Please join us on Thursday, February 15 at 3 pm - 5pm, in the Art and Media Lab at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts for the closing ceremony for the exhibition Liu Shiming: Spirit of Daily Life, curated by (Queen’s PhD student in Art History) with the assistance and support of the
Every two years, the Venice Biennale turns the city of Venice, Italy, into a massive, dynamic exhibition, featuring the work of hundreds of artists from over 75 countries and regions. ARTH 380 is a 4-week, 6-credit travel study course that gives students the extraordinary opportunity to experience Venice and its Biennale firsthand.
Professor and Bader Chair in Art Conservation
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
Aaron has wide ranging research interests related to the scientific analysis of art and archaeology. He has ongoing research towards the development of non-destructive techniques of analysis including X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), hyperspectral imaging, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Raman spectroscopy. Aaron ongoing research interests include historic artist’s pigments and their degradation pathways, and inorganic material sciences as applied toward the study of ancient metallurgy, ceramics, glazes, glasses. He also is interested in the technical history of artifacts and their manufacturing processes.
Aaron received his honours H.B.A. in Anthropology and Law & Society from York University and his M.S. in Archaeological Materials from The University of Sheffield. Aaron received his Ph.D. in Archaeometallurgy from University College London. He co-directed the Archaeometallurgy Laboratory at Lehigh University, was a guest scientist at NIST, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the Scientific Vetting Committee for TEFAF and as a forensic materials export for the Court of Arbitration for Art. Aaron was the Mellon Foundation Professor in Conservation Science at Buffalo State University, and he is currently the Bader Chair in Art Conservation at Queen’s University.
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M.A.C. Candidate
Art Conservation Program
Stream: Treatment
Specialization: Paintings
Areas of Interest: Technical art analysis, sustainability in conservation, 19th century European art, history of materials and techniques, wall paintings.
Sophie Morris graduated from the University of Victoria in 2023 with an Honours BA in Art History and Visual Studies. Prior to this, she obtained a diploma from CĂ©gep John Abbott College, where she completed the enriched Arts and Sciences program. During her time at university, Sophie volunteered at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, where she gained valuable experience in collections care, conducting condition reports on a range of historical paintings and drawings in preparation for upcoming exhibitions.
Most recently, she completed an internship with ArtCare Conservation in New York City, where she contributed to a diverse range of projects both in the studio and onsite, deepening her interest in wall paintings. In addition to her professional endeavors, Sophie is committed to developing her own artistic practice, focusing primarily on acrylic, watercolor, and gouache landscape paintings.
Date
Wednesday November 15, 2023Location
AGNES presents:
In-person and online, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
15 November 2023
7:30–9 pm, with reception to follow“Encounter as Author in Early Modern Images from the Atlantic World”
Presented by Dr CĂ©cile Fromont
Early modern central Africa comes to life in the vivid full-page paintings Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of the Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. Their “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods they devised for the region.
Unfolding outside of a European colonial project, at the demand of local rulers, and among populations who had engaged with the visual and material culture of Europe and Christianity for more than one hundred and fifty years, the Capuchin central African apostolate is without parallel in the early modern world. Equally unique are the images that emerged in the friars’ sustained and fraught interactions with the men and women of Kongo and Angola.
In this presentation, I analyze this overlooked visual corpus to demonstrate how such visual creations, though European in form and craftsmanship, did not emerge from a single perspective but rather were and should be read as the products of cross-cultural interaction. With this intervention, I aim to model a way to think anew about images created across cultures, bringing to the fore the formative role that encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation.>
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr Cécile Fromont is Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with special emphasis on the early modern period (around 1500–1800), on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World, and on the slave trade.
This program is supported by the Bader Legacy Fund and in partnership with The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, in recognition of Bader Day on 15 November.Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Situated within territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a curatorially-driven and research-intensive professional art centre that proudly serves a dual mandate as a leading, internationally recognized public art gallery and as an active pedagogical resource at Queen’s University in Kingston. By commissioning, researching, collecting and stewarding works of art, and by exhibiting and interpreting visual culture through an intersectional lens, Agnes creates opportunities for participation and exchange across communities, cultures, histories and geographies.
Agnes is committed to anti-racism. We work to eradicate institutional biases and develop accountable programs that centre the artistic expression and lived experience of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. Agnes promotes 2SLGBTQIAP+ positive spaces.
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Date
Wednesday November 1, 2023Location
Macintosh-Corry Room B201Join the esteemed art historian, museum director, and former Senator, Honourable Pat Bovey, as she discusses the contemporary legacy of the famed "Kingston Conference", held in June of 1941. A watershed moment in the Canadian art world, the "Kingston Conference" brought more than 150 artists, museum directors, art historians and members of the public to Â鶹ÍřŐľ to discuss the place of the artist in society and its role within Canada. What is the contemporary legacy of that conference, and how does it relate to current legislation in the arts, including cultural diplomacy and reconciliation?
This lecture is organized and sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation.
Wednesday, November 1, 6:00 - 7:15 PM. Macintosh-Corry Room B201
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Major Fields of Interest: late medieval and early Renaissance polychrome sculpture and panel painting in Italy, articulated crucifixes, cultural heritage preservation, technical art history
Undergraduate Experience: BAH in Art History, Queen’s University
Graduate Experience: MA in Art History, Â鶹ÍřŐľ
Supervisor: Dr. Una D'Elia
M.A. Student
Art History Program
Major Fields of Interest: History of photography; photography & death; visual culture; nineteenth century studies
Undergraduate Experience: BFA in Art History (with distinction), Concordia University, 2023
MA Thesis Topic: Post-mortem portrait photography and spirit photography in Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead
