Event type: Workshop / Professional development

This unique art-based program
nurtures creativity and introspection while connecting with others online.
Together you will create art, participate in fun drama exercises, and share
your story in small and large group discussions. Together we will share this
artistic journey in a safe and supportive community. Our aim is to promote
confidence, creativity and self-discovery! The course runs Wednesdays from May 5 – June 23 from 7:00-8:15PM EST

Cost is $30 per person or $50 when you register with a friend (plus GST & ticketing fees). 

This workshop will take place over Zoom & assistance can be provided. Please note that this course is intended for age 17

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.

Online, Saturday 29 May 2021, 3–4:30 pm (ET)

Sign up to save your spot: https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/talks-tours-events/fieldnotes/

Join us for Neven Lochhead’s exhibition From the vibe
out, as the artist
presents Fieldnotes:
a live event hybrid that merges artist talk, performance and workshop
components.

Biography

Neven Lochhead is
an artist and curator working with video, sound, music, performance and
installation. His own artistic work draws from traditions of durational moving
image and performance practices, the employment and conventions of
text-on-screen in video art and cinema, and compositional strategies of minimal
music. From 2017–2019, Lochhead developed his exhibition-making practice as
curator of Knot Project Space, a venue in Ottawa he established as part of his
role as Director of Programming at SAW Video Media Art Centre. Through this
discursively operated space, Lochhead produced exhibitions and performances
while working closely with local, national and international artists, as well
as a series of lectures, learning contexts, residency platforms and off-site
public art projects. Residencies as an artist include the Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture (2015) the Artist Research Laboratory in Como, Italy
(2014). He received an MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University in 2016.

This unique art-based program
nurtures creativity and introspection while connecting with others online.
Together you will create art, participate in fun drama exercises, and share
your story in small and large group discussions. Together we will share this
artistic journey in a safe and supportive community. Our aim is to promote
confidence, creativity and self-discovery! The course runs Wednesdays from May 5 – June 23 from 7:00-8:15PM EST

Cost is $30 per person or $50 when you register with a friend (plus GST & ticketing fees). 

This workshop will take place over Zoom & assistance can be provided. Please note that this course is intended for age 17

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.

“Out of the shadow and into the light: Black figures in the art of Rembrandt’s time”
Elmer Kolfin

Online, Friday 4 June, 1–2:30 pm (ET)
Sign up to save your spot: https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/talks-tours-events/isabel-and-alfred-bader-lecture-in-european-art-3/

All major Dutch collections have paintings representing Black figures and the Bader collection at Agnes is no exception. For a long time, Black presence in Dutch seventeenth-century art went unaccounted for and scholarship around this was thus absent in academic texts and museum exhibitions. However, research of the past thirty years has drawn increased attention to the ubiquitous presence and varying roles of Black figures in Dutch art. In this lecture, Dr Elmer Kolfin examines why Black figures recur so frequently in Dutch art, and whether and why Rembrandt’s approach differed from that of his contemporaries.

Elmer Kolfin teaches art history at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Dutch art of the seventeenth century and has a special interest in images of Black figures. He recently co-curated the acclaimed exhibition Black in Rembrandt’s Time at the Rembrandt House Museum (Amsterdam 2020).

This program is made possible through the generous support of Bader Philanthropies, Inc.

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.

Online, Launches 22 June 2021

Learn more: https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/thought-provoking-care-packages/

Are you looking for a creative summer project? Artists from Dark Matter Playgroup and its companion exhibition Superradiance offer creative inspiration in this self-directed artmaking experience. This program is free—register online and pick up your care package complete with directions, prompts and art materials! Sign up now, spaces are limited. Post your creative reflections online with the #AgnesCares hashtag.

Care packages will be available for pick up at Agnes starting 22 June during gallery hours. Prior registration is required. Unfortunately, materials cannot be shipped.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Steadman Foundation.

Online, Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:15–1 pm (ET)

Sign up to save your spot: https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/talks-tours-events/deep-looking-22-june-2021/

Slow down! Deeply observe works of art in select Agnes exhibitions. Guided by community facilitators, this contemplation practice allows for relaxation and new insights. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program.

Agnes will send you the link to connect to this online program via Zoom prior to the program event.

An outgrowth of the Dark Matter Playgroup micro-residency, Superradiance is a group exhibition featuring new work by Andy Berg, GHY Cheung, Bicky Marquez, Chrissy Poitras, Noah Scheinman and Kyle Topping. Dark Matter Playgroup is a nomadic mentorship-based program supporting adaptive forms of collectivity and art making under the conditions of a global pandemic. Affiliated with Drift: Art and Dark Matter, the micro-residency takes up a conceptual notion of dark matter as an invisible and undetectable “mattering” that might pull together Playgroup participants. Superradiance is a refraction of this group’s shared trajectory and combined efforts named for a phenomenon of collectivity and the assemblage of moving energies in coherent excitation.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Steadman Foundation.

Online,
Thursdays 6 May–24 June 2021, 4–5:30 pm (ET)

Sign up for one workshop or all of them:

https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/classes-workshops-camps/virtual-art-hive-agnes-spring-2021/

Art Hive is a creative community that draws upon the innately therapeutic nature of art making. Make time for yourself to recharge and get inspired! Art Hive invites you to experiment and play as you explore the artistic process. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program, this weekly program is free and projects are designed to use materials you already have on hand. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Birks Family Foundation.