Celebrate the launch of two new exhibits! Featured artists and contributors will be on site to share about their work and the exhibit development.

Light in the Dark

Light in the Dark celebrates illumination, bringing five light artists to our windows. Pieces range in materials from weaving to paper mache and will be suspended from the ceiling, viewable through our windows all winter, bringing extra light to Olympia’s streets during the darkest months of the year.

Image (above left): Stellated polyhedron with a 22” diameter, created by Nichole Rose

Mapping Olympia

Walk our hallway gallery between two walls of maps, from 1841 explorers’ charts to Tom Boucher's Psychogeographic Atlas of Olympia, and learn how maps have helped people find their way, claim land, and imagine Olympia into being. Mapping Olympia features maps you can touch, listen to, and collaborate to create.

Image (above right): Topographical map of Capitol grounds and vicinity (1927), courtesy of Washington State Archives

This event is free and open to the public.