Let’s be logical for a moment.  We are a growing planet with a growing population. We are expanding.  We expand into the mountains, the farmlands, the deserts, South Hill Puyallup.  So, reasonably speaking, the days of wildlife are numbered.  Expansion, you know.  Weekly Volcano art critic Alec Clayton is expanding, too.  Not around his waist but in his studio.  He has new abstract and formalist oil paintings.  Quite good, I say.  And, get this, he captures the essence of movement and struggle as seen in nature.  Wildlife, among others.  Movement and expansion, nature and wildlife â€" I’m the Tarantino of playlist writers.  Discuss movement and nature with Clayton Friday, March 9, 7-9 p.m. at his reception at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center. â€" Suzy Stump

[Kenneth J. Minnaert Center, through March 31, South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Rd., Olympia, 360.596.5508]