Vanessa Lentz - Art Curator

07/21/2026

I moved …. to Gander! You can too. 😊

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07/18/2026

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11/18/2025

Robert Bateman is one of Canada’s most misunderstood artists

Bateman's success has come with a caveat. Throughout his career, his highly realistic painting style has been repeatedly overlooked and dismissed by critics (whom he describes as the art world’s "priesthood" or “elite”) for not being “serious” art. To this day, he’s never been invited to exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada.

“[The leadership at the National Gallery] think I'm just too digestible."

Now, at age 95, Bateman is the subject of a new documentary, The Art of Adventure, which chronicles his early career, focusing on a life-altering global expedition he took with the biologist Bristol Foster in 1957. The film peels back the layers of how Bateman fell in love with the natural world and what led him to launch a lifelong fight to protect it.

Read more: lnk.bio/cbcq
🎧Full interview: link.mgln.ai/ADQSEC

11/13/2025

Acadia University Art Gallery: OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS

Exhibition Theme:
TEXTILES: COMMUNITY, Labour & RESISTANCE

Long associated with utilitarian objects and works created by women as an act of domestic labour, textile based works have too often been placed on the margins of art history, and exhibited more in anthropological history collections, rather than art museums. However, there has been a steady shift in the discourse - where textile works are being shown more widely within art contexts and the focus of critical art historical studies. There is also a long history of textiles within the Atlantic Canadian region, from rug hooking for the domestic interior, to fishermen nets, to textile production mills.

The Acadia University Art Gallery will be presenting an exhibition that focuses on contemporary textile work by professional artists based in Atlantic Canada. The works can be within any textile medium, but should reflect through subject matter or production the relationship between textiles, community, labour and political critique/resistance. While the works will be primarily be installed in the Acadia University Art Gallery, we are also open to proposal for installation based work within campus buildings or outdoor spaces.

The working dates for the exhibition will be late June 2026 – mid November 2026, with plans for a catalogue to accompany the exhibition.

Submission guidelines
-2-3 images of work (either completed or sketches of proposed work)
-short artist statement (250 words)
-artist cv (max 3 pages)
-email to: [email protected]

Deadline: January 9th, 2026
Selected artists will be contacted by late January 2026. Artists fee and shipping will be made available to each participating artist. All work must be received to the art gallery no later than May 15, 2026.