KIOSK: A Tiny Studio
Persephone Beer Farm, Gibsons
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.
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
KIOSK: A Tiny Studio provides artists access to 100 sq ft 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.
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.