UNION GALLERY — Writing in Practice

Writing in Practice

writing for institutions + established publications

With Adrien Crossman

March 2, 2024, 11:30am–12:30pm
Free + in-person program
Open to all

Led by visiting artist Adrien Crossman, this writers workshop will address arts writing from a DIY standpoint and also touch loosely on writing for institutions and established publications. Adrien Crossman will talk about their experience as an artist and co-founder of the online arts publication Off Centre, with the opportunity for Q&A at the end.

Visit Adrien Crossman's solo exhibition haven, in our Project Room from March 5 – May 11, 2024.

Adrien Crossman

Adrien Crossman is a queer and non-binary white settler artist, educator, and curator currently residing on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe in Hamilton, Ontario. They hold an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Windsor (2018), and a BFA in Integrated Media with a Minor in Digital and Media Studies from OCAD University (2012). Crossman is interested in the affective qualities of queerness, investigating how queerness can be felt through specific aesthetics and sensibilities. Their work is deeply enmeshed with their queer and trans identity and is attentive to the ways that white supremacy and colonization have shaped dominant understandings of gender and sexuality. Through their practice, Crossman seeks to destabilize these systemic ideas and propose more expansive futures. In addition to having exhibited across Canada and internationally, Adrien co-founded and co-runs the online arts publication Off Centre. Crossman is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University.

UNION GALLERY is funded and supported by Queen's University, Alma Mater Society (AMS), Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), Ontario Arts Council, City of Kingston Arts Fund–Kingston Arts Council and the City of Kingston, with partnerships with Stauffer Library, Cultural Studies, Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, and Art History and Art Conservation.