Entries open for Struts Gallery Photography Exhibition

It is Located in a 120-year-old building worn by time, this gallery is well used and versatile, with white walls, a weathered ceiling, and a painted grey tile floor. It offers a unique layout with vast potential for physical, psychic, or conceptual alteration beyond framed artworks on a wall.

This exhibition opportunity is in partnership with Photo East, a new annual contemporary photography festival that specializes in lens-based art and photo work from across Atlantic Canada, exhibited alongside visiting national and international artists. The first iteration of this festival will take place in Moncton and Sackville, NB in April 2025 and will include exhibitions, talks, workshops, and more. The exhibition will be on display during the festival’s main week, with several lens-based artists, curators, and writers in attendance. Struts will provide:

• Artist fee according to CARFAC exhibition rate
• Shipping expenses
• Use of media arts equipment
• Installation assistance
• Promotion and documentation of the exhibition

Eligibility Criteria 

• Struts Gallery invites proposals from artists at all career stages based in the Atlantic region (Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI) to present work that sits outside of and/or transforms traditional forms of photography – landscape, portraiture, street, documentary, and still-life. It welcome proposals from artists from groups that have historically been underrepresented in gallery spaces, such as Indigenous, Black, artists of color, disability-identified, and 2SLGBTQIA+ artists. Proposals from artists who work with non-traditional, experimental forms of making and displaying lens-based work are highly encouraged. Struts houses a wide variety of media art gear that the artist can use in their installation.

For more information, visit Struts Gallery.