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This Week at Agnes
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Exhibition
OFF-SITE @ Gallery44, 4 April–24 May 2025
 A Smile Split by the Stars, an AGNES off–site exhibition, is now open at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Led by Katherine McKittrick, this exhibition exists as a collaboration between artists interpreting norbeSe philip’s poem, Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones. A Smile Split by the Stars offers a range of interpretations of the poem through essays, conversations, archival work, bookmaking, via photographic and textual narratives, in sounds and shared stories.
Several events accompany the exhibition, including a poetry reading by philip and two workshops with limited seat space. For more information visit A Smile Split by the Stars.
Participating artists and collaborators include Juliane Okot Bitek, Trish Salah, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Yaniya Lee, Sameen Mahboubi, Aaliyah Strachan, Muna Dahir, Cristian Ordóñez, Roya DelSol, and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Academic and Community Engagement, Nasrin Himada.
Co-produced by The Revolutionary Demand for Happiness, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Images Festival.
m. nourbeSe philip, excerpt from Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones, design by Cristian Ordóñez, 2024.
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Film Screening
15 April, 6 pm @ The Screening Room
 We’re marking the 25th anniversary of Sea in the Blood (2000), Richard Fung’s video work and its enduring impact on queer representation and video art with a screening and conversation with the artist.
Screened alongside Steam Clean (1990)—an unforgettable exploration of queer intimacy and resistance—this special program honours Fung’s legacy as a formative voice in video art and a powerful advocate for justice.
Richard Fung is a film maker and artist whose iconic video work examines subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS, justice in Israel/Palestine, and his own family history.
Spots are limited at this free event so register today.
Jointly hosted with Reel Out Festival and Trellis HIV & Community Care.
Richard Fung, Steam Clean, Film still, 1990.
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Digital Agnes
Season 3 Episode 3 out now!
Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa, Qanita Lilla talks with artist Jessica Karuhanga about her creative journeys from Sarnia, Ontario, to London, Ontario and how personal geographies have shaped her artistic practice. Jessica discusses Black embodiment, the audible demands of space, and moving toward art as experience and fulfillment.
Jessica is also currently featured in Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys, an AGNES traveling exhibition on until 11 May at Museum London. Can’t make it to London? Experience our digital exhibition.
Listen to With Opened Mouths on Digital AGNES or wherever you get your podcasts.
Jessica Karuhanga. Courtesy of artist.
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Artmaking
May + June 2025
 EronOne is one of the super cool graffiti artists behind AGNES’s monumental 2022 artwork Transformations, the graffiti project which covered Agnes’s former facades and changed the face of Queen’s University campus.
In May and June, EronOne delivers two sessions of Aerosol Art: An Introduction to Spray Paint. Participants develop designs in their sketchbooks before learning safe and effective spray-painting methods that bring their vision to life. These workshops culminate in the creation of a collaborative public mural. No prior experience is necessary and all supplies are included.
Workshops will take place at EronOne’s studio Wherehouse.
This workshop is for teen participants. Spots are limited so register now! Bursary applications are available.
Eron One painting a mural on a local business. Courtesy of artist.
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Artmaking
24 May 2025 1:30–4:30 pm
 Do you have a room or wall you want to transform? Join artist and muralist Katika Marczell for her workshop Transforming Spaces. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn tips and tricks to create beautiful murals and learn to scale your designs to fit larger spaces.
Spots in this workshop are limited so register now! Bursary applications are available.
Katika Marczell, Skateboard dog and Spaghetti Goose. Photo courtesy of artist.
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AGNES Talks
Now streaming on Digital Agnes
Watch Dr Stephanie Porras’ talk, The Dutch in the Americas, on the understudied presence of Dutch colonialists in what we now call North and South America. Outlining how the Dutch colonial project both diverged and overlapped with their competitors, this talk considers the central role these ‘Dutch’ artists, artworks and material goods played in the region, presenting an alternate view of the colonial Americas.
Presented with full captioning and downloadable transcript. Experience now on Digital AGNES.
Dr Stephanie Porras giving her lecture The Dutch in the Americas. Photo: Tim Forbes.
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Queen’s University
36 University Avenue
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
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Agnes Etherington Art Centre is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.
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