MAY 2026
FIRST FRIDAY: May 1, 5-8 PM
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW: Saturday, May 2 - Friday, May 29
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday - Sunday, 1-4 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION WITH MAY ARTISTS: Friday, May 29 at 6 PM
ARTIST GALLERY SITTING DATES:
Ronald Viol | Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 17
Kristin Link | Sunday, May 3
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CENTER GALLERY
Geologies of Memory | Jennifer Moss
Jennifer Moss, Metamemory, synthetic polymer paints and mediums, tailored paper, digital press print, 18 x 18 inches
We live in landscapes continuously shaped by geologic forces that are built upon memory. Through time, every moment on the land is collected in specks and pieces. Secrets are embedded in layers that build or sink and are made of plant and animal, dust and sunlight, wind and rain. Visual patterns emerge or are buried, like thoughts and memories and dreams that we animals have in our brief moment on earth. Symmetry, meanders, cracks, and other textures appear. They both describe order and are conduits for recollection. Unspoken languages and histories reside in these patterns. We love them for their beauty and we use them for our purposes. We mine and shape these land memories stored as peat, oil, metal and gas. We share collective memories of bright sun on the mountains, reflections in a lake, the sound of rocks tumbling down an incline, or the color of dirt. We see the shapes of this place and we are part of this place, this living and wild landscape. We will return to the dust that becomes the landforms here too. We will be absorbed into the patterns of moments in the land itself. All we are, our experience and our memories from our time forever joining with those of the land, intertwined and building this place we call home, together in a living landscape of memory.
NORTH GALLERY
Thresholds | Ronald Viol
We are living on the edge of dramatic changes, whether it is the unstable climate, social / political unrest, pervasive surveillance or the rapid rise of Al. The world we know is transforming into something new.
These digital images express emotions stirred by this moment of change. The images, with weeping eyes, insects, machinery, electronic circuitry and fractured faces reflect the unsettling surreal beauty of our modern condition.
SOUTH GALLERY
Drawn in Place | Kristin Link
Kristin Link, May Studies, watercolor and pen, 12 x 16 inches
This exhibit is about what happens when we go outside, pay attention, and build a practice around what we find.
Loose daily diary sketches layer contour drawing with wet-on-wet watercolor washes to capture moods, weather, and the passage of time. Botanical studies track what plants are doing at different times of year. I return to the same plant across weeks and seasons, watching it change. My notes leave room for questions, research, and thinking out loud.
The nature studies of plants, animals, and landscapes in this exhibit were developed through years of teaching field sketching across Alaska. In April 2026, that practice became a book: Discover the Art of Field Sketching, published by Timber Press.
It's a joy to share this work with you, and to invite you into a sketching practice of your own. The world is better when we slow down, pay attention, and learn to find some love for what surrounds us.