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Art of Writing in the Environment
The Grand Teton Association’s summer writing program, “Writers in the Environment,” produced by Jackson author Tina Welling, is a superlative venue for writers looking for a workshop that takes place outdoors, under the canopy of the Park’s crazy blue summer skies, under the sheltering pines. The 2012 list of workshops has been announced.
June 9, 2012: Writer, musician and former Wyoming Poet Laureate David Romtvedt’s workshop will focus on ancient Chinese poetry. These writers ventured out in small boats and chanted poems to the full moon. “Sometimes they drank too much wine and fell out of their boats,” notes Welling. The Chinese poems and the way they integrated the life of the individual with the natural world will be explored.
July 14, 2012:Jackson, Wyoming writer Jayme Feary specializes in narrative nonfiction and is a frequent magazine contributor. The Wyoming Arts Council awarded him a 2011 Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana, where he taught composition and creative nonfiction. His workshop, ”Storytelling–The Secret Behind ‘Show, Don’t Tell,” How can we shift our writing from telling to showing? Practice writing a really great scene.
August 11, 2012: “Write From the River,” Hannah Hinchman’s writing workshop, explores side-channels, gathers interesting debris, cuts through layers and finds its way around obstacles. Outdoor time to reflect, respond and “read the currents.” Hinchman has taught field journal workshops across the country for 25 years. Her second book, A Trail Through Leaves: the Journal as a Path to Place is used as a text in several environmental studies programs.
September 8, 2012: Matt Daly is the author of Wild Nature and the Human Spirit: a Field Guide to Journal Writing in Nature. His writing appears in numerous publications, including To Everything On Earth, Stories of the Wild and Ahead of Their Time: Wyoming Voices for Wilderness. He teaches creative writing workshops in Wyoming for teens and adults. During Daly’s three-hour workshop participants will complete a series of writing exercises to be used as compost for short poems. Participants will have the opportunity to hone descriptive and poetic language as they record sensory experience, to practice the use of honest voice as they make connections between experience and personal beliefs, to adapt journal entries into poems and to share writing with peers.
Workshop attendees meet at 9:00am at the flagpole in front of the Moose Visitor Center, then drive to the Lucas/Fabian cabins to sit on the porch, beside Cottonwood Creek, to write.
Contact Tina Welling for more information. Tina@TinaWelling.com http://www.grandtetonpark.org/
Robert Kuhn, Flat Out, 1985. Acrylic on Board. 14 x 18 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Talk about a party! Here in Jackson, we’re proud to know our cultural treasure, the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA), is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
“From a private collector’s dream and a rented Jackson Hole storefront to a landmark building, national museum designation, and more than 5,000 artworks boasting familiar names from Audubon to Warhol, the National Museum of Wildlife Art has come a long way in 25 years,” says the museum. “In addition to its quarter-century anniversary, 2012 also marks the fall completion of the museum’s new Walter Hood-designed Sculpture Trail and the spearheading of a national exhibition providing a visual record of the American West as seen through the eyes of National Geographic’s legendary photographers opening in October.”
The museum’s collection began inauspiciously in 1962 with a small painting titled “Favorite Panfish” by Les Kouba given to Bill Kerr by his wife, Joffa. Two years later the couple bought a Carl Rungius piece, “Wanderers Above Timberline” on layaway, and by 1987 they had amassed one of the finest collections of wildlife and sporting art in the country. Together with several others, on May 17, 1987, they opened the then “Wildlife of the American West Art Museum” in a 5,000-square-foot space on Jackson’s Town Square.
The Grand Teton Association Presents the 2012 “Artists in the Environment” Plein Air Summer Series Schedule, Grand Teton National Park
Gregory I. McHuron
Date: June 9, 2012
Location: Blacktail Pond
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Gregory I. McHuron has been painting wildlife and landscapes throughout the United States and Canada for 35 years. A Syracuse native, he was raised in Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska and California.
McHuron has long painted Jackson’s surrounding area and the West, capturing a wide variety of subjects. He is active in many arts organizations, including the Wyoming Artists Association, Wind River Artist Association, Scottsdale School of the Arts and The Lodge at Palisades. His paintings are featured at the National Museum of Wildlife Art and the CM Russell Show. Grand Teton National Park, Isle Royale National Park, and Gates of the Artic National Park and Preserve include McHuron’s work in their permanent collections.
“People have said that they are immediately struck by my strong sense of design–then, the interesting color combinations, juxtapositions, and light and dark patterns,” says McHuron. “The common thread in all my work is that I was there.” McHuron often puts himself in extreme conditions in order to get the painting he wants. Standing in rivers and on the edge of cliffs, bobbing in a raft down the Grand Canyon, or accidentally finding himself in the middle of a buffalo stampede aren’t unusual circumstances.
McHuron co-founded “Artists in the Environment” with landscape artist Conrad Schwiering. He is represented by Jackson’s Trailside Galleries.
Andrew Bird, 2007 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Will it be “The premier outdoor summer event in Jackson Hole??”
It just may be. So, mark your calendars. Travis Walker’s Teton Art Lab, with support from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, The Kemmerer Foundation, and Old Bill’s Fun Run, presents the Caldera Festival: Andrew Bird and Sharon Van Etten on Saturday, August 18, 2012. The festival runs 6-11:00 pm, centered at the Center for the Arts. Says the Community Foundation’s website:
“While there are a number of arts and conservation organizations in Jackson, these communities rarely come together to highlight issues in new ways. The Caldera Festival will do just that by encouraging learning for all ages with creative and innovative exhibitions, films, presentations and performances such as a hike with Treefight founder David Gonzalez and an art class using all found and local materials. Grant funding from the Community Foundation will help kick start this new event.”
That last sentence suggests this summer’s Caldera may be the first of many. The music will be incredible. Andrew Bird and Sharon Van Etten are scheduled to appear; exact show times are TBA. Their music is transcendant, joyful and peaceful. And fun to listen to, you will NOT nod off. Listen to their music: www.andrewbird.net and www.sharonvanetten.com. www.tetonartlab.com
Trio Fine Art is transitioning, evolving.
September Vhay, an original founder of Trio Fine Art, has announced she will be leaving that gallery and joining Jackson’s Altamira Fine Art, effective May 3, 2012. At that time, Trio Fine Art will welcome Jackson-based painter Bill Sawczuk as that gallery’s new partner.
Focusing on painting while simultaneously running a gallery is more than a full time job, and after six successful years at Trio, Vhay says she “has come to a place in her life where she feels that her time is best spent painting.”
“Running Trio Fine Art has been an incredibly rewarding experience in regards to having the opportunity to work with, and create art alongside, the talent of Kathryn Turner, Molly Hirschfield, Lee Riddell, and Jennifer Hoffman,” says Vhay, who is known for her distinct renderings of horses and wildlife. “Trio also provided the unique experience for an artist to connect with collectors and witness the public enjoying the work first hand. Artists become attached to their paintings, and there is a certain solace in knowing where they go. I am proud of what the
gallery has become and would like to extend a huge amount of gratitude to my amazing business partners, collectors, family and friends for their unwavering support. Neither Trio Fine Art nor my career would be where they are without it.”
