As part of Object//Project Art Book Fair 2025 offsite programming, we have partnered with the National Gallery of Canada to offer a behind-the-scenes look at some of their archives and conservation processes related to art publishing and print.

Please register for one or both tours by 8pm on March 23. Registration is required to attend. Only one ticket per person. Capacity is limited. If capacity has been reached, please add yourself to the waitlist. Please only sign up if you can attend.

More information about accessibility at the NGC can be found here.

Thank you!

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Object//Project Art Book Fair Pre-Fair Activities
National Gallery of Canada
March 28, 2025

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Tour #1: Art Metropole Collection // March 28, 10am (60 minutes)
With Dominique Taylor, Head of Reference Services, Library, Archives and Research Fellowships Program. In collaboration with Art Metropole.

One of the first artist-run centres in Canada, Art Metropole is part of the international network of parallel galleries committed to conceptual art. The art work (artists' books, audio tapes, videotapes, and multiples) produced and documentation about this movement was collected, catalogued, and preserved by Art Metropole, exhibited there, loaned for exhibition to other organizations, and made available to researchers. The Art Metropole Collection, including the General Idea Collection, was donated to the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives by Jay A. Smith, Toronto, 1999.

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Tour #2: Conservation Labs // March 28, 1pm (60 minutes) or 2pm (60 minutes)
With Ainsley Walton, Senior Conservator

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how artwork is conserved at the NGC, with a focus on print, drawings and photography and current projects focusing on books and archival material.