Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.
Ed Pien’s new exhibition Ed Pien: Preset: Past/Future, is about memory, ageing, domestic space and so much more. In today’s session, we will draw a few faces in a few different ways, working from photos, from memory and “blind contours” of each other. All you will need are; coloured pencils or coloured markers, some paper, a mirror for self reflection and willingness to draw yourself and others.
Materials :
Coloured pencils or markers
Paper to draw on
Photos of loved ones or a mirror for self reflection
Ed Pien. Marcelino Povea Vives, 2019. Diptych: two colour digital prints. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Claudio Pelaez Sordo and Ed Pien
Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.
Ed Pien’s new exhibition Ed Pien: Preset: Past/Future, is about memory, ageing, domestic space and so much more. In today’s session, we will draw a few faces in a few different ways, working from photos, from memory and “blind contours” of each other. All you will need are; coloured pencils or coloured markers, some paper, a mirror for self reflection and willingness to draw yourself and others.
Materials :
Coloured pencils or markers
Paper to draw on
Photos of loved ones or a mirror for self reflection
Ed Pien. Marcelino Povea Vives, 2019. Diptych: two colour digital prints. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Claudio Pelaez Sordo and Ed Pien










![Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context – Day 2: Midday Session
This online conference on the history and conservation of frames is co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.
For more information visit:
https://ago.ca/events/many-lives-picture-frames-context
Tess Graafland and Josephina de Fouw [Rijksmuseum]: “Finding the Perfect Match: Framing and reframing at the Rijksmuseum”
00:01:52
Elise Lopez [Musee d’Orsay]: “XIXe century frames collections: researches and observations from the Musée d’Orsay’s frame conservator”
00:27:06
Liza Nathan [Tate Britain]: “Three Frames, One Painting: a contextual journey”
00:57:08 Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context – Day 2: Midday Session](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WIEEtX4DHnI/mqdefault.jpg)