Fall Arts Festival 2024

Toast, Talk and Walk

Savor art walks all festival long. See page 4A.

Festive pours Wine and jewels are paired to sparkle, 3A

Artists race the clock QuickDraw requires speedy thinking, brushwork, 7A

Fancy boots Craftsmen and designers display their talents, 11A

Twenty-twenty-four marks 40 years of gala events and art walks at the Fall Arts Festival. With 27 participating galleries, several internationally recognized art auctions and an assemblage of artists — paintbrushes in hand — circulating through town for two weeks, the Fall Arts Festival is nothing short of abundant. It’s also a whole lot of fun.

Eleven days of events and exhibits; art events in Jackson Valley, Star Valley and Teton Valley; free

Editor’s Note

evenings and artwork priced for all pocketbooks. There are very few art destinations that can compete with the accessibility and quality of the best little art market in the West’s three days of art walks, its many demonstrations and the Teton backdrop that inspired it all.

The imprint of Thomas Moran’s paintings is still seen today across mediums and styles. A passion bred from conservation, observation and an inescapable need to take in Idaho’s and Wyoming’s landscape, Jack-

son Hole is no longer just an outpost for backcountry enthusiasts. The Tetons are now a mini-mecca for painters, sculptors, glass artists, illustrators and photographers who have all fallen in love with the alpenglow, the quaking aspens and the many animals that wander through. There is no better time to experience the local artist community and wander the streets of Jackson than during Fall Arts. Go out for all three art walks, pick an art talk or attend an auction. You can have your morn-

ing coffee at the QuickDraw, take your lunch break at the Western Design Conference or see behind the scenes during a studio tour or demonstration. For two weeks the Jackson art community keeps the doors open late and celebrates the many facets of material culture in the modern West. And you don’t want to miss out on any of it. So get out your pen and map out your plans with the Jackson Hole News&Guide’s 2024 Fall Arts Festival special section. — Tibby Plasse

PUBLISHER

Adam Meyer

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Johanna Love

EDITOR

MANAGING

Rebecca Huntington

SECTION EDITOR

Tibby Plasse

Photographers

Bradly J. Boner, Kathryn Ziesig, Erin Burk

EDITORIAL DESIGN

Andy Edwards

CONTRIBUTORS

Richard Anderson, Billy Arnold, Christina Assante, Deb Barracato, Jeannette Boner, Sophia BoydFliegel, Michael Carmody, Toby Koekkoek, Sophie Lamb, Kyle Leverone, Lacey McNeff, Zoe Naylor, Kate Ready

COPY EDITORS

Jennifer Dorsey, Cherise Forno

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Sarah Wilson

ADVERTISING DESIGN ARTISTS

Lydia Redzich, Luis Ortiz, Chelsea Robinson

DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING

Karen Brennan

MULTIMEDIA SALES MANAGERS

Tim Walker, Chad Repinski

DIGITAL CAMPAIGN, MULTIMEDIA SALES MANAGER

Tatum Mentzer

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND SALES

Tom Hall

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Dale Fjeldsted

PREPRESS SUPERVISOR

Lewis Haddock

PRESS SUPERVISOR

Stephen Livingston

PRESSMEN

Robert Heward, Gunner Heller, Cody Carlisle

CIRCULATION MANAGER

Jayann Carlisle

CIRCULATION

Rulinda Roice, Marissa Fronce, Thatoe Kyaw, Cody Carlisle

CEO Kevin B. Olson

Wort hosts Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts

Festival begins with fancy pours and bejeweled designs.

Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts

The Wort Hotel Showroom

5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4

Tickets available through App.showslinger.com/v/wine-downwednesday-and-w

By Toby Koekkoek and Tibby Plasse

Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts, the annual prelude to the Fall Arts Festival, is a boutique evening celebrating exclusive gem and grape varietals. Eight jewelry designers are paired with eight wines for an intimate evening of artisan wines and baubles.

Andi Caruso, sommelier at The Wort Hotel and keeper of the 7 Stories label, said this is one of her favorite evenings.

“It’s such an intimate evening,” she told the News&Guide. “Fall Arts used to kick off with the Jewelry Luncheon, and this event is even more approachable in getting a chance to speak with the designers.”

Caruso said the busyness of Fall Arts can be overwhelming, but by the time she gets to the Western Design Conference she feels like she has a few friends in the exhibition hall after attending the Wine Down Wind Up evening at The Wort.

Caruso’s label, 7 Stories, will be on this year’s pour list. Her 2021 grenache, Dreamer, features artwork by Jackson artist Amy Ringholz on its label. Additionally, Jackson Hole Winery’s syrah and chardonnay from its Fall Arts Collector series will fill

glasses alongside other limited varietals. Small bites will also accompany the indulgent evening of retail therapy.

While sipping pinot to determine if

or turquoise is a better match with a red or white, attendees can check out this year’s featured painting. Roger Ore’s 56-by-40-inch oil painting, “Nature’s Playground,” is

amethyst

being displayed at

The Wort before it goes to auction Sept. 14 at the conclusion of the QuickDraw. Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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A 2023 Wine Down Wednesday and Wind up For Fall Arts attendee peruses the designs of Jackson Hole Beadwork. The wine and jewelry pairing event features a boutique selection of designers from the Western Design Conference and sommelier-selected wines by The Wort.

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Seven Stories wine co-founder Andi Caruso speaks to a crowd Feb. 15, 2023, at a Womentum event at The Wort in Jackson.

Art, walk and talk

Fall Arts’ fitness of preference: art walks.

FBy Tibby Plasse

all Arts’ fitness of preference: art walks. Whether you’re strolling from gallery to gallery all in one night, breaking up visits on different nights or out for hors d’oeuvres during Palates and Palettes, taking a lap around a town is a thing during the festival.

Artist receptions, live demonstrations, spirits and mocktails are the extra perks of the two nights of extended hours and a Sunday morning stroll that the Jackson galleries keep during Fall Arts for its three art walks: Palates and Palettes, the Sunday Art Brunch and the Gallery Association Walk.

Multiple nights of walking and talking art allow enthusiasts to move at their pace. Whether that’s one night out and hitting all the galleries in one full sweep, breaking up clusters over the course of the three days or just repeatedly visiting a painting that you can’t walk away from, the art walks are Fall Arts at its best.

Palates and Palettes has always been considered the unofficial kickoff to the festival. Local chefs pair with galleries making each stop around town memorable, and delicious. With 27 members of the Jackson Hole Gallery Association, downtown is a bustling visual center of commerce with artists, art enthusiasts, friends and neighbors during Palates and Palettes.

The rush of the evening is just as much about making

it to every location you have circled on the map as it is a rush to have a chance to sit and talk shop with artists. To the best of artist and gallery owner Amy Ringholz’s memory, the Gallery Association’s art walk has been a pillar of

the event from the beginning.

“People come here just to ski and have no idea that we are such an incredible and sophisticated art market, and really the third largest Western art market in the country,” Ringholz said.

“My favorite thing with Palates and Palettes is when somebody wasn’t even planning on going out, and they get dragged out by their friends and then all of a sudden they start talking with an artist and buying art.”

The Sunday Art Brunch from its inception has a slightly different cadence than the two evenings out on the town. The Sunday morning event is a chance to roll up sleeves with artists and

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Last year’s Arts on the Green featured more than 50 local creatives selling artwork in an array of mediums on the Center for the Arts lawn.

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Palates and Palettes patrons walk through Gallery Wild examining the art and take advantage of the free food and drink from Gather last year. Gallery Wild was one of 22 galleries participating in the annual event.

ART WALKS

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talk shop and reflect on material culture’s rugged selection of Jackson Hole-influenced art. Festival attendees often make their purchasing decisions on Sunday because they have seen everything and are finally ready to choose which pieces are getting packed up to go home.

“Sunday has often been one of the largest sales days of the festival for us,” Greg Fulton from Astoria Fine Art said.

“With the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, world-class galleries and dozens of nonprofit organizations dedicated to supporting visual, performing, musical and culinary arts, our community has become a vibrant cultural hub, attracting artists and art lovers from around the world,” said John Morgan, marketing director for the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.

But don’t forget to venture beyond King Street and the Town Square. There are three shows at the Center for the Arts, including the Art Association’s Guest Artist exhibit, which features instructors’ work from this season’s programming, an “Uncommon Artist Residency” group show in the Center Commons and Sheila Tintera’s show in the Theater Gallery, “Wild Lands: Painting nature in the Tetons.”

Opening during Palates and Palettes, the “Uncommon Art Residency” group show in the Center Commons will feature past residents’ art. A joint program created by Anvil Hotel owner Erik Warner and Teton Artlab, the group show is strong reflection of the interest artists take in Jackson. The program sees hundreds of applications for artist proposals from across the country in nearly every genre imaginable.

Both Wilcox Gallery and Turner Fine Art are on the north end of town opposite the National Elk Refuge, and a little bit more of a walk from the Town Square but easy stops to add after a trip to the National Museum of Wildlife Art and its community-juried exhibition, “Full Circle: An

Exhibition of Community Creation, Curation, and Collaboration.”

Falls Arts Festival has a bold itinerary even for the most seasoned art enthusiast to get all the auctions, tours and demonstrations. There’s so much packed into less than two weeks that it would seem there’s no time to meander and just get lost in Jackson during Fall Arts.

Palates and Palettes, Sunday Art Brunch and the Gallery Association Walk ensure there’s always time to get lost in the mountains as well as partake in the festivities. So bust out your calendar, circle the galleries you know you don’t want to miss and leave time to explore uncharted territory.

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

The 411 on the fun

Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk

5-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6

Visit Jackson’s fine art galleries to kick off the 2024 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. Participating galleries pair with local restaurants and beverage makers to serve food and drink as you browse the art. Presented by Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and Build Magazine.

Jackson Hole Gallery Association Art Walk

5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11

Tour Jackson Hole’s art galleries and experience the work of participating artists. Pick up a gallery guide at the visitor information tent on the Town Square for a list and map of all galleries. Presented by Jackson Hole Gallery Association

Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk

11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15

Say farewell to Fall Arts Festival 2024 with one last walk around town. Galleries will offer brunch bites, bloody marys or mimosas. Check with individual galleries for which artists will be participating. Presented by Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and Build Magazine

All the art walks are free.

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Balloons and a banner are displayed outside Diehl Gallery during the 2019 Sunday Art Brunch gallery walk.

KATHRYN ZIESIG / NEWS&GUIDE FILE

Pedestrians stroll past Gallery Wild during the 2022 Palates and Palettes event. Participating galleries opened their doors to the public and offered free food and drink from local vendors.

JACKSON HOLE FALL ARTS FESTIVAL 2024

PALATES & PALETTES WITH TETON TIGER

Gallery Walk | Kick-Off Celebration

Friday, September 6th, 5-7pm

GEOFFREY GERSTEN

Picture of a Cowboy | Artist Reception

Friday, September 13th, 5-7pm

QUICKDRAW ARTIST AFTER-PARTY

Featuring Altamira Artists: Geoffrey Gersten, Robert Moore and David Frederick Riley

Saturday, September 14th, 1-5pm

SUNDAY ART BRUNCH

Gallery Walk | Closing Celebration

Sunday, September 15th, 11am-3pm

ARTWORK DETAILS - Geoffrey Gersten : This Side Up, Robert Moore : Fleeting Warmth, David Frederick Riley : Chief Waters

Only 90 minutes until hang time

There’s no time to rethink brushstrokes once the QuickDraw timer starts.

Jackson Hole QuickDraw

8 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 14, on Town Square

40th Anniversary Party: Paint the Town Red

6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, The

GBy Tibby Plasse

eoffrey Gersten participated in QuickDraw for the first time in 2022 and now the painter is hooked on Jackson’s annual art race.

“The most compelling part about it is the challenge,” Gersten told the News&Guide from his studio in Arizona.

“I know there are a lot of artists there and you have to sort of compete against them and then compete against yourself and against the clock all at once and that makes it so cool,” he added.

That need to make decisions, and stick to them, is unlike the studio where an artist can take a break or make a change. With only 90 minutes to complete your canvas (or sculpture or ceramic piece), Gersten said the challenge haunts him for months.

“It’s really a headspace challenge and not a technical challenge and it just eats at you the whole time until you’re done. I am thinking about it right now,” the painter said coyly.

QuickDraw is where the Western spirit of cowboy competition takes up a paintbrush. The annual attraction on the Town Square is an awe-striking spectacle of artists racing against the clock to complete their work in 90 min-

utes and then send it to the auction block. Whether it’s snowing or raining, the artists will paint.

With the Saturday Farmers Market on the Town Square bustling about with shoppers and baskets of produce and baked goods, the crowds quickly form around artists set up across the Town Square as they fill in the details of their moose, cowboys, mountain summits and arrowroots. For many art buyers, the thrill of watching the painting come to completion and being a part of the auction is the reason they reach for their wallets.

Amy Ringholz, a local painter with her own gallery in town, has now participated in QuickDraw for 15 years and she loves the “wild little artistic practice.”

“It’s the energy around the event,” Ringholz said. “It’s unlike any other event of the year because there’s so much exhilaration for if-you-are-going-to-pull-off-this-painting in 90 minutes? I love the thrill of it and while you’re creating your piece, you’re being watched with every stroke.”

Ringholz says that bonding process for the spectator with the art is no average souvenir.

“It’s the experience of it,” she said. “How many times are they going to see 20 artists all together, working and creating? If you have never been to QuickDraw, grab your coffee and come witness this; it’s so inspiring!”

Revenue from the QuickDraw auction is split between the artist and the

27th annual QuickDraw participants

Trey McCarley

Jennifer Johnson

Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey

Laurie Lee

Troy Collins

Colt Idol

Amy Lay

Lyn St. Clair

Bryan Larsen

Amy Ringholz

Andrew Denman

Joe McKay

Gleb Goloubetski

Sofia Goloubetski

Benjamin Walter

Patricia A. Griffin

Amber Blazina

Aaron Hazel

Jennifer Adams

Kathryn Mapes Turner

Jim Wilcox

Allie Zeyer

Julie Jeppsen

Oscar Campos

Katy Ann Fox

Tenley Thompson

Robert Moore

David Frederick Riley

Geoffrey Gersten

Marshall Noice

Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. The funds help support various free chamber-sponsored programs throughout the year, such as the Easter Egg Hunt, Santa on the Square and the Town Square lighting.

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Cloudveil Rooftop Dress in dazzling ruby red attire and celebrate four decades of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

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Audience members in the crowded tent on Town Square watch and bid on artwork created during the 2019 QuickDraw.

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Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey and Steve Cawdrey use hair dryers on Nancy’s final piece, “Wild Ride,” last year on Town Square.

Tributary is a 1,500-acre, low-density community nestled against the rolling foothills of the western Teton Range. Rich in wildlife, abundantly stocked ponds, and charming mountain town culture, Tributary offers inspired family retreats that challenge the expectations of what a mountain residence should be.

WELC OME TO MOUN TA IN TIME

Cowboy to contemporary Western Design Conference showcases styles of the modern West.

By Michael Carmody

The 32nd annual Western Design Conference is set to kick off the Fall Arts festivities in style with its traditional preview party and fashion show on Thursday, Sept. 5. This popular event, packed with food, drinks, entertainment and high fashion, always sets a spirited, fun-loving tone for the conference — and the festival as a whole.

“There’s a live auction, too,” Executive Director Allison Merritt said. “It’s a first look at the whole show and an opportunity to buy, but also there’s great catering, and open bars are all included with your ticket. And then the runway show is a lot of fun.”

The conference will see the Snow King Sports and Events Center transformed for its four-day run into a magical bazaar packed with meticulously handcrafted useful items of all kinds.

“This is a juried show; we give out over $20,000 in cash awards each year,” Merritt said. “And it’s all one-of-a-kind, functional art — a lot of furniture, fashion, jewelry, art-to-wear things in leather and metal, woodworking. Nothing mass-produced, and all functional in nature. But it’s in more of an intimate venue; it’s 20,000 square feet. There’s a lot to do and see there, but it’s not this huge overwhelming event where you’re a number. You really get to talk to these to the artists and the makers, and if you are looking to

Conference schedule

Thursday, Sept. 5

6-10 p.m.

Western Design Conference

Preview Party & Fashion Show

All events in Snow King Sports and Event Center

General Admission: $100 VIP: $175: reserved seats with 5:30pm early entry. all tickets include open bars and catering.

Early entry into the Exhibit & Sales allows a first glance at one-of-a-kind creations in furniture, fashion, jewelry, home and lifestyle accessories. Meet and shop with this year’s artists, designers and exhibitors, experience a runway Fashion Show and participate in the Live Auction during a festive night of shopping and entertainment. Enjoy signature cocktails, open bars and catering all night.

Friday, Sept. 6-Sunday Sept. 7

Western Design Conference Exhibit & Sale: Day 1-3

10 a.m.- 5 p.m. admission $30.

2 p.m. daily happy hour in the WDC Designer Lounge.

2 p.m. Friday: Design Excellence Award for $20,000 presented 2024 WCD participant

A model shows off a fur coat and dress by Grecian-born leather and fur designer Andreas Tsagas last year during the Runway Fashion Show on the opening night of the Western Design Conference at Snow King Sports and Events Center.

WESTERN DESIGN

commission something, that’s always an option.”

Artisans from right here in Wyoming will display their work side by side with others from all over the United States, all hand-selected from a daunting pile of applications.

“We have nearly 100 artists this year,” Merritt said. “They are representing, I think, 27 different states, which for a small town like Jackson ... It really lets you know why the Western Design Conference is a destination event. There’s so much of a draw to the arts, just in general, with our town. Not only because of the location, but you get to meet these amazing artists and makers and designers from all over the country.”

This sale isn’t just for those with deep pockets, either, nor solely for those with Western aesthetic tastes.

“It’s a little bit of everything,” Merritt said, “from cowboy to contemporary, as we always say. And the price points are everything from over the top to really affordable.”

And full price of purchases go directly to the individuals who made them.

“We take no commission off of any of the pieces,” Merritt said, “so you’re supporting ‘shopping small’ in this cool way too. You’re supporting these artists, and at the same time it’s not being marked up. It’s all direct, from the artist right to the buyer. We’ve always served as this sort of platform that unites the two and really promotes artists working in contemporary and historical craft methods, doing stuff that’s unique and not mass produced.”

This year’s conference also features a series of lectures, hosted by Build magazine, with speakers to be announced. Doors will be open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday,

with a happy hour at 2 p.m. each day.

“This is such a memorable event for so many,” Merritt said. “Once people

come, they’ll say to me, ‘Oh, my gosh, I didn’t even know this existed, and now I’m never going to miss it again.’ And

Craft sessions

What inspired the artisan? How did they execute the idea? New this year to the conference are design lectures, offered Friday, Saturday and Sunday every half-hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each will include a Q&A section. Hear from design leaders and industry experts on the future of interior design. A complimentary networking and happy hour follows from 2 to 4 p.m. daily.

that’s the best compliment you could ever get. It really shows the depth of the show, because it’s the artists and the people that make it so special.” For information about the Western Design Conference, or to secure tickets, visit WesternDesignConference.com or call 307-690-9719.

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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Amatoya is an Indigenous furniture and design company founded by artist Cray Baumont-Flynn, who will be speaking during the Western Design Conference.

GEORGE ENSLEY

Chris Martin, professor emeritus of furniture design at Iowa State University, will be speaking and showcasing his furniture at the Western Design Conference.

FESTIVAL FALL ARTS

Hands-on Vision

Featured Fall Arts sculptor Bryce Pettit takes a biological approach to art. See page 6B.

Carving knife required Steamroller activates negative space, page 2B

and

Found materials

Mixed media sculptor finds new meaning, page 5B

Tetonia studio hosts print block party

Tribe Artist Collective

6263 S. Main St., Tetonia, Idaho

TribeArtistCollective.com

10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 15

Second annual ‘Roll It Out’ steamroller printmaking festival on Central Avenue.

By Kate Ready

For an interactive experience where attendees, artists and industrial equipment collide, festivalgoers have been invited to travel farther afield.

“I joke it’s where retired Jackson artists go,” said Michele Walters, founder of the Tribe Artist Collective in Tetonia, Idaho, about 40 miles west of Jackson.

On Sunday, Sept. 15 starting at 10 a.m., Walters and Katy Fox will be hosting the second annual “Roll It Out” steamroller printmaking festival on Central Avenue in Tetonia.

Walters and Fox, the owner of Foxtrot Fine Art in Driggs, Idaho, will be joining forces with approximately 10 other artists from the Jackson Hole to Idaho Falls area to carve 3-by-4-foot wood blocks that will transfer the artists’ images into art with the help of a steamroller, a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads. Live music and tacos also will be in the mix.

“We’re trying to do it every year,” Walters said. “Last year we had tables lined up on the side where we were inking blocks. We were in teams, and people would come bring the paper over and then we’d go hang up the prints to dry on a clothesline. It was very interactive.”

Texture is paramount.

“You’re 100% reliant on texture,” Walters said. Painting is very improvisational where printmaking is very premeditated.

“You’re coming at it with a more logical approach,” she said. “You’re pulling in composition, textures, perspective. That’s what makes a print more interesting.”

For example, lettering has to be carved backward and artists are carving out the negative space.

Walters said the event is inspired by the industrial, farming community of Tetonia. She said opening an artist’s studio wasn’t well received at first, and she wanted to bridge the perceived gap.

“I thought that having the steamroller show, it might be a way to extend the olive branch,” Walters said, “by creating art using this industrial equipment. And it did; a lot of people came.”

Last year, fellow artist Travis Walker devoted his wood block, which acts as a big stamp, to depicting Darth Vader in a boat. Another artist carved a UFO sucking up livestock, while Walters and other artists took a pastoral approach, featuring balsamroot flowers, blue herons and grain silos. The art created this year will be displayed in an exhibition in Jackson at the Center for the Arts starting Oct. 4.

Walters said she fell in love with print blocking when she went back to art school; she graduated from Idaho State University in 2016. Print blocking forces an artist to plan ahead, she said, and requires the use of gauges, different shaped chiseled heads that lend different lines and textures.

Walters opened the Tribe Artist Collective in 2020 after relocating from Jackson Hole to Tetonia in 2011. The farming community was the booming heart of the valley back in the railroad days, and she saw potential in a dilapidated building that popped up for sale in 2019.

The name comes from Walters’ heritage: Her grandmother is “full-blown Cherokee,” she said, and Walters herself is a tribal member. One of her best friends is a member of the Nez Perce. In addition to that, Walters said it’s inspired by her drive to create a “tribe of artists” who support each other.

“I’m pretty much the only art entity here right now,” she said. “But I love the quietness in Tetonia. That’s the beauty about this place: There’s no urgency.”

This year, Walters and Fox hope to keep the momentum rolling, shutting down the entire Central Avenue for an art-inspired block party.

“I want to make art that’s not just on the top shelf where people can’t reach it anymore,” Walters said. “I want to bring it back to the people.”

Contact Kate Ready at 307-732-7076 or kready@jhnewsandguide.com.

This is the 3-by-4-foot woodblock that Michele Walters used to create a print based on a photograph she took of retired grain silos in Tetonia. Walters and other artists use a tool called a gauge to carve the wood, which is then slathered in ink and rolled on a surface, like canvas.

The second annual “Roll It Out” steamroller printmaking festival presented by Foxtrot Fine Art and Tribe Artist Collective will take place at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, in Tetonia, Idaho.

Art scene blossoms on the West Bank

Over the river and through the woods from Town Square lie modern and sculptural works.

Guesthouse by appointment only

917-617-1207

CamilleObering.com/guesthouse

Maya Frodeman Gallery West

3465 N. Pines Way, Wilson

Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

MayaFrodemanGallery.com

Thal Glass by appointment only

307-690-2491

ThalGlass.net

By Tibby Plasse

Amid the columbines, Indian paintbrush and scenery that inspire many a canvas, the West Bank is emerging as its own art scene, with new galleries opening.

Many local artists have called the aspen-filled west side of the Snake River home for decades, finding inspiration out their back door that transcends form into hand-blown glass, jewelry, paintings and sculpture. Two year-round galleries, Guesthouse and MFG West, and Thal Glass Studio are must-sees if you’re interested in an art experience removed from downtown’s hustle and bustle.

Laurie Thal has called Wilson home since 1977. Always site-specific and custom with glass projects, Thal and her partner, Daniel Altwies, take no detail for granted, finding innovative ways to work with interiors. Their Dolce Hanging Glass Sculpture at The Center for Aesthetics consists of 262 pieces of hand-blown glass that are displayed in an 18-foot curve suspended from the ceiling with cable.

“We work hard to incorporate our clients’ passions,” Thal said about the artists’ role in completing commissions. “We like people to come out to the studio to see how and what pieces can become and see examples of how they are installed.” Thal Glass is open by appointment.

Incredibly sculptural, each piece produced at Thal Studio is precisely hand-cut with a traditional handheld glass cutter to create texture and form, or with a diamond wire saw for more acute cuts. Whether in the form of a triptych panel or a hanging vignette populated with flying birds with spheres and figures that have been fused and slumped, their glass not only makes a statement but is the hallmark of individuality in any residential or professional setting.

Camille Obering who grew up just o utside of downtown Wilson sees the West Bank as an opportunity to find a different cadence off the Town Square.

“Guesthouse embraces the spirit of Wilson — a charming small town that strives to maintain a friendly atmosphere where people smile instead of frown,” the Guesthouse proprietor said. “We limit our exhibitions to two per year so that the work can be seen in multiple seasons and backdrops in a location surrounded by fields, overlooking the Teton Mountain Range.”

She said visits to the private gallery are by appointment to ensure that a dialogue has room to expand as art viewers and buyers spend time with work.

“One-on-one conversations about

the artwork make for a meaningful experience where ideas are exchanged and bonds are made through the catalyst of art.

“We believe intimacy and the slow pace at which we run our space is decidedly refreshing from a traditional model, offering an impactful paradigm shift for culture.”

Obering’s current show, part-time Teton Village resident Natalie Clark’s new sculpture series, “Forms of Origin,” is on exhibit at Guesthouse by appointment only. Clark, an internationally acclaimed sculptor, participated in the 2022 Art D’Egypte exhibition in front of the Great Pyramids of the Giza plateau.

With the piece titled “Spirit of Hathor,” Clark created a 6-meter structure of Corten steel and Carrara marble, manipulating the mascu-

line materials to become a feminine abstraction that recognizes Egypt’s heritage and deities. The meticulous detail to shape and texture is seen once more in “Forms of Origins.”

Maya Frodeman didn’t intend to open a secondary exhibit space, but when a well-windowed spot popped up in The Aspens, she not only found a storage solution but also discovered a neighborhood ready for something new.

“MFG West has been such a fun and practical addition to our gallery,” said Katie Franklin Cohn, gallery director. “It expands what we are capable of doing as a gallery, both in terms of our ambitious exhibition programming and providing a venue for special projects.”

This winter, MFG West hosted an artist talk by Tom Hammick, who vis-

ited follow ing his Albers Residency in Bethany, Connecticut.

“I think it’s important to include the Wilson and Teton Village communities in our art programs, and this space does that and more,” Cohn said.

During the Fall Arts Festival, local artist Mike Piggott’s new show, “I’ll Take You There” will still be up for art fans to check out the artist’s playful Western pop art.

“The works nod to folk art and faux naïf while toying with two-dimensional abstraction and color-field painting approaches,” Cohn said. “Mike Piggott’s images bring a haunting air even as they are pleasantly nostalgic — a celebration of nature and humanity rendered in paint.”

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Thal Glass, featuring work by Laurie Thal and partner Daniel Altwies, is a private glass studio nestled into the West Bank where they create sculptural and installation pieces in addition to custom glassware.

Natalie Clark’s new “Forms of Origin” sculpture series is at Guesthouse in Wilson.

Mike Piggott’s new show, “I’ll Take You There,” nods to the artist’s playful perspective while demonstrating a haunting interpretation of Western pop art.

Discover new directions

Two distinctly different shows at Diehl highlight the tension of material and organic matter.

Diehl Gallery

30 S. King St.

Douglas Schneider’s “Belle-Mére” and Kate Hunt’s “New Perspectives” are on exhibit through Oct. 27

Opening reception is 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6

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By Tibby Plasse

Douglas Schneider’s “BelleMére” and Kate Hunt’s “New Perspectives” will christen Diehl Gallery’s new space for Fall Arts. Two distinctly different shows, a sculptor driven by the details of texture and shape and a painter informed by a mission to celebrate the positive actions of a world alive are paired up to discover wonder in primary materials and illumination in a common flower.

Hunt is a Montana native who has recently moved to Mexico. And, Schneider recently moved from northern California to just outside of Los Angeles. For both artists, their new locations have informed new directions in their work.

Hunt has rediscovered a new relationship with paper, her long-time medium of choice that she sculpts and patterns into sacred pieces that reshape what’s been left over: bailing twine and archives of the Jackson Hole News&Guide shaped around steel and sealed with epoxy and encaustic. The result of her repurposing is fiercely dramatic.

“More and more places are not publishing print paper anymore and

Kate Hunt combines newspaper, baling twine and steel to construct her Torrington sculptures. Pictured here at 51 by 77 by 9 inches, Hunt’s Six Part Torrington piece shows off the everyday materials after they have been stacked, cut, glued, wrapped and burned.

the paper quality is also changing,” Hunt said. The artist said after moving to Mexico her art form changed entirely after having to seek out new paper sources.

“It’s a more expensive commodity right now and though I had access to heavier, really high-quality paper, it was causing my work to get blocky and it definitely influences the way the work comes out,” she said.

Hunt said her work is driven by what if.

“I just build the work and the work visually speaks to me. I think what if is a big question ... that’s where all my work comes from is just looking

at it having that conversation asking what if you know, the materials have a language to them,” she said.

For Schneider’s exhibit, the change in direction evolves from a need to celebrate environmental concern with positive imagery to create efficacy.

“I started realizing that I wanted to do something about beauty, the beauty of nature,” Schneider said.

Schneider has lived in Alaska and said he’s more than cognizant of how much control we have over nature — that is to say, none — and simultaneously curious about how humans strive to control nature.

“The whole world has devolved into this place where we’re destroying the very thing that we need,” he said.

Schneider’s regular foray into abstraction practices has focused on popular culture with images of Audrey Hepburn, but in this new work, abstraction is the angst and anxiety of survival, not the confluence of history and art f orm.

“Morning glories are really aggressive and they take over where they can. We do everything we can to create human structures and nature can still take over. These plants are surviving in Chernobyl’s exposed areas; they’re thriving,” the painter said.

Schneider said he loves the Venus fly trap qualities of the wild vine, but that really his objective is about painting something that celebrates instead of creates more anxiety.

“Making something beautiful that people don’t see as beautiful makes it highly accessible but allows this body of work to move past negativity and see something that we don’t think about and view it as precious.”

The dialogue the two artists create on opposite walls brings a modern tone to many themes of Western art during Fall Arts Festival. The opening reception for both shows will occur in conjunction with Palates and Palettes, complete with pairings from Hatch Taqueria. Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Offering works by Martin Grelle, G. Harvey, Howard Terpning, Mark Maggiori, Bonnie Marris, Carl Rungius, Morgan Weistling, Steve Hanks, Pino, Garmash, Stephen Holland and more great artists!

Morning Glow on Powder Snow by G. Harvey, Oil on Canvas, 26 x 42”

Bryce Pettit captures life in bronze

Nominated by Mountain Trails Gallery, he is Fall Arts’ featured sculptor this year.

Meet the artist Fall Arts Festival featured sculptor Bryce Pettit will be attending the following events at Mountain Trails Gallery.

Noon-4 p.m. Sept. 11: Poster signing at the gallery

4-7 p.m. Sept. 11: Palates and Palettes gallery walk, with live music

4-6 p.m. Sept. 13: Exclusive collectors appreciation event (clients only)

8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 14: QuickDraw and live auction

10 a.m.-noon Sept. 15: Artist exhibition and brunch

By Sophie Lamb

Bryce Pettit has an uncanny ability to make bronze appear alive.

One of his most recent sculptures — a scaled-down scene of Grizzly 399 and her four cubs — is full of movement. 399 is caught midstride while one of her cubs stands and sniffs the air. Their hard metal fur gleams in the light.

Pettit’s talent at blurring lines between the living and sculpted is derived from his background in ecology. Pettit was trained as an ecologist at Brigham Young University; his time observing and studying animals yielded anatomical precision in his sculptures. However, with as much precision

as his animals hold, they also have a certain bare-bones looseness. As Pettit puts it, “The artistic strength of a sculpture is in the simplicity of its composition.”

Adam Warner, the owner of Mountain Trails Gallery, said, “He’s not going for hyper-realism — he’s going for more of a loose technique, which gives so much movement to what he sculpts.”

Pettit, who lives in Durango, Colorado, has been a part of Mountain Trails for 15 years. Chase Pierson, the gallery’s art consultant, attributes their success over those years to Pettit’s incredible popularity.

“The gallery has grown alongside Pettit,” Pierson said. “He’s been our best-selling artist since the beginning.”

Both Pierson and Warner, however, are more eager to comment on Pettit’s character.

“Though he’s our best seller, he’s the most humble artist you’ve ever met,” Warner said.

Pettit’s humility shines through in the whimsy of his pieces; he highlights a series of sculpted foxes and bunnies Pettit named “Dreaming of Jill.”

Warner and Pierson are proud to see Pettit chosen as the Fall Arts Festival’s featured sculptor. To them, it feels like proof of Pettit’s years of hard work.

For each of his pieces, Pettit first seeks out and photographs the ani-

mal he intends to sculpt — whether a common sparrow or a deadly rattlesnake. He then must diligently carve the piece with clay, which he uses to create casts.

It is in these casts that the bronze is poured. For his lifesize pieces, like one of a looming male elk, he must cut up each section and reassemble them in their final form.

His featured sculpture for the festival is of a bald eagle perched on a branch, its wings puffed out and head turned sideways. This bronze sculp-

ture is made special by the eagle’s miraculously white head — a coloration achieved by slightly altering the chemical composition of the bronze.

A series of 10 of the bronze will be up for auction at the end of the QuickDraw event. However, art enthusiasts can view it now at the Mountain Trails Gallery and at the Cloudveil in Jackson. They can also meet Pettit during a series of gallery events.

Contact Sophie Lamb via slamb@ jhnewsandguide.com.

COURTESY PHOTO States of Matter displays the sculptor’s ability to capture movement in the static medium.

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Grizzly 399 and her four cubs are memorialized in bronze by Bryce Pettit, the featured sculptor for the 2024 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

COURTESY PHOTO Pettit poses alongside his bronze sculpture Looking for Huckleberries. The black bear’s coloration is achieved through altering the chemical composition of the bronze. Pettit trained as an ecologist in college, which yields anatomical precision in his sculptures.

Fighting for the Arts

Fighting Bear Antiques

1025 Highway 89

Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FightingBear.com

By Christina Assante

Terry Winchell first opened Fighting Bear Antiques off of the Town Square in 1981. The gallery has been a staple since.

“When we first opened our doors there were probably only nine stores and three or four galleries,” Winchell said.

Fighting Bear Antiques specializes in Western regional antiques, selling what you would have seen in the 1920s to 1940s in the region’s big lodges. Throughout the years Winchell has made the decision to change focus to higher-end antiques and exclusive pieces.

He explained that they “had to be willing to adapt, more than once or twice, in order to stay in business in a small resort town, and in order to survive and accommodate both Jackson Hole tourists and homeowners.”

Winchell has supported both the

arts and the community of Jackson Hole through various means, even taking two years off from his store to serve as chairman of the board for the Center for the Arts. In the spirit of 2024 being the 40th Anniversary of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, Winchell weighed in on the importance of this event. He said the festival affects the entire community of Jackson, beyond the galleries, artisans, admirers and collectors.

“The festival has extended the season for all aspects of tourism,” he said. “It has created a Renaissance, much in the same way as the Old West Days in May. It has been very important in helping our local economy,” he said.

Anyone looking for an authentic piece of decor or decorative art piece needs to look no further than Fighting Bear, where stories of provenance abound from pieces inside the glass case to those hanging on the walls of the log cabin. Fighting Bear specializes in furnishings by Thomas Molesworth, American Indian beadwork and Navajo textiles among its wide collection of home accents and jewelry.

Contact Christina Assante via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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2024 master wildlife artist, leigh yawkey woodson art museum

2024 master wildlife artist, leigh yawkey woodson art museum

kathryn mapes turner • mark edward adams

kathryn mapes turner • mark edward adams

• william alther • ray brown • bethanne kinsella cople • shanna kunz • paul rhymer • renso tamse • millie whipplesmith plank

• william alther • ray brown • bethanne kinsella cople • shanna kunz • paul rhymer • renso tamse • millie whipplesmith plank

September 2–30

September 2–30

Opening Reception: Sept. 6, 5–7pm

Opening Reception: Sept. 6, 5–7pm

Join us for Artist Demonstrations throughout Fall Arts Festival. Find out more at turnerfineart.com

Join us for Artist Demonstrations throughout Fall Arts Festival. Find out more at turnerfineart.com

Kevin Red Star’s “Hail Storm — Medicine Shield,” dated 1987, is a mixed-media oil painting available at Fighting Bear Antiques.

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Kathryn Leighton’s “Mary Claremore,” circa 1925, can be seen at Fighting Bear Antiques.

Queen of the Tetons 48x36 Acrylic Shannon Marie

Grand Prismatic Stroll 36x24 Oil Jennifer Johnson

Horsepower 24x24 Oil Kathy Wipfler

Autumn’s First Light 24x48 Oil Trey McCarley

Moose of Many Colors 60x60 Oil Kira Fercho

Coffee Break 24x36 Oil Gary Lynn Roberts

Surrounded by Silence 40x30 Oil Alfredo Rodriguez

Pine Shadows 30x48 Oil Paul Dykman

Monarch of the Plains 36x36 Oil John DeMott

The Changing of the Seasons 54x37 Oil Roger Ore

The contemporary renaissance of Jane Rosen

Maya Frodeman Gallery

66 S. Glenwood St. (across from the bistro Trio)

Jackson MFG West

3465 N. Pines Way

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By Tibby Plasse

Jane Rosen’s, 47-piece show titled “Posted / Turning,” spans decades of the artist’s work.

This major exhibition at Maya Frodeman Gallery marks a seminal moment for the artist and for the gallery as the Glenwood Street contemporary art house enjoys its first Fall Arts Festival as Maya Frodeman Gallery.

“I am thrilled to carry the torch as Maya Frodeman Gallery following the storied legacy of Tayloe Piggott Gallery,” Maya Frodeman told the News&Guide.

After inheriting a diverse roster of artists from Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Frodeman will feature a solo exhibition by Barry McGlashan.

The in-town shows, along with Maya Frodeman Gallery West’s Mike Piggott exhibit running si-

multaneously, prove the gallery has not missed a beat under its new moniker.

“Jane Rosen and Barry McGlashan (two concurrent solo exhibitions on view Aug. 2 to Sept. 15) bring together an artist we’ve worked closely with for years (Rosen) and a new Scottish artist to our roster (McGlashan),” Gallery Director Katie Franklin Cohn said “Although they are presented in two separate spaces in the gallery, we are thrilled at pairings like this.”

Rosen’s work is a new architecture for the natural world. There are intersecting narratives for the animals she observes from landscapes that are rendered in both urban and wild scenes, and in both she also finds the intimacy of communication and concern in a species. The sculptor’s vignettes are slices into the natural world, but for the viewer there’s a reflective question of awareness: How aware are the subjects, and how aware is the viewer?

Also a renowned draftswoman, Rosen accents her stone carvings with innovative hand-blown glasswork and her signature layered sumi-e ink drawings. Her chosen subjects, animals wild and tame,

Jane Rosen’s solo exhibition “Posted / Turning” at Maya Frodeman Gallery will feature multiple sculptures perched on salvaged Beaumanière limestone found in a now-closed French quarry.

are used as vehicles to explore their instincts and natural intelligence. According to the gallery, understanding animal nature is the key to understanding human nature for Rosen.

“This feels like the show of a lifetime, perhaps more suitable for a museum than a gallery,” Cohn said.

“Now in her 70s, Jane is tapping into something deeper and more profound about the natural world,” Cohn said. “Jane has always had something to say, but the way the light catches the stone, it’s truly sublime. We’ve curated six gallery spaces combining sculpture,

“Now in her 70s, Jane is tapping into something deeper and more profound about the natural world.”

— Katie Franklin Cohn Maya Frodeman Gallery

drawing, and stone tablets.”

Nothing short of a meditation, Rosen’s show will make repeat visitors out of Fall Arts Festivalgoers at Maya Frodeman Gallery It’s impossible to take in all the details that Rosen has considered in “Posted / Turning.” All new work, some of the pieces such as Sahara Falcon and Red-Shouldered Hawk, sit on pedestals hewn from rare Beaumanière limestone salvaged from a now-closed French quarry.

Equal parts artist, sculptor, philosopher, historian and humorist, Rosen has spent a lifetime shaping the world around her, whether working on paper, in handblown glass or with stone. Rosen is fascinated with cultures like the Inuits, Native Americans and Egyptians, and she cites Renaissance masters like Michelangelo and da Vinci as her influences for fusing the mediums of sculpture, painting, and drawing.

Rosen’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ArtForum, Art in America and Art News and has been exhibited in numerous public and private collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Aspen Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. Contact Tibby Plasse at fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Rita (for Hayworth) is a carved pigmented glass sculpture that artist Jane Rosen rolled in marble. It sits upon a carved Beaumanière limestone pedestal that’s 68 inches tall.

Reveling in romanticism

MBy Tibby Plasse

ajestic eagles, horses and a mountain lion — oh my! Depart from the bustle of downtown by diving into Quent Cordair Fine Art, where the landscape painters and sculptors will transport you into a world of awe and wonder.

“Their art is highly stylized according to their beliefs about the fundamental nature of reality and existence, influenced by how they interpret and value various aspects of life and the world,” owner Linda Cordair said.

This year’s featured festival artists at the gallery include Quent Cordair, Dave McNally and Bryan Larsen.

“We will also be showcasing some extraordinary still-life paintings by Linda Mann, one of the best still-life artists in the country,” Linda Cordair said. Thirty-two artists will be on display throughout the festival, the gallery owner added.

Quent Cordair Fine Art’s artist roster is unified by a shared aesthetic for contemporary romantic realism, portraying art as life can and should be. The perspective executed on canvas and seen in much of the bronze at the gallery are interpretations of life’s best version of itself. Rendered in small decisions and finite details, each piece is intended to be an uplifting experience, according to Cordair.

It’s easy to get lost in McNally’s landscapes of the Teton backcoun-

try. His capacity to catch nostalgia is matched by Larsen’s portraits and ideals. Sculpture artist Karl Jensen captures whimsy Cordair said the gallery is different from most Jackson art galleries.

“Our focus is entirely representational, with an emphasis on figurative, still life, and landscapes. Many of our artists have earned the designation as Living Master Artists,” she explained.

“Our September collection is full of surprises that will delight young and old. Special white-glove tours of the art will be offered daily,” she said.

Larsen is the gallery’s featured QuickDraw artist, and Cordair is excited to see him test his talents across the clock in the annual paint race.

“His paintings portray themes of beauty, achievement, innovation, and aspiration with an emphasis on narrative and an optimistic view of

the future.”

Quent Cordair Fine Art is enjoying its new location north of the Wort Plaza, opposite Hotel Jackson in the former location of the Jackson Hole History Museum. The gallery will be participating in all of the festival events and will have McNally and Larsen in residence throughout. Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

The artist who painted “Golden Hour,” Bryan Larsen, is one of Quent Cordair Fine Art’s featured artists in this year’s Fall Arts Festival and is also a QuickDraw participant. The gallery expects to extend its regular hours during the festival.

Famous photo in auction

Jackson Hole Art Auction

130 E. Broadway

JacksonHoleArtAuction.com

Bidders can register for the Sept. 14 auction at JacksonHoleArtAuction. com/registration.

By Michael Carmody

Jackson Hole Art Auction has handled many fine and rare artworks over the years, but the large and impressive catalog for its 18th Annual Live Auction, taking place at noon Sept. 14 at the Center for the Arts, features some truly remarkable pieces.

“We’ve got a really big sale of 340plus lots, all to be sold on Sept. 14,” said Kevin Doyle, the house’s managing director. “And a wonderful variety of pieces, some major highlights.”

One of those highlights is undoubtedly “Seated Indian,” a life-size figure in white marble by 19th-century French sculptor Théodore-Charles Gruyère.

“It’s so impressive in person,” Doyle said. “It’s powerful. And from 1845. Gruyère’s mostly known as a classical sculptor. This is one in his career that was just exceptional.”

The sculpture was sold at Sotheby’s in 2000 in New York and shipped to the Whitney Western Art Museum in Cody, Wyoming, where it was on loan from 2001 to 2006.

“Then it went to the owner’s home, where it lived for about 18 years, and

An original print of Ansel Adams’ photograph “The Tetons and the Snake River,” captured in 1942 in Grand Teton National Park, is on the 2024 summer auction block at Jackson Hole Art Auction. Find the vantage point yourself at Snake River Overlook.

then it’s come down to me in Jackson,” Doyle said. “It’s a major highlight for us, and we are really happy to have it in the sale. It’s certainly worthy of a museum collection.”

Another masterwork up for sale in this year’s auction is an original print of Ansel Adams’ photograph “The Tetons and the Snake River,” an image captured in 1942 in Grand Teton National Park. A mural-size print of this work set an auction re -

cord in 2020.

“The Ansel Adams is outstanding,” Doyle said. “I mean, what more iconic image to be sold in Jackson Hole? It’s one of his most well-known pieces, and this comes from the collection of Sir Elton John, who is known as a really great photography collector. It’s just amazing to have a print of this quality. It’s one of the best that you can get, and it’s a treat because I don’t think we’ve ever had

an Ansel Adams photograph in our 18 years, as far as I know.”

Other major attractions in the catalog include Gerard Curtis Delano’s 1980 oil painting “Colorado,” Ed Mell’s “Standing Orange Rocks,” works by Bob Kuhn, Carl Rungius, and Tucker Smith, and a group of paintings by the late Texas artist G. Harvey, whose artwork has been collected by heads of state including President Lyndon B. Johnson and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

This auction will offer works by newer artists as well.

“We’ve got wonderful contemporary artists, like Mark Maggiori,” Doyle said. “He is really hot on the art scene right now in Western art. He’s the new generation, born in 1977, and he does these wonderful paintings.

“We’re fortunate enough to have a major painting by him called ‘Wyoming Spring,’ again with the Tetons in the background. So it’s a fitting painting to have in our auction.”

Doyle emphasized that even those who cannot attend the auction in person are welcome to bid.

“We offer online bidding so you can bid remotely on your phone, wherever, and we have a live webcast of the auction going on,” he explained. “So folks that aren’t here can feel comfortable doing that from the comfort of their own home.”

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

DOUGLAS SCHNEIDER: Belle Mère

09.06.24 – 10.27.24

Artists’ Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024 • 5–8 pm

THE C ELEBRATION S ALON

Sunday, September 15, 2024 • 11 am – 3 pm

We proudly present a salon-style installation of works by Diehl Gallery artists who have been juried into the National Museum of Wildlife Art Western Visions Show + Sale

Claire Brewster • Helen Durant Sarah Hillock • KOLLABS

Les Thomas • JenMarie Zeleznak

Join us for light brunch and bloody Marys during the Farewell to Fall Arts Festival Art Walk Brunch

Morning Glories (detail)

Jim Wilcox

Mian Situ

FESTIVAL FALL ARTS

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Art is mobile at Yellow House Collective

Shana Stegman’s semimobile artist collective will pop up around Jackson during the Fall Arts Festival with works by Stegman and other artists. This is a watercolor painting by Stegman called “Wren.” Chro-GA-AB0134101L2S1

Art pop-up creates flexibility for exhibitions and retailers.

By Toby Koekkoek

For the second year in a row, Shana Stegman and the Yellow House Collective will bring the “Independent Artists Showcase” to this year’s Fall Arts Festival.

Stegman developed the concept last year while operating her art space as a semimobile business.

She has created partnerships with Jackson businesses, offering an option that is a plug-and-play way to support local artists.

After last year’s Fall Arts Festival, Stegman felt the showcase was a great success and got businesses in town that don’t regularly carry art to expand their reach and support into the community.

Stegman tends to do pop-ups throughout the year at the restaurant D.O.G. (Down on Glen) and Accentuate, along with other local and regional painters and ceramic

artists and her own artwork and jewelry.

For this year’s festival, Stegman and the Yellow House Collective will feature her own watercolor paintings, prints and jewelry.

Other artists include Mike Hayes and Jenny Dowd, who will feature ceramic works; chain saw and woodcraft art by Shawn Roberts; prints and original drawings by Shawn May; oil paintings by Sheila; and jewelry by Megan Yarborough.

Stegman and the Independent Artist Showcase will be set up at D.O.G. and Accentuate during Palates and Palettes, the Gallery Association Art Walk, and the Sunday Art Brunch free gallery walk. Stegman herself will be participating in the Arts on the Green with a booth on the Center for the Arts lawn.

Contact Toby Koekkoek via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Idol captures Old West scenes

QuickDraw participants keep Mountain Trails Gallery buzzing.

Mountain Trails Gallery

155 Center St.

307-734-8150

Open seven days a week

10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday-Saturday MTNTrails.net

By Deb Barracato

The Mountain Trails Gallery staff is especially enthusiastic for the Fall Arts Festival this year.

Oil painter Colt Idol, the youngest artist represented by Mountain Trails Gallery, will open the festival period with a one-night show at the gallery from 4-7 p.m. on Sept. 4.

A lifelong Montana resident, the 30-something Idol captures nostalgic scenes from the “Old West” — days of fur trappers, cowboys and homesteaders — in vibrant colors with a more contemporary intensity. He took up painting seriously after injuries ended his college basketball career, but Idol grew up immersed in the art world with his father, renowned outdoorsman, furniture designer and wildlife artist Dick Idol.

“He’s exploding on the Western art scene,” said Chase Pierson, a fine art consultant with the gallery. “We can’t keep his pieces in the gallery; they sell so quickly. He’s also an incredibly nice

guy, and it’s always fun seeing him.”

Another top talent is the 2024 featured sculptor.

Bryce Pettit’s stunning to-scale replica of the largest bald eagle ever recorded is a testament to the caliber of talent in Western art and a favorite of Pierson’s. Called “Vertical Limit,” it’s also a fitting subject for the former wildlife biologist. Pettit’s many hours spent observing animals in nature brings strong realism to his work, which reflects his subjects on the hunt,

at play and in repose.

“He also has a great sense of humor,” Pierson added.

This side of Pettit shows in more whimsical pieces, Pierson explained, such as a prone bunny with his head on his paws titled “Dreaming of Jill” or a family of bronze beavers lugging twigs through the water called, “Helping Mom with the Groceries.”

These pieces along with another eagle sculpted in bronze especially for the Fall Arts Festival will be on dis-

play at Mountain Trails Gallery, and Pettit will be on hand at various times to meet collectors and art lovers, chat about his favorite subjects (sculpting and the outdoors, of course), and even demonstrate his technique.

He will be signing festival posters from 5-7 p.m. Sept. 11; contact the gallery directly to inquire about other good times to visit if you want to meet the artist. You’ll also have an opportunity to claim the festival eagle as your own when it’s auctioned at the conclusion of the QuickDraw on Saturday, Sept. 14. Pierson and his colleagues look forward to the social opportunities during the festival and encourage residents and visitors to drop by, either during the Palates & Palettes Free Gallery Walk on Sept. 6 or at any time during the 10-day festival. “Many of our artists converge (during the festival) to hang out,” he explained.

Several represented by Mountain Trails Gallery, including Idol, Troy Collins, Amy Lay and Lyn St. Clair, are regular participants in the annual QuickDraw & Auction on the Town Square. Others come simply to mingle with likeminded aficionados and enjoy the array of Western art and culture on display.

Contact Deb Barracato via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Horizon boasts stable of QuickDraw contenders

Pastoral, fantastical and agricultural are among the many scenes at gallery on King Street.

Horizon Fine Art Gallery

30 S. King St.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. 307-739-1540

HorizonFineArtGallery.com

By Tibby Plasse

Kevin Courter was on Barbara Nowak’s radar.

“It was my lucky day,” she recalled about approaching the painter at an event.

“When I asked about representation, he said, ‘Well I don’t approach galleries, I let them talk to me,’” the Horizon Fine Art owner said.

Nowak had been taken with the California painter’s landscapes and animal portraits for some time before meeting the artist.

Historical painters like Maxfield Parrish and George Inness come to mind when looking at Courter’s moody landscapes.

Nowak’s gallery, Horizon Fine Art, has long been known for its diverse collection of painters and styles. Nowak has featured the hemisphere, hanging a range of Western and European influences on her walls for 26 years.

Courter’s approach to landscape runs the median of that spectrum as an impressionist painter with a Western edge. He captures both pastoral hillsides and agriculture with equal emotion.

“People that collect his work — and it’s to some degree because Kevin’s works are smaller scale and you can make room for smaller works — people buy more than one,” Nowak said.

Horizon is always bustling during Fall Arts with artist events happening throughout the two-week festival. Palates and Palettes will include live music from Zach Freidhof. Courter will be at the gallery on Saturday, Sept. 7, to discuss his one-man show, “Land and Hooves,” and present a demo from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Then gears shift and Nowak’s QuickDraw artists come to town.

Horizon represents four artists participating in this year’s timed art trial. The farthest-traveling painter, Gleb Goloubetski from St. Petersburg, will return to Fall Arts bringing his daughter Sofia, who has also packed her paintbrushes. The young painter’s work is full of whimsy.

Whether Sofia Goloubetski is presenting her rabbit characters in everyday scenes of fishing, playing the piano and shopping, or capturing a

Sofia Goloubetski’s rabbit characters appear in a series of paintings participating in civilized activities such as in “Feast for The Eyes.” The youngest competitor in the Fall Arts Festival QuickDraw, she turns 18 just before visiting Jackson Hole with her father, veteran QuickDraw participant, Gleb Goloubetski. Work by both Goloubetskis is on exhibit at Horizon Fine Art.

landscape, her textures and choice of color create a warm atmosphere for each painting’s narratives. Reminiscent of Beatrix Potter, Goloubetski captures her characters with such intimacy that a viewer can’t help but ask for more of the story.

“Sofia will have just turned 18 when she gets to town, and I think that makes her the youngest participant ever in QuickDraw,” Nowak said.

Also competing in the QuickDraw is Benjamin Walter, a Jackson artist who took home second place in last year’s Driggs Plein Air Festival award category for Best in Show and first place in the event’s Quick Draw.

2023 was a big year for Walter, with several recognitions: June Boldbrush Honorable Mention, May Boldbrush Finalist, Best in Show at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Jackson Hole Plein

Fall Arts at Horizon

Palates and Palettes: 5-8 p.m. Sept. 6

Opening for Kevin Courter’s new show, “Land and Hooves,” with live music from Zach Freidhof: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 7

Artist demonstration with Kevin Courter: following QuickDraw on Sept. 10

Artists reception with Gleb Goloubetski, Sofia Goloubetski, Joe McKay and Benjamin Walter with live music from Zach Freidhof: 11 a.m.3 p.m. Sept. 11

Say Farewell to Fall Arts with champagne brunch, music from Zach Freidhof and artist demonstrations from Gleb Goloubetski, Sofia Goloubetski, Joe McKay and Benjamin Walter: 11 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Sept. 15

Air Festival, and Best in Show, Southwest Artists Small Works National Competition.

“I really like the feeling of his work,” Nowak said.

Whether Walter is painting the Tetons in gouache on paper or oil on canvas, the artist’s renderings capture the capaciousness of the local mountain skylines with delicacy.

Horizon’s fourth featured artist and QuickDraw participant is a former attorney, an outdoorsman and a graduate of West Point. Joe McKay’s story of how a painting class inspired him to walk away from his legal career can’t help but surprise art fans. His canvases, thickly coated with paint shaped by his palette knife, have been exhibited from coast to coast.

Following the finale of the QuickDraw auction, artists will return to the gallery for a reception, with musical accompaniment by Freidhof. During the Sunday Brunch walk, Horizon’s QuickDraw participants will be on-site with live demos from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 15.

Fall Arts will be a busy week at Horizon Fine Art; if you’re looking for artists, head to King Street.

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Fall Arts Festival veteran artist Colt Idol and painter of the oil painting, “Eternal,” will be at Mountain Trails Gallery from 4-7 p.m. on Sept. 4 for his opening reception.

Aura caught on camera

Shari Brownfield Fine Art

55 S. Glenwood St.

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By Tibby Plasse

The first landscape that changed Robert Buelteman’s life was captured on the photographer’s way to the University of Colorado from his then-home near San Francisco in 1973.

“I was visiting a friend in Alta Canyon in Utah and beheld the golden light from the setting sun on the ridge across the valley, and that was it,” Buelteman said. “I saw everything I had ever done, and everything I might become in that moment.”

He changed track from following in his father’s footsteps to become a pilot and instead pursued the sciences behind photography. Which are chemistry, physics, optics and poetry, according to Buelteman.

“Growing up in the West, Robert always had an affinity to discovering the natural world, and he understands how we in Wyoming feel about our connection to the land,” Shari Brownfield said. Brownfield is featuring Buelteman’s photography this Fall Arts Festival.

“His art gives reverence to the mountains and valleys under our feet, the light and darkness above our heads, and the

Photographer takes energetic images of botanical subjects.

overwhelming beauty of the flora that surrounds us in these places,” Brownfield said.

Buelteman’s exhibit will feature two distinct modalities for the career photographer: blackand-white landscapes and camera-free chromatic prints.

cantly different, my interest in light and space remains the same,” he said.

Brownfield first encountered Buelteman in late 2001 while running an art gallery in Southern California. She said the photographer walked in, portfolio under his arm.

“Galleries typically don’t enjoy unsolicited artist submissions, but Robert captivated us,” she recalled. “He showed us his new portfolio of color-camera-less works, and I was both in awe and completely lost. It is rare that one looks at art with such bewilderment, trying to understand both concept and materials, as well as reacting to its inherent beauty.”

Buelteman’s capacity to capture the mysteries of organic matter and their celestial reflection over the last 40 years has resulted in the permanent preservation of over 150,000 acres of land in California for public use.

“I love the spirit of play that comes through my work,” the photographer said. Buelteman said of his camera-free images that “they are not ‘shots’ in the photographic tradition.”

“It may be helpful to think of them as paintings made with light and electrical energy. I am simply looking to express the beauty inherent in plant life,” he said.

The energetic impressions Buelteman captures are cosmic interpretations of their subject’s microcosm. Simultaneously the photographs are psychedelic and scientific as they explore life forms of flowers, a big departure from his more classically dramatic landscapes

“While the work is signifi-

“I think that photography as a medium is a somewhat misunderstood art form and doesn’t always make its way into the world of ‘fine art galleries,’” Brownfield said. “I’m happy to help visitors understand more about the art form and how Buelteman chases the light in traditional analog film, as well as contemporary manipulations of photographic material.”

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Wilcox Galleries have a long history with wildlife and art

Wilcox Gallery 1975 N. Highway 89 Wilcox Gallery II, 60 Center St. on the Town Square WilcoxGallery.com

By Tibby Plasse

Some of the Wilcox family’s favorite artists have passed away.

This September they’ll be posthumously honored in a new show at the main Wilcox Gallery north of town.

“Gone But Not Forgotten” will feature artwork by Richard Greeves, Dave Wade, Melvin Johansen, Harold “H” Holden, Clark Bronson, Joe Halko and Ed Fraughton.

At the Wilcox’s Town Square location, the annual “Wildlife and Wildlands Show” will showcase over 200 pieces of art and host live demonstrations on the second Friday and Saturday.

Following the QuickDraw, art fans can find participants Jim Wilcox, Julie Jeppsen, Allie Zeyer and Oscar Campos at the artists reception at the Town Square location.

“It’s a chance to meet your favorite artists,” Jeff Wilcox said.

Wilcox’s parents moved to Jackson in 1969, working at Jackson Lake Lodge when not teaching. His father, Jim, decided he to give up his teaching salary to become a full-time artist.

“Back then, my parents had a landlord that would allow them to pay rent based on art sales,” Wilcox said. “Neither of my parents came

36 by 48 inches.

5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6: Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk at Wilcox Gallery II on the Jackson Hole Town Square 4-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13: Meet, Greet & Eat Appetizers with Wilcox Gallery Artists 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15: Wildlife & Wildlands Show and Reception at Wilcox Gallery II on the Town Square

car in QuickDraw,” Wilcox said. The artist has been with the gallery for nearly two decades but his work has been infrequently installed due to complications with shipping.

Campos is stateside for the foreseeable future, and Wilcox is thrilled.

from lavish backgrounds. They just wanted to live in Jackson Hole in the shadow of the Tetons, and have enough money to put in the gas tank on the weekend and go.”

Much has changed since then. Wilcox Gallery is home to the largest square footage of any gallery in town and offers a view of the National Elk Refuge.

“I think Mom and Dad’s first gallery was in the cabin where JC Jewelers is now, and then they ended up renting the upstairs space of the Pink Garter where The Rose is now before they built this gallery in 1973,” Wil-

cox said.

Fifty years later, Jackson Hole is a premier art destination, the Wilcox galleries contain must-see collections of the American West and artists are knocking at their door for representation.

Oscar Campos is immediately recognizable by his precision and application of technique. The Argentine artist is a perfectionist and never without the exact brush or color he planned for. His animal portraits feel like Audubon prints: intimate while simultaneously scientific.

“It will be interesting to see Os-

“Right now, Oscar is on a visa for outstanding artistic abilities, and he has pretty much given up everything to be here,” Wilcox said. “He gave away his cars and his house in hopes of being able to stay.”

Wilcox said his father knew someone in Argentina who had met Campos and suggested connecting with the gallery.

“And so he contacted us, and what we say to many artists is that we don’t have room, but when we saw what he was doing, we said, ‘OK, we’ll have to make room.’”

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Robert Duncan is one of the featured painters in the annual “Wildlife and Wildlands” show at Wilcox Gallery’s Town Square location. This is “Winter’s Light,”

Robert Buelteman’s images will be featured at Shari Brownfield Fine Art during the Fall Arts Festival.

Detail and determination

Featured Fall Arts Festival painter quit his job in midlife and started art full time.

By Sophie Lamb

Roger Ore didn’t start painting professionally until he was 39. A few decades later, he is the featured artist in Jackson’s Fall Arts Festival.

Ore spent his childhood in a notebook, painting the streams and ridgelines that wrapped his home in the Utah Valley. But after graduating high school and receiving several scholarships to art programs across the county, Ore stopped painting.

“A lot of people said I was wasting my time going to school for art,” Ore said. “And I bent to what they thought.”

Rather than going to school, Ore got married and entered the workforce. By 39, he was working full-time at a foundry, casting pipes to be used for plumbing.

“I was beating myself up all the time,” Ore said. “Asking myself ‘Why aren’t you painting?’”

Then his son died.

“That’s when I realized life is short and decided to follow my dreams and just go for it,” Ore said.

He quit his job and entered an art class at Brigham-Young University. Everyone around him — family members, friends, and coworkers — believed he was making the greatest mistake of his life.

Despite not painting for two decades, Ore felt he picked up right where he left off. He began selling his art to the local bank and taking small commissions from neighbors and community members. Ore recalls one painting he did of his hometown’s old elementary school, set decades before development came, surrounded by all the town’s old

ranches and houses.

“This old lady came and took one look at it and burst into tears,” Ore said. “She told me I painted it exactly how she remembered it. That’s when I decided it was time to get more serious.”

Under the guidance of his art professor at Brigham-Young, he found a gallery in Jackson to represent him. After a few years he found a more permanent home for his art at Jackson’s West Lives On Gallery.

“He paints such realistic Tetons,”

said Terry Ray, the owner of West Lives On. “That’s what really sets him apart.”

His paintings gaze over sprawling Teton landscapes. Teewinot cuts up from a sea of yellow aspens; frothy streams gush through spruce forests; moose sip from a lake, below a midday view of Moran. All seem to quiver in their incredible detail.

“I love nature. There’s not much out there that isn’t mind-boggling — I try to capture that,” Ore said.

To create these detailed scenes he

spends hours out in Grand Teton National Park photographing them, and then more hours in his studio in the Utah Valley, precisely measuring the distances between peaks and mapping the painting he plans to create. Sometimes, he admits, he’ll paint parts of his home into the scene — a stream from a canyon near his house, a log from his backyard.

His work has paid off. After being nominated by Ray at West Lives On, Ore was one of two selected from over 100 artists to be this year’s featured artists for the Fall Arts Festival. He’s shy about this recognition.

“It’s a real honor, but my life would have went on anyway,” Ore said. “I guess it’s good to get noticed for a little bit.”

The painting he was chosen for is called “Nature’s Playground.” In the foreground, a creek tumbles, framed by rocks and wildflowers. Behind, layers of foothills glow green with cottonwood and pine, and behind them still, three Teton peaks strike upward.

Ray is excited about Ore’s feature. The gallery owner has been involved with the festival for 30 years — and has watched it grow in scale and impact.

“Fall used to be a hard time for us. But now, the festival has made September our busiest month — it’s great for us, and it’s great for artists,” Ray said.

The poster signing with Ore will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at West Lives On.

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Heather James displays modern masterpieces

Female contemporary artists to be highlighted alongside abstract expressionists.

Heather James Fine Art

172 Center St.

Open Monday-Saturday, 10-5 p.m. HeatherJames.com

By Richard Anderson

In 1930, Iowa native Grant Wood (1891-1942) painted the work for which he is best known: “American Gothic,” an oil depicting a dour-looking man in overalls gripping a pitchfork with an equally somber woman inscrutably regarding him. In the background their farmhouse, built in the “carpenter gothic” vernacular of the day, gives the painting its name.

The woman depicted in the famous painting is Nan Wood Graham, Wood’s sister, said Andrea Rico Dahlin, senior director at Heather James gallery. (The man is their dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby). Nan is on record saying she was proud to have been part of such an iconic work of American art, but the artist knew she wasn’t crazy about how viewers reacted to her character’s dowdy, humorless mien, so the following year he painted “Portrait of Nan,” in which she appears casually serene, in a sleeveless polka-dot shirt and with her blond hair loose over her shoulders.

Wood kept the painting throughout his lifetime, but in 2018 it came up for auction at Sotheby’s, and today it hangs in Heather James’ Jackson gallery, which happily invites the public — both those in the market for a masterpiece and those just looking — to visit this piece of art history and the dozens of others the Center Street gallery has on display.

“Every summer we aim to bring in top works representing the best in art history,” said Sarah Fischel, the gallery’s senior vice president. While it does not mount a special show or exposition for

Fall Arts Festival, it participates as a local repository and ersatz mini-museum of artwork by notable artists from around the world and across the centuries. “We’re not necessarily changing what we present for the Fall Arts Festival. We’re just open, a resource, an opportunity for art lovers to see Grant Wood.”

Or Winslow Homer (1836-1910), whose most-identifiable piece, the nautical oil “Breezing Up” has, like Wood’s “American Gothic,” overshadowed an enormous body of work. Or Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Edgar Payne, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and many others whose names are more familiar than the vast majority of their output.

“In the gallery, we have works that

span 150 years,” Fischel said. That includes leaders of the abstract expressionist movement (Willem De Kooning, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn), pop art practitioners (Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman) and names synonymous with the turn-of-the-century scene (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst). Most of them are 2-dimensional, but there’s also a half dozen sculptures, including three “sound sculptures” by Harry Bertoia, a smallish Deborah Butterfield horse — more like a pony — and a tabletop Alexander Calder mobile, titled “Prelude to the Man-Eater,” which was a study for a much bigger version commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1945. (The gallery also has

a handful of original Calder works in oil and gouache that have the same bright whimsy of his more commonly seen lithographs.)

That said, this fall Heather James will be highlighting work by a chronically underrepresented group in the art world: female contemporary artists.

“We have … some amazing female artists that people don’t get to see that frequently, that are pretty rare,” Fischel said. “That’s exciting, and a new thing.”

Four of those works by major women in the contemporary art world are grouped together just inside the front door.

A 1974 Agnes Martin piece, with alternating strips of pastel peach and blue, is rare for its verticality. The deep blue field of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Net,” across which she carefully arranged hundreds of seed-shaped flecks, is calming and tranquil, as is Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Name Kngwarreye’s dreamy mottled orange canvas from 1994 titled “Yarn Story,” while Hedda Sterne’s untitled oil-andpastel panel looks like an amalgam of art deco design and Native American totem poles. Elsewhere in the gallery hangs a Genieve Figgis send-up of polite society, “The Ladies’ Club,” that could be the result of a collaboration between Henri Matisse and Francis Bacon, and a bright and sunny floral canvas by Shara Hughes.

Fischel and Rico-Dahlin hope art lovers and the art-curious will visit any time through Fall Arts Festival, including during the Sept. 6

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Heather James Fine Art’s collection includes works by European impressionists and modern artists as well as American masters from across the 20th century, like Grant Wood’s “Portrait of Nan,” a 1933 oval oil painting of his sister.

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This summer and fall, Heather James Fine Art is highlighting work by contemporary women artists, including, from left, Yayoi Kusama, Emily Name Kngwarreye and Hedda Sterne.

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Geoffrey Gersten’s “Long Live Cowgirls,” a 20-by-16-inch oil on panel. He draws inspiration from black-and-white photos and enjoys jazzing up his paintings with a phrase.

Altamira features ‘master’ of Western art

Three artists will show complementary styles, flourishes in gallery, QuickDraw.

By Billy Arnold

In Jason Williams’ mind, Robert

Moore is a “master” of Western art, an oil painter who recasts aspens, desert mesas and sylvan hunting camps in a colorful, impressionistic hue.

But Moore is colorblind and can’t see color — or at least most colors. Instead, pigment for him appears in shades of yellow and blue. Other colors exist on a spectrum between those two, and he paints by association, using chromatic relationships to create vibrant scenes reminiscent, but not 100% representative of the scene in front of him.

“That’s one reason I’m not highly into realism. I can’t replicate the tones in nature,” Moore told the Southwest Art magazine. “It’s like with a song — what’s important is not so much which key you’re in, but the relationship between notes. You can start with any color as a ‘tonic chord,’ and as long as you keep those colors in a certain relationship with each other, it still feels like natural color.”

Moore will be one of Altamira Fine Art’s three resident artists this year during the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

He will be joined by David Frederick Riley, an oil painter who portrays wildlife more realistically but still with hints of abstraction, and Geoffrey Gersten, who draws inspiration from black-and-white photos and creates vivid cut-ups juxtaposing modern and historic western scenes that blur the line between collage and painting.

Gersten spruces things up with a splash of color, or some Warhol-esque dots. But he doesn’t always ascribe much symbolism to what he creates.

“People are always like, ‘What does it mean, what does it mean?’” Gersten said in 2023. “Sometimes it’s just as

simple as it looks freaking awesome.”

Jason Williams, who co-owns Altamira Fine Art and Gallery Wild, only a few blocks away, with his wife, Carrie Wild, said Altamira asked Moore, Riley and Gersten to come for this year’s Fall Arts Festival because they represent a range of styles. But all three can adjust their distinctive styles for the QuickDraw, an annual event where artists have 90 minutes to complete Jackson-inspired works before they’re auctioned off to the crowd.

In 2022, Gersten set a QuickDraw record, selling his hour-and-a-half piece for about $20,000.

“All three of them have a style they can bend to the rules of the QuickDraw,” Williams said.

Riley hadn’t been in the QuickDraw for a few years and was ready to return. Gersten “just brings it,” Williams said. “He’s a real performer.” Williams is also excited about Moore, who he described as a “master,” because the painter is a teacher. Some of his students will also compete in the QuickDraw.

“He’s a very collaborative guy,” Williams said.

Altamira will participate in some of the main Fall Arts Festival events, like the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, which runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 6, and the closing gallery walk, when the gallery will host a brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 15.

The gallery will also host events of its own.

Gersten will have a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 13 for his “Picture of a Cowboy” exhibition.

Gersten’s individual reception will feature an exciting body of work, Williams said, with some pieces painted on construction drop cloths.

“It’s almost a blend of abstract street art and hyper realism,” Williams said.

And, after the QuickDraw competition on Sept. 14, Altamira will host an artist party from 1 to 5 p.m. with Gersten, Moore and Riley all in attendance.

Contact Billy Arnold at 307-732-7063 or barnold@jhnewsandguide.com.

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A singular vision

By Kyle Leverone

When Jason Borbet first moved to Victor, Idaho, from New York City, there was no room for an artist like him.

As a self-represented, futuristic artist who doesn’t paint the traditional Western landscapes with bears and wolves, he felt like he didn’t fit in with the galleries in downtown Jackson. So in order to get his name out, in 2017 he started doing the QuickDraw at the Fall Arts Festival.

His first painting went horribly, he said. It sold for $1,500. The next year, he did a painting of Jackson Drug, and that, too, went for $1,500. During the pandemic year, his collage painting of the Cowboy Bar sold for $5,500. After that, his black-and-white version of Ansel Adams’ Oxbow Bend photo hauled in $11,500, and then the year after a painting based on the Jackson Hole News&Guide’s Brad Boner’s photo of Teton Pass welcome sign went for $14,000.

He had fully gotten an “in” at the Fall Arts Festival, and he expected to be named a featured artist in the next two years but was passed over. Now, after taking a year off from the festival, he is back and is hosting his own events at Borbay Studio & Gallery throughout the week, showing off his eclectic Guggenheims, Masters Tournament, neons, remastered and futurist series for dedicated collectors.

“I want people to come here, buy art directly from me and have an experience that’s crazy,” Borbay said “I’m not making art for cabins in the West or

third homes. I’m making art for museums.”

His first professional sale was in 2009 of his 30-by-30-inch painting of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. From there he decided that he would do a variation of the museum every year for 20 years. Just last month he finished the 16th in his series.

Elsewhere in his globally focused arsenal of art, Borbay has recently started painting the greens at A ugusta National Golf Club, home of the annual Masters golf tournament. A member of Bronze Buffalo Ranch at Teton Springs, he is a self-described golf junkie, and since his first painting of Amen Corner in 2020 he has started a journey of painting each green at the course. It is a fourday experience, as he starts painting at tee off on Thursday and finishes when the final putt drops

on Sunday.

“For me, gearing up for the Masters is, I’m not going to say as intense as the golfers, obviously, but for me it’s very intense,” Borbay said.

In the traditional golf painting scene, Borbay sticks out with the energy he brings through the vibrancy of the colors he uses. He is colorblind and doesn’t see the color green very well, so that contributes to his dynamic renditions of the famous golf course.

Borbay describes his signature as an “impression of realism.” Everything he paints looks like what it is in real life, but if you view it next to a photo it has its own energy, he says. This style comes out in his “Neons” series and “Re-mastered” series in which he re-creates famous paintings in his own Borbay style. He has redone the “Mona Lisa,” “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” “Guernica” and others.

“I’m always out there trying to see what I can do differently,” he said. “Can I paint faster and learn something? Can I paint slower and learn something? Can I break down my process and then destroy the process and start a new process?”

It’s all like stepping up to a golf ball and breaking your pre-shot routine.

He has his first paintings going into The Hip Hop Museum next year in the Bronx, and he believes his art is a sound investment. Throughout the week, he’ll be set up at his studio in downtown Victor by the traffic light and will be hosting several VIP, invite-only events. Reach out to him at Borbay.com for information.

“I’m not looking for the masses,” Borbay said. “I want someone who wants to collect some super interesting work that they’d be shocked to discover in the West.”

Contact Kyle Leverone at 307-732-7065 or sports@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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ArtShop is all local all the time

Creative hot spot for local creatives hosts open house and Teton Plein Air Painters. ArtShop

‘The Places We Go’ reception

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 12170 Dornan Road, Moose ArtShopJH.com

By Lacey McNeff

Looking for one event that’s quintessentially Fall Arts? ArtShop’s annual open house in Moose has it all: artists, food, mountains and a chance to get creative.

“There are endless possibilities to be inspired by this landscape and the places we go within it,” ArtShop owner Alex Pope said. “Whether you have hiked in the park, admired the wildflowers, swam in Jackson Lake, or caught a cutthroat trout, you’ve seen the unique beauty of this area.”

Pope’s ArtShop features over 65 local artists striving to capture that feeling and experience from all angles. The open house, “The Places We Go,” will celebrate the shop’s artists and locale with treats, drinks and special guests on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Teton Plein Air Painters group is scheduled to be at Dornan’s from 9 a.m. to noon that day.

“We have such a talented community of artists, and it is a privilege to showcase the work of so many of them.” Pope said. Whether you are looking for a gift or a souvenir of your trip,

Currently, ArtShop is the only retail venue to purchase local artist Fred Kingwill’s watercolors, like “Snake River Overlook.” Members of the Teton Plein Air Painters group will be meeting at nearby Dornan’s during ArtShop’s open house on Tuesday, Sept. 10th.

Art inside and out with the Art Association

New exhibit features local artists leading intensives this fall.

Arts on the Green

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8

Center for the Arts Park

Art Association of Jackson Hole

240 S. Glenwood St. ArtAssociation.org

By Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Mingle with the working artists of Jackson Hole inside and out during the Fall Arts Festival.

The Art Association of Jackson Hole’s new Guest Artist Program exhibit opens with Palates and Palettes on Friday, Sept. 6, and the annual superbloom of talented artisans takes over the Center for the Arts’ lawn on Sunday, Sept. 8.

“Teton County has a rich and diverse local artist community, passionate about the arts and inspired by the land,” said Amy Goicoechea, director of development and marketing for the Art Association. “Take this opportunity to learn from a master in their field and join us in celebrating and collaborating with local artists.”

Workshops will range in medium from Plein Air painting and woodworking to ceramics and traditional printmaking methods. Artists leading the intensives include Wendell Field, Miga Rossetti, Doris Florig and Jen Hoffman, who will dive into specific projects and processes over the course of a few days.

The workshops are curated to be unique opportunities and likely will only be offered one time or once a

year, Goicoechea said.

The association’s annual fundraiser, Arts on the Green, will feature over 70 mostly local artists. For an entry fee of $6, patrons can peruse ceramics, fibers, painting, glass, photography and mixed media. Children under 12 enter for free.

While not exclusive to local artists, entries are hand-selected prioritizing local and regional artists, stuff you might only be able to get in Jackson Hole, said Art Association Executive Director Jennifer Lee.

The event brings a sense of community to artists as well as visitors.

For artists like Shana Stegman, the event is a chance not only to show off her best work, but also connect and be inspired by other artists without the sense of competition that comes in other juried shows.

Stegman is the owner and founder of the Yellow House Collective, an artist, curator and art teacher. While the eponymous “yellow house” is still standing on Jackson Street and still painted a bright yellow, Stegman has taken her brand on the road. She plans to reunite with her community of local artists at Arts on the Green with some acrylic but mostly watercolor in tow. To describe her style, Stegman offered her artistic motto: “Simplicity is beautiful.”

“It’s been so amazing,” she said of her journey. “I think one of the scariest things for an artist is putting themselves out there.”

Contact Sophia Boyd-Fliegel via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Jennifer L. Hoffman’s “Riparian,” a pastel on mounted paper, is in the Guest Artist Program exhibit featuring artwork from local artists who are leading intensives this fall at the Art Association. Other local artists include Wendell Field, Miga Rossetti and Doris Florig.

Turner’s artists have shared passion

TBy Richard Anderson

he natural world operates seamlessly, in balance, with all of its varied constituents — landscape, wildlife, climate — working in harmony.

The artists at Turner Fine Art do their best to reflect that sense of harmony, as the title of its 2024 Fall Arts Festival show, “It Has a Song,” suggests.

“The artists we have here, and certainly myself, share a passion for the American West, whether they live here or are drawn here as artists,” Kathryn Mapes Turner, gallery owner and highly acclaimed watercolor and oil painter, said. “We’re inviting artists to give voice to what matters to them about the American West.”

Turner will be joined by six artists she has hosted in her gallery over the years: Gunnar Tryggmo, Bill Alther, Paul Rhymer, Ray Brown, Renso Tamse and Millie Whipplesmith Plank.

“The artists we’re featuring all are also featured at the [National Museum of Wildlife Art’s] Western Visions show,” Turner said. Tryggmo, Tamse and Rhymer will be in town for the festival offering demos, as will Turner.

Tryggmo was raised in Sjöabro, in forested Småland in southern Sweden, where he came to appreciate wildlife and wild land at a young age. An artistic uncle took him to his first art shows and encouraged him to pick up a paintbrush. He studied painting and drawing at

Sundsgårdens College, focusing on animals and their environs. “The artwork is characterized to a large part of my natural interest,” his online biography at TurnerFineArt.com states. “The values, the mood, and the movement are the most important things in my paintings.”

Alther earned a degree in wildlife biology from Texas A&M University and worked in the zoology department at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for 13 years. It wasn’t until he was in his mid-40s that he began painting full-time. Soon he was in major national shows and associated with prominent organizations, including the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where in 2018 he won the Red Smith Artist’s Choice Award and, in 2021, the Trustee Purchase Award for his painting “Her Elegancy.”

Rhymer was raised in a family of artists. For more than 25 years he did taxidermy and model-making for the

Smithsonian Institution, which led to a gradual shift from painting and drawing to sculpture. His work has appeared in exhibitions of such prestigious organizations as the National Sculpture Society and the Society of Animal Artists, and can be seen at the National Zoo, the National Museum of Natural History and the Denver Zoo Brown worked for years as an illustrator and graphic designer in the Baltimore area, where he was born and raised. A move to Southern California inspired a shift from commercial work to something that expressed his love of wildlife and the outdoors. Working with charcoal on paper — “about as bare bones as an artist can get,” he wrote in his bio — he bases his art on observation, value, composition and “the illusion of texture to create an image unaided by color by still managing to convey a sense of place or evoke a certain emotion.”

Tamse was born and raised in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and picked up his art materials at the age of 5. He found art school focused on abstract and modern art while he was more interested in nature and realism, so the city dweller embarked on trips to North America, the Pyrenees, Scandinavia and elsewhere to pursue his interests.

Wipplesmith Plank works out of a 100-year-old barn in California. Her art starts with a piece of wood and a vision in mind, but as she carves her woodblocks she finds the medium invariably pushes her in unexpected directions — to simplify and refine her ideas. Wisconsin’s Leigh Yawkey Museum and Washington’s Maryhill Museum of Art hold her work in their permanent collections.

Finally, Turner is a fourth-generation Jackson Hole native, raised on the historic Triangle X guest ranch in Grand Teton National Park. The American Impressionist Society, the National Academy of Equine Art and the Southeast Wildlife Exposition have all honored her, and she has shown her work at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Charlie Russell Museum, the Buffalo Bill Cody Center of the West and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.

Turner Fine Art will host a ticketed event 5-7 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Triangle X.

“There’s going to be artist demonstrations and whiskey tasting in a very special setting,” Turner said. “We’ll watch the sun set and watch artists create works inspired by Triangle X.”

Tickets are available through the gallery

Contact Richard Anderson via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Fourth-generation Jackson native Kathryn Mapes Turner’s oil painting “She Owns the Night” is included in the Turner Fine Art’s Fall Arts exhibition “It Has a Song.”

Teton Artlab heads west

Collaborative

recent transplant from

Teton Artlab presents ‘It Came from the Super Volcano’ Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Sept. 14

Teton Valley Studio Tour

Noon-6 p.m. Sept. 14-15

7168 South Highway 33, Suite 7, Victor, Idaho (upstairs from Atelier Coffee) TetonArtlab.com

By Tibby Plasse and Lacey McNeff

Arecent reflection on his studio space inspired Teton Artlab founder Travis Walker to officially open the doors on

plained.

Seventeen years later, Teton Artlab has now crossed The Pass to discover new community. The inaugural exhibition in the Victor space will showcase artists who call Teton Valley home and includes Dorothea Cheney, Pam Baker, Carol Reid, Oliver Hollis, Mark Dunstan and Rebecca Peel.

“ ‘It Came from the Super Volcano’ is a regional exhibit showcasing local artists, but it’s also a nod to how volcanic lands are a source of creativity; they draw creative people to them,” Walker said.

Teton Artlab also does not want to lose any of the momentum that was garnered by last year’s Teton Valley Studio Tour, which

dio Tour happening Sept. 14 and 15 from 12-6 p.m. Confirmed artists at press time included Walker, Dave McNally, Mike Piggott, Borbay, Carrie Geraci, Katy Fox and Michelle Walters, with additional artists still to be announced.

Walker hopes the artist studio tour will be a lasting event in Teton Valley, Idaho.

“Visiting artists’ studios creates community,” Walker said. “The point of community is to support each other, improve everyone’s life and inspire each other.”

Walker said when an artist has a strong community, there are more strategies available to you for those periods of time when you don’t want to create anything.

Teton Artlab has opened a new exhibition space in Victor, Idaho, and will be showcasing surprising works like Carol Reid’s mixed-media portrait “Vanilla Ice.”

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Sun Valley, Idaho, Dorothea Cheney now calls Tetonia home and will be exhibiting for the first-time during the 2024 Fall Arts Festival at the Teton Artlab.

Styles and genres mingle at Western Visions

With 171 artists, National Museum of Wildlife Art gears up for biggest fundraiser of the year.

Western Visions Show and Sale

5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12

National Museum of Wildlife Art

$210 ($100 for online or proxy options) WildlifeArtEvents.org or 307-733-5771

By Michael Carmody

The Western Visions Show and Sale has long been a signature event of the Fall Arts Festival, and this year the folks at the National Museum of Wildlife Art are adding a new twist to their established traditions. Among the staggering selection of individual pieces of art in the sale — each from a different artist — are a number of larger-format commissioned works tied thematically to the museum’s stated vision, which is to “inspire connections with wildlife and nature.”

“This is an exhibition and a sale that is the largest fundraiser for the National Museum of Wildlife Art,” Programs and Events Director Michelle Dickson said. “It is in its 37th year and features 171 artists. Thirty-two of the pieces fall in what we would call large format, and the remaining are small-format pieces.”

The work in this large show includes long-established artists and those just on the rise, with prices ranging from as little as $400 up to nearly $40,000. Countless styles, genres and forms are on display, and many of the artists with work represented here will be in attendance, allowing the public — and other artists

— to chat them up.

“We have artists that are in their twenties, all the way up to artists who are creeping up on 90, later octogenarians,” Dickson said. “What’s really great about this is we have young artists show up and they get to meet artists that they’ve idolized their whole career, who are super successful.

And we really have everything in between. And this is not just Wyoming or Jackson Hole artists. This is artists from all across the country, and many from overseas as well. So this is a really great event, whether you are an emerging enthusiast or an established collector. This is a great opportunity. It’s really exciting for patrons.”

The exhibit hangs Sept. 7-29, with the sale scheduled for 5 p.m. on Thursday the 12th.

“The sale format is called ‘intent to purchase,’” Dickson explained. “People who have purchased a ticketed entry to the event can basically put their name in a drawing for any of the 170-plus pieces, and if your name is drawn, you have committed to buying that piece. And that’s the firstround opportunity for people to have first crack at the art.”

Once these draws are completed, the show becomes an open public sale. For those who cannot attend in person, the museum offers remote options.

“People can purchase a ticket to come in person to the museum,” Dickson said, “or they can purchase a proxy ticket, which means we’ll put your name in the hat for you. You don’t have to be there. Or, for people who like tech, there’s a way that you can purchase an online entry and put your own name in your own hat, by pushing buttons.”

For additional information on the 2024 Western Visions Show and Sale, call the National Museum of Wildlife Art at 307-733-5771 or go online to WildlifeArtEvents.org

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

“The Player” by Dustin Van Wechel captures the wild courtship of pronghorn and is available by draw at the 2024 Western Visions Art Show and Sale for $2,400.

Donna Howell-Sickles’ mixed media on paper, “A Turn in the Woods” (32 by 48 inches), is available by draw for $9,700 in the National Museum of Western Visions Art Show and Sale.

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A Plein passion for the Tetons

Local painters find community in craft and in outings.

By Tibby Plasse

Bear spray is just as important as a paintbrush to members of the group.

Much like hikers, painters cannot get enough of their Teton backyard. For most, the decision to move to Jackson was inspired by the landscape.

Endless scenery, weather and lighting to fill sketchbooks with, many of the painters in the area are constantly creating studies for their next big canvas. But unlike other outdoor enthusiasts, painters spend a lot of time by themselves, just working.

When Bobbi Miller started paint sessions with Joe Branca in 2012, it was following an Idaho workshop with Scott Christensen.

“Friends took note and began joining the weekly location sessions,” Miller told the News&Guide.

“Many of these artists had met at the Art Association of Jackson Hole’s open studio sessions for figure drawing practice and include Eliot Goss and Sharon Thomas. Later, they were joined by others in the community such as Fred Kingwill, Dee Parker, June Nystrom, Matt Montagne, Richard Tambor, Sheila Tintera and Annie Newcomb.”

The camaraderie has been significant for Miller, she said.

“Connecting with my art tribe was of utmost importance when moving here, and the artists who attend regularly have become friends and cheerleaders for painting improvement. The safety and security offered by connecting in person on location encourages conversations about art and other topics.”

The group, in addition to painting on location, began meeting once a month to critique one another’s work after painting, sometimes having lunch at a designated venue such as Dornan’s in Moose or at Turpin Meadow Ranch near Moran.

Locations in Grand Teton National Park such as Mormon Row, Oxbow Bend and Willow Flats are annual favorites.

“There is a plethora of vistas here to interpret in paint, and private ranches have been generous in allowing group access, as well — it’s one of the perks of joining TPAP,” Miller said.

By 2017 the Teton Plein Air Painters was formed and the communication list totaled over 170 names. Miller, who had been planning locations and managing the email list on her

own, approached the Art Association for some administrative assistance in disseminating the painting location information.

Local painting isn’t for the faint of the art. Though some painters are more athletic than most, all of them come up against Idaho’s and Wyoming’s dynamic weather patterns, as well as its wildlife.

“I have been fortunate in not having an “up close and personal” bear encounter but have observed, while painting, a mother and cub swimming across the Buffalo Fork River. Deer, elk and moose have also wandered into view,” Miller said. The nuisance of nuisances, she said, is the summer’s bug population.

One of the distinguishing requirements of the painting group is its guidelines recommending carrying

bear spray and knowing how to use it.

Andrew Taylor said his wife is always looking behind him to ensure his safety when he’s lost in his work painting.

“I won’t notice that the bison have moved, and so my wife will have me slowly backing up back to the car,” he said.

Taylor was introduced to the group by Fred Kingwill before he moved to town in 2015. By 2017, Taylor and his wife were tired of always driving back to Jackson and made the decision to just move here.

“Jackson’s one of the top places to be if you’re a wildlife artist,” Taylor said.

Taylor and Eliot Goss are managing the locations and email list this year for the painting group. To join, an artist must be a member of the Jackson Hole Art Association. Teton Plein Air Painters enjoys an annual exhibit at the nonprofit’s gallery. With so many members, it typically features only a quarter of the artists on the email list.

“As an artist I am always working and working alone, so the Plein Air group is really a chance for me to talk shop with someone about technique and color,” Sheila Tintera said.

One of Tintera’s largest pieces that she’s ever produced came from her outside studies of Oxbow Bend. “Oxbow Bend” is included in Tintera’s new show opening at the Center for the Arts during Palates and Palettes.

“It’s overwhelming how much there is to paint because where we live is incredible,” Tintera said. “You have to choose if you’re going to do the clouds, the mountains, things that are growing from the ground.

“Your choices are really limitless and that’s what Plein Air is about, all these observations, all the studies and taking in all this information to find your inspiration.”

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Star Valley’s 150-year-old art barn anchors 3rd Annual Plein Air Festival

Over 50 artists and 20 QuickDraw participants expected at Star Valley Plein Air Festival.

Star Valley Plein Air Festival and Western Skies Fine Art Gallery 912 N. Washington St., Afton

11 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday through Saturday

435-253-3999

WesternSkiesGallery.com

StarValleyArts.org/pleinair

By Deb Barracato

When the Fall Arts Festival winds down, and you find yourself still seeking the thrill of discovery, the camaraderie of art and the allure of the great outdoors, head an hour and a half south for the Star Valley Plein Air Festival.

Conceived by Lxi Weber, executive director of the Star Valley Arts Council, and Doug Monson, owner of Western Skies Fine Art Gallery, as a way to feature the many talented regional painters who aren’t showing in Jackson Hole, the event takes place in a 60-mile radius of Afton. Artists must complete their canvases “en plein air” or fully outdoors at the source of their inspiration in a place called “a rural painter’s paradise” on Outdoor Painter, the digital home of Plein Air Magazine. In its third season this year, the festival takes place Sept. 16-21 and welcomes artists of all ages and skill levels, with categories for both experienced and beginning painters. Festival organizers expect 50 to 60 artists, with 20 participating in the inaugu-

ral QuickDraw that will take place on Main Street in Afton on Sept. 17.

During the main event, artists have four days to paint, and they can submit up to three canvases for judging. Cash prizes will be awarded in several categories, including People’s Choice, and the resulting art will be for sale, framed and ready to hang, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Star

Valley Arts Council.

The judge’s winners in 2023 included Ann Newby for “Aspen Trails,” Blake Luther for “Lunch Time,” and George Grant Redden for “Sunlit Thunderhead.” Purchase Awards, in which local businesses committed a predetermined amount for the privilege of first dibs on a painting to purchase, went to Carol Granger for “Salt River Reflec-

tions,” Lester Lee for “Down Kennington Burton Lane I,” and Teri McLaren for “Locking Horns.” Carol Lundeen emerged as winner of the Viewer’s Choice Award with her piece, “A Few Too Many Years.”

Painters interested in participating this year should register at StarValleyArts.org/pleinair by Sept. 14. Art lovers can watch masterpieces taking shape during the QuickDraw and may even happen upon a work in progress in the field during the main event. Weber and Monson encourage spectators and artists to interact, in keeping with the spirit of a festival.

There will be additional chances to mingle at Monson’s Western Skies Fine Art Gallery, a 150-year-old restored barn where the art will hang for judging and sale in a silent auction Sept. 20-21. The 2023 festival featured 91 paintings and resulted in nearly $20,000 in sales.

The four-year-old gallery also displays works by renowned artists such as Clark Kelly Price (a festival judge in previous years), Brent Flory, and Amanda Cowan, a sampling of the 38 Monson represents. He maintains his own studio there, too, where he produces spectacularly detailed scenes of Western life and wildlife in charcoal, several of which will be on display at Wilcox Gallery in Jackson during the Fall Arts Festival.

Contact Deb Barracato via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Serendipity strikes as a rainbow graces the scene as Josh LaBenne paints near Clark’s Barn in Afton during the Star Valley Plein Air Festival.

Longtime Teton Plein Air Painters group member Sheila Tintera finds inspiration from her backyard and camaraderie in the local painting community. Tintera’s paintings will be on display at the Center for Arts Theater Gallery during the Fall Arts Festival.

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Carlson, Case, Tobey offer Astoria trifecta

SBy Richard Anderson

ome wildlife, some wild lands and a bit of whimsy. Astoria Fine Art has it all for this year’s Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

“And we have one artist in the QuickDraw,” Director Pierce Tome said: Andrew Denman, whom he described as a “contemplative artist.” “He loves doing the QuickDraw. It takes a brave artist. He has done it for a number of years.”

The wildlife work comes from Minnesota native Ken Carlson.

“Ken is really a living legend in wildlife art,” Tome said. Long associated with Trailside Galleries, Carlson called Astoria looking for new local representation when Trailside went to being an online showroom.

“Imagine if Michael Jordan called and said he wanted to play on your team,” Tome said. “To have an artist of that caliber is amazing.”

For his Fall Arts showcase, Carlson came up with a theme of “The Big 10” — pretty much every big game animal one could expect to encounter on a trip to Wyoming. Looking for a piece of moose art? Carlson will have a moose. Black bear? Sure.

“Ten frames, 10 animals,” Tome said. Each will be sold by draw — collectors who expresses interest in a particu-

lar canvas can drop their name in a box, and the ultimate buyer will be drawn at random — but, Tome said, if someone came into the gallery and said they wanted all 10, the gallery would sell the whole lot, too.

G. Russell Case will provide the landscapes. The Utahan followed in the footsteps of his father, a graphic illustrator, studying art in college. For years his preferred medium was watercolors, but in 1999 he switched to oils. Specializing in the Southwestern desert environment, he typically starts en plain air, completing his compositions in his studio.

“Most common question I get when people will come in and look at Russell Case painting is, ’Is this artist still alive?’” Tome said. “People think on first glance that he’s this old master.”

Two of his paintings were acquired by

the National Cowboy and Heritage Museum last year, Tome said. “You can feel when an artist has picked up steam. We get more and more people asking, ‘Do you have something by Russell Case?’ He’s capturing hearts and minds.”

Finally, sculptor Joshua Tobey will be back with some new work, including some lifesize and larger pieces.

“That’s a tradition we haven’t broken with in forever,” Tome said of a Fall Arts Tobey exhibit. “He was the first-ever Fall Arts Festival featured sculptor, and he’s the gallery’s best-selling artist.”

The son of famed Western sculptor Gene Tobey and his wife-collaborator Rebecca Tobey, Joshua started messing around with clay as a 5- or 6-year-old and created his first bronze at 14. He spent some formative years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These days he lives and

works in Loveland, Colorado. He has been long known for his often humorous depictions of wildlife, including many small tabletop figurines. But Tome said lately he has been working on “some really big and important sculptures.” Like a giant jackrabbit in repose, or a big round bear that appears to be in the middle of a sitting meditation, or a lifesize, bedded-down bull moose. Tobey has been working on the moose for over a year, Tome said, and will bring it in its clay form to Astoria for Fall Arts to give collectors a sneak peek at the work.

“The moose has this expression, like it’s perfectly at peace wherever he’s going to sit,” Tome said. “So it’s not really whimsical, but it’s not super traditional, either. … It’s a nice blend. He’s been sculpting now for 20-some years, and he’s brought it all together in this once piece.”

Several of Tobey’s pieces also will be displayed in the lobby of the Cloudveil hotel, just down the block from Astoria. And to add to the fun, Astoria will give a poem to everyone who comes into the gallery that contains clues to the location of a small Tobey sculpture they have secreted somewhere in town. Whoever cracks the mystery and finds the piece gets to take it home.

“My critique of the art world is we take ourselves too seriously,” Tome said.

Tobey’s work is often a balm to that seriousness, as is Astoria’s Fall Arts tradition, for at least 10 years now, of serving ice cream floats during the Palates and Palettes gallery walk.

Contact Richard Anderson via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

G. Russell Case has earned the moniker “the Maynard Dixon of the 21st century” for his pieces like “The Land of Solitude,” a 36-by-48-inch oil on canvas, capturing unfiltered light on large landscapes.

Wearable art to come to Fall Arts Festival

Paintings, photos and pottery are pretty, but that’s not all the Fall Arts Festival has to offer.

Two Grey Hills

110 E. Broadway Ave., open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. MondaySaturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday Encounter Hat Co.

125 N. Cache St., open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily

By Zoe Naylor

Jackson’s annual Fall Arts Festival is host to a multitude of beautiful pieces to look at. But what about art you can wear? At the festival September 4-15, makers of hats and jewelry will participate and provide variety for the kind of art available.

Artie Yellowhorse, whose work is at Two Grey Hills, specializes in jewelry with bright turquoise stones surrounded by intricate silver beads. Yellowhorse, an Albuquerque-based Navajo artist, started her jewelry business more than 40 years ago.

“I’ve been around it my whole life,” she said. Yellowhorse’s mother was a weaver, so making a living with art was not a stretch.

The family business now spans three generations, starting with Yellowhorse and her sister, Gloria, and continuing to her daughters and grandsons.

Just as Yellowhorse has passed her craft down the family tree, she hopes her work is, too.

“We try to do really high-quality work. It’s like an heirloom that they can pass down to their daughters or grandchildren,” Yellowhorse said.

Yellowhorse has zero tolerance for “pits” or any fl aws in the metal or stones for her jewelry. Sometimes, she said, the silver or gold beads must be re-melted or repolished to make sure they’re up to her standards.

“We stand completely behind our work,” Yellowhorse said. She went so far as to say if there are any repairs needed on one of her pieces, she will fix it free of charge.

Baubles and brushstrokes

3-D artist Jennifer Adams packs her paintbrush for QuickDraw

Native JH

By Lacey McNeff

New works, new baubles, artists passing through and live demonstrations throughout the Fall Arts Festival make Native JH Gallery one stop not to miss on your art walk list.

Toby Pomeroy’s Trunk Show — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 6-7 — will feature the jewelry maker on-site to discuss his craft and his efforts as a world leader in environmentally sustainable and socially responsible jewelry.

Shawndell Oliver will have new media pieces in the gallery. The Colorado native’s powerful and vibrant images are bewitching as she places the viewer opposite animal portraits eye to eye to take in the emotional

weight of the wildlife and livestock she has chosen for her canvas.

“She interweaves her knowledge of oils, acrylics, and 3-dimensional textures to bring each piece to life. You might find horsehair, or grasses adding to their texture and depth,” Native JH Gallery owner Safaa Darwiche said.

Native JH Gallery’s featured artist, Jennifer Adams, will be participating in this year’s QuickDraw. A multimedia artist, creating with photography, 3-D painting and jewelry design, Adams explores texture and color to create seemingly impossible dimensions on a flat surface.

Native JH’s appreciation for the finer items in life come from an enduring legacy of history, artistry and tradition.

Stopping by the gallery ensures you’ll leave with new factoids about the art of jewelry-making and how a narrative is attached to each bauble like a clasp.

Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Other wearable art available at the Fall Arts Festival is a cowboy classic — hats.

Kyle Theret, the 35-year-old owner of Encounter Hat Co., has been making hats for a decade. He began making hats in Denver before establishing the Jackson location nearly six years ago.

“When we shape, we go based on facial structure. There’s not many hat companies that shape in person,” Theret said.

Lined in a neat grid, hats cover the walls of the shop. Theret described them as “a mix on a modern classic” — classic shapes from the 1920s and 30s combined with a “mo dern flair” in the form of custom embroidery and engraving.

“Every hat’s gonna tell a story. It’s the closest thing to your eyes; it’s the thing that people are gonna see first — before they see your shoes or anything else,” Theret said

Contact Zoe Naylor via 307-732-5911 or znaylor@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Native Jackson Hole’s Shawndell Oliver, a Colorado-based artist, relies on her native state for inspiration and pays homage to its Western heritage through bold impressionistic brushstrokes.

COURTESY PHOTO

Artie Yellowhorse, a third-generation Navajo jewelry artist from the Towering House Clan, weaves her heritage into contemporary jewelry designs seen at Two Grey Hills.

COURTESY PHOTO

The Encounter Proper headpiece is a uniquely benevolent shape that allows the asymmetry of a hat to complement the perfectly imperfect facial silhouette. The custom shaping and creative expertise is part of what Encounter says sets its custom hats apart from the rest.

Caught in the wild with Henry H. Holdsworth

A new selection of work captures uncharted experiences in familiar territory.

his Wild

Wild By Nature Gallery

95 W. Deloney Ave.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Sunday WildByNatureShop.com

By Lacey McNeff

Fphotographer Henry H. Holdsworth will be talking about his behind-the-scenes moments from his newest show “Intimate Encounters.”

or Henry H. Holdsworth, wildlife photography is much more than taking photos.

“It’s gaining insight through interaction with other living creatures,” he said.

In the past year, Holdsworth has

been traveling less and spending more time getting back to his roots: photographing the landscapes and wildlife of his backyard, the Tetons and Yellowstone. During this time Holdsworth has encountered numerous wildlife and captured incredible images of bears, owls, elk, bison, swans, moose and the northern lights.

“I can never seem to have enough moose encounters,” Holdsworth said.

“Generationally, they come through on the same path, older moose — with their new calves — whom I

probably photographed 20 years ago. There are not that many places that animals are so comfortable, and we are able to witness their circle of life.”

In this intimate selection of work the photographer captures the raw emotion in his encounters with wildlife, from vigilant bear cubs to regal elk to relaxed and smiling moose.

Holdsworth has spent many years photographing the northern lights, in Iceland, Alaska and Hudson Bay in the Canadian Artic, but it was his encounter with them at Wilson bridge this

June that wowed him. “It was the most colorful I’ve seen them and the colors changed so frequently,” he said.

Holdsworth will be in the gallery during the Fall Arts Festival, happy to chat about his exploits and runins with Great Grey Owls in his new show “Intimate Encounters.” The opening reception will take place during the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6.

Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

At

by Nature gallery, Jackson

Brookover reintroduces color

Two rising photographers will be featured this month, highlighting wildlife and ranch life.

Brookover Gallery

125 N. Cache St.

BrookoverGallery.com

Photographers Ryane Nicole and Isaac Spotts will be at the gallery all day on Sept. 11 to speak about their featured images.

By Toby Koekkoek

For this year’s Fall Arts Festival the Brookover Gallery will be featuring images by photographers David Brookover, Ryane Nicole and the gallery’s newest photographer, Isaac Spotts.

The Brookover Gallery’s longevity and success can be attributed to Brookover’s steadfast appreciation of, and dedication to, traditional photographic processes. He started the gallery in 2001, and it boasts one of the country’s largest collections of traditional prints, including silver gelatin prints and platinum/ palladium prints.

When you use strong metals like silver or platinum to make up the value of the image, the most stunning blacks/whites or sepia tones are created, plus it adds value and longevity to the images, Brookover explained to the News&Guide. However, the digital world of photography has gotten to a point where it is too amazing to overlook, even for Brookover, who has always been known for his execution of “old school” printing styles.

This year, Brookover is reintroducing color prints to his predominantly black-andwhite collection. On display for the festival will be Brookover’s new dramatic documentation of Oxbow Bend, titled “Teaser Before the Northern Lights Descend,” taken on Mother’s Day earlier this year.

While Brookover has been transitioning to a more modern realm of photography, Ryane Nicole has leaned into the gallery’s traditional 19th-centurystyle prints.

Brookover inspired her to invest in this type of printing while she apprenticed with the photographer. And then last year, Brookover introduced her during Fall Arts. He was impressed by her commitment to craft and choice of subject matter, and she is returning for another art season. She focuses on capturing the untold tales on a ranch, often finding the less-observed aspects of cowboy life.

“I try to capture a different, softer side of a cowboy that we

don’t usually get to see,” she said. Her photos simultaneously portray an emotional yet gritty sensation.

Up-and-coming wildlife photographer Isaac Spotts will have his first show at Brookover Gallery this month. The 24-yearold photographer picked up a camera at the age of 8 and cut his teeth, messing around and shooting photos at some of the local zoos in his home state of Florida.

“My parents would drive me, and man, I would just spend

hours at certain enclosures to try and get the pictures of the animals at the zoo,” Spotts said.

“So I’ve really been obsessed with photography since I was a little kid.”

But Spotts never felt quite at home in Florida, and it was always his dream as a kid to “live in a cabin in the woods in the mountains.”

His move to the Tetons eight years ago came as a natural progression with his passion for wildlife photography. Brookover called Spotts one of the “most talented and exciting wildlife photographers in the valley.”

Spotts recently returned from a trip to Alaska, where he shot some of his most impressive images to date, including a close-up of a big Alaskan brown bear. For Fall Arts, Spotts will have six limited-edition acrylic prints at Brookover Gallery, including a large print of the Alaskan brown bear. The photographer said that shot has turned out to be one of his favorite photographs that he has ever taken.

Ryane Nicole and Spotts will be at the gallery on Sept. 11 to share about their shows in this year’s festival. Brookover Gallery will be pairing up for the 23rd time with Amangani for Palates and Palettes on Sept. 6. The gallery will not be participating in the Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk. Contact Toby Koekkoek via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

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David Brookover ‘s new work, “Teaser Before the Northern Lights Descend,” was taken on Mother’s Day earlier this year.

Photographer Thomas Mangelsen has for the past several years been making excursions to the Riverton-Lander area to capture portraits of the wild horses that roam in that part of Wyoming and to witness efforts by the federal government to round them up and remove them from the landscape.

Globetrotting photographer endures ups and downs

Mangelsen — Images of Nature Gallery

170 N. Cache

Open 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. daily Mangelsen.com/Jackson

By Richard Anderson

World-famous wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen said he didn’t really travel much this past year on shooting expeditions — just Ethiopia and Kenya, India, France and Italy, in addition to his usual time spent with Grand Teton National Park’s grizzly bears and a month or so with his more recent passionate cause, the wild horses in Wyoming’s Lander-Riverton area.

“I got some good shots” of the wild horses, said the 78-year-old Nebraska native, who has gone out four or five times over the past five years with fellow photographer and wild horse advocate Jim Brown. “Got some shots of them at watering holes, out feeding, fighting.”

And he photographed as federal agencies rounded them up with helicopters in an effort to remove up to 90 percent of the herd in this particular management area.

“It’s pretty ugly to see 100 horses running beneath helicopters ... for 30 minutes,” he said. “That was not fun at all. I photographed it mostly to help Jim document it, to the get PR out there … about saving these horses and trying to stop some of these roundups.”

Cattle and sheep ranchers in the region say the wild horses are destroying the range, but Mangelsen sees the animals as victims of politics, bureaucracy and money. Like wolves, wild horses live in bands and family groups that get broken up by the operation. In addition to stallions, which are sterilized or killed upon capture, foals, some just days or weeks old, and pregnant mares are chased from the air.

“Everything about it is just wrong,” he said. “It’s heartbreaking to see ... a real American tragedy.”

On a somewhat happier note, last summer Mangelsen and a small group of six or seven floated the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, staying in tribal villages along the way.

“These tribes have been living there for millennia,” Mangelsen said, “living today pretty much as they have for thousands of years, pretty much untouched by white people.”

The trip on the remote and wild river was a “real adventure,” he said, but the people he encountered along the way “couldn’t have been nicer or more welcoming” and were “very open to us photographing.”

Some are known for their magnificent beadwork, necklaces and bracelets, as well as copper work, he said.

They also paint elaborate designs on their faces and bodies, and use decorative body scarification.

An area of southeastern Ethiopia, about the size of Missouri, is designated as tribal lands and “somewhat” protected, Mangelsen said. The people there raise cows and goats, primarily for milk, and plant crops in the nutrient-rich deposits the river lays down during flood season. However, as growing cities in the north demand more of the Omo’s waters, more dams have been built and are planned, threatening the age-old flood cycle.

“Without the river’s natural flooding … these people are in deep trouble,” Mangelsen said. “These tribes are in danger of disappearing.

“It seems like wherever you go, whether it be bears or horses or in this case people, they are all threatened by something,” he said.

One of the few exceptions to that rule Mangelsen documented in southern France. For hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, the lush marshes and wetlands of the Camargue area, in the delta where the Rhône River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, have been home to a breed of small, gray-white horses. They still live semi-wild in the area, where since at least 1600 humans there have preserved them and used them as work animals.

“They are beautiful people who protect the horses and herd some of them daily to the lush marshes and wetlands along the coastline,” Mangelsen said.

His Africa trip also included time in Kenya to photograph elephants and Grévy’s zebra, the world’s largest wild equine and the most threatened of the three zebra species, as well as other animals.

“There has been a long drought there, and we watched the elephants as they dug for water in the dry riverbeds with their trunks and feet,” Mangelsen said. “Many animals were emaciated, a big contrast to the Mara a few hours by air to the south with lush green grasses and plains filled with thousands of wildebeest, other antelope, cheetahs, lions and leopards.”

After that, he flew to New Delhi, India, to visit three parks and photograph Bengal tigers — “My favorite cat on Earth!” he said.

Finally, “In November we spent a couple of weeks in Italy mostly photographing people, the countryside and drinking wine” — not a bad end of an eventful, if emotional, year.

Mangelsen promised new prints of both African wildlife and tigers for Fall Arts Festival, along with images from his Omo adventure, portraits of wild horses in Wyoming and France, and, of course, fresh shots of Grizzly 399, 610 and their recent offspring.

Contact Richard Anderson via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

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Blake Luther’s “Overstory,” a 16-by-16-inch oil on panel, is hanging at Foxtrot Fine Art in Driggs, Idaho, in the end-of-summer show, “Farm to Table,” which celebrates all facets of the local food system.

Paint like a fox

Foxtrot Fine Art noon- 6 p.m. Friday-Sunday or by appointment

160 E. Little Ave. in Driggs, Idaho FoxtrotFineArt.com

An opening reception for the ‘Farm to Table’ show will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6

By Tibby Plasse

Katy Fox’s entry into her first QuickDraw might be called unconventional. Heather James Fine Art did not represent any living artists the year Fox first participated in the event. Fox knew how to fashion a floor.

“I was a living artist,” she said. “And I artfully mopped their floor before they nominated me.”

Fox thinks that was about eight years ago. What keeps her coming back to the QuickDraw’s timed trial and uncertain painting conditions?

“Really it’s the artists’ outfits; I mean it.”

and a print roller at Tribe Artist Collective. Her painting “Shiny and Forgiving” is part of the “Farm to Table” show at her gallery.

“I’ve done a lot of projects, and I think I’ve done pretty well, and I’m proud and grateful,” she said.

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Fox has been forging her path in the Jackson art scene since 2012. The Idaho native hails from Grangeville. She moved to San Francisco for her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Academy of Art University and then found her way to east Idaho by way of the Driggs Plein Air Festival before landing in Jackson.

“We

live

in the very cool place where you really can live off the land and just buy local.”

Fox laughs about her identity in the Tetons. Belonging to both Idaho and Wyoming, her gallery, Foxtrot Fine Art, is in Driggs, Idaho, but she still spends much of the week commuting the pass and teaching ceramics in Jackson when she’s not painting.

As a gallery owner Fox is celebrating artists she’s grown through the ranks with as well as curating a roster with a strong regional constituency. Some of the upand-coming names Fox can’t exclaim enough about will be showing during the Fall Arts Festival in Foxtrot Fine Art’s “Farm to Table” show.

— Katy Fox

OWNER

ARTIST AND GALLERY

A relentless creator, Fox has inhabited all the corners of the Jackson scene: the Jackson Hole Art Association, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, commissions for the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, her owl on the Jackson Hole Still Works Great Grey Gin label, and murals in Jackson and Driggs.

“Industrious” falls short when describing the dog-loving 2023 Wyoming Woman Artist to Watch nominee.

“We live in the very cool place where you really can live off the land and just buy local. People actually do it here — I love that and all parts of that story. So, there’s going to be livestock, fields, plants and definitely food in the show.”

Blake Luther, Jessi West Lundeen and Ned Axthelm are among the featured artists depicting the local food system on canvas. Fox will also have work in “Farm to Table.”

The high-energy painter, ceramics artist, woodblock printer and occasional sewer will be out and about during Fall Arts. She is participating in both the annual QuickDraw and Tribe Artist Collective’s Steamroller Printmaking Festival as well as in the Teton Artlab’s Studio Tour.

Contact Tibby Plasse via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

During Fall Arts, Katy Ann Fox will be seen on both sides of the Tetons as a QuickDraw participant, the host at her gallery, Foxtrot Fine Art,

(Left to Right) Row 1: Jerry Markham, Dustin Van Wechel, Row 2: Kathryn Mapes Turner, Robert Duncan, Row 3: Edward Aldrich, Row 4: Brett James Smith, Guy Combes, Daniel Smith

(Left to Right) Row 1: Jerry Markham, Dustin Van Wechel, Row 2: Kathryn Mapes Turner, Robert Duncan, Row 3: Edward Aldrich, Row 4: Brett James Smith, Guy Combes, Daniel Smith

(Left to Right) Row 1: Jerry Markham, Dustin Van Wechel, Row 2: Kathryn Mapes Turner, Robert Duncan, Row 3: Edward Aldrich, Row 4: Brett James Smith, Guy Combes, Daniel Smith

Western art lives on

West Lives On’s artists offer diversity in genre and perspective.

West Lives On Gallery

75 N. Glenwood St.

Open 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday WestLivesOn.com

By Christina Assante

For over 20 years, West Lives On Gallery, opened and owned by Terry Ray, has featured a curated selection of artists, local and national, with a specialty focus on Western wildlife, landscape and limited-edition bronze statues. The gallery has divided its collections and expanded to include a contemporary focus in addition to its traditional collection at its retail space in the Wort Plaza.

“Jackson has become a large player in the art market, especially for collectors, in the past several years,” said Ray, who has seen the growing number of collectors firsthand. “You can see more art in one day in Jackson than a year or two elsewhere.”

Some of Ray’s first artists, Robert Harper, Danny Edwards, R.C. Jones and Reid Christie, are still represented by West Lives On.

This festival, Ray is proud to showcase one of the 2024 featured artists, Roger Ore. Ore paints Western pan-

oramas with oils; his work is praised for the realism and detail he achieves with intensive brushwork.

Ore’s featured work this year, “Nature’s Playground,” which is being hung in The Wort Hotel, will be auctioned during the Saturday QuickDraw event on Sept. 14. Be sure to catch the Utah native artist signing posters at West Lives On from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11. From wildlife sculpture to baskets to canvases covered in bison, big horn sheep, bears and foxes, West Lives On carries the torch for the multitudes of Western aesthetics and interpretations for the wonder of the wild in the Jackson art market. The diverse selection makes it impossible to walk out of the gallery empty-handed.

Festivities at West Lives On kick off with Palates and Palettes on Friday, Sept. 6, and run through the Fall Arts, concluding with the Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk on Sunday, Sept. 15. For the brunch the gallery will be serving bloody marys and omelets with an on-site chef. Enjoy the culinary arts and final gallery visits as Jackson bids the Fall Arts Festival farewell. Contact Christina Assante via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

A regular on the Western art circuit, West Lives On artist Laurie Lee will be competing in this year’s QuickDraw during the Fall Arts Festival.

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A founding member of the Russell Skull Society of Artists, Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey will be on the Town Square for the 2024 QuickDraw with her perspective on the American West. Pictured here is Cawdrey’s dye on silk “The Maine Event.”

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10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13

$125 for the self-guided tour

Tickets are available through Eventbrite

By Lacey McNeff

Who isn’t curious about what’s behind the front door of Jackson Hole’s most exclusive properties? Here’s your chance to find out.

The Annual Showcase of Homes returns to the Fall Arts Festival with a stellar lineup of private residences that champion their natural habitat in their designs. Embracing natural light and assimilating into the beauty of the surrounding landscapes, the self-guided tour is a must-do for decor fanatics.

A four-bedroom, threebath, reimagined by CK Design Group and Formascent Architects, Glory View, is situated along Fish Creek. The creek runs along the base of the Teton Mountains and is renowned for its incredible fly-fishing in Jackson Hole.

Glory View showcases the amazing views from every room in the house and highlights the indoors with wood and stone accents.

In the 12 years of the tour,

The Fall Arts Festival’s Showcase of Homes Tour provides exclusive entry to private residences, where attendees can examine the interior design, home decor and artwork.

“we have had overwhelming success,” organizer Latham Jenkins said.

“People love the easy pace, moving around the valley, and experiencing different types of homes,” he said.

What makes this event unique, is that it’s not just an open house walk-through; the professionals responsible for designing and building the home are there to explain their work.

“Much like a docent giving you a museum tour, you get the inside story on how they collaborated on the home,” Jenkins said.

Next stop on the Show-

case, Grande Terre, is a 6,400-square-foot home on 6 acres in Wilson, created by Farmer Payne Architects and Creative Building Solutions. The five-bed, three-bath captures views of the Tetons, Snake River and enjoys a pond just below the property. It’s nothing short of an idyllic mountain sanctuary.

The third property is a 7,000-square-foot, five-bed, five-bath home a short distance from the South Entrance of Grand Teton National Park. Finding Solitude was built in 2018, and Maison Studio and JH Builders remodeled the home to bet-

Design professionals responsible for each property in the

of Homes will be on-site to explain their work, so tour participants will get the inside story on how they collaborated on the home.

ter align its interior with the surrounding landscape. The team celebrated the drama of the Tetons indoors with a massive accordion glass and steel door. The effect is a seamless view that extends throughout the home.

The self-guided tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13. Tick -

ets cost $125 and all proceeds benefit nonprofits chosen by homeowners. The hosts of Glory View had chosen Habitat for Humanity Teton County at the time of press. The remaining beneficiaries were still to be announced. Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

The Smiling Moose by Henry H. Holdsworth

Four decades of Fall Arts

By Richard Anderson

It may not have been a soaring success, but it wasn’t a flop, either. And it has over the past 40 years grown into one of the region’s most significant cultural events of the year.

The inaugural Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival ran Sept. 6-15, 1985, fueled by confidence in the area’s creative community, a $2,500 grant from the Wyoming Travel Commission, matched by the Chamber of Commerce, and hopes of giving the valley’s lackluster economy a bump.

Newspapers of the day carried articles and opinions about the financial state of the region. A cartoon by Rob Pudim (still the editorial cartoonist for the News&Guide to this day) depicted a broken-down vehicle labeled “JH Economy.” An editorial in the Jackson Hole News proclaimed “that Jackson Hole needs to upgrade and intensify tourism promotion efforts.”

Back then, the first bursts of autumn color didn’t just herald the end of summer.

“I remember when Labor Day hit, about two days after it was like crickets chirping,” said Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Rick Howe, who moved to the valley in 1982.

Winter — and the winter

JIM EVANS / NEWS&GUIDE FILE

Arts for the Parks patrons study the Top 100 during silent bidding before the banquet at Jackson Lake Lodge in September 1994.

JIM EVANS / NEWS&GUIDE FILE

John Simms secures one of his bison sculptures in July 1996 before it is moved to Bellevue, Washington, from Teton Pines.

tourism crowd — was four months off, with little else to generate revenues.

“Certainly was hard to make a living for a lot of people,” said Marylee White, who covered the arts for the News back then and has held many artsrelated jobs in the valley since. “There were so few particularly professional jobs. ... You had to be creative to make it in Jackson Hole.”

Art history

“The arts were here before the money,” Jackson Hole native and acclaimed oil and watercolor painter Kathryn Mapes Turner observed.

“There has always been an impulse to render this valley,” said Turner, whose great-grandparents came to area in the 1920s, buying what became Triangle X Ranch. “There’s just something in the water here that brings out the creativity in people.”

Photographer William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran brought images of the region’s wonders to folks back East and helped convince Congress to create the wo rld’s first national park. Early settlers had little choice but to practice creative pursuits if they wanted more than drab survival in this harsh and isolated area, whether that meant crafty touches to their homesteads, toys for their children or music for around the hearth.

The rise of the dude ranch in the valley, around 1910, brought the first waves of tourists to the then mostly agricultural valley, which in turn spurred other commercial endeavors. Painterphotographer Harrison Crandall built a studio on Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park in 1925.

Painter Archie Boyd Teater built the tiny log cabin just north of the Town Square around 1940 to serve as his studio. And Conrad Schwiering, who came to the area in the late 1940s, sold his canvases on the square and out of the lobby of The Wort Hotel for $25. (They sell for tens of thousands of dollars now.)

In 1961, the Jackson Hole Fine Arts Guild formed to present classical music concerts (now known as the Grand Teton Music Festival), screen foreign films and hold fine art exhibitions, which spun off to become the Art Association of Jackson Hole. Another of the valley’s flagship arts nonprofits, Dancers’ Workshop, organized in 1972.

Dick Flood opened the town’s first art gallery,

Trailside, in 1963, and Jim Wilcox opened his north of town in 1969. Before the end of the ’70s, Jackson was home to a couple dozen purveyors of Western and Native American art and crafts, and by the mid-’80s, Jackson Hole was getting something of a reputation as an arts town. There was even an art scandal when the cover of the Jackson

Hole telephone directory depicted a painting of a female derriere sheathed in tight denim, a story that made national news.

“I think the cover was done without taste and is degrading to the area of Jackson Hole,” Doris Stalker, marketing director of Grand Teton Lodge

“Waco Kid” by Bill Schenck was the Fall Arts Festival’s first promotional artwork.

RYAN DORGAN

The West Bank Grill at the Four Seasons offered a sample of diver scallop and spinach octopus during the 2018 Fall Arts Festival’s Taste of the Tetons at the Town Square.

KELLY GLASSCOCK / NEWS&GUIDE FILE

Patrons sip wine in September 2004 during the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk at the West Lives On Gallery.

Company, said in a UPI wire report.

Howe recalls the Historic Downtown Business Association looking at visitor demographics and realizing that summer tourists were generally families with kids who had to be back in school by early September. “But they said, ‘Wait, there’s this whole large other demographic we haven’t reached out to,’” he said.

Suzanne Young, chamber director in 1985, suggested in the Jackson Hole Guide that the arts were a natural pull. “This place can be a real mecca,” she said.

A ‘clean business’

“Art is a clean business and needs to be promoted,” Jennie Promack, owner of Powder River Gallery and a festival organizer, told the local press.

Community leaders fell in line, and a headline in the Sept. 4, 1985, Jackson Hole News declared: “After years of talk, Festival nears reality.”

Organizers planned 10 days of gallery shows, parties, live music and theater. Jackson Lake Lodge opened its Mural Room to show off Carl Roters’ scenes from the Western frontier, and Grand Teton National Park offered tours of the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum.

“Waco Kid,” a painting by Bill Schenck, who at that time called Jackson Hole home, was selected for the very first Fall Arts Festival poster. Most every gallery had a special exhibition, featuring names that art patrons will recognize today (like Skip Whitcomb, Glen Edwards, Olaf Wieghorst, Bob Kuhn, John Clymer, Gerald Balciar), local figures (Ed Riddell, Fred Kingwill, Jim Wilcox, Thomas Mangelsen) and even deceased masters of the West (Charles M. Russell, William R. Leigh, Frank Tenney Johnson).

Then, as now, The Wort Hotel was Fall Arts Headquarters, hosting an Art Collector’s Dinner, a multi-gallery expo and the Beaux Arts Ball, with attendees costumed as famous artists, or figures or tableaux from famous works. Peter Hassick, director of Cody’s Buffalo Bill Historical Center, showed slides from the center’s Whitney Gallery. Local gallerists and experts presented on Southwestern pottery. The Artist’s Co-op, ancestor of Off Square Theatre, put on a show, and valley musicians of-

fered a Gershwin showcase.

How did it go?

When it was all over and done, the Sept. 18 Jackson News reported, “Many gallery owners said business was good during the festival, but they didn’t feel it could be attributed to the event.” Write wrote: “Several gallery owners said they were often asked where the arts festival was.”

The Beaux Arts Ball sold fewer than 50 tickets, according to the Guide, far short of the goal of 200 to 300. “[A] lthough it was described as a pretty good party.” (Stalker, the Lodge Company employee, won the costume contest dressed to depict the infamous telephone directory cover.) The Art Collector’s Dinner had a “disturbing” turnout of “about 25,” though one diner said the meal The Wort served was “the finest she had ever enjoyed.” And the big multi-gallery expo, which was changed to a “traveling cocktail party” at the last minute, “did not meet with much success.”

But, while first returns indicated that “it did not generate a lot of new revenue for local business,” the Guide’s post-fest editorial read, “it did draw the community together in a joint venture.”

Even before the festival opened, Promack told the News, “We’ve talked

about it for years and now that it is going to happen ... makes it a success.”

She predicted it would become something the whole community would get behind. The general consensus was to not judge the endeavor based on its first attempt, and that it had a lot of potential.

The Guide gave kudos to the chamber, Young and other organizers “for staging a major show with a minimum of glitches ... And let’s do it all over again next year. And the next. Who knows, in as few as five years, with proper promotion, the Festival could become the premier arts/social event of the Intermountain West.”

Prophetic words

Paging through old editions of the Jackson Hole News and Jackson Hole Guide shows speedy growth in subsequent years. New events were added, like a multiday symposium with speakers from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., a seminar with the celebrated poet Marvin Bell and a course with Terry Tempest Williams. The gallery community swelled to 40 or more, with a new genre, “contemporary Western art,” represented by Martin-Harris and Center Street galleries starting in the early ’90s.

“It’s almost as if the Fall Arts Festival created a little kick-start for the economy and then it went from there,” White, still a Teton County resident, said. Everyone wanted in on it, making good on Promack’s promise. Teton Science School displayed its collection of Olaus Murie’s illustrated journals. Local teen artist Lucas Day had a show of his snowboard art. The Jackson Hole Pub and Brewery offered tours of its operations, and sandwich joint Bomber’s Bump N’ Grind hosted a show of equine art. Arts for the Parks, a national competition in which artists depicted scenes from national parks and historic monuments, attracted thousands of entrants vying for $100,000 in cash prizes. There was a Mountain Film Festival, tours of historic homes and, in 1988, the first installment of Quilting in the Tetons, celebrated on that year’s Fall Arts poster with a “double wedding ring” quilt by Jackson’s JoElla Taylor.

In 1987, the Wildlife of the American West Museum opened on Center Street to display Bill and Joffa Kerr’s collection. It held its first miniature show and sale a couple of years later, which turned into the enormously successful Western Visions show after the modest in-town museum moved north and became the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

In 1995, the festival added the QuickDraw, originally at Spring Creek Ranch on East Gros Ventre Butte and eventually brought to the Town Square, where it became one of the festival’s signature events. The “traveling cocktail party” was rebranded Palates and Palettes and turned into the official kickoff to the annual festival, with a culinary arts twist added when galleries coupled up with area restaurants, chefs and caterers.

2007 saw the first Jackson Hole Art Auction, an enormous affair with hundreds of works by contemporary and deceased artists that brought to town coveted high-end cultural tourists. And those few pages of coverage in the 1985 and ’86 editions of the local papers swelled, with the News publishing its first 28-page supplement in 1989 that within five years grew to 64 pages, reached more than 100 pages pre-COVID pandemic, and still bulks

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The Jackson Hole Art Auction, seen here in 2010, is an event at which high-end paintings and sculptures change hands. The auction debuted in 2007 and now takes place annually in mid-September during the Fall Arts Festival.

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The QuickDraw, seen here in September 2009, has been one of the Fall Arts Festival’s staples since it debuted in 1997.

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Fall Arts Festival events have come and gone — the art symposium, the film festival, Arts for the Park and Quilting in the Tetons all waned and faded for various reasons. Over the past 10 years or so, the focus has tightened more on fine art, with music and theater and other forms ceding the season to painting, sculpting and photography. (The culinary arts still enjoy attention in events like Palates and Palettes and the Taste of the Tetons.)

“The festival evolves each year,” Howe said. Each year after the end of the festival, a committee of business people, gallery owners and chamber reps meets to talk about what was successful and what might need tweaking.

“What can we do to make it better?” Howe said. “What do we change, what remains, and what do people want to see? We get feedback the entire time about

what’s going on and what do people want.”

Art, he said, is what defines a community, and communities are fluid.

“Every day, every week, every year, you see variations,” he concluded. “Anyone who has been here a few years has seen a lot of change. That’s true with the art world, too..”

While he declined to make predictions about what Fall Arts might look like in 10, 20, 40 years, the process suggests it will live on for the foreseeable future.

As the editorial in the Sept. 4, 1985, Jackson Hole News observed, “It is a cliche ... that Jackson Hole will always have its share of visitors as long as Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks are what they are. For the most part the same attitude has prevailed concerning the art community. Western artists and galleries will naturally come to Jackson Hole as long [as] the Tetons remain for a backdrop and cowboys pose abasing fence rails.”

Contact Richard Anderson via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

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The Cowboy Jubilee, seen in this file photo from September 2006 at Mainstage Theatre, was once a part of Fall Arts Festival.

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Let them be inspired

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By Lacey McNeff

Amy Ringholz wants to inspire art fans to fall in love with the West.

“I continue to push my work in all directions to grow and inspire my audience towards loving the West and following their own dreams,” she told the News&Guide.

With Wyoming’s vast skylines and many delicate details, it should come as no surprise that the Jackson resident for over 20 years is creating art for all sizes and budgets, and in many modalities: oils, acrylics, ink and graphite. Ringholz, in 2012 at the age of 34, was named the youngestever featured artist for the Fall Arts Festival.

Her Fall Arts solo show “Wild Blue Yonder” opens Tuesday, Sept. 10, with a reception from 5-8 p.m. Accompanying the artist will be Tom Georges on guitar, “and food and drinks flowing throughout the space.”

“I’ll have a wide selection of new works available including landscapes and watercolors. Small works will be around $1,000 to large, impressive pieces for large spaces,” Ringholz said.

Ringholz Studios will be participating in the Palates and Palettes Free Gallery Walk, celebrating the art community convening in town with demonstrations and engaging activities.

“Getting seasoned collectors and fresh art-loving eyes excited about art and art making is what the Fall Arts is all about. Every year, I try to bring out fresh ideas and inspiration during September!” Ringholz said.

This will be Ringholz’s 15th year painting in the QuickDraw event.

“I’m proud to be a part of such a well-loved art event, and sophisticated art community,” she said.

On Sunday during the Sunday Art Brunch Free Gallery Walk, Ringholz will lead her annual art talk, reflecting on what life is like as an artist and gallery owner before opening up the event for a community Q&A.

Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Amy Ringholz’s oil and gouache paintings of local wildlife such as “The Fight Within” capture the dynamic layers of personality in each portrait. Her new style is looser and engaging.

2024 Fall Arts Festival Calendar

Wednesday, Sept. 4

Artist’s reception for Colt Idol , 4-7 p.m. at Mountain Trails Gallery.

Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts, 5-7 p.m. at The Wort Hotel Showroom. Wine expert pairs bottles with jewelry designers from the Western Design Conference. Tickets $50.

Thursday, Sept. 5

Western Design Conference Preview Party & Fashion Show , 6-10 p.m. at Snow King Sports and Events Center. Meet and shop with this year’s artists, designers and exhibitors, experience a runway fashion show and participate in the live auction during a festive night of shopping and entertainment. Enjoy signature cocktails, open bars and catering all night. General admission: $100, VIP $175 includes reserved seats with 5:30pm early entry. All tickets include open bars, catering.

Friday, Sept. 6

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. plus daily 2 p.m. happy hour at Snow King Sports and Events Center. One hundred national artists present contemporary and traditional handcrafted, original creations of furniture, fashion, jewelry, and accessories for the home. Tickets: $30.

Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, 5-8 p.m. at Jackson galleries. Kick off the 2024 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. Participating galleries pair with local restaurants and beverage makers to serve food and drink as you browse the art. Free.

Opening reception for “Farm to Table,” 5 p.m.at Foxtrot Fine Art in Driggs, Idaho. Artists on exhibit include Blake Luther, Jessi West Lundeen, Katy Fox and Ned Axthelm.

Saturday, Sept. 7

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. plus daily 2 p.m. happy hour at Snow King Sports and Events Center. One hundred national artists present contemporary and traditional handcrafted, original creations of furniture, fashion, jewelry, and accessories for the home. Tickets: $30.

Kevin Courter Opening, 11 a.m.1 p.m. at Horizon Fine Art. Courter’s new show “Land and Hooves” is accompanied by live music from Zach Freidhof.

Western Visions Exhibit Opening , 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art. Western Vi sions is the museum’s largest and longest-running fundraiser, with top contemporary wildlife artists and collectors from around the world.

A Conversation with Robert Buelteman, 2 p.m. at Shari Brownfield Fine Art. Bay-area photographer discusses his series of landscape and cameraless images.

Borbay cocktail party, 5-9 p.m. at Borbay Studios & Gallery, Victor, Idaho. Open house exploring Borbay’s Guggenheim project, neons and other forays into popular culture.

Thomas Mangelsen artist reception , 5-8 p.m.at Mangelsen’s Images of Nature Gallery.

Sunday, Sept. 8

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. plus daily 2 p.m. happy hour at Snow King Sports and Events Center. One hundred national artists present contemporary and traditional handcrafted, original creations of furniture, fashion, jewelry, and accessories for the home. Tickets: $30.

Arts on the Green, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on the Center for the Arts Lawn. View and purchase art, jewelry, and more from 50-plus local creatives. Local entertainment, food and drinks all afternoon. Adult tickets $6, kids 12 and under free.

Tuesday, Sept. 10

”The Places We Go” open house, 10-6 p.m. at ArtShop in Moose. ArtShop celebrates its artists and locale with treats, drinks and special guests including the Teton Plein Air Painters group at nearby Dornan’s and demonstrations with Emily Yeates and Anna Douglas Smith.

Opening reception for “Wild Blue Yonder,” 5-8 p.m. at Ringholz Studios. Amy Ringholz’s new solo show opens.

Wednesday, Sept. 11

Featured Artist poster signing with Bryce Pettit, noon-4 p.m. at Mountain Trails Gallery. Meet the 2024 Fall Arts Festival featured sculptor, Bryce Pettit, offering signed copies of this year’s featured poster “Born & Raised.” Signed posters $55, unsigned $45.

Opening reception for “Gradation,” 2-6 p.m at Gallery Wild. Carrie Wild’s new solo show opens.

Featured Artist poster signing with Roger Ore, 5-8 p.m. at West Lives On Gallery, in the traditional gallery. Meet the festival’s featured painter and get signed copies of this year’s featured poster “Nature’s Playground.” Signed posters $55, unsigned $45.

Painting demonstration with Shannon Marie, 5-8 p.m. at West Lives On in the contemporary gallery.

Jackson Hole Gallery Association Art Walk, 5-8 p.m. at Jackson galleries. Pick up a Gallery Guide at the Visitor Information Tent on the Town Square for a list and map of all galleries and other art walk dates.

Thursday, Sept. 12

Western Visions Show and Sale, 5-8:30 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art. Top contemporary wildlife artists come together with international collectors at the museum’s longest-running fundraiser. Open public sale begins Fri-

day, Sept. 15. Tickets: $210. Artist’s reception for Geoffrey Gersten, 5-7 p.m. at Altamira Fine Art.

Friday, Sept. 13

Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Jackson Hole’s favorite home tour highlights the diversity of architecture and design in the valley. Selfguided tour allows attendees to experience homes in a range of architectural styles, and to meet the architects, landscapes architects, builders, and designers behind each project. Tickets $125, available at HomesteadMag.com.

Jackson Hole Art Auction Preview, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. View all the art that will hit the auction block on Saturday and register for the auction.

Saturday, Sept. 14

Jackson Hole QuickDraw & Auction 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Town Square. Internationally recognized Western, wildlife, and landscape artists take to the Town Square and create incredible works of art in 90 minutes. Finished pieces auctioned while paint is still wet. Bidder paddle: $25, free to spectators.

Wilcox Gallery QuickDraw artists’ reception, to follow QuickDraw at Wilcox Gallery on the Town Square.

QuickDraw artists’ reception, to follow QuickDraw at Horizon Fine Art. Join Gleb Goloubetski, Sofia Goloubetski, Joe McKay and Benjamin Walter with live music from Zach Freidhof.

Jackson Hole Art Auction, 10 a.m. at the Center for the Arts. In its 18th year, the Jackson Hole Art Auction offers masterworks of the American West, wildlife art and more in one of the most highly-anticipated art auctions of the year.

Teton Artlab Teton Valley Studio Tour, noon-6 p.m. in various locations in Teton Valley, Idaho. See behind the scenes with local creatives Dave McNally, Travis Walker and Mike Piggott. See participating art-

ists and addresses via TetonArtlab.com. It Came From the Super Volcano reception, 5-7 p.m. at Teton ArtLab, 7168 S. Highway 33 (upstairs from Atelier Coffee). 40th Anniversary Party: Paint the Town Red, 6-9 p.m. on the Cloudveil Rooftop. Dress in red attire and celebrate four decades of the festival.

Sunday, Sept. 15

Artist Exhibition and Brunch, 10 a.m.noon at Mountain Trails Gallery.

”Roll It Out” Steamroller Printmaking Festival, 10 a.m. in Tetonia, Idaho. Presented by Tribe Arts Collective, Foxtrot Fine Art and with participating local artists, see how big prints get made when the block shuts down for an art party.

Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Jackson galleries. Say farewell to Fall Arts Festival 2024, including brunch bites, Bloody Marys, and mimosas available at the galleries. Free.

The Celebration Salon, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Diehl Gallery. Salon-style installation of works by Diehl Gallery artists who have been juried into the National Museum of Wildlife Art Western Visions Show & Sale, includes work from Claire Brewster, Helen Durant, Sarah Hillock, Kollabs, Les Thomas and JenMarie Zeleznak.

Art talk with Amy Ringholz, noon at Ringholz Studios. Talk craft and life with the artist behind some of the most recognized animal portraits in Jackson.

Teton Artlab Teton Valley Studio Tour, noon-6 p.m in various locations in Teton Valley, Idaho. See behind the scenes with local creatives Dave McNally, Travis Walker and Mike Piggott. See participating artists and addresses via TetonArtlab.com.

Monday, Sept. 16

Star Valley Plein Air Festival, Main Street in Afton. Festival runs through Sept. 21 and includes a QuickDraw event 3-6 p.m. Sept. 17 on Main Street in Afton.

Douglas Schneider’s “Morning Glories” is on exhibit at Diehl Gallery during Fall Arts Festival. See article on page 5B.

By Jeannette Boner

Looking for escape and adventure just like Max in “Where the Wild Things Are”?

Look no further than the artistic offerings presented at Gallery Wild in downtown Jackson.

There you’ll find today’s most prolific and exciting artists who are defining contemporary fine art in work inspired by wildlife, open spaces and conservation.

The gallery features collections from established and emerging artists who work in a variety of mediums, including oil and acrylic paint, bronze sculpture, mixed media and photography, according to the gallery’s mission.

“Our mission is to inspire our collectors and impassion others to help protect wildlife and wild places for future generations through the acquisition and enjoyment of fine art,” writes Carrie Wild and Jason Williams, the husband-andwife team behind the grand adventure of the gallery.

During the Fall Arts Festival, Carrie Wild’s own show, “Gradation” is set to be unveiled on Sept. 11. The show will run through the

breadth of color to create the reflections of the wild lands that inspired her talents: grizzly bears, the Tetons, elk and owls.

“I’m so grateful for Gallery Wild and for their support, especially their support of so many incredible local and regional artists,” Gaitan said.

Other artists with work at the gallery include local Taryn Boals, whose work is inspired by American Western landscapes and wildlife. And then there is Montanabased artist Amber Blazina, a contemporary Western oil painter specializing in impressionist and expressionist alla prima methods. And Nebraska-based sculptor Sandy Graves is a must-see, as she started her career with the 4-H program in Colorado.

“Emotion, movement and beautiful composition are the elements which I infuse into each of my sculptures,” Graves said about her work.

“A sense of whimsy and fun is the first impression followed by the power that bronze evokes and the energy of the negative spaces.”

Gallery Wild is an important exploration of art on an adventure you didn’t know you needed to take.

“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”

Contact Jeannette Boner at 307-732-5901 or schools@ jhnewsandguide.com.

18th. The artist’s reception is planned for Sept. 11 starting at 2 p.m. and running

through 6 p.m.

New to the gallery this season is local artist Nicole

Gaitan. Her paintings offer a whimsical trip around the canvas as she uses a wide

This untitled painting of an owl by Nicole Gaitan measures 48 by 48 inches.

JACKSON HOLE FALL ARTS FESTIVAL 2024

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

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Gallery Wild artists will be painting & sculpting live throughout Fall Arts Festival

PALATES & PALLETES

GALLERY WALK

Friday, September 6th 5 - 8 pm

CARRIE WILD

GRADATION | ARTIST RECEPTION

Wednesday, September 11th 2-6pm

QUICKDRAW & ARTIST PARTY

FEATURING GALLERY WILD ARTISTS:

PATRICIA A. GRIFFIN, AMBER BLAZINA & AARON HAZEL

Saturday, September 14th

Quickdraw in the Town Square 8am-1pm

Artist Party at Gallery Wild 1-5pm

ALL ARTIST CELEBRATION BRUNCH & ART WALK

Sunday, September 15th, 11am-3pm

SILAS THOMPSON

CARRIE WILD

JEREMY BRADSHAW

AMBER BLAZINA

PATRICIA A. GRIFFIN

AARON HAZEL

DOYLE HOSTETLER

CALEB MEYER