Susan MacDonald – April Artist Profile
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Susan MacDonald is an artist and art educator with over 25 years of experience. As a VANS PAINTS artist she has been working with school children in Cape Breton for the past several years. She is currently exploring the medium of watercolours and enjoys the intensity and subtlety of colour that the medium offers.
Aries Dreamscape – Gary Castle
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Lantz based photographer, Gary Castle exhibits photo-based works building narratives around his Aries zodiac, on view in the corridor gallery April 9 -28, 2015.
Sign up for Spring 2015 Workshops
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This season’s professional development workshops for artists feature topics such as Making Time to Make Art, Exhibition Installation and Shipping, How to Properly Document Your Work, Pricing Your Work, and developing Portfolios for Commercial Galleries. Running April to May in Halifax, Annapolis Royal, and Truro, the series features the expertise of instructors Stacey Cornelius, David Dahms, Sarah Maloney, and Christopher Webb. Sign up online today.
Visual Arts News is now featured on a new app, GALLERY: Visual Art & Design Exposed. Read a selection of current and archive material from both print and online issues.
Lynn Rotin – March Artist Profile
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Lynn Rotin started her career as a photographer for choreographers and independent theater in Toronto. After moving to Halifax in 1989 she decided to enroll at NSCAD has been a practising artist since. She has received grants from the Canada Council, and her work is collected by the Nova Scotia Art Bank. Her drawings and paintings on paper use mixed media, building on layers of mark making.
( empty sets ) – Jocelyn Li
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Emerging Halifax based artist Jocelyn Li exhibits graphite and charcoal drawings rendered in plaster and jewellery to explore ideas surrounding the ellipse as zero, on view in the corridor gallery March 6 – 25, 2015.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk by visiting artist Jean-René Leblanc of Calgary, AB, in collaboration with Viewpoint Gallery and the NSCC Truro’s 14th annual Animediafest. Taking place Friday, March 6th, from 3:30-5:00pm at the NSCC Truro’s McCarthy Hall, this free artist talk is offered as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.
Upcoming Peer Review Groups
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Get fresh perspective on your next application. Visual Arts Nova Scotia is facilitating an eight week peer-review process to help members strengthen their upcoming proposals. Deadline to sign up for a group is March 9.
Born in Manitoba and currently living on a farm in the Cobequid Mountains, Pamela Swainson studied in the Fine Arts Program at Mount Allison in the early 70’s. She recently returned to her practice after several years on hold. Swainson is passionate about local living and sustainability, with caring for the earth is a subtext in her work.
New %10 Discount at Deserres!
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Current members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia can now receive a 10% discount off of regularly priced merchandise and custom framing at Deserres in Halifax
Dartmouth artist and VANS mentor Wilma Needham exhibits a photocollage series with accompanying sculptural objects which respond to challenges of parenting, on view in the corridor gallery February 5 – 26, 2015.
Membership Renewal Season
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Get a head start on 2015 by renewing your Visual Arts Nova Scotia Membership. Make it your new year’s resolution to become a PAINTS Artist, apply to the Mentorship Program, or update your E-Studio Directory. Get feedback on your next artist residency or grant application in the Virtual VANS Newsletter with a Peer Review Group or Workshop.
We use this survey to program workshops based on the needs and interests of artists in Nova Scotia. Please help us to develop workshops in your neighborhood by circulating this survey to artists in your area. Deadline to complete the survey – February 10, 2015.
Jack Wong – January Featured Artist
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Emerging artist and active volunteer Jack Wong works in drawing and participatory performance. Currently he is researching and writing on the topics of allegory, postmodernism, and video art, and on non-display in contemporary practice. His artwork is a means to test out ideas and opinions critical of the sociopolitcal landscape.
On view in the corridor gallery January 6 – 28, 2015, Annapolis Valley based artist Rosemary Dzus exhibits a series of generational reproductions of her work focused on abstraction, representation and improvisation.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CORRIDOR GALLERY
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Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office.
Kat Frick Miller is a textile and illustration artist based in Lunenburg, NS. Recently she has been working with the Atlantic Fisheries Museum, and uses rural life in Nova Scotia as the inspiration for her work. Miller is working on illustration for an upcoming book related to rural living. Find her work at the 10th Anniversary Halifax Crafters Winter Market December 5-7, 2014.
We are changing our content development strategies for the Virtual VANS newsletter, and we need your input to focus our efforts. Tell us what you’re looking for by taking our 5 minute survey!
Welcoming our 2014-15 Board of Directors
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On Saturday November 1, at a Special General Meeting, the members elected the 2014-15 Board of Directors. Please welcome our new and returning board members.
Harry Hamm – November Featured Artist
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Born in East Germany, Harry Hamm is an established artist and long-time member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia based in Musquodoboit Harbour. Based in observation, his paintings and drawings regularly comprise of fish, flowers, fowl and potato portraits.