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

The Company We Keep

Open to the public July 10 – July 31st , 2026
Reception: Friday, July 10 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM // open to the public

“Some people’s hands look like they have their own soul.” — Mimi

There are moments in everyday life that quietly reveal who we are. In The Company We Keep, Mimi’s intimate oil paintings explore relationships, memory, and the subtle beauty found in ordinary moments. Through gesture, texture, and careful observation, her work invites us to look a little closer—at ourselves and at one another.

OPEN CALL FOR ART

Side Quests: An exhibition presented in partnership with Wyoming FringeFest

What's your current side quest?

Every artist has one.

It's the unfamiliar material you've been meaning to try. The question that won't leave you alone. The collaboration you didn't expect. The idea scribbled in the margins of your sketchbook. The experiment that doesn't quite belong in your current body of work.

These creative detours are often where discovery happens.

Side Quests celebrates the work born from curiosity, play, experimentation, and artistic risk. We invite artists working in all visual media to share projects that explore new directions, embrace unexpected processes, or reveal the evolving edges of their creative practice.

As part of Wyoming FringeFest, selected artworks will become the inspiration for original ekphrastic writing by University of Wyoming MFA students. These written responses will be performed live by actors throughout the exhibition, creating an ongoing conversation between visual art, literature, and performance.

Whether your side quest is a new technique, an unusual material, an interdisciplinary collaboration, or simply an idea you've been waiting for the right moment to explore, we invite you to take the detour.

Follow your curiosity.

We're excited to see where it leads.

Previous 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.

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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LPCC is a non-profit organization that serves as a community fostering connections, nurturing creativity, and ensuring an enriched future with a vision to cultivate a vibrant and inclusive space for people to gather, connect, and grow.

Donations go to support the preservation of the historic facility and the continuation of accessible visual and performing arts experiences and programming for Albany County and the Front Range.

Questions about gifts to LPCC can be directed to Jessica Brauer at jbrauer@lpccwy.org.