BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//www.zootownarts.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10//
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
UID:e6e4a403-7757-4e2e-81d9-389b5a080e95
X-WR-CALDESC:Gallery Opening on Friday\, January 7\, 2021\, 5-8 PM\nExhibit
 ing in the Main Gallery through the month of January\n\nTHE SECRET GARDEN 
 SERIES: \nWhat’s Old is New Again\nHEATHER STOCKTON\n\nThe Secret Garden S
 eries is an ongoing body of work\, which supposes that each image glimpses
  a garden of secrets\, and that garden is our mind\, populated by the flor
 a and fauna of our consciousness. The canvases revisit my earlier explorat
 ion in color as a medium for concretizing the complexities of the mind. So
 me canvases juxtapose white negative space between moments of spectral sha
 des of color to represent the ways our consciousness flows between differe
 nt stages of knowing\, understanding\, and remembering. Other canvases fea
 ture more densely colored spaces\, not unlike moments of hyperfocus\, reve
 aling the ways our minds tend to circle back around—in a sense\, reviving 
 ideas to make what’s old\, new again. Like a garden\, growth in the canvas
  depends on recycling various forms of organic material\, such as the inco
 rporation of vintage papers (usually floral based wrapping paper)\, journa
 l entries\, pieces of my older artworks. However\, the balance between the
 se elements is delicate\, almost fragile\, easily threatened by oversatura
 tion. The balance I want to strike draws a parallel between the garden and
  the mind to suggest that like the environment\, our minds can be easily o
 verwhelmed without balance. The richness of color and layering speaks to t
 he intensity of emotion and thought that can seem to almost breach our eff
 orts to shore up the boundaries used to tend our personal gardens\; howeve
 r\, the finished piece ultimately sees the intensity of beauty in spite (a
 nd almost without knowledge) of the complexity fueling the fertility. Like
  our memories\, these pieces use layering to concretize how our minds tend
  to scaffold\, drawing from a range of experiences to create connections t
 hat ultimately create the beauty of lives lived.\n\nBeautiful Wild Montana
 \nNANCY FITCH\n\nNancy Fitch is a retired Missoula family physician who sp
 ent 10+ years in Africa\, helping countries build their own capacity to tr
 eat HIV. Since her teen years\, her passion has been drawing and painting.
  She studied at Rhode Island School of Design briefly during college\, and
  practiced her art whenever she had time and energy. After retiring a few 
 years ago\, she re-kindled her love of painting\, focusing on Montana’s pr
 istine nature. Nancy tries to capture the ethereal fleeting light and cont
 rasts in nature\, particularly flowers\, weather\, clouds\, water\, and re
 flections. She loves the transparency\, accessibility\, and hues of waterc
 olor.  Nancy loves Missoula’s North Hills and walks her dogs there most da
 ys.
X-WR-RELCALID:b2fb8506a6ee259ab6ced3214b0b1fce
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Denver
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:MST
DTSTART:20211107T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
RDATE:20221106T020000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20210314T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
RDATE:20220313T020000
RDATE:20230312T020000
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d2db3404-fbc6-4705-a7e4-d5213ce593bb
DTSTAMP:20261105T204620Z
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Opening on Friday\, January 7\, 2021\, 5-8 PM\nExhibiti
 ng in the Main Gallery through the month of January\n\nTHE SECRET GARDEN S
 ERIES: \nWhat’s Old is New Again\nHEATHER STOCKTON\n\nThe Secret Garden Se
 ries is an ongoing body of work\, which supposes that each image glimpses 
 a garden of secrets\, and that garden is our mind\, populated by the flora
  and fauna of our consciousness. The canvases revisit my earlier explorati
 on in color as a medium for concretizing the complexities of the mind. Som
 e canvases juxtapose white negative space between moments of spectral shad
 es of color to represent the ways our consciousness flows between differen
 t stages of knowing\, understanding\, and remembering. Other canvases feat
 ure more densely colored spaces\, not unlike moments of hyperfocus\, revea
 ling the ways our minds tend to circle back around—in a sense\, reviving i
 deas to make what’s old\, new again. Like a garden\, growth in the canvas 
 depends on recycling various forms of organic material\, such as the incor
 poration of vintage papers (usually floral based wrapping paper)\, journal
  entries\, pieces of my older artworks. However\, the balance between thes
 e elements is delicate\, almost fragile\, easily threatened by oversaturat
 ion. The balance I want to strike draws a parallel between the garden and 
 the mind to suggest that like the environment\, our minds can be easily ov
 erwhelmed without balance. The richness of color and layering speaks to th
 e intensity of emotion and thought that can seem to almost breach our effo
 rts to shore up the boundaries used to tend our personal gardens\; however
 \, the finished piece ultimately sees the intensity of beauty in spite (an
 d almost without knowledge) of the complexity fueling the fertility. Like 
 our memories\, these pieces use layering to concretize how our minds tend 
 to scaffold\, drawing from a range of experiences to create connections th
 at ultimately create the beauty of lives lived.\n\nBeautiful Wild Montana
 \nNANCY FITCH\n\nNancy Fitch is a retired Missoula family physician who sp
 ent 10+ years in Africa\, helping countries build their own capacity to tr
 eat HIV. Since her teen years\, her passion has been drawing and painting.
  She studied at Rhode Island School of Design briefly during college\, and
  practiced her art whenever she had time and energy. After retiring a few 
 years ago\, she re-kindled her love of painting\, focusing on Montana’s pr
 istine nature. Nancy tries to capture the ethereal fleeting light and cont
 rasts in nature\, particularly flowers\, weather\, clouds\, water\, and re
 flections. She loves the transparency\, accessibility\, and hues of waterc
 olor.  Nancy loves Missoula’s North Hills and walks her dogs there most da
 ys.
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220130T180000
LOCATION:in the Main Gallery
SUMMARY:What's Old is New Again – Works by Heather Stockton\, & Beautiful W
 ild Montana – Works by Nancy Fitch
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR