Exhibitions and Events

Alan Syliboy, Home, 1999, pencil and acrylic on paper. Collection of Marcia Hennessey. 

 
Exhibition

Alan Syliboy: The Journey So Far

9 May – 11 August, 2024

A Retrospective 

Event

Audio Tour: As We Rise & Family Matters

4 April, 2024

Join us for an audio-based tour of Dalhousie Art Gallery's current exhibitions, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic and Allen D. Crooks: Family Matters.

Intended for Blind and partially sighted visitors, participants will circulate through the exhibitions while listening to audio descriptions of select artworks. Tactile models of the Gallery will also be available.

Image: Xaviera Simmons, Denver, 2008, from As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021). Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo.

Healing Perspectives: Elevating Health Amidst As We Rise - Soulful Journaling & Mindful Meditations

13 March, 2024

Open to all participants who self-identify as Black. Register for free on Eventbrite.

SOULFUL JOURNALLING

Aaron Jones, Grow, 2016. Handcut collage. From As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021).

Event

Collage Night

7 March, 2024

The Halifax Collage Collective will host this hands-on collage night at Dalhousie Art Gallery as part of the programming for the Gallery's current exhibitions, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic and 

Image: Xaviera Simmons, Denver, 2008, from As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021). Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo.

Healing Perspectives: Elevating Health Amidst As We Rise - Yoga for Liberation

6 March, 2024

Open to all participants who self-identify as Black. Register for free on Eventbrite.

Allen D. Crooks, Untitled, 2009. Archival silver gelatin print on paper, 11" x 14". Courtesy of the artist.

Exhibition

Allen D. Crooks: Family Matters

3 February – 7 April, 2024

Located in the DAG Alcove

Dawit L. Petros, Hadenbes, 2005, from As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021). Courtesy the artist/Bradley Ertaskiran. 

Exhibition

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

3 February – 7 April, 2024

Virtual Exhibition Tour: English | French

 

Organized by Aperture
Curated by Elliott Ramsey 

Opening Reception for As We Rise and Family Matters

2 February, 2024
Join us in celebrating the opening of As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic and Allen D. Crooks: Family Matters. 
 

DAG x CRWR at Nocturne 2023

14 October, 2023

Students and faculty from Dalhousie's Creative Writing Program will be lead attendees through a series of meditative creative writing prompts that engage with Sameer Farooq's exhibition "The Fairest Order in the World," and the questions the works prompt regarding our relationships to objects, collections, belonging, and possession.

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