This special episode of MoNA Moments was created to highlight Project Impact - a seven month capacity building program in evaluation that the MoNA Education team and Executive Director Stefano Catalani, participated in during Nov 2025- May 2026. Through this program, the team learned hands-on methods in evaluation and evaluated the impact of the MoNA Link program - MoNA’s professional development program for teachers. This episode explores the MoNA team’s learnings through the evaluation process.

To find out more about the contents of Project Impact’s Findings you can:

Read the blogpost: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-blog/impact-mona-link

Read the full report: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/603897e6dd661d15f7003ebc/t/6ab2bcffa25f5e1ae1eb1ef8/1790098687698/MoNA+-+2026+Project+Impact+Report.pdf

Find out more about MoNA Link: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-link

This episode is being released as part of Creative Constellations: MoNA's Youth Education Programs, an exhibition at MoNA that highlights the museum's youth programming. You'll hear from two educators, Nikki Klinger and Lauren Grund, about how they came together to involve a whole school in a salmon art project - one that showcases the creativity of each student. This conversation between Nikki and Lauren highlights the collaboration between educators and the impact it has on schools and communities.

You can read more about this exhibition on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/outside-in-creative-constellations

You can read the transcript on our podcast webpage: www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

This episode is being released as part of Behind the Curtain: 100 Years at the Historic Lincoln Theatre, an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Theatre as a cultural hub of Skagit Valley. In this episode you’ll hear from eight people who share what the Lincoln Theater means to them and how they first got involved.

Behind the Curtain will be on display in MoNA’s Outside In Gallery from January 24 - May 3, 2026. You can find out more information about the exhibition on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/outside-in-gallery-behind-the-curtain

You can read the transcript on our website: www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

This episode of MoNA Moments was recorded as part of Energy Transitions, an exhibition curated by the Skagit Valley Clean Energy Alliance. You will hear SVCEA’s Technical Advisor Greg Whiting and artist Don Wesley talk about some of the historical transitions that our outdoor lighting systems have been through. Energy Transitions is on view in MoNA’s Outside In Gallery from October 11, 2025 through January 11, 2026. You can view more information about this exhibition here: https://www.monamuseum.org/outside-in-energy-transitions

You can read the transcript on our podcast webpage: www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

This episode of MoNA Moments was recorded as part of Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art, an exhibition at MoNA on view from June 28-September 28, 2025. You will hear guest curator Chloe Dye Sherpe provide historical context for Through the Light and interview artists Weston Lambert and Adam Sorensen about their work and their connections to the sublime. You can read more about Through the Light on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/through-the-light

This episode mentions the Met Exhibition Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature. You can read more about this exhibition & Friedrich and see the piece Wanderer above the Sea of Fog on their website: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature

You can read the transcript on our podcast webpage: www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

This episode of MoNA Moments was recorded as part of the What Were You Wearing installation in the Expression Exchange Gallery, on view during April 2025 as part of Sexual Assault Awareness month. What Were You Wearing was curated by high school student, Nivea Ho in collaboration with Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County. In this episode, you’ll hear Marjie George and Athena Frantz from DVSAS Whatcom interviewing Nivea about what she hopes visitors will take away from this installation and the stories contained within.

The themes in this exhibition can be difficult to process or might have an intense impact on visitors. Please visit the websites of Brigid Collins Family Support Center (www.brigidcollins.org/) and Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services (www.skagitdvsas.org/) to find resources should you need support, including SDVSAS’s Get Help page (www.skagitdvsas.org/get-help/). The Expression Exchange space at MoNA has more information on resources, advocacy and self-care.

You can read the transcript on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

This episode of MoNA Moments was recorded as part of the Creative Response to Trauma: A Community Response Exhibition in the Outside In Education gallery, open from October 12, 2024-January 12, 2025. Curated by Brigid Collins Family Support Center and Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services (Skagit DVSAS), the Creative Response to Trauma exhibition is a collaboration between these two organizations as a testament to the powerful process of healing from trauma through a range of creative expressions. In this episode, Heidi Roy (Executive Director of Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services) and Jenn Lockwood (Executive Director of Brigid Collins Family Support Center) discuss how their organizations overlap to support survivors in our community and what they hope visitors will take away from the Creative Response to Trauma exhibition.

The themes in this exhibition can be difficult to process or might have an intense impact on visitors. Please visit the websites of Brigid Collins Family Support Center ( https://www.brigidcollins.org/) and Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services (https://www.skagitdvsas.org/) to find resources should you need support, including SDVSAS’s Get Help page (https://www.skagitdvsas.org/get-help/). The Expression Exchange space at MoNA has more information on resources, advocacy and self-care.

This episode of MoNA Moments was recorded as part of the SOMOS: WE ARE Exhibition in the Outside In Education gallery, open from June 22 to September 29, 2024. SOMOS:WE ARE features work from the Catholic Community Services (CCS) Farmerworker Center Children’s Art Studio program, a free weekly after school program in Mount Vernon for children and families to participate in art-making activities. The CCS Farmworker Center provides a welcoming place for Skagit Valley Indigenous/Latinx families to connect with educational and community resources and receive support to become effective advocates for their community’s needs. The Farmworker Center also provides a venue for cultural expression, enabling the entire community to benefit through the creation and exhibition of artistic works and celebrations.

In this episode you will hear from Marta Martinez Olivera, the CCS Farmworker Center Supervisor, and volunteers Heidi Epstein, and Christine Wardenburg-Skinner about the Children’s Art Studio program and the SOMOS exhibition at MoNA. Read the transcript on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

MoNA Moments is excited to welcome three guests from Children of the Valley (COV), a non-profit after school program dedicated to providing academic assistance, social-emotional learning, enrichment experiences, and mentorship to children in need. Children of the Valley curated a show in the Museum of Northwest Art's Outside/In Gallery called My Roots: Honoring the Cultural Identity of Skagit Valley’s Under-Resourced Children, featuring art from students in the COV program. My Roots is on display at MoNA from February 3-May 12, 2024. Read the transcript on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast

In this episode of MoNA Moments, guest curator Chloe Dye Sherpe interviews artist, Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, and scientist, Dr. Jamie Donatuto, about their collaboration for the 2023 Surge Exhibition at MoNA. Surge: Mapping Transition, Displacement, and Agency in Times of Climate Change is the fourth iteration of this exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art, where an artist and a scientist collaborate to produce work around climate change and its impacts. Read the transcript on our website: https://www.monamuseum.org/mona-moments-podcast