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Halifax Art & Artists:
An Illustrated History

Past Event

May 8, 2024

Halifax Central Library
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax

About

Halifax Art & Artists presents the stories of the city’s creators from craftspeople and portrait painters to filmmakers and multidisciplinary makers from time immemorial to the present.



Featuring

Ray Cronin

Author of Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History


Alan Syliboy

Artist


Ann Kitz

Daughter of Alex Colville


Sarah Moore Fillmore

CEO, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Sponsors

​The publication of this book has been made possible thanks to the generous support of


Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Halifax Public Libraries

Fred and Elizabeth Foundation

Rob and Monique Sobey

Jim Spatz and Valerie MacDonald

Peter and Elizabeth Clarke

River Philip Foundation

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