This Week at Agnes

Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture on European Art

Celebrate the immense legacy of the Baders at our annual Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture on European Art. This year, Agnes hosts Dr Stephanie Porras with her lecture, The Dutch in the Americas.

With footholds in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and along the west coast of Africa, the Dutch played a vital, yet understudied role in the early modern Americas. Outlining how the Dutch colonial project in the Americas both diverged and overlapped with their competitors, this year’s lecture considers the central role these “Dutch” artists, artworks and material goods played, presenting an alternate view of the colonial Americas.

Registration required for this free event. Join us online or in-person at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts.

Curated by Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art in celebration of Bader Day at Queen’s. Presented in partnership with the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, with support from the Bader Legacy Fund.

Celebrating the late Dr Alfred R Bader: A 100th Birthday Symposium

Bader Curator of European Art Suzanne van de Meerendonk will join Tanya Paul, Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), and prizewinning violinist Katya Poplyansky for the “Exhibition & Performance” session of this day long symposium to celebrate the late Dr Alfred Bader.

Van de Meerendonk and Paul will provide highlights of their recent collaborative exhibition at MAM: Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader. Themes from this exhibition, which focused on Alfred Bader’s biography and the values his life story instilled, in turn inspire the performance by Poplyansky of works by composers Heinrich Biber (1644-1704), Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt Gramatte (1899-1974), and Ana Sokolovic (1968-).

Registration for this free symposium can be found here.  The Exhibition & Performance session takes place at 5:15pm.

The Dreams of Sentences

Join us for an immersive evening with writer and artist, Renee Gladman whose work inhabits the spaces between crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. Gladman guides us through a spectrum of thought, where sentences become drawings, drawn lines orchestrate sound and music articulates the unknown.

Gladman is the author of numerous books, including novels, artist’s monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021.

A conversation follows the artist’s talk, moderated by independent curator and scholar, Safia Siad.

Curated by Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator of Academic Outreach and Community Engagement.

Get your tickets here: The Dreams of Sentences.

$2M investment for Agnes Reimagined

A successful application submitted by Agnes to Canadian Heritage’s Canada Cultural Spaces Fund means Agnes Reimagined receives a $2M boost with funds earmarked to fully realize our vision for the future of the historic Etherington House.

Further supporting the ethos of hospitality—a driving force behind Agnes Reimagined—and upholding Agnes Etherington’s wish to “further art in the community,” renovations  include the addition of ramps to access all entrances and exits, a lift inside the house for access to the second floor, and accessible kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms in the live-in artists’ residence on the second floor of the house, all while maintaining the historical attributes of the home.

Read more about this landmark funding in our recent announcement.