Annie Pootoogook
When Annie Pootoogook won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, she cracked the glass ceiling for Inuit art, securing its place in contemporary Canadian art discourse and establishing herself as… Read More
By: Nancy Campbell (CA)
When Annie Pootoogook won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, she cracked the glass ceiling for Inuit art, securing its place in contemporary Canadian art discourse and establishing herself as… Read More
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Ben Woolfitt begins each day by drawing. Using graphite, silver and metal leaf and selected objects for frottage, Woolfitt plumbs the depths of his unconscious as he draws on each… Read More
By: Sherry Farrell Racette (CA), Nadia Kurd (CA), Dylan Miner (CA)
Christi Belcourtโs The Conversation is emblematic of her work. Made of dots created by dipping the end of a paintbrush or knitting needle into paint and pressing it onto the… Read More
By: Larry Gibbons (CA)
Calvinโs life is at a crossroads. He needs to figure out why he exists, or if he exists at all. He begins a relationship with Susie, who lives in Piโtawk,… Read More
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Every. Now. Then: Rethinking Nationhood embraces the fundamental belief that Canada is a dynamic work-in-progress that has, is, and will continue to be defined by movements and migrations… Read More
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Shortlisted, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and other writers and artists navigate the tangled histories and… Read More
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Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection… Read More
By: "Emma FitzGerald (CA)"
Emma FitzGerald sketches Halifax and its residents vividly, in colour. She effortlessly catches moments in the life of the city. While she draws, she keeps notes on what she sees… Read More
By: Donald R. Pentz
Don Pentzโs history with Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia goes back almost 60 years โ as a woodsman, naturalist, park interpreter and artist. His gorgeous watercolours illuminate the pristine… Read More
By: Nancy Campbell (CA)
Winner, 2021 Melva J. Dwyer AwardItee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by… Read More
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A Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada?s canonical landscape painters. The Group?s depiction of the rugged beauty of… Read More
By: Sarah Milroy (CA)
From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams. One of Canada’s most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured… Read More
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Coming in April. Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGOโs Indigenous art collection. The… Read More
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No present without the past. No equality without feminism.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have… Read More
By: Dr. Laurie Dalton (CA)
A full-colour, narrative and illustrated critical art history of the works of iconic Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis. ”Rather than thinking of Maud Lewis as an artist who was untrained,… Read More
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“I start with an original object, break it, and transform parts of the piece into other materials. These pieces gather meaning and explanation as I work with them.” Peter Powning… Read More
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Coming July 2022. Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sรกmi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic โ from the continuance of longstanding… Read More
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