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Our education and outreach programs for schools provide opportunities for teachers and students to encounter significant contemporary and historical visual art. We work with educators in multiple ways: through in-person and virtual tours, multisession collaborations, outdoor explorations, and artist projects.

Our programs engage critical thinking, creativity, communication, and empathy through looking at, discussing, and making art. There are also rich opportunities to explore cross-curricular connections.

We offer special programming and workshops related to zines and zine-making in connection with the Owens Art Gallery’s Teeny Tiny Zine Library.

We support educators through periodic Teacher’s Resources for special projects. You can find our most recent Teacher’s Resource as part of the online project, You Are Here: Seeing Sackville through the Owens Art Gallery Collection.

If you are an educator who would like to book a tour, collaborate, or discuss the ways that our exhibitions might connect to curriculum areas that you are exploring, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

All our education and outreach programs are offered free of charge thanks to generous funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Province of New Brunswick, Town of Sackville, The Hon. Robert V. Barritt, and Friends of the Owens Art Gallery.

In a gallery, children sit on folding stools examining wooden furniture on display. They hold pencils and clipboards and work in small booklets. A studnet in the foreground holds the handle of a magnifying glass that rests on the clipboard on their lap.

Current Programs for Schools

School Tours

Visit the Owens with your students

Zine Library

An ever-growing collection of zines, artists' books, and handmade publications

Diane Borsato: Cloud Collection

Observations of clouds and other ephemeral phenomena in the Owens Collection

Studio 360°

An up-close look at artists' working spaces

Past Programs for Schools

You Are Here

Seeing Sackville through the Owens Art Gallery Collection

Let’s Draw

A drawing-based tour for elementary school classes

ENGAGE: Owens Art Gallery

A community-based learning project

Shadow Stories

Shadow plays inspired by the permanent collection

Between Here and There

A school-wide project with Marshview Middle School

The Colville House Sketchbook

Drawing prompts inspired by the work of Alex Colville

A List of Signed Names in Which Nobody Signed Their Own Name but Signed the Name of Another

A project by Micah Lexier

A Pocket Companion to the Owens Art Gallery

A little guide for kids by kids

Sounding Sackville

Sackville Soundscapes by students at Salem Elementary School

Studio Call

Artist in schools program