Tasmin Sloots
MAC Candidate
Art Conservation Program
Stream: Treatment
Specialization: Paper
Areas of Interests: Archives and Counter Archives, Textiles, Book Arts
Tamsin holds an Advanced Diploma in Textiles from Sheridan College’s School of Craft and Design(2015), a BFA in printmaking and art history from NSCAD University (2017), and an MA in Women and Gender Studies from Saint Mary’s University (2022). Their MA research used feminist materialist, queer, and autotheoretical scholarship alongside hand-knitting a sweater to examine ephemeral, bodily, and anarchival knowledge-making practices.
Before arriving at Queen’s, Tamsin worked across the cultural sector as an artist, arts administrator, instructor, gallery manager, fashion technician at NSCAD University, and conservation intern with the Nova Scotia Museums. While at the Nova Scotia Museums, Tamsin documented, cleaned, and repaired a collection of 19th-century hand-painted geological maps, and helped stabilize and mount artifacts for display.