Join us this winter for kid’s painting classes at the Gallery. This 4-week workshop series, led by artist-educator, Rosemary Clarke Young, will inspire young creatives, while they learn new painting techniques and have fun! Each artmaking class will begin with a visit to the Maud Lewis Gallery to...
This event is sold out. Tyshan Wright is the 2022 Sobey Art Award finalist representing the Atlantic region. He describes his practice as working from his cultural traditions, those of the Jamaican Maroons. Jamaican Maroons are descendants of Africans who resisted slavery and formed their own independent communities...
Join us at the Gallery for our upcoming Make Day inspired by the exhibition Ta’n a’sikatikl sipu’l | Confluence! Lead by Mi’kmaw artist and youth programmer Melanie Nasson, guests will use white ash to learn weaving in an activity inspired by Mi’kmaw baskets. Paint the weavings and seal...
This event is sold out. Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a Maud Lewis-inspired painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. Drinks...
Photo credit: Norman McLaren, Neighbours, 1952. Live action film, 8:08 minutes. Courtesy of NFB. Key Frames presents contemporary film pieces selected in response to works on view at the Gallery. Exploring parallel themes, subjects, and contexts, these screenings invite audiences to see the meaningful dialogues taking place between...
Join us on Sunday, February 5th to celebrate African Heritage Month in the studio. At Make Day! Africville’s Legacy visitors will pair watercolour and acrylic painting with collage, led by artist and educator Kim Cain visitors, and will learn about the community of Africville, it’s history, and destruction while making...