ANCHORS
Anchors are the long-term, deeply invested projects that ALCES stewards from inception through life in the world. Each one begins with a question, a community, or a need — and grows into something that travels, teaches, and lasts. These are the projects we tend most carefully, the ones that carry our fullest commitments to place, memory, and collective making.
MOVING MONUMENT · I-80 CORRIDOR · 2024–2029
HIGH IRON
A transformed historic boxcar carrying the stories of immigrant and migrant workers who built the transcontinental railroad — traveling rail towns across Wyoming through 2029.
PEOPLE'S HISTORY · STATEWIDE, WY
CELEBRATE WYOMING PEOPLE'S HISTORY!
Poster commissions honoring Wyoming's overlooked histories of labor and collective care — including a recent chapter centered entirely on youth artists from Laramie High School.
ARTIST RESIDENCY · MEDICINE BOW-ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST
SNOW SURVEY CABIN RESIDENCY
Three science communicators each year, immersed in the Snowy Range — making work that tells the stories of local ecologies and the people who study them. Slow work. Quiet work.
TRANSNATIONAL INSTALLATION · LARAMIE, & BUTTE, MT & COUNTY CORK, IRELAND
AMERICAN WAKE: FILLEADH
A tri-site multimedia installation centered on the Irish diaspora and labor organizating in The West, opening simultaneously in Ireland, Wyoming and Montana — asking what it means to bring a life home across an ocean and a century.
EXCHANGE PROGRAM · ALBANY COUNTY, WY
THE WHITE PELICAN PROJECT
New Orleans–based artists and culture workers travel to Albany County each year for free community workshops — an annual exchange between two places and two creative traditions.