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.

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.