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SUMMARY:Allyson Mitchell: Brain Child
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Organized by MSVU Art Gallery \nAllyson Mitchell’s Brain Child assembles a collection of over one hundred ceramic figurines\, depicting little girls clad in old-fashioned bonnets\, long skirts\, and frilly pinafores. These figurines were particularly ubiquitous in the 1970s and 1980s\, with Holly Hobbie\, Strawberry Shortcake\, the doe-eyed Precious Moments kids\, and others modeled a particularly retrograde version of feminine presentation and behavior\, one where little girls are expected to be sweet\, and kind\, ever-cheerful\, tidy\, quiet and demure\, and above all\, cute as buttons. \nWithin Mitchell’s installation\, these figurines are recast as pint-sized femme-savants\, whose oversized bonnets protect their big\, beautiful brains. They are queued up\, in two long\, curling lines before a giant brain\, crafted out of repurposed pink afghans\, that hovers high above them. Although this ritual gathering suggests a collective\, perhaps cult-like devotion to intellectual pursuits\, Mitchell has given the figurines subversive makeovers that emphasize their individuality and distinctiveness. Some have been reglazed in ultra-bright fluorescent hues\, others in a 1970s palette of mossy\, murky shades of green and brown\, rich oranges\, reds\, and golds. Some wear moody all-black goth while others are awash in highly saturated colours and clashing patterns that cover not only their dresses and bonnets\, but also their faces\, hands\, and hair. Together\, they attest to the expansive and subversive potential of femme identity\, presentation\, and intellect. \nImage: Allyson Mitchell\, Brain Child\, 2008\, mixed media installation. Photo courtesy of Union Gallery and the artist.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]About the Artist \nAllyson Mitchell’s individual and collaborative practice spans sculpture\, performance\, installation\, film\, and comics engaging feminist and queer politics through humour\, excess\, and critique. Her work has generated projects such as the fat activist collective Pretty Porky and Pissed Off\, a coven of lesbian feminist Sasquatch monsters\, a room-sized Vagina Dentata\, and Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House\, presented internationally with collaborator Deirdre Logue. Together\, Mitchell and Logue run FAR Feminist Artist Residency in rural Ontario. Mitchell is a Professor in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at York University and publishes graphic memoir comics you can find on Substack @ I May Never Answer Your Email and This Is Why.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Artist Talk and Curated Screening: Private Caves\, Blanket Forts and Dream Scores \nSaturday\, June 13\, 1:00-3:00 pm\nThe Centre for Art Tapes\, 2238 Maitland Street\, Halifax\, NS\nPresented in partnership with The Centre for Art Tapes \nThis artist talk and screening looks at how artists use installation/sculpture\, drawing\, music\, and animation to build strange worlds\, emotional landscapes\, and intimate visual languages. Featuring short films and videos\, the program wanders through dreamscapes\, private caves\, hand-drawn rhythms\, and animated forms of graphic narration and tale spinning that move between feeling\, memory\, and imagination. \nCurated by Allyson Mitchell\, Private Caves\, Blanket Forts and Dream Scores features video by Daniel Barrow\, Karma Clarke-Davis\,  Theo Cuthand\, Andrea Dorfman\, Jesi Jordan\, Annapurna Kumar\, Christine Latham\, Anita Lebeau\, Amy Lockhart\, James MacSwain\, Allyson Mitchell\, Amanda Strong\, Leslie Supnet\, and Theoretical Puppets. \nLight refreshments will be served\, and all are welcome to attend.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nAllyson Mitchell: Brain Child Audio Companion\nIn this short audio guide\, artist Allyson Mitchell shares her perspectives on her installation\, Brain Child.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”]\n    \n            \n                  \n			Playlist Item 1\n			\n			\n			\n			\n			\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brain-Child-Audio-Guide.m4a\n			\n		\n              No HTML5 audio playback capabilities for this browser. 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URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/allyson-mitchell-brain-child/
LOCATION:Canada
CATEGORIES:Feminisms,Gender & Sexuality,Sculpture & Installation,Textiles
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SUMMARY:Unpacking the Living Room
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Living rooms are spaces we arrange and create around ourselves to support the comfort and well-being of family\, to host friends and loved ones\, to display precious and prized belongings\, and for leisure and relaxation. But living rooms are private spaces packed with emotions and history\, as well as social and political investments. The kind of living room we create can reveal our background\, our values\, our social position\, and our aspirations. Even the privilege of having a living room speaks volumes when so many people live in precarious situations\, are without shelter\, or have been displaced from their homes and traditional lands. \nThis exhibition explores the many dynamics of domestic environments by staging a radically re-imagined living room in the gallery space. Unpacking the Living Room will host thoughtful community discussions about craft and art\, amateurism and professionalism\, leisure and labour\, and the private and the political. Through playful and insightful interventions\, Unpacking the Living Room invites community members to reflect on the histories and ideologies that ground understandings of self\, home\, belonging\, and resilience. \n– Julie Hollenbach\, curator[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” 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CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Introduction.mp3\n			\n		\n			Allyson Mitchell\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Allyson-Mitchell-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Anna Taylor\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Anna-Taylor-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Barb Hunt\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Barb-Hunt-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Candice Baldwin\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Candice-Baldwin-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Carrie Allison\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Carrie-Allison-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Charles Doucette\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Charles-Doucette-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Chrystal Clements\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Chrystal-Clements-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Emily Davidson\n			Unpacking the Living Room\n			https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sketch-1024x620.jpg\n			ALL CATEGORIES\n			\n			\n			/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Emily-Davidson-–-description.mp3\n			\n		\n			Gary Markle\n			Unpacking the Living 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Artist Emily Davidson will install her wallpaper piece\, How It’s Made during the reception.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”2″ divider_color=”default”][vc_column_text]All events are free to attend and ASL interpretation is available; please email claire.dykhuis@msvu.ca to request an interpreter.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text el_id=”talkdate”]\nWorkshop\nSaturday\, September 29 at 1:00-2:30pm \nArtist Carrie Allison will introduce the basics of beading and discuss her current collaborative project The Shubenacadie River Beading Project and its sister project Shubie River. These projects invite people to map the Shubenacadie River in beadwork\, raising awareness about Indigenous sovereignty and land rights in the process. Capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. Please email claire.dykhuis@msvu.ca by September 26 to register.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop\nWednesday\, October 3 at 12:00-1:30pm \nJoin artist Ruth Marsh for a hands-on workshop\, using deceased bees and retro-electronic components\, to learn how environmental change is affecting delicate bee ecology. Capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. 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The discussion will be followed by a relaxed reception and refreshments in the Gallery\, sponsored by the MSVU Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies. A free wheelchair accessible shuttle\, sponsored by the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group\, is available for this event. The shuttle will depart from the Killam Memorial Library at 2:00pm and the return trip will depart MSVU Art Gallery at 4:30pm. Capacity is limited and seating  will be offered on a first come\, first served basis.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nPerformance\nSaturday\, October 20 at 2:00-4:00pm \nWORK OUT|WORK OUT is a two-phase collaborative performance piece by Julie Hollenbach and Gambletron challenging idealized feminine gender performance through an immersive theatrical romp that includes culinary sculpture\, hobby craft kitsch\, and a multi-media dance. The first phase follows a group of friends as they attempt to construct self-portraits. The second phase of the performance sees the friends forgo the arduous task of performing femininity to perfection. Opting instead to glitch\, disembody and otherwise intervene in the prescriptive works of mainstream feminine gurus such as Jane Fonda\, Martha Stewart\, Sheryl Sandberg\, and Iliza Schleslinger. This phase of the performance witnesses the friends’ collective embrace of the queer pleasure of gender failure. Visitors are invited to drop-in or attend the whole performance. 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URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/unpacking-the-living-room/
LOCATION:MSVU Main Gallery
CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Feminisms,Film & Video,Gender & Sexuality,Nova Scotian Artists,Performance,Sculpture & Installation,Textiles
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