Susan Lord (Film and Media) Dylan Robinson (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts) and Rosaleen Hill (Art Conservation) are among the ten Queen’s University researchers who have received more than $1.8 million in combined funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund. The fund supports researchers by providing the foundational research infrastructure required to undertake leading-edge research. 

Art History professor Norman Vorano has been named as one of only five recipients of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship! Read about Dr. Vorano's work and award in the Queen's Gazette. 

Watch the official video:

Closer to Van Eyck Enhancements Released! Queen's Art History's own Ron Spronk helped to spearhead this exciting web project, which showcases high resolution, detailed images from Van Eyck's Ghent Alterpiece.  

For more information on the website, view the press release.

Visit the Closer to Van Eyck website.

Click the links below to read the full articles:

• Sarah Alford, Journal of Design History, September 2017: Ellen Gates Starr and Frank Lloyd Wright at Hull House: The Machine as the ‘Will of Life’ 
• Brenden Cull, Scientia Canadensis, September 2017: Early Canadian Botanical Photography at the Exposition universelle, Paris 1867

Congratulations! Art History Professor Allison Morehead has received a SSHRC Insight Grant for $159,000 for her project entitled, Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine. Read about more Queen's recipients.

The National Gallery of Canada and the Art Conservation program at Queen's University are partnering to bring works of art back to life! Follow this link to learn more about this exciting partnership!

Professor Gauvin Bailey has two books coming out: The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca.

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018!

Each year we have many accomplished graduates from the Art History undergraduate and Art Conservation graduate programs, but for our first post in 2018, we're sending our congratulations to Art History Graduate students who have recently completed their Master's or PhDs. 

All the best for 2018! 

Trish Smithen, Assistant Professor in Paintings Conservation in our Art Conservation program will be featured on CFRC, Queen's radio station. The show is called Blind Date with Knowledge and airs bi-weekly starting this week. More information on the show schedule and other fascinating guests can be found here: www.cfrc.ca/bdwk

The graduate student conference, Context and Meaning, takes place this weekend, February 2nd and 3rd. This conference focuses on Visual and Material culture and is run by students in the Art History graduate program. You can find more information on the Graduate Visual Cultures Association website and their Facebook page.