice!
AGH Activities
Check out more AGH Activities here.
Storytime art: Tyler makes: watercolour blob creatures!
Join Artist/Educator, Tyler Van Holst for an Online Arts Activity from the comfort of his home studio! This week we will be have some fun mixing paint in abstract blobs and turning them into fun creatures!
online workshop wednesday: felt patches
Join AGH Youth Coordinator, Tyler Van Holst for an Online Workshop Wednesday! Tyler will lead a follow-along Art Project from the comfort of his home studio! Together, we will be creating patches and badges using felt, fabric, and other materials!
online workshop wednesday: wire frame sculpture
Join AGH Youth Coordinator, Tyler Van Holst for an Online Workshop Wednesday! Tyler will lead a follow-along Art Project from the comfort of his home studio! Together, we will look at creating sculptures from wire!
online workshop wednesday: watercolour landscape
Join AGH Youth Coordinator, Tyler Van Holst for an Online Workshop Wednesday! Tyler will lead a follow-along Art Project from the comfort of his home studio! Together, we will look at watercolour techniques and landscape painting.
Online Magazine Articles
In addition to these selections, you can also view all the articles published in AGH Magazine.
learning on screen: an interview with educational outreach manager, sara dickinson
As a key member of our AGH: Learn team, Sara Dickinson is the Senior Manager of Educational Outreach here at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and a passionate advocate for bringing arts to the classroom and students into the Gallery. We sat down with Sara to discuss the changes our educational offerings have undergone this year.
nora hutchinson: in conversation
For this AGH Magazine article, enjoy this recorded conversation between AGH Director of Programs and Education Tor Lukasik-Foss and current AGH exhibition artist Nora Hutchinson. Don’t forget – you can also view Nora’s exhibition online!
snow in december: this month in michael snow’s history
Back in April and August, we published the first two instalments in a trilogy of articles taking snapshots of Michael Snow’s long, prolific career. Before our landmark exhibition, Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962, closes on Thursday, January 3, this AGH Magazine article takes one final look at Snow in December.
community update: building cultural legacies
Hamilton Arts Council’s Building Cultural Legacies is a storytelling platform aiming to comprehensively collect the stories of Hamilton arts between the years 1950 and 2000. We caught up with BCL Content Curator Alexis Moline to discuss the current state of the project and its future!
From the International Art Collection
The Judgement of Paris c. 1640
Cornelis Van Poelenburgh (Dutch 1586-1667)
oil on copper plate, Anonymous Gift, 1973