The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is pleased to announce two special projects grants as part of its 25th Anniversary Celebrations. Institutions selected this year for Special Project Funding are Sackville’s Owens Art Gallery and Saint John Arts Centre. Applications for these grants were juried by a committee of the Board of Directors with the additions[…]
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[…]
Applications forms for the Nel Oudemans award, available to recent graduates of NBCCD, must be received by mail by May 25, 2012.
The office of the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is currently closed for an annual vacation period. Email will be checked periodically during this time.
… 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 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]