Artists in the Garden
Photo of coreopsis courtesy of Jill Glatt.
Community Project + Artist Residency
Gallery Garden + remote locations
Summer 2026
Program Series Session 1: Tuesday, July 14, 6pm @ Union Gallery (RSVP)
Artists in the Garden is Union Gallery’s collectively-led, collaborative garden project where artists work together to plant, grow, tend to, and harvest plants for their artistic practices and creative pursuits. This program began in 2024 as a small collective of local artists creating and cultivating in a small garden plot just outside Union Gallery; in 2025, the garden plot was tended on a casual, drop-in basis by artists, UG staff, and community volunteers. This year, Artists in the Garden will feature two artists in residence, Jill Glatt (Katarokwi/Kingston) and Christina Battle (amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton), who will work together over a 3,500+km distance, culminating in a duo exhibition at Union Gallery in Fall 2026.
Stay tuned for more information about public programs in response to harvesting timelines, including events onsite at UG’s Gallery Garden, at Oak Street Community Gardens (Katarokwi/Kingston), and opportunities for remote involvement and collaboration.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Christina Battle is an artist, curator, and writer based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), within the Aspen Parkland: the transition zone where prairie and forest meet. Her practice focuses on thinking deeply about the concept of disaster: its complexity, and the intricacies entwined within it. She looks to disaster as a series of intersecting processes including social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic, which are implicated not only in how disaster is caused but also in how it manifests, is responded to, and overcome. Battle’s practice prioritizes collaboration, experimentation, and failure; she has exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries as both artist and curator.
Jill Glatt is a Katarokwi/Kingston-based natural dyer, printmaker, and arts educator. Her artistic practice is informed by ecology, community, and sustainability. Glatt incorporates studies of native and non-native plants and their dyes to draw attention to social and environmental issues, often with a focus on the Katarokwi River. She centres collaboration with other artists and community members, and has most recently taken part in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre’s HEAP (Humus Emergence Assemblage Platform) collaborative micro-residency.
More information, as well as thanks and acknowledgements, coming soon.