November 2026

Elisabeth Arzt
featuring
Kevin Thompson

November 6 – 29, 2026
Opening Reception Saturday, November 7, 5–8pm
Artist talk and workshop: November 28, 2–3 PM: Create Your Own Mythical Avatar*

Legend! Myth! Lore! brings together the work of Elisabeth Arzt and Kevin Thompson in a playful and immersive exploration of myth, imagination, transformation, and inner worlds. Arzt’s sculptures, Jewelry, Copperbots, and Primordial Eggs share the gallery with Thompson’s paintings and photography, creating a landscape where strange creatures, ancient stories, dreams, and contemporary realities collide. Together, the artists explore how we make meaning through memory, symbols, stories, and the worlds we create within and around us.

Arzt’s ebonized wooden sculptures, jewelry, articulated Copperbots, and brightly painted Primordial Eggs draw from mythology, carnival traditions, and psychological archetypes. Her imagined creatures and relic-like forms respond to a rapidly changing world shaped by technology, artificial intelligence, political instability, and shifting social norms.

Thompson’s multidisciplinary work explores nature, dreams, creativity, identity, and spirituality. Through painting, photography, digital art, collage, and mixed media, he gives form to emotions and experiences that can be difficult to see or articulate.

Together, Arzt and Thompson explore how stories, symbols, memory, and imagination help us make sense of ourselves and the world around us. Legend! Myth! Lore! invites viewers into a space where the familiar becomes strange, chaos becomes possibility, and transformation becomes a way of understanding.

Artist talk and workshop: November 28, 2–3 PM:
Create Your Own Mythical Avatar — FREE

How do we construct our identities, and what stories do we tell ourselves about who we are and who we might become? In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore these questions through a playful, Mad Libs-style myth-making activity and mixed-media sculpture.

Participants will begin by completing a series of creative prompts to invent a character, creature, or personal guide. Their imagined avatar might represent an aspect of themselves, the person they hope to become, a protective figure, a source of humor, or an entirely imagined companion. They will then bring their characters to life using found objects, recycled materials, and mixed media, transforming discarded and ordinary materials into something personal and meaningful.

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