RENDER Graduate Journal of Art & Culture
RENDER, in association with Carleton University’s Art History Graduate Students’ Society, is a student-run publication dedicated to the dissemination of ideas rooted in visual culture. Recognizing that academic work can often be an isolated process, it is the purpose of the journal to provide graduate students with an open forum to circulate their ideas to a wider audience.
Editors: Alexander Zoubek and Hope Hamilton
Editorial Team: Heather Macnab and Moira Powers
Graphic Design: Emily Critch, Samantha Monastero and Heather MacNab
2025-26 Call for Submissions
‘Never Follow Suit’
For this issue, we invite creative engagements with the 2025-26 theme Never Follow Suit. This can mean not playing the cards you’ve been dealt. Not following suit suggests bending and breaking the rules and challenging others’ expectations. It is about refusing to conform.
We encourage submissions that consider, but are not limited to, themes including: queering the norm; institutional critique; individual or collective action; subcultures; the SHOCKING (!) and the transgressive.
Consider the following: What does it mean to challenge tradition? How might we think with non-normative structures, practices, and concepts as a force for positive change in all areas of our lives? What might be the social and cultural responses and repercussions to a radically different way of imagining the systems that so desperately need renewal and revitalization?
Past Editions of RENDER
RENDER Blog Archives
RENDER Blog 22 – The Gift: What I Learned from my MA
By Diana Hiebert It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since I moved from the Fraser Valley, B.C. to Ottawa to begin my …
RENDER Blog 21- Applying to Conferences…
Applying to Conferences – 5 Things I Wish I’d Known Sarafina Pagnotta Applying to and speaking at conferences is an exciting, though perhaps daunting, part …
RENDER Blog 20 – Don’t Ask Me About My Thesis
Don’t Ask Me About My Thesis: Podcast Recommendations to Keep You (Not) Busy By Jessie Gamarra My thesis is maybe halfway done and I still …
RENDER Blog 19 – Life Lessons with Jasmine Inglis
Recent Carleton graduate Jasmine Inglis has a dream job as Curatorial Assistant of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Here she tells us …
RENDER Blog 18 – Practical Practicums, Advice for Placements
by Rachel Neilson Practicums at Carleton offer so many great opportunities with the ability to gain work experience, create networking opportunities and as a resume …
RENDER Blog 17 – HERbarium and Interdisciplinary Curatorial Student Projects
by Hilary Dow HERbarium Curated by Josie Arruejo, Chelsea Black, James Botte, Brigid Christison, Michelle Jackson and Sharon Odell In collaboration with Dr. Cindy Stelmackowich …
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