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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Aug 22

Open Call for Submissions:
Struts Gallery Open Studio Residency program
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Learn more and apply here: www.strutsgallery.ca/post/call-fo...

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · May 8

The first Living is Easy Struts members' projects of 2025 are afoot. Pictured here, Saarah Ali works on embroidery and tries out some new stitches. Kris Gunn works on ceramics and opens the door to you and your machinations about the natural world. Drop in 1-5pm, Thursday, Friday & Saturday!

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Apr 10

Tuesday, April 22, 7pm
Struts Gallery
Voices From Scorched Earth
Testimony from El Estor, Q’eqchi’ territory
with Paydirt Artists in Residence Styvens Barrios Loch & Romi
Fischer-Schmidt

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Artist Talk | Voices From Scorched Earth with Styvens Barrios Loch & Romi Fischer-Schmidt

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | 7pmStruts GalleryTestimony from El Estor, Q’eqchi’ territory with Paydirt Artists in Residence Styvens Barrios Loch & Romi Fischer-SchmidtEl Estor, a community on Maya Q’eqch...

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

"Beyond the Stacks"
Artist Talk with Doug Dumais
Saturday, April 5, 3:30pm @ Struts Gallery

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

Familiarize yourself with our microphones and audio recorders, learn how to use them and how to reduce background noise. Participants will even learn DIY tricks for recording audio at home. Email [email protected] to pre-register.

Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

 Gain an understanding of audio production for video in our introductory audio workshop. Through this workshop, participants will learn how to record voices and background/folly sounds.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎤WORKSHOP | INTRODUCTION TO SOUND: MICROPHONES, AUDIO RECORDERS, AND MORE
 Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, 7 - 9pm
Struts Gallery | $10 for members / $25 non-members
Pre-registration required

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

Throwback to a Living is Easy members' project from 2024 by John Haney and Magali Charron. The artists collaborated on a multimedia show. If you're an artist in the Tantramar region, apply to Living is Easy - use the gallery for up to two weeks for self-directed exploration. info here: rb.gy/dumk5t

Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 27

"Beyond the Stacks"
Artist Talk with Doug Dumais
Saturday, April 5, 3:30pm @ Struts Gallery

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 26

Are you an artist in the Tantramar region who would like to use Struts Gallery to experiment with showing, making, or documenting your work? Apply to Living is Easy!

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Call for Submissions | Living is Easy Members' Projects 2025

Deadline March 31, 11:59pmEligibility: Struts members living within TantramarLiving is Easy is an ongoing professional development program for Struts Gallery members to use the gallery for self-direct...

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join us for an artist talk with photographer Doug Dumais
Saturday, April 5, 3:30pm
He'll discuss the process behind his exhibition, “Circulations”, which documents PEI’s rural library system, showing the distinct conditions of each institution.
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Artist Talk | "Beyond the Stacks" with Doug Dumais

Saturday, April 5, 3:30pm Struts Gallery In Doug Dumais’ “Circulations”, he documents PEI’s current rural library system, showing the distinct conditions of each institution. This library system has i...

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Owens Art Gallery @owensartgallery.bsky.social · Mar 4

📹 New Online—Collection Highlight for Rotchild Choisy’s Strike a pause/pose or wear your emotions!' (2023)

In this series Rotchild questions how bodies, clothing, and masks can communicate emotions that often go unspoken.

Hear from the artist and learn more @ owensartgallery.com/owens/collec...

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Owens Art Gallery @owensartgallery.bsky.social · Feb 18

THANK YOU 💗 We'd like to extend a heart-felt thank you to everyone who made last night's Sweetest Little Thing Fundraiser such a heart warming event! Extra thanks to all the artists and our volunteers—we couldn't do it without ya!

—with love from the Owens & @strutsgallery.bsky.social ❤️

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

How to Build a Fire: Amy, Mike, Josh, Lori and Ross, 2024. 13m 39s.

This video by Kerri Flannigan grew out of anxieties about climate change and curiosities about wildfire.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

GHOSTS, Max Dooher, 2024. 5m 26s.

GHOSTS is an experimental short film that examines the spectral nature of digital surveillance through a fragmented digital montage.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

Circles, Sarah Houle, 2024. 4m 24s.

Circles is grounded in the Cree teaching of closing circles after opening them and using this concept as a practical and spiritual practice for balance and peace; reflecting on universal questions of where we come from and where.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

"dream zones hormones undertones fish bones" by Daze Jefferies (12m 30s) explores intergenerational connections and hope for the future among trans femmes on the internet, at the turn of the millennium, in Atlantic Canada.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

"Dismembered fixations" by Francisco González-Rosas, (5m 36s) is a video monologue that conveys a subjective account about the way queer and racialized identities are commodified and showcased as spectacle in mainstream media.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 31

Friday January 31 at 7pm - That's tonight!
Come to Struts Gallery and watch PLAY BACK. This is a screening of video work by recent Artists-in-Residence Francisco González Rosas, Sarah Houle, Kerri Flannigan, Daze Jefferies & Max Dooher.

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Owens Art Gallery @owensartgallery.bsky.social · Jan 29

❤️ Sweetest Little Sneak Peek: 99 artworks from all across town, the province, the country, and beyond have arrived for The Sweetest Little Thing Fundraising Art Auction!

Online bidding opens Friday 7 February @ 9:00 am @ www.sweetestlittlething.ca

Artworks, including a felted can with worms are displayed on a grey table. In the background a person works at a copy stand.

Dozens of artworks are laid out on a long line of grey tables.

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Natt Cann @nattcann.bsky.social · Jan 28

A lil cloud for a sweet lil thing.
@owensartgallery.bsky.social @strutsgallery.bsky.social

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 22

Learn more and get in touch with Jacinthe if you're interested: www.strutsgallery.ca/post/media-a...

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 22

Jacinte Armstrong is taking up residence at Struts from January 21 - 31. She is exploring VR as experience for a player but also as a motor for performance for groups of people. She is looking for members of the public who are interested in helping her test out her experiments in virtual reality.

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 22

SAVE THE DATE! Sweetest Little Thing on February 14! This year our jingle comes courtesy of Steven Lambke! on.soundcloud.com/KqbcUvVqZAJe...

It's The Thing! (2025 Sweetest Little Thing Jingle) by Steven Lambke

The 2025 Sweetest Little Thing Jingle by Steven Lambke Written, performed, and recorded by Steven Lambke Additional vocals by Shary Boyle Steven Lambke’s songs are an invitation, an exploration of p

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Struts Gallery @strutsgallery.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hello here on BlueSky! Where are all the other artist-run centres?

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