The Queen’s community is invited to vote on three proposed concepts for a mural to be installed on the exterior of the Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) this spring.

The voting period has been extended and will close on Friday, March 11. Voting is available on the Office of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor website. 

The mural, which will be located on the south wall of the ARC, symbolizes an opportunity to visibly illustrate the diversity of the Queen’s community and signal a future that is focused on celebration, healing, resilience, cultural diversity, and optimism.

The project is a collaboration between the Office of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the student-led Queen’s University Advocacy Coalition, and STEPS Public Art.

Three Canadian artists – Charmaine Lurch, Anna Jane McIntyre and Nuff – presented their concepts during a virtual open house in early February. Following that initial presentation, suggestions were taken, helping to advise the final concepts from which the Queen's community will select.

Once installed, the mural will measure approximately 23 metres by 8 metres (76 feet by 26 feet).

About the artists

• Charmaine Lurch is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work draws attention to human-environmental relationalities. Lurch’s paintings and sculptures are conversations on infrastructures and the spaces and places we inhabit.

• Anna Jane McIntyre is a visual artist based in Montreal with a playful practice that combines storytelling, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, performance, installation and microactivism. Her work investigates how people perceive, create and maintain their notions of self through behaviour and visual cues and is an ever-shifting visual mashup of British, Trinidadian and adopted Canadian cultural traditions.

• Nuff works across new media, street art and digital design. He is a founding member of mural collective MRLTM and new media collective Gathering.

For more information on the Advocacy Coalition Mural and lean more about the concepts and designs presented, please visit the Office of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor site.