Current Exhibits
Celia Bower Solo Artist Exhibition: Getting to Know the Birds, January 3rd - February 22nd, 2025
Exhibit runs through 2025-02-23
Celia Bower, Getting to Know the Birds
January 3 — February 22, 2025 | Community Room Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, January 3, 2025 | 4:30 - 7pm
Getting to Know the Birds is a multi-media body of work created by artist Celia Bower after working with the Juneau Audubon Society in the spring and summer of 2023. The pieces in this exhibition illustrate some of Celia’s experience with field work conducted over the season and is accompanied by journal pages that were created in the field.
Celia grew up commercial fishing out of Port Alexander with her family. Her unique upbringing cultivated a deep love and inspiration for local flora, fauna, and natural habitats. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, Celia began to pursue her artistic side. Since then, she has been creating art all over southeast, Alaska. Celia’s fishing background, and science training, largely informs her artistic process and subject choices. Celia resides in Juneau but still spends part of the year hunting and fishing on southern Baranof Island.
Switch and Exchange: A Brief History of Telephones in 20th Century Juneau
Exhibit runs through 2025-12-01
Opening Reception: January, 5th, 4-7pm
Telephones, switchboards, and the lines that connected them were once signifiers of a thriving modern community in the 20th Century. Juneau, as the first city in Alaska to have an established telephone system, exemplified a modern community in this way. This mini exhibition explores the history of landline telephones, Juneau’s early telephone company, and why Juneau has a community named Telephone Hill through interactives, phones, photographs, and art.
Teri Gardner Robus, Timi Johnson, and Patrick Ripp: 3 Body Problem- Random chance and self-imposed constraints guiding 3 artists in pursuit of paintings, December 6th - January 25th
Exhibit runs through 2025-01-26
Patrick Ripp, Timi Johnson and Teri Robus: 3 Body Problem—Random chance and self-imposed constraints guiding 3 artists in pursuit of paintings
December 6, 2024- January 25, 2025 | Leslie Murray Gallery
Opening Reception: December 6, 2024 | 4:30–7pm
3 Body Problem—Random chance and self-imposed constraints guiding 3 artists in pursuit of paintings is the result of works created by three painters who met periodically over the course of a year to determine collective painting projects or “challenges”. The challenges took the form of randomly selected rules and limitations such as restrictions in color use, subject matter, media, time, size, and use of unconventional tools or techniques. This approach underscores the artist’s belief that art is not solely the product of meticulous planning but can be created by unpredictable elements. 3 Body Problem showcases how each artist's unique approach to the challenges contributes to a collective exploration of creativity.
Patrick Ripp is an acrylic painter who enjoys both the challenges of the medium and the unique experience of painting outdoors in Southeast Alaska. Timi Johnson paints primarily in oil and has expanded to include charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, watercolor, and mixed media into her compositions. Teri Robus paints with oils sometimes mixed with wax. She uses many different materials and tools to make marks, textures, and shapes on her surfaces.