UNB Design Works Summer Camps - Join us from July 2 until Aug. 30!

Camps for kids 6 to 12 years old. Camp space is filling up fast, but there’s still space for YOU!

Taught by talented instructors, here’s a great opportunity to be creative, make friends and experience an awesome range of activities.

Some camps are selling out, but there’s still camp spaces available:

Want to make videos and movies? Try Let’s Make a Movie and Stop-Motion Animation. Here's your opportunity to act, produce, direct, shoot and edit cool creations!

Experience another world with adventures in Star Wars or Fantasy World camps.

Love to cook and eat? Try everyone’s favourites Food Art or Dine Around the World.

Join us this summer! Register now for your favourite camps!
 

Leisure Learning - Wherever you are, take Leisure Learning with you!

In June, choose from three NEW courses!

This summer, try the creative new online course Digital Drawing for Beginners from home, your garden or even the beach! Book your Thursday evenings starting June 13. In just six weeks, you’ll learn basic tips and tricks used by master artists and how to go from creating a basic piece to a more intricate work of art!

Calling all writers! Whip your work into shape with the online course The Revision Challenge: From Draft to Polished, Thursday evenings, June 13 - Aug. 1. Start the challenge with a flawed piece; end with a polished work!

Learn to sew in the fun five-week in-person Machine Sewing Basics course, Monday evenings, June 24 - July 29. Instructor Dana-Lynn Farrell will guide you on the basic operations of your sewing machine. By the end of the class, you’ll feel confident doing basics repairs and making simple custom pieces. Sew on & sew on!

Register today! Whatever your interests, there’s a Leisure Learning course for you!

Leisure Learning for Teens

Get job-ready! Prepare yourself for the workplace with an exciting new week-long course, Youth: Work Essential Skills and Volunteer Training 101, Monday - Friday, July 15 - 19.

Designed for youth (13 to 16 years old), the class prepares you for work/volunteer opportunities. Morning sessions focus on resumes and cover letters, email etiquette, team dynamics and professionalism guidelines (including dress codes, conflict resolution and managing social media presence). In the afternoons, you’ll apply your newfound skills and knowledge by volunteering at Design Works Summer camps. This hands-on experience will further develop your teamwork, communication and leadership skills.

By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with the essential tools to succeed in your professional career and personal endeavors, while experiencing a spirit of community service and social responsibility.

Join us at the Garrison Night Market!

Come say “hello” at our booth every Thursday at the Garrison Night Market from 4:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. There’s a fantastic new activity waiting for you each week!

UNB Art Centre

Visit the UNB Art Centre to view the moving exhibit Into the Blue: Remembering Brigid Toole Grant, a tribute to the beloved artist, activist and humanitarian who passed away last year. The exhibit is open until Friday, Aug. 30.

Into the Blue: Remembering Brigid Toole Grant is a labour of love by her daughter Hannah Grant, who along with curator Roslyn Rosenfeld, assembled a collection of acrylics, watercolours, prints and drawings from friends, family and the UNB Permanent Collection. It tells the story of a talented and insightful artist, who found inspiration in the people and the land she called home.

From the UNB Collection

Dan Steeves, Things We Put on a Hill (1995)

Crayon Etching on paper
56.5 X 76 cm

In 2023, the University of New Brunswick received a gift of seven etchings from the series Things We Put on a Hill by Sackville artist Dan Steeves. This series records his impressions of the changing landscape of the Tantramar Marsh.

This rich agricultural region was once a contested territory occupied by French settlers. After the defeat of the French by the British, the Acadians were expelled and towards the end of the eighteenth century, the land was resettled by British immigrants. These settlers farmed the land making it their home until they too were unsettled, not by war, but by the socio-economic forces of the twentieth century. Dan Steeves depicts absence through the portrayal of abandoned homesteads and fields left fallow. They are vestiges of a former way of life, built with hope for the future and inhabited by successive generations. According to Steeves, “The house has become an important image in my work as it waits, keeping vigil, symbolizing a place of shelter and sanctuary... The notion of building something that is unchanging is in itself a paradox, for a house changes the moment it is completed.”

Dan Steeves earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1981. He became the Printmaking Technician in the Department of Fine Arts from 1981-2020 and in 1991 he became a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

He has received numerous Creation and Travel Grants from the Province of New Brunswick and the Canada Council. He is the recipient of many awards including one from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Strathbutler Foundation, as well Mount Allison University’s Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts Award. In 2011, Dan Steeves was elected into the prestigious membership of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. His work is in private and public collections across the country, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the New Brunswick Art Bank.

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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