Conant Gallery

Artist Janet Hulings Bleicken's exhibit "Coyote, Turtle, the Ark and the Dove," is on display through Feb. 28 at Lawrence Academy's Conant Gallery in Richardson-Mees Performing Arts Center (off Rt. 40). Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9-a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat. and Sun. noon - 4 p.m.

In the years since graduating from art school, she has often returned to the subject of what we believe. She is fascinated with ideas and themes that persist throughout human history and inform and uphold ourreligions and mythologies. These paintings on display at LA begin with stories drawn from native peoples of North America. She compares them with corresponding and conflicting ideas from European traditions ranging from Greek and Roman cultures through Judaic, Christian religions.