Mandate

Union Gallery is a space for creative risk-taking and curiosity that supports and promotes the arts communities of Katarokwi/Kingston by nurturing reciprocal relationships between students, artists, and arts workers at all stages of their careers. It is a community-driven hub for the production and exhibition of contemporary art that fosters critical engagement, facilitates interdisciplinary experimentation, and creates opportunities for the next generation of cultural producers.

CORE VALUES

Accessibility: Committing to reducing systemic and other barriers to access Union’s programs and resources. Respecting and nurturing the skills, experiences, perspectives, and strengths of individuals through careful listening, reflexive thinking, and accountability to the communities that Union works with and serves.

Equity and Anti-Oppression: Working to create anti-racist and anti-oppressive policies and activities, and to support equity through programming and exhibitions. Investing resources to achieve greater equity and social justice. Continued engagement, learning, teaching, and reflection on dismantling marginalizing and oppressive power structures both within and beyond the gallery.

Reciprocity: Modeling ethical collaborative practices in multi-directional ways through programming that fosters creative dialogue. Facilitating the flow of knowledge between multiple worldviews and generations of artists, thinkers, learners, and teachers. Ensuring that the walls of the gallery are porous. 

Sustainability: Helping to bring about positive potential futures by advocating for and developing ecologically, socially, and fiscally responsible policies, programming, and exhibitions. Creating programs with meaningful and lasting impacts that are responsive to communities and to artists.