Artist Check In Amanda Bauer

We checked in with Amanda Bauer at home where she is working on an embroidery project using outlines of the hands of important people in her life. She’s been working on this project for several months and hopes to turn her collection of embroidered hands into a...

Giving Tuesday

Today is GivingTuesday, a global movement for giving that takes place each year after Black Friday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it’s a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes. In the same way that...

Here’s Nina Drive-In

Here’s Nina DRIVE-IN SPECTACULAR Our annual awards gala and fundraiser looked a little different this year… Every year the Nina acknowledges the accomplishments of five artists from our collective with awards at Here’s Nina, a red carpet awards show...

Meet Rona Fraser, Our New CEO

The Nina is excited to introduce our new CEO, Rona Fraser! Many of you will already know Rona from her seventeen years as our Director of Development. During that time, she has proven invaluable to the Nina and has generated many of the relationships and tradtions...

Spring Cleaning

While our studios were closed to artists from mid March to early July, staff kept busy by cleaning and reorganizing the space. It’s not very often that our studios and gallery are empty. During a normal week, we see about fifty artists a day working in our...

Wishing Wendy Hollo a Happy Retirement!

July 23, 2020 marks the final day of work for our brilliant co-founder and Executive Director for over 17 years, Wendy Hollo! Without Wendy, there would be no Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts. Her vision of a vibrant place where adults with developmental disabilities...