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.
Fredericton, February 13, 2023 – The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is pleased to announce a short-term funding increase to the Professional Development component of the Career Development Program. In effect since last November, an additional $50 000 is being invested in the Professional Development component of the Professional Development program. This additional investment is provided
Visual, media, and craft artists, learn more about the organisation acting as an economic and legal defender of professional visual artists in Canada: CARFAC. Bring your lunch and join Anna Rail, CARFAC Maritimes’ director ONLINE on Monday January 23 at 12pm for a Lunch and Learn about CARFAC, copyright, and best practices. This event is
Written by Brandon Hicks I’ve always loved mass media. Movies, books, radio, video games, comics, theatre, magazines — it didn’t really matter what form it took. I was simply taken with the concept of communicating through creation. If quality was a factor, I was hardly a discerning consumer. As a child, I was a fan
Written by Dariush Zarbafian FEATURED ARTIST SERIES – DR. DARIUSH ZARBAFIAN Dr. Dariush Zarbafian is an ethnomusicologist, composer, instrumentalist, researcher, and writer based in New Brunswick. In 2021 he received an artsnb Documentation Program grant to produce a theoretical work entitled The Origin, Evolution and Originality of Acadian Music. This work analyzes the structures of
Fredericton, November 29, 2022 – The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is proud to announce that César Suárez has been appointed to its Board of Directors for a three-year mandate. César SuárezDr. César Suárez is a Venezuelan-Canadian classical musician with more than thirty-five years of successful performing, teaching experience and orchestra conducting in different countries.
Come meet representatives from artsnb and the Canada Council for the Arts as they tour New Brunswick Indigenous communities from November 28 – November 30, 2022. Learn everything you need to know about public arts funding (assistance with CVs, profiles, and online applications). These are drop-in sessions, you do not need to register to attend.
Written by Trish Hirschkorn (Trish Raine Hats) FEATURED ARTIST SERIES – TRISH HIRSCHKORN In 2022 I had the good fortune to take a year off from my day job as an occupational therapist and was successfully awarded an artsnb Creation Grant. I am a felt-maker milliner (hat maker) who wanted to take advantage of this
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Writing your artist CV – For Indigenous artists Friday October 14, at noon. Indigenous emerging artists and arts/cultural professionals of all disciplines, do you need a little help writing your artist CV? Bring your lunch and come join artsnb staff members ONLINE on Friday October 14 at 12pm for a Lunch and Learn about CV
Fredericton, September 26, 2022 – The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is pleased to have launched the new Voluntary Self-Identification Survey on its Online Application System. This new survey has been created to identify possible gaps in programming and outreach to communities who may be under-represented. Since September 1st, applicants submitting a grant request on