Titled Split Between the I and the Gaze, this exhibition brings together a diverse range of works, each exploring different ways of looking. Viewers are both the observer and the observed. The season launch is on Thursday 19 September 2019. Find more information here.

Universities are hiring "Wikipedeans-in-Residence", including Ph.D. candidate Amber Berson! For more, read the Maclean's piece about the work she is doing.

Congratulations to our M.A. student Eleanore Mackie, who was offered a prestigious internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice!

The Department would like to congratulate this year’s fall graduates, including (pictured, from left to right) Ally Zmijowskyj, Emily White, Charlotte Parent, Raphael Shea, Jessica Lau and Sara Bardovagni.

Art History student Hannah Mostert (centre) with Professor Joan Schwartz (left) and Principal Patrick Deane (right) at the poster event celebrating the recipients of the 2019 Undergraduate Summer Student Research Fellowships.

The Department of History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University is pleased to congratulate Professor Joan Schwartz on her appointment to the newly established International Advisory Board of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Nominated for her expertise in “archives, acquisitions, teaching, research, and institutional discourse” as well as for her world-recognized contributions to scholarship on nineteenth-century photography, Professor Schwartz is one of only seven distinguished international scholars on the inaugural Advisory Board.

After Eleanore Mackie (M.A. Art History 2020) completed an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice she was just appointed as the 2020-2021 John Wilmerding Intern in Digital Interpretation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Warm congrats to Ellie!

Travel restrictions got you down? This is the perfect moment to check out the new virtual exhibition, Locating the Materials of Italian Renaissance Sculpture, created by the students in Professor Una D’Elia’s fall 2019 seminar A Material History of Italian Renaissance Sculpture (ARTH 485/840). Click this link to follow the interactive digital maps and explore the materials and techniques of colour sculptures in the Tuscany region.

Emilee Lawrence (M.A.C. 2020) is featured in the School of Graduate Studies “Student Experience” interview series. Read the full article about her work on Indigenous conservation projects, and how she came to the Art Conservation Program.

Elyse Richardson, who recently graduated with a degree in Classics and Art History ('20), began this project in September 2019 as an independent research paper under her supervisor Dr. Barbara Reeves (Classics).