Hatheway portrait unveiled

Kashetsky portrait of Ella Hatheway unveiled The Herzl Kashetsky portrait of Ella Hatheway unveiled at the newly dedicated Frank and Ella Hatheway Labour Exhibit Centre in Saint John. Strathbutler artist, Herzl Kashetsky was commissioned by the Hatheway Trust to create a portrait of the leading social activist and philanthropist,Ella Hatheway (1853-1931) The commemorative portrait was[…]

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[…]

Christian Demmings

Nel Oudemans 2011 Christian Warren Demmings has been named the 2011 Nel Oudemans Award recipient. Demmings, a graduate of the Jewellery Program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design is currently entering his final year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at Mount Allison University. The jury selected Demmings for this award[…]

Gerard Collins paints public mural

Gerard Collins. 2001 Strathbutler Recipient creates public mural for Saint John school A classroom at Hazen-White/St. Francis School has been transformed into a literacy retreat, thanks to the help of local professional artist Gerard Collins who, out of the kindness of his heart, has transfigured an obsolete blackboard into a tranquil scene he sees just[…]