Visual Arts News

Calls due November 8: Pitches and Commissioned Artist Pages on the theme of Sustenance: http://visualartsnews.ca/2020/10/sustenance/ Plus: we're looking for writers to join our Editorial Committee: http://visualartsnews.ca//call-for-editorial-committee-me/

Read Giller Prize longlisted writer francesca ekwuyasi's feature: POC Resilience & Resistance Brings Magic to the World - Wren Tian Morris - Online now. "Tian-Morris is pulled forward by the playfulness and healing nature of working and creating collaboratively on the coast, yet dreams of carving out spaces that centre pleasure and eroticism for 2SQTBIPOC." http://visualartsnews.ca//poc-resilience-resistance-bring/... Image: Avery Morris, Esso Illa Ello, 2019. Hand and machine sewn.

Artist, Christopher Webb, puts a spotlight on the visual arts community in Atlantic Canada. More Global News Morning videos can be found here: http://globalnews.ca/halifax/videos/

Fall 2020: Change coming to mailboxes and newsstands now. Preview articles now, plus new articles from our Summer issue on Labour are available online. - https://mailchi.mp/c0f3a5f6fd/fall-2019-newsletter-12585346

We’re hiring a Publisher to coordinate the production of the magazine. In consultation with the Editor and the Editorial Committee, the Publisher is also responsible for the distribution of the magazine, subscriptions, and promotions. $9000 for a 1 year contract (renewable). Rate of pay: $28 per hour billed at $3000 per issue. Application deadline September 17. Full job call available on our website:

Deadline extended to end of day today: Mysticism issue - Fall 2020. Plus new dates for our Fall issue, and highlights from our summer issue: Labour https://mailchi.mp/9abff36724/fall-2019-newsletter-12479878 Image: Mollie Cronin for Visual Arts News

Call for Pitches and Artist Pages for Mysticism extended to Thursday July 23. Writers fees $250 Artist Pages $500 honorarium + $500 supplies. This issue focuses on artists in Atlantic Canada exploring the depths of mystical forms, which could potentially lead us towards transcendence. Image: Meghan Taylor Dunsmuir, "Multiverse" https://buff.ly/3frHhJk

Call for Pitches and Artist Pages: Mysticism: Fall 2020 issue. New writer's fees: $250 per article. Artist Pages Commission: $500 honorarium + $500 supplies reimbursement. This issue focuses on artists in Atlantic Canada exploring the depths of mystical and transformational forms, which could potentially lead us towards transcendence. Deadline July 21. Image: Meghan Taylor Dunsmuir, "Multiverse", mixed media textiles, 20cm x 10cm https://buff.ly/3frHhJk

Black Lives Matter. Read about the erasure of the Black culture in Atlantic Canada in Sonja Boon's "Listening to Silence - What Carries Us at The Rooms " curated by Toronto-based artist, curator, and administrator Bushra Junaid. In this piece, Boon asks "what does it mean to revisit the stories we’ve been told, the stories that purport to tell us who we are? And why might we do so in the first place?" https://buff.ly/3eSTANX

Read about Black American visual artist Heather Hart’s "Northern Oracle", an exhibition curated by Ann MacDonald and presented in partnership with the Africville Heritage Trust at MSVU Gallery. The review by Shannon Webb-Campbell is up on the Visual Arts News website now!

With all that’s going on, we’re pretty amazed that we’re still printing and distributing a summer issue: Labour. Thanks to our incredible team and to Prescott Group and Bounty printers for making this possible. Subscribe by May 18 to get your copy in the mail!

Read about Abbas Akhavan’s Fogo Island exhibition and installation script for an island in the review by Eva Crocker, now available on the Visual Arts News website.

New message from Canada Council: "For the time being, it is very important that you accurately document your lost revenues as the results of deferrals and cancellations directly related to the measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19. I also invite you to visit our COVID-19: Info update page to find answers to questions you may have."

We'll be at the Atlantic Podcast Summit tomorrow sharing info about our new podcast training initiative! First to email [email protected] with the subject HEAR TELL will receive a free ticket to the Friday portion of tomorrow's conference at Cineplex Park Lane in Halifax. HEAR TELL is a podcast training initiative for Atlantic Canadian Artists and Arts Organizations. Organized by Visual Arts Nova Scotia, this project has also been created in partnership with APAGA (A...tlantic Province Art Gallery Association), ATLANTIS (Artist-run Centres Association of the Atlantic) and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. Find out more when we release the details of this project next week! P.s. our offices will be closed until Tuesday March 10. Ticket claimed!!