small + mighty
Silent Auction
June 9–August 9, 2026
Abby Nowakowski, Alanna Veitch, Alyssa Vernon, Angela Wiggins, Donovan Perra, GHY Cheung, Guido Correa, Haley Sarfeld, Helen Baker, Jacqueline Huskisson, Jasper Lyon Wicke, JoAnn Ralph, Jocelyn Purdie, Maddi Andrews, Narmin Kassam, Phoebe Cohoe, Rebecca Cowan, Sophia Herrington, and Sumera Khan
We're back with another small + mighty silent auction! Friends of the gallery have created a collection of 8"x10" artworks that are on starting June 9.
Proceeds will be split 50/50 between the artists and Union Gallery’s not-for-profit programming — supporting local artists’ paid exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops, performances, educational opportunities, and more. Find the works in the Main Space and bid on your favourite today!
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our friends who have made this fundraiser possible! Learn more about the artists below.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Abby Nowakowski is a queer interdisciplinary artist based in Central Frontenac. Through printmaking, textiles, illustration, and handpoke tattooing, they spread advocacy for mutual aid care, share folk stories, and build space for radical softness. Learning lessons from the natural world, Abby often leans towards local flora and wildlife as powerful examples of community building and resistance. | @poorthingdesigns / abbynowakowski.com
Alanna Veitch is an interdisciplinary disabled poet-artist and scholar living in Katarokwi/Kingston. Her work grapples with disability and the embodied politics of emotion, affect, and the aesthetics of uncertainty and hope. Veitch writes out of necessity, bringing poetic text and image together to register the complexity of emotions which circulate between, shape, and bind us to one another. | @alanna.veitch
Alyssa Vernon (she/her) (BAH Gender Studies; BEd, Queen’s University) is a Jamaican-Guyanese collage artist, educator, MA student, and arts worker living in Kingston, Ontario. She is the founder of the Queer Collage Collective, where she facilitates anti-oppressive, healing-centered programs centering the histories and experiences of Black, racialized, and queer communities. | @collagequeen.co
Angela Wiggins is an Indigenous visual artist based in Belleville, Ontario, working from the perspective of Two-Eyed Seeing. Her paintings explore the space between ways of knowing while rooted in two bloodlines, inviting dialogue around identity, resilience, and belonging. Her work is held in public and private collections, including Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. | angelawigginsart.com
Donovan Perra is a lens-based artist developing a studio practice from the banks of the Katarokwi River. Through analog and alternative photographic processes he seeks to build imagery that connects through shared place and time, and espouses the values and strengths of a candid sense of community. | @donovan.perra
GHY Cheung is a Hong Kong-born artist and writer. His work attends to queer bodies in the built environment. | ghycheung.cargo.site
Guido Correa is a Colombian-born artist, painter, visual creator, and architect who lives and works in Kingston, Ontario. As a visual artist, he is always observing—the way people move through spaces, how landscapes evolve, and the connections between nature and human experience. His artwork focuses on those connections and intersections between visual arts, natural sciences, social issues and community. | @guidocorrea.visualart
Haley Sarfeld is a local writer, performer, and dabbler in a variety of creative pursuits. Haley co-hosted trivia nights at the Grad Club until its untimely closure this spring. Her collage, Trivia Ghost, repurposes archival picture round sheets to create a portrait of the beloved venue. | crossword.info/haley
Helen Baker is a Canadian abstract painter living in Kingston. Working in acrylics, her works have often been described as both eclectic and dynamic. Working in acrylics, she derives inspiration for her paintings from her love of stained glass, nature, and bright flowing colours. As a mental health advocate, she donates proceeds of her sales to various mental health organizations. | @bakerhelen86
Jacqueline Huskisson is a visual artist from Calgary, Canada, living in Toronto. She received a BFA in Print Media from Alberta College of Art and Design (2011) and an MFA in Studio Arts from Belfast School of Art (2017). Working across printmaking, painting, comics, and media arts, her narrative-driven practice explores the body, illness, and human relationships to surrounding environments. | @husky_jacq
Jasper Lyon Wicke (she/they) is very much an artist. She loves to paint, sew, print, experiment, and draw on anything. She cares deeply for the earth and strongly believes environmental justice and community are intrinsically linked to our liberation. She spends most of her time amplifying what she believes in, helping her community, and listening to the stream near her house. | @dandelyon_chain
JoAnn Ralph lives in Kingston and greatly appreciates the opporftunity to participate in the UG events and this silent auction. | joannralph.com
Jocelyn Purdie is a Kingston-based artist. She has exhibited in solo and group shows since the mid-1980s. Recent exhibitions include Modern Fuel ARC, Kingston; Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. She has been active on the Board of Directors of the Modern Fuel ARC, the Arts Advisory and Public Art Committees of the City of Kingston. | jocelynpurdie.com
Maddi Andrews is an Artist and Art Educator based in Katarokwi/Kingston. She is currently employed as the Executive Director of Cultivate Art Commons, where she seeks to create opportunities for community exchange, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and collective wellness. Maddi completed her Master’s in Art History at Queen’s University in 2021, and previously received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History. | @maddi.andrews
Narmin Kassam is a Canadian mixed-media artist whose layered collages on wood explore women’s empowerment, cultural identity, and memory. Using handmade paper and paint, she merges personal narrative with themes of resilience and belonging. Her work is exhibited internationally, widely published, and she was a finalist for the 2025 Women United Art Prize (Fibre & Collage). | narminkassamart.com
Phoebe Cohoe is a printmaker and mixed media artist and arts educator. Her work reflects a love of nature, connections, play and imagination. Phoebe holds a BFAH and B.Ed (specialization Artist in Community) from Queen's University. | @allthingsnewprint
Rebecca Cowan is a Kingston artist whose prints, books, and collages have been included in numerous curated exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She has also had solo exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, and Kingston. Her work can be seen in public and private collections throughout Canada and the United States. Recently Douglas Library purchased one of her hand-printed books.
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Sophia Herrington (b. 2003) is an interdisciplinary printmaker currently residing in Kingston, ON. Her work is inspired by the natural world, particularly the themes of growth, transformation, and interconnectedness. Through traditional printmaking techniques, including stone lithography, copper plates, and silkscreen, Sophia creates detailed, layered works that reflect beliefs in the dynamic relationship between humans and nature. | @sherringsketches / sherrington7243.wixsite.com/my-site
Sumera Khan is an impressionist oil painter, urban sketcher, & educator in Katarokwi/Kingston. A BIPOC artist and caregiver to people with invisible disabilities, her work centers on memory, caregiving, & domestic space. She serves on Union Gallery’s board, founded the Urban Sketchers Hub and works from her studio at the Tett. She has received multiple Ontario Arts Council grants and CKAF 2025. | @artsskart
THANKS + ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Union Gallery would like to thank the artists who contributed to this auction — all of whom have been involved with UG as artists, curators, staff, volunteers, members, and more over the past several years. We would not be the vibrant arts space we are today without you!