This Week at Agnes

Exhibition

Fluorescent Beige: Opening Reception + AGNES Members’ preview

27 September 2025

Janice Reid’s Fluorescent Beige is on display in our off-site exhibition space from 12 September to 9 November 2025. Please join us for the free opening party on 27 September, 2:00–4:00 pm. There will be refreshments and a chat between the artist and guest curator, Tianna Edwards.

AGNES Members are invited to a member-only preview from 1:00–2:00 pm! Members can chat 1:1 with Reid and Edwards and enjoy catered snacks. If you’re an AGNES Member, register for the preview!

Not yet a member? Become one today!

Thank you to Yellow House at Queen’s for collaborating with us on Fluorescent Beige.

Janice Reid. Photo by Christopher Wahl.

Digital Agnes

With Opened Mouths Season 3, Episode 8

Podcast out now!

In this episode, host Qanita Lilla talks with Emebet Belete about her community-driven art projects and her passion for arts education. Emebet shares how her art has been influenced by her youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, global travels, and how her art practice has evolved to include large-scale projects which cover pieces of public infrastructure through a process called “yarn storming.”

Listen on Digital Agnes or wherever you get your podcasts!

With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is produced by Agnes Etherington Art Centre in partnership with Queen’s University’s campus radio station, CFRC 101.9 FM.

Emebet Belete. Photo courtesy of artist. Design by Everlovin’.

Event

Historical Costume Ball Drag Show Fashion Pageant Spectacular (again)!

3 October 6:30–9:00 pm @ Grant Hall (43 University Ave)

Agnes drags the late 19th century into the 21st!

Agnes launches Patterns for All Bodies 2The Fall Victorian Line 1880 >> 2025. Join us for another Historical Costume Ball Drag Show Fashion Pageant Spectacular.

Victorian garb from the Dress Collection at Agnes are re-imagined by local drag artists Dare de LaFemme, Tyffanie Morgan and Rowena Whey, and performed for the first time on the runway. Music by DJ TigerStylez and dresses by Jessica Dykins.

This event also marks the launch of a whole new line of PfAB content on Digital Agnes: downloadable historical dress patterns, behind-the-scenes videos and resources to learn about all things fancy dress!

Come costumed up and ready to mingle! Tickets are free, but limited!

Patterns for All Bodies is supported by Bader Philanthropies.

Drag artists Tyffanie Morgan and Dare de LaFemme Photo: Liz Cooper.

Looking Ahead

Portraiture and Storytelling with Janice Reid: 28 September, 1:30–4:30 pm

Join artist Janice Reid for a talk and photography workshop that explores portraiture as a form of active memorial and a way to reimagine pasts and futures.

Working with a model and backdrop, participants will learn techniques in studio portraiture while reflecting on the layers of identity, memory, and place. Bring your phone or camera—some equipment will be available to borrow. Register today (bursaries are available!).

Presented with support from the Iva Speers Fund for Art Education.

Deep Looking: Spirits of the Land: 25 September @ 12:15 pm

Agnes trained docents lead participants on a journey through the exhibition, making space for discussion and interpretation. On 25 September, meet at Stauffer Library’s Atrium to view and discuss Spirits of the Land, paintings by contemporary Indigenous artists Jaylene Cardinal and Dakota Ward.

Register for this free and participatory tour today! 

The docent program is supported by the Lloyd-Carr Harris Foundation.

Creation Station and Drag Story Time: 4 October, 1–4 pm

Team Agnes welcomes you for this special edition of Creation Station  on 4 October  celebrating the launch of Patterns for All Bodies.

We invite families and children 6+ to Drag Storytime with Dare De LaFemme. Following this, discover the joy of wordplay in a hands-on crossword puzzle creation workshop led by local cruciverbalist Haley Sarfeld.

Register today! 

This program is supported by the Davies Charitable Foundation.

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