Paint the Town Symposium: Small Town, Big Ideas: Surviving and Thriving as a Rural Artist​

2025 Paint the Town Symposium: Panel 1

Heading to the country for inspiration is one thing. Making your life here, year in year out, is quite another. Four artists bare their rural roots in an honest discussion of the rewards and challenges of grounding their practice in smaller communities.

Moderator:Therese Cruz (Shelburne) – Executive Director, Visual Arts NS / Councillor, Town of Shelburne

Panelists: Brandt Eisner (Truro) – Multimedia artist, Curator | Rebecca Fisk (Mahone Bay)​ – Artist, High School Art Teacher | Debra Kuzyk (Annapolis Royal) – ​Artist, Lucky Rabbit Pottery

Proceeded by a welcome address from Ted Lind, ARCAC Vice Chair and Amery Boyer, Mayor of the Town of Annapolis (10:00am)

Registration is required. Visit www.arcac.ca/paintthetown for more information and to register.