From Visual Arts to Architecture - Talent Trust Scholarship and Award Winner Isaac Fresia

Isaac Fresia understands the impact of the arts on our lives and communities. He’s one of seven scholarship recipients who appear in our 75th anniversary scholarship campaign video.

Isaac first received a Talent Trust scholarship in 2011 to support his studies in visual arts at NSCAD University. He won the Talent Trust Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award that same year.

Isaac Fresia at work developing plans for small homes.

While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he received the NSCAD University Margo and Rowland Marshall Award, and the Talent Trust RBC Emerging Artist Award in 2013. He graduated with his BFA in 2014.

Isaac’s skills and interests led him to pursue studies in architecture at Dalhousie University. He received Talent Trust scholarships to support his education in 2016 and 2018. He received the Talent Trust 2011 Canada Games Award in 2015.

Isaac is currently working toward a Master of Architecture.

Isaac Fresia on site with his building plans.

Isaac’s awareness of the connection between his studies in visual art and architecture will serve him well in his profession. He also knows, firsthand, what scholarships mean to emerging artists. 

“We work not in isolation but together as advocates, social workers, and cultural intermediaries. We are privileged in our professions to build good cities and foster better communities. Your investment in my education has been an investment in these values, an investment that I intend to pay forward to the generations that follow me.”

We’d like to thank Isaac for being part of our 75th anniversary scholarship campaign video. We’d also like to thank his family for generously allowing us to use their farm for the shoot.

Want to be part of the campaign to double Talent Trust scholarship funds? Click here to donate. And thank you!

Charley Young Mentors Emerging Nova Scotia Artist in Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program

Charley Young will mentor an emerging Nova Scotia artist in VANS 2018-19 Mentorship Program

Visual Arts Nova Scotia has announced the participants of their 2018-19 Mentorship Program. 

The artists are Carrie Allison, Emily Lawrence, Jenny Yujia Shi, and Katharine Vingoe-Cram. The mentors are Ursula Johnson, Peter Dykhuis, Karin Cope, and Charley Young.

The 10-month program supports four dedicated emerging Nova Scotian artists who are individually paired with established artists and mentors. 

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Charley received a Talent Trust scholarship to help support her studies at NSCAD University as she pursued her BFA. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenant Governor Award.

She holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.

Installation by Charley Young

Charley has been Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson Vermont, and Spark Box Studios in Picton County, Ontario and The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta. In 2014 she participated in the Arctic Circle Program Expedition to Svalbard, Norway.

Charley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is primarily drawing, sculpture, and public installation. She teaches traditional and non-traditional approaches to drawing and printmaking at NSCAD University and Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.

To learn more about Charley Young and see her work, visit her website at charleyyoung.com.

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond Exhibition In/Visible Comes to Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond with a piece from In/Visible. Photo credit: Elissa Barnard

Talent Trust board member Charlotte Wilson-Hammond brings her exhibition In/Visible to Memory Lane Heritage Village on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

Charlotte has been active in Nova Scotia’s arts community for the past 30 years, serving on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). 

She’s also our past chair, and continues to be a respected and active advocate for the arts.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia. She used part of the award to establish the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship, which is administered through the Talent Trust.

In/Visible explores the human condition: fragility, ageing, beauty and strength, incorporating images of her own body in the work. 

In/Visible was first exhibited at ARTsPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal earlier this year. The exhibition will be at St. F.X. University Gallery November 15 to December 17.

In/Visible
Opening Saturday, September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition runs September 10 - 16, 2:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Admission: free

The Clam Factory
Memory Lane Heritage Village
28 Clam Harbour Road
Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia

To learn more about Charlotte and her work, visit her website at charlottewilsonhammond.net.

NAT chantel and Lux Habrich in VANS Mentorship Exhibition

NAT chantel and Lux Habrich are among the artists in Conversations, Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s 2017-18 Mentorship Exhibition. 

NAT chantel is an African Nova Scotian emerging artist in multimedia, textiles and sculpture. Her work speaks to imposed societal structures that inform identity, and the erasure of body and self through communication, and conditions within the environment. 

NAT was a contributing artist and instructor for the Peace Warriors Art and Wellness Festival in 2015, and participated in the group installation The Unkindness at IgNight the Night Art Festival that same year. 

She received a Talent Trust scholarship in 2017 to study privately with interdisciplinary artist Kate Ward. NAT had her first solo exhibit MUD at Afterglow Bridgewater Festival on September 30, 2017. 

Lux Habrich moved to Atlantic Canada from Montréal in 2012 to complete an Interdisciplinary BFA at NSCAD University. She received the NSTT Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/VANS Award in 2016. 

Lux finds frequent inspiration in her urban upbringing, mixed race identity and immigrant legacy. While at NSCAD, she discovered the immense narrative potential in craftwork, with its highly political nature as a domestic, feminine and often undervalued form of production. 

Founded in 2006, the VANS Mentorship Program pairs emerging artists with established artists in a 10-month mentorship. This working relationship provides emerging artists with an exceptional opportunity to develop both their creative process and professional skills, enabling them to build a foundation for a successful career in the visual arts. 

Conversations 
The Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, July 12 - 29 Opening reception: Wednesday, July 11, 6 - 8pm 
Mentee Artist Talk: Saturday, July 14, 2pm

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In/Visible: Recent Work by Charlotte Wilson-Hammond

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is a longtime supporter and current board member of the Talent Trust. Her recent work, In/Visible, is at ARTsPLACE Gallery, 396 St. George Street in Annapolis Royal, until July 1.

For the past thirty years Charlotte has been an active advocate for the arts, both provincially and nationally. She was a founding member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Eye Level Gallery and the Coalition For Arts and Culture.  

She’s served on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). She’s ex officio to the Board of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, as well as serving on the Board of the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia. 

Charlotte currently sits on the board of the Talent Trust, and is our past chair.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia.  With part of the award she established the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship administered through the Talent Trust. She's pictured here with Curtis Botham, the 2017 winner of the award.

We’re very grateful for her generosity, dedication, and her tireless work. 

Three years ago, Charlotte began a new series of conté drawings and shadow photograph/print/drawings, using herself as the subject. In this new work, she reflects on the fragility, vulnerability and yet the beauty and strength of this timeless human condition, noting that one of the most mystifying aspects of aging is that one’s presence is diminished within the general public, often to the point of invisibility. 

The final body of work, which can be seen at ARTsPLACE, consists of large (3'x 4 1/2') drawings using photographs of Charlottes’s shadow in the landscape. These are then digitally manipulated, printed on semi-transparent mylar with the resulting image then worked with coloured pencil.

For more information on the exhibition and directions to the gallery, visit the ARTsPLACE website.

Charley Young - Artist Talk at Art Gallery of NS, October 20, 2016 at 7 p.m.

TERROIR TALK WITH ARTISTS

'Macara Building' by Charley Young - Photo: courtesy of the artist

MARK BOVEY, MELANIE COLOSIMO, ANGELA GLANZMANN AND CHARLEY YOUNG

Thursday, 20 October 2016 

7:00pm to 8:30pm

at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Free access Thursday's at the AGNS!

In 2012, Charley Young received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Currently she works out of her studio, located in the North End of Halifax.

You can find more information about the artists at the AGNS website https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/events-programs/terroir-talk-artists-mark-bovey-melanie-colosimo-angela-glanzmann-and-charley-young

CHARLEY YOUNG, New Drawings at Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery, Halifax

Art work by Charley Young

Charley Young, 2012 Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Vans and Lieutenant Governor's Award winner will show New Drawings at Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery

June 10 - July 7, 2016

 Opening Reception  

Friday June 10th, 5–7pm 

All are welcome to attend!
1273 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS
http://www.studio21.ca/young2016.html

In June of 2014 Charley participated in the Arctic Circle Program—an expedition that led to the creation of site based work in the northern territory of Svalbard, Norway. Her new arctic drawings, influenced by this residency, engage with the relationship between landscape and artifact, and the intervention of human touch and visual perception.


This new collection of drawings indexically records unfixed and ancient sites. The Alberta Rockies and the Arctic glaciers of Svalbard are both contingent environments— their histories marked and visible. Mountains are monolithic tombs, their engraved rock faces illustrate their tectonic birth. Glaciers, with layers upon layers of visible accumulation and sedimentation, record travel. Both landscapes intersect in abrasion with one etching into the other. Their histories are presented like the lines of a hand—complex and intricate identifiers.

“As a child, the daughter of mountaineers, I traced the alpine landscape with my feet; traversing summits, glaciers, moraines, and rock faces. My approach to drawing mimics this direct, physical and exploratory interaction with site using frottage, transfers and inventive processes. Through drawn means of erasure, pressure and trace I mimic the reductive nature of the environment and draft tactile impressions of places in flux. “ - Charley Young

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Charley Young holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charley has taught at NSCAD University and Mount Allison University. In June of 2014 Charley participated in the Arctic Circle Program—an expedition that led to the creation of site based work in the northern territory of Svalbard, Norway. Her new arctic drawings, influenced by this residency, engage with the relationship between landscape and artifact, and the intervention of human touch and visual perception.

Previous residencies include: The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta; The Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson, Vermont; and Spark Box Studios in Picton County, Ontario in 2013. In 2012 Charley was an Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

Charley has been fortunate to receive support from Arts Nova Scotia and has artwork in the collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
www.charleyyoung.com

Artist's Talk & Workshop with Charley Young, Saturday, 28 February, 2-4 p.m.

Charley Young presents her visual work at MSVU Art Gallery

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Charley Young, Rocky Mountains Diorama (detail) 2014 (image courtesy of the artist) Beautiful Illusions Melanie Colosimo & Charley Young Organized by MSVU Art Gallery Ingrid Jenkner, Curator 10 January through 8 March 2015 OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, 17 January, 2 to 4pm. Opens jointly with Prospect 17: Joanna Close. Beautiful Illusions presents works in graphic media by two young Nova Scotian artists. Colosimo’s principal practice is drawing; Young favours drawing and indexical techniques, such as casting and monoprinting. For both, materials and process are key determinants of the meaning of their works. Themes of memory, transitory states and trace imagery pervade their art. The title of the exhibition evokes the realism with which each artist renders subjects such as the façade of a wooden shack, a range of mountain peaks, or the intricate patterning of twisted wires in a chain-link fence. Virtuosic mimicry is not the only point of such images, however; “failures” such as smudges and anomalies of scale disrupt the illusions and remind viewers of the usually compliant but sometimes faltering hands and memories upon which the illusions depend. ARTIST’S TALK & PUBLIC DRAWING EVENT Saturday, 7 February, 2 to 4pm. Visitors are invited to take part in a collaborative drawing project during Colosimo’s artist’s talk. ARTIST’S TALK & WORKSHOP Saturday, 28 February, 2 to 4pm. Following a discussion of her work, Young will lead a workshop exploring textures through the art of frottage. For more information please contact program coordinator, Susan Wolf, susan.wolf@msvu.ca or visit our website www.msvuart.ca. Melanie Colosimo, Chain-Link Fence (detail) 2014 (image courtesy of the artist)

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Isaac Fresia at Anna Leonowens Gallery

In(ter)action

Isaac Fresia

FEBRUARY 4 - 8, 2014

Opening Reception

Monday, February 3 from 5:30 - 7 p.m.

There is a reluctance that exists around touching artwork. I have created a collection of kinetic objects composed of wood, metal, and plastics. Without a participant, the kinetic potential of each object remains dormant. It is up to the viewer to activate them. - Isaac Fresia

Installation View of In(ter)action by Isaac Fresia

In(ter)action by Isaac Fresia

Isaac Fresia is the winner of the NSTT 2013 RBC Emerging Artist Award and 2011 Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/VANS Award.

Anna Leonowens Gallery
1891 Granville Street, Halifax