Tag: Sonya Jones
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Get to Know Us – Sonya Jones, Associate Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection
At the RMG, we often get asked about what we do each day, how we got into the crazy museum world and also what skills would be needed to do our jobs. With graduation looming for many college and university students, we will be profiling members of our team to shed some light on what…
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Hidden Mothers and “Tall Tale” Postcards
This post comes from the desk of Associate Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection, Sonya Jones. Researching and selecting images for the exhibition Mindful Manipulation was fascinating! Not only did I learn about darkroom manipulation processes but I also discovered some interesting things about early studio practices. For example, hidden mother photography. In…
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Monday, July 27, 2015
New Acquisition to The Thomas Bouckley Collection – Oshawa Strike
This post comes to us from the desk of Sonya Jones, Associate Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Ontario holds the Thomas Bouckley Collection. The Collection was donated to the RMG by the late Thomas Bouckley, amateur historian and collector of Oshawa's history. The entire computerized collection…
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Friday, October 11, 2013
The Curious Curator: Toni Hamel
In this new blog series, our Senior Curator Linda Jansma or Assistant Curator Sonya Jones email artists with questions about their creative experiences. The emails are sent after the opening of the artists' exhibition, and strive to reveal the experience of showing works at the RMG. In this edition Sonya Jones emailed Toni Hamel about…
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Curator’s View: Revealing Spaces
Sonya Jones is the RMG's assistant Curator and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection. In this post she shares a reflection from artist Kate Wilhelm. Revealing Spaces, is a current exhibition featuring three emerging Durham Region artists, Kate Wilhelm, Shaun Downey and Andrea Carvalho. One of the woman depicted in Kate Wilhelm’s photographs of derby…
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