The Visual Arts Section of the Canada Council for the Arts provides a range of grants to recognize and support the independent creative work of professional Canadian artists of all cultures. These grants are intended for artists and independent critics and curators working in the following art forms: visual arts including fine craft and architecture. Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts contribute toward expenses incurred to travel to an event important to the artist’s, critic’s or curator’s career.
Further Information:
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/visualarts/yo127216997029843750.htm
Now in its seventh year, at $25,000 it is the largest cultural award offered by the Province of Nova Scotia. In addition, a further $3000 is presented to four finalists, bringing the total to $37,000 awarded annually to contemporary art which has had its first public presentation within the previous five years.
The nomination form, with detailed guidelines updated for this year’s competition, is available from the website at www.nsmasterworks.ca. Submissions must be postmarked on or before June 1, 2012. The finalists and the winner are selected by an arm’s length jury of artists over the summer with presentation of the award in the fall.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: VANS in the HUB, The HUB Gallery
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012, 5pm
Exhibition Dates: July 4th to August 29th, 2012.
The HUB Gallery
The Hub Gallery is located in The Hub at 1673 Barrington Street, Halifax, 2nd floor. The Hub is a fresh take on the traditional business-centre, offering shared workspace and giving entrepreneurs, freelancers and small initiatives a platform to connect with creative colleagues. Open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 6pm, The Hub’s shared environment transpires in a classically designed architectural space with arched windows providing abundant natural lighting. The environment lends itself to be an ideal exhibition opportunity for artists. VANS in the Hub is a peer juried exhibition available to VANS members twice annually, each exhibition spanning two months.
For more information follow this link: http://www.visualarts.ns.ca/call-for-submissions-vans-in-the-hub-the-hub-gallery-2/
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) begins with a catered lunch at Noon in the MSVU Faculty Lounge where members and non-members alike can socialize before the meeting begins at 1pm. Following the annual general meeting, there will be an artist tour at MSVU Art Gallery with Sara Hartland-Rowe at 4pm. At 6:30pm, there will be a social dinner at Foggy Goggle in Downtown Halifax.
Please RSVP your attendance to the AGM and AGM activities, by completing the attached registration form electronically and emailing it to vans@visualarts.ns.ca or by printing and mailing it back to Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) at 1113 Marginal Road Halifax, NS B3H 4P7.
To purchase a catered boxed lunch, visit the VANS Shopping Cart.
Call for Artist-in-Residence: Re-Focus Sustainable Art
Submission deadline: June 10, 2012
The environmental impact of urbanization and industrialization has reached a critical point. It is now clear that our relationship to nature has drastically changed over time and that sustainable ways of living are necessary in order to deal with the complexity of the environmental challenges intrinsic to our subsistence; artists continue to fulfill a role of creating new forms of representations that illustrate, embody and propose different ways of understanding our relation to Nature.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) in collaboration with the Ecology Action Centre (EAC) and the Khyber Centre for the Arts are hosting an artist-in-residency and public presentation of ideas that brings together contemporary artistic practices and current environmental research and engagement.
For details visit: http://www.visualarts.ns.ca/call-for-artist-in-residence-re-focus-sustainable-art/
For further information contact:
Culture Division
Communities, Culture and Heritage
World Trade and Convention Centre
1800 Argyle Street, Suite 601
PO Box 456
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2R5
Telephone: (902) 424-4510
Fax: (902) 424-0710
Email: culture@gov.ns.ca
Website: http://www.gov.ns.ca/dtc/culture
For further information contact:
Culture Division
Communities, Culture and Heritage
World Trade and Convention Centre
1800 Argyle Street, Suite 601
PO Box 456
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2R5
Telephone: (902) 424-4510
Fax: (902) 424-0710
Email: culture@gov.ns.ca
Website: http://www.gov.ns.ca/dtc/culture