Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Major Fields of Interest: Traditional and Contemporary African Art; traditionally woven textiles; African myths, legends, and cultures
Undergraduate Experience: BA University of British Columbia Okanagan, Art History
Graduate Experience: MA University of Guelph, Art History
Supervisor: Dr. Juliana Bevilacqua
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Major Fields of Interest: Black feminist thought and art; third world and transnational feminisms; gaze theories; and critical race theory
Undergraduate Experience: Combined BA Honors degree in Art History and Comparative Literature (University of Alberta, 2019)
Graduate Experience: MA in Art History (Â鶹ÍřŐľ, 2023)
MA Thesis Title: "Radical Interventions and Resistant Black Looks: Wangechi Mutu’s Transgressive Black Female Subjectivity"
Supervisor: Dr. Jen Kennedy
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Kennedy!
Associate professor in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation Jen Kennedy receives the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award, the top teaching award at Queen’s University. Check out the article here.
Hannah Darvin just returned from a short research trip to New Haven, having received a 2024 Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant to work at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale.
Date
Friday October 4, 2024This year’s McDonald Stewart Lecture on the Art of Venice, organized by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation, is titled “The Life and Times of the Canada Pavilion in Venice,” presented by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, the Producer and Senior Manager of National Outreach at the . We warmly invite and encourage everyone to attend. The evening will begin with a reception at 5:30 PM in the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, followed by the lecture and discussion from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Isabel’s Screening Room.
The , the world’s premier international exhibition of contemporary art, boasts a rich history that dates back to the late nineteenth century. The Canada Pavilion, designed in 1957 by Milan’s Studio BBPR, is a significant example of Italian modernism and holds a special heritage designation. Between 2013 and 2018, the National Gallery of Canada meticulously restored this iconic building, which now showcases Canada’s contributions to global contemporary art.Join Josée Drouin-Brisebois from the National Gallery of Canada for what promises to be a fascinating inside look at “The Life and Times of the Canada Pavilion in Venice.”
The Department of Art History and Art Conservation is the place at Queen’s to explore and understand our visual world--past, present, and future. With a diverse array of distinguished scholars in global arts, architecture, museum studies, and material culture, we are a vibrant and inclusive community committed to fostering innovative, rigorous, and socially-engaged learning, creativity, and research.
The graduate students from Prof. Una D'Elia's class, ARTH 841: Moving Images: Sculptures, Ritual, and Living Traditions created a digital exhibition project has now been published.
