The three winners of the second round of the signed Nelson Surette prints were:
Garry Knigtt, Mona Barrows and Bill Barton. All were contacted and were most excited to have won. Like. WOW!, I never won anything before.
Funny how these days you have to affirm “no this is not a scam, you actually did win.”
On October 3rd we had an exceptional day. We had a group ofstudents from Drumlin Heights visit The Gallery in the morning for a visit to the Nelson Surette exhibit and art experience and in the afternoon we had a group of elderly from The Meadows to visit the art exhibit and enjoy stories and jokes by Lauren d’Entremont. Thanks to Daecy d’Eon for her leadership and to Dan Earle and Jude Fulton for their support.
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During September and October the Friends have and will be sponsoring school visits by students from French and English schools to the Nelson Surette exhibit at The Gallery in Yarmouth. The students had an art experience with a docent exploring paintings in the gallery and also did an original art work based on the exhibit.
Here is an example of art based on the Nelson Surette use of Acadian dories used in his paintings.
We are pleased to announce that the raffle prize for the $100 Nelson Surette signed and authenticated print was won by Anne Skipton of Tomball, Texas. She was here for the Acadian Congress and graced us by purchasing a raffle ticket. Congratulations Anne.
August 25th saw the gathering of 17 eager participants in a workshop based on Nelson Surette. They first met in The Gallery to look at the art under the guidance of Darcy d’eon and gain insight into its historic setting by art historian Candace Clements. From there they progressed to the Community Room where Dan Earle and Darcy d’Eon guided and encouraged their painting. The unique portion was that there were no brushes used as many of Nelson Surettes paintings were done using his fingers. Also, like Nelson Surette, it was suggested the artists paint from their head about things with which they were familiar.
A few sample images below. There were many more.
In August 2024 the Friends of The Gallery were able to reopen the gallery space in Yarmouth for a once in a lifetime showing of the work of Nelson Surette. Over the course of the showing we had over 1000 visitors at events and general daily attendance. These are images from the openings.
Sunday, 15 September 2019 – 1:00pm to 3:00pmFAMILY SUNDAYS
With the Sarah Corning Society celebrating Yarmouth hero Sarah Corning, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia invites you to create your own hero!
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has partnered with the Sarah Corning Society for this Family Sunday to welcome Syrian refugees and other newcomers to the Yarmouth region. Come along and greet new families in our community. All are welcome!
As part of the Family Sunday activity, create a booklet about the heroes in your community that make you proud.
Sarah Corning is much more than a historical figure from Nova Scotia’s past. Sarah’s humanitarianism and service (1919-1930) to the victims of the Armenian genocide is reflected in how we embrace refugees and welcome them as new Canadians. She was a hero to many young children who lost their homes and families.
As a part of the continuing celebration of Yarmouth’s Garson sisters and their contribution to art education in our community we enjoyed an “explore the portrait” event in the Community Room. Eleven would be portraitists teamed up under the guidance of Maggie Schmidt to try their hand. Teams od two and three played with their interpretation of a rough beginning sketch and photo for reference. Any resemblance to the photo is purely coincidental.
The presentation of the Art from the Heart project was well received by a full house audience in the Community Room at the gallery. The audience was most interested in the concept of the project and were interested in how such a pilot program might be expanded to meet the nerds of more youth. A number of questions were asked and there was lively discussion over refreshments.