Karen Trask | Vie des arts

Slow Vernissage: Launching a New Studio and Project Space during the Pandemic

Like many artists in central Montreal, we have had to move studios a number of times over the years. Wouldn’t it be nice to be somewhere that felt like you wouldn’t be asked to move after you’ve just finished setting up? Near our house was a tofu factory that had [...]

An Artist Residency—A Beautiful Moment

It’s early on a Saturday morning, and there are seven of us huddled together in a living room on the Atlantic coast near Cocagne, New Brunswick. Jean-Pierre Caissie, assistant director of the Association acadienne des artistes professionnels du Nouveau-Brunswick, has brought me and my two student interns, Suzanne Cormier and [...]