Past mentee Barbara Schmeisser began her full-time practice after graduating from NSCAD in 2005. Working largely in steel, Schmeisser reveals familiar things about and around us that are not always visible. Ironic contrasts, humour and visual metaphor are common elements.
Portia White award winning visual artist and arts advocate, Charlotte Wilson-Hammond exhibits a series of mixed media works reflecting on marsh landscapes from an aerial perspective, on view July 7 – 29.
2013-14 Mentorship Program Exhibition
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Emerging artists in this year’s program present work questioning notions of time and space, definitions of femininity, and the relationship between human mark making and architecture. On view at the Craig Gallery June 25 – July 26.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) releases the 9th annual call for applications for the VANS Mentorship Program. The VANS Mentorship Program pairs established artists with emerging artists to take part in a ten-month mentorship from September to June.
Bethany currently shares a studio at Wonder’neath Studio where she produces functional pottery as Bread and Butter Pottery; she an instructor at the George Dixon Centre and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; and shares a collaborative practice with Ella Tetrault- together they facilitate the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series, a community-based project in Halifax’s North End.
VANS AGM – Proposed Changes to By-laws
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With a more effective governance structure, the Board of Directors will be better able to oversee the larger purpose of the organization, the mandate, and support VANS in its continued relevance. We are confident that the proposed shift will allow us to represent the interests of artists in our province.
M.E. Sparks – Image
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Emerging New Glasgow based painter M.E. Sparks exhibits a series of drawings derived from Google Image searching a previous work, on view in the corridor gallery from June 5 – 26.
Register for the 2014 VANS AGM
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Please join VANS on Wednesday, June 25 for our Annual General Meeting at The Wooden Monkey Restaurant, 40 Alderney Drive, Alderney Landing (2nd floor), Dartmouth, NS. RSVP online here.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents a discussion on the role of commercial galleries with Deborah Carver of Studio 21, Dave Hayden of (((Parentheses))) and Christopher Webb of Pavia Gallery, Thursday May 22, 6:30-9pm.
Karen Langlois – May Artist Profile
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After a 20-year career in Early Childhood Education Karen Langlois walked through the doors of Toronto School of Art and never looked back. Three years later she left Ontario to pursue her other long-neglected dream: a house in the woods in Nova Scotia. For the past seven years she has been making art and gardening in Port Medway.
What Was Here – Sera Senakovicz
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Emerging Halifax based printmaker, Sera Senakovicz exhibits a series of silkscreens revealing people’s relationships with historic buildings, on view in the corridor gallery May 6 – 29.
Time and Memory – Gary Castle
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Established professional photographer Gary Castle exhibits a series of photo collages emerging from his archives in the corridor gallery from April 3 – 27.
Janet Larkman – April Featured Artist
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While I prefer not to be limited by media or genre, I mostly work as a painter with a 3-D sensibility, incorporating materials such as metal, stone, glass, wood and clay. I have always done installation art and often use paintings as elements of installation.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia has a new program for members: In the spirit of a book club, members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia seeking feedback on their next application will be grouped with others applying to a similar program to review each other’s submissions.
Register for Spring 2014 Workshops
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With workshops such as Grant Writing, Taxes for Artists, Pricing Your Work, Marketing for Artists, and Writing About Your Work. Running April to May in Halifax, Lunenburg, and Annapolis Royal, the series features the expertise of instructors Eleanor King, Nora MacNee, and Stacey Cornelius.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Halifax Public Libraries are thrilled to announce that Sherry Lynn Jollymore has been selected as artist in residence for the program taking place at Woodlawn Public Library for the month of March.
Dawn MacNutt – March Featured Artist
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Dawn MacNutt is an artist and sculptor, from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Dawn’s work is most often inspired by her lifelong love of the human condition. …what she describes as ‘the beauty of human frailty’.
This group exhibition explores the inspiration found in traditions, routines, and rituals. Featuring artists Chris Brobeck, Lee Cripps, Anna Horsnell-Wade, Anne Launcelott, Maritza Miari, and Barbara Schmeisser.
Authored by Conservator and Collections Manager Elizabeth Jablonski, Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers a new publication in support of the Artist Emergency Fund.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents an artist talk by Brooklyn-based artist Caroline Woolard at NSCAD’s Lunenburg Studio Residency, Saturday March 8 at 1pm. In Collaboration with NSCAD University’s School of Extended Studies, and Art + Activism @ NSCAD project, this free artist talk is offered as the fifth and final installment of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.