Programming
Upcoming
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Explore + Create
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Introduction to the Artists for Kids Clay Kit
Register: Introduction to the Artists for Kids Clay Kit (external site)Part 1: October 5, 3:30-5:00pm
Part 2: October 19, 3:30-5:00pmIn this two-part hands-on clay workshop, ceramics artist Amelia Butcher will walk you through a lesson designed specifically for elementary grades. The artist will share practical tips and techniques for managing materials and teaching clay techniques to elementary students. Teachers are able to sign out the Artists for Kids Clay Kit to use in their schools for a two-week period. In this kit, teachers will have all the tools needed to complete the clay lesson taught in this two-part workshop series.
Workshops will cover the following topics: managing materials in the classroom, hand building techniques, sculpting with clay, press molds, planning and design process, drying and firing clay artworks. There will be a cup variation of the project shared for those who have attended the log workshop previously.
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Printmaking, Transfer, and Assemblage: A Gallery Workshop
Register: Printmaking, Transfer, and Assemblage: A Gallery Workshop (external site)This hands-on workshop introduces “Collect, Assemble, Gather”, the Gordon Smith Gallery’s Fall 2026 exhibition. Participants will use linocut printmaking, rubbing, and image transfer to create an assembled artwork exploring memory, consumer culture, resources, and sustainability, with Social Studies connections.
Led by Raph Choi
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Print, Repeat, Collect: A Block Printmaking Workshop
Register: Print, Repeat, Collect: A Block Printmaking Workshop (external site)Join artist Marlene Yuen for a hands-on block-printing workshop inspired by her artwork Pockets of Time, on exhibit at the Gordon Smith Gallery. You will learn about Marlene’s block-printing process and explore how repetition and collections can be used to tell visual stories. You will learn the fundamentals of transferring an image to linoleum, carving a printing block, and producing a unique print inspired by a meaningful collection.
Led by artist Marlene Yuen
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Curatorial Tour
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La Modestine
Join us for an afternoon concert on Saturday, November 7th for Music at The Smith.
La Modestine is a chamber music ensemble formed in 2016 by west coast musicians with a love of playing music of the 17th and 18th centuries together. The members bring a wealth of international experience to playing this enchanting repertoire on period instruments.
Tickets Coming Soon
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Art Education, For Life: Reflections from Omer Arbel
Doors 6 PM, talk begins 6:30 PM.
Co-founder and Creative Director of Bocci and founder of Omer Arbel Office (OAO), Omer Arbel’s wide-ranging career offers a reflection on the lasting influence of creative education on his practice, which moves fluidly between architecture, sculpture, industrial design and materials research.
Trained in architecture, Arbel's approach is grounded in critical inquiry, spatial awareness, and experimentation. His work reflects the broader premise of Art Education, for Life: that early engagement with art and creative education are not simply preparation for a particular profession, but a way of approaching ideas, materials and problems over a lifetime. Through sustained experimentation with glass, concrete, metals, and light, Arbel demonstrates how curiosity and craft can form the foundation of an evolving creative practice.
This conversation offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from Arbel about the experiences that have shaped that practice. Reaching back into childhood, he will reflect on formative encounters with art and making, and consider how they may have informed the interests, instincts and obsessions that continue to surface in his work today. For artists, designers, students and anyone curious about the creative process, the talk offers an inside look at what it means to build a life around inquiry, making and experimentation.
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Hands-On Pro-D Art Workshop “Collect, Assemble, Gather”
With art specialist teachers and artists exhibited in Collect, Assemble, Gather.
For Elementary and Secondary Teachers
More Information to come September 2026
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Hands-On Pro-D Art Workshop “Against the Latitude of ‘Progress’”
With art specialist teacher and artists exhibited in Against the Latitude of “Progress” at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.
More information to come January 2027
