As part of our mandate, Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers professional development workshops to its members and artists around the province. Workshops offered in the past have included Taxes for Artists, Writing Professional Proposals, Documenting Your Work, Marketing for Artists, and more. In addition to these popular workshops we are looking for workshop proposals to enhance artists’ professional development. Do you have an idea for a new workshop? If so, please submit a proposal for our spring series or for next fall.

Workshop proposals should be a maximum of one page long and include the workshop title, description, outline, and maximum number of participants. Please  include your CV, including contact info for 2 references, with your proposal. See more info on the VANS website.

Please note: VANS doesn’t offer workshops on art materials, techniques or skills (like oil painting, wheel thrown pottery, etc.) because so many groups and art centres across the province do it so well already and because we have chosen to focus on the less frequently offered professional development topics.

Please send your workshop proposals to communicate@visualarts.ns.ca by February 15.