Visual Art

Even though the weather’s getting warmer Mary E. Black Gallery is cozying up with members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international non-profit organization aimed at promoting art quilting via exhibition and education, world-wide. Rooted features the intricate works of twenty-three members of Atlantic Canada’s contingent of SAQA, who’ve all interpreted the theme in […]

Sym Corrigan and Kim Morgan wanted to have discussions about contemporary sculpture. But the Dalhousie Art Gallery employee and the assistant professor from NSCAD didn’t want to just talk to one another—they wanted to explore the subject with some big hitters and let other people in on the conversation. The solution: The Sculpture Lecture Series, […]

Jeannie Thib’s Hyperflat is a thought-provoking wonderland of shapes, structures and sketches. Her latest exhibition explores the finer points of architecture through an interesting mix of materials. Her aluminum wall installations, Range, Link and Projection play with light and movement and give a beautiful three-dimensional effect while Section and Cube create a nice juxtaposition between […]

The book is alive and well and the folks from Dalhousie’s art gallery want to make sure you know it. The gallery’s latest exhibit shows that not everyone is ready to turn the page on books as we know them, commenting on the hardships of commercial publishing and the rise of the printed matter culture […]

As Susanna Heller spent months alongside her husband’s hospital bed, watching him endure intrusive surgeries, waiting for him to return from an induced coma, she drew. During a time where so much was uncertain, and her soulmate was figuratively out of reach, it was her pencil and paper that grounded her. “For me drawing and […]

For 20 years Andrew Maize had trouble sleeping on his back, that is until he received a thoughtful homemade gift from his 11-year-old cousin. That half-pound lavender eye compress, also served as inspiration for the (i)Pad 3, which Maize calls “technology so unadvanced, you’ll forget it’s even there.” a.corn inc., a NSCAD-based collective founded by […]

Even in the midst of a not-so-white winter the Wearable Art Show continues to snowball, picking up speed and growing pretty consistently. The 22nd annual bright spot on the art community’s calendar heads back to the Halifax Forum for a second consecutive year, embracing the new space and giving NSCAD’s most fashionable the centre stage […]

So far in 2012 nobody’s been visiting Eyelevel Gallery more than mail carriers. Packages from around Canada, and the world, have been flooding in since January, bringing in small, handmade, varied works that’ll make up ERI5, a biennial exhibit of multiples and artist-made publications. With a call for submissions sent to over 250 artist-run centres […]

Printmaking is a bit of a blanket term, and tucked under it is a really rich history of an expansive and still-growing art form. Studio 21’s latest group exhibit The Allure of the Print uncovers bits and pieces of printmaking’s evolution by showcasing the many styles and methods, from lithographs and woodblock to intaglio, and […]

If you happen to be walking through the Granville Street courtyard outside NSCAD’s Anna Leonowens Gallery on Monday evening, you might be stopped by something unusual. Exactly what will be a mystery, but it could be hushed or raucous; spontaneous or carefully choreographed: think snowball fights, rhyming out loud, costumes or (literally) walking on eggshells. […]

Breakhouse’s PechaKucha Nights seem to getting better and better. Their 10th installation of lively and mind-opening six-minute, 40 second presentations follows the theme of Cities, one that eager folks in 400 places across the world will get together and engage in. Wednesday’s rapid-fire talks include the Bus Stop Theatre’s Clare Waque, potential councillor Waye Mason, […]