Books & Publications

Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion. A...

To lead a creative life is to experience dizzying highs and gloomy lows, and Deanne Fitzpatrick, a veteran textile artist and entrepreneur, has bee...

How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian c...

Kent Monkman (b. 1965) is Canada's most important and influential contemporary artist. His epic diptych commission for the Metropolitan Museum of A...

Halifax-based artist and editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon presents his recent suite of caricature-portraits of Canada’s prime ministers past an...

This pocket-sized handbook contains 103 essays and 126 photos of historical structures: personal residences, iconic businesses and selected landmar...

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environ...

A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 1After studying Fine Art at Mount Allison University, Mary Pratt (1935–2018) settled in Newfoundla...

This publication in the Power Plant Pages series was produced in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Sc...

A catalogue based on the 1989 exhibition of the same name which took place in London, England and then travelled to six other U.K. locations. Follo...

Art has the potential to bring us together and create lasting connections. As humans, we have a universal need to express ourselves, find meaning, ...

Mi'kmaw artist Alan Syliboy's The Thundermaker is based on Alan's spectacular mixed-media exhibit of the same name. In the book, Big Thunder teache...

Luminescent paintings form the visual focus of Mary Pratt, a career retrospective that examines every aspect of Pratt’s unique creative journey. Th...

During the American Revolution (1775-1783), the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters as a way of ruini...

A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 3While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (1920...

  Celebrated Mi’kmaw artist behind The Thundermaker returns with a new story about friendship and the importance of traditional knowledge — now in...

Hockey and art may not seem like they have much in common; however, if you look closer, there are certain similarities they both share. From creati...

A colourful pop-up book featuring 6 full-colour scenes of Halifax and area, suitable for all ages Nova Scotia is home to some of the most beautiful...

A much-needed source book for anyone wanting to know the history and the craft of rug hooking. Includes illustrations of techniques and materials a...

I’m finding my talkAnd it may take some time,But I’m learning to speakIn a language that’s mine. A response to Rita Joe’s iconic poem “I Lost My Ta...

I lost my talk The talk you took away When I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" t...

How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education—and to a large extent of the postminimalism and conceptual a...

In Before the Parade, journalist and activist Rebecca Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspective to this compelling, and necessary, history ...

A baby board book from the bestselling artist behind Mi’kmaw Animals that teaches young readers Mi’kmaw concepts and a Mi’kmaw word for each day of...