Paragon Arts Gallery

🍬 OPENING NEXT FRIDAY FROM 5-8P🍬

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Memory Palace, a solo exhibition by Marsha Mack. The exhibition opens Friday, March 6th, 2026, and runs through Saturday, April 11th, 2026.

Please join us for the opening event on Friday, March 6th, 2026 from 5-8p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Drawing parallels between mixed-race identity and formative memories in Asian grocery stores, Marsha Mack’s Memory Palace is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, installation, and imported candies. Imagined as a surreal retail environment where aisles hold handbuilt ceramics and found object alongside the artist’s favorite childhood candies, Mack creates mixed-media snapshots capturing moments and ideas tracing back to the formation of her Vietnamese American biracial identity - one that is sentimental, at times problematic, and actively evolving. Arranged in altar-like tableaus on commercial gondola shelving, memory and fantasy blend, revealing an underlying logic where the potential for curiosity, delight, and personal mythology is present throughout.

As part of the programming for Memory Palace, Mack will host two free public candy tastings in the gallery, one coinciding with the opening reception on Friday, March 6th from 5-8pm, and the second to take place on Saturday, April 4th from 12-3pm.

Memory Palace was made possible through support from RACC and the Office of Arts & Culture.

*Artist Bio in Comments section*

✨THIS SATURDAY- WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY? COLLAGE WORKSHOP - 1/31 FROM 1-4pm✨

This Saturday, January 31st, the Paragon will be concluding the workshop cycle for Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death, and Transitions. What is Your Legacy? is a collage workshop facilitated by one of the current exhibiting artists, Marne Lucas/Bardo Projects.

All events are free and open to the public, and we hope to see you there :)

Saturday, January 31, 2026 @ 1-4pm: What is Your Legacy? Collage Workshop. 3 hours. Drop in, all ages.

A collage on paper workshop exploring one’s own or a loved one’s legacy, all materials are provided. Enjoy a relaxing, meditative experience while creating a beautiful personal collage to explore your life’s path and honor your legacy. Participants may keep their creations. Participants keep their creations. Free. Drop in, all ages.

Marne Lucas (she/her/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and death doula working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, and mortality, in social practice investigations. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by the events and emotions of the community around her, and are inspired by the death doula and palliative care movements. An infrared thermal video pioneer, she uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the magic and fragility of human life cycles. Founder of the ‘Bardo Project, Lucas explores creativity as a form of spiritual care in collaborations with terminally ill artists to establish their legacy. Lucas received training via INELDA as an End of Life Doula, a role that supports the dying and their families, and has been a practicing EOLD since 2016. Marne has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, s*x workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. www.marnelucas.com

✨SATURDAY, 1/17 AT 1PM + 2:30PM- ANCESTORS IN TRAINING + YOGA FOR GRIEF✨

Hello everyone! Please join us on Saturday, January 17th for two public events at the Paragon Arts Gallery.

All events are free and open to the public

1PM- Ancestors in Training- A meditation on end-of-life and what comes next… by Dardinelle Troen/ Vie Mor Doula

Join us for an afternoon of guided meditation focused on cultivating mindfulness and awareness of our mortality. We will draw inspiration from Maranasati, or The Nine Contemplations of Death, a Buddhist meditation practice designed to help us confront and overcome our resistance to death and dying. The primary purpose of these practices is to face our own mortality, similar to traditional meditation, intended to enhance our appreciation for the richness of everyday life. Dardinelle Troen will guide participants through a meditation that explores the nine contemplations, incorporating visualizations that reflect on our role as future ancestors.

2:30 PM- Yoga for Grief Relief facilitated by Rebecca Méndez

The Yoga session is suitable for all levels and is done seated on a chair and/or standing. Accessible options offered. Grief touches all of us. Sometimes in life-altering ways, other times in subtle and surprising moments of change and transition. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, experienced a major life event, or are simply navigating the everyday rhythms of letting go/holding on, grief is ever present. And just as love does, grief transforms us. Yoga for Grief Relief class offers a safe, compassionate space to be with your grief. Through gentle yoga movements, visualizations and breath awareness practices you can calm your nervous system, ease tension, and have intentional time for reflection, release, and healing. Rebecca will read some poems as an offering for tender hearts. With these yoga tools and mindful practices Yoga for Grief Relief offers ways to meet yourself where you are, soothe and soften the edges of loss—so you can find more compassion, presence, and understanding, not just during class but also to be called upon as needed.

*Bios for facilitators in comments section*

✨SCHEDULE UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF 12/15!✨

Hello everyone! We are excited to share a revised open hours schedule for this coming week. had kindly offered her time to gallery sit for this coming Monday and Tuesday-12/15 & 12/16- from 12-6. We will be closed for the remainder of the week, as PCC prepares for the school to close for the holidays. Please come in and say hello and chat and take a look at amazing art!!

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✨OPENING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 5-8p✨

Thanatopsis is a premiere three-person art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there. The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal.

*artist bios in the comments section*