Agnes Etherington Art Centre

This Week at Agnes

Exhibition

Hotline

On view until 18 January 2026

Visit the penultimate exhibition in our temporary gallery at 207 Stuart Street! Hotline showcases over 40 HIV/AIDS advocacy posters from the Trellis HIV & Community Care collection at Queen’s University Archives.

Open Wednesday–Sunday, hours vary.

Dr. Santiago Perez Patrigeon during their talk at Hotline on 1 December 2025 to mark World AIDS Day. Photo: Garrett Elliott. This exhibition is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and produced in partnership with Trellis HIV & Community Care and Queen’s University Archives.

Artmaking

New Year, New Hobby

Winter Classes and Workshops

Looking to start a new artistic practice this year? Sign up for one of Agnes’s artmaking workshops or classes!

Queering Collage: monthly collaging sessions
Art Hive: weekly artmaking. Low stakes and drop-in!
Creation Station: family-focused artmaking sessions welcoming kids aged 2+ (Registration for winter sessions now open!)
Analogue Poster Making: day-long workshop with expert designers and printers Vincent Perez and Benjamin Nelson
Painting the Canadian Landscape: Impressionism in acrylic with artist Lisa Leskien
Archetypal Animation for Teens: Led by artist Stacey Sproule
Inspired Impressions: become an expert in linocut printmaking, also with Lisa Leskien

Click on any of the links above to learn more about and to register for classes!

Printing for giving with Lisa Leskien, 2025. Photo: Garrett Elliott.

Publication

“Part of doing the work is living it”: in conversation with scholar/author Katherine McKittrick

A conversation between Katherine McKittrick and Nasrin Himada:

A Smile Split by the Stars is a meditative and collaborative exhibition, focusing on nourbeSe philip’s poem, “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” An experiment by professor and scholar Katherine McKittrick and co-curated by Nasrin Himada, Agnes’s Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement, this exhibition was multi-dimensional, had many collaborators and was featured in two galleries in 2025, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Gallery 44: Centre for Contemporary Photography.

Get familiar with this work with this in-depth conversation between these two collaborators. Published by Public Parking.

Katharine McKittrick. Photo by Ray Zilli.

Exhibition and programs co-produced with Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University and The Revolutionary Demand for Happiness Working Group. Co-presented with the Ban Righ Centre, Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Looking Ahead

Midheaven

Midheaven is a series of new works by artist Stacey Sproule, in collaboration with artists Ambivalently Yours, Victoria Cheong, Erika DeFreitasand Sara Keller. Opening at our off-site location (207 Stuart St) on 30 January 2026. Join us for the opening reception, also on 30 January, 6–8 pm.

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Agnes Etherington Art Centre is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.

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