MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — A new exhibit of contemporary Native American art curated by acclaimed Pomo basket weaver and cultural educator Corine Pearce will open at the Middletown Art Center this weekend.

The public is invited to the opening reception of “Earth Sky and Everything in Between,” which opens at Middletown Art Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9. An introduction and blessing will take place around 6:30 p.m.

This is the first exhibit of its kind in Lake County.

The exhibit includes baskets, paintings, photos, digital media and installations.

Artwork on display celebrates traditional cultural arts and resilience while highlighting current, and longtime challenges and issues including ongoing colonialism, land access and place-based land management — also known as traditional ecological knowledge or TEK — along with intergenerational trauma, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, identity and blood quantum.

The MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in Middletown.

To find out more about Earth Sky and Everything in Between or other events, programs, opportunities, and ways to support the MAC’s efforts to weave the arts and culture into the fabric of life in Lake County, visit www.middletownartcenter.org or call 707-809-8118.