Experience the meditative and immersive artwork of Kayla Ackelson as “Meditations,” her latest solo exhibition, opens at Montgomery County Community College’s North Hall Art Gallery of the Montco Cultural Center located at 16 East High Street  in Pottstown.

The exhibit opens Friday, March 21, with an artist’s reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Both the reception and exhibit are free and open to the community. Convenient parking is available along High Street and in the College’s parking lot at 101 College Drive.

Ackelson’s work is a thoughtful exploration of repetition, pattern, and fragmentation, blending her strong design sensibility with intricate use of color and collage. Ackelson describes her work as fluid and responsive, allowing for organic shifts to take place. Each piece becomes a reflection of presence, and an invitation for the viewer to slow down and breathe.

“My art practice is deeply rooted in meditation. It is both the source of my ideas and the space where they unfold. Meditation allows me to quiet the noise and become a channel for creative energy—mantras, colors, and compositions often come to me in these moments of stillness,” said Kayla Ackelson. “I see my paintings as an extension of this practice, a moving meditation where I surrender to intuition and let the work reveal itself layer by layer.”

Housed in a refurbished factory building with exposed beams and brick walls, MCCC’s North Hall Art Gallery provides a distinctive setting that enhances the exhibit’s key themes.

“We were interested in seeing how her art and the way it plays with fragmentation would work in our gallery, which is a space that’s also fragmented by alcoves and hallways,” said Patrick Rodgers, Manager of the Montco Cultural Center.  

The exhibit will be on display through April 11. The gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.

MCCC’s Fine Arts galleries, located at both Pottstown and Blue Bell campuses, are part of the Montco Cultural Center and host a variety of exhibitions featuring professional and student artists and artwork in an array of genres, as well as related activities, programs and lectures.

For more information about the exhibit or MCCC’s galleries, contact Patrick Rodgers, Manager of the Montco Cultural Center, at prodgers@mc3.edu and visit the website at mc3.edu/galleries.