The Associates

Of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Associates of the AGGV support the Gallery by sponsoring exhibitions and providing funds to assist with art purchases and children's art programs.

Membership and Benefits: Members of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria are invited to join the Associates. Benefits include:

presentations and demonstrations relating to the arts
visits to artists' studios and private galleries
access to art-related social and educational events
subscription to our monthly newsletter, The Associates' News
opportunities to volunteer in a friendly social and cultural environment

Annual Associates membership is $15 and is prorated during the year. For more information about membership please contact joan.huzar@utoronto.ca

Upcoming Meetings & Events

General Meetings (Guests welcome!)

September 10, 2010 | 10am-12pm
at the Gallery

House Tour 2010

View the House Tour info page.

Let’s Talk Design - Lecture Series

Once you've been inspired by the incredible homes on the tour you can learn about the latest trends in interior design and decorating with Victoria’s Leading Professionals with the Let's Talk Design lecture series running on September 29th and 30th.

Tickets are $20 per lecture and are available at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Art Tours

In addition to visiting local galleries and artists' studios, the Gallery Associates arrange tours, varying in length, to other parts of Vancouver Island such as Tofino, the Pacific Rim, and the Cowichan Valley, as well as to the mainland visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Anthropology and South Granville galleries. Further afield, trips have been made to Portland/Seattle, San Francisco/Napa Valley, Montreal, New York, and Cuba. Trips include either an accompanying curator/guide or an in situ guide is hired.

In 2010 the Gallery Associates have made a one-day visit to the Vancouver Art Gallery's beautiful exhibit Imagining the Modern Woman on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, as well as to the $5.5million newly renovated Museum of Anthropology galleries. On a three-night-four-day trip, accompanied by the AGGV Director, the Gallery Associates visited Edmonton's architecturally stunning new Art Gallery of Alberta.

The cost of tours varies with destination and duration, but each includes a per-person fund-raising amount, which aids the Gallery Associates' ability to make its annual donation to the AGGV.

Email for information on future tours - sohuus@shaw.ca