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Art Fair! Public Art! Western Visions Art!
A wee behind. Hectic week. Apologies, all! Things have been down, but once a gal is up again, everything good in the world looks even better!
Hey, maybe you didn’t even notice, because everyone is so darn busy! Many good things happening in the Arts!
1: Art Fair Jackson Hole happening again this weekend, starting today! Runs through Sunday. I think the Art Association still needs volunteers, drop Steph Fellows a line at steph@artassociation.org, or call her cell phone: 303-250-3508. I’m volunteering Saturday, 3:30-6:00 p.m. See you there!
2: Exact wording from J.H. Public Art Initiative press materials reads:
TOWN COUNCIL APPROVES OPEN AIR EXHIBITION! ”Imagine discovering the art of our day on Snow King, in Town or on Pearl Street, free and accessible to all people! The Mayor and Town Council granted permission to the Public Art Initiative to host an exhibition of museum quality work in public space. Artwork will be professionally curated and changes every 18 months. The Town will provide staff support and assistance insuring the art located on public property. We hope to start this program next summer”.
AND…also verbatim:
PUBLIC ART ADMINISTERS 3 NEW PROJECTS!
John Frechette: Bison and Grizzly DNA at the new Home Ranch Building designed by Carney Logan and Burke Architects. Budget $27,000. Funding Town of Jackson. Installation: Fall 2011
– Spring 2012.
Ben Roth: Six custom animal bike racks at the National Musuem of Wildlife Art inspired from the collection. Budget: $7500, Funding: Teton County, Community Pathways and National Museum of Wildlife Art. Installation: Fall 2011.
Don Rambadt: A three part installation for the retaining walls framing the Highway 89 pathway underpass announcing the Museum’s sculpture trail. Budget: $25,000, Funding: Teton County and Community Pathways. Installation: Fall 2011 and Spring 2012.
3: The National Museum of Wildlife Art is really gearing up for 2011′s Western Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale. The J.H. Fall Arts Festival is soooo close!
Straight from the Museum:
“2011 Western Visions scheduled events include the Sketch Show & Sale and Original Prints Show & Sale, Aug. 20 – Sept. 25; and Palates & Palettes, with mini-quesadillas and margaritas accompanying the art on view, Sept. 9. The Jewelry and Artisan Luncheon takes place Sept. 14, with the 24th Annual Wild West Artist Party offering live music and meet-the-artist opps the evening of Sept. 15. Start placing your bids Sept. 3 for the drawing during the big event, the 24th Annual
Miniatures and More Show & Sale, Sept. 16. And on Sept. 28, a coffee-in-the-gallery Art A’ Brewin’ event allows a final chance to browse works still available for sale.”
Find out all you need to know about Western Visions by visiting www.wildlifeart.org, or contacting Western Visions’ superb co-ordinator, Jennifer Lee, at 307.732.5412. An online catalog aids long-distance participation, and the Museum has addes a “streamlined digital bidding system.” Cool stuff!
July 15-22, check out the bold, illustrative paintings of Jeff Ham at Mountain Trails Gallery.
Last summer’s personal statement on Native American history will be replaced (I believe) with more celebratory Western imagery. As has been noted, Ham’s color and composition spring from a background in illustration.
“I do my best to translate emotion and feelings into color and communicate my individual interpretation of each subject,” he explained. ”My goal is to capture spontaneity. As an artist I am learning to express myself in an honest and straightforward manner.”
I’m still loving the memory of Jeff Ham’s large scale works, his O’Keeffe and Warhol portraits; they once hung in the J.H. Center for the Arts Theater Lobby, and may still be there.
Email: fineart@mountaintrails.net
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“I paint with passion, risk and abbreviated images instead of capturing realism. Set against transit texture and vivid color, images and figures cannot be situated in reality. These painterly expressions challenge our emotions and communicate with our sense of mystery. Mystery is a part of life. Not everything is easily explainable.” - Rocky Hawkins
Rocky Hawkins: Lost At Last, is the new show at Altamira Fine Art. A reception will be held at the gallery July 15, 5-7:00 pm.
What can’t be ignored in Montana artist Rocky Hawkins’ work is the ghostly quality of his portraits. Conversely, there is a direct confirmation his Native American subjects demand of viewers. Confirmation of existence transmitted by apparitions. Thirty-six expressionistic paintings make up the artist’s roster of images on the Altamira gallery site. All are potent, highly vigorous compositions — an approaching army of ancestry and imminent spirits.
Hawkins is a brave artist, true to his own inspiration. His work sells, appealing to a cache of sophisticated collectors of contemporary Western art. Inspired in part by Terpning, Hawkins’ works are painterly anti-war messages conveyed through portraits of a culture that fought for its right to exist.
And isn’t a break with “the rules” what we often search out for in great art? Gallery director Mark Tarrant has said that Hawkins’ work
recalls “the primitivism that Gaugin sought, and pays little attention to the classical use of perspective and color.” To my eye, his work recalls Gaugin’s breakout character combined with Jackson Pollock’s rhythmic use of paint….there may be homage to Motherwell’s sweeping black forms.
Lost At Last (if you meet Hawkins, ask him about the meaning behind the title of this show; then get back to me, please!) remains on display through August 4th. www.altamiraart.com.
Item #3:
Jackson Hole Art Fair Rap Revisited!
(July 16-18 Miller Park 10am-6pm; 10 am-4pm Sunday. www.artassociation.org )
Hey, it’s July, so it’s time to share / ‘Bout that annual gig, the Jackson Hole Art Fair! / “Art Fair Jackson Hole” it prefers to be called / Nobody asked me. I’m not involved.
Hey man, don’t be bored! / Sometimes Harrison Ford / Comes to check out the art / And he brings Flockhart. (If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it!)
Buy ceramics, toys, fibers–/ This poem’s the town crier / For Art Fair Weekend / Come rain or come shine-er. / Paintings, baskets, jewels, tents / Sunscreen and some fivers / All make for a day / The whole family could die for!
See the Fair. Have Fun. This rap is all done.
Item #4:
Hammock painting helpers needed! July 15, beginning 5:00 pm, convene at the Multipurpose Ceramics Studio at the Center for the Arts. Help paint 2,000 feet of hammock that will be used as part of Sunday, July 25th’s Vertical Orchestra concert at the Teewinot lift ( I am enough of a non-skier to not even know if that lift is at Snow King or Teton Village. But I bet you will know, dear readers!)
If you help paint, you’ll go home with a free hammock. Bring along any unused paint you might have handy, but most importantly, bring yourself. You can also sign up to volunteer the day of the concert. Questions: Bland Hoke, 307.690.0097.
Arts Observatory April 4, 2006
Wilson artist Miga Rossetti created last summer’s Art Association Jackson Hole Arts Fair poster, and this spring, she is the Murie Center’s 2006 Spring Earth Festival’s Featured Artist, with her artwork once again being chosen for promotional poster art. “Bug” is a multi-colored, celestial dream-like composition. Its festive, eye-catching aura seems an excellent choice for the 8th annual Spring Earth Festival, which takes place April 19-23, and celebrates our valley’s wildness. This year, the Festival opens on Wednesday, April 19, at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, when Emmy award-winning documentary filmmakers Jim and Jamie Dutcher present their program “Living with Wolves.”
Traditionally, Spring Earth Festival artists display their works at Pearl Street Bagels for the month beginning April 15. Rossetti is so busy, however, she has ceded her PSB reservation to the Murie Center’s first photographer in residence, Cynthia Norcross Willson.
Says the Murie Center’s Amy Brennan McCarthy, “We are so pleased with the imagery surrounding this year’s festival. Artist Miga Rossetti’s vibrant work will grace the…poster, and…Cynthia Willson will capture the essence of the festival and the historic Murie Ranch…”
According to McCarthy, Willson first visited the Murie Ranch in June 2005, accompanying visiting dignitaries from Pakistan and India, in a tour arranged by the United States State Department. Willson, a Wyoming native, has spent years photographing cultures around the globe. She now resides in Cheyenne. Willson invokes Mardy Murie, relaying the conservationist’s sentiments to us once again: “ Every citizen has a responsibility toward this planet.” Willson adds that she “…believes protecting nature is crucial not only for our survival, but for a richness in our lives. There is no greater gift we can leave those who succeed us.”
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An artful workshop wonderland is yours for the taking this summer, courtesy of the Art Association. Summer 2006 will offer up a roster of extraordinary Visiting Artist Workshops, and this year the Art Association, in partnership with Central Wyoming College and Idaho State University, will provide a selection of three to five day art classes creditable towards an arts degree. Courses will be staffed with notable instructors and artists from around the country. Visiting Artist workshops will offer credits for undergraduates, and, for the first time, opportunities to accumulate graduate level credits.
So, how does the program work? “If one takes a class, you could take it solely for personal enrichment,” says coordinator and past Art Association Director Susan Thulin. “Show up, learn, and have a great time! But, if you’d like to take the same class for undergraduate credit, you may fill out CDW forms, and you’ll receive extra assignments. You will need to complete a certain number of works, as you would in any collegiate setting.”
Education coordinator Amy Larkin rates this development ‘amazing.’ “The graduate level credits are a total breakthrough,” she says. “This summer is the first time the Art Association is really digging in to help students get ahead. And for teachers taking graduate level workshops, they’ll have additional credit, which should increase their teaching value and salaries. That’s a great benefit for all the teachers in our region looking for classes. This is a wonderful deal for them, because in addition to the credits, the courses are compact and easy to take.”
What’s on the agenda? Whether you are a beginner or an advanced art student, summer classes have something for everyone. Offerings include, but are definitely not limited to, Simon Kogan’s “Sculpting the Truth,” Nicholas Wilton’s creative exploration class “Artplane” and Edward Stanton’s “Drawing Circus.” Want to draw or paint? Consider Susan Thulin’s “Drawing: Personal Inspiration from Nature,” Reid Galey’s “Plein Air Oil Painting Workshop” or Ted Nuttall’s “Figurative Watercolor Painting from Photographs.”
For information, call the Art Association at 733-6379. A complete roster of classes will be available online and in the new edition of SPLASH.
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