Nadine Belliveau
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Nadine Belliveau is a visual artist from the Baie Sainte-Marie, Digby County, Nova Scotia where she has been creating professionally since 1971. A graduate of NSCAD, Université de Moncton & Université Sainte-Anne, her contribution to the arts has been as an artist, educator and organizer. Her paintings explore the essence of nature by means of abstraction and decorative expression and unveil the mysterious, immersive qualities of nature presenting their inviting and warm environments through textural, layered and large-format acrylic on canvas.
STILL LIFE SPECTRA – Nancy Stevens
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Antigonish-based painter Nancy Stevens exhibits a series of paintings examining the substance of colour. STILL LIFE SPECTRA is on view in the corridor gallery September 2 – 29.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to officially announce the participants of the 10th anniversary VANS Mentorship Program. After receiving a record number of applications, the program has been expanded to support four dedicated emerging Nova Scotian artists. Claudia Legg, Alice MacLean, Sophie Paskins and Anna Taylor have been individually paired with established artists and mentors: James MacSwain, Ian McKinnon, Mathew Reichertz and Becka Barker.
Kas Stone – August Featured Artist
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Kas Stone spent her formative years on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. This sparked a passion for bleak coastal scenery and wild weather that has sustained her spirit and inspired her photography ever since. After a twenty-year stint ‘learning the ropes’ in Toronto, Kas now makes her home in Dublin Shore, Lunenburg County, where she runs a studio gallery and teaches courses in digital imaging. Her work is inspired by our wild coastal scenery with its vast expanse of sea and sky and its smaller textural and colour details.
Evolving Pictures – Marilyn Whalen
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Truro-based painter Marilyn Whalen exhibits a series of paintings examining the evolution of an art practice over time and the vision that holds the works together. Evolving Pictures is on view in the corridor gallery August 7 – 27.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk and musical performance by visiting artist Kate Larson from New Paltz, NY, in collaboration with the Anchor Archive Zine Library/ Inkstorm/ SadRad Artist in Residence Program and The Deanery Project.
2015 Annual Report
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia is approaching its’ 40th year of providing advocacy and support for artists practicing in Nova Scotia. As President this past year, I have had the privilege of participating in navigating new growth and change for the governance model for the Board. Important to this has been laying the ground for how we work together and maintain active participation. A core value as we proceed, has been attention to how we engage the full diversity of the artists we represent in Nova Scotia. This is no small task as we are all aware artists in this province include a wide range of artistic practices, mediums, educational backgrounds, culture, ages and place of residence.
Sera Senakovicz – July Featured Artist
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Sera Senakovicz grew up in British Columbia and moved to Nova Scotia in 2005. Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design she has been making prints wherever and however she can. She has been a recipient of two creation grants from ARTS Nova Scotia to help her to attend a residency at Spark Box Studios and to make a new body of work for a solo exhibition at Parentheses Gallery this past February. She is interested in oral histories of neighbourhoods and buildings and how lives are lived within and around them.
To further develop critical art writing in this region, Visual Arts News will host a Writer-in-Residence in partnership with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS). The residency will be open to emerging critical writers for a 4-month residency/internship and is designed to help develop and promote the work of emerging art critics.
The Charming PEI – Margareta Boivin
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Halifax-based painter Margareta Boivin exhibits a series of acrylic paintings examining Prince Edward Island from her perspective as a sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy. The Charming PEI is on view in the corridor gallery July 6 – 27, 2015.
Highlighting the talents of mentees Angela Glanzmann, Kate Walchuk, and Stephanie Yee the Visual Arts Nova Scotia 2014-15 Mentorship Program Exhibition Meet Local Women also includes work from mentors Barbara Lounder, Eryn Foster, and Wilma Needham. Emerging artists in this year’s program present work examining loneliness, the artist stereotype, and contemporary settlement in Nova Scotia, on view at the Craig Gallery July 9 – August 1.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) releases the 10th annual call for applications for our Mentorship Program. As part of the tenth anniversary of the program, we strongly encourage applications from emerging and established artists living in rural Nova Scotia communities to participate in this year’s program. The VANS Mentorship Program pairs emerging artists with established…
Michael McCormack – June Featured Artist
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Michael McCormack is an interdisciplinary artist from Halifax and former Director of Eyelevel Gallery. His work stems from an interest in intergenerational communications, skill sharing and experimental translation. See his upcoming exhibition at ARTsPLACE in Annapolis Royal June 14 – July 12.
Re/Visions – Joyce Glasner
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Halifax-based mixed-media artist Joyce Glasner exhibits a series of painting and collage based works in her exhibition “Re/Visions”, on view in the corridor gallery June 3 – 30, 2015.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk by visiting artist Nicole Pietrantoni from Washington, USA, in collaboration with the Anna Leonowens Gallery and the Cape Breton University Art Gallery. Taking place Thursday July 9th, 5:30pm at the Cooperative Study Club, Suite 104 of the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation in Sydney, NS, this free artist talk is offered as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.
In partnership with the Artists Legal Information Society and Strategic Arts Management, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) announces a new professional development webinar series for artists across the province.
Annual General Meeting 2015
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Join the board, staff and artists on the South Shore for our 2015 Annual General Meeting. We will kick off the weekend with a cinq sept at the Lunenburg School of the Arts on Friday June 12. On Saturday June 13, we will move to the Mahone Bay Centre for full day of activities including Monoprints with the Mahone Bay Printmakers, a Members Lunch, and the AGM followed by an Open Engagement session.
Nominees will stand for election at our Annual General Meeting on June 12, 2015 in Mahone Bay. A Board Member believes wholeheartedly in the importance and value of Visual Arts Nova Scotia to the visual arts community and the representative should be able to endorse the mandate and objectives of our organization without reservation. If you are interested consider nominating a member or putting your name forward, and contact us for additional information.
Geoff Butler – May Featured Artist
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Geoff Butler is an artist and writer in Granville Ferry, NS. His work is a mixture of realism and fantasy commenting on the human condition. Recently he has been an artist-in-residence with Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and with the Labrador Institute & Grenfell Campus Art Gallery in North West River, Labrador. His recent work will be exhibited at the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council in August.
Examining social interaction and memory, emerging Dartmouth based artist Alice MacLean exhibits a series of figurative works begun in Paris. On view in the corridor gallery May 11-28, 2015.