City of Burnaby - Burnaby Art Gallery


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Art Assistant for Programs

This is a great opportunity for people who are interested in art making and would like to get more experience working with a professional artist instructor!

Art Assistance will be responsible for assisting with set-up and cleanup for arts programs for participants of all ages, as well as assisting instructor and participants with art projects. Should be comfortable interacting with participants in a positive and encouraging way. 

 

Community Arts Assistant

Join our talented instructors at various locations as we celebrate with some sunshine and artmaking! Assist an artist with a block printing project or a community art project and help to greet the public with information about our programs and the gallery.

Duties include set-up and cleanup for hands-on arts programs for participants of all ages, assisting instructor and participants with art projects, and should be comfortable interacting with children, seniors and/or adults.

 

Special Events and Receptions

Assists with gallery special events/exhibition openings and programs, or occasional weekday art programs including room set up, food preparation that includes cutting and displaying food, tea or drinks preparation, hosting, serving and taking stats of patrons. 

Duties include set-up and cleanup for opening receptions and artist talks, as well as directing and interacting with the public. 

Tour Guide for School Groups

This volunteer opportunity includes working with an instructor to lead a guided tour of part of the current exhibit. Should be comfortable with public speaking, leading a group of children and adults, and assisting with preparing and clean-up of art projects.

Please note, attendance is required in tour training and you will be responsible for understanding and being able to communicate the tour content for each exhibit. 

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Mission Statement

The Burnaby Art Gallery operates as an art museum, gallery and community forum to explore and advance knowledge, appreciation and understanding of contemporary and historical visual art through exhibition, programming and collection services in traditional and non-traditional contexts and places in and outside the City of Burnaby.

Institutional Core Values:

Art has the ability to make the abstract tangible

Ideas are the foundations for actions

Education creates knowledge

Learning is a lifelong endeavor

Experiences shape our view of the world and how we interact with one another

Collections represent our heritage

Role of Institution:

Provide experiences for art museum visitors and program participants (public and school) that challenge their creativity, ideas, norms, values, identity, and beliefs in order to create greater understanding of the ideas behind contemporary historical art, the artists that create work so that greater visual arts literacy within the community that the BAG serves is developed.

Act as a leader in the collection, preservation and exhibition of those artists who choose to work on paper –we are the only art museum in British Columbia dedicated to works of art on paper. Through our collection and exhibition practices, the BAG endeavors to represent the best and most promising artists within the Canadian print culture community.

Act as a community forum and gathering place for the dissemination of ideas. This is accomplished through free public talks, symposia, and community outreach projects (libraries and non-traditional art museum spaces such as shopping malls, public squares, and community centres) related to exhibitions and public art events that occur within and outside of the art gallery.