The Marie Hélène Allain Fellowship is a biennial award of $10,000 available to New Brunswick mid-career artists and craftspeople. It is given on the recommendation of an independent jury who select artists who have distinguished themselves in the last ten years of professional practice and who propose a significant body of new work to be[…]
Exhibition and Tribute for Strathbutler artist Tom Smith
Please Join us for the Strathbutler Gala in Honour of Paul Mathieson. And the unveiling of the newly commissioned Strathbutler Award. Thursday, September 24, 2015, 6:30pm New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB
Brigitte Clavette selected to design new Strathbutler Award Since 1991, New Brunswick artists of distinction from a wide range of visual arts disciplines have been honoured for their significant contributions to the cultural landscape of New Brunswick though the juried Strathbutler award. The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation has taken a leadership role in the recognition[…]
TOM SMITH : a celebration of his life St Andrews, New Brunswick and the arts community lost a wonderful friend and artist when Tom Smith died earlier this year. Sunbury Shores is planning a tribute to Tom. The opening will be September 11 starting at 5pm. We are inviting the community to come and celebrate[…]
Strathbutler artist Thaddeus Holownia named to the Order of New Brunswick “I congratulate all the recipients on being named to the Order of New Brunswick,” said Premier Brian Gallant. “Their outstanding leadership, work and efforts contribute to improving the economic, cultural and social well-being of our people and our province.” Read more at GNB.ca
Philip Savage Chosen for 2015 Nel Oudemans Award Kingston resident, Philip Savage has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation’s Nel Oudemans Award recognizing the pursuit of excellence in the field of fine craft and design by emerging New Brunswick artisans. A sculptor in wood as well as a landscape[…]
He celebrates a medium that has been crafted by human hands for function, beauty and ceremony since primitive times. I started shaping wood at age ten, first on my own with a pocket knife and scavenged scraps of wood sticks and then with power tools and guidance at the KV Carvers Club in Quispamsis. At[…]