Mented Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s 2024-25 Mentorship Program Exhibition The Craig Gallery, July 2 – 27, 2025 Opening: Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 4 – 6 pm Emerging Artist Talk (in-person): Saturday, July 19, 1 pm You are invited to the 2024-25 Mentorship Program Exhibition, Mented, at The Craig Gallery July 2 – 27. Highlighting the…
Mentorship Program Call for Applications
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BACKGROUND In 2006, the VANS Mentorship Program was created in response to the growing requests from visual artists in Nova Scotia for additional support beyond VANS’ already successful workshop series, information sessions, panel and peer discussions and other educational programs. Basing its structure on similar programs such as MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art) in…
Show your support for VANS
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You can now purchase this limited-edition, black cotton tote bag and both limited-edition VANS stickers! We are selling the tote bag ($25/ each) and stickers ($5/ each) individually or as a bundle of all three VANS merch items ($30) as a fundraiser, which includes postage to mail them to your door. Totes and stickers designed…
You’re invited to VANS’ AGM
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Annual General Meeting will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Join us from 6 – 7 pm AT to find out about VANS’ accomplishments this year and elect new directors to our Board. Please register by June 16 to get your Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nP_JoAdKQZiIfBmuOFbvxQ After registering, you’ll receive…
Sign up for workshops today!
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There are two workshops left in VANS’ Spring Workshop Series! You can still register for Artists and ADHD: The Struggle is Real! with Michelle Lum and Eryn Foster (Thursday, May 8, 7pm), and Teaching an Art Workshop Online with Carley Mullally (Thursday, May 15, 7pm). Workshops are $40 for VANS members and $50 for non-members.…
A spring launch of art and poetry
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On May 14th, join Visual Arts News in Halifax for a spring launch of editor Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection – Re: Wild Her and the Visual Arts News Spring 2025 magazine. We will also be joined by Geoffrey Webster, an arts writer who wrote the review on Graeme Patterson’s Strange Birds featured in the Visual…
Visual Arts News is hiring an editor
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Visual Arts News is seeking an Editor. This is a freelance contract position to start September 8, 2025. The first print issue under the new Editor will be Spring/Summer 2026. The Editor should have knowledge of the communities of artists, galleries, and institutions in the Atlantic region, and a curiosity to learn more. The ideal…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia, in partnership with the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council (ARCAC) and the Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC Maritimes) present Sorting the Studio: Estate Planning for Artists panel discussion. What will happen to all our artwork? In this panel lawyer Paige McInnis and curator and writer Ray Cronin will discuss ways artists…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce a new workshop series – Getting it Together: Taxes and Financial Literacy for Creatives! This new three-part workshop series starting in March is designed to help artists get more comfortable, organized, and empowered when it comes to their finances and taxes. Led by Sally Wolchyn-Raab, Co-Director of…
VANS received a communication this week from DeSerres indicating that they have discontinued all their partner memberships across the country, including VANS, so VANS members will no longer be able to receive a DeSerres discount. Here is their statement: “DeSerres returns to the foundation of its mission, being an accessible local community store offering its…
Spring Workshop Survey
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VANS will be offering online and in-person workshops for our Spring Workshop Series in April and May and we’d love to get your feedback about which professional development workshops we should offer, where, and when. Let us know what you would like to see VANS offer by completing the Spring 2025 Workshop Survey, here: https://forms.gle/skoT3c5Tcy4E2mP78. Then we would…
New Workshops for 2025
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PAINTS is delighted to have added new artists to our roster this school year. So far, there are a dozen brand-new workshops being offered with more coming all the time. And, the favourites from the past few years are still there too! We are fortunate to have PAINTS artists living and working all over Mi’kma’ki.…
VANS members now get a discount at Natural Earth Paint Canada, a family owned, eco-friendly company that creates non-toxic paints with minimal ingredients, sustainably harvested earth pigments from family-owned quarries. Members can simply create an account on Natural Earth Paint Canada’s website and then send them an email verifying their membership (with your confirmation email…
Donate to VANS today!
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Did you know that Canadians now have until February 28 to make a donation that is eligible for a 2024 tax receipt? Help VANS support artists and communities by making a donation in the category that feels right for you: VANS’ area of greatest needs, Membership Bursary, VANS Artist Emergency Fund, and the PAINTS Program…
VANS has membership bursaries!
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If you want to renew your VANS membership for 2025 but find the membership fee out of reach right now, consider applying for a Membership Bursary. Membership Bursaries provide artists in need of financial support with a VANS membership (which runs from January 1 – December 31). There’s no deadline to apply and applications are…
THANK YOU for being a VANS member!
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As the end of the year approaches, remember to renew your VANS membership before it expires on December 31! If you selected an automatically renewing membership when you joined or renewed last year, then it will automatically charge your 2025 membership fees on December 1, 2024. No need to set a reminder – the website will…
Did you know that the VANS Board of Directors did a program review and suggested that a better emerging artist program could be created by combining elements of the Mentorship Program and the (former) New Grad Program? So we applied for and received the Marian Hebb Research Grant from the Access Copyright Foundation to hire…
On behalf of the eight federations that comprise the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia, we warmly invite you to our 2024 Holiday Gathering! Join us as we celebrate the culture, artistry, and heritage of Nova Scotia with an evening filled with festive cheer on Thursday, December 12, drop in between 4 pm – 7 pm…
There are two workshops left in the VANS Fall Workshop Series – Taxes for Artists and Networking and Talking About Your Work. We have extended the registration deadlines for both of these in-person workshops. Take a look at the workshop descriptions below and sign up today here. TAXES FOR ARTISTS This workshop will go over…
Teachers! Get matching funds for workshops in your classroom PAINTS is delighted to be welcoming new artists to the program. To celebrate, we’ve created an extra opportunity for teachers to request workshops. Requests are being accepted now until November 12. We’ll be supporting the first 20 projects requested. For this special deadline, only…