Exhibitions and Gallery Events
Free and open to the public
| Gallery Hours | |
|---|---|
| Monday - Friday | 9 am - 5 pm |
| Saturday | 10 am - 4 pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
Chicanx/Latinx Posters Opening Event
January 22, 2026
5 - 7 pm in the Evergreen Art Gallery
Featuring music by Sin Fronteras and a presentation by artist Jake Prendez from Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery, who will speak about the importance of these artworks today. Stay tuned for an announcement about our closing event!
Current Exhibition
Chicanx/Latinx Posters:
Art, Identity, and Resistance in the PNW and Beyond
January 16 - March 5, 2026
Colectiva Cocuya and the Evergreen State College Library Archives proudly invite you to join us for an exhibition of posters and artworks by Chicanx/Latinx artists in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This exhibition highlights materials from Evergreen’s Chicano/Latino Archive, a major artistic, research, and teaching collection originally developed in the 1980s to visibilize Chicanx/Latinx artists and communities in the region.
Featuring posters, archival slides of murals, and additional materials long overdue for public exhibition, this show seeks to reactivate memory and create new sightlines between past and present. The exhibition engages images and issues with particular resonance today: cultural identity in Chicanx/Latinx movements and communities, transcontinental solidarity and anti-imperialist struggles, workers’ movements, education, and student activism.
Exhibit Curators
Colectiva Cocuya, an intersectional feminist collective rooted in Latinx communities and based in Tacoma-Seattle, organized and curated this exhibition: we facilitate participatory artistic events as a means of empowering marginalized communities and highlighting the role of art in social justice struggles.
Special Thanks
Pat Matheny-White, Emeritus Faculty Librarian, and Sid White, Faculty Emeritus, collected the original Chicano/Latino Archive. Grant Mandarino, Evergreen’s Archivist, provided access to the collection and initiated digitization with Archives and Photoland student staff.
Students from the program Migrant Archives have been involved in processing archive contents. The House of Welcome and Alexis Xóchihua provided support for hosting this show in the Evergreen Gallery.
Sponsors
Evergreen’s Daniel J. Evans Library, the Equity and Belonging Fund, and academic programs Migrant Archives and Community-Based Media and Social Justice.
Group Tours
If you would like to schedule a tour for your class or group, please contact Alexis.L.Xochihua@evergreen.edu
About the Evergreen Gallery
Curating Exhibitions and Events
Providing an opportunity
Exhibitions and Gallery events are free and open to the public. As managers of the Evergreen Gallery, the House of Welcome aims to provide opportunities for artists to bring education, cultural competency, and their unique perspectives on the human experience to the Olympia campus. Depending on the exhibition, viewers may see video screenings, live performances, interactive installations, or two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks and installations.
The Gallery presents art by professional artists — local, national, and international — with a show by Senior Thesis students at the end of each academic year. The Senior Thesis show offers students the opportunity to submit their portfolio to a rigorous review process, and, if their work is selected, to become deeply involved in creating a professional-level exhibition.
History of the Evergreen Gallery
Our mission
The Gallery has existed since the beginning of the college and has been in the current location since 2009. The space was designed to be flexible enough to show works in any media.
In 2021, management of the Evergreen Gallery was transferred to the House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center. The House of Welcome oversees the Gallery’s temporary exhibitions, with a new show installed at the beginning of Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters. The intent behind these exhibitions is intrinsically linked to the mission of the House of Welcome: to advance Indigenous arts and cultures through education, cultural exchange, and economic opportunity. The House of Welcome staff has embraced the responsibility of providing Evergreen and surrounding communities a chance to experience art from diverse cultures, philosophies, disciplines, in a range of media.