Guysborough Antigonish Pictou Arts & Culture Council

GAPACC and GATHERING OF THE ARTS present: Modern Art! Youth Workshops. These youth art workshops offer a chance to experience both traditional and high tech forms of art taught by professional artists. Workshops range from creating a traditional Chinese ceramic horse sculpture, learning how to make custom screen-prints with Ross Screen-Print, mastering a turntable with a local DJ, and an introduction to design through digital collages. All workshops run from 2pm to 4pm with registration at the door.

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By Zane DeNoncourt for The Saint Joseph’s Community Newsletter

Meet Fenn Martin of Ohio West: artist, ceramist, bon vivant, philosopher, inventor, champion of rural life and small scale farming. Living here and producing art in his studio, Fenn is truly a dynamic whirlwind, a force to reckon with, a voice to listen to.
At NSCAD, Fenn studied figurative sculpture, portraiture, human anatomy sketching, ceramics, and so on. He now describes himself as a « ceramist » (not a sculptor or potter or tile maker.) As part of his specialist studies, he went to Istanbul, Turkey, where he discovered the art of tile making with repeating or tessellating patterns. (more…)

On April 24th, at 8 PM the Bauer Theatre on the St FX campus Molly Thomason, a young singer-songwriter will perform all original work with the help of a group of talented musicians: Donald MacLennan (Mishra’s Dream) on fiddle and vocals, Greg Melchin on bass, Greg Favaro on lead guitar and a special guest, Nova Scotia’s Musician of the year, Ian Sherwood.

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