Museum of Northwest Art opens new art exhibits

Two exhibits open at the Museum of Northwest Art on First Street on Saturday, June 22, and run through Sept. 29.

“Joseph Gregory Rossano: Portraits of the Divine” is a compassionate tribute to nature. The distillation of decades-long engagement of the artist with the impact of human beings on the natural world, it offers a selection of large-scale sculptures, drawings and paintings from three of the artist’s ongoing series: “At the Top of Her Lungs,” “Whitewashed” and “Ivory”. By depicting a menagerie of animals whether endangered or already extinct, this art manifests, like sacred icons, the...