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Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings

BellinghamA view through a sequence of round-arched openings in thick walls of stacked, rust- and grey-toned stone, with sunlight falling on the gravel path beyond.
Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings, Western Washington University, 2018. Photograph: Robert Ashworth · CC BY 2.0
Permanent collection

Nancy Holt’s Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings consists of two concentric stone rings on Western Washington University’s south campus, forty and twenty feet across, with walls ten feet high. The enclosure is aligned with Polaris, and its openings face named compass directions.

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Research baseline: November 6, 2026. Physical access and exhibition schedules may change.