Fonds consists of documents created and collected by Eyelevel Gallery that reflect all aspects of the gallery’s management. The fonds includes artist files, slides, administrative files, publicity files (including press releases), correspondence, publications, financial documents, contracts, minutes of board of directors meetings, photographs, fundraising files and membership lists, audio and videocassettes, CDs, DVDs, books, and programmes, catalogues, posters, reviews, guest books, and miscellaneous files regarding exhibitions and events. Some digital records in this collection have been migrated from CD's.
File includes slides from exhibitions including Peggy's Cove Syndrome, Satire as Discontent, and Locations/National. Artists include Robert Bean, David Merritt, Rosemary Macaulay, Sean McQuay, and Barbara Lounder.
Item is a photograph of a painting by Royce Porter when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a silk screen by Mona K. Balcom. The silk screen is titled "Peggy's Cove" and was displayed during Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition held at Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a Peggy's Cove Scene by Joyce Hanson. The work was displayed in Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of Cosmic Peggy by José Antonio Valverde when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a painting by Anneke Betlam when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
File includes correspondence between Marjorie Boyd and Garry Conway, a price list, two versions of the exhibition flyer, and a brochure with information about Boyd and her previous exhibitions.
File contains a poster for an exhibition featuring works by Ryan Arnott, Gary Conway, Michael Fernandes, John Greer, Donald Lindblad, Susanne Paquette, Felicity Redgrave, Roger Savage, and Julia Schmitt-Healy. The exhibition opened Eye Level Gallery's 1977/78 season of exhibitions, performances, and events.
File contains a poster for Quick Change, an exhibition of photography by David MacKenzie presented at Eye Level Gallery from December 8, 1977 to January 7, 1978. The exhibition featured black and white photographs, sound and a slide show of colour images of people at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.
Item is a poster for a group exhibition by William Brent Ritchie, Douglas Kirton, Lorinda Moreau, and Martha Townsend held in July 1978 at Eye Level Gallery. The image on the poster is credited to Hartling.
File includes photograph of Garry Kennedy exhibition, 'Locating', Ted Ross' 'A Nova Scotia Landscape', and invitations for exhibitions by Stephen Horne, Elizabeth Mackenzie, James MacSwain, W.C. Woods, and Douglas Sharpe
Item is a poster for an exhibition featuring paintings by Janice Leonard titled "Dream homes", Gary Spearin, and Robert Pope, held from November 16 - December 2, 1982 at Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a letter from John Murchie to the Eye Level Gallery Board of Directors, sent on June 7, 1983. In the letter, Murchie details his proposal for the Locations/National exhibition. Murchie proposed One Way Ticket, a work "intended to respond to some of Canada's political, social, and geographic specifics." Murchie proposed to send an invitation to John Bentley Mays, art critic for the Globe and Mail, to speak in Halifax during the opening of the Locations/National exhibition in Halifax. Murchie also proposed to send Mays a cheque for $99.00, "which is equivalent to the fare for a one-way ticket from Toronto to Halifax, or Halifax to Toronto, on a Via Rail Coach."
Item is a photograph of five photographs displayed as part of the Locations/National group exhibition. The photographs were made by Barbara Lounder or Cathy Quinn.
Item is a photograph of a photograph displayed as part of the Locations/National group exhibition. The photograph shows a mural with the phrases "Our government places corporate development and profit before people" and "Fight cutbacks" written next to a lion with the text "single mom" and a female gender symbol. The photograph was made by Barbara Lounder or Cathy Quinn.
File includes press releases, report for Canada Council, proposals, planning notes, Marvel comic book: The Life of Pope John Paul, posters, press clippings. (Artists include: Gerry Amey, Davna Gallager, Janice Leonard, Barbara Lounder, Susan McEachern, Wilma Needham, Bernice Purdy, Cathy Quinn, Rick Sanderson, Ruth Scheuing, Robert Tonks, Eric Walker)
Item is a photograph of The Nuclear Family by Wilma Needham. The photograph was taken when the assemblage piece was on display during the Satire as Discontent exhibition at Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photographic slide of two cartoons on display at Eye Level Gallery during the Satire As Discontent group exhibition from July 23 - September 1, 1984.
Item is a poster for a group exhibition held from December 4-22, 1984, at Eye Level Gallery. The artists that participated in this event were: Rose Adams, Elizabeth Devine, Cliff Eyland, Alex Livingston, Patrick Mabey, Glen MacKinnon, Paul Miller, Catherine Paul, Julie Schwartz, and Heather Scott.
Item is a photographic slide of Africville and Mulgrave Park paintings on display at Eye Level Gallery during the Satire As Discontent group exhibition from July 23 - September 1, 1984.
Item is a photograph of the Variety / Eye Level Gallery group exhibition at Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland from January 11-February 24, 1985.
Item is a poster for Audio By Artists Festival 1985, held from March - April 1985. The Audio By Artists Festival 1985 was organized and administrated by David Craig, Andy Dowden, Paula Fairfield, Gordon Laurin, and Micah Lexier.
Item is a photograph of the Variety / Eye Level Gallery group exhibition at Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland from January 11-February 24, 1985.
Item is a photograph of the Variety / Eye Level Gallery group exhibition at Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland from January 11-February 24, 1985.
Item is a photograph of the Variety / Eye Level Gallery group exhibition at Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland from January 11-February 24, 1985.
File contains seventeen photographs of exhibitions at Eye Level Gallery presented between 1980 and 1986, including the Auckland / Halifax Exchange exhibition presented in Halifax from September 2-26, 1986.
Item is a poster for a group exhibition of Barbara Luxton, Ann MacGillivray, Vita Plume, Leslie Sampson, and Ruth Scheuing presented by Eyelevel Gallery from January 7-25, 1986. The image on the poster is credited to Clayton & Sons, merchant tailors clothier, Argyle street, (Scotia Square) Halifax circa 1900 Nova Scotia Public Archives.
