Call for Artist-in-Residence: Re-Focus Sustainable Art Electronic submission deadline: June 10, 2012 (please view other proposal submission guidelines below) The environmental impact of urbanization and industrialization has reached a critical point. It is now clear that our relationship to nature has drastically changed over time and that sustainable ways of living are necessary in order…
VANS 2012 Annual General Meeting
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Please join us on Saturday, June 2nd for the VANS 2012 Annual General Meeting at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Learn about all that VANS was able to achieve in the last fiscal year and help contribute to VANS direction into the future. All those attending the actual meeting must be current…
The VANS Board of Directors is seeking new regional representatives to serve on our Board of Directors starting June 2nd in region 1 (La Baie Ste. Marie/Yarmouth), Region 2B (Annapolis East) and Region 6 (Cumberland, Colchester & East Hants). Any nominees who put their name forward will be elected in by the membership at VANS…
Halifax, NS – Recognizing the growing interests and shifts in the presentation of visual art in the public sphere inside and outside of Nova Scotia by Nova Scotia artists, through public art festivals such as Lumiere, Nocturne and Antigonight in Nova Scotia to Art in the Open in Charlottetown and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto,…
Please note the below package offer is no longer available. image courtesy of Mass MoCA Halifax, NS., March 5, 2012 – Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) is excited to offer a one-of-a-kind travel package – the Oh (VANS) Trip! – to Massachusetts from May 24th to May 27th, 2012 for the highly anticipated opening of…
(i)Pad 3 – Andrew Maize with a.corn inc
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Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. (i)Pad 3 Advertisement (i)Pad 3 Andrew Maize with a.corn inc March 5 – 29, 2012 The installation of (i)Pads by a.corn inc reconstructs the Corridor Gallery to display newly designed conceptual crafts from March 5 – 29, 2012. Describing…
LIMITED OFFER, SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE BIG UNTIL DECEMBER 15TH, 2011 December 1st, 2011 – In perfect tandem with new year to do lists and reflections of 2011, the spring 2012 issue of Visual Arts News will be distributed in January 2012 and features reviews, responses, reflections of and re-considerations on our states of being, among…
November 10, 2011 – To close Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s (VANS) Fall 2011 workshop series, VANS invites you to a free, public talk with Max Haiven titled Creative Occupations: Art, Creative Labour, and the Occupy Movement on Tuesday, November 29th at 7pm at the Culture Federations of Nova Scotia in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The free…
VANS “CANVAS” works now on the market
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It can take a substantial amount of trust to turn over artwork you’ve just completed to somebody else who can, for example, take the piece in a completely different direction, if that seems warranted. But that’s just part of the collaboration process, which involves setting aside some of the traditional ideas surrounding…
James MacSwain wins Portia White Prize and selects VANS Mentorship Program as secondary recipient
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October 31, 2011 – On Friday, October 28th at the sixth annual Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala, hosted at the Cunard Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) member and artist, James MacSwain won the Portia White Prize, naming the VANS Mentorship Program as the prizes secondary recipient. Born in Amherst, Nova…
October 7, 2011 – Marked as an anchor destination for Nocturne: Art at Night 2011, Halifax Seaport residents, Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS), NSCAD University’s Port Loggia Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Mary E. Black Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and the Halifax Seaport Farmer’s Market have formed…
Nocturne: Art at Night is an annual festival bringing art and energy to the streets of Halifax between 6:00 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, October 15, 2011. The completely free event, now in its fourth year, showcases and celebrates the exciting visual arts scene in Halifax. The Nocturne program, map, and walking tours guide residents…
August 10, 2011 – The summer has ushered in many changes at Visual Arts News. We bid farewell to editor, Sue Carter Flinn and welcomed Lizzy Hill onboard as our new editor. Since 2003, Sue has provided Visual Arts News readers with timely and relevant coverage of the visual arts scene in Atlantic Canada and…
July 29, 2011 – From July 8 – 10, 2011, the 2010-11 VANS Mentorship Program participants and VANS personnel went to Windhorse Farms in New Germany, NS for a program retreat-intensive. Windhorse Farms is a unique community providing group accommodation, workshop facilities, meditation instruction, recreational activity, all in an effort to encourage reflective work in…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) is accepting applications for a contract, Project Coordinator. The position is a 4-month, 30hrs/week, $12/hr contract that will start August 1st, 2011 and end December 1st, 2011. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Project Coordinator will coordinate event and funding logistics for an artist residency and symposium that aims to…
On Saturday, June 4th, at the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) Annual General Meeting in Lake Charlotte, NS, the organization launched a fresh and modern design to their website – https://www.visualarts.ns.ca. Now, two weeks later, and on the first day of Summer, VANS proudly announces it publically. VANS’ new website – created by Dean Gallant…
Make-Do, VANS Regional Exhibition
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Artists Making and Doing, by Making-Do: A Visual Arts Nova Scotia Regional Exhibit The rugged spirit of Nova Scotias’ resourcefulness is showcased in an upcoming group exhibit featuring 23 Eastern Shore artists, all of which are members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Subtitled “recycle, repurpose, reuse, revisit, reinvent, recreate”, the show opens to the…
Corridor Gallery 2012 – 2013
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VANS has exhibition openings in the Corridor Gallery in 2012-2013. The Corridor Gallery is a member gallery space located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS in the office of Visual Arts Nova Scotia and is open Monday through Friday 9am-5pm. The Corridor Gallery is a non-juried space, and is available for our members on a first…
The Chosen Ones, Pat Sollows
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Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. The Chosen Ones Pat Sollows June 2 – 29, 2011 Pat Sollows’ paintings encircle the Corridor Gallery at Visual Arts Nova Scotia from June 2 – 29, 2011. With regards to her oil painting practice, Sollows’ states that My…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) is excited to release the 5th call for applications for the VANS Mentorship Program. Since 2006, the VANS Mentorship Program has paired established artists with emerging artists (not necessarily young artists, but those at the beginning of their artistic careers) to take part in a ten-month long mentorship from September…