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!

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 Works is commissioning a new series of posters that honor the state’s often-overlooked histories of labor, community organizing, and collective care.

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.

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.

Through Art for All, we provided free arts-integrated opportunities for seven Laramie nonprofits, tailoring each collaboration to the unique needs of our partners. We worked closely with local artists to bring the joy of artmaking into community spaces—supporting them through commissions, purchasing artwork, and hiring them to lead workshops.

The Youth Justice Institute (YJI) wasrooted in youth voice and action. It supported community-building, civic education, and resource mapping with teens in Albany County from 2021-2025.  We supported spaces and programming where young folks can discuss issues that affect them in their communities, explore these issues with adult community leaders, and envision their futures through art making.  

Alces partnered with the Laramie Plains Civic Center to design interpretive materials that illuminate the rich history of the building. Drawing from LPCC’s archival collections and historical documents, we created a public-facing exhibit that shares the layered story of the space, from its origins to its evolving role in the community.