Arts

There’s a scavenger hunt in town for the Fall Arts Festival.

Kay Stratman’s painting “The River Runs Through It” may look purposefully monochromatic.

Jackson Hole Public Art is calling for proposals to fill the ArtSpot, a former gas station sign that’s now a public art locale on West Broadway.

Trailside Galleries is a founding figure to the Jackson Hole art scene. The premier Western art gallery opened in 1963 on Town Square as one of the first galleries in the area.

Every September the Fall Arts Festival welcomes thousands of artists, collectors and art aficionados to town. In its 34th year the festival offers 10 days of events and happenings around town — from artist-studded gallery openings to boozy art brunches.

Songs from Spotify’s “Have a Great Day!” playlist filled Christian Weidner’s studio. The songlist is compiled of feel-good classics — from Daryl Hall and John Oates’ “You Make My Dreams” to Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” — the type of music meant for shamelessly blasting on a long car ride.

The scenery in the Wind River Mountains was so stunning that Kathryn Mapes Turner didn’t even finish her coffee before she began to sketch. Turner went backpacking into the Cirque of the Towers this summer looking for an escape from daily life as well as adventure and inspiration, which she …

Mike Piggott is admittedly not technologically savvy. He struggles to remember if he used an iPad or an iPod — and what’s the difference — when he talks about the first time he created a digital drawing.

Shannon Troxler has always been interested in watching other artists work.

For 31 years the Photography at the Summit workshop has brought together critically acclaimed photographers and industry leaders to share their passion for photography with those who wish to learn.

Sheila Tintera is lucky to live in a place where she can paint what she sees right outside her window.

There are many ways of tapping into creativity. Most artists, whether they are photographers, painters or writers, will tell you the best way is to escape from the studio or desk and become immersed in the world around you.

Few businesses in Jackson can say they have survived over half a century.

Changing demographics and a steady uptick in online sales prompted Turpin Gallery owner Ronnie Turpin to close his storefront in May and move his art business exclusively online.

Robert Townsend has always loved the look of 1950s and ’60s America.

When it comes to fancy art talk and theory, renowned jazz trumpeter and artist Herb Alpert has little to say.

Gary Lynn Roberts grew up dreaming of becoming a cowboy.

Installation artist Mari Andrews and film artist Jeffrey Blondes will show work at Tayloe Piggott starting next week.

All summer Diehl Gallery has focused on animals in art. This week the contemporary gallery is welcoming two — well, really three — wildlife artists who depict animals in environments unconventional to Jackson: in cityscapes.

For the next six months, at least, the exhibit room at the Teton Geotourism Center will be dedicated to Teton Valley, Idaho, artists.

The Art Association of Jackson Hole’s August edition of its annual summer fairs won’t be just a repeat of the July art-a-palooza in Miller Park.

Winston Churchill is widely known as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century. But many have no idea that the English politician was a prolific painter.

Pamela Gibson partially attributes her transition from weaving wool tapestries to painting abstract landscapes to her move to Jackson from Portland, Oregon, 10 years ago.

Kevin Meehan will tell you he’s not a writer or an artist, but his new children’s book is evidence to the contrary.

Above-ground trees look like individual organisms, but their roots tell a different story.

Ashley Collins doesn’t paint horses.

Jackson’s newest art gallery is pulling the curtain back on the artistic process.

Riot Act Inc. will hold auditions for “The Normal Heart,” the acclaimed 1985 play written by Larry Kramer, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. today, Thursday and Aug. 6 at Dancers’ Workshop Studio 2, in the Center for the Arts.

Riot Act Inc. will hold auditions for “The Normal Heart,” the acclaimed 1985 play written by Larry Kramer, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. today and Monday at Dancers’ Workshop Studio 2, in the Center for the Arts.

Rhonda Willford Eberst was always the class clown.

Allie Zeyer crouched so her straw hat was level with Jacqueline Fairbain’s baseball cap, matching the angle of her view of the Tetons.

In his “Cowboys and Indians” series Andy Warhol turned his attention to the heroes and mythology of the Old West.

When Alissa Davies couldn’t fit her paintings in her truck, she made new, smaller ones.

Jim Herrington has always had a deep fascination with the past.

Helen Durant couldn’t quite remember who said, “Nature in the raw is seldom mild.”

Jackson galleries will keep their doors open late Thursday for an all-out evening of arts.