VANS Activates the Artist Emergency Fund
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VANS Artist Emergency Fund will accept applications starting January 21, 2013. We are pleased to announce the activation of the Artist Emergency Fund for the New Year. Our 60-day campaign to raise $1000 to kickstart the fund has come to a close and thanks to the generous support of our members, artists and the public,…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is excited to announce the launch of our new E-Studio online video tutorial. This step by step guide takes viewers through the process of creating and updating their E-Studio page on our website. The E-Studio Directory provides a web page on our website to post up to six images, an artist…
Activate the VANS Artist Emergency Fund
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia is kicking off its campaign to raise $1000 in 60 days to activate the Artist Emergency Fund. With the generous support of our members, artists and the public, we have raised $4000, but we must reach a goal of $5000 before the fund is active. In 2010, VANS established the Artist…
The Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) Mentorship Program pairs emerging artists with established artists to take part in a 10-month mentorship. The program is designed to support the individual artistic methods and professional ambitions of emerging artists in Nova Scotia by providing access to the skills and experience of selected mentors. VANS is delighted…
Fall 2012 Workshop Series
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Registration now open for the Visual Arts Nova Scotia Fall 2012 Workshop Series Visual Arts Nova Scotia is excited to launch its Fall 2012 Workshop Series, running October to November with registration commencing on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012. Workshops in the Fall 2012 series include the ever popular Grant and Exhibition Proposals workshops in addition…
VANS Introduces Online Member Benefits
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With the launch of VANS’ new website in June 2011 and the launch of the new public VANS Matters newsletter in May 2012, it is becoming increasingly apparent that VANS can create more efficient means for communicating with public audiences about VANS activities and our members about opportunities supporting artists, and the sectors advancement in…
The 2012 Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday, June 2nd, was a wonderful day filled with many discussions on the advancement of the visual arts as reviewed in the 2012 Annual Report and through various networking and socializing opportunities made available to VANS members throughout the day. At the AGM,…
With a 36-year history, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) programs, services, members and publications have positively impacted thousands of individuals in Nova Scotia, nationally and internationally. In order to ensure that VANS programs and services are recognized, VANS has recently launched the first monthly VANS Matters newsletter this week. The free e-newsletter promises to inform any…
VANS 2012 Annual General Meeting
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Please join us on Saturday, June 2nd for the VANS 2012 Annual General Meeting at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Learn about all that VANS was able to achieve in the last fiscal year and help contribute to VANS direction into the future. All those attending the actual meeting must be current…
Halifax, NS – Recognizing the growing interests and shifts in the presentation of visual art in the public sphere inside and outside of Nova Scotia by Nova Scotia artists, through public art festivals such as Lumiere, Nocturne and Antigonight in Nova Scotia to Art in the Open in Charlottetown and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto,…
Please note the below package offer is no longer available. image courtesy of Mass MoCA Halifax, NS., March 5, 2012 – Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) is excited to offer a one-of-a-kind travel package – the Oh (VANS) Trip! – to Massachusetts from May 24th to May 27th, 2012 for the highly anticipated opening of…
(i)Pad 3 – Andrew Maize with a.corn inc
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Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. (i)Pad 3 Advertisement (i)Pad 3 Andrew Maize with a.corn inc March 5 – 29, 2012 The installation of (i)Pads by a.corn inc reconstructs the Corridor Gallery to display newly designed conceptual crafts from March 5 – 29, 2012. Describing…
LIMITED OFFER, SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE BIG UNTIL DECEMBER 15TH, 2011 December 1st, 2011 – In perfect tandem with new year to do lists and reflections of 2011, the spring 2012 issue of Visual Arts News will be distributed in January 2012 and features reviews, responses, reflections of and re-considerations on our states of being, among…
November 10, 2011 – To close Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s (VANS) Fall 2011 workshop series, VANS invites you to a free, public talk with Max Haiven titled Creative Occupations: Art, Creative Labour, and the Occupy Movement on Tuesday, November 29th at 7pm at the Culture Federations of Nova Scotia in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The free…
VANS “CANVAS” works now on the market
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It can take a substantial amount of trust to turn over artwork you’ve just completed to somebody else who can, for example, take the piece in a completely different direction, if that seems warranted. But that’s just part of the collaboration process, which involves setting aside some of the traditional ideas surrounding…
James MacSwain wins Portia White Prize and selects VANS Mentorship Program as secondary recipient
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October 31, 2011 – On Friday, October 28th at the sixth annual Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala, hosted at the Cunard Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) member and artist, James MacSwain won the Portia White Prize, naming the VANS Mentorship Program as the prizes secondary recipient. Born in Amherst, Nova…
October 7, 2011 – Marked as an anchor destination for Nocturne: Art at Night 2011, Halifax Seaport residents, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS), NSCAD University’s Port Loggia Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Mary E. Black Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and the Halifax Seaport Farmer’s Market have formed…
August 10, 2011 – The summer has ushered in many changes at Visual Arts News. We bid farewell to editor, Sue Carter Flinn and welcomed Lizzy Hill onboard as our new editor. Since 2003, Sue has provided Visual Arts News readers with timely and relevant coverage of the visual arts scene in Atlantic Canada and…
July 29, 2011 – From July 8 – 10, 2011, the 2010-11 VANS Mentorship Program participants and VANS personnel went to Windhorse Farms in New Germany, NS for a program retreat-intensive. Windhorse Farms is a unique community providing group accommodation, workshop facilities, meditation instruction, recreational activity, all in an effort to encourage reflective work in…
On Saturday, June 4th, at the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) Annual General Meeting in Lake Charlotte, NS, the organization launched a fresh and modern design to their website – https://www.visualarts.ns.ca. Now, two weeks later, and on the first day of Summer, VANS proudly announces it publically. VANS’ new website – created by Dean Gallant…