Elise Campbell, Fibre artist and educator
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is a multimedia artist based in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia. Working primarily with wool, silk, and other natural fibres, she creates sculptural pieces that push traditional craft boundaries and the limits of wool as a medium by exploring human-nature relationships through textural forms, histories, and surface design. Utilising both contemporary techniques such as needle felting and nuno felting alongside the traditional craft of wet felting, she creates work that reflects narratives of ecological movement, weaving in themes of environmental stewardship. Inspired by both found specimens and...
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Kaashif Ghanie, 2024 Emerging Artist Recognition Award
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Welcome to a special series of Art Pays Me interviews with the winners of the . Presented annually by and the , these awards celebrate artistic excellence across Mi'kma'ki. This would not be possible without the fantastic production work of and . On this episode I spoke with Emerging Artist Award recipient, . Kaashif Ghanie [he/him] is a mixed first generation Guyanese Canadian Muslim Ceramic and Visual Artist working in Kjipuktuk/Halifax in the with his partner, . Ghanie's art practice merges historical Islamic vessel shapes and motifs from his family members...
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Kordeena Clayton, Artist
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is the owner of She Nubian Liberation Art & Apparel, founder of Takin’ BLK Business Initiative Co-operative, co-founder of the Takin’ BLK Gottingen and Markets. A 7th generation descendant of the first African migrants to ever accompany Nova Scotia, a proud African Nova Scotian Queer Visual artist who focuses on the importance of representation of Black and Brown people; Inclusivity and self-embracement. Known for Unapologetically Black and Unapologetically Queer Apparel, photography, graphic and clothing design, film making and painting. Clayton states “Exploring the photograph...
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Camille Georgeson-Usher, PhD: Writer, artist and scholar
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, PhD, is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish writer, artist, and scholar from Galiano Island, British Columbia, unceded territories of the Penelakut and Lamalcha First Nations, as well as other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples and is the ceded traditional territories of Tsawwassen First Nation. She is in Vancouver, BC in the department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. Usher completed her MA in Art History at Concordia University. Her thesis, focused on how the arts may be used as a tool to engage Indigenous youth in discussions of health and sexuality. In addition to...
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Beverly McKay, Artist: Arte & Movement 2023 Part 8
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In this throwback to my chats with the participants in our 2023 collaborative exhibition with – Arte & Movement, I spoke with artist, .
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Mike Kasongo, Artist: Arte & Movement 2023 Part 7
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In this throwback to my chats with the participants in our 2023 collaborative exhibition with – Arte & Movement, I spoke with artist .
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Jack Wong, 2024 Emerging Artist Recognition Award
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Welcome to a special series of Art Pays Me interviews with the winners of the . Presented annually by and the , these awards celebrate artistic excellence across Mi'kma'ki. This would not be possible without the fantastic production work of and . On this episode I spoke with Emerging Artist Award recipient, . We talk about Jack’s process for producing children’s books as an author and an illustrator, the meditative benefit of shooting the same basketball shot over and over and how the lessons learned from that repetition inform his art practice. We also talk...
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Colin Cook, Artist: Arte & Movement 2023 Part 6
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In this throwback to my chats with the participants in our 2023 collaborative exhibition with – Arte & Movement, I spoke with artist .
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Kim Cain, Artist & Educator: Arte & Movement 2023 Part 5
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In this throwback to my chats with the participants in our 2023 collaborative exhibition with – Arte & Movement, I spoke with artist and educator about the importance of movement in her creative practice and what concepts she feels kids need earlier and more frequent exposure to in the classroom. Hot yoga sequence: standing to down dog Hot yoga sequence: supine to bridge
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Tara Taylor, 2024 Black Artist Recognition Award
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Welcome to a special series of Art Pays Me interviews with the winners of the . Presented annually by and the , these awards celebrate artistic excellence across Mi'kma'ki. This would not be possible without the fantastic production work of and . On this episode I spoke with playwright, multimedia artist and creative entrepreneur, – recipient of the 2024 .
info_outlineMarissa Sean Cruz is a digital multimedia and video performance artist from Kjipuktuk (so-called Halifax). Cruz’s topics of interest are related to labour, power and surveillance as seen through digital platforms and pop culture. Their experimental videos comprise found footage, 3D modelling, sound design and costumed performances to look at value systems with critical sensibility. These satirical works aim to capture a fast-paced contemporary present and envision possible, liberatory futures.
Presented by Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council, the Creative Nova Scotia Awards celebrate excellence in artistic achievement.
Award categories are as follows:
- Creative Community Impact
- Prix Grand-Pré
- Established Artist
- Emerging Artist
- Black Artist
- Indigenous Artist
- And finally, The Portia White Prize that is given to a person who has made outstanding and significant contributions to Nova Scotia’s creative community over a sustained career – much like the incredible woman that the award is named after. The winner will also choose an emerging artist or cultural organization that they feel deserve recognition.
Collectively, the awards are worth $75,000! Visit artsns.ca to nominate your favourite Nova Scotian artist or be a boss and nominate your self!
This series would not be possible without the fantastic production work of Heist and Keke Beatz.
