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Image credit: Cherry Archer, Botanical Ice Tiles, 2021–, site-specific installation at Lafarge Lake-Douglas SkyTrain Station, 2026. Presented by The Gallery at Evergreen Arts and TransLink. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography. 

Cherry Archer: Botanical Ice Tiles  

Lafarge Lake–Douglas SkyTrain Station  2026 – 2028

Photographer Cherry Archer is a gardener and avid forager. She finds inspiration in these activities, which guide her art practice and provide materials for her Botanical Ice Tiles (2021–) series. To create her photographic still lifes, Archer first arranges and then incrementally freezes plants in water to form what she calls “botanical ice tiles.” She then illuminates these ice-bound sculptural compositions of vegetal material with coloured light and photographs them over several sessions. A selection of the resulting photographs appear as large-scale images on the windows of Lafarge Lake–Douglas SkyTrain Station.                                                                                                                                 
About the Artist: Cherry Archer is a Vancouver-based artist trained in photography. Her art is strongly influenced by “eco-psychology,” a field that fosters ecological thinking and documents how exposure to nature benefits mental, physical, and emotional well-being. 

Presented by The Gallery at Evergreen Arts and TransLink

Image credit: Angie Quintanilla Coates, Life Is a Kaleidoscope, 2024, acrylic on wood relief. Courtesy of the Artist.  

Angie Quintanilla Coates: Life Is a Kaleidoscope  

August 2026 – August 2028 

Evergreen Arts Studio D

Angie Quintanilla Coates’s artworks share her spirit of persistent joyfulness that comes from her Mexican culture. Their colours and geometric forms celebrate a bold optimism and jubilant investigation of form. This mindset reflects the open curiosity, creativity and playful thinking of our Arts Education Department. Adapted from her painting Life Is a Kaleidoscope (2024), Coates’s design for our classroom windows mirrors the creativity of Evergreen Arts’ youngest artists. Coates is a Mexican visual artist based in Port Moody who creates geometric compositions with vibrant colours. 

Image credit: Jordanna George, Moon 1, 2023, digital. Courtesy of the Artist. 

Jordanna George: Full Moon  

Evergreen Arts Portico  

September 2026 – February 2027  

To reconnect with their Salish roots, Jordanna George completed a “full moon art challenge,” started by artist Ocean Hyland on social media in 2023. George created one artwork for each full moon that year. Three of these moons, each in Coast Salish style, are exhibited as lightboxes at Evergreen Arts, celebrating Indigenous presence on this land since time immemorial. George is an artist of mixed T’Sou-ke and Ukrainian ancestry. Originally from Sooke, BC, they now live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) nations in Coquitlam. Through comics and illustration, their work explores themes of identity, belonging and hope, drawing influence from Indigeneity, queerness and science fiction.  

Image credit: Laara Cerman, Ranunculaceae. (Ranunculus repens) Creeping Buttercup, 2019, C-print. Courtesy of the Artist.  

Laara Cerman: Flora’s Song No. 1 in C Major 

September 2026 – February 2027 

Evergreen Arts Lobby  

Plants are seen, touched, smelled and tasted—but what if they could be heard? Flora’s Song No1. in C Major is composed using a sequence of DNA from two invasive plants, creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens) and brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea). The song translates the nucleotides in DNA (A, T, C, G) to the notes in the chords E minor 7 (E, G, B, D) and C major 7 (C, E, G, B), which play simultaneously on a pipe glockenspiel within a handmade music box. Born and raised in Port Coquitlam, Cerman investigates the natural world through sculpture and image–making, informed by the ecology and botany of British Columbia’s coastal forests.