The Gallery will be exceptionally closed this Thursday, October 23, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in preparation for the performance by Cheryl L’Hirondelle with Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush. The Gallery will reopen at 5:30 p.m. for the event.

Place Where the Waters Crossed

September 3 to November 1, 2025

Raven Chacon

Curator: Marie-Ann Yemsi

Exhibition presented by MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain and produced in collaboration with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

In the Wake of These Waves

Performance by Cheryl L’Hirondelle with Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush

Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 5:30 PM
At the Gallery
Free, in English

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SIGHTINGS 45
POWER. FORWARD. REVERSE. REWIND.

October 20, 2025 – February 1st, 2026

An intervention by Joyce Joumaa

Curator: Julia Eilers Smith

Deadline: December 1st, 2025

The Gallery is accepting applications for a curatorial internship that takes place during the winter session. Interested applicants (in the Masters in Art History) should submit a letter of intent describing their areas of interest and how an internship can benefit them, by December 1st. The internship begins when classes start in January 2026.

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Deadline: January 19, 2026 

The Ann Duncan Award is an undergraduate international travel and tuition award given every two years alternating between Studio Arts and Art History students.

This year, the award offers an opportunity for a full-time Studio Arts student in the second year of study to travel to a significant art event relevant to their research interests.

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DEPRESSION, PART 2. ECONOMY

Dive into the second segment of the TERMS program, exploring the concept of “depression,” this time through the prism of the economic crisis of the 1930s. Read Andrée Lévesque’s essay, a professor in the Department of History at McGill University, shedding light on the repercussions of the Great Depression in Montreal. Explore a series of photographs taken by Canadian artist Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) during a stay in London amidst the Crisis years, along with the meticulous interpretation by Debra Antoncic, art historian, curator, and Director of the Riverbrink Art Museum.

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Nicole Burisch has joined the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery as its new director. Burisch, an accomplished curator and Concordia alumna, brings over 20 years of experience in arts leadership, programming and advocacy to this role.

“I am deeply honoured to take on this role at the Ellen Art Gallery,” Burisch says. “University art galleries have a unique position in the contemporary art landscape, they have the capacity to support in-depth artistic and curatorial research while also being important spaces for experimentation and risk-taking.

The Gallery team warmly welcomes her.

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