This Week at Agnes

AGNES Sweeps the Ontario Galleries Awards

As the only annual juried awards of its kind, the iconic Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement, artistic merit, and excellence of arts institutions and professionals in the public art gallery sector.

“The GOG awards are an important moment to reflect on the social and civic impact that public galleries have on our communities and to celebrate the extraordinary work we undertake—work that often goes unnoticed because it is so seamless,” says Emelie Chhangur, Director and Curator. “I am mega proud of Agnes this year, whose activities, hard work and innovative practices have rightfully been acknowledged by our peers across the province.”

Agnes swept this year’s GOG Awards, receiving five! Exhibition of the Year, Budget under $20,000 Thematic was awarded to A guest + a host = a ghost and Monographic went to Shelby Lisk’s Shé:kon se’onhwentsyà:ke ratinékere tsi nihá:ti nè:ne yesanorónhkhwa (there are still people in the world that love you). Qanita Lilla took home a Curatorial Writing Award for the With Opened Mouths brochure and Graphic Designer Vincent Perez received a Design Award for the With Opened Mouths wordmark. Graphic Designer John McCusker won the Art Book Design Award for Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens: The Power Given to Abstractions that Make Us Stupid. Read more about each project.

Collection Count + Care with David Milne, Allyson Mitchell and Maud Darling

Collection Count + Care seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection. What stories does the collection tell?  Charlotte Gagnier, Program Coordinator at Agnes speaks to the conversation between David Milne’s Wicker Chair, 1914, oil on canvas;  Allyson Mitchell’s Old Rosie, 2000, fun fur; and  Maud Darling’s Crazy Quilt around 1900, silk and cotton.

Johnson, Johnston and Macrae Investment Group, part of CIBC Private Wealth Wood Gundy is the sponsor for Collection Count + Care and its related programs.

Accepting applications for an MA and PhD in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Queen’s University

Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies is a collaboration between the Department of Film and Media and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, offering a unique opportunity for a funded one-year MA and a four-year PhD. The program’s three strongly interconnected areas of focus—studies, production, and curation—are designed to stimulate inventive dialogue in ways that ensure their respective influence, and in ways that open exciting points of access to multiple disciplinary formations. This collaborative tripartite structure is not offered in any other film, media, cinema, art or communication Master’s or PhD program in Ontario. Learn more.