Event Format:��

Each timeslot had a corresponding theme/prompt for drawers. See below:����

February 26, Marathon Day 1 ��

• 3-6p.m.: Opening, beginnings, Fibonacci series��
• 6-9 p.m.: Noise, the crowd, waves, drowning + diving��
• 9 p.m.-12 a.m.: Breadth, depth, looking closely��
• Midnight-3 a.m.: Nocturnal life, passageways, looking up, looking down  ��

February 27, Marathon Day 2 ��

• 3–6 p.m.: Layers, unearthing, archaeology (erasure, collage)    ��
• 6–9 p.m.: Theme Joy  ��
• 9 p.m.–12 a.m.: Alternate planes, the other-worldly (ghosts, memories, fables)  ��
• 12–3a m.: Exquisite corpse, arising from the ashes; the menagerie, the circus; the speak-easy.

Sponsored by:��

Stonegate Properties Inc.

William Barker and Elizabeth Church

Free pizza and snacks provided by Freeman’s Little New York!

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“The Holiday Pop-Up is something we look forward to every year. ��ܽ����Ƶ students enjoy the opportunity to showcase their art, craft and design skills, while also meeting members of the community who come out to support local artists,” said Linda Hutchison, AVP University Relations, ��ܽ����Ƶ University. “It’s also a chance for all of us to buy local this holiday season. And not just local, but handmade and student-made. These are truly unique, one-of-a-kind gift ideas.”

The ��ܽ����Ƶ Holiday Pop-Up takes place at the Art Bar +Projects (1873 Granville Street, Halifax, NS). It starts on Friday, December 6, going from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. It continues on Saturday, December 7, running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information on ��ܽ����Ƶ University events, visit nscad.ca.

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White Work  — Mark Mitchell
visiting artist, with support from Arts Nova Scotia  — Gallery 1
Artist Talk: Wednesday, August 14, 12 Noon

Mark Mitchell uses fine dressmaking and millinery techniques to make highly realized sculptures that tell stories, mourn, and memorialize often using the tropes of funeral traditions. He exhibited his last large body of work in 2013 in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum. Burial dealt with issues of mortality and mourning through burial garments. White Work takes on mourning in a different form, with activist intention.

Based in Tucson Arizona, Mark Mitchell’s contributions span art, music, and theater. His magnum opus, Mark Mitchell: Burial, a performance and installation, was showcased in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum, 2013, to critical and popular acclaim. In November 2016, Burial was presented in a solo exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon. Mitchell was shortlisted for the Neddy Artist Award at Cornish, 2015, for the Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award, 2016 and 2017 and was the recipient of the Kayla Skinner Award, Betty Bowen Committee, Seattle Art Museum, 2016. His work is in public and private collections, including that of the Frye Art Museum.August 6 – 10, 2019
Opening reception: Tuesday, August 6, 5:30 – 7PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

A Lack, A Look, A Lark
Luke Mohan & Gabi P.S., undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2
Artist Talk: Friday, August 9, 1PM

A Lack, A Look, A Lark presents a synthesis of sculpture, drawing, and installation that cultivates Mohan and P.S.’s interest in humour, poetry and story-telling. Mohan and P.S. wish to share their fondness for characters and amusement, and to reinvigorate elements of curiosity and magic into the gallery.QUEER WORKS
Arjun Lal, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 8, 12 Noon

Lal offers, “As a queer artist, I feel pressure to constantly shape my work to fit within heteronormative spaces and audiences. Reviewing and editing has always played a big role with how I present myself and when choosing ideas to share. The creation of my alternative-ego, Vagine, has allowed me to let my guard down and share other parts of myself in a safer space. I think its important to recognize that public spaces are mostly heteronormative which makes additions of queer content challenging.”

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White Work�� — Mark Mitchell
visiting artist, with support from Arts Nova Scotia�� — Gallery 1
Artist Talk: Wednesday, August 14, 12 Noon

Mark Mitchell uses fine dressmaking and millinery techniques to make highly realized sculptures that tell stories, mourn, and memorialize often using the tropes of funeral traditions. He exhibited his last large body of work in 2013 in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum. Burial dealt with issues of mortality and mourning through burial garments. White Work takes on mourning in a different form, with activist intention.

Based in Tucson Arizona, Mark Mitchell’s contributions span art, music, and theater. His magnum opus, Mark Mitchell: Burial, a performance and installation, was showcased in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum, 2013, to critical and popular acclaim. In November 2016, Burial was presented in a solo exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon. Mitchell was shortlisted for the Neddy Artist Award at Cornish, 2015, for the Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award, 2016 and 2017 and was the recipient of the Kayla Skinner Award, Betty Bowen Committee, Seattle Art Museum, 2016. His work is in public and private collections, including that of the Frye Art Museum.August 6 – 10, 2019
Opening reception: Tuesday, August 6, 5:30 – 7PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

A Lack, A Look, A Lark
Luke Mohan & Gabi P.S., undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2
Artist Talk: Friday, August 9, 1PM

A Lack, A Look, A Lark presents a synthesis of sculpture, drawing, and installation that cultivates Mohan and P.S.’s interest in humour, poetry and story-telling. Mohan and P.S. wish to share their fondness for characters and amusement, and to reinvigorate elements of curiosity and magic into the gallery.QUEER WORKS
Arjun Lal, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 8, 12 Noon

Lal offers, “As a queer artist, I feel pressure to constantly shape my work to fit within heteronormative spaces and audiences. Reviewing and editing has always played a big role with how I present myself and when choosing ideas to share. The creation of my alternative-ego, Vagine, has allowed me to let my guard down and share other parts of myself in a safer space. I think its important to recognize that public spaces are mostly heteronormative which makes additions of queer content challenging.”

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TWO DOGS AND A CAT EVERYDAY FOR A YEAR
Dr. Harold Pearse, Professor Emeritus, ��ܽ����Ƶ University��— Gallery 1

Dr. Harold Pearse presents a series of drawings consisting of two dogs and a cat, raising questions about the relationship between an artist and his subject, a man and his pets, a human being and animals.Lobster Spirits — Patrick Cruz
visiting artist, with support from Arts Nova Scotia — Gallery 2
Artist Talk: Wednesday, July 24, 12 Noon��

Once abundant and bountiful, lobsters were previously served as prison food and used as fish bait and garden fertilizer. It wasn’t until the mid 19th century that lobsters were recognized as haute cuisine elevating its marginal status into an aristocratic one. Besides its innate capability to continually molt, lobsters possess unique anatomy. Supposedly, the stoic crustacean cannot process ��ܽ����Ƶ pain due to the absence of cerebral cortex. In addition to this strange biological phenomenon, its brain is located in its throat, nervous system in its abdomen, teeth in its stomach and kidneys in its head. It listens with its legs and tastes with its toes.

Patrick Cruz a Filipino-Canadian artist working between Toronto, Canada, and Quezon City, Philippines. Cruz studied Fine Arts at the University of The Philippines and received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA at the University of Guelph. Cruz is the founder of Kamias Special Projects, an artist-run space in Quezon City, Philippines that hosts the Kamias Triennial; a platform for cross-cultural exchange and experimental curatorial strategies.����In 2015, Cruz won the national title for the 17th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition and was recently longlisted at the 2019 Sobey Arts Award.July 23 – 27, 2019
Opening reception: Monday, July 22, 5:30 – 7PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

Flagging Velvet
Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee & Wren Morris��— Gallery 3

Alexander, Buzzee and Morris offer documents of queer sexualities and desires which reclaim context and space from a conventional hetero gaze. Through a multidisciplinary approach they create community-based pornographies that seek to honour historical leather dyke culture, while contributing to its contemporary current, offering audiences a view of self-determined representation of queer + trans sex and empowered BDSM play.

Artist Talk + Performance: Wednesday, July 24, 5-6pm

Maddie Alexander and Wren Morris will present a talk and performance in the exhibition space for “Flagging Velvet”, from 5-6pm in Gallery 3. The talk will explore the work within the gallery, as well as a frank and intimate conversation between the artists about what queer sexuality and desire means to them. Through the duration of this talk, Morris will be doing a live Shibari (or Kinbaku) rope tie on Alexander. We also welcome the audience to engage in the conversation, and there will be a Q + A at the end of the performance.

Accessibility notes: Gallery 3 is located down two half flights of stairs in an “L” shape. To avoid using the stairs and access Gallery 3 gallery staff will accompany you outside to the Gallery 3 entrance on Hollis street, a 30 sec trip from the main door. The two washrooms are at the back of the gallery, up a flight of stairs through a small hall and then down a second flight of stairs. They are both gender neutral. Unfortunately the gallery does not have wheelchair accessible washrooms on site but gallery staff can assist in taking you to the closest wheelchair washroom on campus.

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Preparation Suites  — Celeste Cares & Alex Sutcliffe, undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 1

Celeste Cares paints a mushy, girlish muse in various states of activity. Applying lipstick; combing hair; spilling coffee – these states of getting ready prove to be messy, chaotic, and fun. Alex Sutcliffe’s oil paintings abstract figures and forms in nebulous, unreal landscapes. Muted colours and rich brushwork reveal hazy figures that wait, withdraw, and dance in a visualized space of existential malaise, suspended on a stage where they prepare for nothingness.July 17, 2019
Noon Talk
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

Ocean Treasures: Anthropocene Artifacts —
Jennifer McLatchy, IDPhD Candidate— Gallery 2A

Artist-researcher Jennifer MacLatchy combs shorelines in Nova Scotia by kayak and by foot, searching for and collecting marine debris, or, anthropocene era artifacts. This exhibition is a museum-like display of artifacts that have been documented and preserved with great care in order to study the relationship between humans and the ocean in a time of great change and loss. This work is an enactment of small acts of great care aimed at addressing massive and overwhelming environmental problems. In doing this, it engages with feelings of futility, grief, and maybe hope.Not Place
Heather Murray & Caitlin Secondcost, organizers — Gallery 3

This exhibition presents paintings, sculptures and audio works by Heather Murray, Caitlin Secondcost, Lauren Hodder, Jennifer Litsas, Bryson Mckenzie, Hila Peleg, Kizi Spielmann Rose, Anna-Lisa Shandro, Mitchell Wiebe and Twyla Zoe.

Exhibition: July 9 – 20, 2019

Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, travelling exhibition  — Gallery 2B

The Alcuin Society has announced the 2018 winners of its annual winning books, which will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; and in nine Canadian provinces. The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books. For more information and list of winners visit

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Preparation Suites����— Celeste Cares & Alex Sutcliffe, undergraduate exhibitors��— Gallery 1

Celeste Cares paints a mushy, girlish muse in various states of activity. Applying lipstick; combing hair; spilling coffee – these states of getting ready prove to be messy, chaotic, and fun. Alex Sutcliffe’s oil paintings abstract figures and forms in nebulous, unreal landscapes. Muted colours and rich brushwork reveal hazy figures that wait, withdraw, and dance in a visualized space of existential malaise, suspended on a stage where they prepare for nothingness.July 17, 2019
Noon Talk
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

Ocean Treasures: Anthropocene Artifacts —
Jennifer McLatchy, IDPhD Candidate— Gallery 2A

Artist-researcher Jennifer MacLatchy combs shorelines in Nova Scotia by kayak and by foot, searching for and collecting marine debris, or, anthropocene era artifacts. This exhibition is a museum-like display of artifacts that have been documented and preserved with great care in order to study the relationship between humans and the ocean in a time of great change and loss. This work is an enactment of small acts of great care aimed at addressing massive and overwhelming environmental problems. In doing this, it engages with feelings of futility, grief, and maybe hope.Not Place
Heather Murray & Caitlin Secondcost, organizers��— Gallery 3

This exhibition presents paintings, sculptures and audio works by Heather Murray, Caitlin Secondcost,��Lauren Hodder,��Jennifer Litsas,��Bryson Mckenzie,��Hila Peleg,��Kizi Spielmann Rose,��Anna-Lisa Shandro,��Mitchell Wiebe and��Twyla Zoe.

Exhibition:��July 9 – 20, 2019

Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, travelling exhibition�� — Gallery 2B

The Alcuin Society has announced the 2018 winners of its annual winning books, which will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; and in nine Canadian provinces. The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books. For more information and list of winners visit

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Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada
travelling exhibition�� — Gallery 2B

The Alcuin Society has announced the 2018 winners of its annual winning books, which will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; and in nine Canadian provinces. The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books. For more information and list of winners visit July 9 – 13, 2019
Opening reception: Monday, July 8, 5:30 – 7PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street

JIAN — Koei Kao
MFA Thesis Exhibition — Gallery 1

Kao’s MFA thesis exhibition explores concepts of negative space, translation between human race and animal species in embossing works, and ink and oil paintings. Emphasis on negative space and breathing rooms through transparent embossed text pieces and Xieyi paintings, the artist draws attention to the distance created through every translation and an ESL interpretations. These works invite viewers to engage with further translations that go beyond the artist’s lenses. How much or how less is needed for us to communicate? How long does it take to see a creature?North Block — Rachel Anzalone
graduate exhibitor — Gallery 2A

During her studies at ��ܽ����Ƶ, Rachel Anzalone traveled up and down the North Block stairway, continuously leaving from and arriving at her studio. She noticed paint chips bubbling and departing from the walls. With curiosity, she peeled the chips, only to discover the layers of paint underneath. With sheets of mylar, acrylic paint, and the paint chips collaged together, Anzalone has documented a piece of the building’s history and someone’s attempt at patching up the walls.

On Thursday, June 20th at 9:30PM, the artists will host a brief discussion followed by a musical performance as Tangent at Art Bar +Projects.Clifton Deposits — Sage Sidley
graduate exhibitor — Gallery 3

This exhibition explores digital and physical location-based data collection and its influence on experiencing place. Sidley’s interdisciplinary drawing research concerns the intangible transformation of public and semi-public spaces into digital data harvesting sites and the proliferation of social surveillance practices. The gallery space will swarm with forms such as: found objects and notes, drawings, prints, and sculptures to investigate the traces of these unseen influences.

On Thursday, June 20th at 9:30PM, the artists will host a brief discussion followed by a musical performance as Tangent at Art Bar +Projects.

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Landscape Outside/Inside
group exhibition  — Gallery 1

Through field trips, observation and working from memory, students in Sara MacCulloch’s landscape painting class have explored a variety of methods used for on-site sketching and incorporated this source material into oil paintings.Clifton Street Group Show
Nick Chapman, Andrew Thorne, Anna Wildish & Nathan Wilkinson-Zan
group exhibition— Gallery 2A

This show is a collaborative exhibition between four artists living together. We invite the community to gather in the gallery as though it were our home on Clifton. Furniture from our apartment, a worn coffee table, posters and junk collecting on walls, lived in and occupying space in our lives. These traces of our everyday living, in the gallery for one week.

On Thursday, June 20th at 9:30PM, the artists will host a brief discussion followed by a musical performance as Tangent at Art Bar +Projects.Develop Decay — Nathan Wilkinson-Zan
undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 2B

Wilkinson-Zan offers, “Living, working, and playing in Halifax has allowed me to evolve my perceptions about the world. I am interested in community, money, power and how the former exists often despite the latter. I’ve found my own community to be extremely passionate and caring. Our communities often exist within apathetic institutions to the detriment of those who occupy them. This exhibition seeks to put my perception of everyday life on display. Each of the drawings are from public landscapes, the text and audio are used for context of personal, historical & societal experiences.”What I do to think about other stuff
Louis-Charles Dionne & Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott
graduate exhibitors— Gallery 3

Dionne and Valcourt-Synnott present a series of drawings, installations, and performative gestures. Their exhibition explores the “process ��ܽ����Ƶ before process ��ܽ����Ƶ” by displaying their pre-artistic practice material. Using up wax crayons and watering plants are approached as repetitive tasks which create the proper headspace to think about what they are doing and why they are doing it. While this circularity alludes to ideas of ‘productivity’ and ‘duration’ in relation to artistic labour, it also links to the invisible preparation that precedes any idea and its materialization.

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