Margaret Nicholson – Artist Profile
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Margaret Nicholson is a graduate architect and multidisciplinary artist born in New Glasgow, NS. She has lived, worked and exhibited across Canada in solo and group shows at public, private and parallel galleries and has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Nova Scotia Arts Council. Her…
Peer Application Review Groups are back!
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Want some feedback on your next application? Get a fresh perspective with Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Peer Application Review Groups. VANS is facilitating an eight week peer-review process to help current members strengthen their upcoming proposals. Artists will get and give feedback by email on applications from two peers, matched based on the type of…
“Surrender” by Michael Greer
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Michael Greer’s exhibition of figurative charcoal drawings and oil paintings explores questions like: What happens when life throws you a curveball? A life-threatening illness? The end of a relationship? The loss of a loved one? How do these life experiences meet the flesh? How do we carry our responses to such events in our bodies?…
Please take our workshop survey
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers professional development workshops to artists across the province. Each season we program the location and topics of the workshop series based on feedback from members, artists and art organizations. What workshops would help your professional development? Let us know what you would like to see VANS offer by clicking on…
Send us your news!
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Send us your updates for the spring edition of Members’ News! Members’ News is emailed to members quarterly and updates your peers on what you’ve been doing lately. Perhaps you have an upcoming exhibition or residency, or you are offering an interesting class. Let other VANS members know what’s up with you and your art practice.…
“Eudaimonia” by Laura Bucci
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Cape Breton-based interdisciplinary artist Laura Bucci is in the Corridor Gallery this month showing four hand-stitched textile panels, which are a contemplative reflection on eudaimonia (happiness or well-being). The artist considers this textile work to be the first phase of a larger project that would eventually develop to include a participatory component. See Eudaimonia in…
Register for Taxes for Artists Webinars
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce the return of Studio Sessions, the webinar series for artists! Starting on Wednesday, February 13, at 6pm AT, this three-part online workshop series will focus on tax essentials for artists. Each one hour session will be taught by CPA Nora Macnee and will allow artists from across the country to…
Visual Arts News Spring Issue
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Check out the Spring 2019 issue of Visual Arts News! The Expanse issue features cover art by Kym Greeley and articles on Ned Pratt, Fogo Island Arts, Stephanie Rybczyn and Sarah Lloyd, Michelle Sylliboy and more! It will be mailed to subscribers VANS members later this week and should be on newsstands soon. Or you…
Renew your membership for 2019
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Happy New Year! We are back in the office and over the break so many members renewed their VANS membership for 2019 (thanks so much)! However, there are still some who have not yet renewed, which means that their membership expired on December 31, 2018. If you haven’t yet renewed for 2019 (since October) you…
“Effluence” by Curtis Botham
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Since his artist residency in New Glasgow, emerging artist Curtis Botham has been making a series of large scale charcoal drawings that deal with the industrial history of Nova Scotia. Effluence shows the aesthetic of industry in Nova Scotia and gives context to its historical, and often destructive, roots. See Effluence in the Corridor Gallery…
VANS Office Closure
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The VANS office, along with the rest of the Cultural Federations, will be closed for the holidays December 17 – January 1. Our last day in the office will be Friday, December 14 (so get your membership renewals in before then) and our first day back will be Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Happy holidays from…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia invites you to the New Grad Program’s Open Studio! The emerging artists in the program have been hard at work over the past three months making work in their studio, meeting with their mentor, taking weekly professional development workshops and more! Come celebrate with them at their Open Studio and see…
FRESH EYES art critique evening
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FRESH EYES: an evening art critique! 👀 👀 👀 Do you ever want some feedback on your work in progress? Head down to VANS to chat with your fellow artists for this evening of friendly, constructive art critique. Working alone in the studio can be isolating, so if you want to get out of your…
The Susan Wood Award
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In November 2018 Visual Arts Nova Scotia announced our fundraising campaign to support the Susan Wood Award, to be distributed by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Artist Susan Wood was a long-standing member of VANS and had served on our Board of Directors since 2014 until her passing earlier that year. Susan was committed to…
You’re invited to our Open House!
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The staff of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, along with Craft NS, The Writers’ Federation, Dance NS, Theatre NS, Strategic Arts Management, The Association of NS Museums, and the NS Choral Federation, invite you to the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia Holiday Open House! The event will take place at the CFNS, 1113 Marginal Road in…
Compelled by her ongoing effort in pursuing permanent resident status in Canada, Jenny Yujia Shi‘s Searching For A Place To Land explores themes of border-crossing, transience, and displacement. Her site specific installation consists of anonymous walking figures made with paper that has been texturized, glazed, stuffed and sewn onto a canvas backing. As Shi states, “while…
Art Talks Gallery Tour
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Join Visual Arts News for ART TALKS free bus tour of K’jipuktuk/ Halifax galleries featuring talks with indigenous artists and curators: Carrie Allison, Aiden Gillis, Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfeld & Wanda Nanibush! This event is in partnership with the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective | Collectif des commissaires autochtones Pjilita’q Mi’kmaki: L’nuite’tmukl tan wejkuwaql naqwe’kl International Gathering…
“Emotive Landscapes” by Kate Ward
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In the current exhibition at the Corridor Gallery, Kate Ward shows her watercolour studies inspired by a month long residency at SIM in Iceland. Her immersive experience in the raw landscapes inspired Ward to recreate the sublime grandeur of nature and dynamic skies. Using imagery which began as a response to her surroundings, her watercolour…
Register for Fall Workshops!
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia has announced our Fall 2018 Professional Development Workshop Series! Taking place in Sydney, Parrsboro, Wolfville and Halifax, this series covers some of the most requested topics you identified in the VANS Workshop Survey. Join us for Grant Writing with Becka Barker (in Sydney and Halifax), Websites, Social Media, and Technology: Creating…
Peer Gallery – Member Profile
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Peer Gallery, is an artists’ co-operative gallery, formed January, 2001. This spring Peer Gallery is celebrating 17 years of operation. Located in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lunenburg, the gallery exhibits the work of 14 Nova Scotia artists who have established reputations. The gallery emphasizes a complete diversity in art viewing: painting, drawing,…