Posts from ‘Jackson Hole Visual Arts’
The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s focus on Canadian painter George McLean’s mysterious, engaging work continues. To welcome the New Year, the Museum’s first “First Sunday” takes place Sunday, January 1, 2012. “Wild About Our ‘Living Landscape,’ ” runs from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. that day, and celebrates draws both McLean’s “Living Landscape” exhibition and the wildlife and landscape surrounding the museum’s new outdoor sculpture trail.
Planned activities include a chance to create flying paper raptors, a Marmot Tunnel Maze and Slide on the Sculpture Trail, the children’s films “Moles – What is out there?” and “Critter Quest” courtesy of the JH Wildlife Film Festival, and complimentary refreshments. Free, open to all area locals, all ages.
How I wish I was a kid!
January’s Mix’d Media event, “The Edge…” takes place January 10 from 6 – 9 p.m. While wildlife art is beautiful, the evening will emphasise its importance to conservation, as explored through two current museum exhibitions, The Last Ocean: Antarctica’s Ross Sea Photographs by John Weller and In the Spotlight: Mark Eberhard’s “On the Edge.” Married musicians Aaron Davis and Seadar Rose will perform live musical interpretation of the night’s themes. Cover charge is $5. www.wildlifeart.org
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Layers of Silence, is one of several new images in Jackson photographer David Brookover’s ever-expanding Platinum Palladium Print collection. He’s into it! I did not have time, darn it, to get to see these prints before leaving town for the holidays, but I have seen all of Brookover’s platinum prints to date. They are exquisite, and I recommend a visit to his gallery, located in Gaslight Alley—you’ll find many of the new prints in the gallery’s redesigned downstairs space.
“It took us a few years but we finally found the right Kozo paper for this image,” says Brookover on his Facebook page. It will be arriving [soon], after Randolph Laub puts his finishing touch on the print’s one-of-a-kind frame. Thank you Corey Allen at Hidden Light LLC for all the work you put into this image.” Layers of Silence will measure approximately 22″x 42″.” This is a very limited edition of seven, with print #1 already sold. Edition of 7, number one is already sold. www.brookovergallery.com
To wind up the year, I asked members of Jackson’s arts community to share their thoughts about “artful” things they are thankful for this year. And share they did.
I am grateful for Jackson’s arts continuing growth as a whole. I truly believe that of all Jackson’s economic sectors, it is the arts that have risen to the challenge of these economic times, continually re-inventing what “art” means and includes in Jackson Hole. I am grateful for everyone’s spirit. I am grateful for the wonderful visitation this blog enjoys, and I will work to see that its value continues to grow. I am grateful for the success of Fall Arts Festival, for every chance I get to write about and for the arts. I am grateful for your thanks, trust and contributions. I am grateful for the advice and perspective of friends, and for all that I’ve learned. I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to connect, on a deeper level, with Grand Teton National Park through my role as public relations rep for its “Artists in the Environment” series. Those summer days in the Park with the artists, experiencing GTNP’s matchless beauty and wildlife, and seeing so many come to enjoy those afternoons will be with me forever. I am grateful for art’s eternal connection to wildlife and landscape.~Tammy
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. ~Andy Warhol, sent from Mariam Diehl.
An art dealer is somebody who makes people understand that they need art to live. ~Mariam Diehl
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Knock Knock
Who’s There?
Carrie.
Carrie Who?
Carrie Geraci working on Public Art!
This year I am thankful for all the work Carrie has put into the arts in Jackson. Also, fired up to work with so many great artists in Jackson and Beyond! ~ John Frechette
Tammy, I am grateful for support from Trustees that enabled us to build a Sculpture Trail at the National Museum of Wildlife Art that is free and open to the public! ~ Jane Lavino, National Museum of Wildlife Art.
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You could say that the “Wipfler & the Boys” Show @ Simpson Gallagher Gallery in Sept. was that gallery’s best selling show ever! Fifteen years and going strong for the gallery and my best solo show ever! My large painting commissions have been very well received and it’s been a good year for me! ~ Kathy Wipfler.
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What I am grateful and happy about … Several collectors have told me that they feel a ‘presence’ and a ‘soul’ in my paintings, which to me means that my paintings convey the feelings I have when creating them. There is no greater satisfaction than that. It means that we are ‘in the moment’ together, even years later.” ~ Lee Carlman Riddell
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Trailside Galleries, in Jackson Hole and Scottsdale! ~ Dawn Meckem, Trailside
Jenny Dowd sends the following information on classes and updates over at the Art Association:
Figure Drawing Class meets between Christmas and New Year’s, on December 28th. If you bring some tasty holiday goodies, class will be that much more festive!
The Art Association’s winter/spring class schedule will be available soon; be sure to check the website often for updates. Dowd is excited about classes coming in the New Year—she lists such offerings as Sketchbook & Journaling for Beginners; a new class devoted to trying out oil paints, acrylics, and learn about brushes, surfaces, mediums and color charts; study of human and animal anatomy with Dwayne Harty; Tammy Callens will teach a portrait workshop; Meredith Campbell will teach botanicals. And, there will be day-long printmaking workshops!
Who Am I? Portraits of Our Community remains on display at the Center for the Arts until January 2, 2012. The show includes work by several Portrait Drawing Class student artists. Check it out! www.artassociation.org
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Check out the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Tumblr Blog post for December 20th, and read a little bit about one of the Museum’s most powerful works: Ron Kingswood’s large-scale oil painting “Thou Shall Not Reap the Corners
of Thy Field.” Its title “reminds tillers of the fields to leave “a sheaf” behind, so that those less fortunate may be nourished. Here, Kingswood is thinking of wildlife’s winter challenges.” Blue magic.
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“A sure sign that art enthusiasts are still looking to invest in quality works of art, we are pleased to report that the 2011 Jackson Hole Art Auction resulted in a record breaking sale in its fifth year,” says Auction Coordinator Lucy Grogan.
“The auction held on Saturday, September 15, 2011, realized $9.5 million in sales with over 90% of the 250 lots offered selling well into and above their estimates.”
The auction is currently accepting consignments for next year’s auction, to be held Saturday, September 15,2012. To learn more about consigning to the J.H. Art Auction (an auction of past and present Masters of the American West), phone 866-549-9278, or visit www.jacksonholeartauction.com. Everyone is also welcome to stop by the auction office, upstairs in Trailside Galleries at 130 East Broadway in Jackson.
Didi Thunder’s legendary Wilson Christmas Bazaar takes place Saturday and Sunday, December 10 & 11, 10am-4pm both days. Thunder’s Tibetan connections enable her to offer up extraordinary products from the Himalayan region. All are hand made.
New this year are yak cashmere throws and shawls from Fiber Tibet, a non-profit organization supporting Tibetan nomads. The fabric is more luxurious than it sounds; these soft blankets and shawl designs are inspired by Italy. Rugs from Nepal and Tibet are piled high, available in many designer colors and styles. Browse the hoodies, Wild Earth Soaps, silks, Martha MacEachern jewelry, the kitchen full of hot drinks, cookies, and Thunder-Coburn hospitality. Address: 1520 Fish Creek Road, Wilson. For information, call Didi Thunder at 733-4124, or email didi@wyoming.com.
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Scotch tasting!
And on-site raptors, spirit-warming bluegrass and folk music, and the mysterious introduction of a new “touchable” sculpture are on tap for the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s second Mix’d Media event happening Tuesday, December 13 from 6 – 9 p.m. This month’s theme, “The Living Landscape,” is inspired by current NMWA exhibition artist, Canada’s George McLean. At 7:30 pm, McLean will give a talk on the extensive fieldwork he executes to create his intricate paintings. Cover charge for Mix’d Media is $5, members and non-members alike.
“Our first Mix’d Media event was very well-received,” says NMWA’s Ponteir Sackrey. “This month’s event promises to
be even more action-packed. In addition to an opportunity to draw live raptors after the style of artist George McLean – who will be on hand to talk about his artistic process – and the usual live music, fun food and cocktails, we’ll have the unveiling of one of the sculptures that will grace our new sculpture trail – plus a scavenger hunt and prize drawing.”
Here’s Mix’d Media #2′s events line-up:
6 – 9 p.m.: Teton Raptor Center, on-site with local raptors. Drawing materials and instruction available.
Megan Smith from Nature Mapping Jackson Hole leads a scavenger hunt in the galleries with participants entered in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate to MADE and Nature Mapping goodies.
Tom Marshall and Thomas Sneed perform live bluegrass and folk music.
Tasty Tapas Tuesday treats will be served.
6 – 7:30 p.m.: Vom Fass of Jackson Hole leads a Scotch whiskey tasting, featuring their finest single malts.
7 p.m.: Hands On Art – Diehl Gallery unveils Isis, a sculpture by Simon Gudgeon for guests to touch. Isis will be installed in the museum’s new sculpture garden this summer.
Trio Fine Art’s next group exhibition, Flight, opens at the gallery on Thursday, December 8, 2011. An opening reception takes place 5-8:00 pm, and a percentage of all sales benefit the Teton Raptor Center, and Center director Roger Smith promises to bring along a raptor resident.
It’s the Trio artists’ affinity for birds that inspired the show. Trio’s four artists —Jennifer L. Hoffman, Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner and September Vhay—all have lofty aspirations and feelings for good things that take wing.
“My love of birds,” says Riddell, “came from my parents. Dad planted the flowers that attracted the birds to our yard, and Mom taught me to recognize the bird’s songs.
Recently a Calliope hummingbird nested outside my studio window and I was able to draw and paint the mother and two chicks.” It was a formative experience for Riddell. She adds that she and her husband Ed Riddell made contributions towards helping to rehabilitate injured raptors; the money paid for lots of frozen mice. The Raptor Center is one of Jackson’s great treasures, says Lee Riddell.