Ease Down The Road artist-in-residence
Kristen Atkins

While in residence, Halifax artist Kristen Atkins will be setting up an office-like installation to evaluate question of online transparency in a non-digital environment. She will work on managing and investigating her own personal data for public consumption. The installation will evolve organically over the course of her time in Sackville.

Kristen Atkins is a fine arts graduate from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. Her artistic concentration involves contextual interruptions in public realm as a way to evaluate our experiences in contemporary environments. She has shown her work and performed in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, PEI and New Brunswick. Originally from Moncton, New Brunswick, Kristen works as an artist and at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax Nova Scotia.

Reception Thursday May 24, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Sue Rose & Gisli Sigtryggsson

Reception Thursday May 24, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Andrew Maize

Reception Thursday May 24, 5-7pm.

LIVE MUSIC

Ingrid Gatin / Les Hay Babies

8pm
$7.00
All Ages.

RECEPTION

Kristen Atkins: Ease Down the Road artist-in-residence

Andrew Maize / Sue Rose / Gisli Sigtryggsson:
part of The Living Is Easy series of summer projects by our members

5pm - 7pm

Please drop by to visit with the artists and enjoy a refreshment.

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE

DB Boyko and Christine Duncan in concert PLUS a voice improv workshop

Workshop 2:00 pm. $10
Come to the workshop in order to perform improv at the show that evening. Anyone who will be in town over the summer should join in as this is the beginning of a summer fun choir! 

Concert 8:00 pm. $10
The show will feature the work "Stall" by Christopher Butterfield -- based on the ubiquitous public washroom!

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

John Cushnie

Reception Thursday May 31, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Rena Thomas

Reception Thursday May 31, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Indu Varma

Reception Thursday May 31, 5-7pm.

Live Music DOUBLE FEATURE

4pm: Shearing Pinx / Astral Gunk
Details to be announced.

&

8pm: David Simard
Detail to be announced.

All Ages.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Al Barbour & Sarah Evans

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Corey Isenor

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Ilse Kramer & Jocelyn Pringle

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Jared Betts

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Rebecca Blankert & Chelsea Poole

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Nic Wilson

Live Music

Kyra & Tully

Details to be announced.

SUMMER VIDEO CAMP

Ages 9 - 14.
Cost: $40.00
Times: 9am-12pm

This summer, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre will offer a video camp for youth. Particpants will have the chance to learn about video from a professional video artist. They will write their own scripts and stroyboards, shoot and edit their own videos, and record and mix their own sound, all on professional video equipment!

For more information please contact Elli at production@strutsgallery.ca. This program is made possible with support from Renaissance Sackville.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Sarah Burwash

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Jerry Ropson

Struts-Putts

part of The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

At the convergence of interactive kinetic sculpture and leisure time, 5 like-minded artists have constructed one challenge each. Using the experiences that we all have enjoyed at miniature golf emporiums, we welcome an evolved challenge: to take the ordinary mini-putt and make it extraordinary. This project is being organized and facilitated by member Peter Manchester. Details to be announced!

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Zach Barkhouse & Courtney Kelsey

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Leah Garnett

Ease Down The Road artist-in-residence
Ainslie Moss

Ainslie Moss is a multi-disciplinary artist currently living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She plays with words and sometimes tells stories. If she were to draw a diagram of her art practice, it would look like the digestive system.

Stop by the Faucet space in apartment #2 anytime between 1-5, Monday to Friday, to visit Ainslie as she develops a stop-motion animation, and see her wall-painting in the middle gallery space downstairs. Visit Ainslie's blog here.

Reception May 9, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Jessica Arseneau

Transparency and superimposing elements are continually explored as three plexiglass panels are lined up one in front of the other. Playing with the positive and negative space, the silhouettes of a character in repetition allows us to see through this installation that suggest transitional state of personal identity. The repeated and shifted shape shows a change within time in parallel with the change of the self in daily contexts.

Reception May 9, 5-7pm.

The Living Is Easy
a series of summer projects by our members

Darlene Teahen

For the next two weeks Darlene Teahen will be growing sprouts and painting them. Please drop in to learn how to grow sprouts, to try sprouts and even paint them. Dr. Vadana Shiva's fight against "geopiracy" and biotech giants like Mosanto will be an inspiration throughout the development of the project. She will be looking to develop imagery of seeds in relation to health, global foods and politics. Darlene will be in the gallery from 1-5, Monday to Friday, for the duration of the project.

Reception May 9, 5-7pm.

NOURISHMENT: dinner & conversation

Potluck and Writing with artist-in-residence Ainslie Moss.

5pm - 8pm

As part of her Ease Down the Road residency at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Ainslie is inviting you to attend an informal potluck dinner to share your writing & your thoughts on the writing process. Let's all eat some good foo...d and chat about the challenges, changes and chances that are facing writers right here & right now. You're encouraged you to bring along writing of your own if you would like to share it, & all of the thoughts and ideas you can carry with you.

RECEPTION

Projects by Jessica Arseneau, Ainslie Moss, and Darlene Teahen

Wednesday May 9, 2012, 5-7pm

Stop by to meet the artists, enjoy a refreshment and view the projects under way at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, 7 Lorne Street.

Live Music

Cinema L'Amour / Construction & Destruction / The Moany Jitchells

8:30pm, All Ages. $8 at the door.