With your support year after year, The Fire House Gallery has been encouraging hearts and minds, young and old, in Jefferson County (and beyond!) since 2005. Now, once again, we ask you to make an annual donation so we can continue the Gallery's unique exhibits and educational programs in 2013.

To purchase the "Edifice Complex" exhibition catalogue, please visit:
Edifice Complex: New Paintings by Edward Rice. 

You don’t have to be a genius – or an architect, philosopher, or even a painter – to appreciate that an edifice’s most interesting elements are its openings.  Windows, doors, porticos, balconies, porches, carports, hatches, the notches in a crenellated battlement are always where the action is. They admit (or bar) light and fresh air; they are our passageways (or barriers) to shelter and safety, freedom and adventure. Once upon a time, we launched lethal arrows and poured hot oil upon our enemies through the lofty gaps in defensive parapets and still today stylize the towers of our humblest churches and most spectacular cathedrals to remind ourselves that our God is like a mighty fortress. They epitomize the tension between here and there, us and them, same and other. Read more...