Art Gallery of Alberta Social Media Tour

On Monday, the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) hosted a tour of the new gallery building for local bloggers and social media mavens. I was invited, but had to cancel at the last minute, because something came up at work and I wasn’t able to leave the office early enough to make the event.

Thankfully, plenty of other bloggers did make it out to the event, so I thought I’d point you in the direction of some of their posts about the tour.

• Mack D Male was really the one who pushed for the AGA to give bloggers a tour of the new facility, so it only makes sense that he’d provide us with a sneak peek at the new Art Gallery of Alberta.
• Bruce Clarke shares some excellent photos of the new gallery, as does Chris Falconer.
• Alex Aboud provides some more in-depth commentary to go along with his photographs, in his post: “Inside the Art Gallery of Alberta.”
• Mari Sasano criticizes the way that the AGA handled the social media tour, as well as giving some commentary and constructive criticism about the building (rather than simply documenting the already over-photographed facility).
• The Edmontontian talks about how the AGA event may open doors for citizen journalists gaining access to other local news.

There are a number of other blog posts and Flickr photostreams documenting Monday’s tour, but the ones I’ve listed above are some of the ones that I felt were more interesting. Mack did a pretty good job of linking to all of the other posts on the subject, so definitely check out his post for a more complete list of Edmonton bloggers who wrote about the new Art Gallery of Alberta.