Free and open to the public
Exhibitions and Gallery Events
Gallery Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 4 pm
Closed Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
Current Exhibition
Any Others:
Fragments of the whole
March 3 - 11, 2025
Any Others constellates shared themes and concepts from individual perspectives by participants in the program, The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real: Visual Art, Literary Arts, and Philosophy. The exhibition functions as a laboratory communally organized around Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian psychoanalytic concept of three psychic registers: the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. These registers dialogue with each other and our surrounding world, forming a departure point for the aesthetic and philosophical visual and written works in conversation.
Students collaboratively curated this exhibition by combining their art pieces with works from the college archive and specimens from the natural history collection to create a cohesive new subject. Through this process, they have led a revitalization of student interaction with campus spaces. The physical arrangements create conversations between adjacent pieces, resulting in dialectical interactions that explore themes of identity, the castrated self, sex and death, the psyche and its linguistic structures, and the natural world as contorted by the symbolic.
Program professors challenged students to animate the gallery with their individual projects, integrating materials reclaimed from across the college—including the previously mentioned collections and furniture from overflow—encouraging them to merge their work and language with objects hidden in plain sight.
Artist Talks and Performances
March 11, 9 am to 8 pm
Please join the students of The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real: Visual Art, Literary Arts, and Philosophy in an all-day event, including readings, performances, and artist talks.
Light refreshments will be available
Group Tours
If you would like to schedule a tour for your class or group, please contact oshas@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.