Events and learning

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

Join These Entanglements: Ecology after Nature artist Norton Fredericks for a cyanotype workshop. This workshop will explore the links between ecology, forever chemical and bodies, drawing on Norton's works 'Blood Test' 2024 and 'Contaminated' 2024-25.

Join us to hear from leading voices on emerging environmental contaminants: plastics, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and wastewater. Featuring Dr. Elvis Okoffo, Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), UQ; Associate Professor Leisa-Maree Toms, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT; and artist Norton Fredericks.

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

Step into an extraordinary dialogue between sound and visual art, a concert presented in partnership between the UQ School of Music and UQ Art Museum.

Join UQ Alumni for a walking art tour to see 8 artworks across 4 locations. All artworks are by First Nations artists from the UQ Art Collection, including Rosella Namok, Teresa Baker, Hector Burton, Lily Kelly Napangardi, Gloria Petyarre, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula and Nora Wompi Nungurrayi.

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

A choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich, a part of 'These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature'.

Learn about UQ's Fryer Library at an exclusive public opening as part of the UQ St Lucia Museums BLOCK PARTY

Join us to hear from These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature artists, Alicia Frankovich, Norton Fredericks, Caitlin Franzmann and UQ Art Museum curator Kyle Weise.

Join the RD Milns Antiquities Museum for a free guided tour of the 'Wondrous Machines' exhibition.

Join artist Norton Fredericks for a cyanotype workshop.

In conjunction with 'Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections', The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum presents a special workshop with cultural arts practitioner Ranu James during the UQ Arts BLOCK PARTY Saturday March 1, from 11am to 12.30pm.

Participatory art experience by artist Caitlin Franzmann.

Explore some of UQ St Lucia's Museums for a FREE day community, art, workshops, performances, tours, learning, heritage, food and more!

A choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich, a part of 'These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature'.

Kickstart your O-Week. Discover UQ’s Museum experiences across the St Lucia campus!

A public symposium and workshop for writers and thinkers exploring the concept of “islandness” and relational approaches to histories of art and visual culture. 

Join us for an intimate exploration of Wira to Djara: an intern-lead research project by Braelyn Rolfe-Chase (Ngugi), Blaklash Curatorial Intern.

Join us to hear from internationally regarded researcher and Yidinji Elder, the Honorary Professor Henrietta Marrie (UQ), as she shares the story of Lani Mulgrave Blair (1883-1900). Lani’s story traverses major themes in our shared history: stolen children, frontier wars, colonial displacement, and assimilation policies. He exists beyond his moment and reminds us of the crucial importance of historical enquiry and memory-making.

Join Curator Kyle Weise in conversation with Dusk of Nations artists Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams.

Join leading writers Samuel Wagan Watson and Ellen van Neerven for a conversation about Samuel’s 2004 volume of poetry 'Smoke Encrypted Whispers'.

Join artist Colina Wymarra in conversation with Peta Rake to discuss Wymarra's practice of storytelling through connection to Country in her multidisciplinary body of work.

Explore ‘Remote Artist Award’ Winner Colina Wymarra artist showcase at The Atrium, UQ Brisbane City, from the 9th – 16th of September 2024.

As part of Wear it Purple Day 2024, join us for a conversation with renowned queer artist William Yang as he discusses the journey through his ‘closet’ as a young adult in the 1960s at The University of Queensland.