The class runs In-Person 26 October, 2 November and 9 November, 6:30–8:30 pm

During this introductory printmaking course, adults and youth (13+) reflect on the prints in the current exhibition Emergence and get hands-on experience with different methods of printmaking including screen printing, stencil, relief printing and their own experimental combination.

Participants end the course with a small body of work and the skills to continue their printmaking practice at home! All materials are included in the course fee.

Biography

Abby Nowakowski (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and art educator currently living and working in Sharbot Lake and Katarokwi-Kingston. Through printmaking, illustration and handpoke tattooing, they spread advocacy for care, share stories, and make space for radical softness. Abby is drawn to the gentler pace of handpoke and takes a trauma-informed approach to tattooing which has fostered a safer and more empowering experience for clients. Driven by curiosity and kindness, their practice extends into art facilitation with a range of collaborations, workshops, and performances which radiate from queer ecologies and friendships.

Supported by the Guardian Capital Indigenous Art Fund. Bursaries are made possible by the Rita Friendly Kaufman Fund.

A slow and intentional community-engaged design process takes time. It is unpredictable and exciting! As we transition from schematic design into design development, we reconvene our sharing and talking circles for Agnes Reimagined, recapping what has already taken shape, clearing the path for the future. Led by our collaborator, Anishinaabe-kwe artist and consultant Georgina Riel, these sessions are aligned with various key moments for KPMB Architects who are listening to what people bring to the table, incorporating our ideas, suggestions and values into the various design iterations (and there are many!).

2 December 2024
Art Everywhere! Makers Spaces, Studios and Residencies, and Returning Etherington House back into a “Home.” The Agnes Reimagined Project Team (KPMB Architects & RIEL Cultural Consulting) would like to invite you to share your ideas and thoughts to contribute to the design development of the new creative and hospitality spaces.

Everyone is welcome!

Questions? Contact us at: admin@rielculturalconsulting.ca

Open Secret: The Second Edition continues as a series composed of screenings, conversations, and workshops kicking off this season by celebrating the work of Rhayne Vermette, with an additional event, a book launch of Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette, in partnership with ARP Books.

Vermette’s work invites us to think through the compelling ways in which image-making and storytelling inspire visions of hauntological architectures; condition forms of an intimate materiality; and activate the potency of landscapes as they tend to divine interventions.

Book Launch + Workshop

Rhayne and participants have the opportunity to engage in a more intimate setting as we use this time to gather to talk, discuss, inquire about Rhayne’s practice, and workshop ideas and strategies as we watch and listen in context. We’ll explore sound and vision through varied studies of how rhythm and harmony instruct varied processes in storytelling and filmmaking.

Copies of Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette are available for purchase.

Curated by Nasrin Himada

Supported by the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University.

Kingston has a rich history of Black life, Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities, is a series of performance pop-ups that looks to activate these hidden Black histories. Each day focuses on a person or family and their history in the city. Gesturing toward abundant print histories and archives, a mobile printing press is situated on Market Square. The public are invited to print t-shirts and pick up a brochure that explains the life behind the images. In this way the performance responds to a hidden history and scrutinizes both visible and invisible pasts.

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alejandro Arauz and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa Qanita Lilla. The mobile printing press was fabricated by Arauz, whose practice explores issues of identity and diaspora through the vernacular of print media, performance, and video. Lilla’s curatorial work looks to provide alternatives to exclusionary museum practices.

Kingston has a rich history of Black life, Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities, is a series of performance pop-ups that looks to activate these hidden Black histories. Each day focuses on a person or family and their history in the city. Gesturing toward abundant print histories and archives, a mobile printing press is situated on Market Square. The public are invited to print t-shirts and pick up a brochure that explains the life behind the images. In this way the performance responds to a hidden history and scrutinizes both visible and invisible pasts.

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alejandro Arauz and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa Qanita Lilla. The mobile printing press was fabricated by Arauz, whose practice explores issues of identity and diaspora through the vernacular of print media, performance, and video. Lilla’s curatorial work looks to provide alternatives to exclusionary museum practices.