Creative Production and Expression

Inuit Nunangat: Where Two Worlds Collide (From the Art and Waste in Pannituuq [Pangnirtung] Project)

kvd1 — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:20:05 +0000

micky renders

Inuit Nunangat is a site where differing epistemologies and cosmologies collide. The Arctic waste crisis stems from a culture of wasting that is capitalist and not Inuit. With the delicate Arctic ecosystem degrading due to climate change, escalating resource extraction, the opening of the Northwest Passage, and the expansion of NORAD, unprecedented volumes of waste and contaminants are causing unknowable changes in life, land, sea, and ice. At the intersection of art, politics and activism, the Art and Wastes in Pangnirtung Project challenges assumptions about Inuit and exposes the pervasive nature of settler colonization as the root cause of wastes.

Location of photograph:

Pannituuq (Pangnirtung), Nunavut

Submission Year:

2023

Aging with Oasis

kvd1 — Tue, 31 May 2022 14:32:41 +0000

Riley Malvern

Oasis is a program co-developed by older adults to strengthen and sustain their communities to support aging in place. The Oasis Evaluation and Expansion research team has been working with Oasis communities since 2018 to expand the program across Canada and to evaluate a number of health and well-being outcomes. This photo depicts a mural that represents the power of communities coming together. Each square of this mural was designed by an Oasis member from communities across Kingston and Belleville. Together, these squares form the Oasis logo, which was designed by members of the original Oasis community.

Location of photograph:

Kingston, Ontario

Submission Year:

2022

Katherine McKittrick

kvd1 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:54:54 +0000

A new approach to Black Studies

How to help high school seniors cope with milestones missed due to coronavirus

kvd1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:25:11 +0000

Dr. Allyson G. Harrison (Psychology), Clinical Director of Queen's Regional Assessment & Resource Centre, writes for The Conversation Canada.

Confronting COVID-19

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COVID-19

Coronavirus

Student

High School

Changing lives through music: The lessons we can learn

MLR7 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:11:41 +0000

Since 2015, Sistema Kingston has provided underserved children with music training, helping them build confidence, persistence, and a sense of responsibility. A research project is now examining how students and families experience the program and its impact on their lives.

Capturing the Art of Research: Celebrating the 2020 prize recipients

MLR7 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:52:42 +0000

The Queen’s Art of Research photo contest celebrates its fifth year, with the selection of ten stunning winning images.

Explore photos from Queen's researchers with the Art of Research as they take you behind-the-scenes of their #QueensuResearch

Under the Umbrella

kvd1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:55:43 +0000

Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin

On a very hot day, I went to the Adelabu Market in Ibadan, Nigeria, to meet Sarah. Several phone calls later, we found each other. She brought me inside a nearly abandoned plaza. “Less noisy,” she said. We climbed up to the highest floor. During the interview, she told me her livelihood as a market woman funded her children’s education. Rain or shine, she is at the market every day, under her umbrella. When we finished the interview, I looked down. What a view! As I snapped a photo, I wondered: “What are the stories of the other people under the umbrellas?”

Location of photograph:

Ibadan, Nigeria

Prize name:

Best Description

Submission Year:

2019-20

A Passion for Paint

MLR7 — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:17:44 +0000

When she decided to pursue a career in art conservation, Patricia Smithen had no idea that it would one day mean overseeing a room full of butterflies at the esteemed Tate Modern contemporary art gallery. She also had no idea that she would one day find herself teaching in the very department where she had received her own training 25 years earlier.

Keep Cool Boy - The Jets Aloft in West Side Story

kvd1 — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:04:13 +0000

Tim Fort

In a rare moment, before a Franz Kline-inspired setting, the Jets achieve a perfectly synchronized lift-off in this production of West Side Story mounted in celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. After forty-six seasons at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, this production also represented my 60th (and final) happy entanglement directing mostly musical theatre works on the playhouse's historical stage. Twenty-seven performers – from newly minted conservatory graduates to Broadway veterans – enabled this epic work to fly.

Location of photograph:

Weston Playhouse, Vermont

Prize name:

Winner, Art in Action

Submission Year:

2018-19

Learning to Live (Not Walking in Line)

kvd1 — Wed, 08 May 2019 15:54:42 +0000

Theodore Christou

The history of research and scholarship in education is a record of our efforts to make sense of the world. How ought we to live? What should we learn, embrace, and resist? From antiquity to anarchism, or, from Aristotle to Pink Floyd, we have known that we should never confuse schooling with education. Schools, whether they are traditional, progressive, colonial, or transgressive, have all been instruments of oppression as well as resistance.

Location of photograph:

Wall graffiti in Thessaloniki, Greece

Prize name:

50th Anniversary Prize – Faculty of Education

Submission Year:

2018-19

Rena Upitis: Digital tools that support music education

moonr — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:44:59 +0000

Rena Upitis describes her research on digital tools that support music education as well as her development of a music tool suite for music teachers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF6nVTGRW1o

Patricia Smithen: Art conservation

moonr — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:28:22 +0000

When she decided to pursue a career in art conservation, Patricia Smithen had no idea that it would one day mean overseeing the care and feeding of a room full of butterflies at the Tate Modern, one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary art galleries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5byH0lSOMw

Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City

kvd1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:24:25 +0000

Ana Ruiz Aguirre

The Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City was designed by internationally renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán. I visited this impressive architectural feat during my ongoing MITACS-funded trip to Mexico City, undertaken with the objective to access archival collections regarding exhibitions of Cuban visual art displayed in Mexico. The Centro Nacional houses not only arts schools, but also national archival collections and research centres. The exhibition files held in these collections are central to the development of my doctoral research project at Queen's, entitled "Twenty Years of Cultural Diplomacy: Cuban Visual Art Exhibitions in North America, 1989-2014."

Location of photograph:

Mexico City, Mexico

Submission Year:

2015-16

Collateral research

kvd1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:14:45 +0000

Joan Schwartz

A walk through the MET is an exercise in experiential learning, no matter what one’s area of interest. Every visit to New York, I make my pilgrimage to the great 19th century painting Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year, I strode past the large-scale medieval sculptures, altarpieces, tapestries, and furniture on my way to the Robert Lehman Collection, but then Ack! the Collection was temporarily closed! Disheartened, I turned around and started back through the Medieval Gallery when I was struck by this sculpture in raking light.

Location of photograph:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA

Submission Year:

2016-17

Christ in Majesty, Hereford Choir Screen, George Gilbert Scott 1862

kvd1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:11:39 +0000

Matthew Reeve

I was recently invited to participate in a collaborative project with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Paul Mellon Centre to publish the first account of the great screen by Scott and Skidmore (now in the V&A). After presenting our preliminary work in summer 2016, a handful of experts were allowed unprecedented access to the screen. Standing precariously on a chair with one leg and leaning on my colleague from Berkeley, this photo of the central Christ in Majesty was a lucky shot captured with my iPhone.

Location of photograph:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Submission Year:

2016-17