Art Shows

2023 Art Exhibit: Spark! fueling a love of birds

Many birders—and artists—have a “spark” moment that fueled a lifelong love of birds and birding and took them in unexpected directions.

What’s your spark story? How did you start combining birds, birding, art, and science in your art? Does it show in your work?


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


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Spark! fueling a love of birds

What spark stories do you find in these stories, poems, and images in our 2023 art show?
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Call to Artists: Spark!

What sparked your love of birds or birding and thus led you in new directions? Share the moment with your art!
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Fine Feathers, at play with structure and function | 2022 community art show

This year’s art show features over 70 works inspired by birds and their feathers. The creators are influenced by feather colors, shapes, patterns, and functions.

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Call to Artists: Fine Feathers

Make art inspired by birds’ feathers: from functional to fabulous. Feathers come in thousands of sizes and colors, in fantastic shapes, in different seasons, and for many reasons. Which of these emerge in your art?
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Expanding Voices: perspectives on birding | 2021 community art show

Our 2021 art show, Expanding Voices, explores and reflects the past year. Visual arts, poetry, 3D, and prose pieces capture the variety of solitudes, connections, race issues, changes and changelessness, new skills, and understandings we  experienced in 2020. Forty artists, photographers, writers,  and poets had their work selected for this year’s show. They range from …

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Call to Artists: Expanding Voices

The year 2020 asked a lot of us—and taught us even more. As our habitual systems hit rock bottom under the weight of the pandemic, economic hardship, and social injustice, voices rose, and long-time institutions were loudly questioned. New ways of experiencing and perceiving our world opened our minds to new comprehension. How could our art, our creativity, our practices remain unaffected?

Your experience and perspective may be unseen or unknown to someone else, even in the same community. For 2021, we’d like to hear and share your artistic voice. Explore how our perspectives on birds, birding, and birders have changed in response to our experiences of 2020.

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