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Video lesson plans can be found here.

AFK Learning Kits can be viewed and signed up for here.

Learning Guides Created by Artists for AFK:


A Mail Art Collaboration with Clare Yow	Make Mini Monsters with Lexy Ho-Tai

Zine Making Workshop using Collage with Annie Canto	Zine Making Workshop using Frottage with Annie Canto

Primary (K-3) Resources

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Fragmented Faces - Portraits in Pastel and Paint with Tiko Kerr	Reframed - Collages with Tiko Kerr

Big Bugs - Painted Collages with Jack Shadbolt	Salmon's Dream - Mixed Media Collage with Charlene Vickers

Salmon Spawn - Collaborative Murals with Bill Reid	A Whale's Tale - Mixed Media Collage with David Blackwood

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Hand in Hand - Abstract Painting with Jean McEwan	Painted Landscape with Gordon Smith

Songs of Spring - Mixed Media Painting with Kenojuak Ashevak	Role Models Who Shape Identity - Mixed Media Paintings with George Littlechild

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Representing Birds - Mixed Media Drawing with Kenojuak Ashevak

Intermediate (4-7) Resources

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Abstract Personality Portrait - Mixed Media Collage with Tiko Kerr	Altered Landscapes - Mixed Media Collage with Edward Burtynsky

Indian Residential Schools in Canada - Mixed Media Collage with Jane Ash Poitras Additional Presentation to accompany lesson plan	Landscapes and Chimera Collage - Mixed Media Collage with Jack Shadbolt

Meaningful Garb - Mixed Media Collage with Gathie Falk	Paths - Mixed Media Collage with Charlene Vickers

Fragmented Faces - Mixed Media Collage with Tiko Kerr	Reframed - Mixed Media Collage with Tiko Kerr

Role Models who Shape Identity - Mixed Media Collage with George Littlechild	Shapeshifters - Mixed Media Collage with Marianna Schmidt

The Stories of Structures and Spaces - Mixed Media Collages with Aimee Henny Brown	Whale Song - Collagraph Print with Anne Meredith Barry


Painted Landscapes with Gordon Smith	Painted Landscape Collage with Tony Onley

Songs of Spring - Mixed Media Paintings with Kenojuak Ashevak	The Twin Sisters - Landscape Painting with Roy Henry Vickers

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Hybrid Portraits - Drawing Collage with Elizabeth Argrnaqquaq	Representing Paths with Charlene Vickers


Figures in the Landscape - Photography with Karin Bubas

Secondary (8-12) Resources

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Body Language - Papercut Collage with Tiko Kerr	Psychogeography - Collagraph Prints with Charlene Vickers

Reframed - Mixed Media Collage with Tiko Kerr	Role Models who Shape Identity - Mixed Media Collage with George Littlechild


Aerial Cityscape - Painting with John Hartman	Explorations in Haida Formline with Robert Davidson


Explorations in Photoconceptualism with Ian Wallace