Working Ground Exhibition

An exhibition by Noah Scheinman and the Belle Park Project at the Miller Museum of Geology

Opening Reception: Thursday October 30, 5:00 pm

Miller Museum of Geology, 36 Union Street, Kingston, Ont.

Join the artists for the opening of this exciting new undertaking by Belle Park Project!

The exhibition brings artworks produced in and about Belle Park into dialogue with the space and collections of the Miller Museum of Geology.  

The place we now know as Belle Park was once a wetland in the Great Cataraqui River, sustaining countless generations and networks of plant, animal, and human life. In 1952 it became the site of Kingston’s municipal landfill. Since 1974, it has served as golf course and a park, and it is currently a fragile home for unhoused people.

Situating local history within broader planetary frameworks, Working Ground invites reflection on how landscapes are made, altered, and represented across various overlapping practices and timescales: geological, ecological, cultural, economic, and experiential. In art and in the museum, in the landfill and in resource extraction, ground is worked: worked on, worked with, worked over, and worked through. Both materially and conceptually, the ground grounds the exhibition. 

for full text >> click here

Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am - 4:30pm | free entrance | Closing: 30 July 2026 

Exhibition Development: Noah Scheinman, Laura Murray, Dorit Naaman | Project Management: Lea Mauas |

Graphic Design: S.E.D.I.M.E.N.T.S. 

Working Ground is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and was developed with the generous support of the Miller Museum of Geology, and the Department of Geology and Geological Sciences at Queen’s University.