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2A• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 3............... Palates and Palettes Moveable feast for the taste buds and the eyeballs returns to kick off 2022 Fall Arts Festival. 4........................ On the Green Art Association moves its FAF arts and crafts fair to Genevieve Block, rebrands it “Art on the Green.” 6 ......................... Troy Collins The 2022 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival featured artist captures the ineffable feel of autumn in the Tetons with brilliant colors. 7.............. Mountain Trails Gallery Gallery just off Town Square represents 2022 FAF featured artist and many others. 10......... QuickDraw Show & Sale Artists pull out their brushes at high 9 a.m. on the Town Square. 14............. Showcase of Homes Experience real Teton living with selfguided architectural tour. Section A Table of Contents RYAN DORGAN/NEWS&GUIDE FILE Kathryn Turner grips a quiver of painting tools as she gets ready for the QuickDraw on Town Square. See page 10A for details. 407789
The annual kickoff event for Fall Arts Festival, the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, returns Sept. 9 to delight Jackson Hole’s taste buds and stimulate its eyeballs, too, as galleries team up with restaurants, chefs and caterers for an evening of fine food and fine art.
Gallery walkers peruse the art at Rare Gallery during the 2019 Palates and Palettes
“Palates and Palettes is the open ing of our owner and namesake, Carrie Wild’s, solo slow,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a huge hit. Last year was almost a sellout show, so it’s an exciting night for all of Audiencesus.” can expect at least 10 to 12 new pieces from Carrie Wild. Her colorful wildlife paintings have a way of finding homes as soon as they’re finished, even before they have the chance to go on display. And a slew of other artists repre sented by Gallery Wild will be present for the event, too. The welcoming sense of rendezvous is felt by the other participating Pal ates and Palettes galleries — likely more than two dozen.
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Jenny Fitzgerald, assistant manager of Gallery Wild, said that while the gal lery hasn’t yet been paired with a res taurant, it does have a special event in the works for that opening night.
FALL ARTS FESTIVAL • JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022• 3A PALATESPALETTESAND returns ready to rendezvous For the full list of participating galleries and pairings, visit the Chamber of Commerce website JacksonHoleChamber.com.at
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It’s not just for the children, though: “For a lot of our older customers, this takes them back to their youth,” Fulton said.Fulton estimates Astoria pumps out 800 root beer floats throughout the eve ning, with no signs of stopping.
Some might hesitate to take chil dren into a fine art gallery, Fulton said, but he hopes to encourage families by cutting down on the fancy and amping up the Astoriafun. features everything from African art to seascapes, but Fulton routinely enjoys seeing the wide-eyed wonder from the children taking in one particular category. “Kids absolutely love the animals,” Fulton said. “When they see a big bronze bear sculpture, their reaction is, ‘Wow.’ That’s part of what we enjoy about the event and why we keep doing it.”
“It has been a nice relief after being closed for two years,” said Jesse Glick, one of the acquisitions consultants for Heather James Gallery, which also had not finalized its pairing as of press time. “It’s cool to see people coming out again,” he said. West Lives On Gallery owner Terry Ray confirmed he will be partnering with The Wort Hotel. No need to break the 10-year tradition. “It’s just a wonderful, fun time of year,” Ray said, “where we get to see a lot of friends and a lot of clients come to town. A lot of artists submit new work that month. So I expect we’ll have 50 to 100 new pieces.”
Greg Fulton, managing partner of Astoria Fine Art, said the community can expect another returning partner ship at his gallery, too. Yes, the root beer floats will be back. “We have two kids ourselves — 11 years old and 13 years old,” Fulton said. “They’ve grown up in the gallery, so it’s important for us to have a venue that’s family friendly.”
“We have done our own thing for go ing on 10 years in a row, where our Pal ates and Palettes is focused on a familyfriendly event,” Fulton said. “And it’s something we’ll probably continue do ing it for years to come.”
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By Jeannette Boner Takin’ it to the Streets, for years a Fall Arts Festival attraction on Town Square, is now Arts on the Green, scheduled to be held on the Center for the Arts’ big open lawn on Sept. 11.“I have always loved art fairs,” said Shana Stegman, owner of the Yellow House Collective on South Jackson Street and an annual par ticipant of the Art Associa tion’s long-running Fall Art Festival event Takin’ it to the Streets, when it was held on the square. “Everyone is so happy to be there — from the artists to the viewers, the en ergy is so great.” The nonprofit Art Asso ciation has adapted with the years to accommodate the needs and desires of the re gional artists it features dur ing Fall Arts while creating a festive and fun space for patrons, browsers, shoppers and other visitors. This year it has relocated its fall art fair to the Cen ter Lawn. The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce will provide live music and serve up a variety of yummy drinks during the event. More than 50 area cre atives — from those who have displayed their work on regional, national and global stages, to those are new to the art scene — have been invited via a jury process to participate in the fair and of fer work done in a wide vari ety of Themediums.fairisalso a place where visitors and resi dents can get a broader feel for what Teton-area artists are creating and selling in shops around town. Popup tents hold secrets to the local art world that can be overlooked amid the glam our of “Thegalleries.artfair is an event that brings us all togeth er,” Stegman said. “It’s oh-so-awesome to see all the incredible artists in one place. Walking around the fair is so inspiring, not just for the viewer, but for the artists themselves who find inspiration from one another.” Arts on the Green will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, on the Cen ter for the Arts Lawn, located at 265 N. Cache St., in Jack son. Contact Jeannette Boner via 732-7078 or jhnewsandguide.com.fallarts@ takes FAF fair to Center Arts on 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 11 Center Lawn $6
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RYAN JONES / NEWS&GUIDE FILE Cris Pattee and Debbie Hytton look at art glass made by Jessica Tescher during the Art Association’s Takin’ It to the Streets art fair during the 2015 Fall Arts Festival at Town Square. This year’s fair has been rebranded as Art on the Greens and will set up on the Center for the Arts lawn on Sept. 11.
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“It takes more than just my cre ative ability and hard work and per severance,” he said. “Probably the biggest reason why I’m where I’m at right now is just the amount of work and responsibility she’s taken on so I can just concentrate on the creativeCollins’aspect.”“bread and butter” is painting aspen trees in different seasons with his trademark impres sionist style and colorful flair. Aspens feature in his painting “The Grand
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Y ou could say that Troy Col lins, the featured artist for this year’s Fall Arts Festival, began his art career by washing an other painter’s brushes. That was more than 20 years ago, when Collins owned a landscaping business. He met Robert Moore, then as now a well-known contemporary landscape painter, on a job. The two men became friends, and Collins be gan working as Moore’s studio assis tant during the offseason.
2022 Fall Arts Festival’s featured artist paints with impressionist flair and colorful style. The vibrant colors in “A Song of Love” by Fall Arts Festival featured artist Troy Collins reveal his delight in rendering the Western landscape in different seasons. He sometimes uses his hands to apply globs of paint to a canvas, then manipulates the colors with a palette knife. Aspen trees are Collins’ bread and butter. This oil painting is “The Magic and the Mystery.”
Perseverance pays off for featured artist TROY COLLINS
“Basically, my job was to do ev erything from cleaning brushes to packing and shipping paintings to talking to galleries,” Collins said. “Everything that I could possibly do to keep him busy painting. “When I got finished up with all of my stuff for him, then I would just throw a canvas up and some paint and start doodling.” Moore offered to teach Collins how to paint. A few years later Moore in troduced his student to some gallery owners, and Collins made the tran sition to the life of a full-time artist. It was Collins’ second major ca reer change. He worked as a teach er for a couple of years but missed work ing outdoors like he did when he had landscaping summer jobs in college. Teaching “was super fulfilling and fun, but I knew it wasn’t going to be the ultimate path for me,” Collins said. Instead he was pulled toward “using my hands and using my cre ativity.“Ithought I was going to be work ing outside because I absolutely loved it,” Collins said. “I did it for 10 or 12 years, and I thought I had the best job on the planet. When I met Robert, that all changed. “Now I can’t imagine digging holes and putting sprinkler heads in rightCollinsnow.”is 53 and glad he transi tioned into his third career in his late 20s. He was able to do so in part because of the support of his wife, Gina, who handles the business side of his art practice. “I need to give credit to my wife for a lot of what’s going on in my ca reer, because she’s kind of the mar keting genius,” he said.
MOUNTAIN TRAILS blazes a trail for Western art
“He spends many hours observing and experiencing nature in an effort to bet ter understand his subject and to im prove his art. For Bryce his art is the culmination of his knowledge, feeling and love of nature.” Both art fans and nature lovers will marvel at Mountain Trails Gallery carefully curated roster of artists and their attention to detail and movement and uncanny ability to capture the es sence of the wild West. Contact Tibby Plasse via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
daugh ters also have had their father’s work ethic as a model. “The key, to me, is perseverance,” he said. That’s what got Collins through the hard years, when it was not at all clear that he would ever be a financially successful artist. Once the Collinses even had their heat shut off. “A lot of people at that stage usually go a different route, choose a different career because it just doesn’t look like it’s going to hap pen,” he said. “I was just way too stubborn to do “Likethat. when people start to doubt that you can do it , that’s what pushed me to keep going.”
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“Like peoplewhenstarttodoubtthatyoucandoit, that’s what pushed me to keep going.”
“Sculpture doesn’t live in a world of flat paint,” Ross said. “It glows in the realism of breadth of dimension, shape, form, detail and artist interpretation. Navarro’s work seems to breathe.”
Locally, the artist is represented by Mountain Trails Gallery at 155 Center St., just north of Jack son Town Square. Gallery visitors can view his work from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. When he was a beginner Collins painted from a reference image. He moved on to spend ing about half his time painting “en plein air” — artistspeak for paint ing outdoors. Now Collins is primar ily a studio painter who references his imagination and memory to make his work, though he still sets up an easel outside a few times a Sometimesyear.
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Col lins uses his hands to apply globs of paint to
“His expertise in the understanding of biology and aquatic ecosystems re flects in all his sculptures,” Ross said.
Mountain Trails Gallery 155 Center St. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Sunday MountainTrailsGalleries.com307-734-8150
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whichHoleiteathatdramaticettecolorsmanipulatingcanvas,thewithapalknife.It’saprocesshasmadehimperennialfavorattheJacksonQuickDraw,Collinshasparticipated in for more than a decade. His impressionist style and “wet on wet” paint application lend themselves to the constraints of the chaotic event, which Collins always starts with a completely blank“Mostcanvas.ofthe time it’s just a com plete mess until like the last 10 or 15 minutes,” he said. “It’s like I literally can feel people’s anxiety behind me as they’re watching this process, because it just looks like nothing for so long.” As the featured artist this year, Collins will conduct a public dem onstration on a larger canvas at Mountain Trails Gallery imme diately following the QuickDraw event.When Collins paints with an au dience, he said, “I have a lot of peo ple that come in either starting to paint or wanting to get going in it. “The opportunity to, you know, inspire and show them some tech niques is really satisfying for me.” Two artists Collins has inspired are his daughters, Mika and Cici Collins, who are both in their 20s. “They’re such complete oppo site kids, and their art is the same way,” he Thoughsaid.they have been painting with him their whole lives, Collins never expected his children to take a similar career path.“They’re both creative and artis tic, but I didn’t re ally think that they would pick it up pro fessionally until the last couple of years,” he said. “They really got into it and start ed working hard and started paint ing a Collinslot.” has worked on tech nique with both of his daughters, and although he said you can see his in fluence in their work to some extent, each has developed her ownCollins’style.
est Journey,” which appears on the 2022 Fall Arts Festival poster. The Teton Range is visible through the trees, almost aflame with fall color. Collins also has painted the American flag and pushed him self to master figurative painting.
Just a stone’s throw from Town Square’s elk antler arches, Mountain Trails Gallery celebrates 30 years as an epicenter of Western culture in Jackson Hole by embracing the 2022 Fall Arts Festival wholeheartedly, representing Troy Collins, this year’s Fall Arts fea tured artist and posting four artists for the favorite SpecializingQuickDraw.inoriginal paintings and bronze sculptures by some of to day’s most important artists, Mountain Trails boasts 65,000 square feet of gal lery space for Western and contempo rary art in a relaxed setting amid bus tling downtown Jackson. Mountain Trails features an eclectic mix of representational and impres sionist paintings and sculptures, as well as a broad selection of Western ar tifact reproductions. Its genres include Western, figurative, wildlife, still life and landscape. And it provides compre hensive assistance with commissions andFourinstallation.Mountain Trails artists will participate in this year’s QuickDraw: Bryce Pettit, Lyn St. Claire, Colt Idol and Chris Navarro. “Lyn’s paintings have won over 80 awards across the country,” Mountain Trails Director Caralyn Ross said, “in cluding Best in Show three years in a row at the Ward Museum Show. Her work has been exhibited at the Tucson Museum of Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Bennington Center for the Arts, the West Valley Art Museum, the Hiram Blauveldt Art Museum and the Phippen Museum.” Sculptor Navorro is best known for his monumental works, such as the 15-foot-high bull rider on display at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, titled Champion Lane Frost.
Petit is also a sculptor. Trained as both an artist and a biologist, he uses strong lines and sound design prin ciples to express his feelings about the natural world. He studied biology, ecol ogy and art as an undergraduate and at the graduate level.
“A Piece of Paradise” and other paintings by Troy Collins can be seen at Mountain Trails Gallery, which represents him in Jackson.
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“Great White” is by Lyn St. Clair, at Mountain Trails.
In addition to playing host to the 2022 Fall Arts Festival featured artist, Troy Collins, Mountain Trails Gallery represents some 80 other premier artists. This is “Big Sky Country,” by Jim Wodark.
8A• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 SESSION I: SEPTEMBER 16 • 12:30PM MDT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 265 SOUTH CACHE PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 9AM–6PM • SEPTEMBER 17, 9AM–11:30AM JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION, 130 EAST BROADWAY For additional information and to purchase a catalog please contact: Auction Coordinator, Amy 866-549-9278coordinator@jacksonholeartauction.comJameswww.jacksonholeartauction.com TO VIEW THE 2022 AUCTION & REGISTER TO BID OR ATTEND VISIT JACKSONHOLEARTAUCTION.COM LOT 26: WAYNE JUSTUS (1952– ) Elk Stalkers, $6,000 – $9,000 LOT 75: RICHARD MRAVIK (1973– ) King of the Mountain, $5,000 – $7,000 LOT 32: RALPH CROSBY SMITH (1907–1962) Surprise!, $3,000 – $5,000 LOT 17: TOM SAUBERT (1950– ) Mending, $4,000 – $6,000 LOT 57: MICHAEL DUDASH (1952– ) After an Autumn Snow, $7,000 – $10,000 LOT 11: WILLIAM PHILLIPS (1945– ) Sunday Drivers, $6,000 – $9,000 LOT 97: RICHARD MURRAY (1948– ) Bull Moose, $6,000 – $9,000 LOT 36: CHARLES DEFEO (1892–1978) Fisherman’s Luck, $6,000 – $9,000 LOT 85: JARED SANDERS (1970–) Ochre Farm, $3,000 – $5,000 LOT 92: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN (1962– ) Early Spring, $2,000 – $4,000 LOT 101: THOMAS DEDECKER (1951–) Western Sunset, 2022, $4,000 – $6,000
FALL ARTS FESTIVAL • JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022• 9A SESSION II: SEPTEMBER 17 • 12:30PM MDT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 265 SOUTH CACHE PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 9AM–6PM • SEPTEMBER 17, 9AM–11:30AM JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION, 130 EAST BROADWAY For additional information and to purchase a catalog please contact: Auction Coordinator, Amy James 866-549-9278coordinator@jacksonholeartauction.comwww.jacksonholeartauction.com TO VIEW THE 2022 AUCTION & REGISTER TO BID OR ATTEND VISIT JACKSONHOLEARTAUCTION.COM LOT 142: BOB KUHN (1920–2007) A Walk on the Tundra - Grizzly Bears, $100,000 – $150,000 LOT 185: WILLIAM GOLLINGS (1878–1932) Summer Camp, $200,000 – $300,000 LOT 153: HOWARD TERPNING (1927– ) Awaiting the Signal, $500,000 – $700,000 LOT 139: CONRAD SCHWIERING (1916–1986) Autumn in the Mountains, $12,000 – $18,000 LOT 138: TUCKER SMITH (1940– ) Rabbit Brush, Lupine and Sage, $60,000 – $80,000 LOT 199: G. HARVEY (1933–2017) The Sidewalk Café, $100,000 – $150,000 LOT 237: DAVID SHEPHERD (1931–2017) Elephant and Gnarled Tree, $25,000 – $35,000 LOT 131: CARL BRENDERS (1937– ) Tundra Challenge, $25,000 – $35,000 LOT 210: THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977) Loveseat, ca. 1940, $25,000 – $35,000 LOT 159: JAMES BAMA (1926–2022) Descendant Of Black Elk, $30,000 – $50,000 LOT 156: FRANK MCCARTHY (1924–2002) The Greeting, $7,000 – $10,000 407815
Jason Borbet (Borbay Fine Art)
Allie Zeyer (Wilcox Gallery)
Chris Navarro (Mountain Trails)
QuickDraw Sept. 17 Town Square 8 a.m.: Artists begin work 9:30 a.m.: Artists finish 10 a.m.: QuickDraw auction begins 1 p.m.: QuickDraw auction finishes Bidders must purchase a paddle or VIP QuickDraw Pass to have access to the QuickDraw Auction tent and to bid in person.
Colt Idol (Mountain Trails) Chelse Wren (Horizon Fine Art) Fred Kingwill (Art Association) Emily Boespflug (Ar t Association)
Amy Ringholz (Ringholz Studios)
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This year’s roster, as of July 24, includes:David Riley (Altamira Fine Art)
Katy Fox said she loves the event. “I don’t know if my hands are shak ing because it’s so cold out or because I am so nervous,” she said.
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I am going to paint what is moving through me at that exact time — I don’t want to force anything.”
A highlight of the auction is when the Fall Arts Festival featured art work goes up for bids. This year’s art ist is Troy Collins, and his featured painting, “The Grandest Journey,” currently hangs in the Wort Hotel, right next to last year’s featured work, Gary Lynn Roberts’ 64-by-48-inch painting, which fetched $65,000 in the 2021 QuickDraw auction. That year’s event saw over $200,000 in sales, and Magleby expects the total should be in the same ballpark this year.
Trey McCarley (West Lives On) Aaron Hazel (Gallery Wild) Tom Mansanarez (Wilcox GallerNancyy) Cawdrey (West Lives On) Br yce Pettit (Mountain Trails GallerDavidy) Mensing (Horizon Fine Ar t)Caleb Meyer (Gallery Wild)
For information and to purchase paddles, visit fall-arts-festival-quickdraw.com/events-calendar/fall-arts-festival/JacksonHoleChamber.
Contact Tibby Plasse via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
Fortunately for both artists and art fans, many Jackson Hole artists who self-represent have their own gallery space, so painters like Katy Fox and Ja son Borbet, who only in the past year open their own galleries, will be able to participate and present their unique points of view.
“Spectators get to see fine art cre ated right in front of them,” she said, “so when the huge, stunning works go to auction immediately after they’re finished, the buyer feels like a part of the artwork’s story.” There’s also a great deal of energy that builds up for the artists.
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The chamber will offer several dif ferent channels for bidding. Last year,
Kathryn Mapes Turner (Turner FinePatriciaArt) Griffin (Gallery Wild) Gleb Goloubetski (Horizon Fine Ar t)Lyn St. Clair (Mountain Trails)
The selection committee reviews each nominated artist’s work and range of retail prices and tries to get a handle on the gist of his or her style for a care fully curated selection of artists and art for the beloved QuickDraw. Magleby said the intimacy between artists and buyers is “incredible.”
“David Mensing with Horizon is do ing the QuickDraw for the first time,” Magleby said, “and he said he’s nervous because his work is so detailed.”
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Boots, brushes, paints, grizzlies, mountains and running water — those are just a few details that make up the biggest attraction at the Jackson Hole’s annual Fall Arts Festi val: the FueledQuickDraw.byanticipation and coffee, and usually calling for a few layers of clothing, this year’s QuickDraw on Town Square will give 30 artists just 90 minutes to complete Jackson-inspired works before landing on the auction block.This year, the Jackson Hole Cham ber dug deep into the mission of the Fall Arts Festival and moved toward a juried event to celebrate the fastest paintbrush in the West. Events Direc tor Britney Magleby said the chamber took the number of artist entries down and simultaneously increased the val ue of each “Gallerieswork.nominated artists from which the Fall Arts Festival committee selected 30,” she said. Last year’s QuickDraw had 36 art istsMaglebyparticipating.said that, by raising the stakes in the selection process, the chamber has added to the event’s pres tige and stuck to its mission to support local businesses, including the area’s art“Artistsgalleries.must be nominated by a gal lery in order to qualify for the nominat ing pool,” she said. “Each gallery is lim ited to five nominations.”
Connor Liljestrom (New West FineTroyArt)Collins (Mountain Trails)
Artist Rip Caswell smiles while chatting with spectators as he shapes the sculpture he and his wife, Alison Caswell, were creating together during last year’s Quick Draw. This was the Caswells’ third year participating in the popular Fall Arts Festival event. To keep the competition fair, the duo switched off working on the piece every 15 minutes.
Carrie Wild, artist and owner of Gallery Wild, uses her finger to manipulate oil paint while working on her piece during last year’s Quick Draw at the Town Square. Spectators wandered the square and observed as the artists diligently worked to finish their pieces in 90 minutes.
Geoffrey Gersten (Altamira Fine Ar t)Laurie Lee (West Lives On) Chad Poppleton (Wilcox GallerJennifery) Adams (Native JH) Katy Ann Fox (Foxtrot Fine Art)
Jim Wilcox (Wilcox Gallery)
VIP tent seating was limited to 100, but for 2022, Magleby said, it will be closer to 250 — more like a pre-pandemic ex perience. Even with the increased num ber of in-person tickets, the chamber will again offer online bidding, which saw over 200 participants last year.
Painter Kathryn Mapes Turner, a longtime QuickDraw participant, Jackson Hole native and the owner of Turner Fine Art, said the thrill never dissipates for her. “It is a magical, miraculous process, and it gives the general public a peek behind the curtain,” she said. “I’ve been doing it for over 20 years and still it tru ly boggles my mind. This is the event of the“Tofestival.behonest, it’s very nerve-rack ing,” Turner said. “I can’t sleep the night before, and I’m nervous for the week ahead of time, but I don’t think about what I am painting until the week of.
Art sold before the paint dries at Quick Draw
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or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com. Showcase of Homes 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 16 $75 per ticket; limited to 250; 21+ Tour sites available upon JacksonHoleChamber.com/events-calregistrationendar/fall-arts-festival COURTESY PHOTO The annual Showcase of Homes offers a look at the fine art of Teton living. EVENING SALE & LIVE Thursday,AUCTIONSeptember 15 Join us in person, online, or proxy For more information and to purchase tickets visit WildlifeArtEvents.org or 307-732-54452820Rungius Rd Jackson Hole, WY 83001 307-733-5771 • WildlifeArt.org Clockwise from the top: Amy Ringholz, Jenna von Benedikt, Patricia A. Griffin, Julie Jeppsen, John Potter, Renso Tamse TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 406951
“It’s such a special way to cultivate a dialogue between professionals and attendees,” he said. “And not just about the immediacy of the property they are visiting on the tour, but to nurture in spiration that can return home with our guests, to their homes.”
“From traditional lodge to mountain modern,” he said, “these homes have established the reputations of those who designed, built and furnished them.” 732-7078
Though the subdivisions and home sites are kept a secret until the day of the tour, the event always sells out.
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“That’s how the showcase works,” Jenkins said.
The Showcase of Homes is not just about viewing luxury interior features or bountiful high-altitude landscaping; it’s also a chance to explore the design process, learn about appropriate mate rials and hear about how teams rolled up their sleeves to create mountain homesteads deserving of magazine covers — some of which even do make Homestead Magazine.
Over the years the tour has included up to six houses. Attendees should plan on setting aside four hours to complete the tour and include time to visit with onsite professionals about their work. On average the tour sees about 200 registered attendees each year, includ ing regular participants and newcom ers, Jenkins said. “Last year there were 15 states rep resented,” he said of tour attendees, “and many locals come year after year.”
Jenkins feels Jackson Hole has long been an inspiring canvas for artisans who create some of the most spectacu lar living spaces in the West.
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One attendee last year told Jenkins, “What a wonderful experience. My hus band and I will be building a new home starting next year and this was a per fect way to get ideas.”
For 10 years the Showcase of Homes, hosted by Homestead Magazine, has occupied a special corner of the Fall Arts Festival, show ing off the art of living and inspiring mountain enthusiasts to take livable luxury to the next level.
By Tibby Plasse
“What really varies with the Show case of Homes, unlike an open house, is walking through each residence with a docent, ” Jenkins said. Jenkins said the tour is an amazing way gather information about creative solutions and find inspiration. Show case of Home attendees fill out surveys each year, so he remains ahead of the curve on what piques people’s interest as he plans for the following year’s tour.
Realtor Latham Jenkins, who also pub lishes Homestead Magazine and who has organized the self-guided tour of Jackson Hole properties from its start, said the feedback he has heard is that attendees enjoy speaking with archi tects and interior designers and even checking out blueprints.
One thing everyone appreciates, he said, is that each homeowner selects a local nonprofit to receive a share of the proceeds from the tour.
Each home also offers light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, and guests can pick up a copy of Home stead Magazine along with the annual program to scribble notes for their own dream home or renovation.
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2B• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Section B Table of Contents JACKSON HOLE’S 38th ANNUAL COURTESY PHOTO Mark Eberhard is known for his beautiful birds. Here is “Snowy Owl,” a 34-by-34-inch oil. See page 4B. 3 Fighting Bear Antiques Old West antique experts track trends, like the hot market for photographer Edward Curtis’s original copper plates. 4 Thal Glass Studio Award-winning glass artists reveal some of the ancient secrets of their craft. 4 ���������������������������������������������� Astoria Fine Art ‘Wildlife Masters’ showcased at Town Square gallery. 6 ����������������������������������� Jackson Hole Art Auction New managing director brings 300 works by contemporary and deceased masters to the auction block. 7 ������������������������������ Western Design Conference Premier Fall Arts event shines spotlight on modern day craftspeople working in historical American methods. 10 ��������������������������������������� Native Jackson Hole Western legacy meets contemporary style. 14 Horizon Fine Art King Street galley is home to an ‘eclectic’ range of mediums, styles. LIFE ISART. Find your inspiration. FINE RUGS SINCE 1990 150 E. BROADWAY 307.739.8984 kismetrugs.com 400922
The copper plates, from snapshot size to 14-by-20-inch, can sell for any thing from $1,500 to $150,000 — one of the most famous images, of Chief Jo seph, sold for more than a million.
Winchell, in the business of the arti facts of the Old West for more than 40 years, said that after a decline in inter est in recent years he has seen a recent revival of fascination for the West. That includes high-end items like Curtis prints and Thomas Molesworth furni ture and authentic Native artifacts, but also just about anything that reminds people of 19th-century America.
Curtis printed his images of Native life using the photogravure process, etching the images onto metal plates and then printing directly onto fine pa old prints are one of the things Terry Winchell sells at Fighting Bear Antiques, and now he’s also selling some of the original copper plates. He holds up a Curtis print that has been framed with one of the copper plates. “There’s a lot of people putting the companion prints beside the plates,” he said. “There are hundreds of Curtis plates, but there’s no duplicates of any of and the plates, beside their inherent beauty and historical value, are a tribute to the man who cre ated them around the turn of the 20th century: “He went broke doing them,” Winchell said. “They cost him his health, his marriage.”
or mark@jhnewsandguide.com. Fighting Bear Antiques 375 S. Cache 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday t hrough 307-733-2669Saturday FightingBear.comstore@fightingbear.com Edward Curtis photos are among the thousands of Old West collectibles at Fighting Bear Antiques. A recent trend, owner Terry
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By Mark Huffman More than a century ago the photographer Edward Curtis lugged a big camera around the West and shot what have been judged for decades to be the best images of dis appearing American Indian cultures.
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And if they’re not making any more new Old West stuff, that’s no worry for Winchell, who said changing tastes guarantee that what’s hot will turn cold and then be hot again. The lovingly as sembled collections that people spend a lifetime and a fortune putting together eventually end up in the hands of chil dren who don’t share dad’s interest. “When collectors die, their kids don’t want it,” Winchell said. “There’s still a lot of great opportunities, fresh estate stuff coming on the market.” And while something loses it appeal, it’s certain it will come back. Winchell recently sold 70 black-and-white photos by Jackson Hole photographers such as Stephen N. Leek and Harrison Cran dell; the buyers planned to decorate a “cabin” near Wilson and wanted the mood set by the Jackson of earlier days: “A lot of people want to capture that feeling,” he Winchellsaid.said he and his wife, Clau dia, have considered getting out of the retail business, and noted that of the dozen or so shops that sold Western and other antiques when he start ed he’s the only one left. But even he would at 732-5907 WInchell
“We’re still selling Molesworth about as fast as we can get it, and Yellowstone stuff is really hot again,” he said. “Cow boy collectibles are popular again — and that’s not just here. We’re definitely recycling into a resurgence of cowboy.”
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BRADLY J. BONER / NEWS&GUIDE Artist Laurie Thal points out the intricacies of custom windows, a textured bas relief, in her home off Teton Village Road.
Scoring a major group show such as this is no hap penstance. Fulton admits to being methodical in his neverending search for talent.
Astoria showcases wildlife masters Astoria Fine Art 35 E. Deloney Ave. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays AstoriaFineArt.com307-733-4016
“People ask me a lot how I choose the artists,” Fulton said, “and the truth is I fol
And he’s not just looking at the familiar Western and wildlife genres, either. “About 60% of our inven tory, the subject matter is certainly very Rocky Moun tain-focused, wildlife and landscapes, the things you would expect to find in a Jack son gallery,” he said. “But the other 40%, which is 100-plus works, is completely nonWestern.“Ihave a lot of African piec es, things from Tibet. Having a big variety is the most im portant and fun part for me. It keeps it interesting to have a diverse collection. I try to have a something-for-every one approach because we see people from all over the world in Jackson.”Fulton,who opened Astoria Fine Art in 2006, can’t help but note how the Fall Arts Festival has changed the gal lery game in Jackson. “I don’t think anyone imag ined that it would grow to what it has,” he said. “It is a major event, with people coming in from all across the country and even the world, and now September is our most important month of the year.“People have very high ex pectations that they are go ing to cross paths with some harder-to-find, top-tier art ists. But also a lot of the toptier artists know that the Fall Arts Festival is a really big deal where all the magazine editors, the museum curators, the big collectors will all be through. So they make a point to have paintings for us dur ing that time period.”
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Thal Glass Studio Open Studio 3800 Linn 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ThalGlass.netthallaurie@gmail.com,307-690-24919-10danaltwies@hotmail.com
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Just months ago, Laurie Thal’s hands felt like they were on fire. Her nerves were compressed. She couldn’t sleep. After blowing glass for 45 years, she needed carpal tunnel surgery.Itworked.
“We have a whole repertoire of tools,” she said. Thal and Altwies open their studio for Fall Arts Festival visitors from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 9 and 10, to show off their bowl gallery, but if you want to see the couple’s range of sculptures and win dows, make an appointment to see their home right next door. Thal’s home is a masterpiece that her brother, architect Larry Thal, de signed in the 1980s. Custom glass work is every where. In the entryway, interlocking spi rals of fused glass splay out across the wall like a three-dimensional painting. The bathroom walls crawl to life with emerald glass geometry. Complementing the curved staircase, three windows let in light that looks like a river on the walls. A lamp with sandblasted detail of Hawi’ian god dess Namaka shows off the possi bilities of glass sculpture that is both functional and wonderful. Thal said the house is a testing ground for the kind of commissions she and Altwies are eager for. While it’s hard to shop for art that doesn’t yet exist, clients trust Altwies and Thal to stretch the boundaries of possibilities and the limitations, they say. For an illuminated overhead sculp ture, what mood will the light cast and how will an electrician install it?
low the national award circuit very closely. If a painter or sculptor is winning these top awards, I try to have that kind of work in our gallery.”
By Michael Carmody Greg Fulton, founder of Astoria Fine Art, is a busy man. “Every 10 days we host a new show,” he explained in July. “Right now we have a contemporary wildlife show hanging, then after that is tra ditional landscapes, then after that we have another more contemporary show again.” With three showcases planned for this year’s Fall Arts Festival, he won’t be resting any time soon. “Each year I try to have an even more impressive show than I did the year before,” Fulton said. “This year I’ve got four of just the very best wildlife painters, whose work can be seen in museums throughout the country, all teaming up for a group show, the Wildlife MastersArtistsShowcase.”AdamSmith, Kyle Sims, Luke Frazier and Ken Carlson are all well-known on their own, and Fulton is pal pably excited at the prospect of showing them together. “Ken Carlson is in his 80s; he’s a legend,” said Fulton. “To have him here for our show is really special. The National Museum of Wildlife Art has 30-plus of his works in their permanent collection, and the other three artists in the show are very prominent names in the wildlife art world too. Two of them, Adam Smith and Kyle Sims, are both quite young, and Southwest Art magazine named them two of the top 10 artists under the age of 50 in the United States. “Putting the four of these guys together really has that wow factor of the Fall Arts Festival, which is why people come here to begin with.”
“Nāmaka / Goddess of Water,” a sandblasted glass work by Thal and Dan Altwies, measures 36 by 12 inches.
“American Royalty,” a 32-by-56-inch oil, is by Kyle Sims.
In addition to the Wildlife Masters Showcase, Astoria will host a pair of exhibits by two familiar favorites: wildlife painter Mark Eberhard, fa mous for his beautiful birds, and Joshua Tobey, an endur ingly popular sculptor of wild animals. These will be on dis play Sept. 14 to 18 at Astoria Fine Art on the Town Square in Jackson. Contact Michael Carmody fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.via
For a large module piece above a fire place, what story will the shapes tell and how can they balance? Thal and Altwies are independent ly successful, and sometimes they disagree. Their comfort with tension might be the secret to their collabor ative creativity.
Thal, 69, still looks like she can do a pushup on one finger. Her hands and shoulders are packed with decades of muscle. A nd as she continues to re gain her strength, she doesn’t want to just get back to where she was. With her creative and life partner Dan Altwies, 57, she is chasing new territory.People think of Thal Glass Studio for glass bowls and vases, Thal said. “Which is great.” The large, shallow bowls are vi brant and intricate. Each exemplifies peak glassblowing and sandblasting skill. They can cost several thousand dollars.ButThal and Altwies want to push themselves. Thal pointed to a photo of a 14-foot-long ombre wave made up of 252 individual twirling tubes of hand-blown glass — the hanging centerpiece for the plastic surgery clinic in Teton Pines, the Center for Aesthetics. In addition to cre ating the glass, Thal and Altwies designed the curve in the ceiling and lighting to illuminate the glass.
“Dan comes up with an idea and then I stand over his shoulder and I critique,” Thal said. She laughed. “Then he says, ‘Go away,’ and he listens.” They go around like that, iterating and reiterating. Thal and Altwies’ synergy resembles the dance of riv ers, waves and molten glass. It’s vis ible in their art. “We have this shape that we call our flow,” Thal said. Don’t be fooled by the word: Flow is not a comfort zone. “We usually don’t say no to any body,” Altwies said. If they haven’t done it before, they’ll figure it out. Contact Sophia Boyd-Fliegel at county@jhnewsandguide or 307-7327063.
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“The accessibility of auctions is won derful,” Doyle said. “Some galleries have client lists and will only sell cer tain things to certain people, whereas our auctions — and most auctions — are truly public. It gives everyone the opportunity to have a chance to bid.”
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“We as auctioneers truly know when someone is bidding or not, and we’ll clarify if we need to,” he said. And he’ll call out “fair warning” before moving on. “We want everyone to be on the sameHowever,page.” once live bidding begins, the pace does move along at a fast clip. “You never know what you’re going to get,” Doyle said. “Something that’s completely rare and fresh off the mar ket is what keeps the buzz alive.”
Anew managing director will be at the helm of the Jackson Hole Art Auction on Sept. 16 and 17 at the Center for the Arts. Kevin Doyle will preside over the 16th annual fall event, which brings some 300 lots to the auction block. A na tive New Yorker, Doyle brings 20 years’ experience at Sotheby’s to his new role. “Over my career I’ve logged more hours in the auction room than you can imagine,” he said. “It’s always been a fun and exciting environment for me.”
“Some people find auctions intimi dating,” Doyle said. “We like to reas sure them that it can be very fun and exciting process and you can really get caught up in it.” New bidders are often concerned about bidding accidentally — by wav ing to someone across the room or scratching their nose, day — but Doyle said that shouldn’t be a concern.
Art Auction’s Fall Arts schedule Session I: Noon, Friday, Sept. 16 Session II: Noon, Saturday, Sept. 17
“It’s a wonderful work by him, and we’re really excited about it,” said Doyle, who noted that a Terpning paint ing sold for $1.4 million at last Septem ber’sWildlifeauction.art also remains a strong fo cus. One of the notable paintings in this category is “A Walk on The Tundra — Grizzly Bears and Ptarmigans” by Bob Kuhn, who died in 2007. Prospective buyers can preview the works headed to the auction block at the Jackson Hole Art Auction’s show room at 130 E. Broadway Ave., a couple of blocks southeast of Town Square. Al though the auction house accepts tele phone, online and absentee bids, ideally buyers will have a chance to see the artwork in person before bidding from a distance.Anupcoming expansion to its build ing’s second floor will bring the foot print of its galleries to about 20,000 square feet, Doyle said. That’s a testament to the success of the auction, which was founded in 2007 by Trailside Galleries and Gerald Pe ters Gallery in response to increased in terest in the auction format as a means of acquiring Western art. “Auctions establish the fair market value of a piece, and they’re also really exciting,” Doyle said. “We have our an nual September sale here at the Center for the Arts, and the theater is a great setting for people to compete against eachTheother.”artauction staff spends the year sourcing work they hope will thrill their audience. Most lots originate with pri vate collectors, who can request a free estimate. That begins with sending photos and information about the piece they want to sell: condition, dimensions. A “vetting committee” composed of auction staff determines whether works are suitable for auction and esti mates the value of each piece. The primary factors that impact val ue are the artist, the composition of the piece, its rarity, its condition and the year it was produced. Typically, larger works fetch higher prices than smaller works by the same artist.
One of Doyle’s charges is to expand the auction’s inventory, heretofore mostly limited to paintings and sculp ture. For the first time, the auction will of fer furniture and other decorative arts, Doyle said. Furniture by famed West ern designer Thomas Molesworth will be among the items in this category. “Art and furniture and decorative arts all go hand in hand and relate to each other,” Doyle said. “Outside of traditional fine art we’re going to have other pieces that make sense for this region.”However, the bulk of the catalog will still be composed of some of the biggest names in Western art, including Fred eric Remington, John Clymer and Wil liam“AwaitingGollings.the Signal,” a 1996 How ard Terpning painting that depicts two Native Americans on horseback, has generated buzz in the Jackson Hole Art Auction offices.
Howard Terpning’s 1996 oil painting “Awaiting the Signal” will be on view in the Jackson Hole Art Auction showroom prior to the auction.
Jackson Hole Art Auction 130 E. Broadway 9 a.m.-5 p.m. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com866-549-9278Monday-Friday
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“Size does matter, I have to say,” DoyleThatsaid.said, he’s partial to an unusu ally diminutive work that will be auc tioned off this year: a 1.5-by-3-inch painting by Henry Farny. “It’s a little jewel, really,” he said. Once the auction house accepts a work, it’s shipped to Jackson to be in spected, photographed, and finally dis played in advance of the auction. Each lot also appears in the online and print auction catalogs.
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The Jackson Hole Art Auction will feature furniture and decorative arts for the first time, but wildlife art remains a strong focus. “A Walk On The Tundra — Grizzly Bears and Ptarmigans,” is an acrylic painting on board by Bob Kuhn.
Thanks to online, telephone and ab sentee options, the auction has regis tered “tens of thousands” of bidders over the years, Doyle said. One of the auction house’s jobs is to prepare bidders for the main event, and Doyle said staff are happy to answer questions and accommo date requests for condition reports or moreBiddersphotos.may register online or through gallery staff, who will also take absentee bids in advance of the sale.
Western Design Conference 100 E. Snow WesternDesignConference.com307-690-9719King
This year’s crop of makers includes artisans from 20 states, a record num ber. From Idaho comes Ashley Delo nas of Mountain Girl Studios, who fashions chandeliers and pendant lamps from stained glass and antlers shed by deer, moose and elk. Return ing from Tennessee is Kelly Maxwell, maker of rustic-yet-elaborate liveedge wooden furniture pieces. Chica go’s Gina Pannorfi will represent the fashion contingent with handmade silken and woolen scarves, shawls and other wearables. Indiana’s Jill Durzan makes a first-time appearance with jewelry crafted from beads, natural stones and artifacts sourced from all over the globe. And those are but a few of the world-class artisans who will be on Thehand.Western Design Conference takes place at the 28,000-squarefoot Snow King Sports and Events Center, the entirety of which will be transformed for those four days into a wonderland bazaar, flooding the senses with a wall-to-wall tidal wave of sumptuous colors and textures. And the kickoff party on Thursday evening promises to be a hot ticket indeed.
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Thursday, Sept. 8 5:30 p.m. entry/reserved seating for VIP ticket holders ($150) 6:00 p.m. entry/regular seating for general admission ($75) All tickets include open bar and food. Exhibit & Sale Friday, Sept. 9 to Sunday, Sept. 11 Doors are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily At 2 p.m. each day of the conference, there is an Attitude Adjustment Happy Hour with signature cocktails and handmade artisan chocolates, included in ticket price. Visit WesternDesignConference.
COURTESY PHOTO This chaise rocker is by Henneford Fine Furniture.
“The only caveat for the work is it has to be functional,” Merritt said. “Furniture, jewelry, a lot of art to wear, clothing, all different types of fashion, things in leather and metal and wool. And it’s everything from cowboy to contemporary.”TheWestern Design Conference was founded by a group of artisans and woodworkers in Cody, Wyoming, to shine a spotlight on modern-day craftspeople working in historical American craft methods. The confer ence, which has expanded to include interior designers, architects, fashion designers and others, moved to Jack son in 2007, coinciding with Merritt’s tenure as “Jacksondirector.hashistorically had such a strong art scene, and a lot of long time collectors come through here, so our move to Jackson was really wellreceived, and the Western Design Con ference has become a signature event of the Fall Arts Festival,” she said. The conference includes not just a showcase and sale but a juried exhibi tion as well, and prizes are awarded in various categories. This year $20,500 will be awarded. “We have a panel of five experts in different fields — different judges each year — who come and judge for us,” Merritt said. “And I’m always blown away with what is brought to the show. We try to keep the bar elevated and we ask that the artists do the same, so it’s not a repeat of last year. Some favorite names that people really know return every year, but we also work hard to bring in some up-and-coming artists, new names and new faces, and some of them really surprise you with what they bring. Especially with the juried pieces, because artists go all-out. “In a world where everything is so mass-produced, it’s really refreshing to meet these artisans that are creat ing these one-of-a-kind pieces. And we work really hard to have a variety of different price points so that ‘one-of-akind’ does not necessarily mean overly expensive or unattainable.”
COURTESY PHOTO This table by Kelly Maxwell is featured at the Western Design Conference.
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“We did cancel for 2020,” Merritt re called, “but we were able to host last year, which was pretty amazing. We have always had a strong crowd, and our following online, on social media is strong too. We are looking forward to a really great year.” Contact Michael Carmody at fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.
By Michael Carmody The Western Design Conference, a popular staple of the Fall Arts Festival, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is set to launch the whole affair in grand style on Sept. 8. “It’s a four-day-long show, kicking off with the preview party and fashion show,” Western Design Conference Ex ecutive Director Allison Merritt said. “There are five open bars and really great food all included with your tick et, and it’s a first-glance look at the show. The artists are there on hand, too, so you get to meet the makers di rect.“And you can also shop direct, be cause we don’t mark anything up, and 100% of the sales go to the artist.”
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“We have VIP tickets available alongside our 42-foot-long runway for this couture fashion show that takes place every year,” Merritt said. “Each designer brings a collection of six oneof-a-kind pieces that they showcase on the runway. There’s a short live auc tion preceding the fashion show. You can shop and eat and drink, and it’s just such a fun night. “There is also a designer show house that’s anchored right in the cen ter of the showroom floor, so it gives an opportunity for interior design ers to curate a room. They can part ner with artists if they wish, but it’s really their own. They can make any kind of room they want — it’s a li brary, it’s a kitchen, it’s a bar — you know, a living room. We have a little of everything, and that’s right on the floor of the exhibit and sale. You can see that through the entire duration of the show as well, and that’s a big drawLiketoo.”everyone else involved in par ticipating in the Fall Arts Festival, Merritt and her cohorts at the West ern Design Conference are feeling good about this year’s attendance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COURTESY PHOTO Ashley Delonas of Mountain Girl Studios will be showing her inventive creations like this pendant lamp with stained glass and antlers.
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That’s more than 100 artists, to be clear, working in a wide swath of disci plines and materials — leather, metal, wood, textiles, stone and more. Unlike many of the traditional art galleries taking part in the festival, however, the Western Design Conference’s focus leans more toward the practical.
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“Europeans gave the Lakota drawing paper and colored pencils to do artwork to pass time because they lost the livelihood of hunting buffalo,” Calcai said. “After that a lot of scenes were of dreams and visions onto the ledger paper.” One of Native JH’s featured art ists will be participating in the fa vorite QuickDraw event. “Jennifer Adams is a talented, nature-loving local artist,” Calcai said, “and we are very proud to show her off. ... She loves creating fine art filled with strong emotions and a story to tell.” In her artistic statement, Adams writes, “Each piece I create is a win dow into my soul. I love to make new pieces that feel tangible and alive.”
By Tibby Plasse W estern legacy meets con temporary style just a stone’s throw from Town Square at Native JH. “Native gallery represents a va riety of other masterpieces made by people from the surrounding areas,” gallery manager Christina Calcai said. “We have a good selection of watercolors and oil, landscape, West ern and wildlife paintings. Bronze sculptures, as well as Native Ameri can artifacts small and big, are scat tered all over our gallery.”
Contact Tibby Plasee via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
In addition, Native JH prides it self on its multi-floor showroom that showcases the largest collection of Native American jewelry in town. “If you are fascinated by authentic Zuni and Navajo traditional jewelry, we have a lot to offer,” Calcai said. And if that’s not enough, Native JH exhibits a private collection of locally made jewelry for a one-stop shopping experience to find pieces that are authentically Jackson, as nearly every local jewelry artist is carried in the store. And that’s just the beginning of the mint list of luxury items and fine jewelry the store carries. Jewelry designers from all over the United States showcase their artistry, gem stones and diamonds in the upstairs display cases. The unique adorn ments are the perfect way to top off a designer look or to dress up a pair of cowboy boots. As much as it’s there to be admired, jewelry is just fun to wear around town, and the ultimate Jackson Hole look can be completed with a purchase at Native JH. It’s the only store where you can find the unrepeatable: a turquoise and coral ring with a centerpiece that covers two-thirds of the wear er’s hand, a selection of white buf falo turquoise, an oversized Navajo orange oyster shell cuff or beadwork by Nathaniel Barney of the Eastern Shoshone. The problem will never be the selection, but how to make choices.Butfor Native JH owner Safaa
Darwiche, Fall Arts Festival is about more than what is in the display case.“The Fall Arts Festival is such a joyful time,” she said. “It is one of the premier cultural events in the Rockies that I have enjoyed being a part for the past 43 years. Not only do I love the fall colors that pair per fectly with the artists’ paintings, I love the energy that all of the artist and clients combined bring.”
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Darwiche said the gallery will host artists painting on site through Fall“WeArts.are welcoming everyone to come in and witness the work in progress,” she said. The gallery features many vi sual artists from the area and from across the West, such as Deborah Fox, as well as antique treasures like ledger art that has been traced back to 1877 Fort Robinson.
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“Over the years I’ve been every thing,” she said. “I’ve been Western, I’ve been more European, and now I’m just eclectic.”
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Visitors will find a wide range of mediums, too: Horizon’s roughly 1,600 square feet of gallery space is filled with ceramics, textiles, jewelry and decorative arts in addition to paint ings and Representingsculpture.the gallery in the 2022 Jackson Hole QuickDraw are three artists who underscore Nowak’s broad approach: Chelse Wren, David Mensing and Gleb Goloubetski each make paintings that look entirely dif ferent from one another. Wren, who uses gunpowder to make her wildlife paintings, is the new kid on the block. A Jackson local, she has been selling work through Horizon for less than a year. “When she first approached me, I was on the fence,” Nowak said. “You know, gunpowder — what’s that about? Then she came in with pieces and explained to me how she does it. It was the quality of the work, how dif ferent it was and her as a person that soldWrenme.” begins with a pastel and la tex base before applying gunpowder and firing each piece. She uses natu ral elements, such as twigs and leaves, in her process to add graphic interest. Occasionally she incorporates fire works to add color to her work. Wren’s mixed-media works are some of the more affordable options at Horizon, though her prices have already increased. Nowak said Wren’s smaller pieces start at around $400. Mensing also will join the Quick Draw for the first time this year. An Iowa native now living in Oregon, Mensing makes landscape and ru ral scenes using a palette knife and brush. His work is distinguished by a distinctive color scheme, which in cludes pinkish-red underpainting. “I wanted to nominate David be cause his pieces are so beautiful,” Nowak said. “He uses a wider range of greens than I’ve ever seen. ... He’s got his own color palette going.” The “moody, atmospheric” land scapes look different throughout the day as the light changes in your home, sheNowaksaid. considers Mensing’s work underpriced. Small pieces start at $400, and larger paintings sell in the mid-four figures. Russian artist Gleb Goloubetski will return to the QuickDraw after making a splash at the event last year. Starting with a blank canvas and working without a photograph for reference, he drew a large crowd, and his painting fetched a high price.
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Many of his works are European cityscapes, and they have sold well at Horizon Fine Art, despite the relative ly high price tag. A prodigy who began formally studying art at the age of 8, Goloubetski’s paintings look abstract up close. The details are revealed when the viewer steps back from the canvas. On Sept. 17 and 18, Nowak and her staff will transform the gallery into an open studio, which will include “parklet” studios out front. Visitors will have the opportunity to watch their favorite artists work. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, the gallery will host a champagne brunch as part of the Art Brunch gal leryNowakcrawl.says she and her staff wel come all visitors, be they tourists looking for a souvenir of their Wyo ming vacation, serious art collectors, or people who just want to look at the art.“I’m a hell of a salesperson, and very passionate about what I do, which includes helping to educate people,” she said. “Nobody’s judged when they come in. “About 90% of people who come through the door are art collectors, but everybody gets treated the same. Our doors are open.”
When a dealer first sent Nowak im ages of Goloubetski’s work, her reac tion was “instantaneous,” she said. “I could not have responded faster.”
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By Evan Robinson Johnson One of Jackson Hole’s newest galleries, Quent Cordair Fine Art, leads visitors on a tour of life’s more charming moments. In still lifes and landscapes, sculptures and paintings, Cor dair’s lectorssaiderButstumbleaSquare,setandmomentsaestheticromanticshowcasescollectiontherealistthroughofjoypossibility.TheshopisjustoffTownsoit’sbithardertoupon.galleryownLindaCordairtherightcolknowex
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actly where to find her. “We have customers visit the gallery from all over the world,” sheUponsaid.arrival, guests are greet ed by Karl Jensen’s exuberant bronze of a girl with outstretched arms, titled “Rejoicing.” Cordair’s husband, Quent Cor dair, opened his first fine art gal lery in Napa Valley, California, in 1996, as a way to support his day job as a writer. Now Linda Cor dair describes herself as a “den mother,” overseeing 32 “amaz ingly talented artists.” One of her charges is Dave Mc Nally, a climber, skier and former Exum mountain guide who as a painter offers a singular perspec tive on Jackson Hole. McNally studied at the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and was mentored by painters such as Jim Wilcox, Scott Christensen and Zhang Wenxin. His work is inspired by the land scape he knows intimately from his years of climbing. He was Cordair’s featured artist during last year’s Fall Arts Festival. This year, he has another half-dozen new paintings to show.The Fall Arts Festival also will offer the chance for collectors to see commis sioned work by sculptors such Danielle Anjou, whose work has appeared in the Louvre. Current ly, the New York University grad uate is finishing a $750,000 foun tain piece featuring four lifesize demigods. Video of Anjou’s work on the sculpture gives collectors an idea of what’s possible, should they want to commission their own vision, Cordair said. Linda Cordair said she is ex cited to welcome festivalgoers to this year’s COVID-free affair as Quent Cordair Fine Art starts to hit its stride in Jackson.
Cordair explores romantic realism Quent Cordair Fine Art 164 E. Deloney Ave.
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Bill Mack’s “Freedom Horses” is a 27 1/2-by-35-inch alto-relief sculpture. Mack is one of the artists whose work can be seen at Quent Cordair Fine Art. Cordair OWNER,
FALL ARTS FESTIVAL • JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022• 13B Grand Teton Music Festival will be broadcast on WyomingPBS this fall. Details at wyomingpbs.org. MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR DONALD RUNNICLES
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“The Fall Arts Festival is such a great time to reconnect with old friends and meet and experience new artists,” Ray said. “It’s such a fun time in the Tetons with so much to look forward to.”
By Jeannette Boner F or 25 years, West Lives On Gal lery has been a cornerstone of the Rocky Mountain art community, boasting one of the most expansive col lections of traditional and contempo rary artists who depict the West’s char acter through a variety of mediums.
And West Lives On’s top contem porary seller, Trey McCarley, will be visiting during the festival to unveil new work, along with Mark Keathley, who was the featured artist for the 2017 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.
Contact Jeannette Boner via 732-7078 fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
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Owner Terry Ray remains proud of not only the collection and the artists at his two galleries — West Lives On and West Lives On Contemporary, located side by side — but in awe of Jackson Hole’s overall investment in and appreciation of the arts.
“You can see more art in Jackson in a weekend than you could in a year anywhere else,” Ray said. “It’s really wonderful to be able to experi ence and engage with so much art in oneWestcommunity.”LivesOn, a gallery leader during Fall Arts, will kick off this year’s festival by hosting a number of its artists during the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, on Sept. 9. It will wrap up the festival by serv ing up omelets during the Farewell to Fall Arts Brunch Walk at 10 a.m. Sept.Artists18. expected to be on hand to discuss their work include Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, whose work has been featured in the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the American Miniature Show at the Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; the Buffalo Bill Art Show in Cody; and in Jackson Hole’s own National Museum of Wildlife Art. Also expected will be Jacks on wildlife artist Sonia Reid, who se work has been exhibited at pres tigious Birds in Art Show at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; the Pac Rim Show in Seattle; and the Southeast ern Wildlife Expo in Charleston, South Carolina. Ray said Shannon Marie — also known as Shannon Marie Schacht — will be in the gallery during the festival. This Jackson artist’s work showcases her “gift of conveying the personality of the animals that is in stantly recognizable and endearing to her collectors,” Ray said. “Shan non’s artwork reflects her deep con nection with animals, and she works hard at creating these visions with each brushstroke.”
“I have such a love for all animals,” Schacht says in her artist bio, “so I try to portray their sweet and gentle demeanor in each of my paintings. I want my wildlife portraits to inspire others to feel the same as I do.”
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FALL ARTS FESTIVAL • JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022• 15B 406338 155 WEST BROADWAY • JACKSON, WY 83001 t. 307.733.0905 e. info@diehlgallery.com w. www.diehlgallery.com WESTERN VISIONS C ELEBRATION S ALON Diehl Gallery proudly presents a salon-style installation of works by National Museum of Wildlife Art Western Visions artists Claire Brewster • Helen Durant • Sarah Hillock KOLLABS • Gwynn Murrill • Les Thomas • JenMarie Zeleznak Sunday, September 18, 2022 • 11 am – 3 pm Join us for light brunch and Bloody Marys Artist Reception: Friday, September 9, 2022 • 5–8 pmJONATHANBenefiting:SMITH: Waterways II 09.09.22 – 10.29.22
16B• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Wilcox Gallery 1975 N. Highway 89 Jackson, WY 83001 307.733.6450 Wilcox Gallery II 60 Center St. Jackson, WY 83001 307.733.3950 W ilcox GALLERY Est. 1969 Special Event: 32nd Best of America National Juried Exhibition Co-Hosted with the National Oil & Acrtylic Painters’ Society 2022 Wildlife & Wildlands Show: Sept. 16-30 Annual Group Art Show by Internationally Acclaimed, Award-Winning Artists info@wilcoxgallery.com For Full Catalog, wilcoxgallery.comVisitCall307.733.6450toreserveartworkfromthisad Hangs Sept. 8 - Oct. 8 at 1975 N Hwy 89 with opening reception and awards Sept. 16, 5-7 p.m. Sept. 8 to Oct. 8 at 60 Center St.: Artist demonstrations by gallery artists Saturday Sept. 17, 6-8 p.m. at Wilcox Gallery II (Town Square): Wildlife & Wildlands Show reception “Golden24”Season”x36” “Handful” 10” x 15” x 6” Bronze 1st of 5 castings “Camp at the Base of the Sleeping Indian” Clockwise from Upper Left: “Before the Sun Sets” by Leonard Mizerek, 12” x 16”; “Rowdy Rooster” by Rosanne Cerbo, 12” x 9”; “Heading to the Mountains” by Bill Farnsworth, 12” x 14”; “End of the Road by Larry Seiler, 20” x 20”; “Rhapsody” by Ashwini Bharathula, 11” x 14”; “The Stare” by Richard Onica, 16” x 20”; “Big Day at the Rodeo” by Rosa Montante, 24” x 18”; “I Fly” by Michelle Held, 18” x 24”; “Wet White Dog” by James Swanson, 20” x 16” 12” x 16” Jim Wilcox T.D. Kelsey Gary Kapp TaketheHomeTetons 407786
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2C• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Section C Table of Contents Amy Ringholz’ “I Spy” is representative of the work she will show during the Fall Arts Festival. See page 12C for details on her Fall Arts Festival plans. 3 National Museum of Wildlife Art Western Visions back with 170 finest wildlife artists’ work for sale. 4 ��������������������������������������������������� Altamira Fine Art Contemporary gallery returns artists to QuickDraw. 6 Diehl GalleryWest Broadway gallery features photographer for Fall Arts. 6 ��������������������������������������������� West Lives On GalleryGalley lives on with classic and contemporary Western art. 10 Heather James Fine ArtFrom Dutch masters to modern marvels, gallery offers 400 years of fine art and education. 10 ������������������������������������������������������ RARE GalleryFine art photography front and center for Fall Arts. 12 ���������������������������������������������������� Ringholz StudioDistinctive Jackson Hole painter to join art museum’sWestern Visions show and sale this year. 14 �������������������������������������������������������� Gallery WildArea painters unveil their latestwildlife works at West Broadway gallery. BUDGEREALESTATE.COM | team@budgekelley.com | 270 W. Pearl, Jackson, WY DIANNE BUDGE Associate Dianne@budgekelley.com307.413.1362Broker CHAD BUDGE Associate Chad@budgekelley.com307.413.1364Broker REBEKKAH KELLEY Associate Rebekkah@budgekelley.com307.413.5294Broker Discreetly located in the gated enclave of the Bar-B-Bar Ranch Estates, this 72+ acre property is located only a 15 minutes’ drive from downtown Jackson Hole to the south and Grand Teton National Park to the north, yet in a world of its own. Encompassing approx. 1,600 ft. of river frontage, an owner and their guests enjoy private access to near endless recreation and sweeping Teton views. Two year-round spring creeks house trout and support the myriad of wildlife regularly passing through. At the edge of Price Creek, with the Grand Teton view in full force, is one of the two carefully planned building sites. Ranch Lots 3A and 3B are two independently deeded parcels each with their own Snake River frontage, individual building envelopes, and entitlements totaling up to 30,000 sq.ft. of improvements, creating an ideal opportunity for a legacy estate for generations to enjoy. Price Upon Request Riverfront Legacy Estate 407778
Event guests may indicate inter est in as many works as they like, but that does commit them to purchasing the work if their name is drawn, Dick sonOnsaid.Sept. 16, works that are still available may be purchased outright. Tickets run $195 each for the inperson event, which includes heavy ap petizers, complimentary beer and wine and access to the museum’s galleries.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art sits just north of Jackson on a hill overlooking the National Elk Refuge. That’s been its home since 1994.
By Deb Gruver The National Museum of Wildlife Art has come a long way over its 35-year history. In 1987 it opened in a rented space on Center Street on Jackson Town Square. Joffa and Bill Kerr donated their collection of wildlife art, some 1,500 works that formed the basis of the institution’s permanent collection.
Proceeds from the auction and sale go toward the institution’s general op eratingArtistsfund.also receive a portion of each sale, although Dickson declined to spec ify the exact split. Purchase tickets for Western Visions at WildlifeArtEvents.org. Contact Deb Gruver at deb@wordscout.biz.
“It also helps the price point be a little bit more approachable in a lot of dif ferentWorkscases.”in the invitational show start at less than $900, she said.
“Early in their marriage [the Kerrs] decided to collect art,” the museum’s Jane Lavino said. “They wanted their collection to have a focus, so they chose nature and especially wildlife art, be cause they were both outdoor enthusi asts.”Lavino, the chief curator of educa tion, joined the museum’s small staff in 1991, when it was still called Wild life of the American West Art Museum. Given her long tenure, Lavino also serves as a repository of institutional knowledge.In1994 the museum moved to its permanent location just north of Jack son, on a hill overlooking the National Elk Refuge. The move increased the museum’s footprint tenfold. It now boasts multiple galleries, some dedicat ed to works from its permanent collec tion, others to rotating exhibitions. One gallery focuses on conservation. The larger space has allowed for the dramatic expansion of the collec tion. Today it includes more than 5,000 works, and the scope has expanded to included wildlife from across the world. Originally composed mostly of oil paintings, the permanent collection now features a range of media, includ ing, glass, prints and digital works, La vino said. One of her first big projects was to work with another educator to write interdisciplinary curricula that local teachers could use. A printmaker and former teacher herself, Lavino worked closely with local educators to create the materials, some of which are still in use today.
In celebration of the museum’s 35th anniversary this year’s event will also include a dessert after party with a performance by the Jackson Six.
The education department also coor dinates regular exhibitions of student work, and it emphasizes professional development opportunities for young people. Students from Jackson Hole High School’s AP art history classes have curated exhibitions at the muse um, and paid summer internships are alsoLavinoavailable.has been at the museum long enough to see the impact of in vesting in youth. Kathryn Turner be gan visiting the museum as a high schooler, and she sold a watercolor of mountain goats to Bill Kerr during one of the first student art shows. Turner went on to become an art educator, then a full-time artist. “Now, she’s in our permanent col lection, and she has a really successful gallery right down the street,” Lavino said. “She would be the first to tell you what an impact this museum had on herThecareer.”scope of education programming has expanded, too. During the past year the education department has produced a series of educational videos called BisonCast. The episodes, which are intended for a broad audience, ex amine a theme through exploration of works in the collection and information about land, wildlife and conservation. “It’s important because it’s a way to make our programing and our collec tion free and accessible to a much wider audience,” Lavino said. Another accessible element is the outdoor Sculpture Trail, which is free and open to the public. The outdoor sculpture collection has grown to more than 25 works, and there is room to acquire more, Lavino said. Landscape architect Walter Hood de signed the 3/4-mile trail, which opened in 2012.“Themuseum just continues to grow and get better all the time,” Lavino said.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Ad mission costs $17 for adults, and there are discounts for children and seniors. Learn more at WildlifeArt.org.
For the second year in a row the mu seum chose to cap the size of the pieces in the regular sale. Sculpture is limited to 18 inches in any direction, and paint ings can be no more than 320 square inches.“By having smaller pieces last year, it created more gallery space for us to include more people,” said Michelle Dickson, programs and events director.
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••• Western Visions, the National Mu seum of Wildlife Art’s largest and lon gest-running fundraiser, will add to the auction schedule during this year’s Fall ArtsOnFestival.Sept.15, work by some 170 art ists will be sold, including 30-plus by live auction, during the signature event for the exhibition and fundraiser.
The exhibition opens to the public on Sept. 10. At the signature event on the 15th, prospective buyers may indicate their interest in purchasing a work, a convention called “intent to purchase.”Ifmultiple people are interested in purchasing the same piece, a raffle de termines who will take it home.
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“String Lake Society,” an oil on panel by Chad Poppleton, is part of the Western Visions event at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The painting is one of 34 live auctionlots to be sold Sept. 15. Buyers will indicate their interest; if multiple people want the same piece a raffle will determine a winner.
“One of the greatest things about Western Visions is that a lot of the artists themselves attend the event,” DicksonBidderssaid.who can’t make it to the event may purchase an online or proxy ticket for $100. Tickets may be purchased online at wildlifeartevents. org, at the museum, or by telephone.
National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily WildlifeArt.org307-733-5771
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Geoffrey Gersten’s “Polaris,” a 48-inch-square oil painting on linen panel, demonstrates the artist’s exploration of Western themes through a combination of photorealism and pop art elements.
Altamira artists return to QuickDraw Altamira Fine Art 172 Center St. 10
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By Emily Christensen For the first time in years, Altami ra Fine Art will have artists in the Jackson Hole QuickDraw. David Frederick Riley and Geof frey Gersten will represent the gal lery in the popular Fall Arts Festival event, and both artists will have new work on view at Altamira during the second week of the festival. opposite ends of the spectrum as far as Western contem porary art goes,” said Chad Repin ski, fine art consultant for Altamira FineRileyArt.paints people and animals using a combination of traditional realism and abstraction, a style that may lend itself to the short time frame of the QuickDraw. “Much of his work has an archival timelessness, like late 19th-century degraded photography,” Repinski said. Riley’s recent works are more ges tural and feature a bolder, wider stroke while retaining specificity of form. In contrast, Gersten makes photo realistic paintings that often incorpo rate pop art conventions, such as flat, florescent colors and Ben-Day dots. The themes of Gersten’s work in clude “jumping off,” “going for it,” and “adventure.” His imagery often references pop culture and the fe male true Western contempo rary painter,” Repinski said. Gersten was recently commis sioned for a large work for a private collection, a four-panel, 11-by-25foot cityscape that is one of the larg est installations the gallery has ever facilitated.Thetwo artists exemplify the Al tamiraNearlyapproach.15years ago Mark Tar rant, who Repinski calls “one of the greatest gallerists of the West,” founded Altamira Fine Art with an eye toward the evolution of regional art. Tarrant also operates a second location in Scottsdale, Arizona. “Altamira is a little more con temporary than the average Jack son Hole gallery,” Repinski said. “It’s certainly a lot more contempo rary than what people think about when they think about Western art. We blend more traditional painters with more avant-garde Western pop painters and other Western contem porary painters.”
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Tom Gilleon, Howard Post and The odore Waddell are among the more well-known, late-career painters rep resented by the gallery, which has a roster of some 40 contemporary artists. “Every one of our artists is muse um vetted, in that they have all had museum shows, to some extent,” Re pinskiAltamirasaid. also distinguishes itself with its approach to presentation, Repinski said: “We present [art works] in an austere environment with clean walls so visitors can fo cus on individual pieces.” Repinski said most of the gal lery’s clientele lives in Teton Coun ty, though as Jackson’s reputation as an art destination has grown its customer base has expanded to en compass residents of neighboring states. The Altamira Fine Arts staff began preparing for the Fall Arts Festival months ago, and they’ve planned several events at the gal lery, located just off Jackson Town Square.“Wehave one of the only outdoor courtyard venues of any gallery in Jackson,” Repinski said. “We hope to make a fun week and a half of art in Jackson Hole with a number of options and events outside, right in front of the gallery. “We look forward to seeing every one.”
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By Jeannette Boner When the coronavirus lockdown started in 2020, the famed Jackson Hole wildlife photog rapher Henry Holdsworth was grounded.“After2020 everything was canceled,” he said of the work shops he hosts and the travel ing he does to photograph. “It was really something.” But just like so many of us, being grounded afforded him a kind of reprieve from the daily and weekly grind. Holdsworth literally just looked out his back door and was renewed with a sense of wonder and magic that the Tetons can inspire. “One morning I woke up to a moose with a set of twins in my background,” he said. “For the next year and half, I spent a lot of time rediscovering my backyard and exploring and wandering the trails that I love here in Jackson.” He said he was fortunate to be in Jackson Hole when famed grizzly Bear 399 emerged from her 2020 winter hibernation with four cubs. He found beau ty in a fox den, and he hiked the Crest Trail in Grand Teton National Park with his daugh ter — time he said was a gift from a world slowing down and bringing people back to their homes.Holdsworth will open this year’s Fall Arts Festival with the work he completed during the pandemic. The show will highlight the natural wildlife of the region, with portraits of Bear 399 and her family, new images of great gray owls and foxes, and, of course, the moose and her twins. For more than 25 years Holdsworth has captured wildlife and wild spaces, with much of his work cen tering on threatened species. His work has been regularly showcased in publications in cluding National Geographic, Nature’s Best, National Wild life and Wildlife Conserva tion. Additionally, his work has been displayed in lead
By Michael Carmody Diehl Gallery, a perennial mainstay of the Fall Arts Festival, is shaking things up a bit with its featured artist this year.
“We’ve always had an exhibition open in concert with Palates and Pal ettes, the kickoff event of the Fall Arts Festival,” explained gallery owner Mariam Diehl, “and it has consistent ly been incredibly well-attended. This year, for the first time, we’ll highlight a photographer.“Thegalleryhasn’t carried photog raphy prior to representing Jonathan Smith, and we’re presenting a large exhibition of his photographs with ex amples of all of his various bodies of work.His stark landscape pieces border on abstraction and have been very well-received by our collectors, gar nering much attention in the one year that we’ve represented him. It will be spectacular.”DiehlGallery is one of the longerlived art institutions operating in Jackson, with roots stretching back to 1965, when its parent institution, the Meyer Gallery of Park City, Utah, was founded.“TheJackson branch was opened in 2001,” Diehl said, “and I was the di rector from 2002 until I purchased the gallery in 2005. It was the Meyer-Mil agros Gallery until we moved to our current location on 2008 and changed the name to Diehl Gallery.”
A member of both the local Cham ber of Commerce and the Jackson Hole Gallery Association, Diehl Gal lery has been involved with the Fall Arts Festival ever since it moved to Jackson, and Diehl is proud to be a regular participant and a contributor to the evolution of the event, which she said is “an integral part of our summer programming.”
Photographer spotlighted at Diehl
COURTESY PHOTO British photographer Jonathan Smith will be the featured artist at Diehl Gallery festival show. This work is titled “Stream No. 8.”
“We helped spearhead and develop Contemporary Art Jackson Hole, a part of the Fall Arts Festival, in 2005,” she explained, “and have had events and openings every year during the festival.”Andwhile the focus of the Diehl Gallery still leans on animal art and landscapes, the artistic parameters of its stable of artists have evolved too. “The gallery shifted to a more con temporary program when we changed ownership,” said Diehl, “and it has continued on that path in the years since.“Given the range of styles and me diums that we carry there isn’t an overt focus, but most of the artists we represent draw some inspiration from the natural world, whether it be an abstract sculpture based on a bio morphic form or a more realistic rep resentation of an animal. This organic thread, both visually and conceptual ly, is what ties the work in the gallery together.“That said, we also carry work in other veins such as Pop Western. These pieces speak more to the hu man condition, and incorporate cul turalCanadianreferences.”mixed-media artist An astasia Kimmett, pop-inspired paint er/collagist Ray Phillips, abstract painter Donald Martiny and the duo known as “Kollabs” (Luis GarciaNerey and Anke Schofield) are among Diehl’s most popular draws, but per haps none are making as big a splash as Brooklyn-based British photogra pher Jonathan Smith, whose exhibit “Waterways II” will be Diehl Gallery’s centerpiece during the Fall Arts Fes tival. Smith’s first “Waterways” show, which took place in 2020, stunned visitors with the vivid beauty of its bold, bordering-on-abstract natural imagery, and its second installment promises nothing less. And this time around, Smith himself will for the first time be on hand for the opening celebration.“Waterways II” opens at 5 p.m., Fri day, Sept. 9, in conjunction with the Palates and Palettes gallery walk, with some 15 area galleries provid ing free beverages and bites alongside their Fall Arts Festival showcases. Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
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ing galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the National Museum of WildlifeWhileArt.life has all but re turned to normal for Hold sworth, and he finds himself busy with workshops and traveling the world once again, he is excited to present his latest work for this year’s Fall Arts Festival. The show will open Sept. 9 during the Palates and Pal ettes Art Walk. Contact Jeannette Boner via 732-7078 or jhnewsandguide.com.fallarts@ debuts new work for festival
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“Strikingly Grand” by Henry Holdsworth is included in the work offered at Wild By Nature.
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Heather James Fine Art offers collectors access to significant moments in art history.
KIVIE, another of RARE’s featured Fall Arts artists, will show a collection of pho tographs that capture many decades in a show called “ManyDedicatedMoons.”to the idea of “weighted and timed perfec tion,” KIVIE’s featured piece, “A Grand Balance,” demand ed a command of physics and math.“It is math that dictates what the correct lens is, what the correct distance between the camera and the fore ground subject [is],” KIVIE said via email. The photographer said timing is equally important in ensuring that the ele ments in an image are com posed just so. “In the end, it is all a Grand Balance of things,” he added.Miles Glynn, another top artist at RARE Gallery, will also show a selection of work. In using screenplays and movie scripts to produce Western pop art, Glynn looks to share his contemporary ideas of the West.
“The more you complicate Westerns, the less effective they can become,” Yarrow said via email. “It is always better to exaggerate and am plify. Why dumb it down?” To compose “3:10 to Yuma,” Yarrow had to find inactive train tracks, which are often out of bounds for working art ists. His team located a dis used track close to Marfa, in West Texas, which stretches to the city of Presidio on the Mexican border and runs through private land. After negotiating terms with the owner of a cattle ranch on the side of the track, Yarrow was able to shoot on a location.
“A Grand Balance,” by the artist Rick “KIVIE” Armstrong, measures 48 by 72 inches.
The couple originally focused on antiquities, which filled their little “jewel box of a gallery” in California, Sacre said in a video produced for the gallery’s 25th anniversary. It was a client’s interest in buying a work by Monet that changed every thing. Soon Carona and Sacre were acquiring works by artists such as Renoir and Picasso. Though impressionism is still a focus of Heather James Fine Art, the scope of the gallery’s inventory has broadened according to the wishes of its clients.
Heather James art spans centuries
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“3:10 to Yuma” is by David Yarrow, who shows his work at RARE Gallery.
“It sounds ridiculous when I say it, but over the last few years we’ve placed over 20 paintings by Claude Monet,” said Andrea Rico-Dahlin, se nior director at Heather James Fine Art.Rico-Dahlin has personally sold five of the impressionist master’s works in the past year, she said. Her employer’s focus on blue-chip artists sets it apart from other galler ies in Jackson, most of which focus on the art of the American West. Some 300 works by household names such as Monet, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall fill Heather James Fine Art’s location, a roughly 2,000-square-foot space on Center Street a block north of Town Square.Jim Carona and Heather Sacre opened their eponymous gallery in Palm Desert, California, more than 25 years ago. They established an out post in Jackson more than a decade ago.“They are business partners but also married partners in life, and they just loved coming out to Jackson,” Ri co-Dahlin said. “They loved the place and they saw the opportunity here.”
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1943 oil painting “Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico” is among the works by blue-chip American artists in the Heather James Fine Art inventory. It measures 36 by 30 inches.
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“3:10 to Yuma” was shot by David Yarrow, an acclaimed fine art photographer who en deavors to push modern sensi bilities to the side. Yarrow is known for his conceptual images that focus on the interaction of culture and wildlife, playing to the stern masculine traditions of theForWest.the 2022 Fall Arts Festival the photographer’s work is slated to be featured at RARE Gallery, a mixedmedium art spot on Town Square, along with that of Montana mixed-media artist Miles Glynn and pro skierturned-fine art photographer Rick “KIVIE” Armstrong. Hollee Armstrong, co-own er of RARE Gallery, looks for art “not just for decoration, but for conversation.” For this year’s festival RARE is spotlighting its top artists whose art explores various decades and social move ments of the West. “I see these artists as adapting to their environ ments,” Armstrong said. “We all have to do this, find ing a way to enjoy our sur roundings without disrupt ing“3:10nature.”toYuma” is part of a series of photographs Yar row contributed to RARE’s Fall Arts Festival display.
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By Miranda de Moraes If you feel provoked by this photograph, it has worked.
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Inspired by the Quentin Tarantino film “Django Un chained,” the photographer turned to archetypal imagery to tell a simple story of the “final frontier.”
“We have a history of building our gallery’s collection on our clients’ wants and desires,” Rico-Dahlin said. “We take a lot of pleasure in finding the perfect choice for our collectors.” In addition to physical locations, Heather James Fine Art has consul tants based in cities across the world. They’ve helped acquire works by artists such as Frida Kahlo, who has risen to greater prominence over the life of the gallery. “She had a really small artistic out put during her lifetime — her illness prevented her from painting as much as she liked,” Rico-Dahlin said. “Re cently there’s been a really strong de mand from collectors and museums, so it’s wonderful to see an artist whom we have sold several works by bring such a great amount of momentum to theOnemarket.”ofthe lesser-known artists whom Rico-Dahlin is excited about is Elaine de Kooning. This year, the Jackson gallery displayed “Totem,” a painted sculptural work by the artist. The common denominator in the Heather James Fine Art holdings is “canonical, museum-quality art,” Ri co-Dahlin said. As a result, visitors can survey of the past four centuries of art “Becausehistory.our gallery has 400 years of art, you can see the relationships over time between different artists,” she said. “For example, Monet was an inspiration to the abstract expres sionists that were painting 50, 60 yearsGallerylater.”staff take special pleasure in shepherding clients through their first big purchase, a moment most of them will remember for the rest of their lives, Rico-Dahlin said. But the gallery also welcomes visitors who are only there to “Regardlesslook.of, whether you’re a collector, I can’t emphasize enough how much we want to share the spe cialness of what we have with the community and its visitors,” RicoDahlin said. “I encourage everyone to stop“Itby.shouldn’t feel intimidating. It should be fun and educational.”
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Amy Ringholz is the creator of “Lift Off,” an example of what she shows at Ringholz Gallery.
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After two years of wrestling with pandemic workarounds, Ringholz is looking forward to a less stressful and better-attended festival this time. “We’re kind of on a comeback this year because COVID’s really hurt, really lowered our numbers for two years,” she said, adding that she was eager to “kickstart another fabulous Fall Arts, because it’s our most cel ebrated event of the year. “It’s just kind of a wild time, hon estly, everybody all comes here at the same time, so you’re just really among friends during that one week in Sep tember. And it’s also one of the most beautiful weeks of the year.”
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Ringholz will be involved in this year’s Western Visions Evening Sale, a signature event of the Fall Arts Festival, at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, which coincidentally is celebrating its 35th anniversary. “It’s always a very good show at the museum, and it’s extra special,” she said.“Aside from that I’m going to have a solo show at my studio on the 14th, which gives me a chance to bring out a bunch of fresh paintings. I will have large paintings, drawings and prints, to just have something for all differ ent kinds of people, styles, tastes, homes. Fall Arts is just a great time to have something to offer for all differ ent price Ringholzmarkets.”isespecially excited this year about breathing new life into a Fall Arts Festival tradition, the Sun day Art Brunch, which takes place on the last day of the festival. “We’re a part of the art gallery as sociation,” she said, “and we are try ing to get all the galleries to work to gether and get their artists lined up to be available to demonstrate or talk or meet people that morning. We would like to have artists either working in galleries, having talks about their art, demonstrations, workshops. It’s a really inclusive feature, to let people talk to the artists, hear from the art ists and have an intimate — almost like a master class with the artists, working all around town. That event’s been going on for years, but we’re try ing to revitalize it.”
By Michael Carmody You will find the work of but one artist — Amy Ringholz — at Ringholz Studios, but a casual look around the gallery might have you thinking otherwise. “I do my best to look like I’m several different artists, but I’m actually just one,” Ringholz explained with a laugh. “In order to make the gallery interest ing and fun, I make paintings and drawings, and I make monoprints. “Then I also sell merchandise so that there is something for everyone in the gallery. And I love that, because if you love my art, I want you to be able to walk out with something. I think it just makes the gallery special andRingholz,inclusive.”an Ohio native, moved to Jackson 20 years ago, drawn to the area by the magnetic pull of its longestablished reputation as a place for artists and art lovers alike. “There’s a lot of history here with the exploration of finding Jackson Hole, and the artists that came here and documented the extreme dra matic beauty of the Tetons,” Ringholz said, “and so it has had a history as an art destination for a very long time. And then to follow that, great artists have come here to show and to work, so there is a great sophistication of galleries, artists and collectors, and that has been the big draw. “I thought I could build a name for myself here in Jackson, and that’s worked out.”
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His faithful bison and moose traipse through disorienting urban backdrops, splattered with collaged prints and graf fiti. Often, the beasts’ bodies blend with their incongruous setting. The “reclaiming spac es” series, said gallery man ager Jenny Fitzgerald, is all about asking viewers, “‘who is invading who?’” “He’s a wild card,” Fitzger ald said. “We never know what we’re going to get but it’s al ways fantastic.” Chapman also finds ways to reinvent classic wildlife form. Her disruptive realism style gets certain details — the flourish of an eyelash, the snout of a bruin — precise to a T. Meanwhile, the rest of the canvas swirls with abstrac tion, adding movement and vivacity to the scene. The ser endipitous abstractions reveal “just enough of the animal for your brain to fill in the rest,” Fitzgerald said. She’s hoping all three art ists will pop into the studio throughout the festival to show off their techniques in real time.
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On a typical week, Gal lery Wild doubles as a painters‘ studio, just off Town Square, where Car rie Wild and other featured artists bring their wildlife vi sions to Puppieslife. swirl about the palettes, greeting visitors and guiding attention to Jeremy Bradshaw’s equally vivacious sculpting.Known for his whimsi cal, colorful foxes and bears, Bradshaw grew up traips ing through rural California, where the natural ecosystem captured his time and atten tion. Now an avid falconer, the sculptor continues to drive in spiration from wildlife. His work, including a new fox, will join selections from two painters at Gallery Wild for this year’s Fall Arts Festival. But not before Carrie Wild gets her own kicks. From Sept. 9 to 13, the local painter’s signature vibrancy will be on full display for Pal ates and Palettes, a Fall Arts classics that pairs local grub with fine art fantasies. Gallery Wild was still choos ing it’s prom date caterer by press time. Wild’s husband, Jason Williams, promised to make it a delicious surprise.
Gallery Wild pops with color and style
Williams is an artist in his own right, making photo graphs inspired by his exten sive time as a wildlife guide. He sold Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris, the company he found ed in 2007, last December. Since then, Williams has been hard at work helping Gal lery Wild open a second loca tion in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He’s also experimenting with a new printing technique for his wildlife photos. The or ganic, handmade printing pro cess is experimental by nature, and results have been mixed. While that trial and error won’t be officially on display, connoisseurs might be able to petition a sneak peak. The locally owned gallery is bringing back its outdoor par klet for this year’s festival for artist demonstrations through out the week. It will also host a short party after Wild com petes in Sept. 17’s QuickDraw. Joining Bradshaw’s bears in the Gallery Wild makeover for the festival’s second weekend are painters Julie Chapman and Larry Moore, both return ingTofavorites.callMoore a painter is probably an oversimplification.
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Artist and gallery owner Carrie Wild‘s “Rendezvous in Color” is an acrylic and gold leaf on canvas measuring 36 by 36 inches. “Loose Moose,” a 40-by-40-inch oil on panel, is by Larry Moore.
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Numerous professional artists contributed to Moon Story, but so did many local school children and plenty of average everyday non-artists. “Lots of people who are maybe a little bit in timidated by doing an art piece, but collage is kind of something that’s approachable, so it’s just really cool,” she said. “We’ve got back some really neatHoffmanstuff.” is ready for a comparative return to normalcy in the wake of the pandemic, but wants festival attendees to know that the Art Associa tion still has caution in mind.
“It used to be called ‘Takin’ It to the Streets,’” Hoffman explained, “but since it’s not downtown anymore — it’s on our lawn — it’s called Arts on the Green. And that’s all local art, artists from within 50 miles of Jackson Hole, so very local. Everything from fine art and painting to jewelry to clothing to handmade soap, everything under the sun.”
On Sunday, Sept. 9, the Arts on the Green artist fair takes place on the Center for the Arts lawn. This is a juried fair featuring work of all kinds by more than 50 area creatives.
Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.
“We have so much stuff going on!” she exclaimed.
“We are just so excited to celebrate our com munity again with everybody that we love. It’s just so much fun to visit with all our old friends and with visitors too.”
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This focus on local art and the people who make it is evident in everything the association does, and Hoffman opines that the especially artistic na ture of the community in and around Jackson Hole helps make that focus easy to maintain. “I think it’s just a place that inspires people,” she said. “Our community has always been super full of creative people, and the Art Association has always been a great outlet for that. Our little gal lery displays a lot of work by community members andTowardartists.”that end, the Art Association is putting together its centerpiece fall exhibit, “Moon Story,” which when finished will be made up of 365 sep arate pieces of art, each produced by a different person.“It’sa big community art exhibit that’s curated by our executive director, Bronwyn Minton, invit ing absolutely anyone to participate,” said Hoff man, “It’s going to be a calendar of the entire year 2022, and each piece is an artwork. “Kind of the idea is that they will be collages, but people can do pretty much whatever they want within this little format that goes out with the packets. And each piece will include the phase of the moon for that date and then anything that is significant or interesting, or whatever people want to do to kind of reflect that day of the year.”
The association’s contributions to the festival this year include a massive lunar-themed publicparticipation installation, a return of its annual outdoor art fair, and a festive kickoff reception on Friday, Sept. 9. “For our Palates and Palettes reception this year we’re going to do a gourmet popcorn bar,” Hoffman said, “and we are collaborating with a local wine company. We’re also trying to get the local high school rock band to play the reception. It’s a com munity event, and we really just want to celebrate all the creative stuff that’s happening here.”
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By Michael Carmody J en Hoffman, gallery and retail coordinator at the Art Association of Jackson Hole, can’t wait for the kickoff of this year’s Fall Arts Festival.
“It’s been weird the past couple years because of COVID, so we’ve done receptions but without all the food and all that stuff,” she said. “For peo ple who still don’t feel super comfortable, a lot of our celebration for Palates and Palettes will be out-of-doors, so you’ll be able to come in and see everything in the gallery, but we’ll have tents set up and people can eat and visit outside and be able to come in and check out the art.
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“I was walking the dogs all the time,” Brookover said. “I was just test ing stuff. It was getting a bit more macro around here.”
Shari Brownfield Fine Art will feature new oil and watercolor paintings by Montana artist Tom Gilleon through the Fall Arts Festival. This is “Fort Mountain,” a butte in Montana the artist has painted many times.
Gilleon begins new chapter at Brownfield
The result is both an arsenal of Teton scenes — the typical moody, black-and white-landscape studies Brookover is known for, hand-printed in immacu late platinum, palladium, silver gela tin and photogravure processes — and a collection of quaint shots. Buildings near his home. Barns. Specifically, the barns he would walked past every day with his dogs, Peyote and Chai. That was a departure for Brookover. Rather than setting up a tripod and shooting landscapes, he was walking and shooting by hand. And focusing on the details right in front of him. It was, in part, an exercise in convenience and, in part, and exercise in necessity. “You’re carrying a backpack, you got two dogs pulling you on ice with a tripod going down the road,” Broo kover said, thinking about how he might have, but didn’t, venture out to shoot. “No, not gonna do that.” And at least one of the prints that resulted from his inadvertent barn study includes something that hasn’t appeared in any of his photographers in ages: color.
David Brookover has been hav ing some fun. Like most of Jackson Hole, when the coronavirus pandemic struck the fine art photographer hunkered down. That meant no travel, no trips to Japan, where Brookover got his start as a professional photographer with the Fuji photography firm, or Kenya, where he has photographed lions on the Maa sai Mara, or even any of the far-flung locales in the United States where he occasionally composes his pictures, like Vermont, Utah, Oregon, Kansas and California’s Yosemite Valley.
Brownfield, a curator and consul tant with more than 30 years expe rience in the art world, opened her office on Glenwood Street in March 2020, allowing her to showcase collec tions such as Gilleon’s in an intimate setting.“Dream Catcher” went up Aug. 15 and will hang through Oct. 15. A re ception is planned for the last week end of this year’s festival, 3-6 p.m. Sept. 18, with Gilleon in attendance to speak with patrons and answer questions.Gilleon said he is looking forward to coming back to Jackson Hole. He said it will be like “returning home.” The featured artist for the 2009 Fall Arts Festival, he has exhibited at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Mu seum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Whitney Western Art Muse um in Cody. The Booth Western Art Museum, located in Cartersville, Georgia, and the C.M. Russell Museum of Great Falls, Montana, have mounted solo exhibitions of his work, and he is a founding member of the Russell Mu seum’s Skull Society of Artists. Gilleon is also looking forward to a yearlong exhibit at the Scottsdale Museum of the West in Arizona titled “The Life of Tom Gilleon.” After it closes in Scottsdale, the show will be at the C.M. Russell Museum and the BoothTomMuseum.Gilleon is represented exclu sively by KingArts and exhibits at the Gilleon Gallery in Great Falls, Mon tana, and online at TomGilleon.art.
Brookover wanted to print the pho tograph as a black-and-white with a platinum emulsion that pulls metallic grays out of the image. But his print er convinced him otherwise. He was pleased with the result. And also he was happy to take a break from his typical travel sched ule, foregoing trips down south in fa vor of expeditions up into Yellowstone National Park with the Teton Photog raphy Club — a road tour that sup plied a few new prints for his gallery, including images of fog-spangled bi son more in line with his usual style. Brookover had gone on such trips four or five times, but his excursion last February was the first to result in work that made his gallery walls. “Three shots from the gallery from that,” Brookover said. “First time.” In the past few years, Brookover has opened his gallery to other pho tographers for the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, displaying one of Greg ory Essayan’s long-sought shots of the Ponte dell’Accademia in Venice in 2019. In the summer of 2020 he brought on two partners: Rudy Atal lah, a Lebanon-born U.S. military vet eran who carted a camera with him everywhere on tour; and Amr El-Sha fei, an Egypt-born cardiologist who works in Arkansas and moonlights as a photographer on the side. Both men still show work in the gal lery, though El-Shafei can be hard to track down, Brookover said. The rea son? He’s always up to something good. “You never know where Amr’s go ing to be,” Brookover said. “He could be in Russia, he could be in China, he could be anywhere, just enjoying life. And then he gets back and does his heart surgery.”
By Billy Arnold
By Jeannette Boner Master painter Tom Gilleon’s newest work will hang for the first time in Jackson Hole dur ing the 2022 Fall Arts Festival. Shari Brownfield Fine Art, on South Glenwood Street, will welcome the artist himself — a rare opportu nity for visitors and art appreciators to meet one of the preeminent artists of our time. In a new prime of his professional career, Gilleon is navigating the free dom of form and expression often only dreamed about. After decades work ing for some of the best-known names in the business, including Disney, Gilleon is moving away from gallery shows and commissioned work. At 80 years old, he is free to master his own direction, he said. “I’m not painting toward a show,” he said of his new work. “The art world is always supposed to fit that theme. But I have a lot more freedom now, mean ing I’m painting as if each painting would be my last. It’s frightening in some ways to have that much freedom, but I’m starting to embrace it.” The collection that will hang at Brownfield’s is titled “Dream Catch er.” The pieces represent Gilleon’s most thematic work of the American West. In oil and watercolor they cele brate and challenge the complexity of society’s relationships with the West, its landscapes and its people. “Tom hadn’t been showing in Jack son since the pandemic,” Brownfield said. “[He] was looking for a place that wasn’t the traditional Western genre that he had previously shown in. We are very excited to have him.”
Contact Jeannette Boner via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
David Brookover’s “The Valley of Mocha’s First Steps” is at his Gaslight Alley gallery.
Brookover: ’21 was a year of firsts
Contact Billy Arnold at 732-7063 or barnold@jhnewsandguide.com.
Shari Brownfield Fine Art 55 S. Glenwood St. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. weekends and by 307-413-9262appointment
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David Brookover Gallery 125 N. Cache in Gaslight Alley 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday BrookoverGallery.com307-732-3988
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Jackson Hole Public Art’s free projects are family-friendly experiences that aim to create harmony and community with invigorating public pieces. And according to the stats, it is ac complishing exactly that, with the number of downloads for last year’s mural walk hitting more than 5,000 users — and that was for a season still caught in the throes of the pandemic. Contact Tibby Plasse via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
Each season, self-guided mu ral walks are accompanied by audio and an augmented reality via on the Hoverlay app. The AR feature promotes one of the mis sion pillars for WildWalls: con necting stewardship to art. Public Art’s two oldest in stallations are “Strands” at the Home Ranch Welcome Center and the “Aspen Gateway/Sky Play” installation at the path way entrance to the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Public Art’s first permanent mural is Dan Toro’s “Hooked,” which was painted at Snake Riv er Brewing in 2020. The mural highlights the importance of the Snake River and its habitat, and calls attention to the important efforts of Protect Our Water JH. “And that’s what we have been doing from the beginning, connecting art and science,” said Cameron.Eachyear Public Art sends out a call for artists, and each year nonprofits and mural mak ers are matched up to create
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thoughtful and beautiful mes saging and take it to the streets.
KATHRYN ZIESIG / NEWS&GUIDE Helen Seay works on her mural, “Knowledge is Protection,” earlier this year in the Shirt Off My Back alley off Glenwood Street. Seay’s wall-size outdoor work, one of two permanent murals among the WildWalls 2022 exhibit throughout town, offers tips on safe recreating in bear country.
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By Tibby Plasse
To fully take in fall in Jack son Hole, take a wild walk ing tour with Jackson Hole Public Art’s WildWalls mural walk.This year’s 16-mural tour is the latest in an ongoing com munity celebration that em braces the wild inspirations that brought us here together — some permanently, some for a visit. For its 10th anniversary, JH Public Art has cast a wide net. Events have included large-scale print rolling expositions and the largest number of temporary murals to date. The collection brings as many styles as possi ble and opportunities to educate passersby on the streets of Jack son, in an underpass or at the R Park. There is more art in the community than ever before.
The free tour app offers dy namic educational content, bringing the works to life with the simple scan of a QR code. The tour begins at Snake River Brew ing and can be enjoyed through October before the temporary wheat-paste murals are prepped for winter and the 2023 season. Maps for the murals can be found online at JHPublicArt.org and at the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce office. The celebration of a decade of innovation will culminate with the Snow King Chair Project, and in October the season will official ly come to an end with MoonShot 5x5, featuring a keynote address by Jason McClennan, a recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Prize for socially responsible design and an international influence for green buildings and architec ture.Jackson Hole Public Art’s two new permanent murals were cre ated by artists Kika Macfarlane and Helen MacfarlaneSeay.is a visual design er and illustrator in the Tetons. She has painted a 50-foot-long mural sponsored by Dave Han sen Whitewater and the Snake River Fund, and inspired by the wild and scenic Snake River. The mural can be found on the north side of Dave Hansen Whitewa ter’s West Broadway headquar ters. Macfarlane also helped de sign this year’s AR animations with Tala Schlossberg. Seay, a visual artist living and creating on the west side of the Tetons, created a mural that fo cuses on recreating responsibly in bear country. Her mural can be found at Shirt Off My Back, on the Pearl Avenue alley. It was completed in partnership with Grand Teton National Park Foundation.Therest of the tour features temporary wheat-paste murals by Ben Roth, Cara O’Connor, Ava Reynolds, Susan Grinels, Josh Winkler, Natalie Connell, Susan Marsh, Nicolette Maw, Mae Orm, Sarah Wadas, Julia Brady and a select group of Jackson Hole High School students.
Jackson Hole Public Art pushes large-scalemessageconservationthroughcreations.
Robin Cameron, project man ager for Public Art, said she and her fellow staff members are al ways eying sides of buildings as potential “canvases” for future projects. It’s an exciting year to look back as well. “JH Public Art have always been dedicated to promoting a greater understanding and awareness of the region’s ecosys tem through contemporary sci entific research,” Cameron said, “and of course art.”
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“And so that’s obviously changed over the years. We have a great communi ty that loves art, we have a lot of tour ists that love art, and I think we’ve made it better because the more good galleries we have, the more people come here to buy art, and the more people come here to buy art, the more good galleries we have. It’s just kind of a snowball rolling down the hill. “The collectors keep coming, and artists keep coming, and so we’ve got on any given day about 1,000 artists represented in the galleries in Jack son Hole. And on any even day we’ve got about 1,000 artists trying to get in. I’ve got about 500 artists a year trying to get in the gallery, and we’ve got about 48 in the gallery, total. We’ve been in business 53 years, so not often do we take on new artists, but when we do we get to be picky.”
Tim Shinabarger is a Wilcox Gallery artist. This is “Free Spirit.” Gallery 60 Center St.
“Our artists bring in a lot of new art for Fall Arts Festival,” Wilcox said. “The Wildlife & Wildlands show will be going on in both locations, but most of the new art will be in our town gallery because our main gal lery will be hosting the oil and acryl ics show.”
— Images of Nature Gallery is a win dow into the breadth of the photographer’s work, which includes photographs taken locally as well as in far-off locales such as the African veldt. Visitors to his galleries — there are three others in addition to the original one in Jackson — can select work for purchase from the artist’s extensive catalog. But Mangelsen labored for years before he was sure he could support himself by making photo graphs.“From 1975 to 1990 it was just successful enough to keep me going,” he said. “It wasn’t an overnight success by any means.” Mangelsen was drawn to nature as a child. The Nebraska native developed a powerful fascination with sandhill cranes, which migrate every spring in the Platte River Valley. He went on to earn an under graduate degree in biology before pursuing graduate studies in zoology and wildlife biology.
After years of photographing cranes, Mangelsen had a full-circle moment when he had the opportuni ty to produce “Cranes of the Grey Wind,” a 1990 doc umentary about the migration of the sandhill crane, which took the photographer on a 3,000-mile journey tailing the birds in a single-engine Cessna 206. Johnsgard brought Mangelsen to Jackson for the first time to photograph pine martens at the home of Margaret “Mardy” Murie, widely known as the “grandmother of American conservation.” Murie became a dear friend. After working on na ture documentaries and educational films for several years in Boulder, Colorado, Mangelsen made Jack son his permanent home. A few years earlier, at the behest of Johnsgard, he had begun printing some of his photographs. When Mangelsen “got sick of the art fair scene” he opened his first gallery on Gaslight Alley in 1978. He’s been based in Jackson ever since. The original gallery is now located in more spa cious quarters at 170 N. Cache, and it is open to the public daily from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mangelsen said he hopes visitors “leave with appreciation for wildlife and realize they can have a part in preserving it. I hope I can help create a change in their minds.” Ideally, that would include respecting the animals with whom they share the environment and sup porting politicians who prioritize wildlife preserva tion, he said.
Paul Johnsgard, a University of Nebraska orni thologist who documented bird life with his camera and through pen-and-ink drawings, taught Man gelsen the basics of wildlife photography. “To capture birds in flight in those days was a real challenge,” said Mangelsen, who began documenting avian migration when photographic technology was significantly less advanced than it is today. Never theless, “I just got hooked on photography.”
“We have our annual Wildlife & Wildlands show going on in the Wilcox Gallery II right there on the square,” manager Jeff Wilcox said. “And then this year, the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society’s annual show will be hosted here at the main gallery north of town on Highway 89.”
His namesake gallery is now the old est in town still operating under the same“Whenowner.the gallery was opened by my parents in ’69, there were two gal leries in town, two total,” Wilcox said.
Melding art and advocacy, Thomas Mangelsen has established his reputation as a pre eminent photographer of wildlife across the world.Mangelsen
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COURTESY PHOTO / THOMAS D. MANGELSEN Thomas Mangelsen took this as-yet-untitled photo of famous Teton Park grizzly bear “Blondie” and her three cubs. Sadly, none of the cubs survived to adulthood.
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Fall Arts events at Wilcox I and II Friday, Sept. 16 NOAPS reception and awards presentation at Wilcox I Artist demonstrations at Wilcox II Saturday, Sept. 17 Artist demonstrations at Wilcox II Wildlife & Wildlands Show and Reception, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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That show, the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society’s 32nd Best of America National Juried Exhibi tion, hangs from Sept. 8 to Oct. 8, with an opening and awards recep tion set for Sept. 16. In this exhibi tion, painters working exclusively in the media of oil and/or acrylic paint come from across the country — and many points beyond our borders — to compete for $30,000 in cash prizes, in cluding a $5,000 Best of Show award.
“Thomas Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild,” with 40 of his images, has trav eled to museums across the country, including the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson.
“What interests me most are animals in the land scape,” he said. Contact Emily Christensen via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.
The Wilcox Gallery was estab lished in 1969 by Jeff’s father, Jim Wilcox, a painter of traditional land scapes and nature scenes who has since won a record number of awards at the annual National Academy of Western Art Show, including its high est honor, the Prix de West Award.
Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.
By Emily Christensen
Of all the art outlets in Jackson Hole, few can claim the longev ity, enduring popularity and reputation for excellence enjoyed by the twin Wilcox Galleries. And for this year’s Fall Arts Festival they are serv ing up a pair of prestigious events.
By Michael Carmody
Wilcox hosts ‘wild’ exhibit and national show
The Wildlife & Wildlands exhibi tion, a perennial draw for Fall Arts Festival crowds, is a group show spot lighting new paintings and sculp tures by dozens of acclaimed artists, with a focus on natural settings and imagery of the Old (and New) West.
The artist occasionally trains his camera lens on unoccupied landscapes or picturesque rural scenes, but his focus has and always will be on wildlife.
Mangelsen melds art and advocacy
In addition to his galleries, Mangelsen shares his work through books and museum exhibitions. Since the 1980s he has published several books on topics such as polar bears, mountain lions, and Grizzly 399, a famous bear living in Grand Teton National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Mangelsen’s next book, “Seasons of Yellowstone: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks,” will be published by fine art press Rizzoli next month. Mangelsen has also contributed work to museum exhibitions and collections.
And that is no hollow boast. The level of quality to be found in the Wilcox Galleries’ stable of awardwinning artists is amply evidenced in the Wildlife & Wildlands exhibition. In addition to Jim Wilcox, the show includes work by painters Jim Daly, Tiffany Stevenson, Grant Redden, Tom Saubert and Charles Dayton, among many others. Fans of sculp ture will not be disappointed, either, as the show also features pieces by several favorites, including Rosetta, Richard Greeves, Blair Buswell, Tony Hochstetler and Sandy Scott.
Mangelsen — Images of Nature Gallery 170 N. Cache 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. daily Mangelsen.com/jackson307-733-9752
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Tayloe Piggott Gallery con tinues to blaze a path across the Western art world by con sistently bringing contempo rary art to the Tetons. “We maintain a rigorous ex hibition program for any small, independent gallery,” Cohn said. “As a small gallery in rural Wy oming, we are proud to present highly recognized, midcareer and established artists, as well as a select number of emerging artists. Our focus is on elevated, educational programming, but also on accessibility. We are here to introduce you to art you can fall in love with.” The gallery’s one hiccup might be shipping — rural Wy oming is not exactly around the corner from anywhere — but that challenge also speaks to the gallery’s range of clientele. Cohn said its collectors come from all around the world — just like its catalog of artists. That catalog represents a wide spectrum: sculpture, painting, draughtsmanship, prints, photography, collage, works on paper ... all genres and styles have a place in the fine art spectrum. In celebration of the group exhibition “I Exist As I Am,” Tayloe Piggott Gallery will host an artist reception for Nancy Diamond set for Palates and Palettes, 5-8 p.m. Sept. 9. All are invited to attend, and Diamond is expected to be in attendance. Contact Tibby Plasse via 732-7078 or fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.
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Two other painters hanging in the gallery during Fall Arts Festival will represent a depar ture from the general theme of nature as the muse. Ruznic, a Bosnian artist, creates textiles sculptures and paintings of the forgotten individuals in society. Hofmann’s bright oils and gouaches are a true treat to have in town. He is considered one of the most important fig ures of postwar American art, and played a pivotal role in the development of Abstract Ex pressionism.Galleryowner Tayloe Pig gott, who works day and night to bring artists to Jackson Hole, said, “Art is truly a life force, and Fall Arts gets at the heart of who Jackson is as a community.“Istandbehind any institu tion bringing culture and the arts to this community,” she said, “and the Fall Arts Festi val has done a spectacular job at just that. In shining a light on what our arts community represents, and expanding upon that energy with each passing year, it’s a tremendous force.”Piggott sees the festival as celebrating the artists and how they create community. “Not just the galleries and the museum, or the artists and their patrons, the whole Moun tain West is connected,” she said. “Watching the [Jackson Hole chamber] grow FAF over the years makes me proud to be a member of this community.”
By Tibby Plasse Collectors buy art to ce ment their relationship with a space or a memo ry. But at Tayloe Piggott Gal lery, relationships begin with the“Weartists.are lucky enough to have strong symbiotic relation ships with our artists,” Associ ate Director Katie Franklin Cohn said. “The incredible art ists we work with make it all possible.”During Fall Arts Festival, Tayloe Piggott Gallery will in troduce Nancy Diamond, an artist new to its roster, as part of a group exhibition, “I Exist As I Am,” which also will fea ture paintings by Susan Vec sey, Hans Hofmann, Maja Ru znic and several others. Diamond’s paintings nego tiate the convergence of outer and interior worlds. The gal lery refers to them as glimpses into the artist’s subliminal world.“The concreteness of the illusion in her images blurs boundaries between docu menting nature and her own invention,” Cohn said. “Her often repeated themes have in cluded resilience and fragility and the passage of time.”
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Stegman sees the collective as a space to nur ture the confidence of local artists and curious community members.
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“I want to give people more confidence in their art and in their everyday life,” she said. “Art was so influential in my life. It really helped me through a lot of things that, at the time, I didn’t realize it was the thing helping me. I want to help other people get to that Stegmanpoint.”tookover
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Shana Stegman houses work by almost 15 local artists in her studio, the Yellow House Collective, including herself and her husband, Shawn Roberts. A lot of the artists are featured in the collective and nowhere else in town, something Stegman takes pride in. Relief prints, watercolors, ceramics and bike handlebar bags are just some of the unique pieces that fill the space. Stegman also offers art classes for the community for different mediums.
S hana Stegman is the owner and founder of the Yellow House Collective. It’s a very yellow building. Really, you can’t miss it. Inside the golden walls on South Jackson Street, previously occupied by Teton Artlab, is an art gal lery where Stegman features the work of local art ists and an area where she offers affordable art classes.“Weuse the word ‘accessible’ a lot,” said Steg man, 38. “We want to offer attainable, accessible art by local artists for anybody that walks in here.”
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Teton Artlab’s old lease in July 2018 and got the new Yellow House Collective off the ground. Well, sort of. “We were shut down from COVID for the last two years,” Stegman said. “The last couple of years were a lot of, ‘Do we close it? We’re losing money.’ But we felt we had put so much into it. Luckily the word-of-mouth has been fairly decent. So in a way I feel like this summer is my official opening.” The collective also rents space to local artists. “We have all different types of artists here,” she said. “Right now we have two potters in the build ing, a photographer, Ford at Teatonic Teas rents here. ... We also have fabric designers and screen printers. My favorite thing is having a community of artists together. We all have to be working to gether, not against each other. We’ve got to help each other to succeed.”
Stegman said she and her husband, fellow art ist Shawn Roberts, were inspired to start the col lective when they met other artists in town who felt intimidated by the art scene and didn’t know how to showcase their work. “We’d meet other artists who weren’t selling their work anywhere yet, and there was this com mon confusion over ‘Where do I start? Where do I go?’” Stegman recalled. “They felt the art world was really elite. What I’ve realized is just be cause there are different levels [to the art world], it doesn’t mean you’re not as good or you’re not successful.”PartofStegman’s process in selecting local art ists is finding those with a certain timidity. “I do try to find the ‘shyer’ artists who may be hesitant and may need someone else to help them with the business or the marketing side,” Stegman said. “I try to give them confidence and more of a spotlight than what they’ve done yet or done for themselves.”
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“We did our first collaborative painting when she was 1,” Stegman said. “She started scribbling these lines, and in them I saw an aspen grove, so I painted that. Honestly, it was one of my favorite paintings.”
Art runs through Stegman’s veins. Her mother, Michele, is an artist in Indiana and the one non-local Steg man showcases in her gallery. Her husband Shawn specializes in lin ocuts. His mother is local Jackson painter and printmaker Sheila Tint era.“My loves are fabric design and watercolor,” Stegman said. “My con centration in college was screen printing and fabric design.”
She credits time in Wild Hands and its owner, Sue Thomas, for help ing her forge connections with lo cal artists who are in the collective today. One of the artists she met during her time at Wild Hands now sells her exuberant fanny packs in the Yellow House.
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The collective is also an event space, hosting pop-up events throughout the year with plans to participate in the Fall Arts Festival, Sept. 7 through 18. “We’ll have art on display and some music,” Stegman said. “We’ll also be doing some demonstrations, setting out different painting sup plies that people can try for a quick sampling of a class.”
Contact Kate Ready at 732-7076 or kready@jhnewsandguide.com.
Stegman moved to Jackson in 2007 and began working in the Wild Hands art gallery, which is now the store Mountain Dandy.
Evvy’s precocious attitude toward creating art has loosened Stegman’s own approach to teaching and cre ativity.“Having a kid definitely makes you realize you just need to have more fun with it and be OK with however you’re creating something,” Stegman said. “She has taught me more about that freedom and to take the pressure off yourself.”
Stegman created this aspen grove with daughter Evvy.
T he collective is a family venture. Will a tabby cat and a 4-year-old po tentially make an appearance while you’re browsing the gallery or dip ping your brush into a watercolor class? Yes. But it’s that intimacy t hat the collective is built on. “The collective is, at the end of the day, a way for us as a family to be together,” Stegman said. “Shawn and I have been together for over 10 years now. We always had the same goals of being together, helping the community and making everyone feel good.”
Shana Stegman works on a water color at her Yellow House Collective.
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Another artistic mentor in Sha na’s life is her 4-year-old daughter, Evvy Wren, who she cites as one of her favorite collaborators.
“Truth be told, these lists are hard to narrow down,” she said. “I love everything aboutTurner’sJH!” lifelong relation ship with the area has also giv en her a special view of Jack son Hole’s arts community and how important Fall Arts Festi val has been for artists. “It has allowed for the vi sual arts to be celebrated in Jackson,” she said. “The festival brings together this collective energy of love for the arts here. It really calls us all forward and, as artists, to create something very spe cial.”Besides, fall is a great time to be in Jackson, she said. “All the colors are start ing to turn, and the wildlife begins migrating. And it’s all possible because each year the chamber is committed to making this special.” Simultaneous with Turn er’s solo show, her gallery will also feature work by sculptor Paul Rhymer. In 1984 Rhymer accepted a job at the Smithsonian Insti tution doing taxidermy and model making. He retired in 2010. As a result of so much 3-dimensional work in his museum job, his own person al artwork gradually began to transform from painting and drawing into sculpture. Being an avid birder, water fowl hunter and taxidermist gives him many chances to study anatomy and behavior and find inspiration. Rhymer’s resume is jawdropping for nature-focused art lovers. His work has been exhibited at the National Sculpture Society, the So ciety of Animal Artists and Birds in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum. His wildlife sculpture is at the National Zoo, the Nation al Museum of Natural His tory, the Denver Zoo, Wood son Art Museum and Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum. He is on the boards of directors for the Society of Animal Art ists and the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art. “He is an extraordinary artist,” Turner said. “His ar ticulation of anatomy is so detailed, but he’s also known for how he suspends and sup ports the sculptures.” Art lovers can experience Rhymer’s and Turner’s art first-hand during Fall Arts as both will be in the gal lery hosting demonstrations throughout the week.
Collectors can also enjoy Turner’s transcendent spirit during the QuickDraw, an event that makes her equally nervous and invigorated. It’s a gathering she looks for ward to every year. “I don’t force anything; I just let it flow,” she said. “The 90 minutes is another 90 minutes of artistic practice and doing what you love.”
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By Tibby Plasse B orn and raised at the base of the Tetons, art ist and gallery owner Kathryn Mapes Turner has made a career out of her love and appreciation for the wild splendor of Jackson Hole. Her passion is connecting collectors to artists’ creative processes and the unique beauty of the Greater Yellow stone“I’mEcosystem.celebrating all the things that make up the ecosystem here,” she said. “I hope that my work allows everybody an opportunity to reflect on how precious this place is and how important it is to live in harmony with the natural world.” Her upcoming show, “Raised by Mountains,” will hang during Fall Arts Fes tival.
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A fourth-generation valley native who was raised on the Triangle X Ranch in Grand Teton National Park, Turner has never not been influ enced by the area. “This collection of paint ings expresses my relation ship with this valley and how it shaped my path as an art ist,” she said. She described them as in timate, almost biographical pieces of her favorite locations in Jackson Hole, and some of her favorite animal species.
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“This work reflects my love, respect and gratitude for the valley, the respect that I have and the gratitude I have for the beauty here,” she said. “We are all inter connected and are reliant on the natural world.”
Kathryn Mapes Turner’s “An Exquisite Silence” is a 36-by24inch oil on rag.
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2E• FALL ARTS FESTIVAL• JACKSON HOLE NEWS&GUIDE, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Section E Table of Contents Joanne Hennes developed “Snake River Vista,” a 30-by-24-inch oil on canvas, While rafting on the river, which is why the water is in the foreground. See page 14E for more about the artist. 3 ���������������������������������������������� Western Skies Fine Art Gallery Doug Monson is at the center of a growing Star Valley art scene. 4 ��������������������������������������������������� Borbay Studio and Gallery Urban painter finds a new home in small-town Victor, Idaho. 7 ������������������������������������������������������� Teton Valley art scene Eastern Idaho communities spawn their own fertile art scene. 12 Scott Christensen Studio Landscape painter opens his studio for small works show and sale. 14 ���������������������������������������������������������������� Hennes Gallery Joanne Hennes has painted all over the world, but always comes home to Jackson Hole. 15 ������������������������������������������������������������ Art Shop in Moose Local makers display their wares at new gallery in Moose. 407605 Passion For Place. Power of Team. James Doyle, Sales Associate James@jhreteam.com | 307-690-9768 Cindee George, Associate Broker Cindee@jhreteam.com | 307-690-3996 Kelsey Spaulding, Associate Broker Kelsey@jhreteam.com | 218-410-0624
Doug Monson, owner of the gallery and a charcoal artist represented by Wilcox Gallery in Jackson, has acquired such a diverse roster of artists in his Star Val ley salon that it might give the small town’s most famous attrac tion, the world’s larg est elk antler arch, a run for its money.
Another artist, Rick Kennington, is a good friend of Monson’s who he has known for many years through work shops and art shows.
“I have noticed we have a style that is identifiable as artists from this area,” Santa Fe-Taos region.” Western Skies Fine Art opened last July. While growing its business, Mon son has noticed more of a draw on art in his community, which puts more focus on more events that can bring collectors and artists together. “This year will be the first annual Star Valley Plein Air Festival in con junction with the Star Valley Arts Council,” he said. “Already we’re seeing some of the best plein air artists in the West registering to participate.”
A longtime member of Wilcox Gallery’s stable of artists, Doug Monson also shows his work at his own Western Skies Fine Art Gallery in Afton.
On the walls lined with paintings, among the illuminated sculptures and even in Monson’s studio — set up in the barn loft that he shares with visiting artists — there are three artists who it’s likely no one in the Jackson Hole art scene have seen yet.
By Tibby Plasse
With 36 artists from all over the West, Western Skies Fine Art Gallery could have at any giv en time more than 200 works for sale in Afton’s one and only fine art gallery.
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The inaugural event will take place Sept. 19-24, culminating with a sale at the gallery on Sept. 23-24.
“I asked all of them to join our team be cause of the high cali ber of work and great work ethics that are of utmost importance in making great art,” Monson said. “Our sta ble of artists is mostly not represented in Jackson, giving our guests different art ists and art to view and acquire.”
“Tina Milisavljevich is an incred ible driftwood artist that I discovered through a friend that sells her work in her Park City, Utah, gallery,” Monson said. “I was intrigued by Tina’s work from the first moment I saw it.” Milisavljevich’s “aha” moment struck her while walking the shores of Flathead Lake in Montana. She nearly stumbled over a half-buried root that happened to look exactly like a horse head in profile.
“This ignited her imagination,” Mon son said, “and she quickly gathered more driftwood.”
“The abundance of talent and love of art is already here in the valley,” he said. “We hope to be a conduit for both artists and art lovers to connect and expand a thriving art scene in Star Valley.” Monson also said that, as an artist, he has started to notice that all the art ists who circulate in Jackson Hole and the neighboring high mountain valleys are identifiable to him.
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“I’ve watched his work improve so much due to his hard work and persever ance, which I feel is so important in the art ists I represent,” he said. And Monson said he found another new comer, Nathan Novack, through social media and was immediately impressed with his unique style and qual ity of “Onwork.alarge scale, he has developed an un derstanding of process, layers, color, lighting and texture — most importantly prob lem solving,” Monson said describing Novack’s large animal portraits. Doyle Hostetler, who will be in and out of Monson’s studio, is represented by Gallery Wild but apparently enjoys setting up shop in the Star Valley stu dio when he comes for Fall Arts Festi val. It’s a place to work and experiment. “He’s interested in working with oils, so we’ll be getting into some of that,” said Monson. Monson said his role as owner of the first fine art gallery in Afton is to help Star Valley become a more art-oriented community.
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I feel connected to it. It’s just beautiful, it’s miraculous. And I think there is something so visually appealing about it, but to me, neon is more emotional than visual.” A year after his first visit, Borbay returned to Teton Vil lage with his wife and two chil dren, renting his friend’s place for several months.
Borbay’s “When Gary Cooper Met Jerry Seinfeld.”
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The Borbay family became Idaho citizens in March 2016. Reservations about being seen as outsiders were quickly banished, as the people in Vic tor and Jackson immediately made the family feel at home. “We’re so tied into the com munity,” Borbay said. “This place is beyond special. I’ve never seen a place like this, so we’re just thrilled to be here.” When Borbay first became aware of the Fall Arts Festival, he was immediately drawn to its annual QuickDraw event. Though he lacked gallery rep resentation at the time, he managed to finagle a loophole that allowed him to participate, and he has eagerly returned each and every year since.
By Michael Carmody The artist formerly known as Jason Borbet trav eled a long road — Long Island to Boston to Sweden to the Bahamas — to get to Victor, Idaho. And his path to life as a full-time working artist called Borbay was as circuitous. “I bounced around from de signer to newspapers to reality TV to stand-up comedy to cre ative recruiting,” Borbay said. “And the common denomina tor was that I always kept my sketchbook with me. I’d go to a bar or a cafe and set up and do collages and paintings and drawings. It was just some thing I was always really pas sionate about.” But back at the office he didn’t follow his own advice. “I was always telling people to follow their passion, but I wasn’t doing it myself,” Bor bay said. “My wife, Erin, was always telling me, ‘You gotta do it, you gotta do it.’ So we were on the beach in Maui and I just decided then and there — I’m doing this. So July 2, 2009, I call my Inde pendence Day. That’s the day I declared who I was, who I was meant to Borbay,be.”who holds a BFA from Boston University, first came to the Jackson Hole area in 2014, when a buddy who had bought a home in Teton Village invited him out to commission an original painting. “I flew out for two days, and we just had the best time ever. I ended up painting the Mor mon Row barn with the neon from the Cowboy Bar, and I just remember calling my wife and looking up at the Sleep ing Indian and saying, ‘I don’t know how or when, but we’re coming back,’” he recalled. Perhaps more than any thing else on that trip, Borbay’s spirit was stirred by the sight of vintage neon signs — famil iar to any child of New York City — juxtaposed against the trappings of the Old West found everywhere in Jackson. “Painting the neon signs in New York, like Neil’s Coffee Shop, was my first real pas sion project,” Borbay said. “By the time I moved to Jackson, I had driven across the country seven times, and I had always felt a calling to the West. “But when I saw antlers and rawhide and the Cowboy Bar and the Four Winds, I was so drawn to them, combining my two loves — neon and the West — that I had to paint them. And ever since, it’s like I can’t shake it. I see a neon, and I go crazy.”Though his portfolio fea tures a variety of subject mat ter in different styles, it is the neon that is closest to his heart. “Neon is passionate,” he said. “I see a neon sign and it’s evocative, it evokes emotion.
“We spent September to December of 2015 in Teton Village,” Borbay said, “and we just absolutely fell in love with everything. The community, the area, the people. The day before we were going to leave we found this place that was available in Teton Springs in Victor, on the other side of the pass, and I called the realtor.”
“The QuickDraw is this crazy event that’s set up in the Town Square, and all the art ists have 90 minutes to create a piece,” Borbay explained. “And when you’re done, you have to sign it and bring it straight into a tent and they have an authentic cowboy auctioneer auction off the paintings right on site. It’s a spectacle and a half. It’s super crazy. It’s so muchThisfun.”year Borbay no longer has to worry about his lack of affiliation with a gallery, thanks to the opening of his own Borbay Studios & Gallery in Victor.“I’vebeen working out of my home for years and years,” Bor bay said, “and so this January my wife was like, ‘You should go open a gallery.’ I said, ‘All right, that sounds awesome.’ I moved in in March, had my grand opening in June. I’m the only artist, I run the whole stu dio. It’s three rooms — I have a working studio, an office and a gallery.“And it’s a dream come true.” Borbay Studios & Gallery is located in the Crossroads building at 10 S. Main, Suite 203, in Victor, Idaho, 24 miles from Jackson. Contact Michael Carmody fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.at Borbay Studios & Gallery 10 S. Main Suite #203, Victor, Idaho 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday and by Borbay.com646-469-6496appointment
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The Downtown Driggs Association has helped increase the momentum with its public art-focused program ming, which includes an annual snow sculpture competition and the plein air festival, along with many other free performing art events, including theater and music. And that doesn’t include the num ber of self-represented artists and artisans who fill Mugler Plaza every Saturday in the Driggs City Center Plaza or who maintain private stu dios, such as painter Scott Chris tensen, sculptor Natalie Clark and longtime residents, muralists and painters Greta Gretzinger and Phil bin De Got Schulz. First Friday Art Walks run 5-8 p.m. through September. The evening out on the town celebrates both local and regional artists and artisans at the Driggs Plaza, Fireweed Shop & Studios, Foxtrot Fine Art, The Local Galleria, Mountain Home Treasures, Teton Arts Gallery, Tribe Artist Col lective and The Velvet Moose. Teton Valley has been discovered. More people live in the valley and more people are visiting, and so, more than ever before, there is a demand for more Main Street experiences. And that includes art in all mediums and with a range of price tags.
Katy Ann Fox hangs artwork in her new Foxtrot Fine Art gallery earlier this year in Driggs, Idaho. Fox’s future plans for the gallery include artist panels, talks and events to tie the space to the landscape and people of the Tetons.
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the gallery and then you see them at Rise Coffee, at the Tetonia Club,” she said. “The small-town feel is real, and it is celebrating the beauty of what surrounds us.”
For Fox, who took over a valley mainstay on Ski Hill Road, a conflu ence of many things is bringing the Eastern Idaho art community to the front and center. “We have a bunch of early-career artists, which is great for artists and collectors — anyone can grab a piece of art,” Fox said. “But it’s also the cli entele that come into the gallery. I am having great conversations with bike riders, Forage Bistro diners, Grand Targhee traffic and more.” People are clearly out and about in Teton Valley, and Fox says three small towns in the area are finally coming together as one community of its “We’reown. moving away from just be ing mountain people who check their voicemail once a month to a commu nity that is in love with the beauty of the mountains,” she said, “and who also want to celebrate that beauty through art and community.”
Ironically, in the face of Jackson Hole’s housing crisis, Teton Valley’s gallery scene has exploded, with art ists seeking out more Main Streetstyled spaces. In the past year, Ja son Borbet opened Borbay Studios & Gallery, Katy Ann Fox took over Gu chiebird’s to create Foxtrot Fine Art, and Dave McNally and Mike Piggott found a top-floor home in the Togwo tee Center just north of Victor. Dyl lon Conrad Hunt, aka “CRADHX,” opened Lantern Arts in Driggs in 2021, and Katie Cooney has moved from an online Etsy account to open her own space in Driggs. Dan Burr, an illustrator known for his colorful trout, is in Tetonia, and practically across the street sits Tribe Artist Collective, which is also an outpost for north-end art classes. Fireweed Shops and Studios took over the “small mall” in Driggs and features pieces from local artisans. Then there is the gallery space in the Driggs City Center, which during Fall Arts will still feature works from the 11th annual Driggs Plein Air Fes tival, and Teton Arts opened a second gallery space on the first floor of its building, expanding their reach from the Driggs City Center. But that barely skims the surface of the emergence of this rustic cre ative“Tetoncommunity.Valley is this very special place,” Borbet said. “And it’s just ready for its own art scene.” Fox agreed that the time is now in Teton“WhatValley.Teton Valley has is that it is still small enough to build real rela tionships, to see the same person in
An artist paints like mad during the Downtown QuickDraw in Driggs, Idaho.
Fall Arts Fest doesn’t end in Jackson Teton Valley, Idaho, sees an explosion of creativity as it nurtures its own fine art scene.
“Let’s make this official,” Borbet said. “The first trip anyone should make for Fall Arts is Teton Valley.” Contact Tibby Plasse via 732-7078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.
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I n the past few years, Teton Valley’s quiet disposition has attracted many artists to take up residency on the Western slope of the Tetons. And with that, an art scene has blos somed. There are now enough galler ies in the valley to make a day of it. For years, plein air addicts have been able to adorn their walls with work by the many artists carried by Teri McLaren’s The Local Galleria. And Ralph Mossman and Mary Mul laney, of Heron Glass, were known nationally for their complex glass pieces and commissions. And that was it. Until recently.
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“The galleries have been so good to me, but I needed a change of pace,” he said. “I live with these paintings and let the ideas come forward.” But his art is still being hung and in prestigious shows, too, like this year’s Prix de West in Oklahoma City’s National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, where he entered “Teton Valley March,” “Ameri can West” and “Darby Canyon Creekside.”Forthisyear’s Fall Arts Fes tival, Christensen will host a Small Works Exhibition and Sale from 2 to 6 p.m. Sept. 14 in his Victor studio, where a sampling of the many small, inspired decisions he makes when painting — some of his studies that are rarely avail able for purchase — will be on display and available for pur chase.
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“Open plains, rattlesnakes, wild horses, large rock piles in the middle of nowhere, the base of the mountains ... is the epitome of the American West to me,” the Teton Valley, Idaho, painter Scott L. Christensen said. “American West,” an oil measuring 36 by 48 inches, aptly demonstrates what he means.
Everything about east ern Idaho painter Scott Christensen is big. He’s a big guy with a tower ing stature. He’s got big energy. And his landscapes are more than big — they are largerthan-life oil paintings that meticulously capture the play of light across granite massifs, the reflection of a trout in a lake or just the sunlight in the smallest corner of the shore line.But don’t be mistaken: The landscape painter does not fancy himself a plein air artist. “I hate the label,” Chris tensen said in his Victor stu dio, surrounded by countless framed outdoor studies. Christensen is known for his studies: The Lander native and Teton Valley resident is all about the process of discovery and could fill four or five field study journals before complet ing a painting, perfecting one line or color over and over. He enjoys the challenge. “I love the process,” he said, pulling up an image of John Singer Sargent’s 1908 “The Hermit (Il solitario)” on his desktop and pointing at the screen. “I love the way he did this — I want to understand the chaos and find the order like this, how your eye is drawn to the deer, and you don’t see the hermit on first glance. I can see it quickly — the warm, cool shadow here and the accent in the shadow — just see it as its rawestPuritypurity.”isat the heart of Christensen’s ethic and life style. His truck is loaded and ready for a painting session or a fishing trip. His field-study books pile up in the vehicle as he perfects the larger canvas he is envisioning for the final panorama, like his oil painting “Peaks of Switzerland,” mea suring 48 by 96 inches. “The back of my truck is ridiculous,” the painter said. “What separates out really good, though, is getting out there and really studying what becomes the art form — just like Peyton Manning, who will study an opponent’s plays for hours until he discovers his weakness.”Christensen was serious about football in college, but a crushed C7 vertebrae forced him rethink his path. He went out to a stream to fly-fish, he said, and he not only pulled his thoughts together but came to realize what he loved: being outside in the beauty of nature.
MLS 22-1276, $385,000 39.40 Acres Sweeping views of 3 mountain ranges: the Wind River, the Gros Ventre & the Wyoming Range. Wildflowers & wildlife abound in this beautiful, quiet, mountain setting. Beautiful hilltop homesite. A well is already in. This property could be easily split into two approximately 20-acre lots.
“I could have been a training coach, but I turned it down,” he said. “This is the real compe tition, one with myself to get this exactly right. Sometimes, I’ll hold onto a painting for 10 years before I let it leave the house.”The timing of the injury co incided with a college require ment to take a painting class, and the rest is, well, hanging in hisChristensenstudio. is self-repre senting these days, but his art work pops up in the galleries as resales now and then.
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Hennes Gallery holds Tetons history
Hennes Gallery 5850 Larkspur Drive, 2 miles south of Jac kson Hole Airport By appointment only
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J oanne Hennes has painted the world.“Ijust love the mountains from all over the world,” she said at her home and gallery in Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis Club. “I started painting in the Swiss Alps and trav eled the world painting in Europe, the Middle East, New Zealand and of course the Tetons.” Hennes maintains a gallery that she said is also like a museum, just off the main house, surrounded by Wyoming wildflowers and aspen trees she and her family planted 50 years ago. Life is a little slower there now, and she welcomes patrons only by appointment to give clients and visitors the proper attention. Hennes is warm and conversa tional, and her knowledge of art and the Tetons is expansive. “I enjoy walking people around our grounds,” she said. “We have a beautiful view of the Grand Teton and I love looking at it all day.” Many of her watercolors and oils hang in some of Grand Teton Na tional Park’s most iconic respites, in cluding a set of 37 wildflower water colors that adorn the cabins of Jenny Lake Lodge, and an oil painting of Lake Solitude in the Moose visitor center.According to her website, Hennes describes herself as a realist who finds her greatest inspirations “in towering mountains, tropical jun gles and rugged coastlines.” In her biography she notes that she stud ied in Illinois, where she was born, and in Paris. She still produces new work and has been experimenting with irides cent oils to give a more luminescent look to snow-laden mountain peaks and a shimmer to ocean waves roll ing over Hennessand.also carries relics col lected over her years of travels. From beautiful bronze sculptures and carved glass pieces, to Native American hand-woven baskets from the turn of the 19th centu ry, she is eager to share the sto ries that have defined her life and helped define Jackson Hole’s cur rent art community. To schedule an appointment, call her directly at 307-733-2593. Contact Jeannette Boner via 7327078 or fallarts@jhnewsandguide. com.
Open daily Dornan’s complex at Moose in Grand Teton National Park ArtShopJH.com
BRADLY J. BONER / NEWS&GUIDE A former project manager for Jackson Hole Public Art, Alex Pope created Art Shop in Moose to give local makers the spotlight. “It was important to me that they were having fun,” she said.
“It just felt like a really good fit,” he said. “The thing we get asked for the most from people who visit Dornan’s is ‘Where’s the local stuff?‘” Art Shop fits the bill. And so long as independent artists can still afford to live and create in Jackson Hole, Dor nan thinks a gallery space in Moose has “lasting power.” With hundreds of thousands “if not millions” of annual visitors to the Dor nan’s complex, he said, “the vast num ber of them really want to take home something that will remind them of their trip to the Tetons.” What better way than with a hand made Greater Yellowstone memento?
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While plenty of customers will walk away with a small sticker, Pope has sold a few of the larger items, includ ing Stolp’s “Where’s Waldo” poster. She said locals have appreciated the trans formation of space, while visitors have said they seek out similar shops wher ever they travel. When he heard the pitch for a local gallery with diverse representation, Huntley Dornan said he was “all in.”
By Evan Robinson Johnson Similar to the Gaslight Alley shop Made, but with a more of a fineart flair, a new gallery in Moose aims to give local artists the spotlight. “I’ve been in the arts world here for 15 years, and the one arts demograph ic that we’re failing is our local artists,” said Alex Pope, the creator of Art Shop. Most recently Pope was the project manager for Jackson Hole Public Art. Before that she worked as art director for Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Her carefully curated boutique is lo cated just on the edge of Grand Teton National Park in the former Moosely Mountaineering building. Skinny Skis ended its 20-year lease with the Dor nan family at that location last year. “We can’t thank the Dornan’s enough for providing us the opportunity to op erate our business in such a spectacu lar setting, and wish them success with their new endeavor,” Skinny Skis coowner Scott O’Brien said. Pope completely renovated the space before opening in May. The new interior is bright and spacious and gives the artwork, all made by local people, a chance to shine. Many of the artists Pope recruited craft pieces specifically for the shop. Ryan Stolp, perhaps best known for his “Lift Lines” comics that run in the Jackson Hole Daily and on the Hole Scroll news app, created a “Where’s Waldo” type poster jam-packed with Grand Teton vignettes. Anika Youcha fired a series of 250 hand-thrown ce ramic cups. “They’re so great at marketing in dividual artists and highlighting the work,” said Youcha, who has sold her work at Made and RARE Gallery, but said she has never seen something “so devoted to local makers.” In a community well known for the glut of fine art galleries around Town Square, a commercial art market show cased by the annual Fall Arts Festival, local creatives have always operated on the fringes. Their talent has been mostly consigned to pop-up exhibitions like the Art Fair, while valuable (and costly) gallery space was reserved for more nationally recognized artists. Pope is trying to flip that script. Ev ery artist she features earns a commis sion, and although many of them made limited runs for Art Shop it’s not an ex clusive gallery. “I’m trying to give them a venue to be seen and broaden their exposure,” Pope said. She also wanted to make sure the artists had “fun” filling the shop.
Bronwyn Minton, executive direc tor for the Art Association, has a run of cyanotype leaf prints for sale. Britt Ziebell is selling prints of her signa ture skull slates. “It’s so wonderful to have an oppor tunity to share my art alongside other makers and artists,” Ziebell said. “Alex has curated a place that’s not only a stop for tourists to shop for a special memento on their trip but also a place for locals to shop for local, thoughtful, handmade items.” Like Moosely Mountaineering, Art Shop will be open only in the summer. Artists said the seasonality was helpful. You can put together “a whole bulk of things,” in the offseason, then bounce out, said Youcha, who struggled to keep up with the year-round demand at Made. Pope is still workshopping prices, hours and showcase events. The first month was “a little bit fits and starts,” she said, citing the airport closure and lousy weather as potential reasons for low park visitation. “I’m not worried yet,” she said. “I knew the first two months were going to be a little hit or miss.”
Art Shop in Moose stars local makers Art
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