An Artist Page for Every Member!
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We are now including an Artist Page (formerly known as an E-studio) with EVERY membership! Artists say this is one of our most valuable membership benefits, and with everyone on board it will be THE destination to find Nova Scotian artists online. The Artist Pages provide a page on our website where artists can post…
PAINTS Artist Deadline is December 1
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The Professional Artists in the Schools (PAINTS) program brings together professional visual and fine crafts artists, educators, and students. It provides support for schools throughout Nova Scotia to bring professional artists into their classrooms to work directly with students. Our roster includes artists from all over the province working in different media in and in…
The Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) project, Respectful Workplaces in the Arts, addresses harassment in the workplace, including sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and violence. As a part of this initiative, this workshop will ensure that artists and arts organizations across Canada have the tools, resources and training to prevent harassment of any kind, and build…
FRESH EYES Art Crit Returns
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NEW DATE: Thursday, November 21, 7pm. Do you ever want some feedback on your work in progress? Head down to VANS (1113 Marginal Road, Halifax) to chat with your fellow artists for this evening of friendly, constructive art critique. Working alone in the studio can be isolating, so if you want to get out of…
Cash – Artist Profile
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Cash is a dog and artist, originally from Ohio, now living and working in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He identifies as a mutt and his current part time position is office dog, mascot, pats promoter, and greeter at the Visual Arts Nova Scotia office. Working in a variety of media, Cash’s previous art projects include being…
“Aerial Abstraction” by Kelly Markovich
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Artist Kelly Markovich developed this series of drawings from a collection of satellite images taken from online weather sites. Having collected the images over a 5-year period, Markovich, an interdisciplinary photo-based artist, recently began drawing again as a part of her creative process. In these watercolour, acrylic and graphite drawings Markovich is exploring our connections…
New Grad Program Open Studio!
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The VANS New Grad Program participants invite you to their Open Studio! Join us in supporting these 9 amazing emerging artists and see what they have been working on during the program, chat with them, and see some great art. The Open Studio is on Wednesday, November 6 from 6 – 9pm in their 2nd…
How We Build: On Craft and Blackness
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Visual Arts News, in partnership with Nocturne Art at Night and MSVU Art Gallery, presents the panel discussion How We Build: On Craft and Blackness. Based on curator Pamela Edmond’s quote “I am no longer interested in a seat at the table. I now want to build my own table” this panel will focus on…
“Passages” by Natan Nevo
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Longtime VANS member Natan Nevo’s acrylic paintings are in the Corridor Gallery this month. With its unfailingly bright colours Nevo’s work is painted in his signature modern, geometric style. Included in this exhibition is his Life series, which chronicles the stages in a life. See Nevo’s exhibition, Passages, in the Corridor Gallery October 2 –…
Fall Workshops from VANS!
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VANS has announced our Fall 2019 Professional Development Workshop Series! This season we have workshops in Truro, Port Williams, Lunenburg, Sydney and Halifax on some of your most requested topics. New this year is Community Connection and Collaboration (addressing how to be engaged in the local community through art workshops, volunteering, open studios, and how…
Be part of a Peer Review Group
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Sign up for a Peer Application Review Group! VANS Members who are writing a grant or a proposal can get feedback on their writing (via email) with this program. Any member can sign up, we group the artists according to what type of grant they are applying for, then each artist submits a draft to…
Call for Members’ News
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VANS Members: send us your news! Have you been making and showing new work? Teaching or taking some great classes? Up for an award or in an exhibition? Send your updates and accomplishments to us for the fall edition of Members’ News! VANS members are often involved in some great projects, and your fellow artists…
“Repeat Patterns” by Jessica Lynn Wiebe
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Jessica Lynn Wiebe’s exhibition includes sketches and drawings of Jiu Jitsu movements, which serve as a point of reference as she builds complex repeat patterns in her paintings. The figurative patterns in these sketches are then repeated across the canvas and are further abstracted, creating a more colourful pattern, reminiscent of camouflage. See Wiebe’s exhibition,…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to officially announce the participants of this year’s Mentorship Program. After receiving some great applications, the program will be supporting four dedicated emerging Nova Scotian artists. Annik Gaudet, Hila Peleg, Andrea Tsang Jackson, and Jack Wong have been individually paired with established artists and mentors Becka Barker, Marilyn McAvoy,…
The 2019 New Grads!
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We are pleased to introduce the 2019 VANS New Grad Program participants! Over the next 14 weeks of the program, all of the participants will receive weekly professional development workshops and info sessions, meet with their mentor Eryn Foster, have studio visits from curator Julie Hollenbach and 24 hour access to a shared studio at…
“Flat Form” by Ada Denil
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Emerging artist Ada Denil’s exhibition of large scale prints was created using multiple intaglio plates organized to create the illusion of a cohesive form. Her careful arrangements have created different angles and planes, resulting in compositions reminiscent of folded paper or origami. See Ada Denil’s exhibition, Flat Form, in the Corridor Gallery August 2 –…
Call for pitches
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Visual Arts News has put out a call for pitches for the Spring 2020 issue. Visual Arts News magazine is creating our first ever call for submissions based on the theme of Architecture for the Spring 2020 issue. We’re looking for pitches, ideas and stories about how architecture influences/affects art, or art influences/affects architecture in…
Apply for our Subsidized Studio in Sydney! We have one 3-month slot left for our studio located on the 3rd floor of the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation from September 1 to November 30, 2019. Maybe you’re working on a project for Lumière or you just need to work somewhere other than your home for…
“One of One” by Dave Power
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Printmaker Dave Power’s work combines his interest in the technical side of printmaking with his knowledge of the buildings, marine environment, and landscape of Canada – especially the east coast. A former Marine Coppersmith, Power built his own printing press and discovered that working with the copper plates and the mechanics of the press interested…
Apply for our Mentorship Program
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Mentorship Program pairs emerging artists with established artists to take part in a ten-month mentorship from September to June. Focusing on supporting the goals and ambitions of emerging artists throughout the province, mentors may be asked to provide support in any one or more of the following areas: proposal development for…