Invertebrates curator Dr. Jean-Marc Gagnon and assistant collections manager Judith Price (now retired), with a multitude of marine specimens at the natural history preservation site. Martin Lipman, Canadian Museum of NatureCurators at the Canadian Museum of Nature have always known that only a fraction of their vast collection of specimens — preserved animals and plants, fossils and many other items gathered during more than a century of research across the country — is on public display.
Category: Arts
Indigenous works grab spotlight in NAC series
The National Arts Centre says Indigenous stories will take centre-stage at its Canada Scene Festival this summer.
NAC’s old seats get second act at school
Woodroffe High School principal Bill Arden relaxes in one of the 720 cushioned seats the school received from the National Arts Centre after the downtown performance centre refurbished its theatre. Lysia Filotas, Centretown NewsStudents, teachers and parents at Woodroffe High School can sit back and relax after the National Arts Centre donated 720 of its old seats for installation in the west-end school’s aged auditorium.
Local artist conveys struggles via dance
Ventilation, Chapman's short film screened at the Mirror Mountain Film Festival, brings mental illness to the forefront for discussion and focuses on the use of art as a coping mechanism. Photo courtesy of Erin ChapmanThe studio is dark and silent. No one else is around, no distractions or responsibilities to stress about.