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Creative Minds: Unearthing Colour

Join us for a conversation with Erin Comeau as she walks us through the foraging and discovery practices that help guide her creative process. Emphasizing locally sourced colours, she believes each paint has an interesting story to tell. Erin Comeau is a librarian and lifelong learner. Her early...

Creative Minds: Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity

Join Lead Curator Gerald McMaster  (Plains Cree and member of the Siksika First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada) in conversation with artists Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Athabascan, Alaska, United States) and Couzyn van Heuvelen (Inuk, Nunavut, Canada). Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity explores the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists...

Creative Minds: Exploring Materials in Contemporary Art with Meagan Musseau

What is materiality and activation? Join us for an interactive talk with Mi’kmaw artist Meagan Musseau as she talks about her artwork and the ways she uses materials to explore different themes in her work. From constructed coats to photography and Mi’kmaw basketry, Musseau’s work takes on a...

Creative Minds: Erasure Art Collective

Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Canada

BLACKOUT is an interdisciplinary art project that recreates historical slave ads using ‘erasure’ or ‘blackout’—a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text to create a visual poem. The project uncovers messages in ads that appeared in local newspapers during slavery—a legal practice of buying...

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