The Sobey Art Award, which doles out $240,000 to Canadian artists including 100K to the winner, has announced its 2018 longlist. The Atlantic region finalists are Haligonians Lisa Lipton and Lou Sheppard plus Jordan Bennett, Jerry Ropson and D’Arcy Wilson. The shortlist will be announced May 29, with the winner crowned November 14 at the National Gallery […]
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Q&A with D’Arcy Wilson, CFAT’s speaker tonight
The Centre for Art Tapes has been a generator of Halifax’s independent arts community for over 30 years, and tonight, CFAT presents an artist’s talk with multidisciplinary visual artist D’Arcy Wilson, CFAT’s 2015 Artist-in-Residence (6:30pm, free, Halifax Central Library). In practice, Wilson’s work often explores the complex interrelations between humanity and nature. Tonight’s talk includes […]
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D’Arcy Wilson schools you on zoos
Joining previous CFAT artist-in-residence alumni Krista Davis, Will Robinson, Khanhthan Tran, Melanie Colosimo, Eryn Foster, Sym Corrigan and Léola Leblanc is D’Arcy Wilson, a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist (and big nature fan). From CFAT’s release about the program, here’s a description of what Wilson intends to produce during her residency. Includes: Little known facts about zoos! […]