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Community FocusMagazine

The Most Important Thing

Art and the Rural Renewal of Fogo Island
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Unlike standard economic development, Cobb illustrates an arts-and community-centered approach can only move at the “speed of human trust,” which means that it presents unique barriers. When Cobb and her brothers pitched their proposal to the provincial and federal governments for funding assistance, they heard back that the idea was “not normal, practical, reasonable, or rational.” Cobb said that this was the moment that concretized her faith in Shorefast, which was formed in 2006 and has been an overwhelming success since.

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MagazineReviews

Resource Extraction: Meagan Musseau

Exploring memory, language and our relationships to the landscape
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“My response to the landscape is emotional,” says Meagan Musseau. “I observe and engage with the land and the social environment in which I live.”

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Portable Culture: Soheila Esfahani

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  Billions are said to be in global circulation. In the United States alone, five hundred million are manufactured every year. They are everywhere, including inside and outside of our large retail shops. Their ubiquity and number, however, do not guarantee their visibility. Few of us look at, let alone think about the wooden shipping...

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40 yearsMagazine

Beyond The Island, Another Island

Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager and Amish Morrell in Conversation
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Cape Breton has existed as a Shangri-La of sorts for Americans for over half a century, firmly rooting itself in the imaginary of New York’s avant-garde circles, political radicals, draft dodgers, back-to-the-landers and, more recently, those simply looking for an affordable getaway.

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Neon Defiance

Stephanie Wu on Internet culture, self care and the role of allies today
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"For a long time, the Internet felt like the safest space to have conversations about race, gender, sexuality and mental health, when the communities I was brought up in shamed these things."

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The myth of home

Jerry Ropson’s powerful exploration of loss
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Jerry Ropson’s to kiss a goat between the horns is a memorial to a cultural vernacular and way of life that has already left us—his grandfather's rural Newfoundland culture.

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Reviews

Ursula Johnson: Weaving history

"You begin to weave and it’s almost as if the wood is telling you what direction to move in"
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Johnson is concerned that Mi’kmaq baskets will become obsolete, referenced only in archives or glanced at as artifacts on the dusty shelves of art collectors.

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40 yearsOnline

Unearthing buried histories of African Nova Scotian artists

Our research intern takes us on a dig through the archives to 90s Halifax
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"Chris! I have been secretly waiting for this email for decades! Talk to me."

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Amery Sandford
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Amery Sandford: Master of ceremonies

Exploring our complex relationship with Newfoundland identity
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Amery Sandford draws upon the history of touristic paraphernalia, such as postcards and brochures from the early 20th Century that depicted North America as a pristine escape from the cultural and economic troubles of one’s homeland—a new frontier.

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40 yearsOnline

In This Place: The lasting impact of Nova Scotia’s first exhibition of Black artists’ work

Our research intern revisits a powerful 1990s exhibition and asks why we're not seeing more Black artists in galleries
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Why In this Place was a groundbreaking exhibition for Black artists in Nova Scotia

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40 yearsOnline

Looking back, Looking forward

Get to know our new research intern
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Meet Visual Arts News' new research intern, who's going to be trawling through our archives revisiting all the stories we've told about the visual arts scene in Atlantic Canada over the past 40 years.

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Podcast

Walking With Our Sisters pays homage to missing and murdered Indigenous women

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Community members commemorate each individual life lost: "They are sisters, mothers, aunties, daughters, cousins, grandmothers, wives and partners. They have been cared for, they have been loved, they are missing and they are not forgotten."

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