Posts from ‘Sustaining Humanity’
Diehl Gallery Sells Art to Benefit Haiti
World crises bring opportunity. In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Jackson’s Diehl Gallery is altering its philanthropic schedule in order to assist victims in that razed and impoverished country.
Diehl has already begun donating a percentage of art sales to various Jackson area non-profits. Through February 12, the gallery says it will donate 10% of sales costs to either the International Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund or any other disaster relief charity benefiting the Haitian people.
After February 12, charitable donations made through the sale of art will benefit WomensTrust.
There are many relief organizations; do take time to research which charities you 
feel use their funds in an effective and ethical manner. It’s difficult to know everything about organizations we donate to, but we do a disservice to ourselves and any relevant community when we take marketing efforts at face value. In today’s world, vigilance and accountability are of the utmost importance.
Please call the Diehl Gallery at 307.733.0905 with questions.
I’ve sprinked this post with a few images of Haitian crafts. Despite hardships we cannot begin to imagine, their art is full of joy. Sitting here in my Connecticut home, I am surrounded by paper mache butterflies, crafted in Haiti.  Images courtesy of Aid To Artisans, a non-profit organization working to help crafts people in impoverished countries around the globe bring their goods to the U.S. market.
Yo! Been off-line for two weeks, give or take a sunset.  The J.H. Art Blog is being administrated three quarters of the country away from Jackson Hole. That’s the case all winter, but we’ll keep posting and inquiring and spreading the word.  Here are a few last minute postings, and….I know you know. They’re up anyway.
Rossetti, McCandless and the Art Association join hands for this one; an opening reception takes place Friday, December 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Center for the Arts.
Miga Rossetti’s first show in a while, Where to Put it All, mixes the chaos of Rosetti’s life with the efficiency she strives to inject. In NYC, many artists and art lovers are converting their homes into galleries, holding mini-shows for artists whose work is not marketable in the current….market. They find ways to stash their “personals,” and maybe Rossetti looks to pick up on that trend.
“Fitting it all in, stashing it, layering it, isolating certain things, giving over to many – all of this is considered,” says Rossetti. Our efficient winged friends are 
considered–creatures who can keep a neat house in a tiny circle, frenetic as each day might be. Materials include mixed media on board, including acrylic paint, natural materials and paper collage.
Martin Garhart & Valerie Seaberg: Falling Awake combines a contemporary painter and printmaker’s artistry with local artist Valerie Seaberg’s 
undulating vessels. Garhart has served as Professor of Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, for over 30 years. Valerie Seaberg describes herself as “an ocean child” destined for mountain life. Her mixed media vessels are like great, tumbled beachcombing finds, undulating clay forms encircled by pine needles or horsehair. They are high country marriages between an ancient ocean and raw land. Seaberg’s works are muscular, sensual and convey a deep sense of time, earth, and element.
Wow—Whoever wrote that is really good! www.artassociation.org.
Item #2
Hot off the Facebook presses:
Lyndsay invited you to “Affordable Art Weekend with Oswald Gallery and LMC” on Friday, December 11 at 12:00pm.
Event: Affordable Art Weekend with Oswald Gallery and LMC.
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Friday, December 11 at 12:00pm
End Time: Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm
Where: Oswald Gallery, 165 North Center Street
Join Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary and Oswald Gallery as we kick-off our Contemporary Art Collaboration in the Oswald Gallery space with an Affordable Art Weekend. Works by artists in both galleries will be on view and all artworks on view will be $3,000, or less, with many works under $1,000.
Please consider donating 10% of any purchase price to one of several arts non-profits.  A nice gesture from McCandless, recently forced to call it quits — it will really happen this time, I think — because of late-to-the-game town rulings on the state of her space.
Why now? Lyndsay has been in that space six years, TOJ. Come on. Give a hand, don’t slam her door. If you had problems, or if anyone did, why didn’t you voice them? Why didn’t you do something pro-active to keep LMC cooking?  I hope there is a bit of investigating on the part of the two newspapers. If everything is on the up-and-up, so be it. If this is a sudden, last-ditch effort on the part of LMC’s next door developers to beat back the common peeps, that stinks. Fix it up, instead. You have the money. And, it would do your complex (that nobody is living in) good stead.
The gallery will be open from noon until 8, with a cocktail reception each night from 6 to 8 pm.
Item #3:Â It’s Bazaar.
This Christmas, please come for some good cheer and bargains — and to support the JHHS Rotary Interact teenagers who are selling great gifts to raise money to open a village library in Nepal.
Many new rug designs and selected imports have just arrived. Bring your neighbors!
Sat. & Sun. December 12 & 13 10 am to 4 pm. Steer your sleigh to 1520 Fish Creek Road, in Wilson. Look for the prayer flags. For more information, contact hostess and Nepal benefactor Didi Thunder, at 307.733.4124.
Wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen’s October presentation at the National Museum of Wildlife Art was so packed, they had to send people away. So, Mangelsen is generously presenting his program again–at NMWA–on Thursday, November 19th, at 7:00 p.m. Mangelsen will talk about his nature photography, specifically the work now on view at the Museum. That exhibition, “The Natural World: Photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen,” is on display through April 25th, 2009.
I can make this one, yay!  By the way, the last post on Mangelsen’s show was Twittered about, out in the enviromental-creative universe….proof we’re all connected. Proof that Wyoming’s artists are among the best in the world when it comes to representing this powerful place.
For information, give NMWA a call at 307.733.5771 or log on to www.wildlifeart.org.
Item #2:Â Repeat Arts Grant Opportunities
A second deadline has been added to receive grant money from Art Works of Wyoming (AWW), a Wyoming Arts Council program. Funding comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Timeline is as follows:
- December 11, 2009 2nd deadline to apply for AWW funds.
- February 11-12, 2010 WAC Board meeting and 2nd Art Works for Wyoming Panel.
- February 19, 2010 Award letters for second funding deadline issued.
For full details and guidelines, log onto the Wyoming Arts website here.
Item #3:
Colorado landscape painter David W. Mayer’s paintings “Autumn at String Lake” and “Spring Runoff” are to be included in the C.M. Russell Art Auction, in Great Falls, Montana next Spring. The auction takes place March 17-20.
Mayer, a colleague of painters Scott Christensen, T. Allen Lawson and other painters; he is an acolyte of such writers and artists as Richard Schmid, Edgar Payne, Joaquin Sorolla and the California Impressionists.
The C.M. Russell Art Auction is juried.
Man, I am so old. I go lookin’ for images to post up for Teton Art Lab’s call to artists, for its upcoming “Wallpaper” exhibition, and I think I will find oodles of gorgeous decorator wall papers. Grass paper, Ralph Lauren patterns, accents, borders, stenciling, flocks; and themes like “The Hunt,” “Jungle,” “Rose Garden,” “Zen,” “Star Wars,”….
But no. It’s all about “Anime” and desktop and video games and such.
Teton Artlab is seeking entries for its second annual “Wallpaper” exhibition, to be held from December 4th – 23rd, 2009.
All works on paper are eligible, provided they are UNFRAMED and under 48″ on 
the longest side. Submissions must be dropped off at Teton Art Lab (up on the third floor of the Center for the Arts) by November 27th. This is a juried show, and works that are not destined to be part of the show will be returned by December 3rd.
Entries should have the artist’s name, phone number, and email, either on the back of the work or included with a portfolio.
For information, send a note…not written, but emailed…to :info@tetonartlab.com.
Item #2
Lyndsay McCandless has announced she is “pushing the pause button” on SLAM, Jackson’s grass roots artist market modeled on the town’s Saturday Farmer’s Market. She will also cease producing First Fridays, music events and all parties for now.
McCandless says the Town of Jackson has deemed her gallery space “not up to code,” and has notified her that the gallery may not hold gatherings with more than 45 people.
Well, that’s huge, because McCandless has transitioned the gallery space into the local contemporary art community’s primary gathering place. She has been the heart, the Energizer Bunny, for young visual artists here.  The ceasing of McCandless events leaves a big black hole in our arts scene. I don’t know the 
extent of SLAM’s effect on our local arts economy, but any slice taken out of our artistic family’s financial pie is a painful loss.
I call again on commercial property owners to offer up empty store front space to local artists!  This is ridiculous!
McCandless says the shut down forces her to reevaluate LMC’s future. Stay tuned.
I’ve asked McCandless why, after occupying the space on Jackson Street for as long as she has, the space is suddenly deemed not up to code; if it’s printable, I’ll give you the answer when I receive it.
Yikes, I hope there’s still time to check out Jarrod Eastman’s artwork over at Full Circle Frameworks--A party happened this past Friday evening, and judging from what Rocky Vertone posted on Facebook, Eastman’s works look pretty alive and fun.  I’m so not a smarty when it comes to the lingo of the 20 and 30-something Jackson art crowd, but I do know that Rocky’s venue is one-of-a-kind and that he is providing a much needed service for up-and-coming Jackson Hole artists.
Available Eastman art includes original works and limited edition prints. Vertone also says some “one off” pieces are up for sale at very affordable prices.  So check it out, give Vertone a buzz for an update.  733-0770 at the shop.
Item #2: Art Association Offers Fall Classes
The Art Association of Jackson Hole has a full and diverse fall arts class schedule. Painting, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, metals, fiber, glass, photography, printmaking and sculpture are all on the roster.  Classes are taught by an impressive group of artists, including but not limited to: Valerie Seaberg, Alissa Davies, Sam Dowd, Sharon Thomas, Kathy Turner, Amy Larkin, Georgia Mayer, Abbie Miller, Greg Epstein, Aaron Mitchell….
Visiting artists for adult classes include: Lian Quan Zhen (Class: Spirit of Life: Watercolor and Chinese Painting), Charles Reid (Figure in Watercolor), Donna 
Rozman (Ceramics, Color and Design), Danielle Corriea, Daniella Woolf, Rebecca Stern & Bronwyn Minton (Encaustic & Photographic Processes), Dan Haga (Advanced Silver Workshop), Bob Smith (Wildlife Photography), Elizabeth Opalenik (The Figure in Motion) and Johan Hagaman (Sculpting in Concrete: From High Art to Yard Art).
There are plenty of art classes for kids, too! Check out The Avery Mathieu Youth Scholarship Fund page to learn about a meaningful way to contribute to the Art Association’s ongoing commitment to youth.
For information, log onto the Art Association’s website here, or email signup@artassociation.org. You can download a pdf describing all courses and special programs.   Phone: 307.733.6379.
PS: Rumor has it that the position of Art Association E.D. has been offered to someone from the field of applicants interested in that job.
Item #3:Â New Casting at Galleries West
Jackson hole sculptor R. Scott Nickell has a new bronze in the works – an Arapaho Dancer. The figure depicts a warrior relating his story of valor through ceremonial dance. If you’ve ever attended a pow wow, you know how gorgeous and mesmerizing these dances are.
Says Nickell, “Gripping a war shield in one hand and a gunstock war club in the 
other, (the dancer’s) performance illustrates the act of counting coup during battle. In Native tradition, counting coup (touching an adversary with the tip of the war club) was a braver feat than killing an enemy, since it involved more danger to the warrior himself. Feathers were given as rewards for these acts of bravery and were displayed like medals of honor by the warriors.”
I haven’t told you about the deal: Nickell is offering a pre-cast discount for those ordering before November 15th.  Pre-cast price is currently $5500, but if ordered by November 15th, a 5% discount is applied. Time to start thinking about those holidays…..For full details on the piece and special payment arrangements, contact Galleries West at 307.733.4412 or email info@gallerieswestjacksonhole.com.