To July 21 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Group effort, the aptly named exhibition at Dartmouth’s Craig Gallery, features work by eight artists at various stages in their careers. Since 2006, Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program has paired emerging and established artists for a 10-month period; the resulting show works to highlight the […]
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Stay cool with these 13 summer art exhibits
To July 14 Nature as Communities For her masters in environmental studies, Dal student Jennifer Yakamovich has been researching the role art can play in helping a cultural shift towards sustainability. Here, she plays curator as she shares a slew of results by artists from across the country, with pieces in various mediums meditating on […]
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Fall Arts: Emily Lawrence, Scratch & Sniff Menu at The Craig Gallery
Emily Lawrence, Scratch & Sniff Menu To October 7 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Emily Lawrence is at work mapping the familiar footpath between our olfactory glands and our memory vaults. She perches on one of several petite stools inside The Craig Gallery, surrounded by the photographs of her new exhibition, Scratch & Sniff […]
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Review: The Initial Show
The Initial Show Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing 2 Ochterloney Street To July 23 Artists’ talk Saturday, July 15, 2pm A singular Nova Scotian artistic voice is impossible to pin down—and The Initial Show, which runs until July 23 at the Craig Gallery in Dartmouth, stands as modest proof of the province’s artistic multeity. The show […]
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Ruth Marsh wings it
Ruth Marsh, Corpus Melliferous To February 26 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Opening Wednesday, February 1, 7-9pm Ruth Marsh is obsessed with bees. For the past several years, this NSCAD grad has been asking people to mail them to her. And they have—some 600 bees have come in from across Canada. Marsh taxidermies these bees and […]
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February’s must-see exhibits
Yo, check your pagan calendars. We are halfway between the winter solstice and equinox and if you don’t care about charging your crystals in the Imbolc moonlight then here’s the deal: It means more daylight, more daylight means the days stretch longer. Add in a couple of art-focused outings in that extra time and improve […]
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Mentorship shape
The evidence is in: Halifax is special, and one of the outstanding groups of people making it so is our artists. “We have more per capita than any other city,” says Becky Welter-Nolan, programming coordinator at Visual Arts Nova Scotia, a provincially funded organization dedicated to bolstering visual arts. And the reason why we have […]
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One Hundred Canadians
When you’re looking at a set of stats it’s hard not to imagine the person behind the numbers…who they are, what they look like, everything that’s not on the page. Which is why Jason Skinner’s One Hundred Canadians exhibit is so damn interesting. Almost voyeuristic, Skinner created a series of stylized semi-fictional portraits based on […]
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Family Ties
The Extra Curricular Art Club’s (photographers Christina Arsenault, Krista Comeau, Peter Dubee and Laura Mills) debut exhibit explores “family” in diverse ways. Dubee’s black-and-white staged photographs are framed with narratives that outline unconventional and sometimes dysfunctional relationships, a dark side of family that connects with Arsenault’s juxtaposition between the relationship of sisters and the men […]
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CFAT’s elevator music
Centre For Art Tapes and Craig Gallery’s double exhibit gets you coming and going. At the Craig Gallery is new work by Katie Vautour, Mixed Media Drawings, and in the elevator at Alderney Landing is the CFAT audio art program, Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary. Exhibition host Chris Myhr curated Broadcasting for Reels, choosing an […]
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Art of gold
“Trust your gut instinct. The best thing you can do is love it, because you have to live with it! I deal with NSCAD students and alumni, and people always come in and ask, ‘Who will be successful? Who will be famous?’ It’s hard to say, since we do everything: jewellery, textiles, ceramics and paintings. […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Visual arts events
Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here Through August 23 Guelph-based artist Will Gorlitz begins a painting by looking for the telling detail. “When determining the actual subjects I wish to paint, a crucial consideration is that the subjects present some acutely visual feature,” he explains in an email. “Commonly, this involves the tactile materiality of […]