The Reflections program at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology is a 200 year-long project devoted to exhibiting place-based creative responses to the rich and varied landscapes in which Sitka is embedded. The collection seeks to record shifting societal and cultural views of the environment, new ideas in art theory and technique, changes in the sites’ physical appearance, and the artists’ unique backgrounds and viewpoints.

The Sitka Ecological Reflections program is part of a larger national program ( Ecological Reflections ) whose mission is “to bring the environmental sciences, arts, and humanities together in long-term attention to places and their cultural and moral meanings, as these places change over time and generations.” 

As part of the Reflections Program, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology asks that residents and participating workshop groups choose Reflections sites that are within the Sitka surroundings, the Salmon River Estuary or the Cascade Head Experimental Forest.