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[…]
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Launches Mid-Career Artist Fellowship The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the creation of the Marie Hélène Allain Fellowship. The $10,000 fellowship grant will be awarded to a New Brunswick artist in mid-career for the proposal of a significant new body of work. This work will be undertaken within the[…]
2014 Nel Oudemans Award – Application Guidelines. The annual $2,000 Nel Oudemans Award acknowledges the extraordinary contribution of Fredericton weaver Nel Oudemans to Canada’s applied arts field, as well as to fine arts & craft education in New Brunswick. 2014 Submission Deadline The 2014 Application Deadline for the Nel Oudemans Award is August 27, 2014.[…]
The Board of Directors of the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation renews its commitment to the applied arts through enhanced funding to the Nel Oudemans award. The annual winner of the award will receive a cash prize of $2000 and becomes eligible for additional funding to to participate in the SOFA Chicago Educational Mission, sponsored by[…]
Dan Steeves Wins First Prize in the Open Studio National Printmaking Awards. (from Open Studio) Toronto, ON – May 16, 2014 — Open Studio, Canada’s leading printmaking centre, is pleased to announce the winners of the seventh annual Open Studio National Printmaking Awards, presented last night at Open Studio’s 29th annual 100 Prints fundraising event[…]
Jury Members Peter Dykhuis has been the Director/Curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery since 2007. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University.Currently, he is serving as the national president of the University and College Art Galleries Association of Canada. Dykhuis is also an internationally exhibiting visual artist[…]
Kristen Atkins In reviewing the applications to the 2014 Sheila Mackay Advanced Study Scholarship applications, the jury was struck by not only the breadth of Kristen Atkins’ experience in varied art gallery and artist-run spaces, but also the scope of her involvement in the cultural community as volunteer, fundraiser and board member. In addition to[…]
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[…]