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Ship Shape by Stefan Hancherow
8 Jun 2010 – 8 Jun 2011
Ship Shape offers a conceptual portrait of MSVU Art Gallery and its profile within the local visual arts community.

Losing it: Jarvis, Pagurek, Wensley
14 Aug 2010 – 5 Oct 2010
This witty and emotionally charged exhibition includes works by Kirtley Jarvis, Cheryl Pagurek, and Mary-Anne Wensley. Whether this art serves to provoke or assuage anxiety is an open question.

Using It: ArtStars, Lendrum, Valentina
14 Aug 2010 – 17 Oct 2010
The creation and presentation of self through assumed personae is as old as theatre. Today YouTube, Facebook and other social networking sites enable individuals to create myriad versions of themselves capable of interactions with an ever-expanding on-line audience.

Forthcoming

Kim Morgan: Range Light, Borden-Carleton, PEI, 2010
16 Oct 2010 – 21 Nov 2010
Kim Morgan’s new sculpture will be composed of latex casts of the exterior and interior of an abandoned lighthouse. With their parts held together by hand-sewn joins, the two casts are suspended as visually distinct units.

Beneath the Surface
23 Oct 2010 – 12 Dec 2010
The Nova Scotian artists Nancy Edell, Kim Morgan and Susan Wood share an interest in corporeal experience. In these works from the MSVU Collection, the artists present metaphors for the invisible, sometimes pathological processes at work within the body.

The Annual Mount Community Show 2010
25 Nov 2010 – 12 Dec 2010
Mount Saint Vincent students, staff, faculty and alumnae are invited to enter examples of their creative work in the annual extravaganza.

François Lacasse: Outpourings
4 Jan 2011 – 6 Mar 2011
François Lacasse paints in series, concerning himself with the liquefaction of pigment and the latticing and interlocking of planes of colour. His experiments with form are retraced in this retrospective by the inclusion of twenty paintings dating from 1988 to 2008.

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Nancy Nisbet: Exchange 2006 19 Jun 2006 – 22 Jun 2006 Canadian artist Nancy Nisbet will be parking her 18-wheeler on the MSVU campus, within view of Bedford Highway, from June 19 to 22 as part of her Exchange 2006 tour, a freewheeling, free trade-resistant, frequency-jamming trek around the continent
Floating Worlds (Window Box) 28 May 2005 – 7 Aug 2005 Floating Worlds presents the works of two self-taught artists and former fisherman: Bernie Carpenter and Frank McKeough
Free Sample 12 Mar 2005 – 24 Apr 2005 So who doesn’t like free samples? And what’s that got to do with art? Kelly Mark’s new exhibition, Free Sample, can help you figure that out.
Annual MSVU Community Show 25 Nov 2004 – 12 Dec 2004 From quilts to baking and from photographs to embroidery: practically anything made by Mount Saint Vincent students, staff, faculty and alumnae is eligible for entry in the annual creative extravaganza.
The Found and Familiar Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art 10 Apr 2004 – 5 Jun 2004 In the midst of a technological revolution, this exhibition acknowledges the power of the snapshot as well as its materiality, and marks a shift in our relationship to this most personal of objects.
Work Work Work 27 Mar 2004 – 23 May 2004 Taken from the university collection, these works, which use materials such as plywood, acoustic tile, a tea towel and pantry equipment, invite comparison with hobby craft, housework, and puttering.
ad/vice (Window Box) 8 Mar 2001 – 30 Jun 2001 Created by the MSVU Art Gallery and the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, this exhibition explodes the pharmaceutical ads and explores the questions they raise.
Gather Beneath the Banner Political & Religious Banners of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1877-1932 3 Mar 2001 – 11 Apr 2001 The 21 embroidered and painted banners in this exhibition proclaim the conservative beliefs and radical activism of one of Canada's most successful women's organizations, the W.C.T.U.
Fugit Hora: Rubbings from Puritan Gravestones (Window Box) 15 Nov 2000 – 25 Feb 2001 These rubbings were done in the 1970s by Dr. Nancy Chesworth (Mount Saint Vincent University Tourism & Hospitality Management), in Massachusetts graveyards.
Little Scratchings (Window Box) 4 Mar 2000 – 28 May 2000 This exhibition juxtoposes two representations of the Mount Saint Vincent University student body: as a collection of photographed faces and as faceless producers of graffiti.
Queer Looking, Queer Acting Lesbian and Gay Vernacular 11 Oct 1997 – 16 Nov 1997 An examination of Halifax's lesbian and gay cultural production, which has had a vernacular character arising from the activist project of liberation.