"Wildflower Project"

The Luna Moth Art Gallery is looking for gardeners/ photographers/artists to participate in the 2008 "Wildflower Project" (Inspired by the Artworld Digest Seed Project - see artworldigest.com).

1. Buy Wildflower Seeds (or use seeds you have harvested, etc.)

2. Plant the seeds somewhere - be creative.

3. Create Art - take a picture of it.

4. Display - send your image online to lunamothgallery@gmail.com and the Luna Moth Art Gallery Blog will post them. And/or frame your image and participate in the September/October exhibit at the Luna Moth Gallery at the Caldwell Eco-Center (please email with your interest in participating in the show by August 1st).

5. Spread the joy - buy extra seeds for friends and family (or at least tell them about the project).


See the Seed Project at artworldigest for inspiration. You may also want to participate in their basil Seed Project.

Upcoming Shows

Updated March 13th, 2008

The show for March/April will be the Spring Auction - art from a variety of artists - with a silent auction. Reception for Spring Silent Auction April 4th 5:30 - 7:30.

The show for May/June will be a show called "Earthworks" highlighting local structures created with strawbale, cob and such. This will include excerpts from Silja Weber's scrapbook and photos about the cob playhouse and oven she created. Plus photos of local projects such as the Habitat from Humanity Strawbale House and other local projects.

The show for July/August, "At Peace with the World", will feature artists working in a variety of media creating nature-based artwork. Including Elizabeth Bertuccio's antique-beaded butterfly earrings, and Mari Bertuccio's fairy drawings and other friends of the gallery.

For September/October - "Wildflower Project" photography will be exhibited. Interested persons are asked to email the gallery lunamothgallery@gmail.com.

For November/December - artwork by Andrew Leonberger.

Current Exhibit, "Our Awesome Universe"

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The current exhibit at the Luna Moth Art Gallery at the Caldwell Eco-Center is "Our Awesome Universe". The mixed-media paintings by Margaret Gohn depict nebulas, novas, galaxies and other elements of the larger universe.

The round paintings, which were inspired by Hubble Photos, were created by using glazes of color and iridescent paints to try to capture the filmy nature of the subjects. There are also paintings on panels which represent possible foreign landscapes. And painted spheres which represent possible planets.

And there is one sunflower painting.

The artist, Margaret Gohn, also works creating plein air oil paintings (painting on site) in the woods, in fields, and at the ocean (and sometimes in places like aquariums). The work she does creating artwork based on the far reaches of space are a way of focusing on the worlds outside of ours. A way of considering how amazing the universe, as well as our own life, is.

Part of the challenge of creating both the plein air paintings and the universe paintings is trying to capture the sense of life, of movement. The world, the universe, in a state of flux.


The exhibit will run through Feb. 28th.