Events
Once Africville Stories
Feb-Mar, 2019
Curated by David Woods
Caribbean Diaspora Cultural Festival, Hfx Commons Aug 6, 2017, 11 Nova Scotia artists of Caribbean descent Multi-disciplinary- painting, sculpture, quilts, woodcarving,
The Return
Aug 7, 2018
Curated by David Woods
Caribbean Diaspora Cultural Festival, Hfx Commons Aug 6, 2017, 11 Nova Scotia artists of Caribbean descent Multi-disciplinary- painting, sculpture, quilts, woodcarving,
Speaking In Tongues
Aug 7, 2018
Curated by David Woods
Caribbean Diaspora Cultural Festival, Hfx Commons Aug 6, 2017, 11 Nova Scotia artists of Caribbean descent Multi-disciplinary- painting, sculpture, quilts, woodcarving,
Once Africville Stories
Feb 2017
Curated by David Woods
Caribbean Diaspora Cultural Festival, Hfx Commons Aug 6, 2017, 11 Nova Scotia artists of Caribbean descent Multi-disciplinary- painting, sculpture, quilts, woodcarving,
Talk That Talk
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Black Halifax Videos
Feb 6-27, 2014
Curated by David Woods
Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova, University Ave. Halifax. Included artists and curators talk contemporary art by African Nova Scotian young artists 28 years and younger.
The Meeting
2010
Presented by David Woods
First-ever exhibition of African Nova Scotian quilts. 16 quilt artists included artist talks, catalogue, quiltmaking workshop.
Witness
Feb 1 – Apr 27, 2013
Curated by David Woods
Dartmouth Heritage Museum, Dartmouth NS Included artist talks, art history lectures, film screenings exhibition of works by 4 African Nova Scotian art pioneers Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), George Henry McCarthy (1860-1906), Edith Macdonald-Brown (C. 1870-1954), Audrey Dear-Hesson ( b. 1923- )
Black Reality Song
Jul 22-27, 2008
Curated by David Woods
Seaview Park, Halifax
A multi-disciplinary presentation on the art, history and culture of Africville. Included artist talks, quilt history lectures and curated art exhibitions and literary, drama, storytelling, film exhibitions and presentations
Home
Apr-Jun 2007
Curated by David Woods
Stellarton
African Nova Scotian and Gees Bend Quilts quilts. 40 African Nova Scotian quilt artists and Mary Lee Bendolph and Louisiana Pettway, Gees Bend, Alabama (quilts from individual African Nova Scotian communities added to the core exhibition at each exhibition stop)
Choices In The Skin
Apr-Jun 2007
Curated by David Woods
Quilts Museum of Industry, Stellarton
African Nova Scotian and Gees Bend Quilts quilts. 40 African Nova Scotian quilt artists and Mary Lee Bendolph and Louisiana Pettway, Gees Bend, Alabama (quilts from individual African Nova Scotian communities added to the core exhibition at each exhibition stop)
Home
2002
Curated by David Woods
Home Nova Scotian Quilts Dartmouth Heritage Museum
First-ever exhibition of African Nova Scotian quilts. 16 quilt artists included artist talks, catalogue, quiltmaking workshop
Once
Feb 2000
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
First-ever exhibition of art from and about the African Nova Scotian communities of East Preston, North Preston, and Cherry Brook-Lake Loon. 16 artists. Multidisciplinary.
Black Journey
Feb 17 – May 25, 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr. Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Aunt Jemima Story
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Part of the Deal
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
The Detention
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Womansongs
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Coming Up For Air
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Heroes
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Black Reality Song
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Black History Month DS Show
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
Black Writes
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Presented by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.
I Have Known Rivers
Feb 17 – May 25 1998
Curated by David Woods and Dr Harold Pearse
Included artist talks, African Nova Scotian art history lectures, catalogue Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Halifax Feb 10-28.
Tour: Museum of Industry, Stellarton; Cape Breton College Art Galley, Sydney NS; Shelburne.