Ruth Kapcia: Resilience in Bloom

August 6 - 29, 2026

First Thursday Art Walk - Thursday August 6th, 5-8pm
Melted Oil Pastel Demonstrations - Saturday August 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, 1-4pm
Closing Reception - Saturday August 29th, 4-6pm

Dahlia paintings rendered in melted wax create a fresh series balancing the sorrow and joy of the current moment by drawing on traditional flower symbolism. Kapcia melts oil pastels into multi-layered pointillism images based on her own photography from a Skagit Valley nursery in the PNW.