• Key Frames: A Love Letter to Léopold L. Foulem

    Join us for a film screening of A Love Letter to Léopold L. Foulem plus visit the artists’ artwork on-view before or after the screening!  Filmmaker Renée Blanchar creates a cinematic and heartfelt ode to the dazzling life and career of Acadian ceramicist and folk artist Léopold L....

  • Painting & Pints: Maud Lewis – Three Black Cats

    Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. The cats came back, by popular demand!...

  • Make Day! Make and Share

    We’re thinking small in size, big in quantity! We'll create custom magnets, personalized buttons, and unique vinyl stickers, using a variety of drawing and collage materials. Make some for yourself and for your friends! Get creative and explore making and multiples with us.  Work independently, or with your...

  • Painting & Pints: LeRoy J. Zwicker – Windy Day on Coast

    Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. This winter we’ll focus on a work...

  • Drop-in with Youth Project

    Join us for a drop-in art-making session for older youth (16+), in partnership with the Youth Project. Designed for 2SLGTBQIAP+, this program aims to engage older youth in arts-based activities. We’ll be creating in the studio, and have the opportunity to experience the Galleries. Snacks will be offered!  ...

  • Make Day! Butterfly Paper-Making

    Inspired by the artwork Touched By the Tears of  a Butterfly by Mike MacDonald, we're getting ready for spring… and butterflies! Come join us in the studio, where we’ll make our own paper using flower and butterfly-shaped molds, studded with native wildflowers seeds! Just plant it in a...

  • Painting & Pints: Lorne Reid  – Tulips and Clouds

    Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. This winter we’ll focus on a work...

  • Make Day! Felt Portraits

    Join us in the Studio this Sunday to honour African Heritage Month! Create your own felt portraits using bright colours and different shapes, while thinking about memory, legacy, identity, and community.  We’ll use decorative stitching and felt scraps to make a textile artwork that shares our family, ourselves,...

  • Voices from Down Home: Dialogues on Community Connections in Black Canadian Art

    Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Canada

    Join us at Paul O'Regan Hall in celebrating African Heritage Month with a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring artists from Down Home, an exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery curated by Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa. Through their unique works, these artists share layered stories that illuminate the strength and vibrancy of...

  • Painting & Pints: Maud Lewis  – Yellow Birds

    Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. On this date you’ll be painting your...

  • Key Frames: Kiki

    This African Heritage Month, Key Frames presents KIKI, a 2016 documentary film that explores the lives of LGBTQ+ youth-of-colour in New York City’s underground Ballroom scene. Following seven youths over four years, the film explores how challenges can be overcome through artistic exploration, producing a community scene that...

  • Make Day! Play with Clay

    Let’s play with clay! Bringing back a crowd-favourite, we will kick off March Break with a clay-centric Make Day. Using your hands or clay tools, this is a chance to explore air dry clay and shape it into…. a dog, tiny house, pizza or more, before painting your...