The New Brunswick Arts Board is an arm’s length arts funding agency with a legislated mandate to facilitate and promote the creation of art as well as administering funding programs for professional artists in the province.
Artist in Residence – Sackville Welcomes Cléo Palacio-Quintin By Karin Aurell This past summer, thanks to a grant from ArtsNB and CALQ, we had the great pleasure of having performer/composer/improviser Cléo Palacio-Quintin in Sackville for a whole month. I help organize music events for the Ok.Quoi?! Festival, and Cléo was our artist in residence
Originally published on the ATFC site: http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=0a76f434c21b97f5cafd6cddd&id=b87b6907ce&e=6971ae8eb3 Contexthéâtral 2015: The art ignites the meetings Mélanie Léger Stuck in a noisy traffic jam, a car caught fire. It is an almost explosive arrival in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon. Flashback. May 2014 I go to the Festival TransAmérique (FTA) with the support of the Association of Francophone
A filmmaker’s story Mark Ennis Hello everyone! My name is Mark Ennis. I have roots in Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick, a wonderful place to escape the trappings of the big cities in which I often find myself working and dwelling. I’m not here to sell you anything, or preach on any given topic. I’m
A New Puppeteers Association is Born! Mélanie Léger, guest blogger Hello! I’m pleased to participate as a guest blogger on this artsnb platform! I would like to talk about a new initiative that might interest New Brunswick artists: Atlantic Canada Puppetry Association! The aim is to bring together artisans of puppets and create a place
Thoughts on a Toronto Art Fair Sarah Jones, visual artist I recently participated in The Artist Project, a contemporary art fair held at the Better Living Centre, Toronto, February 19-22, 2015. This was my first foray into the art fair world, and into the Toronto art world as well. An unnerving undertaking of product creation,
Paying It Forward Jade Ansley In the summer of 2010, through chance and circumstance, I ended up finding the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, hidden among all the larger universities and colleges. It didn’t take long before I packed up, left my hometown of Canmore, Alberta and found myself living with five musicians
Advocating for the Arts: An Artist Responsibility Nathalie Rayne, Director of Communications, Marketing & Translation As an organization who promotes the creation of art by funding professional artists, artsnb staff spends countless hours contributing to the advancement of our artists’ careers and supporting artistic excellence in New Brunswick culture through: Capacity building through direct funding
Artist Rule: We must never let our artwork leave our hands without documenting first! Natalie Sappier, Aboriginal Outreach Officer Creative spirits usually have more than one project on the go and most active artists can relate to the chaotic world we create. Moments like commissions, running out to the studio to meet a deadline, and
Chasing the Magic of the Demo Sandy MacKay I’m working with a group called ThreeFoolsPeak. It’s me, and two other guys – Bill Preeper and Clinton Charlton. We each play an array of instruments, and we are all writers. Last summer we decided to work together to create a recording, but we did not have
Graffiti: meditations on the source of our creative urges Kerry-Lee Powell, writer Spring can be a damp, drawn-out affair in Britain, but anyone who agrees with Eliot that April is the cruelest month has never spent March in New Brunswick, where winter often seems less a season than a full-blown existential crisis. I flew to