Event Calendar

Join us on the second Sunday of every month for free admission to WAG-Qaumajuq and more family fun, thanks to Canada Life!

Catch the screenings of the 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – The World’s Best Ads! The works will screen at WAG-Qaumajuq with select dates in December, January, and February.

Uncover the stories behind the art and artists with a 45-60-minute guided tour by our experienced Gallery Guides on select afternoons.

This course gives an introduction to basic techniques and fundamental concepts that artists use to create successful drawings and paintings.

Students will work on a series of functional and sculptural projects, using a variety of techniques to develop clay hand-building skills.

For students with little or no drawing experience, this introduction to the fundamental techniques and concepts of drawing will sharpen observational skills and build confidence.

Discover hand building, which includes slab building, slump molded forms, and throwing on the potter’s wheel.

Students will try out a variety of media that may include drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and printmaking.

Learn the basic techniques of watercolour painting, the use and care of paints and brushes, the elements and principals of design, and colour theory.

Students will learn to translate the principles of traditional drawing and painting into the language of digital media using an iPad with Apple Pencil and the Procreate app.

Juxtapose, transform and combine recycled materials, found objects, paper, photographs, cloth, cardboard, metals, or wood, into 2D and 3D works of art. Whether constructing a piece of personal history through use of mementos or an abstract piece, students learn through experimentation with color, form, and design.

Using a variety of drawing materials, you will work from a model and learn about proportion, foreshortening, and other fundamental techniques for drawing the human form.

This exhibition is a celebration of sanaugangit, “art by Inuit”— a survey of artistic expression from approximately 200 BCE until the present day.

Your permanent collection is back on view! Revisit old favourites from our European & Canadian collections, plus a few lesser-seen works.

Variations of colour therapy are thought to have been practiced as far back as ancient Egypt, Greece, China, and India. Today’s ‘chromotherapy’ is a holistic…

Visitors to WAG-Qaumajuq can experience art before coming inside! Check out the sculptures outside Qaumajuq and the WAG – see works by Goota Ashoona, Abraham Anghik Ruben, Ivan Eyre, and Bill Vazan, all for free!