Posts from ‘Kids’ Art’
Jackson photographer Jeff Diener will teach a Fall Photo Workshop in Grand Teton National Park, September 28-October 2, 2011.
“We’ll be using the best light of the day, sunrises and sunsets, and visit some great, and lesser known locations,” notes Diener. “I’ve been exploring and shooting in GTNP for the past 15 yrs. We’ll help participants get comfortable adjusting to changing conditions and sites and create dramatic high-end images. Location scouting, assessing locations and weather, helping participants get to know their cameras, practice with functions and new techniques will be covered. We’ll also spend time each day discussing post-processing computer workflow.” Cost is $875 per person.
Wild West Photos will sponsor the workshop–check the agency’s website here. Contact Diener for more information. 307-734-4450 jeff@jeffdiener.com
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The Jackson Hole Historical Society offers free children’s art classes for kids in grades 1-4, Tuesday mornings, 9:30-11:00 a.m., during 
August. Classes will include storytelling, museum exploring, craft making, and the all important snack. Class sizes are limited to 15 children. Here’s the calendar:
August 2: “Pots, Paper, and Pouches” has fun with stories of Indians, explorers, and settlers. Build a fort and make pemmican to carry in your own handmade pouch.
August 9: ”Rod, Reel, and Rifle” explores the important roles that hunting and fishing activities have had in the valley. Includes storytelling, the creation of a “story” hide and a hanging three-dimensional fish.
August 16: “Awe Inspiring Art” discovers the role of artists and photographers in preserving the beauty of Jackson Hole. Includes storytelling, plein air painting, cookie decorating activities and more.
August 23: “Laughs and Lariats” explores the questions “Does the cowboy wear his tools?” and “Does a rodeo have clowns?” Kids make their own chaps and ride into history with a real cowboy to discover the answers.
For more information, contact Mindy Barnett at 307.733.9605. jhhsmeducation@wyom.net
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Wyoming Gallery, upstairs at Jack Dennis Sports, holds an artists’ reception for Derek DeYoung, Jeff Currier and Jim Berkenfield on Friday, August 5, 4-7:30 pm.
Berkenfield says he has been fly fishing for eighteen years and guiding in the Greater Yellowstone area for the past twelve. “I have continuously photographed my fishing exploits,” he says. “I have recently begun to focus on new perspectives of trout…fish in hand, and during the moments of release.”
Currier’s work is published in fly fishing magazines, catalogs, brochures, and books. He is the author of Currier’s Quick and Easy
Guide to Saltwater Fly Fishing and Currier’s Quick and Easy Guide to Warmwater Fly Fishing guide books.
DeYoung’s work has “veered off from the traditional fish illustration style.” His contemporary paintings focus on style and color rather than rendering realistic images of fish.
The store and gallery are noted fortheir fly fishing equipment, guiding and expertise. A.D. Maddox also calls Wyoming Gallery home. www.jdwyominggallery.com 307.733.7548.
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What is this? That’s what my Facebook friend Steve Mooney (SVP, Jack Morton Global Brand Experience!) would ask.
Answer is, it’s a detail (I think!) of one of two walls, each displaying 40 fused glass bricks. The wall is part of the new Home Ranch project, and will be designed and created by Jackson glass artist (and Facebook friend!) John Frechette. The shuffled, stacked stained glass resembles bison and grizzly DNA.
What do you say to that, Facebook friend “Grizzly 399?”
A Jackson Hole cultural and community rite of Spring, the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest, is on view May 1 – August 10, 2010 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA). The show hangs in the Museum’s King Gallery and a virtual exhibition can viewed on line at WildlifeArt.org/Learn/FedJrDuckStamp/.
2010 marks 16 years of Federal Junior Duck Stamp art exhibiting at NMWA. The contest and subsequent show, lovingly administrated by Sugden Family Curator of Education Jane Lavino, has a mission to awaken children’s knowledge of the connection between wetland conservation, natural resources and, I must add, art.
Pictured top-of-page, left, is this year’s winning entry, “Flight of the Blue Moon,” by 17-year old 
Pinedale, Wyoming student Lisanne Fear. The exhibition features the top 36 ribbon winners out of 610 total Wyoming entries. In addition to the top winners on exhibit, 64 Honorable Mention ribbons were awarded in each of the four age groups (grades K – 3, 4 – 6, 7 – 9, and 10 – 12).
Fear’s oil painting depicts a pair of Pintail ducks, a species common to Wyoming. For her efforts Fear will have her work representing the state at the National Junior Duck Stamp contest scheduled for Friday, April 23, 2010, at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota. If she wins there, she will win $5,000 and head on to Washington D.C. and also be the artist whose work is the image for the 2010-2011 Junior Duck Stamp. Buy the stamp for $5.00 and your contribution goes towards supporting conservation education.
There are many more winners in many divisions. Get a full listing by visiting the Museum’s website, AND by visiting the exhibit itself. Doing so is a great treat, and a reminder of the talent and heart behind each and every Jr. Duck Stamp competition. Conservation lay people will gain new knowledge of duck species. This exhibition educates adults as well as youth.
First through Third place contest winners will be honored at a dinner and awards ceremony at the National Museum of Wildlife Art on Saturday July 24, 2010. For more information, please contact Amy Goicoechea at agoicoechea@wildlifeart.org or call (307) 732-5435. Information for next year’s contest will be posted on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service homepage at DuckStamps.fws.gov.
February 5, it’s all happening at the Art Association.
Really! Sounds like a happening, 1960′s style, with symbolism and emotions and poetry readings and exploration of the human body’s nuances (Our Bodies, Ourselves, a ground breaking book about sexuality and women’s bodies, still available and updated, btw…), power and faith, Arlo Guthrie and Aristotle.
Arlo, Aristotle, Art Association: Triple “A” alliteration.
These shows represent a quantum leap forward for Jackson’s art community. Don’t miss it. A joint opening reception happens at the Center for the Arts on Friday, February 5th, at 5:30 pm.
Show #1:
Nekkid, a group figure exhibition, includes a noon Brown Bag Lunch Art Talk with participating artists. In our “democratic”, post-industrial, high-tech country we still struggle with being cool with nudity (unless you are John Edwards). This show offers a chance to probe that resistance. Works in various media alternately explore and celebrate the human body. As part of the evening’s festivities the spirit of the Beat Poets will resurrect, with live poetry readings.
Participating artists include, but may not be limited to: Eliot Goss, Sue Sommers, Shannon Troxler, Suzanne Morlock, Susan Thulin, Bobbi Miller, Amy Larkin, Barbara Trentham, Mark Nowlin, Jenny Dowd and Valerie Seaberg.
Writers/poets to date include: Sarah Kariko, Marcia Casey, Valley Peters Bradley and Nicole Burdick.
(Bressler, where are you in this? You write great poetry about nudes! Get going, don’t make me bring out the poem you wrote a few years back…..yes, I still have it, it’s bookmarking my souffle recipe.)
Show #2:
Power & Faith: The Photography of Paul Adams will be on display in the 
Artspace Loft Gallery. Here, I defer to Paul Adams’ quotation describing the inspirations for his work.
“Through most of my professional photographic career I have tried to make beautiful photographs simply for the sake of beauty. Recently though I find myself motivated more by the same challenges the American folk singer Arlo Guthrie faced when he said, “For me it is not enough to write a song that is good. I want to write a song that is good for something.” The stimulating and exciting challenge for me as a photographic artist is to try and seduce the viewer into thinking as deeply as they feel. As we look into the faces of these Spiritual Leaders I hope to accomplish Aristotle’s goal for art when he said, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
Show #3:
The Scotch and Watercolor Society, comprised of painters Barbara Barella, Holly Bishop, Barbara C. Kuxhausen, Skip Larcom, Michele McDonald and Joan Melius, deliver their creative messages solely in watercolor.
Watercolors are considered by many to be the most difficult paint medium to master. Artists in this show offer up a variety of impressions, interpretations and subjects in their paintings. The exhibition will be on display in the Artspace Theater Gallery. Perhaps a fine single malt will be served.
Show #4:
Art Association Ceramics Director Sam Dowd is, in my opinion, a great ceramicist. His space-inspired clay compositions are sheer intergalactic fantasy.
It’s exciting that Dowd’s collaboration and guidance of Jackson Hole High School 
students has resulted in this new art project and show, Blast from the Cast.
On display in the Artspace Lobby Gallery, students from Shannon Borrego’s art classes will mount their sculptures and vessels. Students have learned the slip cast mold process, and created works depicting, or speaking to, objects “chosen from life,….making a plaster mold… to produce several reproductions. The students then created clay projects that incorporated, repeated, and altered the mold pieces.”
And that’s quite a process. Results are colorful, well-designed and fanciful. Art created by youth is the most free; with Dowd teaching them, these students may hang on to that creative joie de vivre.
The Art Association may be contacted via their website, or you may phone 307.733.6379.
Time for Jackson’s annual Latino arts tradition, our Day of the Dead Altar Walk–to be followed by a Day of the Dead Party at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary. Happening on Monday, November 2 – you will have changed your clocks back an hour by then – the walk begins at 5:30 pm, departing from the Center for the Arts lobby (check to see which lobby, east or west). Walk along Pearl Avenue with other D.O.D. enthusiasts and savor–appreciate–the great creativity, spirit and love behind these traditional altars. Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrates life, and offers up kudos to loved ones moved on to another dimension.
They’re still with us, though—you can be sure of that. Be open to receive them, and messages from your loved ones will come to you.
Following the walk, join the festivities at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary; it’s a party for all ages with delicious Mexican fare, sugar skull decorating AND…a LIVE ALTAR PERFORMANCE. Cool.
If you can’t make the Walk, you have until November 3 to visit the altars. Check with Ladrillos para los Artes, our local organization supporting Latino cultural arts and programming. All events are free and family friendly.
Altar Walk Store Fronts: Center for the Arts, Bank of Jackson Hole, Cloudveil, Arteffects,Pearl Street Bagels, Antler Motel, JH Meat and Fish Co., Bon Appe Thai, Betty Rocks, Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary Gallery, Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church.
Altar artists: Susan Thulin, Nona Yehia, Jennifer Daniels, Alissa Davies, Babs Case, Meleta Buckstaff, Vanessa Sultzer, Stacey Walker, Madeleine Mundt, Cindee George, Teton Literacy Students, Middle School Students, Spanish Council at Our Lady of the Mountains.
Other D.O.D. inspired activities are listed here. Contact Oona Doherty at 690-5264 for details.
Traditional Mexican Cooking Class
Friday October 30
Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church
5:00pm-7pm
Space is limited. To register contact Oona Doherty: 690-5264 or oonadoherty@gmail.com
Children’s Sugar Skull Decorating Workshop
Sunday November 1
2-4pm Children 5 and up
Teton County Library
No sign-up, drop-ins welcome.
Day of the Dead Altar Walk
Monday November 2
5:30pm
Begins in the Center for the Arts Lobby
Day of the Dead Fiesta
Monday November 2
6:00pm-9:00pm
Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary Gallery
130 South Jackson Street
Homeade Mexican food and beer, dead bread and hot chocolate and sugar skull decorating!
Teton County Parks & Recreation sends word that they are in need of the following items for a large-scale children’s crafts project. The Kids Club After School program will undertake the project in December. If you or your friends are inclined to save items from your recycling, TCP&R can use the following items; these can be dropped off at the Rec Center in town….that’s where the big pool is, ya’ll. Thanks from them, in advance for your…
Small cardboard boxes – cereal boxes – snack boxes – paper towel tubes 
- toilet tissue tubes – extra cardboard – plastic bottles – socks – buttons – any small and large boxes – egg cartons.
What, no string? No yarn? Ask about yarn and string.
Maybe a Christmas Village is in the works? Contact Angela York, Youth Recreation Coordinator, at 307.732.5756 or (cell) 307.200.1565.
Item #2: National Museum of Wildlife Art’s “Harvest on the Hill”
One of the valley’s favorite fall family traditions happens soon: The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s November “Harvest on the Hill” celebration. The special First Sunday event takes place Sunday, November 1, 1-4:00 pm, at the museum. Free to area locals – the first 600 to arrive get a free T-shirt – the afternoon is filled with fun events. A “Harvest” stalwart, Deanna Banana the Clown, will be on hand. The musical group Two Rivers will perform their own brand of “Celtic Western” music and a leaf print arts project activity for kids and adults takes place 1-3:00 p.m. And, of course, be sure to enjoy the Museum’s galleries; leave your cider in the lobby, though!
Arrive early! The tees are popular and this is one of Fall’s best family events. Gets you in the spirit. Leaf bag fights optional. For information, call 307.733.5771.
Item #3: LMC’s Boo-yah!
Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary’s Halloween party plan is this: Macbeth Party! The gallery space hosts a “lively evening” of costume contests and playing around, Halloween-style. There will be sword fights, and members of Off Square Theatre’s Macbeth cast will make spooky, spectral appearances. Bring lots of garlic and dry ice for the cauldron. The fun happens October 30, 6-9:00 pm at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary, on South Jackson Street.
Item #4: Coffee
My friend Jim VanNostrand, who is in St. John’s hospital, inspired by a giant hospital coffee machine, asked me to put this bit of philosophy on my blog: “There Is No Life Before Coffee!”
Feel better, Jim! Love, Tammy
