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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 ancestry, into contemporary forms. In The Circle and the Dot , ceramics, installation, and video works prompt consideration of how materials and processes inform cultural identity; for Hosaluk, related concepts of concealment and the passage of time resonate deeply as she reflects on her family’s assimilation into Canadian culture and uncovers suppressed and forgotten aspects of her cultural identity. 

ARTIST BIO

Laura Hosaluk is a Saskatchewan Settler with Ukrainian, Polish, Scottish, and English ancestry. She was born in 1983 in Saskatoon and grew up in a rich creative rural craft community that gathered around her father, Michael, who was a craftsperson. This community of craftspeople included people from around the world, and Laura understood from a young age that working with one’s hands was universal. She developed a passion for craft and considers it her culture, one that reflects a mutual interrelation between humans and the Earth’s resources.

Laura is a versatile artist whose work spans various mediums, including painting, mixed media, sculpture in ceramic, wood, and bronze, and land art. She maintains a studio practice in Saskatoon, where she works as a community arts educator, interdisciplinary innovator, and dynamic volunteer. Her creative practice was formed during her childhood and nurtured through her art education at the EMMA International Collaboration in Emma Lake, SK, where she was introduced to a self-directed approach to learning and a free exchange of knowledge.

In 2008, Hosaluk was instrumental with Kimbal Worme and Joseph Naytowhow in connecting children with Indigenous culture through a series of after-school programs titled Youth Leading Youth with the City of Saskatoon. Her love for creative learning has been demonstrated through various Artist Residencies; Opening the Door, ArtSmarts Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board (SAB), Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon, SK, 2009, Come Circle Around, SAB Creative Partnerships, Explore and Develop, PotashCorp Saskatchewan Children’s Festival, Saskatoon, SK, 2016, and the Think Indigenous Conference, Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon, SK, 2017, and The Human Loom, a cooperative craft game created with the Functional Life skills students at Evan Hardy Collegiate, Saskatoon, 2018, SK Arts.