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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Program Options

A black-and-white photo of a stairwell inside a card with handwritten text below reading "Framed moment. Six Words. Infinite meaning."

Fragments of a Story

For a limited time only!

After viewing our Boundaries exhibition, capture a moment with instant photography and pair it with your own six-word story. Learn essential photography techniques—including leading lines and the rule of thirds—while creating compelling visual stories that combine image and text.

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

Teachers should be aware that Boundaries includes imagery of war, drug use and nudity. A preview of the exhibition can be booked with our Exhibition Education staff.

Cost: $2 per participant

A person with short, curly brown hair, and wearing an army green shirt sketches in front of John Williams' mural in the lecture theatre of the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery

Make Your Mark: Art, Stories & Making Space

Inspired by John Williams’ mural & the Making Space exhibition

For a limited time only!

Discover stories and symbols within works by Indigenous artists from JNAAG’s permanent collection as you tour the Making Space exhibition. Get inspired to create your own stories and symbols while sketching in front of a vibrant mural by Ojibway artist John Williams. Then bring your ideas to life by creating your own unique artwork in our studio.

Cost: $3 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