Discipline: Visual Arts

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Shannon Bool’s recent practice takes on many forms, including tapestries, silk paintings, collages, sculptures and photograms. All gravitate around a central theme: a critique of Modernism through unconventional material processes, combined with her own interpretation of psychoanalytical concepts. By examining the flip side of modernist currents, the artist reveals repressed aesthetic influences in both visual art and architecture.

The role of architecture in controlling both bodies and behaviour is at the core of Bool’s approach, which identifies objectifying strategies used in interior design, specifically in the arrangement of niches, alcoves and sightlines within domestic spaces. This is apparent in her tapestries investigating viewpoints in the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, and her recent works of embroidered floor plans by Adolf Loos and Carlo Molino. In
other tapestries and photograms, she complicates Le Cobusier’s Plan Obus, aimed at transforming Algiers into a modern imperial capital, by revealing its underlying phantasmal character. Using superimposition, she connects his architectural drawings with his erotic drawings and orientalist postcards widely circulated at the time, suggesting that one could have informed the other. Finally, her silk paintings confound our expectations by mixing ideas of softness and sensuality with the rigidity and flatness of the modernist grid reminiscent of architectural façades.

This exhibition is produced by the Musée d’art de Joliette in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Iterations of this project initiated by the Musée d’art de Joliette have been presented by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and the Kunstverein Braunschweig in Braunschweig. We thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.

 Curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art de Joliette with Sunny Kerr, Curator of Contemporary Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre 

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

A special blend of wicked libidinal affects—exploring the quivering line between perfection and abjection—is one result of Chantal Rousseau’s chosen medium mashup: painstakingly detailed watercolours transmuted into animated GIFs. If you’re probing the values and speeds of contemporary attention like Rousseau is, these are the perfect vehicle. In this exhibition the lascivious torpor of snails is balanced by a brigade of plucky unsung characters, such as squirrels doing fitness training. The artist’s bio describes her practice in this way: “Playing off fleeting internet obsessions and subcultures, she intertwines humour and the macabre and makes feminism sexy.” She currently resides in Kingston, Ontario.

Curated by Sunny Kerr, Curator of Contemporary Art 

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Garden Studies draws wide linkages between the gardening proclivities of Agnes Etherington, artistic depictions of plants and flowers from the Agnes collections and Kingston’s colonial architecture and prison cultures. By exploring the window and the garden together in a play of forms and perspectives, the curatorial team invites
viewers to reflect on thresholds between inside and outside and to visualize a sort of conceptual garden as a nurturing space for growth and relations within difference. Can a “garden” of artworks gesture to a future space for which we collectively long?

Curated by Tyler Adair, Alison Kiawenniserathe Benedict, Amit Breuer, Jed English, Peggy Fussell and Barbara Matthews, with Sunny Kerr, Curator of Contemporary Art, as part of the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies graduate seminar Curating in Context

 Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Presenting some of the greatest treasures of The Bader Collection, this exhibition features both familiar favourites, such as Willem Drost’s Self-Portrait as Saint John and Lambert Doomer’s Venetian Courtesan, and exciting recent acquisitions, including a touching portrait of Rembrandt’s late-life partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, by his student Jacobus Levecq. Bringing focus to the artistic context in which Rembrandt created the mysterious Man with Arms Akimbo, we explore the diverse accomplishments of artists in Rembrandt’s adopted city of Amsterdam, the cultural capital of northern Europe, and elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. While Rembrandt and his circle captured the market for history paintings and portraits, other painters carved a niche in landscape, genre imagery, or still life. Bringing Rembrandt’s work together with stellar paintings by rivals as well as acolytes, this exhibition celebrates creative diversity and entrepreneurship at a singular moment in the history of European art, while also celebrating the remarkable vision of Alfred and Isabel Bader in building this collection and sharing it with art lovers in Kingston and around the world. 

Curated by Dr Stephanie Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Discover the joy of felting with Tiina Kukkonen. In this workshop you will learn the basics of felting a 2D landscape image using wool roving and a felting needle. You will gain an understanding of the history of felting as an art form, as well as how to layer and felt wool roving to achieve painterly effects. Be inspired this winter and create your own unique winter artwork!

Suitable for youth, adults and seniors. Beginner friendly. Ages 16 . All materials provided, including a reference image.

Tiina Kukkonen is a visual artist, arts educator, and doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. Although formally trained in painting and drawing, Tiina has focused the last three years on needle felting. She approaches felted landscapes much like painting whereby colours are combined and layered to achieve visual effects. As an arts educator and researcher, she has taught visual arts to students of all ages and advocates for equal access to arts education opportunities for rural and underserved communities. Learn more at: http://tiina.kukkonen.ca.

Registration required. Class size is limited to accommodate physical distancing measures. Students will be required to complete a self-assessment form prior to the class. Masks must be worn within the building at all times. Please wash and sanitize hands regularly, and maintain physical distancing. We are monitoring and following Health Canada and Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Health Unit recommendations. We look forward to your safe and creative visit!

Saturday, December 5th 10 am – 1 pm

Rehearsal Hall, Room 203, 2nd Floor

Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning

In this workshop you will choose beads and/or charms to make a unique dreamcatcher. Throughout the workshop we will explore the history of the dreamcatcher and the pan-indigenous movement. Participants will have a chance to ask questions and reflect on their final piece. This experience is suitable for both adults/seniors and children with guidance.

Melanie Gray is an Indigenous Artist, Jeweler, and Art Therapist from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. She has a history of facilitating workshops with a variety of ages. Melanie is from the Mohawk Nation and a member of the wolf clan.

When: Saturday, December 12th 10 am – 12 pm

Where: Rehearsal Hall, 2nd Floor, Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning

NOTICE: Registration is required. Class size is limited to accommodate physical distancing measures. Students will be required to complete a self-assessment form prior to the class. Masks must be worn within the building at all times. Please wash and sanitize hands regularly, and maintain physical distancing. We are monitoring and following Health Canada and Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Health Unit recommendations. We look forward to your safe and creative visit!

www.tettcentre.org/events

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Presenting some of the greatest treasures of The Bader Collection, this exhibition features both familiar favourites, such as Willem Drost’s Self-Portrait as Saint John and Lambert Doomer’s Venetian Courtesan, and exciting recent acquisitions, including a touching portrait of Rembrandt’s late-life partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, by his student Jacobus Levecq. Bringing focus to the artistic context in which Rembrandt created the mysterious Man with Arms Akimbo, we explore the diverse accomplishments of artists in Rembrandt’s adopted city of Amsterdam, the cultural capital of northern Europe, and elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. While Rembrandt and his circle captured the market for history paintings and portraits, other painters carved a niche in landscape, genre imagery, or still life. Bringing Rembrandt’s work together with stellar paintings by rivals as well as acolytes, this exhibition celebrates creative diversity and entrepreneurship at a singular moment in the history of European art, while also celebrating the remarkable vision of Alfred and Isabel Bader in building this collection and sharing it with art lovers in Kingston and around the world. 

Curated by Dr Stephanie Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Mondays, between 11am-4:45pm

45 minute sessions

Book a session with Union Gallery Director, Carina Magazzeni

Email: c.magazzeni@queensu.ca

While we’re all staying at home, the Union Gallery wants to stay
connected with you! Whether you have a home studio, a digital
portfolio, a new project on the go, or want to talk through your
artistic practice and get to know our new Director, Carina Magazzeni,
the Union Gallery invites our members and student
artists/curators/collectives to book a session for an online studio
visit. This opportunity is free of charge and will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To learn more about membership options, please visit our website.

Virtual Studio Visits begin on Monday, April 27.

Email c.magazzeni@queensu.ca to book a session!

Presenting some of the greatest treasures of The Bader Collection, this exhibition features both familiar favourites, such as Willem Drost’s Self-Portrait as Saint John and Lambert Doomer’s Venetian Courtesan, and exciting recent acquisitions, including a touching portrait of Rembrandt’s late-life partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, by his student Jacobus Levecq. Bringing focus to the artistic context in which Rembrandt created the mysterious Man with Arms Akimbo, we explore the diverse accomplishments of artists in Rembrandt’s adopted city of Amsterdam, the cultural capital of northern Europe, and elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. While Rembrandt and his circle captured the market for history paintings and portraits, other painters carved a niche in landscape, genre imagery, or still life. Bringing Rembrandt’s work together with stellar paintings by rivals as well as acolytes, this exhibition celebrates creative diversity and entrepreneurship at a singular moment in the history of European art, while also celebrating the remarkable vision of Alfred and Isabel Bader in building this collection and sharing it with art lovers in Kingston and around the world. 

Curated by Dr Stephanie Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Presenting some of the greatest treasures of The Bader Collection, this exhibition features both familiar favourites, such as Willem Drost’s Self-Portrait as Saint John and Lambert Doomer’s Venetian Courtesan, and exciting recent acquisitions, including a touching portrait of Rembrandt’s late-life partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, by his student Jacobus Levecq. Bringing focus to the artistic context in which Rembrandt created the mysterious Man with Arms Akimbo, we explore the diverse accomplishments of artists in Rembrandt’s adopted city of Amsterdam, the cultural capital of northern Europe, and elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. While Rembrandt and his circle captured the market for history paintings and portraits, other painters carved a niche in landscape, genre imagery, or still life. Bringing Rembrandt’s work together with stellar paintings by rivals as well as acolytes, this exhibition celebrates creative diversity and entrepreneurship at a singular moment in the history of European art, while also celebrating the remarkable vision of Alfred and Isabel Bader in building this collection and sharing it with art lovers in Kingston and around the world. 

Curated by Dr Stephanie Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca

Presenting some of the greatest treasures of The Bader Collection, this exhibition features both familiar favourites, such as Willem Drost’s Self-Portrait as Saint John and Lambert Doomer’s Venetian Courtesan, and exciting recent acquisitions, including a touching portrait of Rembrandt’s late-life partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, by his student Jacobus Levecq. Bringing focus to the artistic context in which Rembrandt created the mysterious Man with Arms Akimbo, we explore the diverse accomplishments of artists in Rembrandt’s adopted city of Amsterdam, the cultural capital of northern Europe, and elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. While Rembrandt and his circle captured the market for history paintings and portraits, other painters carved a niche in landscape, genre imagery, or still life. Bringing Rembrandt’s work together with stellar paintings by rivals as well as acolytes, this exhibition celebrates creative diversity and entrepreneurship at a singular moment in the history of European art, while also celebrating the remarkable vision of Alfred and Isabel Bader in building this collection and sharing it with art lovers in Kingston and around the world. 

Curated by Dr Stephanie Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University

Read more at agnes.queensu.ca