Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters at Tulista Gallery, Sidney BC

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Articulation and Material Girls' exhibition 'Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters' was installed in the Tulista Park Gallery, Sidney, BC.

It hung for 14 days....

...while over 900 people visited it.

Now it has been packed up and shipped across the country to the Bay of Fundy where it will be installed in the Frazee Gallery in the Saint John Arts Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick.
This is a well travelled exhibition.
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