LA CONNER, WA.- Summer 2025 launches an exciting selection of fresh programs including two new contemporary art exhibitions investigating how we experience the natural environment, particularly within the context of Northwest Art in the region. Both exhibitions draw on deep historical, cultural, and environmental roots that tie together nature and the arts to create an experience designed to promote deep reflection on our cultural and personal interaction with the environmental landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Though the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art
June 28- September 28, 2025

The Pacific Northwest is often synonymous with nature, but what is it about the landscape that inspires such an emotional, intuitive, and often immediate response? Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art, guest curated by Chloe Dye Sherpe, features work by Drie Chapek, Ellen George, Weston Lambert, Camas Logue, Adam Sorensen, and KCJ Szwedzinski. These artists view nature through a unique lens tied to various elements found in our world: light, water, earth, and energy. Out of all these elements, it is the light in the Northwest, especially the Skagit Valley, that has such a profound impact on how individuals connect with themselves, each other, and the world around them. The artists in the exhibition provide viewers with an insight into the dynamics of nature by creating small moments with personal interventions that inspire viewers to consider their relationship with the surrounding environment in a different way.

Aaron Loveitt: Succession, Within a Landscape Unfolding

Aaron Loveitt: Succession, Within A Landscape Unfolding explores the rapid transformation of the Northwest landscape through three monumental sculptures: Revere, Reap, and Recover. Spanning past, present, and future, the installation reflects on cycles of change, memory, and renewal. Loveitt’s work blends abstraction and realism, prompting viewers to consider scale, perspective, and our environmental impact.

Working with industrial materials and processes that exemplify the organic malleability of steel, aluminum and glass, this body of work elicits a sense of duality as Loveitt searches for a balance somewhere between growth and repose, honoring and mourning, celebration and warning. Through an abstraction of form as well as philosophy to a point of seeming neutrality, this exhibition offers the viewer a unique perspective of this place to contemplate. His first solo museum exhibition, Succession aligns with MoNA’s mission to connect art and ecology, honoring the deep creative tradition rooted in the Pacific Northwest’s unique ecosystems.

Outside In Gallery: Art-a-phobia: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing - MoNA's Teen Art Club

Creating and sharing art requires vulnerability. There is a leap of faith in the moment between revealing a creation and awaiting the reaction. MoNA’s Teen Art Club presents Art-a-Phobia: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, an art exhibition created by the Museum’s club’s youth and curated by the students in the Teen Leads program. Sharing fears, experiments, and discoveries, this exhibition encourages viewers to see the connections that these young artists are making both within their own art and within the bounds of the club’s creative community.