Gallery Connexion receives Stabilization funding from NBFA

October 31st, 2007

Gallery Connexion is an artist-run gallery that features contemporary and experimental artwork in the visual arts, the performing arts, literature and music. The Gallery's mandate is to expose artists and the general public to works that deal directly or indirectly with social and political issues. During the year, the Gallery presented the East Meets West exhibition, organized a music and motion performance in the streets of Fredericton, had a film night featuring a documentary on forest management in New Brunswick, and hosted several visual arts exhibitions including one by Aboriginal artist Bonnie Devine, entitled Writing Home, during which a postcard story workshop involved nearly forty people in the creative exercise of writing flash fiction inspired by postcards. Its dedication and commitment are remarkable, and the Foundation for the Arts showed its appreciation for the Gallery's ongoing hard work by providing them with the means to establish a working capital fund. It also offered the Gallery technical help to obtain equipment for documenting its activities and to adapt its space to make it more suitable for new media exhibitions and installations. The Gallery, which previously could not meet the needs of certain artists, will now be able to open its space to wider range of artists and work. The Gallery knows it has found the key to keeping and even strengthening the public's interest.

Photo: Carol Collicutt, President of Gallery Connexion, and Anne Bertrand, making the Stabilization agreement with the Gallery official.