18 New Brunswick artists on a creative journey

Five Strathbutler Artists participate in  “Stimulare – the Whispering Game” Like the Pied Piper, Freeman Patterson has lead 18 New Brunswick artists on a creative journey that has resulted in an exhibition to be opened at Saint John Arts Centre on Friday, October 28th.  Strathbutler recipients, Brigitte Clavette, Suzanne Hill,  Kathy Hooper, and Peter Powning[…]

New Brunswick Art Bank is inviting submissions

The New Brunswick Art Bank is inviting submissions from New Brunswick visual artists for the 2011-2012 NB Acquisitions Program. The Acquisitions Program of the NB Art Bank purchases contemporary works of art by New Brunswick visual artists for exhibitions and for display in government buildings.  Every two years, a jury of artists and art professionals selects[…]

Salon article on Marie Hélène Allain

Our sculpting sister: a chisel in one hand, a cross in the other Published Saturday October 1st, 2011 in the Telegraph-Journal’s Salon Teacher, nun and internationally exhibited contemporary sculptor, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent’s Marie Hélène Allain has carved a career for herself like few others and is now being lauded by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery as one of[…]

Arts Advocacy Award 2010

Board of Directors Arts Advocacy Award The Board of Directors presented Mr. James C. Irving the Board of Directors’ Arts Advocacy Award in recognition of the significant contribution made to the promotion of the arts through the creation of Salon, a weekly magazine featuring documentary and critical writing about New Brunswick arts and culture.  Salon’s[…]

John Murchie

John Murchie, co-ordinator of Struts Gallery and in Sackville  is a nationally respected arts advocate.  An artist and writer, Murchie’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Modern Museum of Art in New York. He has served as Director of NSCAD library and as an[…]