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.

VANS is also partnering with CARFAC Maritimes to offer artists an opportunity to learn more about Best Practices for Artists specifically focusing on the Charitable Donations of Artworks and touching on other guides for standards and procedures for working as and with artists.

In addition, VANS is organizing a free Panel Discussion: Artist Owned & Artist Run – Gallery Co-operatives, discussing how co-op galleries are started and sustained, and how co-operatively run galleries support art and artists in the province.

Visit www.visualarts.ns.ca/programs/vans-workshops/ for details on topics, registration, schedules, and becoming a VANS member to access discounts on workshop fees along with programs serving visual artists.

VANS’ Workshop Series discusses an interrelationship of topics across commercial and public sectors in an effort to keep members and visual artists informed of best professional practices in the visual arts. In offering these workshops, VANS supports the visual arts in Nova Scotia by keeping artists apprised of methods and opportunities to develop artistically and professionally.