Art Shows

2025 Community Art show:
Birds and Myth: meanings, metaphors, and guides

Birds are some of our teachers, not only through our senses and observations, but also through our stories about them. These can be factual accounts, broad myths, or something in between. Legends, beliefs, representations, truth, insight, guidance, metaphors, meanings, and understandings all play a part.

Our 2025 art show, Birds and Myth: meanings, metaphors, and guides, is centered on these ideas of birds as they appear in myths, both old and modern. Birds and Myth immerses us in the stories, hopes, and imaginations of over 50 artists, photographers, and poets of all ages.

The show is open from May – October and is included with Museum admission.

The work shown here is Democracy Phoenix Egg, a mixed media piece by Cat McKeen, who writes,

“We stand up to those who try to burn us down.
Reborn in the fire, rising high above the ash,
Screaming our defiance.
We resist. We fight. We soar.

The Phoenix Egg is symbol of immortality & rebirth, new life and the continuation of the cycle. I’ve put my own spin on the burning down of Democracy and how it will, hopefully, rise from the ashes and be with us again.”