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Postcard from the Balkans: Socrates & scooters

Jenna Simeonov - Jul 22, 2022

This special edition of our Summer Research Postcards features Jenna Simeonov, the Department's Communications & Office Assistant, who shares some highlights from her recent trip to Slovenia and Croatia:

M.A.C. candidate joins Radio-Canada to discuss MMFA internship

Jul 14, 2022

Art Conservation student Antonia Mappin-Kasirer joined Sophie Fauchner on Radio-Canada's Parasol et Gobelets for a segment called "Les coulisses du MBAM" ("Backstage at the MMFA").

Dr. Joan Schwartz inducted as 2022 ACA Fellow

Jul 11, 2022

The Association of Canadian Archivists has inducted Dr. Joan M. Schwartz, Queen's Art History Professor, as its newest 2022 ACA Fellow.

Art Conservation program founder appointed to the Order of Canada

Jul 08, 2022

Ian Hodkinson, founder of Queen's University's Art Conservation program, has been appointed to the Order of Canada.

Research Postcards: Ben Pulver in Paris

Jul 08, 2022

"This summer, I am in Paris making use of various archives and libraries, focusing on French telecommunications art and its surrounding philosophical and political discourses in the 1980s, before the Internet."

Research Postcards: Cicely Haggerty in New York City

Jul 08, 2022

"My role at the gallery is to help a former A.I.R. fellow, Sky Syzygy, with their current archival/curatorial project, 'Liberating Gender/Gender Resistance.'”

M.A. student curates sustainability-focused Union Gallery exhibition

Jul 07, 2022

M.A. student Akosua Adasi has curated Imagining Sustainable Futures, the exhibition currently on at Union Gallery's Main Space until July 23, 2022.

Prof. Antonia Behan discusses weaver Ethel Mairet

Jul 07, 2022

Art History professor Antonia Behan discusses her The Journal of Modern Craft article, "Ethel Mairet's Textile Biotechnics and the Aesthetics of Materials", as part of Garland's Reinventing the Wheel series.

Postcards from Venice: pasta by sunset

Jul 06, 2022

"Out of all the exhibitions we visited, I have three favourites which really stood out and I connected with the most."

Research Postcards: Prof. Gauvin Bailey in the Mascarene Islands

Jul 06, 2022

"I am currently in the Mascarene Islands (La Réunion, Mauritius) – best known as the former home of the dodo – for a month as phase II of my summer research on architecture and slavery in French former colonies."

Open Art Histories Pedagogy Institute comes to campus

Jun 09, 2022

The Institute brings together educators from various disciplines, examining important pedagogical issues, strategies for increasing arts education's accessibility and diversity, and methods of putting these concepts into practice.

Postcards from Venice: the huge history of art

Jun 07, 2022

In a special series of Q&As, we check in with students of this year's Venice Summer School (ARTH 380), who spent the month of May immersed in the art scene of the Venice Biennale.