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Digital Agnes

A constellation of digital initiatives in visual culture

Supporting collaborative and interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation in digital arts programming, including commissions, exhibitions, publications, podcasts, children’s programs, and more.    

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Installation view of Transformations.
Installation view of History Is Rarely Black or White.

Installation view of History Is Rarely Black or White. Photo: Paul Litherland

A phone looks at augmented reality artworks by Dallas Flett-Wapash.

Dallas Flett-Wapash, AR Triptych, Panel 1 | “Ahsiwahoochikan, Wapan (Norway House: Pulled by the Ferry, at Dawn),” Digital Augmented Reality Print, 2020.

Chaka Chikodzi in his outdoor studio at the Golden Hour.

Screenshot from "Chaka Chikodzi," a film by Naomi Okabe and Tess Girard with Chaka Chikodzi and commssioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2022.

Digitizing the collection in the Contemporary Feature Gallery. Photo: Tim Forbes

Digitizing the collection in the Contemporary Feature Gallery. Photo: Tim Forbes

Museums Without Walls. Photo: Bojana Babic museusemparedes.com

Museums Without Walls. Photo: Bojana Babic / museusemparedes.com

At the Vibrating Edges

Over the past two years, we have been thinking about our programming as interconnected lines of inquiry, learning how exhibitions and programs—not just artworks—can be curated into reciprocal conversation. It is in-between these exhibitions and programs—at their vibrating edges—where new connections are ignited across Agnes’s collections and commissions.

Reflections on The Bader Collection

Essays by Dr Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Dr David De Witt and Dr Suzanne van de Meerendonk

The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art
The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art
Interpreting historical portraits
(grades 9–12)
Collaborative transformations
(grades 1–3)
The power of colour and line
(grades 9–12)
Capturing everyday beauty through art (grades 7–8)
Nature in abstract
(grades 7–8)
Storytelling in art
(grades 1–3)
Colour and texture in landscape
(grades 4–6)
Playing with fast and slow mediums
(grades 4–6)
Analyzing a self-portrait
(grades 4–6)
Outrageous Worldmaking from a Bright
Yellow Kitchen

Published in honour of The Bader Collection’s valued presence at Agnes and in recognition of Alfred Bader and the Bader Family’s enduring contributions to the museum, this digital publication brings together essays reflecting on the legacy of the collection at Agnes, its exhibition history and its future as a part of Agnes Reimagined.

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With Opened Mouths: The Podcast

Podcast Series

With Opened Mouths: The Podcast

Seasons 1 and 2
Hilos Conductores

Digital Publication

Hilos Conductores

Essay by Nathalia Santos Ocasio

Reflecting on the Collection

Bringing collections, artists and communities together. From collection highlights to asynchronous children’s programs and more, find interdisciplinary perspectives and activities that reflect on themes inspired by Agnes’s collection.

Queering the Collection: The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure

Queering the Collection: The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure

Agnes highlights queer, trans and intersex hirstories in the collection. This highlight looks at an architectural wooden relief from the Migratory Collection, providing a marginalized example of gender fluidity within devotional art and a window beyond otherwise suppressed politically religious opinions.

AGNES Learns

AGNES Learns

AGNES Learns is a digital resource for children and families. Artworks from the Agnes collection inspire fun ways to explore, understand and get creative through videos and activities.

This exhibition is nominated for a Galleries Ontario award for “Innovation in a Collections-Based Exhibition.” With Collection Count + Care, we bring stewardship forward from back of house and mark a moment in Agnes’s transformation. As we pack, we take stock, and consider what it means to care for and be accountable to a public collection.

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New on Spotify

Enjoy selected playlists with music inspired by Agnes’s rich programming.

Living Intuition

Living Intuition

Inspired by the recent micro-residency, Living Intuition travels the range from meditation sounds to soul nostalgia to karaoke jams. We celebrate our capacity to be affected as what unifies our experience into one variegated totality.

Vulindlela: Out the Gates Procession

Vulindlela: Out the Gates Procession

The Vulindlela procession honoured the Lang Collection of African Art through music, poetry and dance. Here we celebrate the richness of contemporary African music, from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. The tracks emphasize migration or movement, overcoming difficulty and celebrating life.

Chaka Chikodzi
Chaka Chikodzi meditates on his artistic process and what it means to converse in geological time. Watch the award-winning short film.

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