Expert and amateur artists came together during difficult times to share their experience through art. Now the Art Association of Jackson Hole is ready to share the work they created during the pandemic at the Center for the Arts.
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Though masks were required, the location was different and there weren’t huge crowds moving between rows and rows of craft-filled tents, the Art Association of Jackson Hole’s Pop-Up Art Fair was a comfortable stand-in for the nonprofit’s usual twin summertime fairs.
One of Jackson’s signature events, the Fall Arts Festival, is a “go” this year, but, newsflash: It will look a little different.
As the coronavirus spread around the world, dashed across the country and ripped through Wyoming, the bad news just kept piling up: sickness, death, economic collapse, isolation and loneliness … and the cancelation of one summer event after another, long anticipated after the deep freeze of …
Tucker Smith’s childhood drawings foreshadowed a life of capturing Western scenes and wildlife with brushstrokes — and maybe even foretold of his career retrospective, on display at the National Museum of Wildlife Art though Aug. 23.
When Katy Ann Fox moved to Jackson she led painting lessons at the St. John’s Living Center.
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Ever wanted your photos to be displayed around town? Do you drag your friends to your laptop to show them old photos of your vacations?
Brittney Ziebell has been waiting two years to hang her work at Pearl Street Bagels in town. She’s been working on pieces for the show for a year.
For one of the first times in 36 years, the famed Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival has chosen something without a Tetonscape for its signature painting.
The Jackson Hole Gallery Association’s unofficial start of summer is here, with a few downtown art galleries remaining open from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday for the season’s first Art Walk.
Some people cooked, some people cleaned, but Jacob Lewis Ferguson painted.
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I first heard Diana Khoi Nguyen read her work a couple of summers ago at a poetry retreat in New York City for Asian American poets.
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.”
The Saturday Evening Post has had its fair share of trials and tribulations, but after nearly two centuries of publication, it lives on. After many different iterations and designs, the magazine has returned to an eclectic format that features human interest, health and history.
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.
If you’ve ever been in a conversation with me that has lasted over 15 minutes — about any topic: politics, relationships, gossip, whatever — I probably at some point injected: “Have you ever read Sapiens?”
An increasing number of peer-reviewed studies suggest that old idiom “laughter is the best medicine” may be more than a platitude.
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?
In the opening scene of the first story of Denis Johnson’s collection of short stories “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” the narrator describes a bizarre dinner party at which the attendees describe the loudest sounds they had ever heard.
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.
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Noso Patches has only been around since 2016, but the company has made a big splash beyond just Jackson Hole. The creative nylon puffy patches have been reviewed in Outside, Misadventures and Outdoor Insight.
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.
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The paradigm of the starving artist exists for a reason.
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.
In the Epitaph to “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Tennessee Williams quotes the fifth stanza of “The Broken Tower,” a 1932 poem by Hart Crane, a modernist poet whose struggles with depression, addiction and his own sexuality may have been prophetic of what was to come for Williams.
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.
Have you ever tried scribbling a signature with your non-dominant hand? How about painting a landscape?
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.
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