This Week at Agnes

Public Survey launches this week

Agnes is committed to continuously growing and improving its engagement with its visitors, particularly in today’s climate of rapid technological change. Agnes has engaged Nordicity to develop a Digital Strategy for the art museum that will include recommendations for our digital presence online and in-gallery.

As part of this process, Agnes is conducting a survey to better understand how audiences are currently engaging with Agnes through digital technology, and how Agnes’s audiences might like to engage with the art museum digitally in the future. Your time is valuable, and your feedback is important. The survey is short and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

This survey will provide us with important information about how you, our audiences and visitors, would like to interact with Agnes digitally.

Koerner Visiting Artist Ursula Johnson

Ursula Johnson is the 2020 Koerner Artist-in-Residence in Queen’s BFA (Visual Art) Program. Known for place-based performances in which she employs cooperative didactic intervention, Johnson is a performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has participated in over 30 group shows and 5 solo exhibitions. In 2017, her work was recognized by the Sobey Art Award. This talk is free and open to the public; a reception follows.

This residency and lecture are made possible by the generous support of the Koerner Foundation.

Featuring Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations

This free, lunch-hour exhibition tour is available on a drop-in basis.  A friendly and informed community docent will meet you in the Atrium before the guided gallery tour. Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations features video works, ephemera and production material created by Arnait Video Productions, the world’s leading women-centered Inuit filmmaking collective.

Featuring Spencer Evans, Doug Stewart and Charlotte Gagnier

Instigated and organized by dedicated member volunteers, INSIDE AGNES is a popular, informal community engagement program featuring musical performance, tea and insider art presentations by gallery staff and special guests. Join us this weekend: INSIDE AGNES is free and all are welcome.

Spencer Evans and Doug Stewart play a mix of classic tunes and Jazz standards by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Beatles, João Gilberto and others, with Evans on clarinet and Stewart on acoustic guitar, in a predominantly Bossa style.

Following tea, at 3 pm, enjoy an insider art talk with Charlotte Gagnier, Program Assistant. Charlotte Gagnier will discuss the history of the student docent program at Agnes and offer a glimpse into the process of developing our most recent school program Art Quest.

Creation Station

Free and fun sessions for children and their caregivers to get creative with qualified educators in the bright and airy André Biéler Studio. Sign up to save your spot.