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Education
Gallery Stratford involves the community in its programing to facilitate visual arts awareness for adults and children. Programs change seasonally, with studio classes ranging from oil painting and drawing and illustration to photography and printmaking. During the summers the gallery offers Arts Alive, a summer camp for children focused around a variety of art related activities.

Also for students, class visits to Gallery Stratford are interactive and curriculum-based; encouraging students to find pleasure and meaning in art, and to think critically about visual images. Students are guided during their visits by staff or docents who lead students in discussion of the content and artistic qualities of selected original works of art. Programs change regularly to compliment current exhibitions.

The gallery also features an open community studio, stocked with creative materials. The community studio guided activities reinforce key concepts introduced in the galleries and heightening students gallery experience with works of art in the permanent collection or current exhibition.

Another educational program, Afternoons at the Gallery is a complimentary art film and lecture series for seniors. The gallery educational director chooses films and professional speakers in line with the exhibitions on view at the gallery.

Scholarships
Annually, Gallery Stratford awards a scholarship to Perth Huron high school students who go on to study visual arts after high school. The Ela Moll Scholarship was founded by members of the Stratford Community and the Stratford Art Association to commemorate the death of Ela Moll (1950-1969), and to ensure that Stratford and area youth will continue to be encouraged in the arts.

Ela Moll was a young Stratford artist, who was killed in an accident. A prolific artist from a very early age, he was rarely idle and produced hundreds of art works, including ink, etchings, oils/acrylic, silk screens, and sculpture. Moll displayed an extraordinary imagination and a great creative ability, manifested not only in his own work but his leadership to the young people of Stratford.