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The Art of Clanny Mugabe

Written on February 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

Biography Clanny Mugabe is a second-year student in the faculty of Arts and Sciences. She’s currently majoring in English and would describe herself as heavily inspired by world mythology, speculative fiction, and character design. She primarily draws digitally, and each digital painting often has...

Poem: Unspoken Words

Written on February 11, 2021. Posted in Arts.

I have to thank you for dancing on tables In the basement of Brock. I took your hand and we rose above the sea of sweaty faces. You flashed me a grin of red lips and I twirled you around the dance floor of Stages, Laughing in the summer crowd. Hidden coats stuffed under cushions and above tiles Were...

Poem: We Agreed That I Should Leave You in Toronto

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in Arts.

We sit on the couch in your apartment and the clock pushes August away, hands squeezing the thick air to rain. Two hours left before my bus back to Kingston and we’re still dragging songs into the last Spotify playlist we’ll make together. You slide into a black hoodie and Icona Pop swells through...

Union Gallery reopens to pay homage to local art community

Written on September 27, 2019. Posted in Arts.

After closing to the public on Sept. 4, Union Gallery finally welcomed art lovers back through their doors. Union Gallery, a contemporary public gallery found within Stauffer Library, recently reopened following their September 4 to 20 closure. The momentary shutdown was scheduled to give Union’s...

First year BFA exhibition takes on third dimension

Written on March 29, 2019. Posted in Arts, Visual.

On Wednesday, fine art first years took their first steps into the professional art world. FORM: First year in 3D is displaying work by the Queen’s BFA class ARTF 128: 3D Fundamentals from Mar 27 to 29 at the Isabel Bader Centre. The opening reception was on Wednesday in the Performing Arts’ Art and Media...

Art Hive invites students to discover their inner artist

Written on January 29, 2019. Posted in Arts.

An art and relaxation program can be ideal for stressed-out students. Starting this month, Art Hive will invite students to make art while relaxing in The Agnes Etherington Centre. It’s held on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the André Biéler Studio and will end in March. The program is free and...

How Habiba Esaad gives art's nameless subject a face

Written on January 15, 2019. Posted in Arts, Visual.

Habiba Esaad wants to rewrite history. In her fourth year of the Fine Arts program at Queen’s, Esaad is looking inwards to her experience as a queer person of colour for inspiration to inform her critique of art history. For Esaad, the focus of her thesis project has been to look to art history as...

Student-run art gallery returns for another year

Written on September 14, 2018. Posted in Arts, Visual.

Hidden away in the basement of Mac-Corry Hall, student-run art gallery PotPourri is back for another year. Cultural Studies students and the exhibit’s co-founders, Stéphanie McKnight and Michelle Smith, installed the exhibit in their department’s student lounge. The Mac-Corry basement location...

New Union Gallery pieces showcase thought-provoking talent

Written on January 30, 2018. Posted in Arts.

The Union Gallery’s opening reception of Ever Passing drew a large crowd on Friday night and presented uniquely personal mediations on the concept of time. Ever Passing, the second in a series of student exhibitions, offered a selection of works across a diverse range of media — including film, installations,...

Union Gallery opens new student exhibit

Written on November 21, 2017. Posted in Arts.

On display at the Union Gallery until Jan. 18, Surface is the latest student exhibition to grace Stauffer’s art space, featuring works of mixed media, paintings and photographs. In the exhibit’s pamphlet, curatorial assistant Claude Bock talked about how the art shown explores the idea of surface...

Both rough and calming

Written on February 13, 2014. Posted in Arts.

Visual Bloom: Cumulative Fragmentation brings together the work of artists Brian Hoad and James Puffer to present an expansive view of Canada through a collection of photographic collages. The pieces of Hoad, BFA ’15, and Puffer, BFA ’14, share a lot of similarities that allow for such a cohesive...

A battle for identity

Written on February 13, 2014. Posted in Arts.

In the attempt to define ourselves, we also restrict ourselves. Socially constructed concepts of gender and sex are often inextricably linked to self-identity, but true self-discovery shouldn’t be bound by meaningless dichotomies. Ipseity, the latest installation at Union Gallery, analyzes the relationship...

Student artwork below ground

Written on September 17, 2013. Posted in Arts.

The rebranding of Alfie’s brought more to the table than just a new name. If you’ve paid a visit to The Underground, you may have noticed the graffiti and eclectic art splattered across the walls. The reopening of the student-run bar introduced an edgier and grungier atmosphere, and that’s what inspired...

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The Art of Clanny Mugabe

Poem: Unspoken Words

Poem: We Agreed That I Should Leave You in Toronto

Union Gallery reopens to pay homage to local art community

First year BFA exhibition takes on third dimension

Art Hive invites students to discover their inner artist

How Habiba Esaad gives art's nameless subject a face

Student-run art gallery returns for another year

New Union Gallery pieces showcase thought-provoking talent

Union Gallery opens new student exhibit

Both rough and calming

A battle for identity

Student artwork below ground

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