Keeping Queen's campus running
Departments and faculties across Queen's have been working hard to keep campus safe so essential, on-site activities can continue.
Celebrating staff accomplishments
It has been a year like no other yet staff across Queen’s University have stepped up to the challenges created by COVID-19.
Committing to greater equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity
Both the Commitment Scholars Award and the Commitment Bursary are open to eligible students entering their first year of any first-entry undergraduate program.
Queen’s and Kingston recognize Black history
Black History Month events are taking place at Queen's and in Kingston throughout February. Visit the calendar. Black History Month recognition and celebration events are underway across Queen’s and Kingston and are set to continue all February. An online opening ceremony on Jan. 31 marked the launch of a month-long calendar of virtual festivities highlighting Black arts, culture, history, and community.
Advocacy Coalition Mural Virtual Open House
Date
Wednesday February 2, 20226:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
ZoomQueen’s University in collaboration with STEPS Public Art are pleased to announce an exciting upcoming public art mural located on the Queen’s University Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) located at 284 Earl St, Kingston, ON. This large outdoor mural will be jointly commissioned by the student-led Queen’s University Advocacy Coalition and the Office of the Principal. STEPS is partnering with Queen’s University to help organize this two-stage public art competition.
Three artists have been shortlisted and invited to virtually present their ideas and concepts to the Queen’s University community. During this virtual information session, Queen’s University community members will learn about the proposed artwork and provide feedback on their initial design and vision to help inform the final artwork they will submit for community consultation.
Presenting artists include:
- Charmaine Lurch 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.
- Anna Jane McIntyre 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.
- Nuff works across new media, street art and digital design. He is a founding member of mural collective MRLTM and new media collective Gathering.
Your feedback will provide input that can help shape the final designs that will be shared with the Queen’s community later in February for voting. Please register for the event and participate to hear more about this project and each artists’ vision for this important public art installation.
Read more details about the project.
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Efforts to advance equity initiatives at Queen’s make positive strides
The Queen’s community has spoken clearly about its desire to build an inclusive and welcoming campus community. Two new reports are now available that highlight the progress made during the 2020-21 year toward the goals on equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization at Queen’s.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization Annual Report, 2020-21