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Multiple works on gallery walls As We Rise at the Dalhousie University Art Gallery

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/04/lifting-as-we-rise/

We’re eager to hear from writers, artists, and critics to expand and deepen conversations inspired by the artistic vision of emerging and established artists who are pushing the boundaries of a...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/04/open-call-for-fall-2024-issue/

"Being able to express myself in more than one way has been a gift and something I didn’t really realize I was missing. I think that form of expression and being connected to such a strong loca...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/jenn-grants-something-to-believe-in-at-the-prow-gallery/

If the church is a display of God’s glory, Pitchpole is a display of conceptual art’s glory. Poetry by Erin Langille (acting as a psalm), Pitchpole (the hymn), jewellery by Shaya Ishaq (the r...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/pitchpole/

Hooper writes, “I walked out of my studio one day and was overwhelmed by the complexity of it all.” This complexity is what she investigates through her drawings, be it the complexity of a la...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/kathy-hoopers-mountains-of-wonder-and-tangles-of-truth/

“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 insp...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2024/03/seamus-gallaghers-candy-coated-universe/

Visual Arts News magazine is seeking a Copy Editor. We publish two print issues per year, Spring and Fall. Newsstand dates for the current year are March 15 & September 15. Visual Arts News is p...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2023/12/job-copy-editor/

There Is No One Story of Black Girlhood is a powerful and unyielding exhibition of Rebecca Fisk’s series of self-portrait paintings. As an African Nova Scotian artist based in Mahone Bay, Fisk�...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2023/10/rebbeca-fisk-there-is-no-one-story-of-black-girlhood/

Since October 2022, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery has consecutively presented solo exhibitions in their gallery spaces by Mi’kmaq artists from Ktaqmkuk, specifically highlighting the artisti...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2023/10/lnu-beautiful-jerry-evanss-retrospective-weljesi/

Alanna Baird’s artwork infiltrates the New Brunswick vernacular, while also sparking important conversations around marine ecology in this time of climate crisis. As a longtime inhabitant of th...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2023/10/alanna-bairds-unfamiliar-seas/