The Gorgon Gallery
Gorgon Gallery is a free, public gallery located in Room 332 of the historic Laramie Plains Civic Center. This refurbished science classroom opened in April of 2023 and features rotating works.
The gallery is open to the public during LPCC business hours (10 AM to 8 PM on Monday-Thursday) and by appointment. If you’re interested in scheduling time in the space, curating a show, or collaborating with LPCC’s team, contact Aubree Wallace at awallace@lpccwy.org.
Current Show
Building a New World from the Shell of the Old
Open to the public June 8 – July 2, 2026
Reception: Thursday, June 18th, 6- 7:30 pm // open to the public
Presented by Alces Community Works, supported by Wyoming Humanities, in partnership with the Working-Class Studies Association Conference
Building a New World from the Shell of the Old takes its title—and its spirit—from the radical imagination of the Industrial Workers of the World, whose century-old call to collective action feels newly urgent today. Rooted in the High Plains of Wyoming—current home of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone peoples, and ancestral homeland to the Northern Arapaho, Eastern Shoshone, Northern Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux, and White River Ute—this exhibition emerges from a landscape shaped by generations of ranching, railroad, mining, caregiving, service, creative, and migratory labor. It centers the power of working people to transform the systems that structure our shared lives.
Rather than treating labor as background or inevitability, the exhibition positions it as a creative, political, and relational force. Workers have always been builders of worlds: caretakers of land and kin; craftspersons holding communities together; industrial and railroad workers who carved the region’s infrastructure; immigrant and multigenerational families whose labor sustains towns; artists and cultural workers whose practices keep memory alive. These histories reveal that the West has never been shaped by rugged individualism —it has been forged, again and again, through solidarity, collective courage, mutual aid, and shared struggle.
The artists in this exhibition illuminate how work binds people into movements and how organizing creates new social possibilities. Through archival inquiry, material experimentation, personal narrative, and speculative futures, their artworks trace the ways communities resist exploitation, care for each other, and envision worlds beyond extraction. They make visible the long continuum of workers who have dared to imagine something different—who continue to build, in their everyday lives, the world that could be.
Throughout June, this gallery becomes a site of gathering and collective reflection. During the Working-Class Studies Association Conference, exhibiting artists will join organizers, scholars, and movement thinkers for a public roundtable on art, labor, and solidarity.
Building a New World from the Shell of the Old invites us to consider how art can help us understand the world we have—and how, together, we might build the one we need.
The Gorgon Gallery’s 2026 shows are presented by Artillect.
Artillect is a 20-week cohort program, created by artists for artists, to expertly counsel and empower your full-time art ambitions.
Learn more at artillect.com.
Past shows
2026:
Printmaking with Jim Jereb: A Creative Aging Exhibition
I Don’t Know What This Is (But I Love It)
2025
Made in Laramie: A Gorgon Gallery Art Auction Fundraiser
The Space Between: Exploring Where Contrast Becomes Connection
Paño Connections: Vast Horizons/Confined Spaces
Printmaking: Exploring the Process
Free Range Art: Embracing the Chaos of Creativity
2024
Mindful: Artmaking as Meditation
Woman: Perspective from the Feminine
Queer Expression presented with Laramie Pridefest
Art through Aging: Creative Aging Exhibition
Prayers on Fire by Kelwin Coleman
Juntos Florecemos curated by Ismael Dominguez
2023
Debut Show & Gallery Opening: Laramie Plains Civic Center Tenant Show hosted in conjunction with the Laramie Pop Up Art Walk
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