Be amazed by the discoveries you can make when you look for longer at art. Look carefully together at these paintings with Educator Andrea Gumpert.
Distance Learning
Elementary Secondary
Distance Learning programs are live webinars that connect students from across Canada with artworks in the Gallery’s collection.
A Teacher’s Guide to Photostories Canada
Elementary Secondary
Discover many ways to use the Photostories Canada website in your classroom with our teacher’s guide and lesson plan.
Framing Nature: A Photography Activity
Elementary
Grab your camera and join us as we adapt lessons learned from the Group of Seven's paintings to help you see your world through a new lens.
Understanding art
Secondary
Learn about key artists and works of art in the Gallery collection with NGC Educator Béatrice Djahanbin.
Virtual Tours
Secondary
Explore the national art collection as our experts take you inside the Gallery for virtual theme-based tours.
Watch videos on IGTV (you will need an Instagram account to access the content)
Curator Chats
Secondary
Join Gallery curators as they engage with artists, artist-run centres, museums, publishers, collectors and more.
Restoration and Conservation
Secondary
Learn more about some of the team’s exciting projects, and follow a few of the objects that are keeping them busy in the lab.
A Botanical Audio Tour Through the Gallery Collection
Secondary
Explore masterworks from the Gallery’s European and Canadian collections with an award-winning gardener and art historian.
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel Virtual Tour
Secondary
Explore this exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art and its artists through features that include a virtual gallery and audio guide stops narrated by a gallery educator.
External Resources
Art Canada Institute teacher resource guides
Elementary Secondary
Following our provinces’ education curricula, the teacher resource guides provide multidisciplinary learning activities that reveal how Canadian art powerfully reflects our world so we can better understand it.
Get Creative
Keep your creative juices flowing through an evolving array of fun art-making activities, downloadable resources, and more.
Bring a little bit of the Gallery into your home.
Download these colouring pages of masterpieces from the national art collection.
Need fresh ideas for creative family fun?
Check out the projects below, all made with simple materials you already have on hand.
Fantastic creatures come to life! Carve your own stamps of animals you know and love, or make up new imaginary beasts.
Create your own paper puppets! These collaged stick puppets are inspired by the 23,595 paper cutouts in Leaves of Grass (2012) by Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer.
Let’s get marbling! Try this fun way of making marbled paper, as you learn about mixing colours.
