Two ��ܽ����Ƶ print students, Evan MacPherson and Christie Melville, travelled to New York City with Professor Mark Bovey on a four-day trip that covered all major galleries, plus the , the book fair, and an alumni event at the .����

The students who went applied to go and received supporting funds from the ��ܽ����Ƶ student travel subsidy.����

“We’ve done this for several years and we hope to grow this into a regular annual trip for students in our printmaking program. Going to the print fair and taking advantage of everything New York has to offer as the world’s centre for contemporary art is an invaluable experience for our students,” says Bovey.����

Trip notes from Evan and Christie��

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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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“It’s been an exciting night. The anticipation of showing these new lithographs to the public was colossal, and it was amazing to see so many people connect and come together to celebrate this project,” said Dr. Aoife Mac Namara, president, ��ܽ����Ƶ University. “We want to build upon the lasting legacy of the original ��ܽ����Ƶ Lithography Workshop, and judging by the reaction of our guests tonight, I think we are well on our way to doing that.”

The ��ܽ����Ƶ University Lithography Workshop was established in 1969, earning international recognition and redefining the artistic potential of print in the 20th century. It had a significant and lasting impact on the world of art and design, and included several famed artists from Canada and around the world. Tonight’s event marks the official revival of the workshop, and the work on display was representative of the new, diverse direction the project will take moving forward.

��ܽ����Ƶ students and recent alumni were able to take part in the lithography workshop through studio visits with the artists while they were on campus. In addition, students were hired as assistants in the studio and were commissioned to write essays on the works, which will be published online at .

“It has always been a priority for the Anna Leonowens and ��ܽ����Ƶ that students have direct contact, and an opportunity to work along-side professional artists, gaining hands-on experience and witnessing different approaches to art making. I’m thrilled that we’ve been able to revive this workshop and continue this legacy. From the inception of this journey it was important to us that the participating artists were from diverse backgrounds, to have a more inclusive workshop than before. We’re honoured to bring these artists’ impressions to this project,” said Melanie Colosimo, Director/Curator, ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems. “Challenging each artist beyond their comfort zone sparked their creativity. Paring conceptual artists with a master printer, who is an expert in making prints, was a brilliant partnership.”

Artists Shuvinai Ashoona, Jordan Bennett, Shary Boyle, Brendan Fernandes, Amy Malbeuf, Ed Pien, Derek Sullivan, and Ericka Walker are the eight whose work was on display tonight. The limited-edition prints were available for purchase throughout the evening, with proceeds from sales being invested in collaborative printing and the ��ܽ����Ƶ press, helping to revive publishing at the Halifax-based art and design school.

In addition to the unveiling of the prints, tonight’s attendees were also treated to an artist roundtable discussion, and a question-and-answer session with the artists themselves. This provided guests with an opportunity to learn more about ��ܽ����Ƶ Lithography Workshop – Contemporary Editions and its significance on the world of art.

All eight lithographs will be on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, from November 9 to April 26, 2020. The new prints will be available for purchase at .

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“Each new lithograph tells a unique story, but they are all rooted in the enduring legacy of ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Lithography Workshop,” said Melanie Colosimo, Director/Curator, ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems. “Our goal is to continue the legacy of the ��ܽ����Ƶ Lithography Workshop beyond 2019. The sale of these editions will be reinvested back into collaborative printing, and the ��ܽ����Ƶ press, with a goal to revive publishing here at ��ܽ����Ƶ.”

Artists Shuvinai Ashoona, Jordan Bennett, Shary Boyle, Brendan Fernandes, Amy Malbeuf, Ed Pien, Derek Sullivan, and Ericka Walker are the eight whose work will be on display during the relaunch of the Lithography Workshop.

The creation of these prints served as a launching point for a series of public artist talks and documentary short films on each of the artists and their approach to this project. Students and recent alumni were able to participate in the workshop through studio visits with the artists while they were on campus. In addition, they were hired as assistants in the studio and were commissioned to write essays on the works which will be published online at .

All eight lithographs will be on view at the , 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, ��from November 9 ��to April 26, 2020. The new prints will be available for purchase as of November 7, 2019 at

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October 8 – 17, 2019
Opening receptions: Monday 7 October, 5:30 – 7PM

Public Picnic Table Prints
Charley Young, faculty organizer
Gallery 1
Community Picnic: Sat 12 Oct, 12 Noon��

Public Picnic Table Prints is a large-scale, collaborative printmaking project that exists to create a place of exchange between newcomers and other community members. In the Fall of 2018, participants worked together to design, carve, and print, site-specific woodcuts based upon the people and plants found in Glen Community Garden. This project was created as a part of ‘Welcome to this Place’, presented by Mabelle Arts in partnership with Immigrant Service Association of Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia Art Bank 2019 Purchase
Galleries 2 & 3

Arts Nova Scotia is unveiling the Nova Scotia Art Bank purchases for 2019. Since 1975, the Nova Scotia Art Bank Program has encouraged the development of artistic excellence and stimulated awareness of visual arts and fine craft among Nova Scotians and visitors. This has been accomplished through the acquisition, development, maintenance and display of a working collection of professional Nova Scotian art. Works are added to the collection annually through a peer selection committee, composed of established artists, who review all applications and select works to purchase based on artistic merit.

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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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Friday, June at, 12Noon

Hedi Kyle is the coauthor, with her daughter, Ulla Warchol, of The Art of the Fold, a step-by-step guide to making a broad selection of her original structures.

Hedi was born in Berlin, graduated in 1959 from the Werk-Kunst-Schule in Wiesbaden, Germany, with a degree in graphic design, and shortly thereafter emigrated to the United States. In the decades since, Hedi has spent her career revolutionizing the field of book arts, teaching workshops throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

In her capacity as a conservator, Hedi cofounded the Book Preservation Center at the New York Botanical Garden and coauthored Library Materials Preservation Manual, one of the first books on library preservation techniques. As head conservator at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and as an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program for Book Arts and Printmaking at the University of the Arts, Hedi trained and mentored a generation of conservators and book artists. Her one-of-a-kind book constructions are in the collections of numerous institutions and individuals and have been the subject of multiple solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Hedi is an honorary member of the Guild of Book Workers and a cofounder, with Gary Frost and Tim Barrett, of the Paper & Book Intensive (PBI), now in its thirty-third year. She is the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Career Award from the College Book Art Association (CBAA).

Today Hedi lives with her husband in the mountains of the Catskills, in upstate New York, where she continues to explore and experiment with the hidden potential of form and materials.
Thursday, June 20, 7 PM
PWYC / Suggested $5
Doors at 5PM for Happy Hour!

This is the second round of qualifiers for the Hali Slam Team. If you are slamming to qualify please bring two poems you haven’t performed this season with you, three poems if you missed the first round!st.

-Open mic-
The open mic is open to anyone and all artists are welcome to perform. If you perform a work that is not your own we ask that you give credit to the original artist. You can sign up in advance by posting in the event, messaging Sara Graham, or there will be sign up at the door.

-Poetry Slam-
This Slam is a qualifying round to make the Hali Slam Team for The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Guelph from October 13-19 2019. if you are slamming in this Round you need two poems ready! If you missed the first round please bring a third poem with you.

RULES
Basic poetry slam rules apply.
The poem performed has to be an original piece written by the poet.
There is no props, no costumes, and no musical accompaniment.
Each poem is judged by five random members of the audience on a scale from zero to ten. The lowest and highest scores are dropped and the poem receives a score out of thirty.
There’s a three minute time limit with a ten second grace period. If the poet goes over the time limit and grace period, they lose 0.5 points for every ten seconds they are over.

If you’d like to sign up for Slam in advance post in the event or message Sara Graham. There will also be sign ups at the door.

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TBAAFTER ANNA
Mondays during openings, 5:00 – 8:30 pm

We’re here during every single Anna opening!

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Jennifer Willet and Nina Sellars
��— Gallery 2A

Jennifer Willet exhibits a custom garment, Untitled: Travelling Laboratory Coat, that has accrued layers of meaning and microbes as it moves through representation, performance, space, and time. Get curious about the futility of attempting to control microscopic life forms as they travel through our bodies and environments.

Nina Sellars challenges our normative frames of reference as it relates to anatomy with Sentinels. This Bio Art installation is designed to question the cultural and scientific implications of the relative absence of fat in the history of anatomy and the significance for contemporary debates about the human, the non-human, and the posthuman.

See for more information about the IOTA Bio Art SeriesAnd 5, 6, 7, 8 — Erin Chapman
undergraduate exhibitior — Gallery 2B

Through printmaking and installation, Chapman explores Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by expressing her repetitive thoughts through her memories growing up competitively dancing. OCD causes Chapman to count continuously. She represents this by creating bright, coloured patterns and moving kinetic screen prints.Paper Dance Constructions — Jacinte Armstrong
graduate exhibitior— Gallery 3

Armstrong combines movement and kinaesthetic sculpture in this durational performance. The artist approaches movement as a way of thinking and invites audience members to share in the process ��ܽ����Ƶ of making it visible. Together they manipulate a large paper assembly, activating their senses of touch, movement, hearing, and vision.Continuing��exhibition:��May 21��– June 1, 2019

Dirty sweep — Lauren Schaffer
visiting artist — Gallery 1

“Less than twelves paces from Toronto artist Lauren Schaffer’s kitchen door lies the entrance to her studio backing onto an alleyway at the end of the yard. The two portals bookend this brief passage through the outdoors with its microbes and leaf mold, its insects and animal life-stations of the day and seasons. One of the doors marks the threshold to the familial and domestic routine while the other opens onto the discipline and solitude of artistic practice. Over the past several years, Schaffer’s traversal along this circuit with its infra-think natural barrier has provided much fodder for her work in digital videos and sculpture through which she has consistently engaged in entomological and domestic themes.” – Jennifer McMackon

Lauren Schaffer is a multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto. Inspired by the limits of perception and research around the intersection of human and animal behaviour, her work encompases sculpture, installation, audio and video. She has received her undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and been featured in Canadian Art, C Magazine and Espace Magazine.

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