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October 26, 2010 Kleinburg, ON — The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is proud to announce it has achieved the Silver rating in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification under the Canadian Green Building Council’s system, LEED® Canada for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance 2009; one that represents an ongoing commitment by building [...]

September 27, 2010 Kleinburg, ON —Three exhibitions officially open on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven; Forging The Path: The Forerunners (1870 – 1920); and Bruno Bobak: Love, Life and Death. From defying convention in landscape art to exposing a naked [...]

September 8, 2010 Kleinburg, ON —The McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the McMichael Canadian Art Foundation are pleased to announce the upcoming installation of the new outdoor Sculpture Garden. Ivan Eyre, one of Canada’s most respected visual artists, will create nine monumental twice-life-size bronze sculptures for the outdoor installation on the grounds, to be completed [...]

August 11, 2010 Kleinburg, ON — The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, in conjunction with PowerStream and OSRAM SYLVANIA, put the spotlight on the public gallery’s new Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting system at a workshop held Wednesday morning at the facility. The art gallery is now using the energy and money saving LED – the [...]

April 28, 2010 Kleinburg, ON —The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Upkar Arora as Interim Chair of the public gallery’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Arora officially assumed the duties of Interim Chair on Wednesday, April 7th following a signed Order in Council from the Provincial Government. Mr. Arora replaces [...]

April 15, 2010 Kleinburg, ON —Acclaimed magic realist artist Tom Forrestall will be at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection on Sunday, April 25 to help close the retrospective exhibition of his work, Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings . The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia painter will meet with visitors and sign copies of the exhibition publication. Tom [...]

April 12, 2010 Kleinburg, ON–The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is proud to announce that it is the recipient of the Norman Hallendy Collection of Canadian Arctic images. The extensive collection of almost 7,500 colour images is the fifth significant donation made to the gallery over the past twenty years by internationally recognized ethnographer, author and [...]

February 22, 2010 Kleinburg, ON—It’s the week children look forward to the most each school year and the one that sometimes has parents struggling to find activities to entertain their children. This spring the McMichael Canadian Art Collection will be offering special March Break programming for children from March 14 to March 19—including a weeklong [...]

January 18, 2010 Kleinburg, ON—The McMichael Canadian Art Collection presents Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings, a retrospective exhibition of the famed Canadian egg tempera painter Tom Forrestall. Opening at the McMichael on January 30, 2010, and curated by the McMichael’s Executive Director and CEO, Tom Smart, the exhibition traces Forrestall’s artistic career over fifty years. [...]