Events
On view in the Art & Water Space
March 23 – May 1, 2026
Working Studio: Fiber and Material with Founder Victoria Bradford Styrbicki
Thursdays & Fridays, 11am – 4:30pm
Sundays by appointment
337-794-8222
May 9 – June 7, 2026
Micro Residency: Charcoal Experiments with Kimberly Wetzel
Open Studio: Saturdays, Noon – 4pm
During her time in residence, Kimberly will be creating a series of abstract charcoal drawings utilizing an experimental charcoal pouring process. These drawings will be inspired by the landscape around Stillwater, with a focus on the St. Croix River and native plant life. She will be spending time walking along river trails ethically foraging for materials to use in the creation of her work along with visual reference for her drawings.
May 23 & 24, 2026 | 2-4pm
Charcoal Pouring Workshop with Resident Artist Kimberly Wetzel
This two-part workshop will cover the the charcoal pouring process and experimental drawing techniques. We will spend the first session learning how to charcoal pour and creating unique textures on paper. The second session will utilize collage techniques to create landscapes out of our charcoal pours. Participants will leave the workshop with several completed pieces.
RSVP, 10 participants max, must attend both sessions
June 5 – 7, 2026; Friday, 5 – 8pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Art Opener Studio Tour / River Days of Action featuring Resident Artist Kimberly Wetzel
Kimberly will be presenting an exhibition of her work created during her residency with House Unbuilt. She will have drawings on display along with a site-activation inspired by the St. Croix River. There will also be a craft area where you can collage your own mini-drawings as well as try her drawing techniques out for yourself.
Touring Exhibitions
January 21, 2026 – January 21, 2027
The Water Where We Live
Tuesdays – Saturdays, 10am – 4pm
Washington County Heritage Center
1862 Greeley Street, Stillwater, MN
The Water Where We Live returns in its third iteration, now on view through 2026 at Washington County Heritage Center. Developed in collaboration with the Brown’s Creek Watershed District and regional artists, the exhibition invites close attention to the streams, wetlands, and hidden ecologies that shape daily life in our watershed.
Through artworks grounded in both scientific insight and imaginative response, the project brings forward the often-unseen lives moving through Brown’s Creek. At a time of shifting environmental protections, the exhibition asks what it means to care for the waters that care for us—cultivating awareness, responsibility, and a deeper sense of connection to place.
May 28 – August 8, 2026
Breathing Under Water
Tuesdays – Fridays, 11am – 5pm; Saturdays, 11am – 2pm or by appointment
DPR Gallery
104 W Pujo Street, Lake Charles, LA
Breathing Under Water is an exhibition by Victoria Bradford Styrbicki at DPR Gallery, built around systems of surrender, resistance, retreat, and signal—states that shape how we move through grief and endurance. Through hand-crocheted flags and coded visual language, the work offers a form of communication that exists before or beyond words, asking what it means to feel, carry, and transmit experience without resolution.
May 30, 2026
How do we move through this?
4pm
Prien Lake Park, Lake Charles, LA
How do we move through this? unfolds along the jetty at Prien Lake Park, where land gives way to water and the body moves in relation to both. Presented as part of MR100, the performance draws from semaphore-inspired gesture to signal grief, endurance, and the possibility of repair.
A phrase emerges slowly through the choreography—the grief and loss we carry lies just under the surface—held in the tension between what is visible and what is not. Audiences are invited to gather, witness, and remain for a conversation that opens space for listening—to water, to one another, and to what continues to move beneath.