Tours and conversations with the Working Ground exhibition at the Miller Museum
and artist Cassie Paine at Union Gallery
A collaboration between the Belle Park Project, the SCCS colloquium, and Union Gallery
open to all
for more information, contact belleparkproject@queensu.ca
Schedule
11:30 | Miller Museum of Geology, 36 Union Street: viewing of Working Ground led by curators Laura Murray, Dorit Naaman
12:30 | Union Gallery, Stauffer Library: viewing and conversation with Visiting Artist Cassie Paine and Gallery Director Morgan Wedderspoon
1:20 | Stauffer Library 014 (basement): presentation by Dr. Kirsty Robertson on "Sustainable Curating and Micro-Museums," followed by a roundtable discussion on emerging themes and ideas
2:30 | Conclusion
Bios
Laura Murray is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen's University. Her research in areas such as copyright law, treaty history, Indigenous-settler relations, and community history has been community-based, arts-engaged, and public-facing. She was the director of the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project (SWIHHP) and with Dorit Naaman is co-lead of the Belle Park Project.
Dorit Naaman, Alliance Atlantis Professor of Film and Media at Queen's University, is a documentarist and film theorist specializing in participatory media. Her work uses research-creation to make visible the colonial and environmental histories of contested urban spaces from Jerusalem to Kingston. She is co-lead of the Belle Park Project.
Cassie Paine is a sculpture/installation artist and printmaker whose work reflects on the functional and authoritative role of tools and infrastructure within our society. She is based in Windsor and Montreal, and her work engages the economic precarity of post-industrial cities.
Kirsty Robertson, Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability, Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies, directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating at Western University. Her research focuses on museums, visual culture, contemporary art, environment, and activism.
Morgan Wedderspoon, Gallery Director of Union Gallery, is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who is passionate about art practice in community and its potential for grassroots-led social transformation—both imagining and working toward a more just and livable future for all.