VANS Office Closed
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The VANS office will remain closed to both staff and the public until the end of June. All in-person programming has been suspended and Corridor Gallery exhibitions have been postponed. For more information on new provincial restrictions please see click here: https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/restriction-updates/. The staff will be working from home, so please email us if you…
PAINTS Project Call: Art Recess
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With students across Nova Scotia now learning from home, PAINTS is responding with a new initiative: Art Recess! Artists will put together art activities that can be completed in about 15 minutes. They’ll make videos to lead students through the art activities using materials that would be readily available in most homes of school-age children.…
How to get your DeSerres discount
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As a VANS member, you qualify for an additional 10% discount at DeSerres art supply stores (both the physical location and online). You first have to join DeSerres’ Creative Club (free to join) either in person or online. You will need to demonstrate proof of your VANS membership using one of the following: Your Membership…
Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council (CNSLC) will be engaging members of the arts and culture sector in conversation about challenges, priorities, and opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is an opportunity for you to provide them with information about how the pandemic has affected you and discuss…
VANS in Residence at Wonder’neath
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VANS, in partnership with Wonder’neath Art Society, is so pleased to welcome Mara Ireta Gordon as our latest VANS in Residence Artist. From March 1 – 28, 2021, Mara will be in residence at Wonder’neath’s fantastic new space at 2482 Maynard St. From the artist: “My vision is to explore our understanding of heirlooms/precious items…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Open Grants program supports groups, galleries, organizations and/or collectives with up to $500 to create new arts programming or enhance existing arts programming in their community. For this year, only groups from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) community were eligible to apply. Congratulations to this year’s Open Grants recipients!…
Call for Pitches
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Calling for pitches for the summer issue of Visual Arts News. For Summer 2021, we’re putting together an issue that looks at solitude—the quality or state of being alone or remote from society—through the lens of art and artistic practices in Mi’kma’ki, and how as a community of artists we continue to grow and move…
Announcing Artists in Mind
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We are thrilled to announce Eryn Foster as the lead coordinator for Artists in Mind, a newly launched artists’ and mental health research initiative coordinated through VANS in collaboration with Arts Nova Scotia. Eryn is an interdisciplinary artist who also works as an arts consultant, researcher, educator and community arts advocate in Halifax. If you happen…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents the New Grad Program’s Online Exhibition! Meet the 10 emerging artists who participated in the 2020 New Grad Program: Andrew Thorne, Anna Lisa Shandro, Sydney Wreaks, Emily May, Fern Pellerin, Jessica MacDonald, Kiera Sitzer, Maddie Alexander, Molly MacLellan, and Nicholas Chapman. This year, due to COVID-19, we were unable to host…
Call for workshop proposals
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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…
VANS has just launched a free and downloadable PODCAST RESOURCE GUIDE as a follow-up to the HEAR TELL PODCAST TRAINING PROGRAM. It contains all kinds of free and helpful information for artists, creatives and anyone interested in starting their own podcast project. Feel free to share this link with anyone who might be interested: https://visualarts.ns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hear-Tell-Resource-Guide.pdf What’s…
VANS in Residence in Halifax
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VANS in Residence provides a studio space, a stipend to support the artist to work full time for 4 weeks, and support from VANS and Wonder’neath in outreach. Time will be split between the artist’s own work (creation, research or both) and to community based work. The outreach will need to be done by distance,…
A call for PAINTS workshops
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The PAINTS program is seeking initial sketches/outlines for workshops that you could lead remotely. All workshops will be either online in real time via Google classrooms, or facilitated by the teacher with paper prompts provided by the artist as a guide to take students through a process. We’re approaching all workshops as one-off live events.…
Take our Workshop Survey
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Most years, VANS would offer a webinar series in the winter and an in-person workshop series in the spring and fall, but this year we are offering all our workshops online for the safety of our members. So we’re combining the usual winter and spring online workshops to offer a single Spring Workshop Series over Zoom…
Meet with a Creative Consultant
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The new Creative Consults program is made for artists who are searching for advice to support their professional practice. You can start by searching through our directory of creative consultants, filter by expertise and book the consultant of your choice on their profile. We have consultants with expertise in grant writing, podcasting, marketing, websites, writing proposals, budgeting,…
Advocate for budgeting for the arts
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Help artists in 2021 by writing your MLA and the Finance and Treasury Board at budget@novascotia.ca before December 31. We need your voice to ensure the arts are a priority in the upcoming budget and recovery funds: Dear (Your MLA’s Name), Recognizing that culture is an integral part of Nova Scotian life, that creative activities…
Happy Holidays from VANS!
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The Visual Arts Nova Scotia office will be closed and the staff will be on break from December 19 – January 3. Our first day back to work will be Monday, January 4, 2021, although we will still be working primarily from home. Happy holidays from the team at VANS (Becky, Andrea, Carri, Emily and…
Time to renew your membership
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As the end of the year approaches remember to renew your VANS membership before it expires on December 31, 2020! If you selected an automatically renewing membership when you joined or renewed last year, then it will automatically charge your 2021 membership fees on December 1, 2020. No need to set a reminder – the website will automatically renew your membership every year (or until…
Open Grants is accepting applications
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia is accepting applications from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) groups, galleries, organizations, and/or collectives to create new arts programming or enhance existing arts programming in the community. We have expanded the Open Grants program so that a gallery, group or collective could apply for up to $500 to assist with costs related to…
Calling for Creative Consultants!
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With the Creative Consults directory now available we are ready to take on new consultants in the coming months. Check back for upcoming deadlines. Creative Consults functions as a service directory for VANS members searching for support in their professional art practice. Each consultant profile will contain information about the expertise they’re offering and their…