Graduate student workshop with Kim Jenkins on building and managing digital humanities projects. The workshop is open to graduate and upper-year students in all disciplines but space is limited. Please RSVP to Prof. Kennedy, jk131@queensu.ca. Coffee, tea, and light breakfast provided.

Drop-in to the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. You will learn to edit, update, and add articles to Wikipedia. Anyone and everyone interested in learning more about editing Wikipedia, regardless of experience, gender, or background, is welcome to attend. Art+Feminism is an international initiative that aims to amend the  inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia by encouraging people of all gender expressions to start editing and contributing Wikipedia content. Since 2014, over 14,000 people at more than 1,100 events around the world have participated in Art+Feminism edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 58,000 articles on Wikipedia.

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Dr. Sabine Wieber gives her lecture, ""Fashioning Modern Jewish Identity through the Agency of Design in Vienna 1900" on March 6, 2020. This event is part of the Art History Lecture Series.

This lecture is by Ph.D. Candidate Gabrielle Jung from Brown University, and explores the Reorientation of Hangul and the World Order. 

Digital humanities is a rapidly developing field that continues to expand job opportunities in the arts. What is it like to work in this field? Where can you get your start? On Wednesday, October 21st, two leaders in the field will be joining us to answer these questions! 

Danuta Seirhuis, Digital Development Coordinator at Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Danuta Sierhuis joined Agnes in December [2019] as Digital Development Coordinator. She is working to implement an ambitious project over the next couple of years that will transform the visitor experience in-gallery and online, opening expanded access to our collections, exhibitions and research.

Sierhuis  comes to us from the National Gallery of Canada, where she has been working as a curatorial assistant in Canadian Art. She holds an MA in Art History with a specialization in Digital Humanities from Carleton University, and a diploma in Interactive Media Management from Algonquin College, and has attained a suite of relevant experience in art galleries and archives. Her projects have spanned exhibitions, collections management, digitization, digital humanities projects including online exhibitions, augmented reality publications and 3D models, web design and social media management.

Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director of Art+Feminism  

Kira Wisniewski is the Executive Director of Art+Feminism. She has a can-do attitude and passion for community, capacity building, and the arts with an expertise in non-profit structures, operations, and events. Outside of Art+Feminism, Kira is the host and co-organizer of CreativeMornings/Baltimore, co-founded the non-profit 826DC is an Awesome Foundation Baltimore co-dean, and volunteers with Fluid Movement and Special Olympics DC.

"Art+Feminism is an intersectional feminist non-profit organization that directly addresses the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. Our work is centered on building an equitable global community striving to close the gaps in content and editorial representation on Wikipedia, ensuring that the histories of our lives and work are accessible and accurate.

This event is part of the Art for Social Change Speaker Series.

Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: موره شین اللهیاری‎;) is an Iranian-Kurdish media artist, activist, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York, who uses computer modeling, 3D scanning, and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D-printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops throughout the world, including the New Museum, MoMa, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale di Archittectura, and Museum für Angewandte Kunst among many others. She is the recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019), The Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship, and the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Her 3D Additivist Manifesto video is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and recently she has been awarded major commissions by The Shed, Rhizome, New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT.