Call for Student Artists


FEATURE WALL, FALL 2023
Open to: Queen's students
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2023



Engaging in play in the service of change—to connect, challenge, and grow in community—that is the spirit of radical play, Union Gallery’s broad theme for this programming year. This theme emerged out of positive community feedback highlighting the importance of playful, radically accessible programs that serve equity-deserving communities first. It grew to encompass a year of programming characterized by lively, interventionist art practices and gatherings, including performance art, hands-on workshops, artist talks, and gallery installations.

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We are seeking our next Feature Wall artist and we welcome submissions from all current Queen’s University students. If your proposed Feature Wall installation relates to the following curatorial themes, we want to hear from you!



  • The role of play in the creative process: improvisation; experimentation; workshopping ideas; practice
  • The use of food and everyday materials to connect across difference and to inhabit cultural identities; the act of preparing food as gendered care work; critical perspectives on global food production and food scarcity
  • The use of small acts of storytelling to defy oppressive structures (performance art, live-streaming, meme-making, postering, free libraries, etc.)


The Feature Wall is located on the right side through the entrance to Union Gallery and measures approximately 19 feet long.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Apply through the submission form. Submissions will be reviewed by Union Gallery Directors and those selected for a follow-up discussion will be contacted. Existing works will be preferred over proposed projects, but feasible new works may be considered. For alternate submission options or application support, please contact ugallery.director@queensu.ca

KEY DATES

Submission Deadline: August 21, 2023
Install: September (dates flexible)
Exhibition Dates: runs until December 9, 2023
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EQUITY STATEMENT


Union Gallery is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our programming and operations. We welcome applications from qualified 2SLGBTQ+ individuals of all races, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, and (dis)abilities. We strongly encourage applications from equity-seeking communities. We recognize that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour), QPoC (Queer People of Colour) and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, +) are disproportionately underrepresented within institutional art spaces. Due to ongoing systemic barriers, we prioritize applicants who self-identify as BIPOC, QPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+.