Kinship: A Collaboration With Nature

July 17th-September 13th, 2026 | Entry: Free/By Donation

Kinship: A Collaboration With Nature invites viewers into the wonder of nature and time. Bringing together contemporary artists who work with living materials, ecological processes, and forms drawn from the natural world, this exhibition considers how nature itself becomes a collaborator in shaping artistic expression. Rather than fixed objects, the works here unfold through growth, decay, weather, and care—reminding us that living systems are always in motion.

Nature appears here as both medium and framework. Artists engage with organic structures, ecological cycles, and the quiet intelligence of living things to create works that evolve over time. Light, moisture, gravity, and growth become compositional tools, shaping forms that resist permanence and invite attention to subtle change.

Workshops, Opportunities, & Events

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Opening Reception
Friday, July 17th  | 5PM-7PM | Entry: Free/All Are Welcome
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Bonsai Pop-Up: An Exhibition In The Courtyard
Saturday, August 1st  | 11AM-5PM | Entry: Free/By Donation
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INSIDE: Terrarium Workshop In The Gallery
Coming Soon.
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Olympic Coast Creative Collaboration: Ceramic Bonsai Planter Workshop
Coming Soon.
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Featured Artists:

Françoise Weeks was born in Belgium and started her business in 1996. She has infused her work with a quintessential European reverence for flowers and nature. Combined with creativity and mechanical ingenuity, she has crystalized her singular style of Textural Woodlands and Botanical Haute Couture pieces, garnering a global following. Françoise’s studio is located in Portland, Oregon. Her generosity of knowledge and perspective in use of floral materials, structure and mechanics, in addition to the business of being a florist, unite to create rigorous and exciting learning opportunities for her students to explore all that nature has to offer.

Julie Kim 김미정 is a Seattle based, Korean-American artist. She creates multi-layered watercolor paintings that explore themes of wholeness, transformation, and healing. Her paintings reflect both inner and outer landscapes, guided by an internal practice of slowness and presence. Her process includes foraging natural rocks and minerals to create handmade earth pigments and paints. More than a material practice, this becomes a collaboration and dialogue with the land — infusing each painting with a sense of place, time, and the natural elements. Painting becomes a way of bridging the natural and human-made, the wild and urban, fluidity and structure.

Jen VanDyke is coming soon...

Betsy Peabody is coming soon...

Lil Bit Garden is coming soon...

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