Tuesday 23 April
7°C and Broken Clouds
Another milestone: Agnes is closed to the public as we prepare for Agnes Reimagined. Stay tuned for plans for off-site programming!
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Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Salary: starting at $56,789/year + benefits
Closing Date: 12 April 2024
See competition #J0324-0807 at Queen’s University CareerQ site for the full job description and details on how to apply.
Agnes is seeking an energetic, creative thinker to fill a role of Communications and Marketing Coordinator. This position plays an influential and collaborative role that reimagines communications, marketing, and promotions within both a public gallery and an academic setting. This is a full-time, continuing position.
The Communications and Marketing Coordinator is a creative thinker who shapes and implements comprehensive communications, marketing, and promotional plans for the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AGNES). Reporting to the Director and Curator, and working closely with administrative and artistic program staff, this position ensures effective internal communications and external promotion of AGNES’s programs and achievements. Responsibilities encompass public and media relations, print and digital media including advertising, alternative forms of promotion, social media, e-communications and targeted marketing campaigns, coordination of newsletters, and website management. Sensitive to the role and mission of AGNES, the Communications and Marketing Coordinator shapes an astute communication, marketing and promotional program that engages diverse audiences locally and globally.
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Education Assistant, Special Projects
Hourly wage: $18/hour; 35 hours/week; 30 weeks
Dates of employment: 3 September 2024–28 March 2025
Apply by 30 June 2024
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Working closely with the Program Coordinator, the Education Assistant, Special Projects plays an important role in redesigning Agnes’s school programs. This fall, Agnes’s programs are operating offsite as a major building renovation is underway as part of Agnes Reimagined. During the two years offsite Agnes is imagining new ways of interacting with the community and piloting new programs.
With the supervision of the Program Coordinator, the intern works with local artists to imagine, research and write a new school program, to be launched in winter 2025, and assist with the training of Queen’s students and community members who volunteer to lead the program.
The Education Assistant has the opportunity to deepen and apply their knowledge of museum education, develop skills in project management, collaborate with museum staff across several departments, and meet and network with art educators, artists, teachers and curators.
Paige Van Tassel introduces Land Protectors during the Exhibition Preview.
We accept internship proposals from students in post-secondary credit programs: contact the relevant staff to explore the possibilities.
Queen’s University courses are available: An Internship through Art History (ARTH 395), and Practica for graduate students through Art History (ARTH 880) and Cultural Studies (CUST 895). These intense hands-on applied learning and research opportunities are led by Agnes staff members who are faculty in the respective departments.
Volunteers are integral to our work at Agnes, from those who serve on the Advisory Board to others who offer gallery tours, support creative studio sessions, expand gallery outreach or assist with collections. Members of the greater Kingston and Queen’s communities are invited to be involved. We offer a variety of volunteer opportunities to participate and gain meaningful arts experience.
Agnes is looking for enthusiastic individuals who would like to join our docent team! This year, we combined our student and community docents into a single program. Apply by 14 September 2023.
Agnes Docent is a volunteer position at Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Docents are part of a creative team of students and community members that engage with the Kingston community and beyond. Docents work in a team environment where they can learn and talk about visual culture, artistic practice, art education and public speaking.
Docents provide welcoming access to Agnes programs and collections for diverse audiences. They facilitate participation and exchange and help to foster empowering relationships with art by:
• delivering educational school programs for students in grades 1–12 which include a gallery tour and an art activity;*
• conducting tours of Agnes for adults and community groups;
• participating in training and professional development meetings; and
• assisting with other special programs and projects as personal time permits.
*New docents primarily lead school programs. They deliver other programs as they gain experience.
Time requirements: Docents volunteer for tours and programs that take place on weekdays, evenings and weekends. Docents attend weekly two-hour training meetings on Friday afternoons (2:30–4:30 pm) from September to March (except student reading weeks and exam periods). Depending on scheduling, docents contribute approximately two additional hours every second week delivering and supporting Agnes programs.
Qualifications: We welcome all members of the community who are interested in and want to learn more about visual arts, creativity, education and public speaking. Experience working with children ages 6–13 is an asset. Undergraduate and graduate students from all academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre accepts exhibition and program proposals on an ongoing basis. These are reviewed periodically, according to our needs and on a two-to-three-year advance planning cycle. For consideration, submit a brief outline of your proposal and documentation by email under the subject line “Submission,” to the attention of the Director.
While proposals are a valued part of our research ensuring our awareness of emerging artists, new work, innovative presentation formats, and scholarship only a small percentage of proposals can be realized. Due to the volume of submissions, we may respond only to those we are able to pursue. See our Exhibition Policy.
Queen’s University faculty in all disciplines are encouraged to explore exhibition initiatives and contribute to programs. For information, see more.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a Recommender for the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) Exhibition Assistance Grants program. We invite visual, media and craft artists living in eastern Ontario (Region 4) to apply for financial assistance for costs related to a confirmed upcoming exhibition.
Agnes will only have two application deadlines this year: 15 September 2023, at 1 pm ET and 12 January 2024, at 1 pm ET.
For program guidelines, click here. For specific application inquiries, contact Kate Ducharme at kate.ducharme@queensu.ca
