This Week at Agnes

Introduction to Modern Architecture and Basic Design

Join architectural educator and author Graham Livesey for this engaging 8-week course that combines short lectures and hands-on studio exercises.

Participants will learn about key developments in 20th-century modern and postmodern architecture, along with various design and art methods used in architectural education. Topics include avant-garde art movements, the Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, the International Style, and various approaches to the postmodern architecture that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

Each weekly session includes a 45-minute lecture and discussion, followed by a 75-minute design exercise using collage, photography and basic model-making techniques. Sessions conclude with a short group review.

This course is suitable for beginners and those looking to broaden their understanding of modern design principles. Register today! 

Deep Looking: Xenolithic 

Agnes’s trained docents lead participants through a session of Deep Looking in conjunction with Nicholas Crombach’s Xenolithic. Deep Looking program  facilitates conversations about exhibitions and artworks that are shaped by participants’ unique perspectives, opening possibilities for polyvocal interpretations.

Register now for this free experience.

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

Cultivating Sustainable Collections

This September, Agnes hosts Cultivating Sustainable Collections: Regenerative and Community-driven Care Practices, a two-day conference focusing on greener collections and conservation practices. Developed  for museum and collections professionals, but also ideal for students, collectors, artists and interested environmentalists, who want to make an impact in the fight against climate change.

This event consists of panel discussions in the mornings and hands-on workshops in the afternoons, featuring international and Canadian experts. Agnes is proud to offer this event in partnership with some amazing organizations, such as the Canadian Conservation Institute,  Centre for Sustainable Curating, Art History and Art Conservation, Film and Media, Vulnerable Media Lab, and Library, Archives and Special Collections, Queen’s University.

Register for this event today! 

This initiative is funded in part through the support of the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program, a program of the Gordon Foundation and administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation. With additional travel support from the Chancellor Dunning Trust Visitorship.