Call For Submissions: Winter 2025
Submissions are now open for Union Gallery’s Main Space or Feature Wall for March 4 – May 10, 2025. Selected Queen’s University students will present their work alongside Nyssa Komorowski, our visiting artist whose work will be displayed in the Project Room. We invite submissions relating to the annual curatorial theme of home/land, including but not limited to:
Creation stories; histories of how the spaces we call home came to be, especially in relation to traditional Indigenous storytelling
Connecting to the land; the land as teacher/caregiver; the land as relative/beloved
Experiences of homebuilding; how we create and find home; experiences of displacement and migration, putting down new roots; ties to physical things, the memory and history they hold; how we carry home with us
Union Gallery’s broad curatorial theme for the year, home/land, was developed in response to the work of Fall 2024 student artist Carleigh Candice Mignonne Milburn (Making Sense of Decolonization) and visiting artists Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet & Julia Rose Sutherland, as well as Winter 2025 visiting artist Nyssa Komorowski. We are particularly interested in work which centres Indigenous stories of kinship, harvest, healing, resistance, and dreaming—expanding the conversation outward to include other perspectives on the idea of belonging to place.
Students of all backgrounds, levels, and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Indigenous students and students with lived experience that informs their approach to this theme will be prioritized in the selections process. For more information about our commitment to equitable representation, see our Equity Statement below.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Selections by committee: notification by Tuesday, November 4, 2024
Install: Tuesday, February 25–Friday, February 28, 2025
Exhibition: Tuesday, March 4–Saturday, May 10, 2025
SUBMISSION PROCESS
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 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.