Exhibitions and Events
Rita McKeough: The Lion's Share
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.
Gerald Ferguson: 100,000 Grapes
From the Dalhousie Art Gallery Permanent Collection
En Route Artist Talk: Rita McKeough at CBU Art Gallery
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.
LOCAVORE: Works from the NSCAD Community in the Dalhousie Art Gallery Permanent Collection
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.
Halifax Ink Wins CMA Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions
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.
Roundtable on Electronic Waste
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.
trickpony
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.
Panel Discussion: Realism and Contemporary Painting
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.