Engage

Paired with our dedication to curation is our unique approach to stimulating public engagement with the arts. We believe that exhibitions and programming go hand in hand, and we work to provide interdisciplinary visual arts experiences for our audience. These might take the form of panel discussions, artist talks, workshops, family days, children’s art workshops, musical performances, and docent tours. We are dedicated to supporting art enrichment for the community that has an impact long after the exhibition ends. 

  • Established in 1989 by renowned BC artist patrons Gordon Smith, Jack Shadbolt and Bill Reid, Artists For Kids was founded with the singular intent to support children, their art education, and their future.

    Website + Programs 

  • The Gordon Smith Gallery is a space where education is seen not as an after-thought to curation, but as the purpose of each step we take. The Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists and Artists for Kids work collaboratively to program the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art and the exhibitions.

    Exhibitions 

  • The Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists was founded in 2002 to establish an endowment fund, the interest from which would fund ongoing visual arts enrichment opportunities for the children of British Columbia. The Foundation’s role has evolved to include the presentation of a diverse and accessible range of visual arts programming and the curation of high profile exhibitions at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

    The Foundation 

Artists For Kids and The Gordon Smith Gallery are situated on the unceded territories of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Band.