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Pro-active. Citizens creating their own opportunity. Creative people building an incubating economic arts engine in Jackson. Â That is good news.
Teton Art Lab and its new entity, the Factory Studios, are new arts non-profits with a mission to support the creation of new work, education and ideas by young up-and-coming artists.
I’m very worked up about the direction of development and use of donated and public funds here in Jackson. In an era where people are struggling to stay off the streets, frequenting food pantries in greater numbers, forgoing health insurance, and just plain leaving town…Jackson continues on the path of high rents, ever higher ski pass prices, over-building (ignoring voters mandate NOT to overbuild, or at least develop imprudently; even if you push through building projects one at a time, instead of en masse, the result is the same, a glut of empty commercial and luxury residential space), and lobbying for taxes we now may not be able to democratically allocate, expensive marketing to lure tourists who will probably stick mostly to their patterns, putting the idling police on the public’s tail (I know the source of this initiative and it is worthy, but our town’s real, immediate needs are urgent (at the least let’s pass a no-talking-on-cell phones-while-driving law)…Maybe we’re so insulated from our country’s massive tragedies and ruined lives that we just don’t see ourselves clearly.
We cannot, right now, fullfill personal agendas by repeatedly applying bandaids instead of finding real cures. Especially in cases resulting from egregious, imprudent financial planning. This is a time to re-set our compass. We urgently need to keep people here by creating good, long-term jobs and re-think uses for all the empty space. We built a “tunnel to nowhere” in the side of Snow King. It never felt right, and it turns out it ain’t. The mountain was gutted, condos were built that few, if any, people have bought, and now our town is in a position to lose crucial amenities. And more jobs.
I don’t hear our public officials talking in real terms about Jackson’s economic future. What is the vision? How will we get there? Is 10×10 on track? How many of our leaders are even aware of a 
federal tax rebate program benefitting green building and retro-fits? Â There are even benefits for government buildings.
Jackson needs a new identity, one that can include ski amenities and culture, but that should not be the major goal for Jackson’s development. Instead we must look to invite new businesses, focus on job growth—everybody else is—broaden our economic base. Let’s prepare for the certainty that there are no certainties. Let’s encourage leadership that inspires us, that is investing in tools we can use to position Jackson residents to flourish locally and globally. Â Keep track of how our government influences our lifestyles, what it encourages and what it does not.
I can’t predict how the  newly formed Factory Studios will ultimately fare because I’m not privy to their accounting. But I admire Travis Walker’s innovation and bravery in the face of hard times. He keeps coming up with new ideas, and HELLO!!!!!!  Town and arts vitality factors go up. Some young artists now operating out of the Factory were planning on leaving town until this space was harnassed.
As Travis and I have discussed, this is his version of a business incubator. Something we’ve talked about many times–and definitely here on the Blog. (Use keywords “economy,” “public art,” “smart growth,” or “economy,” Â ”vertical gardens” and “window art” to search for other related articles on the Blog.)
I am hugely impressed with the enterprise behind Teton Artlab’s new Factory Studios, a converted factory space made over into artist studios and work space. Teton Artlab, Strapped Glass, Treefight, the Deadlocks, Caldera Collective, Abbie Miller, Meg Daly, and Dave and Anomaly Farm are based there. Over 6,500 square feet will house a contemporary gallery, glassblowing studio, printmaking presses, and a digital media lab.Walker says eight private studios ranging from 112 to 1,000 square feet are on site.
Even though I may be out of town and miss their Grand Opening, you should not. The party takes place Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:30 – 9:30 pm. The Factory (hello, Andy Warhol…) is located at 1255 Gregory Lane in Jackson. Lots of parking, check for space in and around Martin Lane and Bison Lumber. The opening party will feature large-scale textile art by local fashionista Abbie Miller and music by the Deadlocks.
www.tetonartlab.org/www.factorystudios.org
Paintings, Photography, Artifacts, Memorabilia, Jewelry, Sculpture, Woven Arts, Wine, Food, Auctions, Lectures, Street Fairs, Cookouts on the Square, Â Artist Studio Tours, Ranch Tours, Representational Art, Contemporary Art, Western Designs and Fashion, Antiques, Furnishings, Americana, Ceramics, Music, Cowboy Poetry, Metal work, Quick Draws….need we say more? Â We couldn’t. Â Toute de suite:
The 2010 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival begins Thursday, September 9! The Jackson Hole Art Blog will post a calendar in 3-day increments. This post lists FAF events for September 9-11, 2010.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Western Design Conference Lecture Series: Three 1-hour accredited talks, open to the public as well as the design community. Â Free with purchase of Gallery Exhibit Sale Day Pass, $15. Â Center for the Arts, Downtown Jackson. Â Noon-3:00 pm. Â You may buy tickets at the door or visit www.westerndesignconference.com.
Western Design Conference Gala Event: Fashion Jewelry Show. Live model jewelry show, runway fashion show featuring western style couture. Â Awards over
$22,000 in cash to best new designs. Â Gala follows. Â Center for the Arts. Â Doors open 6:00 pm. Â Fashion Show: Â 7:15 pm. Â (Drink up and buy up, ya’ll!) Â Tickets: Â $125, $100, $75. Â Reserved seating. Â 307.733.4900 or jhcenterforthearts.com.
Galleries West Fine Art’s 8th Fall Round Up
This annual group show features new works by the entire roster of Galleries West artists. Artist’s reception takes place during the Wednesday (September 15) night ARTwalk.307.733.4412 Â Â www.gallerieswestjacksonhole.com
Mountain Trails Gallery Robert Hagan One Man Show – Final Day of Show. Â 307.734.8150 www.mtntrails.net
RARE Gallery “Art for the New West” Group Show, Â September 9-19. Â Featuring the truck tail gate pieces of rising star Michael Kalish, as well as the works of other contemporary western artists. www.raregalleryjacksonhole.com. Â 307.733.8726
Wilcox Gallery Both gallery locations exhibiting Wildlands and Wildlife Show through Thursday, September 30. Â Â Â 307.733.6450 www.wilcoxgallery.com
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Western Design Conference Exhibition and Sale
18th Annual Western Design Conference Gallery Exhibit Sale
Impressive exhibition of western furniture, home accessories and fashion, Bringing together artists, scholars, collectors, interior designers, architects and fashion designers.
10:00am-5:00pm  at the Snow King Pavillion.  Tickets at the door;  $15 day pass.   www.westerndesignconference.com
Trio Fine Art Demonstration
Come watch artists Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner, and September Vhay, Â with special guest artists Kay Stratman and Shannon Troxler. Â 3-5:00 pm. Â www.triofineart.com.
Studio Tours
Get up a carpool of friends and enjoy this self-guided tour of area artist studios. Â Visit painters, glass blowers, metal forgers, ceramicists. Â 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Â Contact Laurie Thal at 307.733.5096 or visit www.thalglass.com. Â A special Studio Tours Reception takes place at the Center for the Arts, 5-8:00 pm. Â www.jacksonholechamber.com/images/adobe/FAF2010StudioTour.pdf
Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk
Perhaps the most notorious and fun FAF event. All (more than 30!) of Jackson’s galleries pair with local restaurants to showcase fine art and delectable food and wine. Free, open to the public! Â Officially begins at 5pm, and officially ends at 8pm. Â Some galleries remain open later. Walk and wine responsibly! Â Featured galleries are:
David Brookover Gallery The gallery hosts a special benefit for the Sheriff and Police search and rescue departments and K9 dog units. $10 admission, with all proceeds benefiting those organizations. Â View Brookover’s new platinum photographs, enjoy special Amangani fare. Â www.davidbrookover.com.
Tayloe Piggott Gallery Wolf Kahn: Refractions of Light, Paintings and Pastels. Converging color and light to create atmospheric and sensual pictorial fields, (Kahn’s) paintings evoke the ethereal world of nature even when they are not visibly representational. Â In the mid 1950s Kahn, as a Second Generation member of the New York School, was part of a core group of artists reinterpreting life. Â www.tayloepiggottgallery.com.
Diehl Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Canadian painter Les Thomas. Thomas described his style as a hybrid of abstraction and representation. The imagery he places in his pictures are the pretexts he needs to further explore pictorial possibilities. This show will benefit the Jackson Hole Land Trust, a 501(c ) (3) organization established in 1980 to preserve open space and the scenic, ranching and wildlife values of Jackson Hole by assisting landowners who wish to protect their land in perpetuity. Collectors are invited to write 10% of the acquisition cost of works in this show directly to the Land Trust.
5:00pm-9:00pm
307.733.0905, www.diehlgallery.com
Cayuse Cayuse is highlighting early works inspired by National Parks, focusing on Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon National Parks. The show explores some of the first work, commissioned by the United States Government. Â www.cayusewa.com
Teton Art Lab, Center for the Arts: Â 5:30-7:30 pm. Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Alex Katz, Richmond Burton, and Robert Cottingham prints by master printer Karl Hecksher of K5 Editions. Hand carved and entirely hand printed masterworks by world famous artists. (Note: Â A recent New Yorker Magazine article by neurologist/artist/author Oliver Sacks identifies Close as having life-long prosopagnosia, a condition blocking the ability to recognize faces. Â Sacks quotes Close: “I don’t know who anyone is and essentially have no memory at all for people in real space. Â But when I flatten them out in a photograph I can commit that image to memory.”) www.tetonartlab.com.
Legacy Gallery showcases a One Man Show featuring Kyle Polzin (all paintings will be sold by draw). Â 5:00-8:00pm. Â 307.733.2353, www.legacygallery.com
Wild by Nature Gallery features new works by nature photographer Henry H. Holdsworth. Show remains up through September 19. Â Â 307.733.8877, www.wildbynaturegallery.com. Â 5-8:00 pm.
Astoria Fine Art Ewoud de Groot. Artist Reception   5-8:00 pm.   307.733.4016 www.astoriafineart.com
Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee Concert and Dance Party
Celebrate the West at the 9th Annual Premier Music and Poetry Roundup. Enjoy award-winning artists Juni Fisher, Patty Clayton, Al ‘Doc’ Mehl, and The All Star Cowboy Dance Band, featuring top-tier local singer songwriters and musicians. Join in the finale by gathering on stage for a true Western dance party
. Â Center for the Arts, 8:00pm, $28 Â Â Â 307.733.4900 or www.jacksonholecowboyjubilee.org.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Happy Birthday, Dad!
18th Annual Western Design Conference Gallery Exhibit Sale The lollapalooza exhibition of western furniture, home accessories and fashion continues. The Pavilion at Snow King Resort, 10:00am-5:00pm. Â Tickets at the door $15 day pass. Â Â www.westerndesignconference.com
Studio Tours  A second chance to spend the day visiting artist studios throughout the valley.  Download the self-guiding map here. Contact Laurie Thal at 307.733.5096.
Historic Ranch Tours Visit historic valley ranches, where Jackson Hole’s cowboy heritage still thrives. The tour is complete with cowboys, Western entertainment, and a good ol’ fashioned barbeque. Hosted by Mountain Living magazine. Â Busses leave Jackson’s Home Ranch parking lot at 2:00pm. Â $50 Â Â 307.733.3316 or 307.699.3868
Legacy Gallery Artist Focus Show featuring Robert Coombs and Josh Elliott. Â Â 307.733.2353, www.legacygallery.com
A Horse of a Different Color showcases Sandy Graves’ contemporary bronze sculpture through September 30. Artist reception 4-7:00 pm. Â 307.734.9603 www.ahorseofadifferentcolorgalleryjh.com
West Lives On Gallery presents a One Man Show “Capturing Wyoming On Canvas,” by Reid Christie; artist’s reception  2-5:00 p.m.   Show runs through September 12.    307.734.2888  www.westliveson.com
Artists in the Park  Come join Kathy Wipfler and the Grand Teton Association for a free plein air demonstration of her painting techniques.
Kathy’s oil paints on large canvases and has two paintings hanging in The Whitney Museum of Western Art in Cody, WY. Locally, her work can be found at Trailside Galleries. www.kathywipfler.com. 3-6pm, Chapel of the Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park.  Bring a chair, a snack and watch Wipfler capture the majesty of Jackson’s Hole.  307.739.3606.
That’s the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival calendar through September 11, 2010. Â Fall Arts Festival calendar listings for September 12-15, 2010 follow soon! Â ~TC
Kaidi Dunstan’s first show took place some 20 years ago, in a small Deloney Street gallery.  In a matter of hours, the exhibit was close to sold out. Her first collection of oil paintings, a grouping of still lifes and portrayals of the female human figure were so masterfully painted as to remind us of the great Post Impressionists Gauguin and Cezanne.   Dunstan’s compositions were inspired by some of the former’s paintings of Tahitian women, and a small study of a bowl of cherries could have been snatched from the latter’s studio.  Dunstan displayed, with her premiere show, a genius for mixing and applying paint.  Evident, too, was an affinity for capturing exotic color and patterns.
Transported, Dunstan’s first Jackson show in some years, opened February 22 at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery. An opening reception takes place Friday, February 26, and the exhibit remains up through April 17.
Dunstan currently lives in London. Her life, recently touched by personal tragedy,—she lost her husband to cancer—remains enigmatic to the public at large. Though Dunstan’s work is contemporary and her colors echo those of the Expressionists, her work can be likened to Kiki Smith’s “Victorian” artistic interpretation of mourning.  Dunstan continues to work on the human figure, but her work has become almost completely abstract.  Faces and human forms are transparent and Dunstan’s paintings are marked by overlapping lines and mosaics of color.  Structurally, she’s turned her paintings inside out.  They look as if they were complicated to create, and they are. Dunstan uses transfer paper as a material on which to sketch, then transfers that drawing to another surface like canvas or paper.  She can use her original image over and over, and so creates multiple layers of the same image in a single work.
Often, Dunstan’s forms seem to be dissolving before our eyes.
“The human figure holds an enduring fascination for me providing both oddness and mystery,” says Dunstan. She has incorporated media images of daily disasters into recent work, and is otherwise taking materials from the world at large into the maze of her compositions.  Through the imposed mystery and hints of grief emerge works that, with their bow to biology and minutiae, speak of teeming life.
The large nude double-portrait I purchased at Dunstan’s first show remains the centerpiece of my own little art collection. And to this day, it’s often mistaken for a Gauguin by those seeing the painting for the first time.
I let CIAO down; I did not get their photography deadline posted in time, but hope to make up for that hole-in-the-blog by posting the following comprehensive information sent by gallery director Michele E. Walters.   Visit CIAO’s website to find out more about the gallery–you can even view a video–or call 307.733.7833 to find out about upcoming opportunities for artists.
CIAO Memberships:
The gallery is taking applications. Membership includes:
* Gallery representation in downtown Jackson Hole, WY
* Website representation on a busy site and webstore representation
* Free application fees into any of the juried competitions.
* Representation in press releases, newspaper articles, emailing, etc.
* Accessibility to potential collectors
First Annual Open Photography Competition
This competition is open to landscape, wildlife, candid, portrait/studio, abstract & architectural shots and more. B&W and color photography accepted.  Eligibility requirements include:
• Semi-Professional and beginning photographers (Photography revenue must be 
less than 50% of your gross income.)
• Photos of people must have release forms.
• Work must be ready to hang, and clearly labeled with the artists name and contact information.
• No substitutions of accepted work.
• All work will remain on display during the duration of the exhibit.
• Art work must be for sale.
Exhibition date:Â January 8, 2010.
You could win some cash!
1st Place-$500 Cash Prize and one months representation of selected works
2nd Place-1 month free representation in featured artist section on gallery.
3rd Place- 6 months free representation in featured artist section on gallery website.
Deadline is December 18th 2009! (This is the late part. Call anyway, what could it hurt?)
Naturally Nude
Join CIAO’s 3rd Annual Naturally Nude Show. Open to all artists in any medium, traditional images and not-so-traditional, just bring it. Entry deadline: January 22, 2010. Exhibition takes place on Valentines Day.
*1st Place*-piece featured in gallery for three months with no exhibition fee; six months free representation in featured artist section on gallery website.
*2nd Place*- Six months free representation in featured artist section on gallery website.
*3rd Place-* Three months free representation in website’s featured artist section.
Submissions must be received on or before January 22nd, 2010.
Please visit CIAO’s website for links to specific events and invitations, or phone 307.733.7833.
I like the way this new show of hot art screens and still photography by filmmaker Peter Pilafian has come together: it’s been very “techno.” I have lots of “techno” feeling notes—why am I thinking of Astro Boy? Why, when I’m featuring Peter’s image of melting glacier ice that resembles molars?
Peter Pilafian’s new show is up at Elevated Grounds, on the Teton Village Road. An opening reception takes place December 5, and you should be prepared to see something completely different. Comprised of thematic groupings, Pilafian plans to explore such stimuli as Texture, Indigenous Portraits, Architecture, Shadows and Landscapes.
Watching Pilafian define and curate, I began thinking of these thematic groupings
as a series of reflective pools. Fluid videos surrounded by a string of photographic pearls. The show offers a glimpse, in National Geographic style, of some of Pilafian’s memorable earth journeys.
The exhibition will feature as many as five hot art screens and a selection of still photographs taken around the world.  A Delphi tablet, aged city walls of Havana, coffee farmers, Irish fiddlers, evocative shadows, orange trees and images of Athens are all part of the multi-layered story Pilafian wishes to tell. High definition BluRay DVD footage provides vivid, crisp focal pointsPilafian plans on framing his videos as a painter frames canvases. Why not frame moving landscapes? Pilafian’s images are part of Grand Teton National Park’s Lawrence Rockefeller Preserve Visitor’s Center installation; consider that sensory exhibit and you will get a feel for this show.
Contact Peter Pilafian via email at: ppilafian@earthlink.net.
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Ring-a-ding-ding!
Dancers’ Workshop’s 2nd Annual Affordable Art for Christmas Sale takes places Saturday, December 5, in the Center for the Arts Theater Lobby. The sale runs 11:00 am - 5:00 pm and is open to all. It’s free!
DW’s Alissa Davies tells us fifteen local arts vendors will be on hand, offering holiday arts and craft items. Jewelry, paintings, bags, and knit items (fingerless 
gloves!) neck warmers and hats are specialties of this sale;Â proceeds help support DW dance programs.
Price points are in line with a Scrooge-like economy – everything on sale is priced between $1 and $99. A DW holiday rehearsal will be taking place on stage in the theater, a joyous treat.   For more information, call DW’s offices, at 307.733.6398.
