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Located in University College, a splendid Romanesque revival building, UTAC is at the heart of the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. Established in 1996 it is one of the five public art galleries to be discovered across the university’s three campuses. Exhibitions that embrace a range of media, art forms and time periods offer an engaging gallery experience that is complemented by lectures, gallery talks and symposia featuring internationally renowned artists, writers and academics. Highlights from UTAC’s three permanent collections include: J.M.W. Turner’s magnificent, watercolour, Pembroke Castle: Clearing up of a Thunderstorm; Lucas Cranach The Elders’s Adam and Eve (1538); works by contemporary Canadian artists such as Ronald Bloore, Barbara Astman, and Geoffrey James; important paintings by the Group of Seven; and a significant number of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine icons.

Through our exhibitions, access to the collections and scholarly programs UTAC plays a key role in education at the University of Toronto. Within Toronto’s museum district, students and visitors are also only steps away from the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Bata Shoe Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Gardiner and the Textile Museum of Canada.

Segments from UTAC's gallery talks and lectures, as well as interviews with artists and curators are now being presented on YouTube. Our inaugural videos document the May 5 2009 Sense of Place event, which brought together Iain BAXTER&, Alistair MacLeod and Nino Ricci to discuss "sense of place" in their art and writing practices. This event was presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Sense of Place, which is organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker's Forum.

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