Session 2: Wonky Watercolour – A new program inviting youth with special needs, and special interest in fine arts, to explore art mediums through self-expression. The program creates an opportunity for participants to develop new artistic skills and take part in a positive recreational experience within an art gallery setting. This session is all about gettin’ wonky! Explore the medium of watercolour and the added techniques of masking, wax resist, and salt. Early arrival welcome at 4:30PM. Materials included. Spaces are limited. Ages 9-16. Registration required by calling 519-336-8127 ext. 3226.

Family Sunday Activity: Tinfoil & Tissue – Engage, discover, and create every Sunday afternoon from 1:00–3:00PM. Inspired by the drawings of Kelly Wallace, we will make textural collages that explore materials and layering! Free. $5 Suggested Material Donation per family. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Slow View: Un-censored – Ease into the New Year and take a moment to breathe. With a new take on the tour, a Slow View will allow your mind to settle on one work and rediscover the joy of looking at art. The tour of our new exhibition, Un-censored, will be led by a trained facilitator. Registration required. Free, give what you can. Call 519-336-8127 ext. 3226 to register.

Family Sunday Activity: Blob Drawing – Engage, discover, and create every Sunday afternoon from 1:00–3:00PM. Play a game where we will turn abstract shapes into familiar objects and characters from your own imagination! Free. $5 Suggested Material Donation per family. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Guided Tour – Enjoy our FREE Guided Tour, led by our knowledgeable docents, of the current exhibitions. This tours theme will be: What’s My Line? Fun for the whole family! Free, give what you can. Register by calling (519) 336-8127 ext. 3226

Red Dot Tour of the Current Exhibitions – Join us for a stimulating 15-minute Red Dot Tour of the current exhibitions! Drop-in. Free, give what you can.

Session 1: Graffiti Collage – A new program inviting youth with special needs, and special interest in fine arts, to explore art mediums through self-expression. The program creates an opportunity for participants to develop new artistic skills and take part in a positive recreational experience within an art gallery setting. This session is all about graffiti time! Choose, tear and arrange various papers to create a unified colour scheme. Early arrival welcome at 4:30PM. Materials included. Spaces are limited. Ages 9-16. Registration required by calling 519-336-8127 ext. 3226.

Part II: Suffering Soma with Dr. Buj – Join us for a talk on the iconography of stress and suffering in canonical Western art, with a view to the male physique. Dr. Buj holds a doctoral degree in literary studies from the University of Michigan. He taught art criticism and contemporary art history for twenty years at Western University and currently teaches comparative literature and linguistics at the University of Windsor. Free, give what you can. Spaces are limited. Register by calling 519-336-8127 ext. 3226.

Family Sunday Activity: Silhouette Collaborative Drawing – Engage, discover, and create every Sunday afternoon from 1:00–3:00PM. Work together on a large temporary mural! Free. $5 Suggested Material Donation per family. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Enjoy a free Family Red Dot Tour on Sunday at 1:45PM.

March First Friday – Be sure to mark the JNAAG on your First Friday map. Check out the newest exhibition, Un-censored – Tom Hodgson: the drawing room. Though Hodgson is predominantly known as a Canadian abstract painter and member of the Painters Eleven (1953), his fondness of life drawing was evident as his studio, The Pit, became a hotspot for Toronto’s artistic and business milieu in the 1970s. His Drawing Night in Canada figure classes were conducted as the antithesis of the typically somber gathering of sketchers and painters around a nude model. Hodgson was responsible for establishing Toronto’s longest running life drawing class, housed at the Gladstone Hotel for the past thirty years. Still in endurance today, the drawing class is a relic of the Canadian art scene. The gallery is open late every First Friday until 9:00PM. Free & fun for the whole family!