Membership Renewal Season
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Get a head start on 2015 by renewing your Visual Arts Nova Scotia Membership. Make it your new year’s resolution to become a PAINTS Artist, apply to the Mentorship Program, or update your E-Studio Directory. Get feedback on your next artist residency or grant application in the Virtual VANS Newsletter with a Peer Review Group or Workshop.
We use this survey to program workshops based on the needs and interests of artists in Nova Scotia. Please help us to develop workshops in your neighborhood by circulating this survey to artists in your area. Deadline to complete the survey – February 10, 2015.
Jack Wong – January Featured Artist
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Emerging artist and active volunteer Jack Wong works in drawing and participatory performance. Currently he is researching and writing on the topics of allegory, postmodernism, and video art, and on non-display in contemporary practice. His artwork is a means to test out ideas and opinions critical of the sociopolitcal landscape.
On view in the corridor gallery January 6 – 28, 2015, Annapolis Valley based artist Rosemary Dzus exhibits a series of generational reproductions of her work focused on abstraction, representation and improvisation.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CORRIDOR GALLERY
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Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office.
Kat Frick Miller is a textile and illustration artist based in Lunenburg, NS. Recently she has been working with the Atlantic Fisheries Museum, and uses rural life in Nova Scotia as the inspiration for her work. Miller is working on illustration for an upcoming book related to rural living. Find her work at the 10th Anniversary Halifax Crafters Winter Market December 5-7, 2014.
We are changing our content development strategies for the Virtual VANS newsletter, and we need your input to focus our efforts. Tell us what you’re looking for by taking our 5 minute survey!
Welcoming our 2014-15 Board of Directors
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On Saturday November 1, at a Special General Meeting, the members elected the 2014-15 Board of Directors. Please welcome our new and returning board members.
Harry Hamm – November Featured Artist
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Born in East Germany, Harry Hamm is an established artist and long-time member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia based in Musquodoboit Harbour. Based in observation, his paintings and drawings regularly comprise of fish, flowers, fowl and potato portraits.
Rooms 1 – Kyle Martell
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Emerging Halifax based artist Kyle Martell exhibits a series of print-media works investigating the passive observer, on view in the corridor gallery November 5 – December 17.
Join the board, staff and artists for a Special Meeting to Elect the 2014-15 Board of Directors, followed by a light lunch to connect with peers. We’re excited to share what we’ve been up to lately and chat about how you can be involved with our upcoming programming and direction.
Sarah Saunders will give an artist talk at the Antigonish Town & County Library, Tuesday October 21 at 7pm in collaboration with ASAP Artist Run Centre. Saunders is visiting Nova Scotia for her exhibition Between Presence and Absence at ARTsPLACE Artist-run Centre in Annapolis Royal, on view until October 19, 2014.
Henri Fabergé will give a presentation exploring the social rules, rituals, and hierarchal structures we inherit at the Lunenburg School of the Arts in Lunenburg, NS, Monday October 20th at 7pm. Fabergé is visiting Nova Scotia as a Nocturne Anchor Project artist and presenting work with Eyelevel Gallery.
![Pair of Two Male Couples in Pseudo Rococo Setting [Paire de deux couples masculins dans un décor pseudo-rococo], 2012 Ceramic and found objects / Céramique et objets trouvés 57.5 x 39 x 19.5 c, (each) Collection of the artist, courtesy of / Collection de l’artiste, aver l’aimable concours de la David Kaye Gallery, Toronto Photograph: Richard Milette](https://visualarts.ns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WebLeopold-790x500.jpg)
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents an artist talk by visiting artist Léopold L. Foulem of Montreal, QC, in collaboration with Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, at Le Trécarré Gallery in Church Point, NS. / Visual Arts Nova Scotia en collaboration avec la Galerie d’art de l’Université Saint-Mary’s présente un Bavard’Art à la Galerie Le Trécarré à Pointe-de-l’Église, N.É. L’artiste invité, le Montréalais, Leopold L. Foulem.
Suzanne Gauthier was born in Lorette Manitoba and studied and taught at the University of Manitoba (BFA Honours 1969). In 1989 she relocated to Halifax to teach full time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is based in drawing, printmaking and collage, and has recently been engaged in photographs of moving water. See her studio exhibition Acquainted with Light, October 16-31, as part of Photopolis.
Germaine Koh artist talk at ARTsPLACE
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Germaine Koh will give a presentation of her conceptually-generated work, concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places at ARTsPLACE in Annpolis Royal, Saturday October 11 at 1pm. She is visiting Nova Scotia to present her work as part of the exhibition (im)mobile presented by the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Centre for Art Tapes in partnership with White Frame.
En Route Artist Talk Series
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents artist talks throughout the province by national artists Marc Courtemanche, Germaine Koh, Léopold L. Foulem and Sarah Saunders this October. These free presentations are offered in collaboration with University Art Galleries and Artist-run Centers across Nova Scotia as part of the second En Route Artist Talk Series.
Our Fall 2014 series offers workshops focused on Writing About Your Own Work, Curating, Writing Critically, Pricing Your Work, Financial Management and Taxes for Artists. Running October to November in Halifax and Annapolis Royal, the series features the expertise of instructors Carla Taunton, Stacey Cornelius, Carol Bruneau, Nora MacNee and Susan Haley.
A Passionate Sense of Place – Kas Stone
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Photographer Kas Stone of Dublin Shore, NS exhibits a series of works investigating our emotional attachment to the landscape, on view in the corridor gallery October 2 – 30 as part of Photopolis – The Halifax Festival of Photography.
Taking place on Sunday, October 5th at 1:00pm at Acadia University Art Gallery in Wolfville, ceramicist Marc Courtemanche will speak about his work with sculpture and installation, using clay as if it were wood.