With its considerable collection of works, the Guido Molinari Foundation aims to promote and perpetuate Molinari’s creative work, as well as that of other contemporary, current and emerging artists. The Foundation’s education policy is based on the following vision:
- Make the most of Molinari’s living and working space, the artist’s studio in residence, to develop the museum’s educational, cultural and mediation activities.
- Become a reference point for demystifying, understanding and appreciating abstraction and non-figurative art today, and learning about key events in Quebec art history.
- Enable citizens to discover the links of resonance and dissonance between Molinari’s work and current artistic practices.
- Call on the resources of different types of organizations, institutions, companies and individuals from the community, scientific, educational, health, recreational, local businesses and research communities, with a view to creating links between the life of the artist Molinari and the contemporary realities of our society.
- Ensure that the specific characteristics of the artist’s life and practice, such as transmission, sharing, inclusion, rigor and pleasure, become the pedagogical foundations of our educational, cultural and mediation actions.
Main educational orientations
- Promote accessibility by ensuring that the museum and its programs are available free of charge to all citizens, in order to remain at the service of society and its development.
- Make it a priority for our actions to emerge from the reality and needs of our different audiences.
- Develop a multiplicity of types and dynamics of encounters: from contemplation to the development of content by the public.
- Offer research spaces for specialists from different disciplines, for academics, practitioners, students and for the general public.
- Promote our actions and reflections in the field of education and mediation, and to ensure that they are shared and disseminated in different environments (such as museum, school, community and mediation).
General objectives
Through this extensive educational policy, the Guido Molinari Foundation wishes to distinguish itself as the leading museum resource in Quebec for demystifying, understanding and appreciating geometric abstraction, non-figurative art and the historical, artistic and social context that fostered their emergence. Furthermore, we wish to gain recognition from the cultural, educational and community sectors that the Foundation’s actions are inseparable from its mission and its specificity as a workshop-residence. To this end, we are developing medium and long-term partnerships based on the principle of sharing and exchange, in order to discover and reveal the common ground between our missions.
Finally, the Foundation develops educational tools to demystify, understand and appreciate the work of artist Guido Molinari, painter, teacher, poet, critic and art theorist. To this end, we propose three types of action (educational, mediation and cultural) that draw inspiration not only from our mission but also from our collections and programming, while creating bridges and meaningful encounters for all our audiences.
