Current Exhibition - Closed for Summer
Upcoming
Path to Progress
New works by Roger Allan Cleaves
October 1 - December 4, 2026
· Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 20th, 2026, 2- 5pm
· Artist Talk: Thursday, October 22nd, 2026, 11am - 12 noon
Path to Progress represents a chapter in Roger Allan Cleaves’s ongoing narrative universe, Forget Me Nots Land—a world where history, folklore, popular culture, and imagined futures come together. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Cleaves brings a perspective shaped outside the Pacific Northwest to Archer Gallery. He will join us for the exhibition opening and an artist talk, giving students and visitors an opportunity to hear directly about the ideas, stories, and visual references behind his work. Cleaves’s practice is deeply connected to Afrofuturism, a movement that brings together Black history, African traditions, fantasy, technology, and science fiction to imagine new possibilities for the future. Afrofuturist art matters because imagination can be a form of agency. By envisioning Black people as protagonists, explorers, inventors, and creators of future worlds, artists can challenge histories of exclusion and imagine futures in which Black life can thrive. This idea is at the heart of Forget Me Nots Land and its central character, Bookie, a young Black protagonist navigating an ever-expanding, otherworldly universe.
Amalgamate
Work by Rachel Wolf, Zemula Barr and Chris Lael Larson
Exhibit Dates: January 4, 2027 – February 20, 2027
Opening Reception: January 14, 2027 (2am-5pm), in the gallery
Gallery Walk-through with Rachel Wolf and Chris Lael Larson: January 20, 2027 (noon - 1pm), in the gallery
Zemula Barr Artist Talk: January 26, 2027 (1-2pm), in PUB 161
Amalgamate brings together Portland-based artists Rachel Wolf, Zemula Barr, and Chris Lael Larson, three artists who challenge photography’s traditional boundaries through radically different approaches to image-making. From Barr’s digitally constructed landscapes and Wolf’s camera-less photographic experiments to Larson’s layered assemblages of photographs, paint, and found objects, each artist transforms photography from a means of recording reality into a medium for invention.
Together, their work explores what happens when the photograph is manipulated, fragmented, layered, and reimagined. Amalgamate invites viewers to question the reliability of the photographic image and consider the ways perception, memory, and material can reshape what we understand as real.
2027 Artist in Residence:
Io Palmer
Exhibit Dates: March 1 - April 13, 2027
Opening Reception: March 1, 2027, 3 – 5pm
Artist Talk: Monday, March 1, 2027, 1 – 2pm
Gallery Walk-through: March 2, 9:30 – 10:30am
Ceramics Workshop: April 15, 2027, 9 - noon
Io Palmer will be visiting from Pullman and constructing a site-specific piece, along with hosting an artist talk, gallery walk-through, and a ceramics workshop.