Majestic 2024
Dancing with Sweetgrass
Works by Kim Weston
August 27 to October 18, 2026
Drumming Performance, Artist Talk and Reception: Sunday, September 27, 1–3 p.m. (performance and talk @ 1:30 p.m.)
Virtual Artist Talk: Monday, October 1, 7–8 p.m. Registration required
In Weston’s exhibition, Dancing with Sweetgrass, the viewer is confronted with massive, heavily blurred, colorful photographs. The scale envelops the viewer. Formally, we are seduced by the motion, lines, colors, textures, and contrast of light and shapes. Conceptually, they challenge our sense of “knowing,” prompting questions such as: What do we see? What can we truly understand and connect with? Up close, the images dissolve into abstraction, while distance reveals new forms. Dancing with Sweetgrass plays with abstraction while photographing the country’s Powwow circuit and its dancers. The photographs blur past and present ancestry while creating shifting figures that challenge fixed ideas of identity and what is “seen and known.”
Visit our Current Exhibition for more information on this exhibition.
Publication
Watch Write Now with Gayle C. Heney: November 2025 interview featuring the author Nancy Wynn. Write Now, HC Media’s television program, explores the act of writing and celebrates authors who have published works. Heney has been producing Write Now since 1999.
Clare Gallery’s completed its 20th Anniversary at the end of 2024. We are celebrating this major accomplishment with the publication of Graceful Partners by Nancy E. Wynn.
This book documents the twenty-year history of the Clare Gallery at the Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry by sharing essays, exhibition content, and community impact statements. Wynn has managed and been Chair of the Clare Gallery since its inception in 2003. She wrote, edited, designed, and self-published the book. The book is currently available on Amazon. In the fall, there will be a few events at the Gallery. More to come…
Call to Artists
This year, our 23rd season, the Gallery is focused on artists’ work that has environmental and sustainable connections. We are also planning for 2026 and beyond! Artists interested in exhibiting at the Clare Gallery should download the Call to Artists Application, which are reviewed in a timely manner.
Visiting
The public is welcome to visit the Gallery to view the artwork. Parking is free across the street at the Saints lot. Take a ticket for validation (no need to use your credit card). The Gallery is accessible for all. Masks are optional.
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