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In 2018 Struts Gallery achieved the significant organizational milestone of purchasing our building at 7 Lorne Street. Our board and staff have been working steadily since — fundraising, grant writing, and planning much needed renovations. Built in 1912, this historical structure has also continued to deteriorate, increasing the urgency and need for investment.
Today we are seeking your support toward our Building Fund, with the goal of raising $75,000 by April 30, 2026. Your contributions will allow us to match Provincial funding to conduct essential work on the roof, balcony, and masonry. Struts Gallery is a registered charity, and all donations receive a charitable tax receipt issued through Canada Helps.
Struts Gallery continues to offer renowned programming opportunities and resources to local, regional, and national artists, and a dynamic schedule of engaging events for audiences and participants. Your contributions will help us improve our facilities and meet the growing needs of our community.
If you have any questions about the project, funding options, or want to get involved with our fundraising efforts, please get in touch. Donation link in bio. Rendering by Goguen Architecture.
We are happy to welcome our new Summer Open Studio Coordinator Déja Defilippis! Déja will be assisting with tasks around Struts until August. We’ve already got her on spring cleaning preparing for a summer of artists residences, living is easy, and of course the well beloved summer BBQ.
Déja (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Toronto and Whitchurch-Stouffville. A third year Fine Arts student at Mount Allison University focusing on sculpture, photography, and printmaking, her work explores themes of place, familial histories, and relationships to community. They also do a pretty good loon call on occasion:)
This Internship opportunity is supported by @mta_experientiallearning and Venture for Canada.
Come join us tonight for a Cinq à Sept with our artist-in-residence, Naomi Watkins! Enjoy some snacks, refreshments, and good company. Hope to see you there!
Living is Easy | May 5 – May 19
Struts Gallery is happy to welcome artist Shoshanna Wingate as the first participant in our 2026 Living is Easy Members’ Projects.
Shoshanna is a poet & memoirist, textile artist, and jeweler living in Mi’kma’ki (Sackville, NB). She runs Swamp Punk with her son, Seth, selling refashioned thrifted finds and upcycled items using bleach, stitch, paint, and vintage pieces. Her art & writing are rooted in a vision of re-storying the future through joy, whimsy, repurpose, radical hope, and climate change action.
Through her varied arts practice, she is an award-winning poet and author of Radio Weather (Vehicule Press), co-founder of Riddle Fence, an arts & culture journal, and in 2023 was an Artist-in-Residence with the Conservation Council of NB.
Soshanna will explore mark making on fabric, using text, stitch, and printing using reclaimed fabrics. Through the exploration of colour, design, and texture, she will create small images that can be stitched together like a story quilt.
Cinq à Sept | Drop by Struts Friday, May 8th, between 5-7pm, to celebrate the arrival of visiting artist Naomi Watkins! Have some refreshments and mingle with your fellow Struts members.
Image: Her Stories Have Always Been a Part of Me, Naomi Watkins
💛Take a look at this beautiful, framed exclusive Struts Gallery artwork! Tempted by this beauty? 💛
We are excited to launch an exclusive fundraising print by Moncton artist Natt Cann. Only 30 of these very limited-edition, 8 colour relief prints are available to purchase. Signed and numbered by the artist and printed by hand in his Moncton studio, the Struts edition is part of his popular ‘Neighbours’ series, a whimsical look at homes and historic properties within New Brunswick.
Prints are available for $350 at Struts and through our online shop (shipping included). Raffle tickets for one print are also available for $10. All proceeds will go directly to our Building Fund, supporting our retrofit goals for 7 Lorne Street.
Natt Cann (he/him) is a settler-Canadian visual artist whose projects of print hone upon the haunting of lands - ideologies and industries keeping afloat Canadian notions of colonial heritage and their subsequent degradations. Natt’s aim is to share Atlantic centric discussions of commorancy, climate, and past snuffed economic aspirations amidst the celebration of current peoples, politics, and newfound practices onto new audiences.
Purchase link in bio
Open Studio | Naomi Watkins
April 29 - June 3, 2026
We’re so excited to welcome our first Open Studio Artists in Residence for 2026, Naomi Watkins!
Naomi Watkins is a Two-Spirit Secwépemc interdisciplinary artist from Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops) and is based on the unceded ancestral territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, also known as Vancouver, BC.
Working across carving, sound and video, Naomi’s current project explores themes of displacement, reconnection and the animacy of more-than-human beings. While travelling to remote or personally significant sites, they gather sound, video, materials and personal reflections that inform immersive, process-driven installations and multimedia works. By continuously revisiting specific locations, they cultivate a deeper sense of relational presence, believing that ongoing contact reveals land as an active participant in art and life–reawakening lost memories and ancestral stories tied to land and water–and ultimately creating a shared sense of belonging. These relationships inspire them to create work that embodies this connection, prompting viewers to reconsider how we relate to land, water and ancestral story.
Naomi holds an MFA (2025) and BFA (2023) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Their work has been exhibited and screened at the Polygon Gallery, Museum of Vancouver, FORM Festival and has an upcoming solo show at Grunt Gallery in September 2026.
They received the 2025 Expanding the Form Award for their film Her Stories Have Always Been a Part of Me (2024) that Co-Artistic Director of FORM festival states “challenges the boundaries and capacities of what movement-on-screen can be…The film quietly poses larger questions, asking us to consider the greater movements that exist outside of our bodies of land sovereignty.”
Thank you to the @canada.council , @artsnb , @artsculturenb for their support.
Maryse Arseneault, Gargantua & The Sacred Heart
Saturday, April 18, between 1 - 5pm
Drop in for 5-10 Minutes
Artist Maryse Arseneault is looking for participants to sit before the camera and have their face superimposed into one composite image. Maryse is in town for a week-long residency working on this new project in the studio.
L'artiste Maryse Arseneault recherche de participant.es prêt.es à poser devant la caméra. Passez à la galerie Struts le samedi 18 avril entre 13 h et 17 h. Cela ne prendra que 5-10 minutes, et chaque visage sera superposé à l’écran.
Call for Submissions: Video Art
Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, May 5, 11:59pm Atlantic
From Colin Campbell’s Sackville I’m Yours to Lisa Steele’s Birthday Suit – with scars and defects, performance has been an inseparable part of video art made by artists living in so-called Canada. Struts Gallery invites artists to submit video art for a screening scheduled for summer 2026. Works can explore a variety of topics related to performance, including body politics and identity, persona, masquerade, and more. Selected artists will be paid a screening fee in accordance with the 2026 IMAA Fee Schedule.
Who can apply?
Artist and collectives at all career stages living in Canada. Struts Gallery is dedicated to presenting work that reflects the diversity of disciplines and media that shape contemporary art practices. Proposals from artists whose works are alternative, experimental and/or critically engaged are encouraged. We welcome proposals from artists and groups that have historically been underrepresented in the gallery, including Indigenous people, Black people, people of colour, and 2SLGBTQIA+.
For more information, visit the link in our bio!
Open Studio Presentation | Sierra Weston�TOMORROW, April 2, 4pm-6pm
�Join us for an artist talk and meet Sierra Weston, our Video Artist in Residence. While at Struts, Sierra has been working on an experimental stop‑motion video that merges her practices in printmaking and puppet making. ��The Struts Gallery Video Artist Residency Program is a new paid artist residency opportunity for emerging artists funded by the Government of Canada through Digital Skills for Youth Program. We would like to thank the Government of Canada for funding this residency opportunity.
There’s only a few weeks left to see Ryan Danny Owen’s exhibition Dirty Picture II here at Struts – don’t miss out!
Dirty Picture II recontextualizes various personal archives, bootleg tapes, and objects through an imagined porno film set. Transforming a section of the gallery into a fantasy motel room set for a fictitious blue film – a monument to queer longing, nostalgia, loss, and the absent body. Ryan Danny Owen (they/him/her) is a non-binary award-winning author, researcher, queer archivist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Mohkinistis/ Treaty 7/ Calgary, Alberta. Their transdisciplinary work reexamines nostalgia, trans identity, longing, sexuality, and kinship by combining archival practices, installation, video, craft, and writing.
The exhibition includes images and videos with nudity, sexuality, flashing lights, and glitch media.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of government funders and our members. Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB and Tantramar NB.
@canada.council@artsculturenb@tantramarnb
Join us today 4-6 for Darlene Baker’s Oscillation & Ambivalence reception!
START Gallery located in Struts Gallery 7 Lorne st. Sackville NB.
We hope to see you there!
