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Atlantic Canada’s visual arts magazine. Published by Visual Arts Nova Scotia.

Visual Arts News is a member of Magazines Canada and can be purchased at newsstands across Canada. VANS greatly acknowledges the support of the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.

24/01/2025

How does art translate to activism?
Jane Affleck writes about how Whitten’s art, even with its limitations, addresses plastic pollution and can serve as a call to action for viewers/consumers.

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22/01/2025

“Near the end of the retrospective is Midden (2024), a heap of mussel shells made from strips of plastic wrappers. The obvious point is perhaps this: as filter-feeders, mussels are exposed to whatever’s in the water, including microplastics; Whitten’s shells are an object lesson that humans are woven into the food web. But consider the title. “Midden” is an archeological term for ancient refuse piles, often filled with animal bones and mollusk shells; humans may have always thrown things away. So discarding itself is perhaps not the issue.”

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21/01/2025

The 26th annual fashion show at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in April 2024 featured a special group of designers:
Anahita Elsami Dizgah
Nia Aretakis
Laura Da Silva
German Garcia

Featured in the Fall 2024 edition of Visusl Arts News are images by of the beautiful work of these fashion designers.

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Please tag the artists if you know their handles!

21/12/2024

Poetry on Tiptoes by curated and
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The main text reads:
“Winton engaged participants in the editing and transporting of lines of poetry created by collaborator Sophie Glover, which were carried by participants and choreographed as walking stanzas across Fort Needham Memorial Park in Halifax.”
This is noted as an excerpt from Socially Engaged Art: On Making with Others by Brody Weaver, published in Visual Arts News.

Photo description:
The black-and-white photo shows a group of participants walking outdoors, each holding black signs with white words. Visible text on the signs includes words like “unspoken,” “together,” and “words.” The setting is a park with trees and paths.

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At the bottom, text states:
Jessica Winton, Poetry on Tiptoes, 2022. In the QUIET PARADE, Halifax, NS. Photo: Justin Jarvis.

18/12/2024

“Supported by the artist-run center, Eyelevel Gallery and exhibited at the Khyber centre for the arts in Halifax from July 4 to July 22, 2024, the installation featured nine trans people(Arielle Twist, Excel Garay, Calendula Sack, Jacquie Shaw, Carmel Farabaksh, Bria Miller, myself) depicted in a large scale, hand drawn portraits.”

The duo, Glitch and Phung collaborated on the facilitation of the engagement and ex*****on of the portraits, which were first photographed by Phung and later drawn by Glitch.

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16/12/2024

“ The facilitation of socially engaged art, collaboration, and participation is complex. After all, there are deadlines to meet, shows to hang, reports to write, and funders to appease.”

Socially Engaged Art - On Making with Others by Brody Weaver is a featured article on the Visual Arts News website. Click the link in our bio to read!

Artwork on this page by and

12/12/2024

In this piece written by Jennifer Musgrave, Betts and Bishop talk about the evolution of their art and how grief and loss have been a catalyst to that evolution.

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11/12/2024

“Betts and Bishop share a sensibility in how they are drawing your attention with colour to the internal emotions needed to be alchemically processed.”

In this piece written by Jennifer Musgrave, Betts and Bishop talk about the evolution of their art and how grief and loss have been a catalyst to that evolution.

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The image is a red graphic featuring the header “Fall 2024” in black text in the top-left corner and “visualartsnews” in white text at the bottom-right corner.

In the center are two artworks presented side by side:
1. Left Artwork: Honolulu Escapism 3 (2020) by Jared Betts. This abstract piece has vibrant colors like blue, pink, and green, with drips of paint and bold symbols layered on top. The symbols include white stars, red asterisks, and graffiti-like markings.
2. Right Artwork: Good Grief (2024) by Jack Bishop. This figurative piece shows a person with long hair wearing a cap and covering their face with one hand. They hold a bouquet of flowers in the other hand, and the background is a rich combination of purples and greens.

09/12/2024

“Art has the capability to situate us in multiple time periods at once. This can open up a space of reflection, feeling and imagination that connects our current selves to other times in history, both real and imagined.”
- Krista-Leigh Davis. The Icehouse Architect.leigh.davis
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The image is a red graphic featuring the header “Fall 2024” in black text in the top-left corner and “visualartsnews” in white text at the bottom-right corner.

At the center is a spread showcasing an article titled In Conversation With Krista-Leigh Davis: The Icehouse Architect by Shannon Webb-Campbell.

The spread includes:
• A dark, atmospheric gallery installation on the left with a lit circular spotlight on the floor and projected visuals on a wall.
• Abstract sculptures and works of art on the right, including a blue dripping piece and a circular, glowing sculpture.
• A smaller block of text providing information about Krista-Leigh Davis, her interdisciplinary art practice, and her focus on themes like climate change and experimental technology.

05/12/2024

Excerpt from the Editorial by Shannon Webb-Campbell.
How can you build relationships through art and creativity?
Even in the making of the Visual Arts News Magazine, nurturing of relationships is present.

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04/12/2024

The first piece in the Fall 2024 edition is Alan Syilboy’s The Journey So Far by Shannon Webb Campbell.

🧵Here, Alan gives insight into some of his pieces and emphasizes the importance of having murals in a gallery space.
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03/12/2024

Cover art for the Fall 2024 Edition of Visual Arts News by

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A cover of Visual Arts News Fall 2024 issue set against a bold red background. The cover features a striking artwork by Alan Syliboy. The centerpiece is a stylized figure resembling a dress or tunic, predominantly blue, adorned with geometric patterns in red, yellow, and white. The background is filled with intricate dot patterns in black and white, creating a starry, textured effect. The title “Visual Arts News” appears at the top in bold red and white text. Text on the cover highlights features on Alan Syliboy, Eastern Edge Juried 240, and the Venice Art Biennale.

29/07/2024

📣 ONLINE ARTICLE 📣

"Throughout the exhibition, Jefferies continues to build her relationship with the sea as an archive that might hold memories and dreams of transfeminine and s*x worker bodies. Honouring, tending to, and caring for this relationship, Jefferies confronts the ways that a colonial imaginary has shaped historical narratives of place and belonging." - Kate Lahey

You can read the full article here: https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/06/daze-jefferiess-stay-here-stay-how-stay/ 💙

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22/07/2024

📣 ONLINE ARTICLE 📣

"It is incredibly fitting, then, that As We Rise, a photography exhibition I had the pleasure of seeing at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, has the subtitle: Photography from the Black Atlantic. The exhibition is made up of selections from the Wedge Collection. Established in Toronto in 1997 by Dr. Kenneth Montague, this collection gathers art from across the Black world and champions Black artists." - Dr. Asha Jeffers

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01/07/2024

"Séamus Gallagher knows better than most how cringeworthy it can feel to call yourself an artist and how imposter syndrome can creep in when that’s the reply to a stranger’s asking what you do. But when I ask them the moment they knew for sure they were an artist, they don’t miss a beat delivering a time and date: Moncton, New Brunswick, 2011."

Read the full article by following this link: https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/seamus-gallaghers-candy-coated-universe/

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24/06/2024

"Space seems particularly important to Robinson’s practice. Like much of his previous works, Pitchpole is site-specific; it was made for SMU Gallery. Many of his past works, including Young Prayer (2011) and Sun Ship Machine Gun – Metallurgy I (2015), have been installed in churches"

Read the full article by following this link: https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/pitchpole/. 💙

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17/06/2024

"The exhibition is greatly enhanced by the accompanying documentary, Mountains of Wonder, created by Matt Brown. The short film features interviews with some of Hooper’s closest friends and family, curator Ash, and of course the artist herself, to tell a beautiful story of a life lived wholly in service of art and creativity."

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06/05/2024

“What I find inspiring is looking at my many different interests and finding ways of linking them together and creating, like, a mapping of my interests, and threading disparate sources of inspiration, and then creating projects out of those inspirations,” Gallagher says.
- Séamus Gallagher’s Candy-Coated Universe by Morgan Mullin

Read the full article on our website here: https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/seamus-gallaghers-candy-coated-universe/ 💙

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Spring 2023 Issue is out now! 💓 Published in Mi’kma’ki, Visual Arts News is a community-driven publication that seeks to enliven culture and keep record while supporting and celebrating the many overlapping communities in the Atlantic region. Featuring work by @shauntay_grant @swebbcampbell @julierosvall @j.d.hollenbach @kara_au @liu.gda @janevwalker @calebdonfreeman @nasim.m_art @emilylawrenceca @lil_arepa @denireeisabel @kelseystreet @matthewrobinnye and more! Cover image: Emily Lawrence, Kids’ Menu, Goldfish Cracker Flavoured Spicy Water, 2021.

Meeting our colleagues @musicworksmag who reached out to us for a writer to review the Pleasure Calls show at the @khybercentre and we put them in touch with the magical Nick Dourado. Read Francesca Ekwuyasi’s piece about the show in the upcoming issue of Visual Arts News coming out in May!

Would you like to see a summer reading list in Visual Arts News? We’re super excited to get this Mickalene Thomas catalogue from Goose Lane Editions & AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario What would you have in your #artreading list?

We’re really feeling this Ned Pratt catalogue today. Get it from Goose Lane and The Rooms in conjunction with the exhibition on view to January 20. We’ve got a beautiful piece by Mireille Eagan about Mary Pratt’s influence on her son’s work in our upcoming issue.

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