Nancy Nisbet: Exchange 2006
19 Jun 2006 – 22 Jun 2006
Canadian artist Nancy Nisbet will be parking her 18-wheeler on the MSVU campus, within view of Bedford Highway, from June 19 to 22 as part of her Exchange 2006 tour, a freewheeling, free trade-resistant, frequency-jamming trek around the continent |
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Floating Worlds
(Window Box)
28 May 2005 – 7 Aug 2005
Floating Worlds presents the works of two self-taught artists and former fisherman: Bernie Carpenter and Frank McKeough |
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Free Sample
12 Mar 2005 – 24 Apr 2005
So who doesn’t like free samples? And what’s that got to do with art? Kelly Mark’s new exhibition, Free Sample, can help you figure that out. |
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Annual MSVU Community Show
25 Nov 2004 – 12 Dec 2004
From quilts to baking and from photographs to embroidery: practically anything made by Mount Saint Vincent students, staff, faculty and alumnae is eligible for entry in the annual creative extravaganza. |
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The Found and Familiar
Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art
10 Apr 2004 – 5 Jun 2004
In the midst of a technological revolution, this exhibition acknowledges the power of the snapshot as well as its materiality, and marks a shift in our relationship to this most personal of objects. |
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Work Work Work
27 Mar 2004 – 23 May 2004
Taken from the university collection, these works, which use materials such as plywood, acoustic tile, a tea towel and pantry equipment, invite comparison with hobby craft, housework, and puttering. |
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ad/vice
(Window Box)
8 Mar 2001 – 30 Jun 2001
Created by the MSVU Art Gallery and the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, this exhibition explodes the pharmaceutical ads and explores the questions they raise. |
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Gather Beneath the Banner
Political & Religious Banners of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1877-1932
3 Mar 2001 – 11 Apr 2001
The 21 embroidered and painted banners in this exhibition proclaim the conservative beliefs and radical activism of one of Canada's most successful women's organizations, the W.C.T.U. |
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Fugit Hora: Rubbings from Puritan Gravestones
(Window Box)
15 Nov 2000 – 25 Feb 2001
These rubbings were done in the 1970s by Dr. Nancy Chesworth (Mount Saint Vincent University Tourism & Hospitality Management), in Massachusetts graveyards. |
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Little Scratchings
(Window Box)
4 Mar 2000 – 28 May 2000
This exhibition juxtoposes two representations of the Mount Saint Vincent University student body: as a collection of photographed faces and as faceless producers of graffiti. |
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Queer Looking, Queer Acting
Lesbian and Gay Vernacular
11 Oct 1997 – 16 Nov 1997
An examination of Halifax's lesbian and gay cultural production, which has had a vernacular character arising from the activist project of liberation. |
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