This spring, ALCES Community Works was glad to support Relative Theatrics' PLAY/WRITE showcase, lending creative prop support, tech support, and hospitality to the adult actors bringing nine student-written plays to life on stage. We believe in what happens when kids are trusted with real artistic tools.

On May 10th, ALCES Community Works was proud to support Tales from Wyoming — an afternoon of storytelling, singing, fibbing, humming, yodeling, and whatever else Shawn Hess, Hillery Lynn, and J Shogren felt moved to do in front of a room full of people.

The Celebrate Wyoming People’s History project uplifts the individuals, groups, events, and movements that have shaped Wyoming’s social and cultural landscape. In partnership with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Alces Community Worksis working local aritsts—including young people!— to create posters that honor the state’s often-overlooked histories of labor, community organizing, and collective care.

This responsive initiative partners artists from across Wyoming with public lands advocates and policymakers to co-create a series of free, accessible posters that celebrate—and advocate for—our shared public lands. Great for rallies, hanging in your living room window, or sharing with another pal in the West. Three posters to date!

Alces supported Paño Connections in preparing the Traveling Prison Art Exhibition, a nationally recognized initiative featuring the Conviction Series by founder Eric “Christo” Martinez alongside works from its permanent collection. The collective fosters dialogue and rehabilitation through art created by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists, their families, and communities affected by mass incarceration.

We work with Cheyenne’s Hellenic House and Cultural Center to support the preservation and continued operation of Wyoming’s only Greek cultural center. Together, we are documenting and amplifying stories of Greek immigration, labor, contribution, and cultural life in Wyoming.

Community Kitchen is our cultural exchange project that brings people together through shared cooking, storytelling, and care. Each gathering centers a family from our local community, inviting them to share food traditions from their home culture while cooking alongside neighbors in Laramie.

The White Pelican Project takes its name from the beloved bird that migrates between the Gulf Coast of New Orleans and the Intermountain West, embodying connection across distance and place. This initiative brings New Orleans–based storytellers, artists, and creatives to Albany County to share their practices through free, community workshops.

A unique artist residency program at the Snow Survey Cabin, situated along the Snowy Range Scenic Byway in the Brush Creek-Hayden Ranger District of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. Each year, Alces invites two science communicators to participate in this mini-residency, providing creative support, a $150 stipend and up to four nights of accommodation in the Forest Service Snow Survey Cabin.

High Iron is a moving piece of public art—a modified train car—that features stories of ancestors who constructed the transcontinental railroad, multigenerational laborers who built the economy of Wyoming, and contemporary rail workers and their unions.

In partnership with Laramie Interfaith, Alces commissioned artist Rhiannon Jakopak to create Bright Strength, a site-specific mural for the organization’s lobby —an environment where care, resource-sharing, and mutual support are practiced daily.

In Good Hands is our ongoing public art initiative that places original artwork inside two of Laramie's most essential healthcare spaces: 7220 Counseling, which specializes in LGBTQIA+ mental health, and the Downtown Clinic, which serves our uninsured neighbors, and Laramie Reproductive Health which supports us in all our reproductive health needs!

When our immigrant neighbors are loved and supported, our whole community is stronger. ALCES Community Works contributed promotional design and printing to support Juntos Wyoming's Immigration Justice Fundraiser — a night of music, food, drinks, and community solidarity at the Laramie Plains Civic Center.

This minigrant program expended $3,000 statewide to immigrant and second-generation storytellers in Wyoming to bring a specific creative project to completion. Through small, flexible grants and optional support for a community gathering or public sharing, we created space for storytellers to work with care, autonomy, and intention.

Alces is consulting with Maravilla — a retreat center in Taos whose invitation to reconnect with wonder draws seekers, artists, and thinkers to one of the most creatively charged landscapes in the American West — on the development of their artist residency program.

At ALCES, we believe that when our stories are told, we are represented — and that a vibrant democracy depends on who gets to be seen, heard, and remembered.

Housing is a story about belonging. ALCES Community Works designed the website for Wyoming Neighbors for Housing, a nonprofit bringing Wyomingites together around housing affordability, education, and policy advocacy.

Rural Youth Leaders is a new collaborative initiative rooted in place, culture, and the transformative power of youth leadership. Rural Youth Leaders (RYL) is designed to uplift and invest in the leadership of creative young people and the cultural stewards who support them in rural communities.

Re-Storying the West hosts state-wide story-gathering events designed to amplify the voices of everyday Wyoming citizens across a range of identities and roles. From the folks who cook our food, educate our children, serve in the military, build our homes, and keep our communities running through the good times and the challenges, their stories deserve a spotlight.

With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we curated an evening with intergenerational Albany County residents, sharing a meal and participating in a guided conversation focused on community challenges, diverse perspectives, and collective hopes for the future.