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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

An ongoing series of community events designed to bring creatives and artmakers together to explore practice, process, and inspiration through conversation. These gatherings celebrate the vibrancy of artistic communities while fostering deeper community connections by creating space for shared learning, listening, and dialogue.