Celebrate the exceptional talents of the Nova Scotia Potters Guild members, past and present. This show will feature the stunning clay-based works from emerging to established ceramicists from across our beautiful province.
Join Master potter and Educator Joan Bruneau at the Lunenburg School of the Arts across a few weekends in November. You’ll explore thrown and altered bowls and moulded servers as well as slip decorating techniques.
Create your own holiday magic! Join us at our Christmas ornament workshop where you can learn to make delightful clay decorations like the charming gingerbread house and festive hanging ornaments shown here. Let these handmade treasures inspire your own designs as you craft special memories to adorn your home this season. Perfect for giving your decor a personal touch or crafting thoughtful gifts for loved ones. All skill levels welcome, and all materials provided to let your holiday spirit truly shine!
Create your own holiday magic! Join us at our Christmas ornament workshop where you can learn to make delightful clay decorations like the charming gingerbread house and festive hanging ornaments shown here. Let these handmade treasures inspire your own designs as you craft special memories to adorn your home this season. Perfect for giving your decor a personal touch or crafting thoughtful gifts for loved ones. All skill levels welcome, and all materials provided to let your holiday spirit truly shine!
Create your own holiday magic! Join us at our Christmas ornament workshop where you can learn to make delightful clay decorations like the charming gingerbread house and festive hanging ornaments shown here. Let these handmade treasures inspire your own designs as you craft special memories to adorn your home this season. Perfect for giving your decor a personal touch or crafting thoughtful gifts for loved ones. All skill levels welcome, and all materials provided to let your holiday spirit truly shine!
Create your own holiday magic! Join us at our Christmas ornament workshop where you can learn to make delightful clay decorations like the charming gingerbread house and festive hanging ornaments shown here. Let these handmade treasures inspire your own designs as you craft special memories to adorn your home this season. Perfect for giving your decor a personal touch or crafting thoughtful gifts for loved ones. All skill levels welcome, and all materials provided to let your holiday spirit truly shine!
Join Bunk Trinacty for an exclusive one-day workshop at Bunk’s home studio, nestled in the picturesque town of Queensland, Nova Scotia. This hands-on plaster casting workshop is perfect for artists and creatives of all skill levels who are interested in learning the fascinating process of plaster casting.
Join us from October 3-6, 2024 for the second biennial AX Ceramics Conference: Sustainable Practices, featuring speakers Elizabeth Demerson, Tanya Doody, Jenn Houghtaling, Jim Kitts, Andrew McCullough, Nancy Oakley, Peter Powning, Elsa Valinas, and Michael Wood.
Your conference registration pass includes a welcome kit and activities associated with the October 3-6 event, including discussions, presentations, games, a Powning Designs studio tour, networking opportunities, and a live music concert. We will also provide a light breakfast and a lunch on both Saturday and Sunday. There will also be an optional sculpture workshop with Melissa Kennedy and a Fundy coast bus tour. Both of these events come with an additional cost.
Exploring Clay in the Natural World
In this 2 day course participants will explore a variety of clay related experiences: digging clay on the shores of The Bay of Fundy, near Diligent River, and then processing it to make decorative tiles. Instruction will be given on how to decorate the tiles using textures made from things found on the beach (sticks, wood, stones, shells, rope) and other decorating options, including stain, slip, and glaze possibilities.
Please note this will be a somewhat physically demanding course, digging, hauling clay, and some hiking will be involved as we collect the clay and bring it back to the studio. Old clothes and sturdy footwear are advised. We will be getting dirty! Please bring plastic bags and buckets or a back pack to carry your clay from the beach back to our cars. You can only bring back as much clay as you can carry for the approximately 1/2KM we will have to walk.
For more information and to register please visit https://www.artlabstudios.ca/workshop/29573/exploring-clay-in-the-natural-world
Nancy Roberts's dozen-plus intriguing ceramic sculptures
The Craig Case Galleries beside the Craig Gallery,
Alderney Landing.
2 Ochterloney St, Dartmouth
Reception Thurs, Nov 30, 6-8 pm
View day or evening, any time the main hall is open, except during
weekend morning markets.
nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca
https://nspotters.com/nancy-roberts
This show and sale is all pottery!!! 14 local potters and their pottery just in time for the Holiday Season!
Where I've Been, Where I'm Going
An exhibition of abstract and landscape paintings by Paulette Melanson & One-of-a-kind sculptures by Nancy Roberts
RECEPTION, FRIDAY, NOV 17, 6 - 8 PM
We will have our second session on how to navigate a Call for Entry. Here’s a little note from Brandt Eisner on what we can expect next week:
"After our last session there was a lot of interest in further discussion around photographing work. It was suggested participants submit photos of their work for feedback. I invite you to send 2 or 3 images to Sheri White - sheri@urnsongpottery.com with the subject line: Call for Entry - session 2 photos.
As a group we’ll identify what is a good photo and what is a so-so photo. This will also be a good opportunity for those who missed the last meeting, or anyone who has had questions or comments since, to ask any lingering questions about submitting to calls for submissions or submitting a proposal.
Depending on our time I’ll also touch on the voice of the artisan. What does your work say and how is it identifiable?
Thanks, Brandt"
Register in advance for this meeting: Oct 12, 2023 7-9 pm
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtd-CppzwqGd2PDmpjYKA7q3EqYzdCJSWg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Thanks!
Call for Entry - A How-to On Getting Ready for That First, or 31st, Show
Spend some time with Brandt Eisner, artist and curator, to learn about the how to’s of preparing for that next or first show. Through a series of info sessions and Q&A’s, Brandt will help us navigate a call for entry and understand what makes a good submission.
As we explore the multiple steps from Expressions of Interest, to Call out, through to making your work and then making the submission, no questions will be too small to cover in these conversations with Brandt. Brandt will also answer questions around CV’s, artist statements, and what makes a good photograph.
Interested? Join us on September 11th from 7-9 pm for the first in a series of discussions with Brandt via zoom. These are free events for current members of the NSPG.
Please register at the link below:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuduusrzwpHNzei30WnaYpnJ4c5pXU-yTS
A little more on our host, Brandt Eisner:
For the past 31 years, Eisner has been active in the Nova Scotia art community. He has owned two art galleries, most notably Swoon Fine Art in HRM. He also worked for two other galleries as gallery assistant and curator. He has been involved with various art organizations, serving on Boards of The South Shore Festival of the Arts, Truro Art Society and Craft Nova Scotia. He has been a mentor as part of the artist mentorship program offered by Visual Arts Nova Scotia, aside from being a juror for numerous other art shows. Currently, he serves as the curator of The Ice House Gallery in Tatamagouche, and is a co-creator of Eisner/Feit (productions/events).
Eisner is a multimedia and performance artist who has had work shown throughout Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick. His work has been included in private art collections and has been purchased by the Nova Scotia Art Bank.
Eisner received his BFA Interdisciplinary from NSCAD in 2005.
Please feel free to submit questions in advance of the meeting, please direct all questions to sheri@urnsongpottery.com with the subject line: Call to Entry question.
Try to get your question in by September 10th, as it well help to organize the discussion.
Thank you!
Summer memories of Nanny and Papa’s farm. Ceramic sculptures.
Due to the difficulties of transportation in the area of Scott Manor House, the house is closed for the week and our show therefore cancelled.
This workshop focuses on digging clay from the shore of the Bay of Fundy near Diligent River and bringing it back to the studio to process and learn about making tiles highlighting the use of textures and glazes.
Please see the link below for details
https://www.artlabstudios.ca/workshop/29573/exploring-clay-in-the-natural-world
Opening Reception: Friday, December 2nd from 5-8 with coffee, tea, wine + snacks
Artists Talks: Saturday, December 10 starting @ 3:00
Sunday, December 18 starting @ 3:30
Refreshments and wrapping station available - make it a date and bring a friend or a mate!
THE ICE CUBE!!!
Brandt Eisner is opening a summer fine craft gallery in a building near the Ice House Gallery, Creamery Square, Tatamagouche. Makes your trip to Tata even more worthwhile.
Ceramic artists include Shauna MacLeod, Carol Smeraldo, Danielle Sawada, Judy Gordon, Nancy Roberts, Rachel Morouney, Naomi Walsh, and Regina Coupar, with more to come over the summer.
Opens June 11 and runs into the fall.
SPECTRA, with two weeks to go at the Ice House Gallery, is all about colour, as you might guess from the name and spectacular graphic. Ceramic artists include Joël Brodovsky-Adams, Nancy Roberts, and Erin Wells.
See the art online at www.theicehousegallery.com/past/spectra.
Endangered, a group themed exhibition on Nova Scotia Endangered Species, opening on May 5 - 31 at 1274 Hollis St., Halifax 902-446-4077 . Open daily 11-5 (12-4 Sundays) or Shop online. Curbside pickup or free delivery in HRM - New art added daily at www.art1274hollis.ca
Art 1274 Hollis Gallery, Halifax's premiere Artists' Co-op, features over 20 local artists and artisans. Fine art and fine craft with dynamic new work of original paintings, jewellery, pottery, ceramic art, folk art, fused glass, sea glass artwork, rug hooking and fibre art.
Counting Crows
A Themed Group Exhibit at The Fraser Gallery in Tatamagouche by Five for Silver, a group of artists hailing from the Halifax area: Painters, Heather Crout, Denise Soper, Colleen Underwood, and Potter/Ceramicists, Judy Gordon and Shauna MacLeod.
"One Crow for Sorrow" is how it begins. There are various versions of this rhyme, and each line and "crow" tells a story. Collectively, we are intrigued by the ideas to be explored, each one holding its own nuance. Each piece in this exhibit tells an aspect of that story - From sorrow to joy, silver and gold, wishes and kisses and secrets, never to be told...
Originally scheduled for the summer of 2020, this exhibit opened on Friday, July 9th with a reception at The Fraser in Tatamagouche. Each artist has created work inspired by different versions of the crow rhyme to delight the eye and surprise the viewer.
Visual Voice Fine Art is proud to reopen with two exciting solo shows: 'Creatures from Somewhere' sculptures by Nancy Roberts AND 'The Turning Point' paintings by Paulette Melanson.
The pandemic and social issues affect us all in different ways, from escapism to wanting to take control of our future. This is made evident in this exhibit were both artists had opposite reactions. Despite their different approaches, the resulting combined show is visually appealing and cohesive.
Paulette Melanson wants for things to change for the better and her aim with this new body of work was to inspire hope, encourage optimism and empower change. 'The Turning Point' is her first all abstract solo, bright, colorful, and as optimistic and happy as the artist intended.
Nancy Roberts lost her inspiration and will to create as galleries closed and exhibits cancelled during Covid. Forced to continue she began by gripping the clay and playing with her medium, which gave rise to creatures that seemed to come alive and were at home in these strange times we are living.
'Creatures from Somewhere' is dynamic, playful, and proves that any situation can breathe new life and creativity into us. See the exhibits online here: visual-voice.ca/exhibit
Join us online for a FREE Artist TALK on Jun 23, 7:00 PM
At : whereby.com/visual-voiceDrop by the Visual Voice Fine Art gallery to view these two concurrent shows and be inspired. The show starts June 14 and continues to July 10.
Visual Voice Fine Art is located at 128 King Street, in downtown Truro. Gallery hours are Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 12:30-5:00 pm or by appointment 902-843-9464. You can book for a private viewing.
Visual Voice Fine Art is proud to present two concurrent shows - Inside the Box: 4x4x4 by the Nova Scotia Potters Guild and Herbaria: A Show of Botanical Art by the Botanical Artist’s of Nova Scotia Association.
Inside the Box: 4x4x4 is an eclectic show of small pieces by Nova Scotia Potters Guild members who had to reference the number "four" while keeping to the limit of 4"x4"x4" dimensions. The result is an interesting mix of functional ceramics and sculpture. Subject matters include nature, poetry, the mystical, social commentary, the witty and the funny.
The show features artwork by NSPG members: Sharon Fiske, Gerri Frager, Judy Gordon, Jennifer Houghtaling, Carol Morrow, Nancy Roberts, Danielle Sawada, Jo-Ann Shaw.
Herbaria: A Show of Botanical Art is a display of artworks created in the botanical art tradition by several members of the Botanical Artists of Nova Scotia Association. Botanical art takes the form of realistic drawing that includes scientific illustration to show an understanding of the structure and nature of plants to re-create their likeness on paper in a variety of painting media. Botanical art has a centuries long, interesting history for medicine and science to pleasing aesthetic artistic compositions.
The show features artwork by BANSA members: Dr. Sunetra Ekanayake, Elisabeth Elson, E. Jean Gibson Collins, Mary Hill, Corinne Silver-Ledson, Gwen Paquin, Twila Robar-DeCoste.
See the exhibit from Aug 29 to Sep 26 at our regular gallery hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12:30 to 5:00 pm.Or book a private viewing by calling 902-VIEWING (843-9464).
There will be NO opening reception for this show. COVID-19 measures in effect.
Show Statement
The Nova Scotia Potters Guild Presents The Birds and the Bees
At the Potters Guild`s AGM in 2018 it was announced there was going to be an application for a show at The Craig gallery. The membership was asked for some theme ideas and a few suggestions were blurted out. When someone suggested “The Birds and The Bees” as our theme, a few people snickered, but you could feel the excitement grow. Written in poetry and song, in jest and all-seriousness, the phrase evokes images far and wide. Our members were encouraged to think outside the box, challenge their creativity and create work that inspires and responds to the phrase. The Nova Scotia Potters Guild would like to present to you our 2019 members group show.
The Nova Scotia Potters Guild show includes a wide range of artists from beginners to masters, hobbyists to production potters, educators and technicians. Each exploring clay in their own way. We are pleased to see our members create such variety of work including sculpture, functional, wall pieces and raku, just to name a few.
The Nova Scotia Potters Guild was founded in 1991 by 13 potters who wanted to learn and teach and enjoy one another’s company. Twenty-eight years on, the Guild remains the main organization for the local ceramic community. As such we strive to be the crossroads for potters and a resource on making, displaying, teaching, and learning our art and craft.
Today both the Guild’s membership and its mission have expanded. There are now over 150 members from across the province. The NSPG focuses on education, training, exhibitions, resources, mentorship, and acts as an advocate for clay in the province.
The Birds and The Bees will be the guild`s 5th group exhibition and we have previously shown in locations such as The Craig Gallery, Government House, Swoon Fine Art, and The Mary E. Black Gallery.
Casting your 3-dimensional masterpiece
In this workshop you will create your master, cast it, and reproduce your original.
4 hour casting workshop
Saturday, July 6 during the PCAF studio tour
Schedule: Class from 10-12, a one hour lunch break , class continues 1-3pm
Maximun 12 participants
All supplies included $45
Contact Bunk to book your place in this workshop
Bunk Trinacty
5 Cleveland Point Road Queensland
Call / text: 902 456-1699
Email: bunk@ns.sympatico.ca
PS...there is a possible workshop planned for Truro in August!
