Struts Gallery welcomes applications from professional visual and media artists at all career levels to participate in our annual Open Studio Residency Program. Residencies are five weeks beginning in May 2025 through October 2025\. The program aims to develop artists’ practices by supporting experimentation without the pressure to present a resolved body of work. Artists are offered the freedom to continue their practice, develop a new project, or create site-specific work. The residency is artist-driven and independent, with staff assistance available for community outreach, and technical and logistical support. 

Though independent studio work is the priority of the program (and the adjudication process) we do ask artists to creatively engage with the community through at least one public event (artist talk, workshop, or another artist-initiated event). 

  
Residencies are selected in a three-step process. 1) Gallery staff review submissions to make sure they fulfill the criteria. 2) A selection committee of Struts Gallery artist/members reviews the applications and determine a shortlist. 3) Gallery staff interview the shortlisted candidates over Zoom, providing an opportunity for artists and the organization to clarify and discuss the projects and program. The Open Studio Program is highly competitive, we generally receive over 130 applications for 4 residencies. 

Struts Gallery pays an artist fee of $3250, $30 per diem ($750 total for 25 working days), travel costs up to $800, and $200 towards materials associated with workshops or other public events. Artists-in-residence also have access to the centre’s media arts equipment and facilities. 

  
Open Studio residents are provided 24-hour access to a studio space (approx 400 sq/ft) in the gallery and a private, 2-bedroom, furnished apartment with a separate entrance on the 2nd floor above the gallery. The studio space is open to the public during regular operating hours. 

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