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.
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.
View project →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.
View project →Snow Survey Cabin Residency
Two natural historians 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.
View project →Tides of Rematriation
ALCES's larger, ongoing transnational monument and memory project bringing diaspora communities home — connecting descendants and ancestors across oceans. Its first installment, American Wake: Filleadh, centers the Irish diaspora and labor organizing in the West, opening simultaneously in Ireland, Wyoming, and Montana.
View project →The White Pelican Project
New Orleans–based artists and culture workers travel across Wyoming each year for free community workshops — an annual exchange between two places and two creative traditions.
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