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Herzl Kashetsky awards speech
… CREATIVITY is a part of our nature … I would like to thank the Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation as recipient of the 2011 Strathbutler Award. To the Board of Directors, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation for the work you have done & continue to do in carrying out the foundation’s support[…]
Freeman Patterson Biography
Freeman Patterson lives at Shampers’ Bluff, New Brunswick, near his home where he attended one-room schools in Grey’s Mills and Long Reach and then high school at MacDonald Consolidated in Kingston. In 1959, he graduated from Acadia University with a BA, Honours Philosophy–his thesis, “The Form of the Good in Plato’s Republic”. The thesis for[…]
2012 Scholarship Jury
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Scholarships Jury 2012 Gemey Kelly, Director and Curator of the Owens Art Gallery since 1989, has extensive experience in the visual arts of Atlantic Canada. She is a graduate of Nova Scotia College of Craft and Design and has formerly served as curator of Dalhousie Art Gallery. She is an adjunct[…]
2012 Scholarship Jury Statement
It is the recommendation of this jury that Jared Peters of Saint John be awarded the 2012 Sheila Hugh Mackay Scholarship. As noted by his referees, Suzanne Hill and Michael Landry, Peters has had significant recognition as an accomplished painter being named a national finalist in the RBC Painting Competition. Both the technical quality of[…]
2012 Scholarship winners announced
The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012 Visual Arts Scholarships. Jared Peters of Saint John has been selected by an independent jury to receive the $5000 Sheila Hugh Mackay Scholarship Mr. Peters, a noted emerging contempory painter holds an Honors History degree from University of New Brunswick and[…]
Fred Ross Mural Unveiling
June 27th 2011
Fred Ross Biography
Created on the occasion of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Tribute Dinner 2009