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EDUCART: ART IN/SIGHT
An interdisciplinary EducExpo celebrating the first anniversary of the EducArt.ca digital
education platform
June 21 – August 12, 2018
The Michel de la Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy
J.A. DeSève Gallery
Derek Miner and Raphaël Malchelosse, students of Académie Dunton secondary school,
La sœur de la lune, 2018. Digital print on cardboard. Photo MMFA
Montreal, June 22, 2018 – Just as school is breaking for summer, Montreal’s five school boards – English Montreal
School Board, Lester B. Pearson School Board, Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Commission scolaire
de Montréal and Commission scolaire Pointe-de-l’Île – are coming together at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
(MMFA) to present EducArt: Art In/sight. From June 21 to August 12 in the Museum’s J.A. DeSève Gallery, this free
EducExpo will give the public an opportunity to discover the projects created in class by students using the
EducArt.ca education platform.
Launched province-wide in September 2017, EducArt.ca is a multidisciplinary educational tool designed by the MMFA
in collaboration with the school community across Quebec’s 17 regions. It offers teachers and their students the
chance to enrich the content of their courses in various subjects – from social studies to math and everything in
between – using 350 artworks from the Museum’s collection as a starting point. Notably, through the links that tie
the artworks to aspects of the secondary curriculum, it features 60 activities that innovatively deal with 17 social
issues in a multidisciplinary approach.
“EducArt is an especially ambitious, generous and innovative educational tool. It is beyond a doubt one of the projects
I’m most proud of: sharing our collective heritage throughout Quebec’s vast territory; integrating our collections into
the heart of the province’s education program, including all academic subjects from math to literature; being designed
by teachers for teachers. The platform is attracting a lot of interest in the educational field, with 19,000 unique visitors
and 366,000 page views to date. Meanwhile, several nominations both here and abroad attest to the platform’s
success,” affirms Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA.
Nearly a year after the ambitious platform was launched, the Art In/sight EducExpo will present the work –
comprising artistic texts and creations – produced over the course of the school year by students of Académie
Dunton, La Voie, Vincent Massey Collegiate, Royal Vale, Des Sources, Sainte-Gertrude and Pierrefonds
Comprehensive secondary schools. In engaging with the artworks and the EducArt.ca themes, the students have
proven to become creators, thinkers and citizens of tomorrow.
The realization of Art In/sight notably benefitted from the expertise of art education consultants Frank Caracciolo
(Lester B. Pearson School Board), Nicolas Doyon (English Montreal School Board), Alice Fournier (Commission
scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys), Nathalie Guimont (Commission scolaire Pointe-de-l’Île) and Élyse Mathieu
(Commission scolaire de Montréal).
EducArt.ca internationally recognized for its success in Quebec schools
EducArt.ca has already reached thousands of secondary school students across every region of Quebec. To date, it
has gathered 19,000 unique visitors and 366,000 page views. Over 1,750 users have created a profile on the platform,
and 1,000 teaching professionals, including some 700 teachers and educational consultants from 10 school boards,
have been trained in using EducArt.ca.
Moreover, EducArt.ca was nominated for a 2018 Patrimoine et Innovation(s) award from CLIC France in the category
of children, education and youth. It was also a finalist for an OCTAS award, in the SME and public’s IT choice
categories, from Réseau Action TI, which each year honours information technology and digital development projects
that demonstrate outstanding creativity and innovation.
Acknowledgements
The Michel de la Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy was made possible with the generous
and vital support of the Fondation de la Chenelière.
The Museum wishes to underline the support for school activities given by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du
Québec, with the assistance of CN and CIBC, which support these educational initiatives along with Keolis and
DeSerres.
The EducArt project is funded by the Ville de Montréal and the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du
Québec, under the Entente sur le développement culturel de Montréal. This project is also part of the
implementation of measure 28 of the Plan culturel numérique du Québec. The Museum extends its profound
gratitude to the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their ongoing support.
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About the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The MMFA is one of Canada’s most visited museums and the eighth-most visited museum in North America, boasting more than
1.3 million visitors. The Museum’s original temporary exhibitions combine various artistic disciplines – fine arts, music, film,
fashion and design – and are exported around the world. Its rich encyclopedic collection, distributed among five pavilions, includes
international art, world cultures, decorative arts and design, and Quebec and Canadian art. The Museum has seen exceptional
growth in recent years with the addition of two new pavilions: the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, in 2011, and the Michal and
Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, in 2016. The MMFA complex includes Bourgie Hall, a 460-seat concert hall. The MMFA is one
of Canada’s leading publishers of art books in French and English, which are distributed internationally. The Museum also houses
the Michel de la Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy, the largest educational complex in a North
American art museum, enabling the MMFA to offer innovative educational, wellness and art therapy programmes. mbam.qc.ca
EDUCART.CA: A BROAD-MINDED CULTURAL APPROACH TO TEACHING
17 pilot projects
17 regions of Quebec
4 years of work
across 15,000 km
The fruit of a collaboration with
50 teachers, 55 experts, and 600 high school students
19,000 unique visitors
366,000 page views
Launched in September 2017, on the initiative of Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA,
EducArt.ca is an innovative interdisciplinary educational resource designed for secondary school teachers and
students that is based on artworks in the Museum’s collection. Free to access online, this bilingual platform offers
activities adapted to the various secondary levels and subjects.
EducArt.ca provides a multidisciplinary cross-reading of 350 works in the MMFA’s encyclopedic collection through
themes that explore contemporary social issues. Unique in Canada, the Museum’s collection incorporates world
cultures, the decorative arts and design, Quebec and Canadian art, and international art from the past and present.
Taking these works as their starting point, the educational projects in EducArt.ca – which include step-by-step in-class
guidelines – are aimed at enriching learning experiences across different subjects.
The activities, grouped under 17 themes – alterity, the heart, tomorrow, the body, communication, cultural
diversity, family, feminism, ecology, freedoms, light, memory, resilience, the street, territories and identities,
transactions, and peace – offer a new way to teach and learn high school disciplines such as personal development
(ethics and religious culture), language arts (French and English), mathematics, science and technology (biology,
chemistry, and physics), social studies (history and geography), and of course, the arts (visual arts, music, dance, and
drama). What’s more, they are directly harmonized with the Quebec Education Program.
It is noteworthy that in developing this platform, the MMFA led 17 pilot projects in Quebec’s 17 regions, in
collaboration with over 50 teachers, 55 experts and 600 students. The outcome of these initiatives is a bank of living
pedagogical projects jointly created by schools and the Museum.
In its cultural approach to education, EducArt.ca draws on a multidisciplinary and social constructivist perspective,
and in so doing, places art at the heart of the teacher-student dialogue.
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