Inspired living. Art for what comes next.
Original art built from real university experiences.
ArtUP Life preserves the places, moments and memories that shape a university journey — then works with artists to transform student selected imagery into original art for graduates and their families.
For parents and families, it is a graduation gift with meaning: a beautiful reminder of where they started and an inspiring presence for the life they are beginning to build.
For graduates, it is an invitation to begin living with art — something personal, contemporary and enduring enough to grow with them from a first apartment or condominium into the years ahead.
Gifts that carry the story forward
ArtUP Life provides artistic heirlooms that can be appreciated throughout a student's learning journey. We capture the transitions in a tangible form: art rooted in the experience's students say matter most, captured in affordable mediums and at the premium level, interpreted by artists as a lasting expression of achievement - and possibility.
At the premium end of the collection, an original ArtUP work can become an heirloom of the university experience — not memorabilia to be stored away, but art to be lived with, remembered through and a source of inspiration to continue the journey of success!
What makes ArtUP different
Student-validated: the imagery begins with the people who actually lived the university experience.
Artist interpreted: selected memories are transformed through the distinct visual language of participating artists.
Personal and place-based: each work is connected to a real Queen's or Kingston experience rather than generic university imagery.
Designed for the life ahead: the art is created to work in a young graduate's first independent living space and remain relevant as that life grows.
Original at the highest tier: premium works are intended to carry the presence, provenance and emotional weight of a true graduation heirloom.
Live Artfully. Live Inspired. Live ArtUP.
Preserve the memory. Celebrate the achievement. Inspire what comes next.