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 22, 2023 – The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is pleased to announce the creation of a fourth Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts: The Indigenous Artist Award. Starting in 2024, the New Brunswick Arts Board will add a fourth award created specifically to celebrate the achievements of an Indigenous
The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is looking for a graphic designer to create bilingual promotional materials to help promote the organisation’s programs and to create its 2022-2023 Annual Report (the chosen candidate may work in English and/or French). The deadline to send a submission is March 20, 2023 at 11:59pm. Responsibilities: artsnb Poster and
Come meet representatives from artsnb and the Canada Council for the Arts as they tour New Brunswick Indigenous communities. 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. You would like to know more? Reach
Written by Starlit Simon “Ankweywitew, Matues” dress exhibited at the Saint John Art Centre as part of the group show “Wayfinding.” Canvas, paint, porcupine quills, sinew, button snaps. 2022. Photo: Naomi Peters. What Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) amplifies for me is the dehumanization of Indigenous people and that Indigenous women and
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.