Arts
  • 7 months 4 weeks ago

Retrofuturism: Danika Watson discusses sci-fi artwork

Danika Watson, ArtSci ’21, integrates her passion for science and chemistry into her artistic practices.Continue...
  • 7 months 4 weeks ago

‘Just let it arrive’: Poet, mentor Bruce Kauffman talks career

Bruce Kauffman has been opening doors for artists for 12 years.Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Natasha Beaudoin talks Greek mythology as inspiration for her subversive paintings

For many artists, historical representations are meaningful sources of inspiration for new work.Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Short Story Contest Winner Natara Ng discusses loneliness in ‘Her Last Day’

Natara Ng, Kin ’23, won The Journal ’s Winter 2021 short story contest for “Her Last Day,” the subtle tale of a lonely man tending a garden with a twist: both the man and his plants are more than meets the eye.Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Short Story: Her Last Day

I enter the backyard to begin my last day of work before the season is over.Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Student artists during COVID-19: Mikki Barnett talks pandemic art

Death smells like roses.Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Poem: Allies

The taste of raspberries, On their lips, From the red hand painted over their mouths,Continue...
  • 8 months 6 days ago

Poetry contest winner Emily Clare talks 'Allies'

“There is no faith within words of abhorrence,” writes Emily Clare, ArtSci ’21, winner of The Journal ’s Winter 2021 poetry contest in her piece titled “Allies.”Continue...
  • 8 months 1 week ago

The Kid Detective Director Evan Morgan knows how to make a great mystery movie

Far before I started preparing for my interview with Evan Morgan, director of The Kid Detective, I knew exactly what I wanted my first question to be: How did you pull it off?Continue...
  • 8 months 1 week ago

Review: In ‘The Glass Hotel,’ women deserve more agency

While it’s true random events often have the power to drastically change the course of our lives, The Glass Hotel, a Canadian novel by Emily St. John Mandel, undermines the agency women have in their romantic relationships.Continue...
  • 8 months 1 week ago

Agnes’ ‘Drift: Art and Dark Matter’ explores the unseen matter of our universe

Although the exploration of dark matter is commonly regarded as a scientific pursuit, a new exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre explores the relationship between astroparticle physics and art.Continue...
  • 8 months 2 weeks ago

In debut novel Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados delves into world of glamour, parties, and friendship

Marlowe Granados likes to browse.Continue...
  • 8 months 2 weeks ago

Sarah Waisvisz imagines the future of Blackness through monodrama Witness Shift

When Professor Sarah Waisvisz first read Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s intensely intimate play Witness Shift, she cried.Continue...
  • 8 months 2 weeks ago

Commerce alum KIRPAL talks two latest singles

For musician Ryan O’Driscoll, Comm ‘17, if you’re not willing to be weird and different with your sound, there’s no point.Continue...
  • 8 months 2 weeks ago

Professor Carolyn Smart leaves powerful legacy at Queen’s with Lake Effect 10

Professor Carolyn Smart has been nationally recognized as an incredible writer and editor, but for hopeful creative writing students at Queen’s, she has been the ultimate mentor.Continue...
  • 8 months 3 weeks ago

Francisco Corbett: The Artist to Watch

Over the past eight months, Francisco Corbett has dedicated himself to being a full-time artist and, as a result, Kingston isn’t boring anymore.Continue...
  • 8 months 3 weeks ago

Kingston Canadian Film Festival: Unpacking ‘The Paper Man’

When Tanya Lapointe set out to make a documentary on Claude Lafortune, Quebec’s Mr. Rogers, she had no idea her film would become the swansong for The Paper Man, who passed away in April 2020.Continue...
  • 8 months 3 weeks ago

Student-run New Work Play Festival sets stage for diverse, modern theatre

Alysha Mohamed, ArtSci ’22, and Hope Van Der Merwe founded Black Swan Production Company (BSPC) in July amid BLM protests over the murder of George Floyd.Continue...
  • 8 months 3 weeks ago

New club Good Mourning creates space for Queen’s students to talk about grief

Cheyenne Brown, ArtSci '21, is the founder of a book club where young adults can connect, heal, and discuss their personal experiences with grief.Continue...
  • 8 months 3 weeks ago

In documentary, Yukon family skips grocery shopping for an entire year

One of the many problems COVID-19 has brought to attention to is our troubled relationship with food. Queen’s alum and doctor-turned-filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, however, was confronted with this fraught relationship long before the pandemic hit.Continue...

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