NSCAD University congratulates Professor Solomon Nagler, Division of Media Arts (Film), on receiving a 2025 Established Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council.
The Established Artist Recognition Award recognizes artists who have emerged from their initial training and development to become established figures in Nova Scotia’s arts community. Each award carries a cash value of $5,000, funded through the Nova Scotia Arts Endowment Fund.
“I feel greatly honored to have been nominated for this award by such great artists and am deeply grateful to have been selected by the Jury,” says Nagler. “I fell in love hard with Nova Scotia two decades ago, and I could not have made any of my work without the support of the local arts community.”
A filmmaker and poet, Nagler’s films have been featured in festivals across the globe, and retrospective programs of his work have been screened in Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, France and across Canada. His work also includes 16mm celluloid installations that engage sculpture and experimental architecture in galleries and public spaces.
As a community activist, Nagler is the founder of the Community Mobile Media Lab, a mobile film production hub that can be temporarily situated in communities to make film and multimedia training more accessible to underrepresented groups in the film industry.
Nagler also served as a board member of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and Wonder’neath Art Society in Halifax, and has been part of the programming committee for the Centre for Art Tapes and the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival.
For Nagler, the recognition and momentum from receiving this award bring new ideas and works-in-progress to the fore.
“The energy of this award slingshots me into a plethora of new projects, including a new book of poetry with Folly House, the completion of a new film collaboration with my buddy Alexandre Larose, and a plan in the works for a new feature film project,” he says. “The Community Mobile Media Lab is also in its last year, so upward and onward and hurray for Cinema!”
In celebration of this milestone achievement, Fleapit Cinema will present a retrospective screening of Nagler’s work on Thursday, November 6, at 6:30 p.m. The screening will feature a selection of his films from 2003 to 2017, followed by a Q&A with Nagler.