Exhibition Dates
January 12 - February 5, 2026
*Please note the gallery will be closed on January 19th
Gallery Reception
Monday, January 12th from 4-6pm
Including Artist Talks, Refreshments, & Light Hors D'ouevres
FREE to campus & the community!
RSVP Required - book your seat here
About the Exhibition: 66 Birds/3 Degrees
Step into a powerful intersection of art, science, and sound in 66 Birds/3 Degrees,
an immersive new exhibition revealing what's at stake for Western Washington's birdlife
in a warming world. Through intimate, portrait-style paintings - each bird meeting
your gaze - and motion-activated recordings of their songs, the work creates a visceral
encounter with species identified as at risk in the National Audubon Society's climate
study and by WDFW. Presented alongside the companion project Return to Life, which celebrates species rebounding from the brink through dedicated conservation
efforts, the exhibition offers both a sober warning and a hopeful reminder: decline
is not inevitable, and recovery is possible.
Find out more about the Artist:
Natalie Niblack was born into a military family, which meant moving every 3 years.
She didn't call any place home until landing in Northwest Washington in 1979, where
she has been ever since. Belonging and stewardship for what we call "home" has increasingly
informed her work since moving from Seattle to rural Skagit Valley in 2000. She lives
next to Skagit River, where she can observe the pressures of conflicting demands on
a fragile landscape, and her work has come to reflect accelerated change in our culture
- change in the climate, environment, politics, and social justice. She asks the viwer
to recognize the consequences of our relationship with the environment, and the choices
we have collectively made that are inevitably altering the world around us. Her most
recent work focuses on threats to bird species, near extinctions, and specie recovery
in large projects painted in oil on linen. While her first love is painting, she also
creates political and social satires in ceramics, and even more birds in glass and
relief printmaking. She is committed to exhibiting work in rural public spaces where
challenging work is rarely seen, especially in the Pacific Northwest. She feels it
is important to bring the conversation about climate to as many places as possible.
Niblack taught visual art at Shoreline Community College from 1996 to 2016. She received
an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland in 1993, and has shown her work in
solo and group shows internationally, nationally, and regionally.
Extensive use of timber establishes a bond with the region's history of lumber production
and enhances the aesthetics and acoustics
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