Current Exhibition / South Gallery

Wildfire Season/Garden Party

Work by Nancy Helmsworth & Angela Riggs

In the South Gallery, gallery member Nancy Helmsworth will be showing new paintings and dimensional work sparked by her concern over wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. While summer fires are normal for this area and this season, the fires in Oregon have exponentially increased in number and size since 2014. Climate change begs the question: is this our new seasonal normal?

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Step into a sun-dappled garden where woven and painted works grow wild together. Gallery member Angela Riggs’ chunky, handwoven tapestries cascade in mossy green, soft pink, and golden yellow, while her abstract watercolors bloom with the feeling of overgrown flowers and copper accents catching the light like the sun through leaves. Garden Party transforms the gallery into a garden, where every corner is in bloom.