Mia Rushton & Eric Moschopedis Artist Talk
RM 206, Beveridge Arts Centre, 10 Highland Avenue, Wolfville, NS.
October 16 at 7:00pm

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk by visiting artists Mia Rushton & Eric Moschopedis, in collaboration with Acadia University Art Gallery and Nocturne: Art at Night. Taking place on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00pm in RM 206, of the Beveridge Arts Centre at Acadia University, this free artist talk is offered as the second installment of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.

Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis will be presenting a collaborative project However you do it…consider the stars at this year’s Nocturne: Art at Night festival on October 19. Created as part of the group Sophie Farewell, However you do it…consider the stars brings together elements of craft, performance, and civic participation to create a durational performance and interactive installation. During their visit to the province, the artists will give a presentation about their practices in Wolfville, NS as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.

Mia Rushton is a mixed media artist, aligning herself with do-it-yourself artists who embrace handcrafts. By combining elements of screenprinting, sewing, knitting, and drawing, she endeavors to create micro-public spaces through small gestures, civic engagement, and intervention art. A graduate of Alberta College of Art and Design, Rushton has shown her installations and participatory works in artist-run centres and festivals in Canada, the United States and Switzerland.

Eric Moschopedis is an award winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. By combining a childlike curiosity with the scrutiny of an ethnographer, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. In addition to participatory works, Moschopedis maintains a performative practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.

Eric and Mia have been collaborators since the mid2000s. Together they have developed a catalogue of community-specific and participatory works in a post-gallery context. Their interest and use of public space, participation, intervention, performance and radical crafting as a way of interrogating local day-to-day life has been primary to their practice. They have presented projects, workshops and lectures in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is partnering with art galleries across the province to facilitate an exchange of national and international artists. The En Route Artist Talk Series aims to enhance existing programming and broaden contemporary art conversations.

Visual Arts Nova Scotia gratefully acknowledges support for the En Route Artist Talk Series from Arts Nova Scotia. We are pleased to work in partnership with the province to develop and promote our cultural resources for all Nova Scotians.

For more information about this artist talk, the En Route Artist Talk Series, or Visual Arts Nova Scotia, contact:

Becky Welter-Nolan
Programming Coordinator
Visual Arts Nova Scotia
902-423-4694 / 1-866-225-8267
communicate@visualarts.ns.ca