Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents a discussion on the role of commercial galleries with Deborah Carver of Studio 21, Dave Hayden of (((Parentheses))) and Christopher Webb of Pavia Gallery, Thursday May 22, 6:30-9pm.
Karen Langlois – May Artist Profile
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After a 20-year career in Early Childhood Education Karen Langlois walked through the doors of Toronto School of Art and never looked back. Three years later she left Ontario to pursue her other long-neglected dream: a house in the woods in Nova Scotia. For the past seven years she has been making art and gardening in Port Medway.
What Was Here – Sera Senakovicz
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Emerging Halifax based printmaker, Sera Senakovicz exhibits a series of silkscreens revealing people’s relationships with historic buildings, on view in the corridor gallery May 6 – 29.
Time and Memory – Gary Castle
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Established professional photographer Gary Castle exhibits a series of photo collages emerging from his archives in the corridor gallery from April 3 – 27.
Janet Larkman – April Featured Artist
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While I prefer not to be limited by media or genre, I mostly work as a painter with a 3-D sensibility, incorporating materials such as metal, stone, glass, wood and clay. I have always done installation art and often use paintings as elements of installation.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia has a new program for members: In the spirit of a book club, members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia seeking feedback on their next application will be grouped with others applying to a similar program to review each other’s submissions.
Register for Spring 2014 Workshops
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With workshops such as Grant Writing, Taxes for Artists, Pricing Your Work, Marketing for Artists, and Writing About Your Work. Running April to May in Halifax, Lunenburg, and Annapolis Royal, the series features the expertise of instructors Eleanor King, Nora MacNee, and Stacey Cornelius.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Halifax Public Libraries are thrilled to announce that Sherry Lynn Jollymore has been selected as artist in residence for the program taking place at Woodlawn Public Library for the month of March.
Dawn MacNutt – March Featured Artist
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Dawn MacNutt is an artist and sculptor, from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Dawn’s work is most often inspired by her lifelong love of the human condition. …what she describes as ‘the beauty of human frailty’.
This group exhibition explores the inspiration found in traditions, routines, and rituals. Featuring artists Chris Brobeck, Lee Cripps, Anna Horsnell-Wade, Anne Launcelott, Maritza Miari, and Barbara Schmeisser.
Authored by Conservator and Collections Manager Elizabeth Jablonski, Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers a new publication in support of the Artist Emergency Fund.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents an artist talk by Brooklyn-based artist Caroline Woolard at NSCAD’s Lunenburg Studio Residency, Saturday March 8 at 1pm. In Collaboration with NSCAD University’s School of Extended Studies, and Art + Activism @ NSCAD project, this free artist talk is offered as the fifth and final installment of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.
Jay LeBlanc – February Featured Artist
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Jay LeBlanc is a proponent of serious play who indulges in abstract art of varying kinds. Mostly known for her innovative stained glass hangings, she also experiments with painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and poetry, along with a recent dabbling in installation. Her work “homing / vol de rentrée / de vuelta” is currently being shown at Gallerie Le Trécarré.
Super Phat – Dylan Fish
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This work derives from the mischief, mayhem and intimacy of eating cereal while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Suspended between the saturated visual overload of cartoon violence and the stillness of sitting on a couch in pajamas, Super Phat strives to find visual pleasure in all that is inherently gross.
Spring 2014 Workshop Survey
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers professional development workshops to artists accross the province based on feedback from members and artists. Let us know what you would like to see VANS offer by completing the Spring 2014 Workshop Survey.
Joy Laking – January Featured Artist
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Joy Laking is an artist and longstanding member of VANS. For the past forty years, she has tried to capture the beauty of her surroundings with paint, mainly working close to her home on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Her work is featured in the Dalhousie Art Gallery exhibition CAPTURE 2014: Nova Scotia Realism, curated by Tom Smart.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia invites applications from Gallery and Group members for the inaugural Open Grants Program serving to support exhibition activity in Nova Scotia.
A Reason to Smile – Randy Engelberg
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Halifax based painter Randy Engelberg exhibits a series of non-objective paintings in the corridor gallery from January 9 -30.
Sherry Lynn Jollymore is a fan of the fantastic, awe inspiring and funny and tries to reflect these qualities in anything she makes.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce a new VANS in Residence project. In partnership with The Woodlawn Public Library and with the support of the 2013 HRM Artist in Residence Initiative, this residency of a PAINTS artist will take place in March 2014.