ART RECESS!
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ART RECESS is a break, a change, time to play, to have fun – just like regular recess! You can even have a snack too, if you’d like. At VANS, we’ve been creating new space for art and engagement with artists in every way we can. ART RECESS is a collection of short, accessible workshops…
New Grad Program deadline extended!
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Sign up for Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s New Grad Program! This 14 week program is designed to help recent graduates navigate the transition from a full time student to a professional artist. During the program, all participants will be given the opportunity to take weekly professional development workshops on topics such as budgeting, applying for grants, writing about…
In What is left behind, textile artist Josephine Clarke exhibits a group of linen wall hangings made using modern materials, but traditional methods. Using plant-based dyes, she has modified traditional printmaking methods by using the unconventional materials of metal industrial rubbish. See What is left behind in the Corridor August 3 – 27. Can’t make it to…
Apply for the Mentorship Program
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The VANS 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 exhibitions, grant writing assistance, artist statement…
Upon moving to rural Nova Scotia, artist Carrie Phillips Kieser found herself disconnected from the life she had created in Calgary so she began to find comfort in discovering the plants growing in her new surroundings. This ritual of recording her findings during daily walks of investigation started to act as a daily meditative, contemplative and grounding…
2020-21 Mentorship Program Exhibition
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Something Completely Different Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s 2020-21 Mentorship Program Exhibition The Craig Gallery, June 30 – July 25, 2021 Emerging Artist Talk (over Zoom): Saturday, July 10, 2pm Highlighting the talents of emerging artists Trevor Novak, Sarah Mosher, Liam Ross and Celine Gabrielle, Something Completely Different also includes work from mentors Robin Metcalfe, Melissa Marr,…
VANS 2021 AGM
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Annual General Meeting will take place over Zoom on Monday, June 28, 2021. Join us at 6pm to find out about VANS’ accomplishments this year, followed by a fun artist-facilitated project you can create with us at home through our new 15 minute Art Recess initiative! Please register by June 25…
Take the Artists in Mind Survey!
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Are you an artist, of any discipline, living in Nova Scotia? If yes, we want to hear from you! Calling all dancers, visual artists, filmmakers, writers, theatre performers, craft artists, musicians, and all other creative workers living in this province. Visual Arts Nova Scotia has launched the Artists in Mind survey to better understand the…
VANS Office Closed
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The VANS office will remain closed to both staff and the public until the end of June. All in-person programming has been suspended and Corridor Gallery exhibitions have been postponed. For more information on new provincial restrictions please see click here: https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/restriction-updates/. The staff will be working from home, so please email us if you…
PAINTS Project Call: Art Recess
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With students across Nova Scotia now learning from home, PAINTS is responding with a new initiative: Art Recess! Artists will put together art activities that can be completed in about 15 minutes. They’ll make videos to lead students through the art activities using materials that would be readily available in most homes of school-age children.…
How to get your Deserres discount
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As a VANS member, you qualify for an additional 10% discount at Deserres art supply stores (both the physical location and online). You first have to join Deserres’ Creative Club (free to join) either in person or online. You will need to demonstrate proof of your VANS membership using one of the following: Your Membership…
Corridor on hold
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The Corridor Gallery will close temporarily due to the latest restrictions and rising COVID-19 cases in the province. Exhibitions scheduled for the remainder of 2021 will be postponed until restrictions are lifted and it is safe to reopen the VANS office and welcome the public again.
Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council (CNSLC) will be engaging members of the arts and culture sector in conversation about challenges, priorities, and opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is an opportunity for you to provide them with information about how the pandemic has affected you and discuss…
VANS in Residence at Wonder’neath
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VANS, in partnership with Wonder’neath Art Society, is so pleased to welcome Mara Ireta Gordon as our latest VANS in Residence Artist. From March 1 – 28, 2021, Mara will be in residence at Wonder’neath’s fantastic new space at 2482 Maynard St. From the artist: “My vision is to explore our understanding of heirlooms/precious items…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Open Grants program supports groups, galleries, organizations and/or collectives with up to $500 to create new arts programming or enhance existing arts programming in their community. For this year, only groups from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) community were eligible to apply. Congratulations to this year’s Open Grants recipients!…
Call for Pitches
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Calling for pitches for the summer issue of Visual Arts News. For Summer 2021, we’re putting together an issue that looks at solitude—the quality or state of being alone or remote from society—through the lens of art and artistic practices in Mi’kma’ki, and how as a community of artists we continue to grow and move…
Established artist Zeqirja Rexhepi created this series of paintings through the various phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Creating art in this challenging time has been an essential outlet for the artist. His studio has functioned as a sanctuary while there is so much uncertainty and pain in the world. Make an appointment to see COVID-XIX…
Announcing Artists in Mind
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We are thrilled to announce Eryn Foster as the lead coordinator for Artists in Mind, a newly launched artists’ and mental health research initiative coordinated through VANS in collaboration with Arts Nova Scotia. Eryn is an interdisciplinary artist who also works as an arts consultant, researcher, educator and community arts advocate in Halifax. If you happen…
“Working Girls” by Liam Ross
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Working Girls is a series of instant photographs by artist Liam Ross that explore the ephemeral labour of drag performers in Halifax. Backstage moments, rather than stage performances, are emphasized: preparing makeup and costumes, travelling to gigs, breaks between acts, and dressing room antics. The resulting photographs are at times compelling, intimate, and revealing. Make…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents the New Grad Program’s Online Exhibition! Meet the 10 emerging artists who participated in the 2020 New Grad Program: Andrew Thorne, Anna Lisa Shandro, Sydney Wreaks, Emily May, Fern Pellerin, Jessica MacDonald, Kiera Sitzer, Maddie Alexander, Molly MacLellan, and Nicholas Chapman. This year, due to COVID-19, we were unable to host…