The Circle and the Dot | Laura Hosaluk | Opening Reception
Thu, Jul 10
|Mann Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 10, 7:00 PM — featuring a live performance by KSAMB Dance Explore The Circle and the Dot, a captivating mixed-media installation by Saskatchewan artist Laura Hosaluk. Inspired by Scottish folklore, Saskatchewan architecture, and her Ukrainian roots, Hosaluk reimagi


Date, Times, and Location
Jul 10, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Mann Art Gallery, 142 12 St W, Prince Albert, SK S6V 3B5, Canada
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Laura Hosaluk Promotional Content
Exhibition Title: The Circle and the Dot
Exhibition Dates: July 8 - September 27, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday July 10 7:00 PM featuring a performance by KSAMB Dance
The Circle and the Dot is a mixed-media installation by Laura Hosaluk, stemming from Scottish folklore and Saskatchewan architecture that relates to her Ukrainian ancestry. The exhibition merges her perspective with ceramic techniques and materials used by her ancestors. As a third-generation Canadian, Hosaluk’s heritage is complex, and in asking where she comes from, she is faced with her Settler relations.
The work in this exhibition is inspired by an archaic building technique of wattle and daub, used by Ukrainians as they settled along the Canadian prairie in structures called burdeis. Wattle and daub are interwoven willow sticks covered with a mud composite. Hosaluk aims to revive these material connections used by her Ukrainian ancestors, blending them with Scottish Folklore elements from her mother’s…