KIOSK: A TINY STUDIO
Persephone Beer Farm, Gibsons
Artist Call Deadline: Sunday May 31st, 2026 at 4pm
Residency Dates:
- Sunday June 14 – Saturday June 27 – Moe & Syd Downie
- Sunday June 28 – Saturday July 11 – Hazel Bell-Koski
- Sunday July 12 – Saturday July 25 – Beth Hawthorn
- Sunday July 26 – Saturday August 8 – Matt Boismier
- Sunday August 9 – Saturday August 22 – The Only Animal Theatre Society, with Barbara Adler, Art & Fungi (Isabelle Kirouac and Willoughby Arevalo), Kerri Flannigan
- Sunday August 23 – Saturday September 5 – Nadina Tandy
- Sunday September 6 – Saturday September 19 – Tam Harrington and Nell Burns
- Sunday September 20 – Saturday October 3 – Allie Bartlett
- Sunday October 4 – Saturday October 17 – Tzaddi Gordon
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Meet the artists in residence:
Moe and Syd Downie predominately create polymer clay earrings, beaded necklaces, lanyards, and bracelets as well as some wellness products like gratitude notepads and lavender eye pillows. They both love hosting workshops, working outdoors, and connecting with visitors.
Hazel Bell – Koski is a two-spirited mixed blood multi-disciplinary artist, storyteller, and creative facilitator, and for years they have been practicing the art of inter-generational co-creation, gathering participants of all ages in transformative spaces. Hazel’s work is in silkscreens, printmaking, plants and cultivating kinship.
Beth Hawthorn’s artistic focus centers on crafting small, unique batches of functional ceramics, including exquisite tableware and graceful vases, primarily created through the traditional art of wheel throwing. Often offering her ceramic creations through her studio gallery, and favouring face-to-face interactions with art enthusiasts.
Matt Boismier specializes in Visual Development and Art Direction for the animation industry and has been contributing to the Vancouver animation industry in visual ways since 2012. When he’s not designing for animation, you can find him sketching the locals or painting an urban watercolour wherever he finds himself.
The Only Animal Theatre Society, with Barbara Adler, Art & Fungi (Isabelle Kirouac and Willoughby Arevalo), Kerri Flannigan. The Only Animal brings art and artists to the heart of the climate crisis. We foreground social connection and slow creation to offer a form of environmental activism that takes place in the folds of our everyday lives. Our ‘slow social’ events reflect our understanding that transformation is an ongoing process, not a single experience, product, or show.
Nadina Tandy creates large-scale analog collage, using found source materials that are cut and paste into expansive compositions. Her work engages with themes of archetypes and the collective unconscious, interwoven with personal imagery often masked in humour. This process of reconfiguration enables her to explore deeper connection to identity and memory.
Tam Harrington is a multidisciplinary artist with an ideology in Renaissance sensibilities. Many of her projects (metal sculpture/drawing/painting/print making) focus on recycling and refurbishing discarded materials sourced from nature and urban decay.
Nell Burns is a textile artist who’s primary focus is mostly on free motion embroidery and incorporating it with other textile mediums to create 3 dimensional sculptures.
Allie Bartlett is an interdisciplinary artist, working mostly in analog photography, drawing and painting. And interested in the aesthetics of memory and often blurring the lines between different mediums.
Tzaddi Gordon creates new meanings through upcycling the often archaic text of vintage book pages. Old stories rife with colonialism, sexism, and racism are transformed into mixed-media blackout poems expressing grief, celebrating the mundane, and finding humour in the human experience.
About KIOSK: A Tiny Studio
Welcome to KIOSK: A Tiny Studio providing artists access to 100sqft of space, generously donated by CLICK homes in 2024. Located on the scenic Persephone Beer Farm in Gibsons, during the spring and summer seasons, artists are provided with a monthly residency in exchange for weekly public engagement activities ranging from open studios, demo workshops, marketplaces, readings, screenings, and more.
Presented by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council in collaboration with The Only Animal, and Cinder Circle Collective, this unique artist residency offering is an opportunity for artists to bring their practice to a broader community, and to expand the spaces for art on the Coast.
Thanks to Persephone, KIOSK will be offering art and connection to communities across the Coast through 2028. Keep a look out for future opportunities, including an open call for participation in early 2026.
Reflecting on 2025’s inaugural season
In summer 2025, The Only Animal’s artistic director Barbara Adler and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council collaborated to convene an emergent artist residency that emphasized accessibility, disability justice and connection with the land. Bringing together local artists and organizations alongside off-Coast guests, they shared a series of curated artist workshops, talks and open studios. Open Studios were drop-in events where artists shared skills and art materials with the public in a relaxed environment, alongside social activity at Persephone Brewing. Practices shared included: indigo dyeing and resists; cyanotype, cordage, block printing, botanical drawing, and tapestry weaving. Slow Social Clubs were curated workshops, where guest artists shared hands-on experiments and research from their artistic practice, alongside themed readings and discussion. Topics explored included: disability justice and mosaic mending; poetics of the colour blue; patchwork forests and wildfire; earth pigments and geological time.
We invite artists and artisans from the Lower Coast to express their interest in being part of a growing artist residency hosted by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council at the Persephone Beer Farm on the traditional lands of the Squamish Nation (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw). KIOSK provides artists access to 100sqft of space, generously donated by CLICK Homes, and now sited on the scenic Persephone Beer Farm in Gibsons.
Our Approach
Through an Open Call process, beginning in Summer 2026, artists will be provided a two-week residency at no cost, and encouraged (but not required), to engage in public engagement activities ranging from open studios, demo workshops, marketplaces, readings, screenings, and more.
What We Are Looking For:
KIOSK is ideal for artists and artisans who are interested in interacting with publics, selling their art and building an audience for their practice. Located in the midst of an active brewery, it provides a unique encounter space between your work and new audiences.
There is no expectation for you to make new work, this is a chance for you to use this space in whatever way you see useful. KIOSK is a self-directed residency, so any public engagement will be led by the artist(s).
KIOSK is situated in the emerging Fibre Farm, an Indigenous-lead and disability justice centered garden and gathering space. With a commitment to accessibility, both Fibre Farm and KIOSK have recently improved access including a fully accessible garden bed, fire pit, pathway, gathering space, and infrastructure entrance/exit.
What We Provide:
- 2 weeks of residency
- Studio Space with a table, chair and storage
- Adjacent space to host public engagement activities
- Wifi (through Persephone)
- Collaborative social media opportunities to expand reach
- Electricity
What We Don’t Provide:
- An Artist Fee
- Insurance
- Cleaning
- Marketing support (beyond collaborative posts)
- Hosting events
The Growing Season connected gathering with the natural world, experimenting with textile and fibre materials, and explored where and how artistic practices can take place. It brought attention to decolonial approaches to viewing and interacting with plants as interconnected beings. It reminded us of the importance of living interdependently, and embracing all that the land is and provides.
