Gillian Dykeman
Open Studio Artist in Residence
October 17 - November 20, 2011

With her project, Collaboration with *521 Friends, Gillian will be writing a hand-written personal letter to each of her 521* facebook friends. The letters will be displayed on the walls of the gallery, and mailed out at the end of the residency.

see more about her residency here

Alison Creba
Open Studio Artist in Residence
September 6 - October 9, 2011

Alison is the founder and fascilitator of a project called CITY MAIL which delivers inner-city mail within Halifax for free. The project serves as a catalyst for further explorations of the physical and personal topographies that charaterize an area. Alison enjoys maritime graffiti styles and old maps.

During her residency, Alison will be transforming 7 Lorne street into a functional and fantastical post office for visitors to write and send mail within Sackville.

see images from her residency here

Hazel Meyer
Open Studio Artist in Residence
July 5 - August 8

Hazel Meyer is an artist, aspiring athlete and amateur sports broadcaster. She is on perma-sabbatical from the textile industry where she designed swimsuit fabrics for a bunch of years. She is presently engaging sports teams in fantastical projects about resistance and sweat, writing a treatise on the sport of squash and moonlighting as a window dresser in Toronto.

visit her residency blog here.

visit her website at www.cargocollective.com

Lianne Zannier
Ease Down the Road
Artist in Residence
July 8 - August 8

Lianne Zannier lives and works in Montreal, QC. She graduated with a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Mount Allison University as is currently studying Film Animation at Concordia University. She likes to animate drawings that transform one thing into another, revealing magical happenstance and the tricks we play with our eyes.

During her stay at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre she will be working on making short animated drawings that can be viewed at liannezannier.tumblr.com as well as finishing an animation for Shotgun Jimmie's song Impossible Popcycle.

See some of Lianne's work here

JR Carpenter
Open Studio Artist in Residence
May 22 - June 21

J. R. Carpenter is a web artist, zine-maker, and writer of poetry, very short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction and web-based non-linear intertextual hypermedia narratives.

During her time at Struts, JR plans to work on a Sackville-specific portion of a collaborative, durational and performative web-based writing project called Estuary. It will consider a number of estuaries as sites from which to generate a 'stream' of short texts on a wide range of subjects. The text will feed into a web interface via RSS, accumulating slowly over time; always changing. Estuary will encourage a mixture of ideas, resources, stories and communities, bridging through collaboration the gap between technology and creative writing.

Visit her website at http://luckysoap.com

Zeke Moores
Open Studio Artist in Residence
April 9 - May 13

Originally from Newfoundland, Zeke Moores has been living and working in Ontario for the last five years. Heavily influenced by his extensive background in fabrication, blacksmithing and foundry, Moores’ work is preoccupied by the cultural significance and hierarchical systems of value that exist within the objects that surround us. To this end, Moores’ re-proposes and re-fabricates everyday objects, exploring social and cultural economies.

Visit Zeke's website here.

Kamaya Lindquist
Ease Down the Road Artist in Residence
April 24 - May 23

Kamaya Lindquist is an artist from Portland, Oregon who specializes in soft sculpture, papier mâché, drawing and installation. During her time at Struts, she plans to collect used and unwanted household items from people in town and re-create them into various sculptures. This will include a flock of cloth-wrapped birds and a video compilation of home movies. She will also be hosting a papermaking workshop where participants can make greeting cards from old documents and the like. The closing reception will feature food made from donated ingredients and a bonfire. All are welcome!

Ray Fenwick
Open Studio Artist in Residence
February 27 - April 3

Winnipeg artist Ray Fenwick will be joining us at Struts for an Open Studio residency. During his time here, Ray will be working on large-scale text paintings, surreal audio interviews/intervenes, and a "language-based improv for non-actors" workshop. Please feel free to stop by 7 Lorne Street and say hello, or visit Ray's residency blog, Le Moat Juice.

Janita Wiersma
Ease Down the Road
Artist in Residence
February 8 - March 3

Janita Wiersma is an artist from Cold Springs, Ontario, a location to which she has recently returned. She graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University in 2006, and is nearing the end of an MA at Concordia University in Montreal, QC. In her art making she attempts to approach a sense of the big, and the quiet.

Over the month of February, Janita will be working on a series of drawings in the gallery which are based on the concrete architecture of Montreal, particularly the Turcot interchange. Her practice has also recently come to include experiences of excessive sound / relative silence. she will continue this work while in Sackville, recording the sound of one hand clapping and other experiments of space and sound.

Janita will also be leading a workshop at some point on building head-sized, sound-proof snow caves.

Simone Schmidt
Ease Down the Road
Artist in Residence
January 16 - February 18

Simone Schmidt is an artist from Toronto, best known for her work as a lyricist in country band One Hundred Dollars. Schmidt has worked extensively in screen printing and the visual arts, co-ordinating Punchclock print shop for a number of years prior to shifting her focus to music.

She'll be spending the month writing songs, one of which will be recorded and shown in her exhibit "Song of the Plinth" in mid February. Locals can catch her on CHMA on Tuesdays from 4:32 to 4:47.