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First morning light through the prisms at our newest installation in Albany Oregon

The library filled with rainbow light as the day began quiet luminous and alive

This is part of the ongoing 100 Libraries - Healing Rainbow Light for Oregonians project bringing permanent solar spectrum installations into community libraries across the state

Stay tuned for upcoming openings in Elkton, Oregon Sutherlin, Oregon Dallas, Oregon and more

Rainbow light is moving through Oregon

At 80+, Peter Erskine is still ascending lifts inside libraries, composing with light as his medium and space as his canvas.

Across decades of site-specific work, his Healing Rainbow Light installations transform institutional architecture into fields of color, perception, and presence.

The Healing Rainbow light for Oregonians project started when Peter was diagnosed with stage four cancer. During installations and planning, he healed and survived. The work continues because it must.

100 Libraries: Healing Rainbow Light for Oregonians carries this vision into public spaces across the state, gifting rainbow light to communities.

Pictured here installing Sutherlin Public Library, Jan. 2026, to be unveiled this spring.

Peter Erskine brings the full solar spectrum down into daily life one luminous installation at a time.

Across public libraries throughout Oregon, prisms, geometry, and intention transform ordinary spaces into living fields of color. Each work is site-responsive. Each model a study in how light behaves, bends, and blesses.

The Healing Rainbow is not static.
Every month the installations shift and change - new angles, new refractions, new frequencies of color- offering a fresh encounter with the unseen made visible.

Art. Science. Public sanctuary.
Follow along as the spectrum unfolds. 100libraries.org

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Mount Angel Library — Winter Light

Brand new light installation at Mount Angel Public Library, quietly glowing in the winter sun.

As the light shifts, rainbow reflections move through the space—soft, impermanent, and alive. This is part of 100 Libraries: Healing Rainbow Light for Oregonians, a statewide offering of donated solar spectrum art created to bring moments of beauty, pause, and presence into our shared civic spaces.

Winter light feels especially sacred—low, clear, and generous. Grateful to Mount Angel for welcoming this installation and to everyone helping make these moments possible, one library at a time.

After two years of planning and coordination, the 100 Libraries: Healing Rainbow Light for Oregonians installation at Mount Angel Public Library is complete.

The work was installed on a clear, sunlit day, allowing the full spectrum of light to activate the space as intended. Pictured here are members of the project team alongside librarians who are stewarding installations in their own communities.

Project team:
Johanna Beekman — Object Manager & Project Lead
Torance — Studio Assistance
Peter Erskine — Artist, Healing Rainbow Light

This installation marks an important milestone as the project enters its next phase. Openings at creswell and multiple Southern Oregon libraries are planned for the spring.

Deep gratitude to the public libraries, librarians, and cultural workers who support long-form, light-based contemporary art in civic spaces.