Exhibitions and Events

Installation detail, The Lion's Share, Rita McKeough, 2012
Exhibition

Rita McKeough: The Lion's Share

30 August – 6 October, 2013

The exhibition tour and publication were organized by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery in partnership with the Doris McCarthy Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and the Kenderdine Art Gallery-College Art Galleries.

Exhibition

Gerald Ferguson: 100,000 Grapes

30 August – 6 October, 2013

From the Dalhousie Art Gallery Permanent Collection

Image: Rita McKeough, The Lion's Share, An Installation with a kitchen and a chicken, dimensions variable, 2012/2013
Event

En Route Artist Talk: Rita McKeough at CBU Art Gallery

12 August, 2013

Cape Breton University Art Gallery, 1250 Grand Lake Rd. Sydney, NS

August 12 at 6:00pm

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk by preeminent media and performance artist, Rita McKeough on Monday August 12 at 6:00pm, in Sydney, NS. In collaboration with Cape Breton University Art Gallery, and the Dalhousie Art Gallery, this artist talk is offered as the first installment of Visual Arts Nova Scotia's En Route Artist Talk Series

Anne Macmillan, documentation from LIttle Lakes, 2013. Photo Katie McKay.
Event

Anne Macmillan: Little Lakes- Public Swim

7 August, 2013

Little Lake 44.496667,-63.721667

Marion Bond
Gentleman from Petpeswick , n.d.
oil on canvas
Purchased with funds donated by Dr. John A. Scrymgeour, 1993
Exhibition

LOCAVORE: Works from the NSCAD Community in the Dalhousie Art Gallery Permanent Collection

4 June – 7 July, 2013

For 125 years, beginning in 1887 as the Victoria School of Art and evolving into its current form as NSCAD University, this independent art school has been the visual arts engine of the region and, arguably, for Canada. As the first contemporary degree granting visual arts institution – initially with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, then a Masters programme – NSCAD has become a creative powerhouse that supports a wide array of studio production practices balanced with programmes that promote historical, critical and contextual analysis.

Event

Halifax Ink Wins CMA Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions

30 May, 2013

WHITEHORSE, Yukon, May 30, 2013 -- This evening, the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) proudly celebrated excellence in the Canadian museum field at the annual National Conference in Whitehorse, Yukon. This year, a total of 24 awards were presented during a special ceremony

held at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.

Artifact Institute, documentation from Investigation 2.
Event

Roundtable on Electronic Waste

11 May, 2013

Saturday 11 May 2pm - 4pm

Dalhousie Art Gallery

6101 University Avenue, Halifax, NS

The public is invited to participate in an open-ended conversation about electronic waste as a global phenomenon and as a local issue in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Event

trickpony

5 April, 2013

Featuring Montreal soprano Sarah Albu

Friday 5 April at 8 PM

A unique, daring, and very personal program, trickpony is singer Sarah Albu's exploration of the full musical development process - from inspiration to composition to rehearsal to performance - of eight new works for solo voice.

Event

Panel Discussion: Realism and Contemporary Painting

4 April, 2013

In conjunction with the Pierre Dorion exhibition currently on display, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will host a panel discussion on Thursday evening 4 April at 7 pm to explore, particularly in a Nova Scotian context, the lack of a precise, shared understanding about what constitutes 'realism' in contemporary painting.

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