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
Be sure to check back weekly as we will be adding more AGH At Home activities.
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
AGH Activities
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agh virtual summer picnic – storytime
Join Storytime host Sara Dickinson for a picnic with Olive and Bean as she reads about the adventures of Stella and her little brother Sam as they explore the magic of the forest.
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 workshop wednesday: character drawing
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 the art of Character Drawing and Illustration.
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!
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!
Online Magazine Articles
In addition to these selections, you can also view all the articles published in AGH Magazine.
film favourites: photophobia
Spanning Thursday, August 6 through Saturday, August 8, this year marks the 14th annual Photophobia, a festival of short-format contemporary media, film, video, and moving image hosted in partnership between the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Hamilton Artists Inc. For this week’s Film Favourites, we collected some of our favourite works from past Photophobias for you to enjoy!
the agh virtual summer picnic
We won’t be able to fire up the barbeque this year, but that’s no reason we can’t encourage you to picnic on your own. Launching July 26 and running through August, our picnic page offers a variety of helpful instructional videos, performances and prompts to help you build a perfect picnic!
everything you need to know about our reopening!
Welcome back! The AGH reopened our doors recently for the first time since March, and we are thrilled to see the lovely faces of our visitors once again! We are so excited, in fact, that admission to the entire Gallery is FREE in July and August.
collection showcase: liSs Platt
Last year, the AGH acquired its first artworks by the Hamilton-based artist: fourteen photographs from the photography and video installation Silent Treatments and Talking Cures, along with Constant 5 x 5 E, from the photographic series Constant. Read our newest Collection Showcase to learn about these works!
collection showcase: James tissot
James Tissot’s oil on canvas Croquet is a popular and celebrated painting from the AGH permanent collection. Created in 1877-1878, the work entered the collection in 1965 and has since that time traveled the world as an important player in numerous exhibitions.
film favourites: dayveon, whose streets?, and lemon
In our inaugural Film Favourites article, we revisit the 2017 AGH Film Youth Council program, exploring Amman Abbasi’s realist coming-of-age tale Dayveon, Sabaah Folayan’s unflinching police brutality documentary Whose Streets?, and Janicza Bravo’s weirdo dramedy Lemon.
From the Canadian Art Collection
The Victorian Dress c.1914
Helen McNicoll (Canadian 1879-1915)
oil on canvas, Gift of A. Sidney Dawes, Esq., M.C., 1958