Painted bison skulls, napkin rings, handcrafted fanny packs and ceramic pottery are just a few of the items that will be available for purchase at the Art Association’s 56th annual Holiday Bazaar this season, whether you’re looking to purchase holiday gifts or make an interior design statement.
It’s not uncommon for Wyoming artists to depict wildlife in their work. What is less common is Wyoming artists depicting wildlife morphing into humans — opposable thumbs, shoes, T-shirts, jeans and all — especially when they’re peering over your mug while you’re drinking your morning coffee.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art will host its first Locals Appreciation Week, giving residents of both Teton counties — the one in Wyoming and the one in Idaho — free admission Tuesday through Dec. 5.
Colorful skeins of yarn will soon become, well, clothing of sorts — not scarves and hats for people, but knits for trees, bike racks and other features, fixtures and appendages around the Center for the Arts, turning the public space bright and cozy as the days grow darker and colder.
Bryan Sih’s next film will be set in a rural military town in the Rockies. He envisions the mountains will feature prominently in the background, and there will be horses — lots of horses — and snow. The film will be visceral and sensuous, Sih said, but he isn’t sure exactly what will happen in it.
In 2001 Noppadol Paothong was working as a staff photographer for a small newspaper in Missouri. When his editor asked him to shoot a story about prairie chicken mating, he imagined hunting down a pack of feral farm birds. Luckily he was disabused of that idea by a local birder and sent to a…
If you walk into the King Gallery of the National Museum of Wildlife Art this weekend, you are sure to see one of two paintings, depending on whether you turn right or left.
For Agnes Bourne, art and design is about commitment. With commitment, anything is possible, she said.
Brice Garrett was living in a third-floor walk-up in New York City in March when the coronavirus sent people into their homes, quick shopping trips were replaced with online orders and boxes were left outside front doors for fear of contamination.
Is it artwork that provides energy or an energy source that’s artsy?
No tricks, treats on square
As colorful leaves decorate the sidewalks throughout Jackson the Art Association of Jackson Hole has invited the community for an evening of fall festivities.
Sometimes there are no words that can truly capture a feeling or moment. Bizarre. Unprecedented. Strange. People have been using these words to describe life during the pandemic, artist Connor Liljestrom said, but they can’t encompass the breadth of emotions and experiences of people living …
Bryan Sih’s next film will be set in a rural military town in the Rockies. He envisions the mountains will feature prominently in the background, and there will be horses — lots of horses — and snow. The film will be visceral and sensuous, Sih said, but he isn’t sure exactly what will happen in it.
In 2001 Noppadol Paothong was working as a staff photographer for a small newspaper in Missouri. When his editor asked him to shoot a story about prairie chicken mating, he imagined hunting down a pack of feral farm birds. Luckily he was disabused of that idea by a local birder and sent to a…
If you walk into the King Gallery of the National Museum of Wildlife Art this weekend, you are sure to see one of two paintings, depending on whether you turn right or left.
For Agnes Bourne, art and design is about commitment. With commitment, anything is possible, she said.
Sometimes there are no words that can truly capture a feeling or moment. Bizarre. Unprecedented. Strange. People have been using these words to describe life during the pandemic, artist Connor Liljestrom said, but they can’t encompass the breadth of emotions and experiences of people living …
A flock of ravens sits atop a grove of trembling aspen. Some of the trees’ leaves are still green, some are turning yellow. The black birds caw to each other as a creek bubbles below. Clouds float above. A mountain lion stalks its prey in the distance.
Bison, bears, birds and butterflies are just some of the wildlife you might spot in Jackson Hole’s natural surroundings, but this past Saturday several animals made appearances in work created by 33 artists on Town Square for the 2020 QuickDraw and Art Auction.
Saturday is the biggest day for the Fall Arts Festival, with two online auctions happening one after the other with mostly online bidding.
Brice Garrett was living in a third-floor walk-up in New York City in March when the coronavirus sent people into their homes, quick shopping trips were replaced with online orders and boxes were left outside front doors for fear of contamination.
Is it artwork that provides energy or an energy source that’s artsy?
As colorful leaves decorate the sidewalks throughout Jackson the Art Association of Jackson Hole has invited the community for an evening of fall festivities.
One of the premier events of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival typically draws thousands of people to Town Square.
After 35 years, the Fall Arts Festival may look different, but the spirit remains the same.
Located in an historic cabin, Shari Brownfield Fine Art is the new gallery on the block. For Fall Arts Festival she shows work by four artists.
Hines Goldsmiths owner Carolyn Hines describes the busy summer of 2020 as “good but frustrating.”
JC Jewelers is offering a new twist on the Fall Arts Festival and local philanthropy.
Fascinated by the relationship between humans and the planet, Agnes Bourne melds art and sustainability in the Center of the Arts’ newest installation, “Sustain.”
Kicking back in a chair underneath a shady awning on a hot July day, Katrina Ryan was wearing a mask, which probably didn’t help with the heat and in a normal year wouldn’t have even crossed her mind. But she put it well when she described what the season’s been like.
Driving through Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve with his longtime guide, photographer Rudy Atallah saw something in the distance he absolutely had to shoot.
Long before Tom Mangelsen became known as one of the primary documentarians of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s megafauna, he did what made sense for an aspiring photographer. He tried to get his work in a gallery, where it could be sold.
You can watch the wall at the Snake River Brewery bubble to life with the mural “Hooked,” created by Laramie artist Dan Toro, the latest of Jackson Hole Public Art’s 10 “Wild Walls” around town.
Jazmine Doherty, 5, happily drew on the sidewalk with chalk while her mother, Oona Doherty, looked on. Local artist Anika Youcha joined her, and together they created a colorful pattern around the empty sidewalk square in front of the Center for the Arts.
Mona Monroe has been working diligently in her Alta studio to create story-filled paintings and assemblages for her upcoming exhibit, “Invisible Threads.”
Need a little pick-me-up to stave off the COVID-19 blues? Just look down.
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.
We’ve got some plays. Now we need some directors.
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.
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.
When Katy Ann Fox moved to Jackson she led painting lessons at the St. John’s Living Center.
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