Event
Nolan’s Africa: The Paradise Paradox
20 August 2022

Join Andrew Turley for this talk about Sidney Nolan’s four African works and his 1962 travels across Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar

Reel Classics: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987)
Event
13 August 2022
Reel Classics: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987)

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema. 

Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise Highlights Tour
Event
10 August 2022—12 October 2022
Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise Highlights Tour

Drop into CMAG during your lunch hour for a highlights tour of the exhibition Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise with our Senior Curator of Visual Arts, Virginia Rigney

CMAG on Saturday: Big Art
Event
6 August 2022
CMAG on Saturday: Big Art

Have fun creating a collaborative abstract artwork on a larger than life-size scale. Children will explore the Life is Art: Works by John Nixon from the collection of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones exhibition and then participate in an artmaking session in the CMAG studio.

Continuous culture
Exhibition
2 August 2022—26 November 2022
Continuous culture

This display showcases works by Dr Danie Mellor, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM and Paul House -  established Indigenous Australian artists working in the Canberra region

Reel Classics: CLOCKWISE (1986)
Event
30 July 2022
Reel Classics: CLOCKWISE (1986)

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.   

Life is Art: Works by John Nixon from the collection of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Exhibition
30 July 2022—19 November 2022
Life is Art: Works by John Nixon from the collection of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones

John Nixon (1949-2020) was one of Australia’s foremost abstract artists, a prolific creator, experimenter, curator and teacher for over 50 years

SKI: from the CMAG collection
Exhibition
29 July 2022—3 September 2022
SKI: from the CMAG collection

Crisp winter days with snowfall on the ground can only mean one thing - get the skis out!

Heide and Nolan's Search for Paradise: Exhibition Tour with Lesley Harding
Event
15 July 2022
Heide and Nolan's Search for Paradise: Exhibition Tour with Lesley Harding

Join Lesley Harding, Artistic Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, for a discussion on Sidney Nolan's time at Heide and a tour of the new exhibition Search for Paradise

Event
Reel Classics: GIRLHOOD (2014)
9 July 2022

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.  

Back to the Boombox Party
Event
Booked Out
8 July 2022
Back to the Boombox Party
Booked out

Experience Civic Square after dark with live music and performances, art, street food and drinks.

School Holiday Workshop: My Journey, Your journey
Event
6 July 2022
School Holiday Workshop: My Journey, Your journey

To celebrate NAIDOC Week, CMAG invites teenagers to learn from contemporary Aboriginal artist Sarah Richards in a studio workshop

Creative Dementia Workshop: Watercolour
Event
15 June 2022
Creative Dementia Workshop: Watercolour

CMAG is offering a creative workshop for people living with early onset dementia and their carer

Gathering Threads
Event
8 June 2022
Gathering Threads

Join us during lunchtime from 1pm on Wednesday 8 June, when CMAG will showcase the latest work by Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD Company

Event
CURATOR TALK: Riverbend
14 June

Join Virginia Rigney (Senior Curator, CMAG), Tim Bonyhady (Art Historian and Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law), Tony Oates (Interim Director, Drill Hall Gallery) and Oscar Capezio (Curator, ANU Art Collection), for a conversation.

CMAG on Saturday: Stitch Stories
Event
4 June 2022
CMAG on Saturday: Stitch Stories

Explore the exhibition Connection Point to inspire a stitch story artwork of your own

Curator Talk: Virginia Rigney, Senior Curator, introduced by CMAG Director, Sarah Schmidt
Event
25 May 2022
Curator Talk: Virginia Rigney, Senior Curator, introduced by CMAG Director, Sarah Schmidt

Join Virginia Rigney, Senior Curator Visual Arts, to discover more about the works and techniques of the artists featured in the exhibition, Connection Point: Contemporary established fibre textile artists of ACT and NSW.