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12 JOURNAL Spring & Summer 2009 •Return airfare •Baggage handling •Airport transfers •Hotel porterage •Tipping for airport driver and guided tours •Advance group seat selection •Private Meet & Greet service •Return transfers between the Logan Airport and the Jurys Boston Hotel •6 nights accommodation in superior twin or single room •Ticket to show at the Wang Theatre or similar October 20 to 26, 2009 Single $3,899 Twin/ Double $2,899 •Entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum •Entrance to the Museum of Fine Arts •Private guided North End Cultural Heritage Walking Tour (approx. 3 hours) •Private guided Beacon Hill Masterpieces Walking Tour (approx. 1.5 hours) •Lunch at the Gardner Café •3 course group dinner in a semi private room at No 9 Park •$75 donation to the AGNS Art Acquisition Fund A refundable deposit of $250 is due by May 30, 2009 to confirm your place on this tour (space is based upon availability). An additional deposit of $750 is due June 30, 2009. At his time your payments become non-refundable and trip cancellation insurance, if desired, should be purchased. Final payment is due September 15, 2009. For more information or to book call: Glenda Hunter, CAA Travel, 3514 Joseph Howe Drive, Suite 5, Halifax (902) 443-7592 or 1-800-561-8807 or email: ghunter@caa.maritimes.ca *Prices are per person, and in Canadian Funds *
Up Home written by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Susan Tooke April 18 - June 14th North Preston is one of our country’s largest and most important African Canadian communities. writer, musician, and broadcaster, Shauntay Grant has written a rich and celebratory poem about North Preston and her memories of growing Up Home. The book is beautifully illustrated by artist Susan Tooke who modeled Shauntay’s characters from people she met in the community. The original (acrylic on Arches watercolour paper 140 lb. cold press) paintings created for the book will be exhibited in the education Gallery at AGNS from April to June and will then begin a provincial tour with the Black Cultural Centre where they will remain on view for the summer. It is true that we do not know who we are until we know where we came from. we should be encouraged to share our favourite memories of our childhood days in our own communities. To this end, and to complement the celebration of this important publication, the Black Cultural Centre, the Nova Scotia Department of education, and AGNS will partner in a series of writing and art workshops for young people in the North Preston area and at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, around the notion of their own Up Home. Please check our website www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca for event and programming details. � Katherine Knight, Buoy, (detail), 2005 Forces of Nature April 11- May 31, 2009 water in an art gallery is a dangerous thing and as the spring thaw approached, a hard decision had to be made: as Nature couldn’t be trusted to stay out of our Gallery spaces, the exhibition of historical prints, paintings and decorative arts from the National Gallery, Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector had to be postponed. well, if Nature was going to be so present in the Art Gallery, it became clear that it must be on display. In Forces of Nature, an exhibition designed to be waterproof, four video works, drawn primarily from the Gallery’s permanent collection, examine artists’ relationships to the natural world. David Askevold, Katherine Knight, emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby, along with Kelly Richardson have created works of art that explore mediation, danger, and seduction in both natural and constructed land and seascapes. David Askevold’s meditative projection, Latrajarg (The Cliff), follows seagulls gliding in a wind current, and provides an exploration of figure and ground. In this early video work Askevold creates a contemplative work of art, delighting in the sea, light and motion created by the birds against sea. In the same way, Katherine Knight layers sound and video in a hypnotic nautical portrait in her work Buoy. Beacons to sailors, the buoys of Knight’s work call to us, their mournful cries almost swallowed by the ever-present sound of the ocean. Knight photographed these buoys in Caribou Harbour, near Pictou, NS, but as the three channel video work bobs, dips and ebbs before your eyes, the scene transcends place and makes a mariner of any viewer. emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby delve the highs and lows of human nature in their most recent work, Beauty Plus Pity. Their exploration of innocence, good and evil and the human relationship to the natural world is offered in compiled vignettes and animated stories told through a varied cast, including hunters, young children, and God. In Kelly Richardson’s Twilight avenger, an eerie green glow engulfs a stag in a twinkling forest landscape… or perhaps that glow is emanating from the stag. That constructed tension is part of the compelling mystery of Richardson’s work. Richardson has digitally manipulated this bucolic scene, adding twilight, mist, the hoot of owls to trees and grass from different forests. She blurs the real and the surreal, allowing an uneasy vision of forest life. Sarah fillmore Chief Curator and Curator of exhibitions ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA 13
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