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Saint John Arts Centre Launches ‘The Art Room’, New Kids’ Art Program

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Saint John Arts Centre Launches ‘The Art Room’, New Kids’ Art Program

Saint John – Friday, April 23, 2021 – The Saint John Arts Centre (SJAC) has opened registrations in the first two of five workshops in a new art program for kids aged 9-12. Called ‘The Art Room’, the workshop series aims to promote the goals of its tagline: Artistic Pursuits / New Friends / Self-expression / Confidence.

Each workshop is 4 weeks long, with 2-hour classes per week on Saturdays. Students can register for any or all of these workshops as they are offered throughout the year. A strict class size limit of nine students will ensure social distancing, and masks will be mandatory for everyone, as per current Public Health guidelines.

The first two offerings begin on May 15th; ‘Let’s Draw’ (10am-12pm) is taught by the program’s developer, SJAC’s Education and Outreach Coordinator, Harriet Taylor, and ‘Create with Clay’ (1-3pm) is lead by professional ceramicist Danika Vautour. The other three workshops – ‘Let’s Paint’, ‘Fun with Printmaking’, and ‘Wild Art Studio’ (revolving topics), will launch later in the year.

‘The Art Room’ program provides keen young artists with an age-appropriate visual arts education that ignites creativity in a quality learning environment. Education in the visual arts fosters students’ exploration and expression of ideas while enhancing mental, emotional and motor skills, and students will benefit from forming new social connections with kids who share their interests.

“Encouraging kids in art exploration is not only fun, it can lead to a boost in self-confidence, motivation,
and overall performance in their schoolwork,” says Harriet Taylor, a veteran instructor and Academic Dean at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design before joining the staff of SJAC in February. “As they create, they also develop friendships and community.”

For more information, please contact:

Saint John Arts Centre
Harriet Taylor
Education and Outreach Coordinator
506-633-4870
education@sjartscentre.ca

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Kelly Cunningham
Promotions and Events Coordinator
Saint John Arts Centre
506-633-4870
events@sjartscentre.ca
website: www.sjartscentre.ca

Office Hours: Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm
April 23, 2021 in Workshop

Relaxed criteria for Career Development Program – Arts by Invitation component

To make allowance for the current working conditions imposed by the pandemic, the criteria relaxation for the Career Development program has extended to the Arts by Invitation component.

Currently, eligible expenses for the Arts by Invitation component can also include:

  • Freight and shipping expenses, even if you cannot attend in person the performance, screening or exhibition of your work at an established arts festival, competition or art show, provided that the event takes place more than 150km away from your residence.

Also, the criteria relaxation for the Professional Development and the Professionalization and Promotion components of the Career Development Program are still in effect.

All the details on the criteria relaxation of the Career Development Program components can be found HERE.

Note that the upcoming Career Development Program deadline is officially May 1st, though since it falls on a Saturday, applications will be received until Monday May 3rd, 2021.  

Find all the information about the Career Development program HERE.

April 19, 2021

The list April 16, 2021

The list. April 16, 2021

The List presents the events of the members of the Association des groups en arts visuels francophones ( AGAVF ), that is to say fifteen artist-run centers and galleries across Canada, and compiles calls for submissions in visual arts, media arts, performance, art. public, residences aimed at artists and curators.

 

Louis-Charles Dionne Shape memory | Traces of handling
at the House of Visual Artists

News from AGAVF

It’s tax time

CARFAC presents some tax tips for artists

You have until the end of April to file your tax return for the year 2020. But, did you know that the deadline for submitting the returns of self-employed individuals and their spouses / common-law partner is June 15, 2021? However, if you have a balance due for 2020, you must pay it no later than April 30, 2021. Visit the CARFAC website for other useful information and resources including a video shot with the Revenue Agency of Canada trying to answer questions from respondents to the recent CARFAC survey that you may have even answered.
Read more

Programming of AGAVF members

House of French-speaking visual artists (Saint-Boniface)

Louis-Charles Dionne – Shape memory | Traces of manipulation – Material Memory | Traces of Manipulations
April 8 to June 5, 2021

Alexis Lagimodière-Grisé – Waves / River – Vagues / Rivières
April 8 to May 1, 2021

101-219, boulevard Provencher
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca

Imago Printmaking Workshop (Moncton)

Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf and Blake M. Morin – Épistola – The good son: Anticipation and realization
April 15 to May 20, 2021
140 Botsford Street, Ground Floor Aberdeen Cultural Center
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.atelierimago.com

 

Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen Art Gallery (Moncton)

Sandrine Duquenne, Émerise LeBlanc-Nowlan and Florence Renson – Annual Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition 2021
April 15 to May 30, 2021
University of Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ga

Franco-Manitoban Cultural Center (Winnipeg)

Jen Funk, Xavier Mutshipayi, Stéphane Oystryk, Reza Rezaï and Eric Plamondon – The other
back since March 15, 2021
340, boulevard Provencher
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.ccfm.mb.ca

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury)

Stephanie Castonguay – Capturing optical frequencies
home residence
from April 19 to April 25

Michael Fernandes – Before and after the electric car
home residence and on Instagram @beforeandaftertheelectriccar
since January 14, 2021

Claude Wittmann – Wheels / politics / panic
Project until June 2021

Stefan St-Laurent – Please feed the animals
Listen to the virtual conference again

54 Elgin Street
Sudbury, Ontario
www.gn-o.org

Visual Voice Artist Center (Ottawa)

Nicole Blundell, Frances Caswell-Routhier, Renee Knight, Monique Handfield, Hélène Lefebvre and Richard Robesco – Membership
Curator: Raymond Aubin
Virtual exhibition
since March 4, 2021
67 Beechwood Ave
Vanier, Ontario
www.voixvisuelle.ca

No Name Gallery (Moncton)

Vanessa Moeller – Bean There, Done That. 2018-2020
Monica Chamberlain – Inside the lines
from March 5 to April 30, 2021

The Crossings with Phanie Bernier and Mathieu Léger
Cross residency with AdMare
140, rue Botsford, room 16
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.galeriesansnom.org

Calls for submissions

1.Calls in French from Canada

AGAVF – Incubator in police station – May 3
Edmundston Arts Center – May 5
Les Percéides Festival – Percé – May 21
VU – Quebec – April 30
Center d’Art daphne – Montreal – May 15

2.Calls in English from Canada

Emerging Digital Artists Award – June 15
Riverworks – Prince Edward Island – May 7
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) – Toronto – May 14
VIFF – Vancouver – April 23
Craft Ontario – Toronto – June 7
AKA Artist-run Center – Saskatoon – ongoing
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge – ongoing

3.residences

Dazibao – Instagram residency – May 1
Zocalo artist center – Longueuil – May 21
AIR Frais program – New Brunswick – April 23
Le Château – Vassivière Island International Art and Landscape Center – April 23
Ephemeral District – Vast et Vague – Montreal – Matapedia – May 2
Call to artists from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces – East-North-East – Saint-Jean-Port-Joli – May 9
La Chambre Blanche – Quebec – April 18

4.public art

481 UNIVERSITY UNITED BLDG – Toronto – June 11
Cambridge Street North – Ottawa – May 25
Public wall art – Mississauga – April 16
Call to Indigenous Artists for Collaborations at the Etobicoke Civic Center – Etobicoke – April 16
Indigenous public art – Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa – April 12 and May 31

5.for commissioners

3rd edition curated incubator – AGAVF – May 3
Evergreen Public Art Program – April 18
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas – Journal – ongoing
Artspace Artist Run Center – Artistic Director / Curator and Director of Operations and Development jobs – open until filled
revie Inter, current art – May 1
Distribution center of the Atelier Presse Papier – Trois-Rivière – for curators – April 15
Cosmis Bulletin – May 1
East of your empires – Quebec – ongoing
Revue de Paris – call for contributors – in progress

details on agavf.ca

April 16, 2021 in Monthly list

APA is hiring a Conference Production Manager!

We’re hiring a Conference Production Manager!

APA is hiring a Conference Production Manager for Contact East 2021! This is a contract position beginning May 27, 2021 and finishing September 30, 2021 after the completion of Contact East 2021.

Compensation: $5000 and all travel, meals and accommodations expenses for on site event

Responsibilities:

  • Attend the selection committee meetings in Halifax May 27 and 28.
  • Be onsite for the event September 22-26 in Moncton NB
  • Be available for four monthly production meetings beginning in early June (June, July, August, September)
  • Complete event prep work required
  • Create sound check schedule (based on showcase programming created by APA staff) and communicate to showcasing artists in early July.
  • Coordinate and advance all artist needs to performance venue technical staff at least three weeks prior to event
  • Communicate sound check and showcase schedule to venue technical staff
  • Coordinate artist transportation with the transportation coordinator
  • On site stage management for all on stage activities
  • Coordinate live stream activities for both performance venue and professional development sessions venue (different locations)
  • Along with staff on site, coordinate all PD sessions (including technical needs for speakers)
  • Other duties and responsibilities to be mutually agreed upon

It is the Atlantic Presenters Association’s goal to be an organization that engages and welcomes all people. We believe that this requires a socially and culturally diverse workforce and therefore actively seek to recruit candidates who are women, Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour (IBPoC), persons from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and persons with disabilities. We encourage you to self identify in the recruitment process.

Please direct any questions as well as resumes with cover letter by April 23, 2021 to lisa@atlanticpresenters.ca.
April 15, 2021 in Employment

CALL TO ARTISTS Festival d’art actuel – Les Humanoïdes PUBLIC ART PROJECT

The Edmundston Arts Center is looking for proposals from artists, groups and arts organizations, to participate in a public art project that will take place in Edmundston this fall. Artists are invited to install temporary or permanent contemporary artworks, in public spaces, including works form the visual arts (painting, sculpture, performance, installation, etc.), the literary arts (poetry, essays, etc.), sound arts, including experimental music (performance, installation, etc.), as well as cultural mediation activities (workshop, discussion with the artist, etc.).

Information For more information and/or to discuss your project, contact Ms. Emilie Grace Lavoie, artistic director and curator, at 1-506-852-6366 or by email at: emilieglavoie@gmail.com.

 

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April 15, 2021 in Submission

The Éloizes evening changes date

Moncton, April 7, 2021 – The Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick announces today that the Soirée des Éloizes will be broadcast on television on June 5, 2021 to resolve a scheduling challenge with the Gala Trillium Gold.

Radio-Canada will broadcast the Soirée des Éloizes on Saturday, June 5 at 8 p.m. (Atlantic time), 8:30 p.m. (Newfoundland time), on ICI Télé in the Atlantic provinces. It will also be possible to listen to it at the same time via the Internet on radiocanada.ca/acadie . The show will also air on ICI ARTV at 8 p.m. across the country. It will then be available for catch-up on ICI TOU.TV for one year.

“By changing the date of our evening, we are resolving this scheduling challenge with the Gala Trille Or for the benefit of artists from the Canadian and Acadian Francophonie. »Adds Carmen Gibbs, Executive Director of the AAAPNB.

You are therefore all invited to join us for this special Éloizes evening. Follow our social media to learn more about the 2020 finalists.

April 8, 2021 in Awards

CALL TO ACTION: Share the urgent need to fix fair dealing with the federal government

Over the past few months, Access Copyright has worked with a small group of authors to test out a book mailing campaign to push Prime Minister Trudeau and the federal government to reform the Copyright Act so that Canadian creators and publishers are paid for the use of their work by the education sector.

You may have seen authors such as Sylvia McNicoll, Robert Rotenberg and Amy Stuart on social media sharing that they mailed one of their books as well as personal letter to the PM.

Many of the authors who have taken part have received letters back from the PM’s office confirming their mailing were getting through and thanking them for sharing their work with the Prime Minister.

With that welcome news, it is now time to take this campaign to the next level.

That’s where we hope you will get involved.

It’s all part of an effort to bring to Ottawa’s attention the urgent need to address the education fair dealing exception, which has resulted in much of the education sector refusing to pay approximately $150 million in royalties for educational copying.

The federal government plans to introduce a bill later this year to update the Copyright Act to address its obligations under Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement to extend the term of copyright protection. They are also in the process of conducting a series of consultations around various aspects of copyright law which will inform additional the amendments to the Act. At this time, the government has not indicated any intention to address the harm caused by the education fair dealing exception.

This is deeply concerning as our creative sector has been dealing with the impact of this issue for almost a decade now. That’s why we are asking you to join this campaign today and share your work and your thoughts on what it means to be a Canadian creator with the PM, and why the federal government needs to take action to fix fair dealing.

Here is how you can get involved 

Mail one your books to Prime Minister Trudeau: Who better than you to share a Canadian story with the PM? Along with a book, include a personal note to him describing what trying to build a living as a professional writer looks like in Canada. How do you make ends meet? What sacrifices do you have to make? How has the loss of royalties from the education sector affected you? The mailing address is:

Right Honorable Justin Trudeau, P.C. , M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

 

Share your mailing on social media: Before you mail out your book, please take a picture and post it to your social media platforms, with an explanation of why you are sending your book to the PM—for example, “I mailed my latest book to Prime Minster Trudeau to remind him what supporting Canadian creators really means.” It’s important that Canadians see the faces behind our stories and their rich diversity.

Here is how to make your message heard

  • Tag Prime Minister Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau), Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault (@s_guilbeault) and Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne (@FP_Champagne).
  • Use the hashtags #IValueCdnStories & #cdnpoli.
  • Tag our organization as well as Access Copyright (@AccessCopyright) and I Value Canadian Stories (Twitter: @valuecdnstories; Facebook: @IValueCanadianStories; Instagram: @ivaluecanadianstories).
  • Please email editor@accesscopyright.ca to let us know you have mailed a book to the Prime Minister.

Encourage others to get involved: Help build the momentum by encouraging others in your network to take part.

Amplify what others are doing: Share posts related to the campaign. Just search for #IValueCdnStories on Twitter, Instagram in Facebook and then RT, share, like and comment away!

Have questions? We’re here to help. Email Access Copyright at editor@accesscopyright.ca.

April 7, 2021 in Advocacy, Culture

The list. April 2, 2021

The list. April 2, 2021

News from AGAVF

Renewal of the AGAVF Board of Directors

Thank you to the members and partners who attended the AGAVF Annual General Meeting on March 31, 2021. Following the presentation of Rémi Belliveau’s presidential report and the annual report presented by Lise Leblanc , Executive Director, the members renewed their board of directors. The AGAVF warmly thanks the outgoing administrators Zoé Fortier (artists’ collective Sans-atelier) and Mathieu Léger (artist and board member of the Imago Estampe Workshop, Moncton) for their commitment and welcomes Armand Birk , artistic director of the Center des arts visuels de l’Alberta (CAVA) and Émilie Grace-Lavoie , artist-curator, member of the Board of Directors of Galerie Sans Nom who join Rémi Belliveau, Tam-Ca Vo-Van, Nisk Imbeault and Lou-Anne Bourdeau .

 

Programming of AGAVF members

Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen Art Gallery (Moncton)

Christian Michaud – Auto sapiens
Curators: Paul Édouard Bourque and Tanya Eindiguer
from February 20 to April 3, 2021
University of Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ga

No Name Gallery (Moncton)

Vanessa Moeller – Bean There, Done That. 2018-2020
Monica Chamberlain – Inside the lines
from March 5 to April 30, 2021

The Crossings with Phanie Bernier and Mathieu Léger
Cross residency with AdMare
140, rue Botsford, room 16
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.galeriesansnom.org

Calls for submissions

1.Calls in French from Canada

AGAVF – The incubator in police station – May 3
vertical – Laval – April 11
Center d’Art daphne – Montreal – May 15
60 seconds radio 2021 – April 11
Atelier Presse Papier dissemination center – Trois-Rivières – April 15

2.Calls in English from Canada

Chinatown Biennals – Toronto – April 15
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) – Toronto – May 14
ODD Gallery – Dawson City, Yukon – April 15
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo – April 2
VIFF – Vancouver – April 23
Craft Ontario – Toronto – June 7
AKA Artist-run Center – Saskatoon – ongoing
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge – ongoing

3.international calls

Franklin Furnace Fund – New York – April 8

4.residences

AIR Frais program – New Brunswick – April 23
Atelier Silex – Trois-Rivière – April 15
Le Château – Vassivière Island International Art and Landscape Center – April 23
Ephemeral District – Vast et Vague – Montreal – Matapedia – May 2
Call to artists from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces – East-North-East – Saint-Jean-Port-Joli – May 9
La Chambre Blanche – Quebec – April 18

5.public art

Plinths and Traffic Boxes – Saskatoon – April 15
Public wall art – Mississauga – April 16
Call to Indigenous Artists for Collaborations at the Etobicoke Civic Center – Etobicoke – April 16
Indigenous public art – Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa – April 12 and May 31

6.for commissioners

3rd edition curated incubator – AGAVF – May 3
e-flux – Announcements Editor and Journal Image Editor – now
Evergreen Public Art Program – April 18
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas – Journal – ongoing
Artspace Artist Run Center – Artistic Director / Curator and Director of Operations and Development jobs – open until filled
Vie des arts magazine – April 4
revie Inter, current art – May 1
Commissioner – Flag of Malta – April 5
Distribution center of the Atelier Presse Papier – Trois-Rivière – for curators – April 15
Cosmis Bulletin – May 1
Esse art + opinion – sportification – April 1
East of your empires – Quebec – ongoing
Revue de Paris – call for contributors – in progress

details on agavf.ca

Association of Francophone Visual Arts Groups BP 7131, Vanier Branch
Ottawa Ontario K1L 8E2 Canada
info@agavf.ca

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April 6, 2021 in Monthly list

Call for Workshop Proposals

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Calling professional artists: AX, the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex is currently seeking proposals for in-person, virtual, plein air and ceramics workshops to take place between July and December, 2021. We would like to offer workshops in a variety of areas such as visual arts, ceramic arts, fine craft, literary arts, the creative process and youth programming. The formats for these workshops can be half-day or full-day classes, week-long workshops, and online or after-school programs.

The deadline to submit your proposal for these workshops is April 30, 2021.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please visit the AX website to access our Workshop Proposal form.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the proposal process, please contact us at info@axartscentre.ca or 433-8351.

April 6, 2021 in Workshop

FLOURISH Festival announces 50+ performers ahead of hybrid June event

FLOURISH Festival announces 50+ performers ahead of hybrid June event

Fredericton’s FLOURISH Festival has shared an impressive line-up ahead of its June 10-13 edition, announcing Motherhood, Wolf Castle, Century Egg, Eliza Niemi, LXVNDR, and nearly fifty other artists. Festival performances will encompass music, art, installations, workshops, poetry, and more, in a mix of in-person and digital events.

“With restrictions still in place throughout the country, we’ve focused on emerging artists in the Atlantic Bubble, while also ensuring collaborations and participations from artists across Canada and internationally, through digital means,” said FLOURISH co-organizer, Jane Blanchard (she/her). “The majority of our artists are presenting work at FLOURISH for the first time, which is incredibly exciting for us.”

Organizers are working both with existing venues and new spaces, to create a socially distanced concert experience that ensures a safe, comfortable environment for all artists, patrons, volunteers, and support staff.

“We are working with venues and locations across Fredericton to ensure that we can still take over the city with music and art, while also ensuring compliance with restrictions,” Blanchard said. “We may not be able to host sweaty punk shows or cram into small spaces this year, but we will be taking over public spaces with pop up performances, temporary public art, live music and more. We successfully adapted our 2020 programming, and learned a lot from that experience. We’re looking forward to trying out some new methods of presentation for 2021.”

The list of performers announced today includes (alphabetically): Albert Dalton, Aleya Michaud, An-Laurence Higgins, awakesleeping, Back River Lady, Book Buddies, Century Egg, Charles Harding, Cryptozoologists, Crystal Drew, David R. Elliott, Designosaur, dope.gng, Eliza Niemi, Emily Blair, Emily Harding, Emily Kennedy, Erin Goodine, Evan Furness, Eve Parker Finley, Heat $heets, illestpreacha, lil omar, Indigo Poirier, Jeff Arbeau, Jocelyn Anderson, Jordan Johnson, Katie Hamill, Kelsey Klip, Klarka Weinwurm, LXVNDR, La Bise, Laurel Green, Lazermortis, Maky Lavender, Marian, Matt Carter, Motherhood, Natasha Cliche, Olivia Chrysostom, Olka Art Collective, Post Coal Prom Queen, Rebecca Salazar, Sabrina Thibodeau, Sacha Stephan, Sadie, Shelf Life, Shiftwork Collective, Souvenir, The Firey, Wolf Castle, and 3 of Cups.

“As usual, we’re a melting pot of art, music and more, across Fredericton,” said Blanchard, of the 2021 line-up. “We’ll still be welcoming artists from away for digital performances and installations, but our in-person programming will have a focus on the Atlantic region. We’re really excited to see locals Motherhood tear up a live show, for instance, along with Century Egg and emerging artists Book Buddies and La Bise. Installations will be another focus this year and we’ll be presenting a few around the city, along with temporary public art pieces.”

“Our 2021 hip-hop programming is a personal favourite, with LXVNDR, Wolf Castle, Dope.Gng, Albert Dalton and more,” Blanchard said. “Beyond music and visual art, we have some very cool digital performances lined up, including a project called “Cornelia Webster” by Jeff Arbeau and Lindsay Jacquard, which is a multimedia interactive fiction in HTML format, following the many branching lives of Cornelia Webster (The Coleman Frog) as never told before. We have workshops planned, poetry, comedy and spoken word events, community projects and so much more.”

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ABOUT

FLOURISH Festival is a music and art festival located and operating in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The festival began in 2014, presenting small DIY music shows across the city. Since 2014, the festival and organization have evolved into a four-day festival presenting music, educational programming, visual art, theatre, community projects, public art and more. FLOURISH Festival accepts and presents all genres and art forms, aiming to challenge and encourage cultural and artistic development and appreciation. FLOURISH Festival is a labour of love and hard work and is run primarily by volunteers. We work tirelessly to present emerging artists in the community, as well as on an international and national level.

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Learn more about FLOURISH FESTIVAL:

WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | TWITCH | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY

 

Press Contact: Brendan MaGee

Front Porch Publicity frontporchpublicity@gmail.com

 

Press Release – FLOURISH Festival announces 50+ artists ahead of hybrid June event (1)

 

April 1, 2021

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – ARTIST POSTER SERIES

POSTER SERIES — CALL FOR ARTIST PROJECTS

DUE DATE

APRIL 20, 2021

Struts Gallery invites New Brunswick-based artists to submit Poster proposals

We invite New Brunswick-based artists to propose artworks to be considered for Struts Gallery’s artists’ poster series. Each poster in the series is autonomous and is not required to adhere to a specific theme. Read more about the series below.

The posters are full colour, single-sided, printed on 18 x 24” 80lb gloss cover stock, produced in an edition of five-hundred. Artists will receive fifty copies of the poster and an artist fee of $450.00. The posters are designed to be posted and will not be available for sale (surplus copies may be used as an incentive for student memberships in the future).

The submissions will be adjudicated by a jury made up of staff, board members and the wider Struts membership.

Struts remains committed to inclusive and diverse programming. We encourage submissions from Indigenous artists, artists of colour, artists with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ artists.

Proposals must include:

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  • An image or mock-up of your proposed poster

  • A single paragraph biography

  • A brief written description of the work

  • A current CV and link to your artist website if available

  • Please include your contact information on your CV

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Proposal Image Format:

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  • Files should be scaled for an 18″ x 24″ format, landscape or portrait

  • .JPG or .TIFFs, no larger than 2 MB

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Poster Format:

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  • If selected, the image must be provided at 18″ x 24″, at 300 dpi

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How to submit:

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Artists can submit materials to info@strutsgallery.ca with the subject heading POSTER PROJECT.

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Last Fall, we launched a series of four posters by Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Melanie Colosimo, Séamus Gallagherand Lenka Clayton. Not overtly conceived of as a response to COVID-19, the works ended up addressing issues of fear, anxiety, safety and death. This Spring, the second four posters will be released, including works by Raymond Boisjoly and Céline Huyghebaer plus two more selected from this open call.

https://www.strutsgallery.ca/open-calls

March 30, 2021 in Submission

New Brunswick Book Awards Shortlisted Titles Announced

Shortlisted titles announced for New Brunswick Book Awards

March 29, 2021 – The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick and The Fiddlehead have announced the shortlisted titles for the 6th annual New Brunswick Book Awards. The winners will be revealed at a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, May 6.

The program will celebrate books published in the 2020 calendar year in the poetry, fiction and nonfiction categories and children’s picture books published in the 2019 and 2020 calendar years.

 

The finalists are as follows:

Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction
Judge: Mark Sampson, author of several novels, most recent All the Animals on Earth, short story and poetry collections

Mark Anthony Jarman, Fredericton, Czech Techno (Anvil Press)

Riel Nason, Quispamsis, Waiting under Water (Scholastic Canada Ltd.)

Kathleen Peacock, Fredericton, You Were Never Here (Harper Teen, imprint of Harper Collins Publishers)

Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing
Judge: Frieda Wishinsky, author of over 60 trade and educational children’s books including picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction

Shyla Augustine, Fredericton, Mi’kmaq Alphabet Book (Herman’s Monster House Publishing)
Illustrator Braelyn Cyr, Fredericton

Marla Lesage, Lincoln, We Wear Masks (Orca Book Publishers)
Illustrator Marla Lesage

Kim Renton, Stilesville, What-Cha-Doing? (Chocolate River Publishing)
Illustrator Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo, St-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize
Judge: Yusuf Saadi, winner of the The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. His first collection, Pluviophile, was selected for the CBC’s 2020 summer reading list

Allan Cooper, Riverview, Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire (Pottersfield Press)

M. Travis Lane, Fredericton, Keeping Count (Gordon Hill Press)

Emily Skov-Nielsen, Saint John, The Knowing Animals (Brick Books)

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Nonfiction Award
Judge: Naomi Lewis fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, and creative writing teacher. Her 2019 memoir, Tiny Lights for Travellers has won numerous awards including Alberta’s Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction

Odette Barr, Petit-Cap, Teaching at the Top of the World (Pottersfield Press)

Virginia Bliss Bjerkelund, Fredericton, Meadowlands: A Chronicle of the Scovil Family (Chapel Street Editions)

Phillip Lee, Fredericton, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River (Goose Lane Editions)

The New Brunswick Book Awards are open to traditionally published and self-published authors who have lived in the province for three of the last five years, including the award year.

The book awards program represents a partnership between the Writers’ Federation, which for more than 30 years has passionately supported the development of home-grown writers at all stages of development, and The Fiddlehead, Canada’s oldest literary magazine, which has nurtured New Brunswick’s literary culture for more than 75 years.

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Media Contacts:
Ian LeTourneau
Ian.letourneau@unb.ca
Cell: (506) 440-8072

Rayanne Brennan
rayanneb@rogers.com
Cell: (506) 961-3633

March 30, 2021 in Contest

Job offer – Administrative assistant to the Nonesuch art residency program

Job offer – Administrative assistant to the Nonesuch art residency program at Main & Station in Parrsboro Nova Scotia. Applications can be sent to paper878@aol.com
  • Answer electronic questions and relay telephone calls and messages.
  • Schedule and confirm appointments and meetings of employer.
  • Set up and maintain manual and computerized information filing systems.
  • Keep the art gallery, such as the bookstore and the cafeteria, clean and suitable for the public.
  • Maintain the system of typing and conservation of the books in the bookstore.
  • Contact artists, poets, academics both Canadian and foreign, to organize exhibitions, workshops, events and residencies with an emphasis on Latin America
  • Translate into English artist´s information in Spanish ,French or Portuguese when required as well as helping to do research for a publication on the effect of Marshall McLuhan and his ideas in Latin American for a coming publication and film project.
  • Arrange travellers schedules and book their reservations into the residency program.
  • Attend to the public in the cafeteria and the art gallery.
  • Do regular janitorial and maintenance on three buildings that are the property of Main & Station Ltd.
  • Organize conferences, expositions, artistic residencies, etc.
  • 7 hour workday  Wednesday through Sunday
  • Applicants must be ready to move to Parrsboro in Nova Scotia
Contact us by email at Paper878@aol.com or by snail mail Main & Station box 507 Parrsboro, Nova Scotia B0M1S0  You can visit our web site at www.hmsnonesuch.com
March 29, 2021 in Employment

Fresh AIR: NB Outdoor Artists in Residence

Artist-in-residence program returns this summer

The Fresh AIR (artist-in-residence) program will return for the 2021 summer season through a collaboration between the provincial government and the New Brunswick Arts Board, also known as artsnb.

The program will support 10 artists as they engage with the public and develop their artistic practice or existing projects over five days at a New Brunswick provincial park or tourism site.

“Last year’s launch of this program was an incredible success and we are happy to be able to expand it to even more locations this summer,” said Tourism, Heritage and Culture Minister Tammy Scott Wallace. “This is one of the many ways we are supporting our province’s artistic community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The 2021 Fresh AIR program will expand from five to 10 locations this year: Mactaquac, Herring Cove, Hopewell Rocks, Fundy Trail Parkway, Parlee Beach, Miscou Lighthouse, Village Historique Acadien, Sugarloaf, Jardin botanique du Nouveau-Brunswick, and Mount Carleton.

“For artsnb, the Fresh AIR program offer a double springboard: it allows our professional artists to meet new audiences in extraordinary contexts,” said Alain Boisvert, chairperson of the New Brunswick Arts Board. “This partnership brings new meaning to the accessibility of the general public to the exceptional works of professional New Brunswick artists.”

Selected participants will be offered an artist fee for participating in the residency and complimentary accommodations at their chosen site, if applicable.

“This program will provide opportunities for professional artists to express themselves, gain exposure and enhance their work portfolio,” said Scott-Wallace. “It will also offer New Brunswickers a better appreciation of culture and the arts while showcasing our artists and their creative process.”

The program will take place from June 23 to Aug. 29 and is open to all New Brunswick professional artists. Selected artists will choose their preferred location and submit an application, which will be reviewed by a selection committee.

The deadline to apply is April 23. The application and more information are available online.

March 29, 2021 in Residency

Autobiographie Collective de Nicole Haché

L’installation Autobiographie Collective de Nicole Haché témoigne de son savoir et de sa sensibilité face aux relations interpersonnelles et à l’importance d’une symbiose collective. Œuvrant autrefois comme technologiste en laboratoire médical, Nicole conjugue l’histologie à une démarche artistique qui entrelace le savoir et la créativité.  « Tels des individus évoluant en société, les cellules juxtaposées communiquent entre elles et coexistent en créant des liens intimes qui rendent la vie possible dans une symbiose organique, » d’expliquer Nicole Haché. Son installation célèbre la diversité, et permet une réflexion vis-à-vis de l’importance du rôle de chacun dans la communauté. Autobiographie collective a été créé lors d’une résidence de création interculturelle qui réunissait les communautés autochtones, francophones et anglophones du Nouveau-Brunswick.  

 

CommuniqueExpoNHache

March 23, 2021

CALL FOR ARTISTS TO CREATE A MURAL AT NBEX HORSE BARNS

(le français suit l’anglais)
Dear Artists, Arts Organization, Muralists, and Arts Media:
The Fredericton Trails Coalition and New Brunswick Provincial Exhibition would like to remind everyone that the March 31st deadline for submissions to participate in the Valley Trail NBEX Horse Barn mural project is fast approaching.
We look forward to receiving submissions from interested parties.  If you know of any Atlantic-Canada-based artist or muralist who would be interested in this project, please let them know !  The information is fully available on our web site at:  frederictontrailscoalition.com
Also, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them at:  info@frederictontrailscoalition.com and we will respond within 24 hours.
Regards,
Anne Wilkins
Chair, Adopt-a-trail Program
Fredericton Trails Coalition
Chers artistes, organismes artistiques, muralistes et arts médiatiques :
La Coalition des sentiers de Fredericton et l’Exposition provinciale du Nouveau-Brunswick tiennent à rappeler à tous que la date limite du 31 mars pour les soumissions de participation au projet de murale de l’écurie NBEX du Sentier de la Vallée approche à grands pas.
Nous avons hâte de recevoir les soumissions des parties intéressées.  Si vous connaissez un artiste ou un muraliste ayant un atelier dans les Provinces de l’Atlantique qui serait intéressé par ce projet, veuillez-le lui faire savoir!  L’information est disponible sur notre site Web à : frederictontrailscoalition.com
De plus, si vous avez des questions ou des commentaires, veuillez les laisser à info@frederictontrailscoalition.com et nous y répondrons dans les 24 heures.
Bien à vous,
Anne Wilkins
Directrice, Programme Adoptez-un-sentier
Coalition des sentiers de Fredericton
March 19, 2021 in Submission

Édition spéciale des Éloizes (PRESS RELEASE – Special edition of Éloizes)

Moncton, March 18, 2021 – The Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick (AAAPNB) announces today that the Soirée des Éloizes will be broadcast on Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Radio-Canada will broadcast the special on Saturday, May 29 at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, on ICI Télé en Atlantique. It is also possible to listen to it at the same time via the Internet at radiocanada.ca/acadie. The show will also air on ICI ARTV at 8 p.m. across the country. It will then be available for catch-up on ICI TOU.TV for one year.

The teams have been working for several months to create a renewed edition of the Soirée des Éloizes: “The pandemic has forced us to show ingenuity to recognize the artistic excellence of the 2020 cuvée of the finalists. I am so happy that this evening can take place ”, explains Carmen Gibbs, general manager of AAAPNB and producer of Éloizes.

The production and artistic direction of this special have been entrusted to Kevin McIntyre and the animation will be assumed by none other than Matthieu Girard.

The world has changed a lot in the past year: “The arts and culture sector is particularly affected and the repercussions will be felt for many years to come. The Éloizes are no exception to this reality, ”adds Carmen Gibbs.

You are therefore all invited to join us for this different evening at Les Éloizes. Follow our social media to learn more about the 2020 finalists.

The AAAPNB has decided to virtually maintain the Éloizes Youth Activities.

The invitation was extended to all teachers and the interest shown by the education community in Youth Activities confirms the need for arts education and education through the arts.

More than 200 workshops will therefore be offered in the 34 schools of the Francophone Northeast School District and in six educational daycares that will reach more than 3,000 young people aged 2 to 18: “The results are beyond our expectations. … It’s extraordinary, it’s magnificent! », Affirms Philippe Beaulieu, president of the AAAPNB.

 

https://www.leseloizes.ca/nouvelles/

March 19, 2021 in Awards

Job offer – Administrative assistant Nonesuch art residency program

Job offer – Administrative assistant to the Nonesuch art residency program at Main & Station in Parrsboro Nova Scotia. Applications can be sent to paper878@aol.com
  • Answer electronic questions and relay telephone calls and messages.
  • Schedule and confirm appointments and meetings of employer.
  • Set up and maintain manual and computerized information filing systems.
  • Keep the art gallery, such as the bookstore and the cafeteria, clean and suitable for the public.
  • Maintain the system of typing and conservation of the books in the bookstore.
  • Contact artists, poets, academics both Canadian and foreign, to organize exhibitions, workshops, events and residencies with an emphasis on Latin America
  • Translate into English artist´s information in Spanish,Fr ench or Portuguese when required as well as helping to do research for a publication on the effect of Marshall McLuhan and his ideas in Latin American for a coming publication and film project.
  • Arrange travellers schedules and book their reservations into the residency program.
  • Attend to the public in the cafeteria and the art gallery.
  • Do regular janitorial and maintenance on three buildings that are the property of Main & Station Ltd.
  • Organize conferences, expositions, artistic residencies, etc.
  • 7 hour workday  Wednesday through Sunday
  • Applicants must be ready to move to Parrsboro in Nova Scotia
 
 
Contact us by email at Paper878@aol.com or by snail mail Main & Station box 507 Parrsboro, Nova Scotia B0M1S0  You can visit our web site at www.hmsnonesuch.com
March 19, 2021 in Employment

The list. March 19, 2021

The list. March 19, 2021

The List presents the events of the members of the Association des groups en arts visuels francophones ( AGAVF ), that is to say fifteen artist-run centers and galleries across Canada, and compiles calls for submissions in visual arts, media arts, performance, art. public, residencies aimed at artists and curators.

 Couleur (s) by Reza Rezaï – artist of inspiration: Xavier Mutshipayi – as part of the exhibition The other p resented at the Center culture franco-manitobain. Photo: Mike Peters

News from AGAVF

The AGAVF congratulates Alex Keim , director of La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, for his plea before the Standing Steering Committee of the City of Winnipeg on March 15, in favor of the preservation of the historic Saint -Boniface as a public good. Read on.

Programming of AGAVF members

Franco-Manitoban Cultural Center (Winnipeg)

Jen Funk, Xavier Mutshipayi, Stéphane Oystryk, Reza Rezaï and Eric Plamondon – The other from October 8 to November 28, 2020
340, boulevard Provencher
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.ccfm.mb.ca

the collective (Vancouver)

Sylvie Roussel-Janssens, François Michaud, Ghislain Brown-Kossi, Marie-Pascale Lafrenière, Jérôme Baco, Valérian Denis, Chantal Cardinal and Serge Bennathan – Essential collaboration: the Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs of SFU and the Francophone Cultural and Artistic Council of British Columbia as part of the Printemps de la francophonie the 26, 27, and 28 mar 2021

STUDIO 17
2425 Manitoba Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
lecollectifcb.ca

SAW Gallery (Ottawa)

EJECT performing arts videoclub collaboration: La Nouvelle Scène, Trillium Theater and Catapulte Theater from March 15 to April 15, 2021
67 Nicolas Street
Ottawa, Ontario
saw-centre.com

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury)

Stephanie Castonguay – Capturing optical frequencies home residence from April 19 to April 25

Michael Fernandes – Before and after the electric car home residence and on Instagram @beforeandaftertheelectriccar since January 14, 2021

Claude Wittmann – Wheels / politics / panic Project until June 2021

Stefan St-Laurent – Please feed the animals Listen to the virtual conference again

54 Elgin Street
Sudbury, Ontario
www.gn-o.org

Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen Art Gallery (Moncton)

Christian Michaud – Auto-Sapiens
Produced with the collaboration of Jeanne Mance Cormier, curator
Curators: Paul Édouard Bourque and Tanya Eindiguer from February 20 to April 3, 2021
University of Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ga

 

Visual Voice Artist Center (Ottawa)

Nicole Blundell, Frances Caswell-Routhier, Renee Knight, Monique Handfield, Hélène Lefebvre and Richard Robesco – Membership
Curator: Raymond Aubin
Virtual exhibition since March 4, 2021
67 Beechwood Ave
Vanier, Ontario
www.voixvisuelle.ca

House of French-speaking visual artists (Saint-Boniface)

Colette Balcaen, Réal Bérard, Shaneela Boodoo, Brigitte Dion, Danielle Koslowsky Fontaine, Roger Lafrenière, Chanelle Lajoie, Janine-Annette Littmann, Chase Martin, Xavier Mutshipayi, Dominique Rey, Melanie Rocan, Michel St-Hilaire, Janelle Tougas – In conversation
Curators: Lou-Anne Bourdeau and Alexandra Keim
videos
until April 3, 2021
101-219, boulevard Provencher
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca

No Name Gallery (Moncton)

Vanessa Moeller – Bean There, Done That. 2018-2020
Monica Chamberlain – Inside the lines from March 5 to April 30, 2021
140, rue Botsford, room 16
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.galeriesansnom.org

Alberta Visual Arts Center (Edmonton)

Evelyn Berg, Kyle St-Thomas and Josh Ajohn – Exhibition from February 26 to April 9, 2021
9103 95th Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
www.galeriecava.com

Happy birthday to the Lab which blows out its 15 candles!

Calls for submissions

1.Calls in French from Canada

AGAVF – The incubator in police station – May 3
Kamouraska Art Center – March 31
Dare-Dare – Montreal – March 26
60 seconds radio 2021 – April 11
Atelier Presse Papier dissemination center – Trois-Rivières – April 15
Vertical artist center – Laval – April 1
The little views – Culture Trois-Rivières – April 1

2.Calls in English from Canada

Alternator Center for Contemporary Art – Kelowna – March 21
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo – April 2
VIFF – Vancouver – April 23
Craft Ontario – Toronto – June 7
BIPOC Artist Instagram Project – ongoing
AKA Artist-run Center – Saskatoon – ongoing
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge – ongoing

3.international calls

Franklin Furnace Fund – New York – April 8

4.residences

Call to artists from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces – East-North-East – Saint-Jean-Port-Joli – May 9
National Higher Art School of Bourges – calls to young artists – March 31
La Chambre Blanche – Quebec – April 18
Moving Image Lab – Meech Lake – March 24

5.public art

Call to Indigenous Artists for Collaborations at the Etobicoke Civic Center – Etobicoke – April 16
BMO Convention Center – Calgary – March 30
Indigenous public art – Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa – April 12 and May 31
Third Shift – Saint-Jean – March 21

6.for commissioners

3rd edition curated incubator – AGAVF – May 3
Artspace Artist Run Center – Artistic Director / Curator and Director of Operations and Development jobs – open until filled
Vie des arts magazine – April 4
revie Inter, current art – May 1
Commissioner – Flag of Malta – April 5
Distribution center of the Atelier Presse Papier – Trois-Rivière – for curators – April 15
Digital America – online arts journal on internet culture – March 22
Sobey Prize for the Arts – March 19
Galerie La Box – Bourges – March 31
Cosmis Bulletin – May 1
Esse art + opinion – sportification – April 1
East of your empires – Quebec – ongoing
Revue de Paris – call for contributors – in progress

details on agavf.ca

Association of Francophone Visual Arts Groups BP 7131, Vanier Branch
Ottawa Ontario K1L 8E2 Canada
info@agavf.ca

March 19, 2021 in Monthly list

Cal Johnson, First Recipient of the Indigenous Artist Development Program

March 16, 2021 – Music·Musique NB is proud to announce that Cal Johnson (photo below), of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, is the first recipient of the Indigenous Artist Development Program. The initiative was created to provide one emerging Indigenous artist with the tools, support and guidance to achieve a new musical project.

Multi-instrumentalist Cal Johnson plans to re-record traditional Wolastoqiyik songs, previously recorded by Elders from the Tobique First Nation community. The songs will be re-imagined in an EP format and include a full musical accompaniment, as the original recordings have no instrumentation apart from the traditional drum.

Cal Johnson will be supported throughout this project by Mi’kmaq artist Wolf Castle, from the Pabineau First Nation, as well as by the Music·Musique NB (MNB) team. Hip Hop artist Wolf Castle initiated the project to create more spaces where Indigenous voices can be heard.

“We hope that this pilot project becomes a full-fledged recurring program,” says Jean Surette, Executive Director of MNB. “Our goal is to widen the scope and support many more emerging Indigenous artists.”

Cal Johnson is currently residing in Truro, where he completed the Music Arts Program at NSCC.

 

 

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Media contact: Jean Surette / jean@musicnb.org / 506.383.4662

March 19, 2021 in Awards