Date Posted: June 27, 2025
Teaching Assistantship Vacancies – Department of Art History, Art Conservation
and Fine Art (Visual Arts) 2025-2026
The Department of Art History, Art Conservation and Fine Art (Visual Arts) has Teaching Assistantships available in the following courses for 2025-2026 academic year. TAships are filled according to Group Preferences set out in the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University and the Public Service Alliance of Canada
Applications are due no later than Monday, July 28, 2025.
Responsibilities
The teaching assistant duties include but are not limited to grading assignments, attending lectures and tutorials in person, office hours with students, and answering emails. More specific expectations will be covered at the beginning of the term.
Fall Term
ARTH 121: Global Art Histories: Parallels & Contacts
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
An introduction to the study of art, architecture, and material culture from a global perspective, including Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Organized around themes, parallels and connections will be drawn between artistic objects and buildings from across history and around the world. Case studies consider art and architecture’s relationship to religion, monarchy, colonialism, indigeneity, missionization, cultural appropriation, commodification, and self-representation. Others will consider medium, technique, perspective, composition, and art’s relationship to narrative and meditation.
ARTH 215: Humanity and Divinity in Renaissance Art, 1500-1600
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
By examining the variety and complexity of Renaissance art, from Michelangelo's muscular giants to Bosch's perversely playful monsters, this course explores how Renaissance artists and their patrons understood what it means to be human and how they imagined in new ways God, Heaven, Hell, and angels (genderless and bodiless beings). By discussing both such famous works as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and such little-known ones as prints of witches, we will study ideals of gender, constructions of power, and depictions of marginalized peoples.
ARTH 234: Introduction to African Arts
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
An introduction to the arts and visual culture of Africa, encompassing traditional or classic African arts, as well as modern and contemporary artists. The course also examines how the African art field was shaped, and its critical turning points.
ARTH 275: Introduction to Global Design History
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
This course will introduce students to the history of design from the eighteenth-century to the present day in the context of global exchange, colonialism, and industrialization.
ARTH 296: Making the Modern Landscape
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
This course examines attitudes towards nature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the resulting impact on landscape design, taking a chronological approach to developments and changes in landscape construction. We will look at conservation areas, public and community gardens, places of leisure and sport, private yards and private landscaping, and even waste lands. Landscapes examined in the twentieth century will largely be of the western tradition and will take us to North America and Europe but also lands around the globe that have been affected by western perspectives. Such an investigation is timely, as today we are experiencing a rethinking of the paradigms of modern, western progress that informed many twentieth-century attitudes towards nature and land. The conclusion of the course will look at more recent western, non-western, and Indigenous approaches being adopted or reaffirmed around the globe that are offering other perspectives on nature to inform our perception, use, and experience of land.
ARTV 101: Introduction to Visual Studies
Fall Term ON CAMPUS – Undergraduate TA’s?
What does ancient Roman graffiti, Medieval stained glass, and Tik Tok have in common? How are we influenced by the images, screens, and media that we encounter daily, be it in advertising, news media, television, movies, video games, and social media? Delve into the dynamic realm of visual culture, exploring its role in shaping society, politics, and personal identity; and explore theories and ideas to interpret and analyze what we see and experience as visual culture.
ARTV 201: Foundations in 2D Media
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
This course explores a range of foundational techniques in 2D media. Students will experiment with historical and contemporary methods, examining the interplay between form, technique, and concepts. The skills, materials, and vocabulary that students will learn may relate to a variety of 2D media (e.g., photography, painting, drawing, mixed media, and/or abstraction.
ARTV 202: Foundations of 3D Media
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
This course explores a range of foundational techniques in 3D media. Students will experiment with historical and contemporary methods, examining the interplay between form, technique, and concepts. The skills, materials, and vocabulary that students will learn may relate to mold making, casting, observational sculpture, mixed-media, installation, performance, and/or earthworks.
ARTV 204: Foundations in Printmaking
Fall Term ON CAMPUS
This course introduces students to a range of foundational techniques in printmaking, emphasizing technical proficiency and conceptual development. Students will explore historical and contemporary approaches to printmaking from diverse cultural contexts (e.g., achromatic and color techniques across relief, intaglio, lithography, and/or silkscreen processes) and investigate the expressive potential of print while critically reflecting on the unique characteristics and social role of the medium, such as reproducibility and self-publishing.
Winter Term
ARTH 122: Curating Art Worlds
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
This course introduces students to key "art world" institutions, such as museums, artist-run centres, biennales, and auction houses, by examining their histories, current practices, and future challenges. Using a case study approach, the course provides students with introductory professional skills, concepts, and ideas to think and work in a diversity of arts careers while gaining transferable skills.
ARTH 202: Topics in Arts and Visual Cultures
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
A lecture course on a selected topic. Please contact the Department of Art History and Art Conservation for more details.
ARTH 210: An Introduction to Technical Art History
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
A course surveying the study of artists' materials and techniques through methods of examination such as X-radiography, infrared reflectography, dendrochronology, and high-resolution digital imaging.
ARTH 214: Renaissance Art and Architecture Before 1500
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
The Baroque era (c.1580 – c.1800) produced the first truly global arts style. Its ³ÉÈË´óƬ artists, from the controversial Caravaggio to the consummate courtier Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, focused more intensely on the viewer than ever before. Baroque art was the product of a world in crisis very like our own, with wars, plagues, power struggles, human trafficking, and colonialism. This course will explore Baroque art in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
ARTH 253: Baroque Art
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
The Baroque era (c.1580 – c.1800) produced the first truly global arts style. Its ³ÉÈË´óƬ artists, from the controversial Caravaggio to the consummate courtier Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, focused more intensely on the viewer than ever before. Baroque art was the product of a world in crisis very like our own, with wars, plagues, power struggles, human trafficking, and colonialism. This course will explore Baroque art in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
ARTH 292: Modern Architecture: Aesthetics, Capitalism, Industry
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
An examination of architecture as it has developed in relation to the economies, technologies, and social practices of the modern world. Our focus will include architectural aesthetics, materials, structures, technologies, and spaces.
ARTV 102: Meaning-making through Visual Art
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
An introduction to the production of meaning through art making across a range of visual media. Although different in their final forms, all works of art are the product of a series of decisions (material, formal, conceptual, cultural, political, relational) that create effects and meanings. These meanings are shaped by different perspectives and worldviews, and they shift over time or across different contexts. In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of artistic processes and use these to convey concepts gaining critical awareness of how their works engage various audiences.
ARTV 203: Digital Photography and Intermedia
Winter Term ON CAMPUS
This course explores a range of foundational techniques in intermedia. Students will experiment with historical and contemporary methods from diverse cultural contexts, examining the interplay between form, technique, and concepts. The sills and vocabulary that students will learn may relate to digital photography, scanning, editing, digital painting, sound video and performance, among other processes and media.
Teaching Assistantships are filled according to Group Preferences set out in the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC 901
First Preference – Group A
Is for qualified graduate students registered as:
- students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
- students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and for whom the TAship has been granted as part of the funding commitment offered by the Employer.
Second Preference – Group B
Is for qualified graduate students registered as:
- students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
- students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and who are in their first unfunded year of their graduate studies program.
Third Preference – Group C
Is for qualified graduate students registered as:
- students in a department or program in which the TAship will be offered; or
- students in an interdisciplinary program with TA budget resources, and for whom
- the TAship will not form part of the funding commitment offered by the Employer; or
- there is currently no funding commitment provide by the Employer.
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Is for qualified graduate students that have previously held a TAship or TFship for the Employer.
Fifth Preference – Group E
Is for qualified graduate students that have did not meet the criteria as set out in 12.04 A, B, C, or D.
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APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications are being accepted immediately and are due no later than Thursday, July 30, 2025.
Please complete and submit the
Please ensure you indicate which applicant group you are in.
All groups: Please upload a cover letter and curriculum vitae outlining academic accomplishments and relevant experience along with your unofficial transcript.
Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
The Fine Art (Visual Art) Program at Queen’s University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for up to six (pending enrollment) Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TA) for ARTV 101: Foundations in Visual Art. This is an in-person course.