In the summer of 2010, exhibiting artist – James MacSwain – traveled to the south of China to Yunnan Province visiting the cities of Dali and Jinghong. From Jinghong, MacSwain traveled into Laos where he took a boat down the Mekong River to arrive at the Buddhist temple city of Luang Prabang. MacSwain explains that: this exhibition consists of photographs taken…
Alongside many arts organizations nationally, who advocate on behalf of the arts and artists, Visual Arts Nova Scotia is among them to endorse the inclusion of Artist Resale Right in changes to the Copyright Act through Bill C-32. With rigor, CARFAC, the national association of visual artists in Canada and their Quebec partner RAAV are…
Merydie Fjarlie, Fabienne Leydecker, Tom Attebery, Violet Rosengarten, Jeremy Akerman, Rae Smith
November 8 – December 12, 2010 Lorraine Endicott Cracked Jug/Imperfect Life A cracked blue jug bought at the local flea market became a temporary obsession and a metaphor for exhibiting artist Lorraine Endicott about life. Endicott explains that “Life is not perfect. You work with what you are given and you may find beauty, anyhow”.…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) and the Hub were both pleased to announce their inaugural collaboration: The Hub Gallery in October 2010. The Hub Gallery’s premiere exhibition will take place from October 16th, 2010 to January 7th, 2011. This premiere exhibition features visual artists Qahtan Ibrahim, Judith Leidl, Justine Kerr, Barbara Carter, Andrea Pottyondy, Charlotte…
Traditional Wa(y)ves
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Traditional Wa(y)ves was a group exhibition that featured artists Helen Verbanz, David Dahms, Peter Dyhkuis, Merydie Fjarlie, Allison Pinsent Baker, Sarah Burwash and Joanna Close, and was curated by Crystal Melville, Programming Coordinator at Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Traditional Wa(y)ves explores the contemporary morphing and weaving of the Nova Scotia landscape and its economy. Featured artists…
VANS in Residence
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce that VANS in Residence will take place September 20 – October 15, 2010 in the town of Yarmouth, NS. We’re excited to partner with The Yarmouth County Museum and Archives as the host organization for this pilot program. The residency has been awarded to artist Katie Belcher. She will…
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Wake Up to New Art Visual Arts Nova Scotia Cape Breton Regional Exhibition Cape Breton University Art Gallery August 13 – October 3rd, 2010 August 18, 2010 – The Cape Breton Regional VANS exhibition titled Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Wake Up to New Art features many of Cape Breton’s most well-known artists, including…
The Cape Breton Regional VANS exhibition titled Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Wake Up to New Art featured many of Cape Breton’s most well-known artists, including Roger Beaudry, Lori Secouler-Beaudry, Carolyn Ritchie Bedford, Kenny Boone, Lynn Ellis, Teena Marie Fancey, Celeste Friesen-Nikkel, Brian David Geary, Basma Kavanagh, Carol Kennedy, Gordon Kennedy, Diane Lewis, Patsy MacKinnon, Susan MacDonald,…
This exhibition captured en route the talents of emerging artists Raina McDonald, Leslie Menagh and Chantal Tardiff, and was further complimented by work from their individual mentors Dawn MacNutt, Sarah Maloney and Ilan Sandler. From printmaking to video to performance to sculpture, participating artists caught their audience in their tracks, while also finding their own.…
Barbara Carter, Ron Hayes, Anna Wade Horsnell, Judith Leidi, Susan Malmstrom, John Malone, Kathy Richards, Barbara Schmeisser, Cristina C. Sidhu, Jacqueline Steudler
Jenni Blackmore, Anne Launcelott, Nora Robicheau, Rae Smith, Roxanne Smith, and Susan Sweet
Pivotal Habitat, Shelley Matthews
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February 1 – 27, 2010 Shelly Matthews, Pivotal Habitat This collection, comprising Pivotal Habitat, includes strong, simple, natural images in acrylics and watercolour as indicated by artist, Shelley Matthews. Matthews further states: I paint the images that hold my visual awareness; those which immediately send my mind into the process of making art and resonate…
Harvey Dobson, Helen Opie, Jeremy Akerman, Joy Laking, Laurie Mireau, Marlien Suermondt, Mary Ann Archibald, Monika Wright and Rae Smith
Collaboration on Marginal Road
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On October 18, 2009, as part of Nocturne, members of the public were invited to play a collective word game inspired by the parlour game Exquisite Corpse, originally played by Surrealists in the 1900s. In our version, each player added a sentence to an ongoing story without having knowledge of what has already been written.…
2009 VANS Awards
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On Friday October 17, 2009 , artists and art supporters gathered to acknowledge the recipients of the 2nd Annual VANS Awards at the Nocturne Launch Party. Awards categories include Emerging Artist, Outstanding Year, Art Educator and the 2009 VANS Honour Roll. VANS would like to acknowledge the support of Nocturne, Propeller Brewery and Bruce Jollimore Photography. Outstanding Year Award: Yo Rodeo This…
VANS Awards – 2009
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On Friday October 17, 2009 , artists and art supporters gathered to acknowledge the recipients of the 2nd Annual VANS Awards at the Nocturne Launch Party. Yo Rodeo: Outstanding Year Yo Rodeo is the name of screen-printing art team Seth Smith and Paul Hammond. They partnered in 2003 primarily to design and create screen-printed show posters for…
October 3 – 30, 2009 Everything that you are reading, I have said before Bonnie Baker Bonnie Baker will exhibit two contiguous drawings that bind the walls of the gallery. These drawings were culled from a previous installation/performance piece, called Bindings, in which the interior of a small room was literally bound with interconnecting drawings…
Art in a Box: July 7- November 5, 2009
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Kim Cain-Simmonds, Anna Wade Horsnell, Eleanor Clarke, Rae Smith, Carolyn Fish, Roxanne Smith, Colleen McKee and Ann McLauchlan
Art in a Box: July 6 – November 2 2009
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Works by Kim Cain-Simmonds, Eleanor Clarke, Carolyn Fish, Colleen McKee, Ann Mclaughlan, Rae Smith, Roxanne Smith and Anna Horsnell Wade