Vanessa Lentz - Art Curator

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.

03/13/2025

SABLE ISLAND ARTIST RESIDENCY 2025 (Atlantic Canada)

The Sable Island Institute and Sable Island National Park Reserve (SINPR) invite proposals from professional artists in the four Atlantic Provinces for the first Sable Island artist residency. This unique program will offer two weeks on the island for an artist to research and engage with its unique environment, history and characteristics in October 2025. This will lead to the creation of an original work of art that embodies and interprets Sable’s cultural and natural features. Applications are welcome from artists in all disciplines.

Detailed Terms of Reference for the residency are available at:
https://sableislandinstitute.org/artist-in-residence

Proposals and supporting documents must be posted on the website using a dedicated portal.
Deadline for applications is 2400 (AT), Sunday March 30th, 2025







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01/15/2025

https://haligonia.ca/10000-worth-of-maud-lewis-artwork-stolen-308299/?

HRP release: Halifax Regional Police is requesting the public’s assistance with the investigation into the theft of artwork from a Halifax residence in November 2024. On November 25, police received a report that three pieces of artwork, had been stolen from a residence in the 1900 block of Cambri...