Jackson Hole Art Blog

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!

Not many vistas are as powerful as Jackson Hole’s Teton Range. Only the Grand Canyon outranks our mountains.  The art of capturing that great national park is touched upon in the Teton County Library’s April exhibition,  Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography, on view in the library’s gallery April 16-July 16.

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition, the color photo collection reminds us of the Canyon’s siren call to photographers.  See the Grand Canyon as some of our best photographers have experienced it, absorbing its grandeur and its intimacies.  Images take in miles of canyon rim, waterfalls, lupin and pine needles, and every kind of light and shadow.  The canyon is a landscape; it is an abstract composition blending nature’s perfect forms. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Grand Canyon Association. It is sponsored locally by Teton County Library Foundation. Cost: Free. Location: Library’s Exhibition Gallery. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, 733-2164 ext. 135.

Teton County Library installs excellent visual arts exhibitions. If you haven’t already done so, don’t forget to check out “Netniintoonoo, “The Place Where We Live,” on view through November 10. This photography exhibition was created by students of the Arapaho School as part of the Language Revitalization Project on the Wind River Reservation.

Information on TCL’s next exhibition, currently posted on their website, is below:

November 13-December 30 the Teton County Library hosts a provocative exhibit focusing on coalbed methane drilling, “The New Gold Rush: Images of Coalbed Methane.” See the changes sweeping the open range with this unusual exhibit, combining photographs and satellite images. Four artists, John Amos, Ann Fuller, Patrick Smith and Ted Wood, chronicle how natural gas drilling is altering northern Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. They provide a portrait of the people and the place, now being crisscrossed by pipelines, utility lines, roads, well pads and other changes from the energy boom. On view during regular library hours, Nov. 13 to Dec. 30. Cost: Free. Location: Library’s Exhibit Gallery. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, 733-2164 ext. 135.

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“Preserving A Dying Language,” a video archive documenting the Teton County Library’s current exhibition, project “Netniintoonoo, “The Place Where We Live,” is featured on today’s New York Times’ online edition. The photography exhibition, created by students of the Arapaho School as part of the Language Revitalization Project on the Wind River Reservation, reflects the school’s efforts to keep this native language from extinction. First and 6th grade students, families and elders used black-and-white film to capture images of their community to create an Arapaho photo dictionary.

Don’t miss this remarkable exhibition, on view Oct. 10 to Nov. 10 during regular library hours. Cost: Free. Location: Library’s Exhibit Gallery. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, 733-2164 ext. 135.