Like many artists, Bronwyn Minton took to the studio even more than usual when the COVID-19 crisis hit.

Kay Stratman didn’t arrive in the Mountain West until she was in her 50s.

More research goes into children’s books than you might think. Or at least it did for “The Big Thing.”

Dan Toro is a mural expert.

If you came across W. Tucker’s work “open / fragile” on the side of the street you might wonder if a child with a marker had defaced an old cardboard gift container.

An increasing number of peer-reviewed studies suggest that old idiom “laughter is the best medicine” may be more than a platitude.

According to the 2019 The Infinite Dial study by Edison Research, more than half of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast. That is a remarkable statistic for a media form that many people hadn’t heard of a decade ago and wasn’t invented until 2004.

With the third confirmed case of coronavirus in Teton County and the first “shelter in place” orders rolling out in places such as California and Texas, more and more valley residents are cooped up at home.

As the snow recedes off south-facing buttes and low-lying flats, Indian potatoes and sagebrush buttercups are starting to bloom. While the human residents of Jackson Hole are isolated and distressed, the ecological processes of spring are proceeding as normal, unaware of our plight.

Two weeks after the grand opening for Shari Brownfield Fine Art’s new gallery space in a historic cabin downtown, COVID-19 forced the gallery to close. Brownfield began isolating with her daughter and, because she never stops thinking about art, formulating the theme of a new exhibition.

For decades now a debate has raged between old-guard artistic voices and technology lovers: Are video games art?

If you have been perusing the classified ads recently, you might have come across a somewhat cryptic help wanted ad:

When viewers encounter Katy Ann Fox’s new show of landscapes, the painter expects the canvases will speak differently to each person taking them in.

Some relationships just keep getting better with time. That can be said about the Art Association of Jackson Hole’s longtime partnership with Jeremy Morgan.

When Larry Moore was a kid his dad would open up the doors to their Cocoa Beach, Florida, home to feed the local great blue herons. Half a century or so later, Moore drove by a junkyard.

The Lahaina Banyan is one of the largest trees in the United States. Its canopy stretches out over a quarter mile, overshadowing the grounds of a 1854 courthouse in Maui, Hawaii. Up close the tree’s tangled, trunk-like roots resemble human arteries and veins. For over five months Sean Cavana…

When Liz Forelle was studying environmental science at Skidmore College she found it hard to explain her capstone project on soil science to her non-science- major friends.

As attendees in cocktail dresses and suits filed down the rock stairs at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, employees were waiting.

An artist’s name carries with it the weight of stories and accolades.

Fun fact: Ninety percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

There’s a fleeting moment in the mountains when the lakes start to freeze and ice lines the edges of the rivers.

For most of his career artist Russell Crotty was known for creating large drawings on massive globes. After years of working directly on the spheres to create astronomically inspired works, his shoulder started to hurt. He’d developed tendonitis, and something in his art had to change if he …

Kris Batchelder has always been moved by art, but it wasn’t until her mid-40s that she considered making it herself.

The Jackson art community’s Black Friday has arrived.

Fine art has been a coveted tradition in Wyoming since Thomas Moran and Henry W. Elliot tagged along on the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. Much of the art produced in Wyoming has focused on the unique ecology, geology and wildlife found in the state, but many well-regarded artists subvert…

Jackson Hole is really steep.

Artist David Frederick Riley recently left a painting outside to dry. When he returned he found a layer of water droplets covering his work from the unexpected snow melt from the deck above. He let the painting and its new coating of water dry. When he returned, he found the unplanned water …

In an art scene that is dominated by bears and bison, Holiday Forever has a reputation of bringing in cutting-edge talent and pushing the boundaries of aesthetic storytelling. A new show from the Los Angeles duo Patricia Fernandez and Ian James will be about just that: storytelling.

Andrew Shorts spent his childhood in Jackson Hole. It was where he learned to skateboard and ski and, as a teenager, became a promising professional skier on the freeride circuit. It was the place where he learned to paint and first garnered attention for his artwork from mentors and teacher…

As the Anthropocene progresses and climate change continues to rear its head, wonders that once were will continuously be lost. In the past decade alone we lost Bramble Cay melomys and Bahama nuthatches, while the Sumatran Rhino may not be far behind.

2019 and 2020 mark important milestones in women’s history, both locally and nationally.

Swedish photographer Magnus Lundgren said shooting in China can sometimes feel less like photographing a country and more like an entire sweeping continent.

For Gunnar Tryggmo paintings are about capturing motion. The watercolorist wants to give viewers the sense that the bird they see in a painting might suddenly turn its head or fly away. He wants the viewer to feel the wind that makes the dry grass ripple in the work.

Of the many changes Jackson Hole High School halls have undergone in the past couple of years, one of the most noticeable was unveiled last week.

For the sixth year in a row the National Wildlife Art Museum is opening up its selection process to the community at the Blacktail Gala. Although the event is dedicated to buying art for the museum’s permanent collection, it is also a chance for the creatives and donors to dress up, eat well…

“Yonder Lies: Unpacking the Myths of Jackson Hole” is a podcast about ecology, history and people in Jackson Hole. It will debut Sunday on KHOL 89.1 and iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

Three years ago Haley Badenhop took a job loading bags at Jackson Hole Airport.

The vibrant, inspired artwork of fifth-generation Wyoming native Donna Barrett has hung on the walls of Pearl Street Bagels for the past month. The exhibition’s last day is today.

What has always attracted Dick Beck to animals — and depictions of animals in Bob Kuhn’s “Pas de Deux,” one of his favorite paintings in the National Museum of Wildlife Art — is the lives they live and how complicated they are.

Haley Badenhop has more tricks up her sleeves than painting large-scale, public murals. For the art portion of Mountain Story, Badenhop is hanging some of her lesser-known acrylic work in Teton County Library’s Ordway Gallery.