For the last 50 years, landscape artist Rod Weagant has been documenting the powerful beauty of Western North America from the Mexican Border to the wilds of Northern Yukon. His goal is to record the pure essence of the land as it is and be attuned to the way nature affects the human character.

Meet Rod Weagant at Artworx, this First Friday! His landscape paintings will be on display at Artworx Studio for the month of July.

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“The Imagination of Respiration began with the realization that I understand very little about how my body transforms oxygen into carbon dioxide through the simple act of breathing. In an effort to move closer to this phenomenon, I approached the subject through multiple modes of investigation. One involved closely studying the microscopic systems responsible for exchanging gases within the bloodstream. Another focused on the larger biological structures involved in respiration such as the lungs, organs, and interconnected systems that sustain us. The third approach was experiential, as I was paying attention to the emotional and physical sensation of breathing itself.
Each perspective offered a different pathway into understanding respiration and the unseen complexity contained within an action so constant it often escapes notice. Rather than arriving at a clear conclusion, the process led to a body of work that encourages viewers to make their own investigation and interpretation through sculptural form, texture, scale, and spatial relationships.
The exhibition centers on wonder, and on the possibility that closely observing ordinary experiences can reveal something profound. The sculptures move between references to the body and the landscape, drawing visual parallels between internal biological systems and geological formations. Erosion lines resemble branching bronchioles, while rounded and weathered forms echo both internal organs and stone shaped slowly over time. These similarities suggest an intimate connection between our bodies and the environments we inhabit, blurring distinctions between the human and the natural world.
Equally important to the exhibition is an investment in curiosity as a method of learning. After fifteen years as an educator, I continue to believe that risk-taking, experimentation, and failure are essential tools for discovery. Throughout the creation of this work, I relied on an intuitive process of making first and understanding later. Research, observation, and material exploration intertwined with instinct and play. The sculptures often revealed their meanings gradually, emerging through the physical process of building, carving, and responding. The plan remained flexible, the process intentional, and the final forms became discoveries in themselves.”
-Joe Taylor.

The Palace Gallery is free and open to the public 12pm-4pm every Saturday and the First Friday of every month from 4-8pm.

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17 artists take over the concourse on Sunday, June 28th from 9am-3pm, creating a visual cornucopia of color and different artistic genres and styles. All visitors will be able to participate in a People’s Choice award and there will be live demonstrations of art being created as well as being able to see all the tools of the trade! Come on down to Pybus and spend the day surrounded by the amazing art and artists of North Central Washington!

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July at Lemolo features Barry Benbow’s whimsical, quirky artwork— elephants, and other playful scenes. His paintings are created to brighten your day and leave you with warm, fuzzy feelings. On display all of July.

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Artist(s): Nik Penny & Scotty Broberg
Venue: WVC MAC Gallery, Wenatchee
Opening Reception: 2026-06-05, 05:00 pm – 07:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: 2026-05-01 – 2026-06-26
Website: https://wvc.edu/learn/programs/art/macgallery.html

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In the MAC Grove Recital Hall:
Nick McMahan: Bamboo Tapestry on Maui
First Friday, June 5th, 5:00—7:00 pm

Nik Penny and Scotty Broberg, local artists and team on the ArtsWA Public Art Roster, blend computerized industrial design tools, large datasets, and traditional woodworking processes to create a compelling suite of wood sculptures representing starscapes visible at locations around the globe. The process translates celestial data into a tactile, spatial language, with visual effects that emerge as viewers shift their positions—drawing them from the beauty of the natural wooden surfaces to an experience of the heavens and back again.

Nik Penny and Scotty Broberg: A Quiet Space

We began with a question: how might an object move without moving? We were interested in creating forms that are activated by the viewer—sculptural works that are experienced through movement, where the objects almost return the gaze as the viewer shifts positions. Though we have used computerized tools and datasets in their creation, we wanted the works to exist outside and in opposition to it the digital, where the objects are materially grounded, even primordial.

Through 3D modeling and printing, we developed forms that refer to skyscapes: fields to be navigated rather than simply observed. With wood as the medium, the works were realized through a CNC process that translates celestial data into a tactile, spatial language. Stars are rendered as perforations, with each aperture scaled to brightness and the surrounding wells representing their masses. After the works are cut, they are finished using a process inspired by the traditional Japanese wood preservation technique of yakisugi—a centuries old process of burning, brushing, and oiling wood.

We chose materials and subject matter that are both ancient and still a source of mystery, creating works that are at once global and unifying. The sculptures are derived algorithmically from 9 specific places, rendering compositions of starscapes from skies across the globe. We hope the objects move viewers from the beauty of the natural wooden surfaces to an experience of the heavens and back again.

Team Statement

Scotty Broberg and Nik Penny utilize digital and traditional fabrication techniques, and work with both engineered and natural materials, as they give form to concepts which hold respect for the intended environment. They think deeply about their projects, developing meaningful narratives that stimulate emotions while being mindful of the importance of the relationships between a space and an installation. By encoding consequential data into material, they develop sculptural systems that embody and communicate meaning.

Their combined knowledge and skillsets give them experiences with a wide variety of materials and processes, and their collaborative and complementary approach to problem solving integrates technical rigor with conceptual depth.

Broberg develops unique systems using tools he often designs himself, including a pressurized steam oven and a 3D matrix system. He builds bent wood sculptural forms that emit light, which are simultaneously precise and expressive. Penny draws on his experience in painting, programing digital looms and knitting machines, and creating computer algorithms that generate structures based on real-world data sets. Together, they seek to bridge the digital and tactile, working with materials that shift perception and activate space.

Through sculpture, they aim to make hidden systems visible—and their implied meanings are translated into physical installations. Their work positions data not only as information, but as material and metaphor.

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This June we present our annual showcase of works by dozens of member artists who have helped make PUNCH possible. As an all-volunteer operation, offering memberships enables us to continue art and music programming throughout the calendar year. So, pop on in this month for a fantastic survey of work by our supportive members. This annual show is always diverse, delightful and full of surprises. Here’s what you might expect to see in the exhibition:

For starters there’s a wolf utopia paint-by-numbers, a Kool-Aid coleoptera and a cat planter that doubles as a perfect Twinkie tray. There are portraits of at least one evolutionary father-figure, along with works that reveal some of his wildest premonitions. Contemplate the macaroni mandala or have a quiet moment w/ any one of the Madonna and child motifs curiously and coincidently explored in this show. There are collaged collages, abstract abstractions and book art for all the bibliophiles. Feast your eyes on metal art that simply rocks and a sculpture that is so metal that it would make Rob Halford blush. And as a perfect tie-in to the former PUNCH dive bar, we have numerous water-themed works including an unreliable life preserver and action painting of cliff jumping shenanigans sure to invoke stomach butterflies. But as luck would have it, our marine-themed bar space is in the process of transformation…

Prepare yourselves for the next iteration of the PUNCH bar. Our aquatic-themed and quite literal dive bar has sunk. Prepare to be transported to the urban jungle, where nature and industrial grit collide. And be on the lookout for Sassy the Sasquatch’s new location!

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