UNB Design Works - Join us for Summer Camps!

July 2 - Aug. 30, 2024! Camps for kids 6 to 12 years old.

Wow! There’s a huge variety of camps to choose from–everything from Jr. Master Chef and Game Design, to Theatre & Dance, to Art, Photography and Digital Design. Enjoy five new camps!

• Holiday Baking (ages 8-12)
  Enjoy your holiday favourites!
   
• Musical Theatre Mashup (ages 6-10)
  Sing, dance & act!
   
• All Day Breakfast (ages 6-10)
  Waffles, bagels, eggs and more!

• Out of this World Art (ages 6-10)
  3, 2, 1 Blast-off!
   
• Secret Art Agents (ages 6-10)
  Create awesome spy arts & crafts!

Camps are taught by talented professionals. Plus, security and safety are paramount, all camp staff receive first aid training and have vulnerable sector checks.

It’s going to be a fantastic summer! Sign-up early for your favourite camp. Registration is open!
 

Leisure Learning - For the joy of learning!

This Spring, treat yourself to the online course Introduction to Oil Painting (Mondays, April 8 - 29). Try different techniques and approaches to create your own masterpieces! …And all from the comfort of home or your garden!

Have a finished novel? Still writing? Prepare your manuscript for success with the online course How to Edit Your Own Novel. Gain valuable tips and techniques from professional Editor and Proofreader Shelley Egan in this weekend online workshop, April 20-21.

Check out our full Summer 2024 course listing.

UNB Art Centre - UNDERCURRENT
Welcomes The Hello Crows

In the final concert of its first season, the UNB Art Centre’s UNDERCURRENT showcases The Hello Crows, a group of talented Wabanaki songwriters and storytellers, who collectively represent both their people and their generation. Their concert will be held on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m.

The Hello Crows celebrate the spirit of healing, humour and fortitude, by putting the modern Indigenous experience and landscape into story and song. The Hello Crows were formed in 2022, when songwriters and storytellers Judie Acquin, Dylan Ward, Mattie Comeau and Quinn Bonnell first appeared together at a Wabanaki songwriters’ circle. Sharing the stage, their chemistry became obvious; their combined voices amplified their powerful messages of lessons from the past, anthems for the present, and hope in the future.

While the group, focuses on the indigenous cultures, values and traditions, it also presents the perspectives of indigenous women and LQBTQIA2+ communities.

World Water Day Exhibition

World Water Day is an initiative of the United Nations to bring awareness to the importance of water resources and their sustainable management. This year the UNB Art Centre presents two different perspectives: Aqua by Jean-Christophe Lemay and Beachcomber by Gary Weekes. Lemay presents a series of large-scale photographs that depict the power and beauty of our Canadian waters and its inhabitants and invites the viewer on this passionate journey with him.

Gary Weekes on the other hand, focuses less on environmental concerns and more on social ones–the use of water as a historic means of transportation as it relates particularly to the Black experience.

The exhibits are on display in the East and West Galleries of Memorial Hall and run until April 26.

From the UNB Collection -
Cathy Ross, Red Slippers (2019)

Cathy Ross is known for her delicate watercolours of unremarkable items–things you might find in an antique shop or an old house. Her careful observations capture the nuances of each unique piece, noting folds and textures, stitching and labels. Rather than presenting the object in situ, the slippers are isolated to allow us to closely examine the object as well. The plain paper ground which has been slightly stained reduces the contrast between the subject and ground, and imparts items like these slippers with a humble significance as well as a hint of nostalgia.

Cathy Ross was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. She studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1984. After graduating she pursued printmaking but ultimately turned her attention to still life and the medium of watercolour.

She received a scholarship from the Banff School of Arts and grants from the Purdy MacDonald Foundation, the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation, the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. She has taught watercolour painting at the Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Centre and has been an artist-in-Residence at Kingsbrae Gardens and Minister’s Island in St. Andrews. Cathy Ross currently lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario and St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

The UNB Art Centre (506-453-4623) is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public.

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