Field Trips

Explore, create, and learn at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery!

JNAAG offers an enriching tour-hour art experience for your groups and classes. Our field trips combine a guided tour of our current exhibition(s) paired with a studio art-making activity designed to foster creativity, critical thinking, and a deeper appreciation for the arts.

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A collage featuring a face with blue sequins and vibrant marbled patterns.

Imagining Futuristic Fashion

For a limited time only!

Step into the future and bring your imagination to life! Created to compliment Rajni Perera's Futures exhibition, this hands-on studio activity invites participants to design a figure that lives in the future. Using various materials, participants will explore fashion, technology, and culture to create a unique character. What will people wear in the worlds of tomorrow? How will they express themselves? This program will help participants tell a story of what the future might hold.

This program offers engaging experiences that directly support curriculum requirements across multiple subject areas.

Activity can be adapted for a wide range of age groups.

Cost: $2 per participant

A person drawing a landscape scene with colored pencils, alongside a reference painting, a color wheel, and a color theory sheet.

Exploring the Colour Wheel Through Landscapes

Inspired by the Group of Seven

Explore colour theory and create expressive landscapes inspired by Canada's iconic Group of Seven using watercolour pencils.

This program offers engaging experiences that directly support curriculum requirements across multiple subject areas.

Suggested Grade Level: Grade 7, Grade 9

Cost: $1 per participant

Art workspace with pastel sticks, geometric designs, and paint tubes.

Line and Pattern with Monoprint Gelli Plates

Discover how to make marks and patterns by using pressure to transfer colourful designs from one surface to another.

This program offers engaging experiences that directly support curriculum requirements across multiple subject areas.

Suggested Grade Level: Grade 6, Grade 11

Cost: $1 per participant

A hand holding a blue marker drawing on artwork with leaf and flower collage. Colored markers in the background.

Microscopic Worlds: Mixed Media Collage

Zoom into the hidden beauty of the world we can only see through a microscope and recreate your own microscopic world by using different materials.

This program offers engaging experiences that directly support curriculum requirements across multiple subject areas.

Suggested Grade Level: Grade 8, Grade 12

Cost: $1 per participant

An art studio with a person sketching a still life featuring a vase, flowers, and decorative items.

Pastel Perspectives: Still Life Drawing with Soft Pastels

Develop observation and composition skills by focusing on an item and bringing it to life on your paper with soft pastels.

This program offers engaging experiences that directly support curriculum requirements across multiple subject areas.

Suggested Grade Level: Grade 5, Grade 10

Cost: $2 per participant