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Make new art connections and spark conversations! If you are an older adult, join us for our virtual Seniors Social program, a live biweekly series that combines conversations with art and art making.The AGO believes that providing opportunities to experience art and art making increases wellbeing.
In this session we will look at two works of art, one by Wardell Milan and another by Bonnie Devine. Both are important contemporary artists whose aesthetically innovative, multi-media pieces are both personal and political. Participants will be invited to select a social justice issue that means something to them and to use a variety of materials to create a piece that "says" something about this topic. Some material suggestions include: ripped out pages from books, food packaging, wallpaper, wrapping paper, newspaper clippings etc).
Some material suggestions include: ripped out pages from books, food packaging, wallpaper, wrapping paper, newspaper clippings etc).
Live sessions will contain automated closed captions.
Make new art connections and spark conversations! If you are an older adult, join us for our virtual Seniors Social program, a live biweekly series that combines conversations with art and art making.The AGO believes that providing opportunities to experience art and art making increases wellbeing.
In this session we will look at two works of art, one by Wardell Milan and another by Bonnie Devine. Both are important contemporary artists whose aesthetically innovative, multi-media pieces are both personal and political. Participants will be invited to select a social justice issue that means something to them and to use a variety of materials to create a piece that "says" something about this topic. Some material suggestions include: ripped out pages from books, food packaging, wallpaper, wrapping paper, newspaper clippings etc).
Some material suggestions include: ripped out pages from books, food packaging, wallpaper, wrapping paper, newspaper clippings etc).
Live sessions will contain automated closed captions.








![Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context – Day 1: Morning 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
Welcome and Introduction to the Frames Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario:
00:00:00
Opening Keynote Address: Lynn Roberts [The Frame Blog, London]: “Histories of the frame” (30 minute talk) 00:28:56
Morning Session:
Martin Hanssen [Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena] : “The Bonn Diptych and Its Frame, c. 1485. Technical Investigations Into an Unusual Devotional Object 01:06:14
Jesús Jiménez Peces [Complutense University, Madrid]: “The problem of originality and documentation in Spanish frames of the 17th century” 01:27:50
Marco Bei [Scuola Normale Superiore]: “What really is a Maratta frame?” 01:50:31
Federica Gigante [University of Cambridge]: “Venetian Fifteenth-Century Frames with Islamic Bookbinding Motifs” 02:11:51 Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context – Day 1: Morning Session](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nrwBVdlkc3s/mqdefault.jpg)

