Sackville Festival of Early Music  

Deanna Musgrave presents

13 Years Later: Exploring Visual Music since Mount Allison University & Fog Forest Gallery Exhibition

Visual Artist Deanna Musgrave discusses the highlights of her career since her 2005 graduation from Mount Allison University’s Fine Arts program. This colloquium will focus on her work in visual music and her collaborations with musicians. Her talk will conclude with performances of Anthony Gengre’s piece “Motion” and JoMasrdan Nobles’ “Circle of Fifths”. They will be performed by Andrew Reed Miller (contrabass), Karin Aurell (flutes), James Kayln (clarinet), Joël Cormier (percussion). Performance is presented by Resonance New Music.

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 4:00pm at Brunton Auditorium, Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory, Mount Allison University.

Fog Forest Gallery Exhibition

Fog Forest Gallery will  present two pieces created by Deanna for the festival. The pieces on display were created thought a collaboration between Deanna and L’Harmonie des Saisons. The two works reflect the title of the program: A Musical Soirée at the Home of Bach and the nature of the of music.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s family home in Leipzig was a revolving door of illustrious and celebrated musicians. These musicians came both from within the family and visitors who came from far and near. We can safely suppose that Bach adapted his vast chamber music repertory to suit the occasion, depending upon which celebrated person was in attendance or which son was at home. It was not uncommon for the Baroque composer to rework, transpose or assign different instrumentation to their compositions when adapting for the personnel available.

The exhibition runs Wednesday, September 19 to Friday, September 21 at Fog Forest Gallery 10:00am to 5:00pm daily.

Saint John artist, Deanna Musgrave, is best known for her monumental paintings such as, “Cloud”, which is part of the collection of the University of New Brunswick; displayed at the Hans Klohn Commons building in Saint John, and measures 10’ high and 56’ long. Musgrave has had a solo exhibition of her works in each year since her graduation from the Mount Allison Fine Arts program in 2005. Early on in her career, she was selected by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2017 for its Studio Watch Award aimed at introducing promising new artists to the public and later included in “Off the Grid: Abstract Art in New Brunswick” at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2014.

“Often working on the studio floor, using liquid paints to surround, unify and pool around areas of information, Musgrave succeeds in defying a traditional concept of perspective. Her compositions unfold almost three-dimensionally, enveloping the viewer with information from above, straight on and below.” ~Stephanie Buhmann (New York Art Critic) “New Brunswick Studio Conversations,” Billie Magazine V.2, Spring 2017

Her work has been enthusiastically reviewed by the New Brunswick media, and she has won numerous grants and awards from the New Brunswick Arts Board, Mount Allison University and the University of New Brunswick.

Above painting: “Edith is dedicated to my late mother-in-law, Edith Miller, who was a resident of Sackville for many years and connected with the New Brunswick music scene” Deanna Musgrave.

In addition to Deanna’s pieces for the festival, Fog Forest Gallery will be presenting the following exhibition:

Clouds, storm fronts, sunny ‘green and blue’ days, tidal fog, driving rain, the still of winter or the rage of a blizzard are all a part of life.

Weather can define a region and a people.  As Canadians we are known to have an obsession with ‘weather’.  Perhaps that comes with a knowledge that our weather can be life threatening and dangerous.  It can also provide the backdrop for leisurely family picnics and memorable spontaneous ‘swims’ in the ocean.

Fog Forest Gallery challenged some of their gallery artists to create works of art inspired by weather.  The multi-media exhibition simply entitled, “Weather” begins on September 19 and continues until October 6, 2018.

Fog Forest Gallery is located at 14 Bridge Street, Sackville, NB with regular hours from Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 5 pm and Saturday 10 am – 1 pm.  For more information please visit the website at: fogforestgallery.ca or call Janet at 506-536-9000.

Each year our Outreach Program gives 1000 youth and seniors in our community a world class musical experience at no cost to them. Consider making a donation.

Festival Tickets can be purchased online at the link below or by calling 506-878-3786.

Thank you to our funders for their continued support: Heritage Canada, the Province of New Brunswick, the Town of Sackville,  the J.E.A. Crake Foundation, the Rotary Club of Sackville, Mount Allison University, and the generous donors in the community.