Show open indoors & outdoors thru November 1, 2019; Gallery open T/W/Th 12:30-3:30 or by appt.

Mendocino College visual and performing arts faculty, along with countless students, fire survivors, and community members, have been working together for over a year to bring to fruition The Phoenix Project. The Phoenix Project is a multi-media community and campus-wide arts action, with over 100 locally, nationally, and internationally-recognized visual and performing artists joining fire survivors to confront human caused climate change and its effects on the community.

The ensemble of events that make up the Phoenix Project include workshops, a gala opening for the indoor and outdoor art exhibit, an original theatre production, a dance concert, and a choir and vocal jazz concert.

These exhibitions and performances are designed to be more than just shows; they offer art as direct action towards the future. The college faculty guiding the various “Phoenix projects”- outdoor sculptures, the original play, the dances- agreed to a new kind of process: art that is participatory, collaborative, and proactive towards issues that effect our survival.