Yvonne Dalschen’s photographs provide an escape from a filtered experience, by creating portals to new adventure using discarded technology, and abstracting idealized natural forms. And in Steve Denton’s paintings, fresh characters and narratives take center stage in his disarming folk art, drawing us out from our regular day-to-day into his own world of story.

Imaginative and surreal landscape by Morgan Bakaletz and Travis Goyette’s geometric and patterned collage-work both embrace pattern and texture.

Anna Whitted creates enveloping translations of stimulating space, texture, and color, while Bonnie Kelley celebrates the beauty and unique qualities of animals. Both of these artists draw from a deep love of the natural world — one focused the earth itself, and the other focused on the live animals that inhabit it.

Tony Henson's work in large acrylic on canvas is expressive, kinetic, and synesthetic. Using traditional oil paints, Shawn Quilliams' art creates narratives drawing from deep personal history in Appalachia.