Call for Student Artists


MAIN SPACE, WINTER 2024
Open to: Queen's students
Submission Deadline: October 16, 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.

SUBMIT NOW






Submissions are now open for Union Gallery’s main exhibition space for March 5 - May 11, 2024. We are seeking submissions from current Queen’s University students for a group exhibition relating to the following curatorial themes:



  • The future of love in the global majority: diverse expressions of love; reclaiming traditions; inventing new rituals of celebration; longing for connection with ancestors
  • Queer liberation: building/seeking a safe space as a queer person; queer kinship; queer escape and making space for queer thriving
  • Imagining utopia: co-creating spaces for all to flourish; pleasure as a driving force in our lives and the lives we want to build together; transforming society


SUBMISSION PROCESS

Apply through the submission form. As a teaching gallery with an experiential learning mandate, Union Gallery has designed this call to offer experience with the juried submission process while also providing an ongoing way for students to workshop artistic projects they are creating for public presentation.

The initial submission will be a statement of intent and samples of previous creative works. UG’s Student-Led Programming Committee will review all submissions and select artists based on their proposals and the strength of their past work. Through a series of meetings with UG staff to follow, the selected artists will develop their proposed work for exhibition.

For alternate submission options or application support, please contact ugallery.director@queensu.ca

KEY DATES

Submission Deadline: October 16, 2023
Selections by committee: notification by November 14, 2023
Install: February 27–March 1, 2024
Exhibition Dates: March 5–May 11, 2024
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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+.






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