Will Mitchell’s Scenes from a Marriage examines the subtle tensions and quiet intimacies of partnership, revealing how love and power, support and control, occupy the same space.

In Scenes from a Marriage, Will explores the ever-shifting terrain of intimate relationships. These paintings are not simple portraits of love or conflict but layered reflections on how power, care, devotion, and vulnerability intertwine. Each scene captures a moment where roles blur: the same hands that nurture can also restrain, the same embrace that comforts can conceal control.

Will is fascinated by the ways people negotiate our identities within partnership – the tender exchanges, the quiet resentments, the unspoken contracts. By amplifying gestures, and gazes, Will’s art reveals how intimacy holds space for both surrender and assertion.

This body of work invites viewers to look beyond the familiar narratives of romance and see the complexity beneath and honors the courage it takes to share one’s life with another, and the delicate balance that makes a relationship endure.

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Patricia Sims' paintings are interpretations of natural forms, ancient symbols and sites. They combine various media to create complex patterns and surfaces, textural flows and the colors of sky, earth, stone -deserts, rocky plateaus and mountains.

Patricia her work is inspired by indigenous rock art, living sites and landscapes of the Southwest, California and Oregon. She has found that visiting these petroglyphs or pictographs where ancient cultures left their symbols of the hunt, shields, clan signs and abstractions in canyons and caves, high on rocky plateaus and outcroppings, under ledges and overhangs have contributed to a body of work that represents many years of conscientious investigation and careful interpretation. Patricia hopes to convey the unique timelessness and reverence one experiences in their presence and to pay homage to these sites once inhabited by a people living in balance with their environment.

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A Participatory, Reflective Art Experience by Adrienne Fritze

This exhibit blends powerful original art with public participation, inviting visitors to explore freedom, release, and reinvention. Features Adrienne’s signature Extreme Collage™ works, illustrated narratives, and an installation of participant-made Collaged Story Boxes from regional workshops. Includes participatory elements like The Freedom Wall.

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