This Week at Agnes

Exhibition Celebration

Don’t miss this occasion to come together and celebrate a suite of exhibitions including Chris Curreri: A Surrogate, A Proxy, A Stand-In; Tom Thomson? The Art of Authentication; Shelby Lisk: Shé:kon se’onhwentsyà:ke ratinékere tsi nihá:ti nè:ne yesanorónhkhwa (there are still people in the world that love you); History Is Rarely Black or White; Studies in Solitude: The Art of Depicting Seclusion and A guest + a host = a ghost.

Refreshments are available with remarks around 7:30 pm. This event is free and open to everyone. To monitor numbers, we ask you to please register.

Shelby Lisk: Shé:kon se’onhwentsyà:ke ratinékere tsi nihá:ti nè:ne yesanorónhkhwa (there are still people in the world that love you)

Shelby Lisk is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and photographer with roots in Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) whose art practice is grounded in her connection to and place in the world as a Kanyen’kehá:ka woman.

Equal parts title and reminder, Lisk’s project centres women in her life who extend and continue to model an ethic of care. Initiated in spring 2021, during Ontario’s third lockdown, Lisk worked collaboratively with these women to design earrings that she subsequently beaded and gifted. The outcomes of this exchange are documented in a series of photographic portraits.

Curated by Michelle Bunton and Suzanne van de Meerendonk

Connected to Agnes’s Studios in Solitude micro-residency, this exhibition is supported by City of Kingston Arts Fund, Kingston Arts Council, and Bader Legacy Fund.

History Is Rarely Black or White

This is the last week to see History Is Rarely Black or White (to 20 March 2022)! Join us for this free, in-person, lunch-hour tour led by our friendly Community Docents. Sign up.

The exhibition interrogates cotton garments in the Queen’s Collection of Canadian Dress and connects these materials to resource extraction, Indigenous displacement, enslaved labour and the Underground Railroad. History Is Rarely Black or White engages contemporary artists Karin Jones, Gordon Shadrach, and Damian Jöel to examine colonial history and envision a radically positive future.

Canadian Art in Isolation with Tatum Dooley and Margaux Smith

When lockdowns were first introduced in March 2020, Toronto-based duo artist Margaux Smith and writer Tatum Dooley initiated the Canadian Art in Isolation project, which donates artwork to seniors living in publicly funded long-term care residences. As part of a residency at Agnes, Margaux and Tatum deliver a public talk that reflects on the project’s impact and outcomes and considers the potentiality of art as care in relation to systemic loneliness. The talk is accompanied by two workshops that connect the art-making public to Kingstonians affected by isolation using a reciprocal ‘prompt and response’ method. Registration is required for all programs.  This program is connected to the exhibition Studies in Solitude: The Art of Depicting Seclusion on view through 26 June 2022.

Canadian Art in Isolation
Public Talk, In-Person and Online, 17 March, 6:30–7:30 pm

Art Hive
Workshop, In-Person, 17 March, 4–6 pm

Prompt and Response
Workshop, In-person, 18 March, 1–2 pm (for all ages)

Generously supported by the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund.

Talking about Artist Talks with Hiba Abdallah

In this professional development workshop, artist Hiba Abdallah walks us through the essentials of what goes into a meaningful artist talk and how to better structure our ideas. Sign up.

This program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and co-presented with Agnes, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Union Gallery.

Virtual Art Hive @Agnes

This is the final week of Virtual Art Hive (at least for now!)

Independently create while finding inspiration through weekly themes and conversations. Led by Harper Johnston. All levels of artistic experience are welcome.

Sign up.

Members’ Mondays

Enjoy a special members-only event and experience Agnes’s new 2022 exhibitions Chris Curreri: A Surrogate, A Proxy, A Stand-In, Tom Thomson? The Art of Authentication and the continuing exhibition Studies in Solitude: The Art of Depicting Seclusion. Learn more.

Agnes Art Camp

Save the date: camp registration and the bursary request form open on 21 March!

4–8, 11–15, 18–22 and 25–29 July
9 am–4 pm
(before and aftercare is included, 8:30–9 am and 4–4:30 pm)
$265 (members $250)

Bursaries are made possible by the Rita Friendly Kaufman Fund.