The CMML is a purpose-designed mobile media production hub that will facilitate participatory research and mentorship in film and media arts throughout Mi’kma’ki. The lab will be utilized for the numerous community-based research projects currently being conducted by our faculty, which prioritize collaborative methodologies of co-creation and collective authorship. It will create innovative means of disseminating research to our immediate community, while also permitting alternative forms of outreach and education, which will further advance our equity, diversity and inclusion priorities by providing informal, community-based education with under-represented communities.

Currently, we are collaborating on a diverse set of community-based media art projects, which have been funded by the SSHRC-funded Counter-Memory Activism Inter-University Group. This research cluster is a collaboration between ��ܽ����Ƶ University and the University of King’s College. Given the priority of CFI to support youth and research, we see this project as aligned directly with the promise of “How can research forge the future you want?”. Our research cluster has partnerships with several community organizations, such as the Membertou Heritage Park, The Nova Scotia Museum, Cape Breton University’s Centre for Sound Communities, Saint George’s Youth Net and In My Own Voice (iMOVe) Community Art Organization. Our funded research projects involve the creation of collaborative work, which explores concepts of first-person documentary and works of memory activism. Hands-on training and mentorship are integral to these process ��ܽ����Ƶes of collaboration.

The unique design of the CMML as a mobile research, training and production tool will enable us to explore media art research-creation projects that decentralize accounts of history, transforming encounters with community members through innovative forms of collaborative projects. This methodology involves collective acts of research-creation that will become integral toolkits for community focused reconciliation and social justice. Investment in this infrastructure will impact the way post-secondary research can be produced and disseminated. Having faculty and research assistants embedded in populations who are underrepresented in post-secondary institutions will have an enormous impact on the media arts industries, and the Canadian economy as a whole. Through conference papers and publications our research methodology will provide a valuable framework for allyship and decolonialization.

The CMML’s primary community partner, Sobaz Benjamin, is the Founder and Executive Director of iMOVe Arts Association, as well as a film-director, community worker, advocate, mentor, program facilitator and educator. He was honoured in 2014 by the Provincial Justice Department with a Minister’s Award for Individual Leadership in Crime Prevention. Benjamin has also received a Humans Rights Award for his work with youth, a Crime Prevention Award from the Province of Nova Scotia and film directing awards from the National Film Board of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television.

This grant is part of more than $64 million in research infrastructure funding committed by the CFI to help drive innovation and spark discoveries at 40 universities across the country.

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Max is the regional winner for Nova Scotia. His work, titled A Family of III (slip casted stoneware, found furniture), is an autobiographical artwork addressing the strain divorce has on families. “To my family and I, dinner and dining together has a strong symbolic meaning of togetherness, yet I have never had the chance to sit down at a dinner table with both of my parents. I reflect this notion by presenting only two chairs at the table and throwing them on their sides, stacked on top of each other, threatening to collapse and scatter at any moment. What prevents the furniture from falling apart are the ceramic chains, symbolizing the family bond that ties everything together,” reads Max’s description.

BMO 1st Art! celebrates the creativity of art school students from over 100 post-secondary institutions across Canada. Every year BMO Financial Group invites the deans and instructors of undergraduate-level certificate, diploma, or degree programs in studio art to select from their graduating classes three students whose ability and imagination place them first among their peers.

Below is a full list of all the BMO 1^st Art! Award recipients. Congratulations to all!

National Winner:

• Anna Kuelken, Father Like Son, ��ܽ����Ƶ University

Regional Winners:

• Kev Liang, Jiā yóu, University of Alberta (Alberta)
• Shannon Pahladsingh, oh thank goodness, University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia)
• Tayler Buss, Rearview, University of Manitoba
• Alana Morouney, I’ll get you next time/I keep letting you win so that I can hold your hand, Mount Allison University (New Brunswick)
• Bethany MacKenzie, What Will the Worms Think of Me?, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Newfoundland)
• Max TS. Yang, A Family of III, ��ܽ����Ƶ University (Nova Scotia)
• Erin Faulks, The Pandemicock, Nunavut Arctic College (Nunavut)
• Allysha Jacque, Kâkuvunga, York University (Ontario)
• Donald Price, Egg and Chain, Holland College (Prince Edward Island)
• Maggy Hamel-Metsos, No Place to Stand, Concordia University (Quebec)
• Holly Aubichon, Modern Medicine, University of Regina (Saskatchewan)
• Juliet Di Carlo, Consume in a way that makes it look Authentic, Yukon School of Visual Arts (Yukon)

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Fogo Island Arts (FIA) and ��ܽ����Ƶ University are pleased to announce a new internship partnership made possible through the generous support of artist and former ��ܽ����Ƶ faculty member Eric Fischl. The Eric Fischl Fogo Island Arts Internship will offer two ��ܽ����Ƶ University students or alumni the opportunity to gain valuable work experience in arts administration with Fogo Island Arts in 2021-22.

“We are delighted to pursue our work with Eric Fischl and to forge new connections across the Atlantic Region, all in the service of creating exceptional opportunities for learning and exchange,” said Nicolaus Schafhausen, FIA Strategic Director. “We are extremely grateful for Eric’s support as well as the chance to work with students trained within the rigorous creative framework and celebrated history of ��ܽ����Ƶ University.”

Participants in The Eric Fischl Fogo Island Arts Internship program will work as support staff in the offices of Fogo Island Arts, contributing to day-to-day program operations and communications over a three-month period. The interns will receive a stipend and will be provided with housing, travel expenses, and studio space, in addition to invaluable opportunities to engage with FIA’s international artists-in-residence and community members across Fogo Island. The ��ܽ����Ƶ University partnership is the second FIA internship program funded by Fischl and follows the same parameters as the ongoing partnership with the New York Academy of Art (NYAA), established in 2017.

“Fogo Island Arts is a place where artistic exploration, research and knowledge-sharing is nurtured and encouraged,” says Melanie Colosimo, Director of ��ܽ����Ƶ University’s Anna Leonowens Gallery. “This type of learning opportunity is incredibly valuable, as putting practice into play can prove to be a pivotal moment in establishing a career in the arts. The ��ܽ����Ƶ community is fortunate to have access to this internship.”

The partnership between FIA, Fischl, and ��ܽ����Ƶ University reflects a shared understanding of the need for expanded educational opportunities within the contemporary art world, as well as the critical role that art and education play in enriching communities.

Applications will be open to ��ܽ����Ƶ students and alumni in March 2021. For more information on the internship and application procedure, please visit ��ܽ����Ƶ University’s .

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She continues her vision to build bridges through the arts by adding the title of Visiting Artist in Residence in Film and Media Studies, when she joins ��ܽ����Ƶ University for the Fall 2020 term.

As part of her residency, Colas will provide public lectures, film screenings with Q&A, and open sessions for film students on planning and preparing for festivals during her time with ��ܽ����Ƶ. She will deliver her first lecture, ‘My long and hard journey toward inclusion of Black artists in front and behind the camera and in the arts,’ on September 15, 2020. Colas will be hosted virtually by ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Anna Leonowens Gallery for the duration of her residency.

“My goal has always been to create platforms that show a diversity of voices, faces and points of view. I believe in creating opportunities, awards, and grants to support and promote independent films and Black artists who, otherwise, would be invisible,” said Colas. “I plan to continue this work at ��ܽ����Ƶ University. I feel connected to Halifax after proudly launching the Halifax Black Film Festival and watching it grow. I am so proud to give back by working with students at a university in this great province. I’m also looking forward to working closely with instructor, documentary filmmaker, video journalist and cinematographer Marcia Connolly and ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Media Arts Division. By working together, we can help ��ܽ����Ƶ students to unlock their greatness and thrive!”

“This is the first time ��ܽ����Ƶ has had a Visiting Artist in Residence in Film and Media Studies, and we are beyond excited to have Fabienne Colas join us in this role. She is a woman of action with a creative spirit,” said Melanie Colosimo, Director of the Anna Leonowens Galley. “Fabienne will bring her tremendous experience to ��ܽ����Ƶ in a series of events, workshops and student mentoring sessions. It’s truly an honour to host her residency at The Anna, and we are all looking forward to learning from such an accomplished and innovative artist.”

Colas is a Haitian-Canadian actress, director and producer who has long worked to support and promote independent cinema around the world, particularly Black cinema. She is an award-winning actress, having been awarded the Golden Ticket in Haiti in 2003 for her role in the film Barikad, and has appeared in numerous Canadian cinematic and TV productions. Colas has made her directorial debut with the feature film Minuit, written by renown Haitian author Sophia Desir. She is also the recipient of Prix Relève Femme d’exception from Quebec’s Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Les Mercuriades).

In addition to her work in front of the camera, Colas is the president and founder of nine festivals: the Montreal International Black Film Festival, the Haïti en Folie Festival in Montreal & in New York city (Haiti on fire), the Toronto Black film Festival (TBFF), the Festival Fade to Black, the Halifax Black Film Festival, the Halifax Black Summer Festival, the Salvador Black Film Festival (in Bahia – Brazil) and the Quebec Film Festival in Haiti.

Colas is the president and CEO of the Fabienne Colas Foundation, a cultural organization whose mission is to build bridges, advance education and foster the inclusion of diversity through the arts. The Foundation supports the creation, production, promotion and dissemination of cinema and the arts. As part of its Youth and Diversity Program, the Fabienne Colas Foundation is also the founder of the Being Black in Canada Program, Canada’s largest mentorship, training and creation program dedicated to Black artists – presented by Netflix, in collaboration with the National Bank and supported by Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada and the Canada Arts Council.

Fabienne Colas is currently a candidate at the McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA Program.

Learn more about the Fabienne Colas Foundation .

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Objective

��ܽ����Ƶ University will be offering state of the art digital learning through the design and delivery of 25 summer courses in July and August 2020. These courses will be developed by an expert team of professionals, including subject matter experts (SME), instructional designers from Babb Group, and a technical team of video/sound/graphics/animation specialists. The preparation of these courses will afford a unique opportunity for students to learn, apprentice and apply next wave professional skills, which will greatly enhance their educational experience and potential for participation in the creative digital economy.

The Babb Group is the Industry partner, which will provide mentorship and supervision of ��ܽ����Ƶ students. This opportunity will provide ��ܽ����Ƶ University students with capacity development and professional experience in digital media production, during the May – August 2020 period.

Funding

Through the generous DHX Television Ltd donation, students will receive a stipend for this placement at the following rates:

3 credit course – 125 hours – $1875.00

6 credit course – 250 hours – $3750.00

9 credit course – 375 hours – $5625.00

The student stipend will to be credited to the student account in three equal installments: start of term, mid-term and end of term.

Should the student withdraw from the course before the mid-term the first installment will cover the commitment made to date.

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Understand the context of digital learning and course design/development;
• Acquire skills and capabilities in technical support of digital learning, including video production, sound, lighting, graphic design, animation and visual presentation;
• Learn to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, which include academic specialists, instructional designers and technical specialists, through discussion and collaborative development;
• Understand and apply principles and practices of project management;

Internship Credit

Students are eligible to receive academic credit for their internship as part of their program in their 4th year of study. These courses are designated for 3, 6, 9 credits depending on the number of hours completed.

How to Apply

Please submit a resume, include references information for two faculty with whom the student has worked closely, cover letter and proposed internship credit amount to OSE@nscad.ca

As there are multiple positions available, applications will be reviewed beginning May 14 and continue on a rolling basis until all positions are filled.

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Congratulations Bruce and enjoy your retirement!

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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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Since 2013, ��ܽ����Ƶ and Parks Canada have partnered on this unique and innovative event. Each year, ��ܽ����Ƶ faculty member anna sprague takes students to different parks throughout Nova Scotia, to get outside of the city and explore nature through painting, photography, site-specific installations, public intervention, and performative gestures.

This year, 15 emerging artists made their way to Kejimkujik National Park, including ��ܽ����Ƶ student curators Brody Weaver and Avery Morris. After a week working and staying in the park, Weaver and Morris found new doors of inspiration and imagination opening.

“During our week-long residency, we learned collaboratively – from ourselves, from one another, and the cultural, social and ecological systems of the park. We produced sketchbook work and generated ideas in response to the site,” explained Weaver.

“Our studio research will be directed towards the role that Kejimkujik – a geographical and cultural landscape collaged of indigenous/settler histories and contemporary realities – plays in the process ��ܽ����Ƶ of building personal, communal and national identities,” added Morris.

The ��ܽ����Ƶ students left Halifax on August 25, 2019 for their week-long expedition. While in the park, they cultivated connections with the teachings of nature generously guided by Mi’kmaw Cultural Interpreters Jill Francis and Rose Muse. This included taking in a demonstration of traditional Mi’kmaw craft process ��ܽ����Ƶes by Robbie McKewan; participating in a durational labour-based collaboration with Kinuk – an ongoing collaborative project between ��ܽ����Ƶ alumni Angela Parsons and Ursula Johnson, and much more.

Some of the most impactful moments of the course were the interim between programs: road trips, living together in tents, cooking for one another, and sharing stories.

“The aim of this course is to cultivate life-long appreciation of the wilderness and to celebrate the intersection between the natural world and the visual arts,” explains sprague. “This class continues to gain in popularity, which demonstrates a growing student interest in unique integrative approaches to learning and sharing knowledge like this one –  experiences that push the boundaries of conventional learning.”

The goals of the ��ܽ����Ƶ and Parks Canada partnership are twofold: have students engage with a place that is at once a National park, a National historic site, and the only old growth forest left in Nova Scotia; and to have students create artworks inspired by the immersive park experience and a reimagined way of learning, enriched by collaboration and informed by relationship with place.

The works produced during this project will be showcased in a professional exhibition at the Anna Leonowens Gallery from November 19-30, with an opening on Monday, November 18 from 5:30-7 p.m.

For more information on this project, or other ��ܽ����Ƶ programming, visit .

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Craig Leonard – The Halifax Conference
Book launch and performance

The Halifax Conference presents a transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, transcribed and adapted by artist Craig Leonard.

Organized by Seth Siegelaub, the Conference was conceived as a means of bringing about a “meeting of artists…[from] diverse art making experiences and art positions…in as general a situation as possible.” Infamously, the conference was held in the college’s boardroom, while students and other interested parties watched the proceedings on a video monitor in a separate space. The result was a conversation that devolved—technologically and ideologically—into a quasi-tragicomic farce, punctuated by remarkable moments of rupture initiated by activist resistance to the Conference from the outside and dissenting voices from within.

Attendees at the Conference included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E.Thing Co. (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner.

Thursday, October 3, 7 p.m.
Fountain Campus D500

Margaret Atwood – Live stream at ��ܽ����Ƶ

Join us for a live stream viewing of Margaert Atwood’s sold out talk, “Author’s Stage: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood”,  that is being held on the same night at the Halifax Central Library.

Saturday, October 5, 1- 3 p.m.

Walking Kepe’k

Honour Mi’kmaq History Month in an on-foot experience of the Turtle Grove, Tufts Cove and Shannon Park areas of North Dartmouth. Walking Kepe’k will introduce participants to these sites and will proceed to a gathering with honoured guests. The intention of Walking Kepe’k is to make visible the history that is around by establishing meaningful dialogue and relationships with the Mi’kmaq community. We are grateful for the assistance and participation of Mi’kmaq Elders, Catherine Martin and Joe Michael, and ��ܽ����Ƶ students, Kassidy Bernard and Mark Sark, and to the Millbrook First Nation, on whose territory we will all gather at the conclusion of the walk. We hope you will join us for this meaningful event.

A charter bus departing from the Fountain Campus is arranged to transport ��ܽ����Ƶ students and attendees to and from the sites in North Dartmouth.

RSVP is required as space is limited.

To request more information, or to reserve a spot on the bus please send an email with “BUS RSVP – WALKING KEPE’K” in the subject line to: ohoganfinlay@nscad.ca

Save the Date

OCT 17: ARTIST TALK, Layne Hinton, 6 PM, Port Campus (P214)
OCT 17: BOOK LAUNCH, Dr. Karin Cope & Anne Simpson, 5-7 PM, Art Bar
OCT 19: PORTFOLIO DAY, 8 AM-4 PM, ��ܽ����Ƶ Campuses + Art Bar
OCT 24: ARTIST TALK, David Harper, 5:30 PM, Art Bar
OCT 25: RESEARCH-CREATION TALK, Jan Peacock 12 PM, Art Bar
NOV 1: RESEARCH-CREATION TALK, May Chung, 12 PM, Art Bar
NOV 1: ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN WORKSHOP, 1:30-5 PM, Art Bar

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��ܽ����Ƶ is a proud partner of the Responsive International Light Art Project, a bold and contemporary venture that highlights architecture and public space through the medium of light. The exhibition, curated by Melanie Colosimo, Peter Dykhuis and Frankie Macaulay, will light up downtown from Wednesday, September 25 to Saturday, September 28.

“Responsive is an exciting opportunity for artists to explore light art, while bringing together the entire art community in a unique and dynamic setting,” said Dr. Aoife Mac Namara, President, ��ܽ����Ƶ University.  “We are thrilled to have ��ܽ����Ƶ students and graduates taking part in this project. The skills they developed at ��ܽ����Ƶ will be on display alongside artists from around the world. We welcome everyone to attend – it really is something to see.”

Alan Syliboy and Lukas Pearse are the ��ܽ����Ƶ graduates taking part in Responsive. ��ܽ����Ƶ’s Digital Projects class, led by Professor David Clark, will also get in on the action during Responsive, taking over the Art Bar +Projects during the four-day event. The piece will be a collaborative installation involving light, projection, and sound.

Syliboy and Pearce are members of the band Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers. They will present a projection mapping in the courtyard of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that details the evolution of Syliboy’s artwork. This will be accompanied by an audio component, as well as a performance from the band at the end of the evening’s projections.

Close to 130 students from St. Joseph’s-Alexander McKay Elementary in Halifax’s North End will take part in Responsive, as part of Marek Radke’s presentation. Radke, a Poland-born artist currently living and working in Germany, will include the students in ‘Another Unknown World’. Using disposable plastic items like bottles, yogourt packaging, laundry containers and so on, Radke and the students repurpose these objects to create a new world. Following Radke’s lead, participants deconstruct or build upon the recyclables to create new other worldly objects with glue, paper maché and neon, fluorescent colours that will glow in the installation.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to show our students, first-hand, the wonders and excitement of art,” said Nakeah Young, a grade three teacher at St. Joseph’s-Alexander McKay Elementary. “We want to thank Mr. Radke for including our students in his work. His presentation combines the essential aspects of play and creativity, two popular themes with any elementary school student.”

Responsive officially kicks off tomorrow (September 25), with events running between 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. through Saturday.

An interactive app, Otocast, is available for download to provide event-goers with their own guided tour. A complete schedule, a list of artists taking part, and more information are available at .

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Media Contact:

Darcy MacRae
Communications Coordinator
��ܽ����Ƶ University
92-579-4393
dmacrae@nscad.ca

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