Mining history in Wyoming rarely gets told as a humanities question. It lives in geology departments, in energy policy, in economic development reports — rarely in the same room as labor history, immigration, art, and memory. Western Mining Humanities is built to put those rooms together.

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.