BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://agns.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20250309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20251102T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20260308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20261101T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260508T194048 CREATED:20251003T164515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T194216Z UID:10002043-1762610400-1762614000@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: A Conversation with Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler and Melanie O'Brian DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging discussion with artists Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler\, and panelist Melanie O’Brian as they share insights about the exhibition No More Boring Art which will be on view from November 8 – January 25\, 2026. \n\n\n\nNo More Boring Art is based on Hubbard / Birchler’s multi-faceted exploration of John Baldessari’s “Punishment Piece” which took place at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971. Until now\, the participants\, mostly art students\, who repeatedly wrote “I will not make any more boring art” across the walls of NSCAD’s Mezzanine gallery\, have remained unknown. As visual artists\, Hubbard / Birchler seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian. The works in No More Boring Art lead the viewer on a journey exploring the connection between life and art. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRegistration suggested due to limited seats\, but walk-ins are welcome. This event is included in the price of admission. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator\, David Diviney\, Chief Curator\, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. \n\n\n\nThis program will be recorded and ASL interpretation will be available.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nTeresa Hubbard (Irish/ American/ Swiss\, born in Dublin\, Ireland 1965) and Alexander Birchler (Swiss\, born in Baden\, Switzerland 1962) have been collaborating as an artist team since 1990. They began collaborating as artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts\, in Banff\, Canada and completed graduate degrees at NSCAD in 1992. Their work\, primarily grounded in time-based media\, aims to inspire sensorial interactions and explore connections between social life\, history and memory. Hubbard / Birchler often seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian.  \n\n\n\nHubbard / Birchler represented Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial\, presenting Florain the exhibition “Women of Venice\,” curated by Philipp Kaiser. Hubbard / Birchler have also presented their work in the 48th Venice Biennial; Giacometti Institute Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof\, Museum für Gegenwart\, Berlin; Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Dublin; Kunsthaus Graz; Mori Museum Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Reina Sofia Museum Madrid; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Tate Museum Liverpool and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. \n\n\n\nTheir work is held in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Goetz Collection Munich; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian\, Washington\, D.C.; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles MOCA; National Museum of Art Osaka and the Pinakothek der Moderne\, Munich. \n\n\n\nHubbard / Birchler are Professors in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\nAbout Melanie O’Brian\n\n\n\nMelanie O’Brian is Associate Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, University of British Columbia. As a curator of contemporary art\, she has an abiding interest in artist-led initiatives\, experimental forms\, the intersection between visual art and writing\, and the history of institutions. Past curatorial projects include work by artists such as Abbas Akhavan\, Stan Douglas\, Richard Ibghy/Marilou Lemmens\, Carole Itter\, Marianne Nicolson\, Walid Raad\, Hito Steyerl\, and Althea Thauberger. She has collaborated widely with other curators and institutions\, edited numerous publications and written for catalogues and magazines. Previously\, O’Brian was Director/Curator at Simon Fraser University Art Galleries\, Curator/Head of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto\, Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver and Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery\, and has taught at the University of British Columbia\, Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler\, No More Boring Art\, 2025. Five channel video installation with sound. Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery\, New York / Los Angeles. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-a-conversation-with-teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Hubbard_Birchler_NMBA_02_300ppi_18x12in_srgb-scaled-e1750787500895.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251120T201500 DTSTAMP:20260508T194048 CREATED:20251014T172415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T115810Z UID:10002044-1763665200-1763669700@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds - Hidden Blackness: Uncovering the Art of Edward Mitchell Bannister DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Sylvia D. Hamilton and David Woods\, Curator\, painter\, and installation artist\, as he details the origins of his passion for art as well as his many adventures creating his newest exhibition Hidden Blackness\, the first ever Canadian exhibition of Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901). Bannister was a St. Andrews\, New Brunswick born\, African American art pioneer who in 1865 became the first artist of African descent\, and first Canadian\, to win a major art prize in North America (The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition Art Exhibition First Place Medal).  \n\n\n\nFor the past quarter century\, David Woods has been the principal curator of African maritime art bringing to light long ignored artists such as Africville born pastoral painter Edith Macdonald-Brown (1886-1955) and sculptor and craft artist Audrey Dear Hesson (b. 1929-) the first graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art (1951). He also presented the first ever group exhibitions of Black maritime art traditions including In this Place: the first exhibition of Black Nova Scotian art (1998)\, and The Secret Codes: a touring exhibition of Black Nova Scotian quilts (2012 to present).  \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nHidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister is organized and circulated by the Owens Art Gallery\, Mount Allison University\, and the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS). Funded by the Government of Canada and Mount Allison University. PACART is the exclusive transportation provider of the exhibition.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) was born in Saint Andrews\, New Brunswick. His family lived in a segregated Black village at the eastern end of Saint Andrews colloquially referred to as Slabtown. Bannister was orphaned at age sixteen and left in the care of Harris Hatch\, a wealthy lawyer\, merchant\, and Registrar of Charlotte County\, for whom the artist’s mother had worked as a maid. Bannister’s interest in art emerged early and\, by his teens\, there are accounts of his drawings appearing on the barn doors and fences of Hatch’s farm. Much of his early life was overshadowed by the limited job opportunities and racism Black New Brunswickers faced. In 1850\, Bannister and his brother\, William\, moved to Boston\, where Edward worked as a barber ad eventually met Christiana Carteaux\, a hairdresser\, wigmaker\, and entrepreneur of mixed African American and Narragansett heritage. Bannister married Carteaux in 1857\, and she helped him become a successful professional artist in Boston and later Providence\, Rhode Island. \n \n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Guests\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n David Woods is a multi-genre artist and performer. He is the author of Native Song a collection of paintings and poetry\, and has won national awards for his art\, drama and community arts organization including the Harry Jerome Award and Person’s Award. He was the organizer of the first ever Black History Month celebrations in Nova Scotia in 1984 and was instrumental in establishing Black maritime arts organizations including the Cultural Awareness Youth Group\, Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS)\, Vale Quilters and the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance.  \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Sylvia D. Hamilton is a Nova Scotian filmmaker\, writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work has won the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media. Her award-winning films include Black Mother Black Daughter\, Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia\, Portia White: Think on Me and The Little Black School House\, among others.   \nExcavation\, her multi-media art installation\, examines the interrelationship of history\, memory\, race and place/space. This work has enjoyed multiple iterations and exhibitions\, both solo and group\, in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, Ontario and Quebec between 2013-2018. One adaptation titled Here We Are Here\, gave its name to the 2018 Royal Ontario Museum’s National group exhibition titled\, Here We Are Here: Black Contemporary Art\, which later toured to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.   \nTender\, her poetry collection\, won the 2023 WFNS Maxine Tynes Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the 2023 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia. She is an Inglis Professor Emeritus at the University of King’s College in Halifax\, Nova Scotia (October 2025).   \nPhoto by Paul Adams Photography. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFeatured image: Edward Bannister\, River Scene\, 1885. Purchased with funds provided by Sheldon and Marjorie Fountain\, 2006. 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