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Help us sustain and enhance our capacity for innovation and amplify the impact of the art we champion through inspiring exhibitions, public programs and academic engagement programs.

We cannot achieve this vision without the support of benefactors like you.

Our work at Agnes is driven by the belief that encounters with original works of art contribute to understanding the world, ourselves and others. For the Queen’s community, the gallery and its programs are an inspiring research resource, a refuge of aesthetic sustenance, a ceremonial and social gathering place, and a creative laboratory of visual culture for students and faculty across many disciplines. For the wider community, it is a cultural beacon for art lovers that connects them with art and artists, deep knowledge of wider art movements, and with one another.

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Become a Member

Agnes Etherington Art Centre’s membership program reaches out to all who are passionate about art—on campus, in the community, and beyond.

Members sustain and advance Agnes as a leading art museum and social hub. Join now to be involved in the work of the gallery, and to connect with artists and art through learning, creation and participation.

Installation view of In the Present: The Zacks Gift of 1962.

Installation view of In the Present: The Zacks Gift of 1962. Photo: Tim Forbes

Individual/Family Memberships

Pricing

  • Adult $60
  • Senior $40 
  • Student $20
  • Artist/Underemployed $25
  • Family $95
  • Alumni $100
  • Curator’s Circle $275
  • Director’s Circle $1000

Join

Core Benefits

  • Discounted access to publications, fee-based courses, programs, and ticketed events
  • Invitations to exclusive special members’ events with visiting artists, curators and scholars
  • Member newsletters and communications
  • Discount package deal offerings at arts and culture related institutions
  • Free Admission to select museums and galleries through the Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries’s Reciprocal Admission Program
Adult

All Core Benefits.

Senior

All Core Benefits.

Student

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Arts-based educational opportunities
Artist/Underemployed

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Artistic networking opportunities
Family

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Discounts on Agnes Camps
  • Advanced registration for select programming
Alumni

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Advanced registration for select programming
  • Free admission to select museums and galleries through the Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM) 
  • Free Agnes swag
  • Invitations to exclusive to Director’s Circle only events and behind-the-scenes access
  • Invitation to alumni gallery tour during Homecoming
Curator's Circle

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Discounts on Agnes Camps
  • Advanced registration for select programming
  • Free admission to select museums and galleries through the Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM) 
  • Free Agnes swag
  • “After Hours” programming, behind-the-scenes opportunities and vault tours
  • Invitations to exclusive Curator’s Circle-only events
  • Tax receipts will be issued for Curator’s Circle at $175
Director's Circle

All Core Benefits, plus:

  • Discounts on Agnes Camps
  • Advanced registration for select programming
  • Free admission to select museums and galleries through the Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM) 
  • Free Agnes swag
  • “After Hours” programming, behind-the-scenes opportunities and vault tours
  • Invitations to exclusive to Director’s Circle only events and behind-the-scenes access
  • Tax receipts will be issued for Director’s Circle at $900
“Joining Agnes as a member helps people feel like stakeholders in their community organizations. It’s important for art galleries to have a diverse membership base that represents all of Kingston. The gallery is a welcoming space and it’s important for community members to feel that the art gallery is theirs.”
Laura Watt, Agnes Member
people standing in a lobby chatting

Dreams of Sentences with Renee Gladman. Photo: Garrett Elliott

Corporate Memberships

Pricing

  • Community & Local Non-profit Organizations $750
  • Corporate Advocate $2,500
  • Corporate Catalyst $5,000

Core Corporate Benefits

  • Discounted access to publications, fee-based courses, programs, and ticketed events
  • Free Admission to select museums and galleries through the Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries’s Reciprocal Admission Program
  • Invitations to exclusive special members’ events with visiting artists, curators and scholars
  • Member newsletters and communications
Community & Local Non-profit Organizations

All Core Corporate Benefits, plus:

  • 10% off select AGNES facility rentals
  • Use of Agnes’s community hub for one of your organization’s events or staff retreats

Join

Corporate Advocate

All Core Corporate Benefits, plus:

  • 10% off select AGNES facility rentals
  • Free AGNES swag
  • Complimentary publications for select exhibitions
  • Recognition in annual report and on donor wall
  • Invitations to special curatorial tours, presentations by Agnes Curators across all areas of collection and exhibition activity
  • Invitations to director-circle only exclusive events for 10 select constituents
  • Complimentary behind-the-scenes access and private vault tours

Join

Corprate Catalyst

All Core Corporate Benefits, plus:

  • 10% off select AGNES facility rentals
  • Free AGNES swag
  • Complimentary publications for select exhibitions
  • Recognition in annual report and on donor wall
  • Invitations to special curatorial tours, presentations by Agnes Curators across all areas of collection and exhibition activity
  • Invitations to director-circle only exclusive events for 25 select constituents
  • Complimentary behind-the-scenes access, conservation lab and private vault tours
  • Dedicated webpage featuring your company logo

Join

Make a Donation

The superb collections and programs of Agnes depend on the generosity of our donors.

Please join the many Agnes members, Queen’s alumni, faculty and staff, community members and friends who believe in the transformational power of art by making a gift today.

Your donation may be directed to support studio and gallery-based programs for children, youth and adults; to fund conservation treatment of works of art in our collections; to enable creative learning opportunities for Queen’s students and community groups; or to help bring art to life through exhibitions and events such as artists’ talks, tours, screenings, special events, and symposia.

Thinking about making Agnes the home of your art collection? Read our  Acquisition and Donations Policies and Procedures (under Policies).

Donate Now

Re-Imagine your legacy at Agnes

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” (T. Merton)

Imagine a student from the Class of 2061 finding themselves in Robert Houle’s Zero Hour and losing themselves in one of Rembrandt’s portraits; a 7th grader learning the art of observation in the galleries of Agnes Etherington Art Centre; an artist not yet born having their first museum exhibition.

You can help us amplify the impact of the art we champion through inspiring exhibitions, public programs and academic engagement for generations to come!

Legacy giving is an important and meaningful way for you to contribute to the success of Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Queen’s University. With your commitment to the future, you will ensure that the art which inspires you today will continue to play a central role in the Queen’s community and beyond. A legacy gift also gives you the satisfaction of knowing that future generations of artists and art lovers will benefit from your dedication.

Your gift to Agnes will ensure that the next generation of art lovers has access to our extensive collection and engaging programming.

How to direct your legacy giving to Agnes Etherington Art Centre

You can direct a financial bequest to Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Agnes) to help support its current strategies and address emerging priorities. A gift like this will grant Agnes the flexibility to determine how your gift can best be used to support its mission. Please see below for sample bequest wording.

Legal Name: Queen’s University at Kingston
Charitable Registration Number: (BN) 10786 8705 RR0001

“I give, devise, and bequeath to Queen’s University at Kingston the sum of $_______, (or % share of my estate) (the “gift”) to be directed to Agnes Etherington Art Centre to support current strategies or emerging priorities at the discretion of the Director. In the event that circumstances make the specified use of the gift or any part of the gift no longer practical or desirable, the Board of Trustees of the University are hereby authorized to make changes in its use in keeping as far as possible with the spirit and general intent of the gift.”

Please contact the Gift Planning Office if you would like more information on current funds that support priorities such as public programming, conservation treatment or acquisitions at Agnes, or if you would like to explore establishing your own named fund to support Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

* US residents are encouraged to contact the Gift Planning Office to discuss planned gifts originating from American residents.

Make a Planned Gift

Tania Willard, Surrounded/Surrounding, 2018, wood-burning fire ring, laser-etched cedar wood logs from Secwépemc Territory, relief print on paper. Collection of the artist. Gifted to Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Kingston, 2019. Photo: Tim Forbes

Tania Willard, Surrounded/Surrounding, 2018, wood-burning fire ring, laser-etched cedar wood logs from Secwépemc Territory, relief print on paper. Collection of the artist. Gifted to Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Kingston, 2019. Photo: Tim Forbes

"Bequests to the Agnes Acquisition fund have significant impact for academic engagement at Agnes. These funds provide sustained support for targeted art purchases that are otherwise unobtainable. Artworks acquired through bequest enhance student learning and living by repeatedly bringing students, of all disciplines, into meaningful relationship with artistic practice." 
Alicia Boutilier, Chief Curator
"The late Donna Lunau (Artsci’83) made a bequest through her estate to support the Iva Speers Fund for Art Education. We know these accessible art and wellness programs are meeting a need in the community.”  
Shannon Brown, former Program Coordinator
Art Hive @Agnes. Photo: Garrett Elliott

Art Hive @ Agnes

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