2014 Winner & Finalists

Refuge

Creator: Mary Vingoe Nominator: Wendy Lill Incorporating verbatim and fictional text, Refuge tells the emotionally riveting story of a former child soldier from Eritrea who

Responsio – Peter-Anthony Togni

Winner of the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award
Creator: Peter-Anthony Togni (composer)
Nominator: Jeff Joudrey

The Thundermaker

Creator: Alan Syliboy Nominator: David Diviney An established Mi’kmaq artist, Syliboy’s artistic vocabulary is inspired by the indigenous petroglyphs of Nova Scotia. His immersive installation The

Harmonic Motion

Creators: Toshiko H. MacAdam and Charles MacAdam Nominator: Sandra Brownlee Harmonic Motion is an enormous, interactive crocheted play structure commissioned in 2013 and installed in an art

‘I am in need of music,’ the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary legacy recording

Creators: Suzie LeBlanc (soprano); Emily Doolittle, Christos Hatzis, Alasdair MacLean, and John Plant (composers) Nominator: Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia ‘I am in need of

The Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards Foundations operates in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources but recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people.

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