Juror Biographies Mario Doucette is an Acadian artist from Moncton New Brunswick. He is a painter, but he also works with video, digital animation, performance and Super8 film. In 2004, after a residency in the French village of Brouage, he created Histoires, a series of works combining drawing and painting that reflects on the effects[…]
The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is pleased to announce Kristen Atkins as the 2014 recipient of the Sheila Mackay Advanced Studies Scholarship. Ms. Atkins, who is pursuing a Masters of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto, has been selected by an independent jury of arts professionals to receive this scholarship valued at $5000. The[…]
The Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation is committed to providing an independent adjudication process for all awards and scholarships. Without the generous support of many art professionals this would not be possible. Their dedication to the promotion of excellence in the visual arts is at the heart of our scholarship program. We would like to acknowledge[…]
The Board of Directors of the SHMF elected to name journalist Michael Landry as the 2014 recipient of the Arts Advocacy Award in recognition of the significant impact he has had on critical writing dedicated to New Brunswick artists. As Arts and Culture editor for the Telegraph Journal’s Saturday magazine Salon, Landry has been lauded[…]
En revoyant les demandes de candidatures à la Bourse d’études supérieures Sheila MacKay 2014, ce qui a frappé le jury n’était pas seulement la vaste expérience de Kristen Atkins en matière de galeries d’art et d’espaces d’art auto-gérés, mais aussi l’étendue de son implication comme bénévole au sein de la communauté culturelle, en tant que[…]
A former dairy farmer who had worked with wood all his life, Dunphy turned to fine crafts in 1981. New Brunswick artisan Gordon Dunphy, whose wood-turned vessels are held in collections in Canada and abroad, died in hospital Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 74. He turned stumps and burls into smooth, often[…]
We believe that collaboration with and within the visual arts is a vital element of the eco-system of our community, our province and beyond. We are inviting diverse people and groups to come together to explore important questions. This Call to Create will not be your typical workshop or conference. It will be a highly energizing experience that[…]
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is pleased to announce two Special Project grants in support of significant 2014 summer cultural events. They are the Congrès mondial acadien in Edmundston and the New Brunswick International Sculpture Symposium in Saint John. $20,000 has been awarded to Galerie Colline, in partnership with Centre des arts de la Petite église[…]