These 90-minute visual arts programs will provide an opportunity for synchronous learning between a School Visits Educator and your classroom.
Our programs have been reviewed with best practices in health and safety in mind. As a result, a limited selection of programs is being offered to ensure that students can participate fully in our programs with their own set of materials at their own workstations in your classroom.
Grades 1–3
Sock Puppets (90 minutes)
Program Category
Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft
Curriculum Connections
The Arts – Drama, The Arts – Visual Arts
Program Availability
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Mondays and Fridays may be possible upon request, based on availability of Harbourfront Centre resources.
Program Fee
$250/class (maximum 35 students)
Students learn the rich history of puppets from around the world and participate in puppetry activities involving expression, movement and voice. Best of all, each student creates a one-of-a-kind puppet using a variety of materials.
Key Inquiry Question
How can we use a puppet to tell a story?
Program Objectives
By the end of the Sock Puppets program, students will:
- Participate in a puppet show to stimulate discussion of the history of puppets
- Produce a three-dimensional sock puppet using collage techniques
- Perform a series of puppet activities including movement, expression and voice
Textile Arts: Family Portraits (90 minutes)
Program Category
Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft
Curriculum Connections
Social Studies, The Arts – Visual Arts
Program Availability
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Mondays and Fridays may be possible upon request, based on availability of Harbourfront Centre resources.
Program Fee
$250/class (maximum 35 students)
Textile Arts often bring together communities and encourage collaboration. Your students will discuss contemporary and traditional textile works that have encouraged social change and awareness. Using recycled fabrics, collage and fibre arts techniques, students create a collaborative piece based on their vision of a hopeful, healthy and inclusive world.
Key Inquiry Question
How can a collaborative work of textile art tell a story?
Program Objectives
By the end of the Textile Arts: Family Portraits program, students will:
- Explore contemporary and traditional textile works that have encouraged collaboration, social change and awareness
- Experiment with recycled fabrics, collage and fibre arts techniques
- Produce a collaborative, two-dimensional work based on a family portrait
Grades 4–8
Textile Arts: Social Justice Focus (90 minutes)
Program Category
Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft
Curriculum Connections
Social Studies, The Arts – Visual Arts
Program Availability
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Mondays and Fridays may be possible upon request, based on availability of Harbourfront Centre resources.
Program Fee
$250/class (maximum 35 students)
Textile Arts often bring together communities and encourage collaboration. Your students will discuss contemporary and traditional textile works that have encouraged social change and awareness. Using recycled fabrics, collage and fibre arts techniques, students create a collaborative piece based on their vision of a hopeful, healthy and inclusive world.
Key Inquiry Question
How can a collaborative work of textile art evoke social change?
Program Objectives
By the end of the Textile Arts: Social Justice Focus program, students will:
- Explore contemporary and traditional textile works that have encouraged collaboration, social change and awareness
- Experiment with recycled fabrics, collage and fibre arts techniques
- Produce a collaborative, two-dimensional work based on a social justice issue of their choice
Paper Masks (90 minutes)
Program Category
Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft
Curriculum Connections
The Arts – Visual Arts
Program Availability
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Mondays and Fridays may be possible upon request, based on availability of Harbourfront Centre resources.
Program Fee
$250/class (maximum 35 students)
Your students learn the history and tradition of masks and experiment with paper sculpture techniques and three-dimensional forms. Students flex their imaginations by creating a mask of their own.
Key Inquiry Question
How can you use expressive colour and form to create your paper mask?
Program Objectives
By the end of the program, students will
- Assess the historic and current use of masks as a form of cultural expression
- Explore elements of design such as space, shape and form
- Experiment with paper sculpture techniques while constructing a paper mask
The week prior to your Online Class, a full set of sanitized materials will be dropped off at your school. On the day of your program, a School Visits Educator will go live through Google Meet to deliver instruction and support your students through the process. The week following your program, materials will be picked up again, ready to be sanitized and prepared for a future school group.
With this in mind, we will be accepting registration for Online Classes to be facilitated until March 2022. As the Ministry of Education, Public Health and School Board policies are finalized regarding field trips, we look forward to sharing information with you about the possibility of resuming onsite programming later on this school year.
We look forward to hosting you and your students onsite when it is healthy and safe for Harbourfront Centre staff and program participants alike.
Thank you to TD Bank Group, who generously supports our School Visits program.
We also acknowledge the support of Minstrel Foundation.