Images West - 2014 Edition

2014 EDITION

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C O M P L I M E N TA R Y

THE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN JACKSON HOLE

WORKS | MUSIC | DANCE | THEATER | CALENDAR OF EVENTS | GALLERY & ARTIST DIRECTORIES

Charles M. Russell (United States, 1864 - 1926), To the Victor Belong the Spoils, 1901. Oil on Canvas. 31 1/2 x 44 1 /2 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Charles M. Russell.

Harmless Hunter The Wildlife Work of Charles M. Russell Exhibit Open May 17 – August 17, 2014 Organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Conjunction with the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma Curated by B. Byron Price, Director, Charles M. Russell Center and University of Oklahoma Press

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CONTENTS

FEATURES 16 A Grand Art Destination Early Teton painters blazed the trail for Jackson Hole to become a major art market.

22 Curating a Collection People choose pieces for the feelings they evoke or how they fit a space.

28 Ones to Watch These artists are about to be big. Really big.

34 The Harmless Hunter Beyond cowboys and Indians, Charles M. Russell mastered wildlife works, showcased this summer at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

8 ART SHORTS

WORKS

6 Art After Dark

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38 Party Time

Daytime distractions and bustle fall away.

8 New in Town

58 Music All Week

Receptions connect artists, patrons.

Hear classical, country, jazz most nights.

40 A Portrait of Philanthropy

Galleries pick up fresh painters this year.

10 Art for the People

42 Featured this Fall

Public pieces bring eye candy to streets.

11 Instruction by Immersion Learn about photography, fiction, dance.

12 Wine Auction Toasts to Twenty New strategy sets ticket sales on fire.

13 Edible Art

DANCE

Artists give back to favorite institutions.

60 Troupes in Residence

Festival highlights a painter, sculptor.

Big-city companies create connections.

46 Clay Community MudPots members find their bliss.

48 Serene Scenes

THEATER 62 Theater’s Teton Roots

Painters help preserve open spaces.

ON THE COVER

50 Wearable Works

Chefs make plates almost too pretty to eat.

14 Fine Design

Galleries display one-of-a-kind jewelry.

52 East in the West

Western Design Conference sells, expands.

How Communism created coveted talent.

54 Classic Forms Nudes take artists back to basics.

GUIDES

64 | Advertisers Directory

Thespians tell timeless tales.

65 | Gallery Map

66 | Artist Directory

Kathryn Mapes Turner is donating this painting, Always a Frontier, to the National Museum of Wildlife Art for its Western Visions 27th annual Show and Sale, set for August 30 to September 21. This 24-by-30-inch oil is one of dozens Turner has donated to causes she champions. See page 40.

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The National Museum of Wildlife Art gets back to the roots of Western art with animal scenes rendered expertly by Charles M. Russell in its new exhibit, The Harmless Hunter (page 34).

Articles in our new “Works” department describe how art is a vital component in philanthropy (page 40) and in protecting open spaces (page 48).

Our writers also explore nudes (page 54), Chinesetrained painters (page 52), and the clay group that calls itself Teton Mudpots (page 46).

Dance, music and theater round out the cultural experiences available to all who visit or choose to live here.

So while you’re here, whether for a week or a lifetime, we hope you soak up as much art as you can. –JOHANNA LOVE AUDREY ROLL-PREISSLER

When someone sees the Tetons for the first time, the mountain range leaves an indelible impresssion.

Thomas Moran first sketched les trois Tetons in the 1870s, and countless artists have followed.

Those landscape painters may be a large part of how Jackson Hole became a national art destination, although the scene has expanded greatly in scope.

This issue of Images West explains the evolution our art scene has experienced (page 16) and details the public art (page 10) and arts education (page 11) that help enhance our community.

Read about how three collectors choose the work they hang (page 22) and find a handful of emerging artists to watch (page 28).

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Art After Dark Distractions and bustle fall away, leaving contemplation time.

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rt appreciation can be enhanced by atmosphere.

Some prefer a daytime stroll downtown amid an exciting and contagious enthusiasm. For others, the right setting requires fewer people and less sunlight.

Just ask Rick and Hollee Armstrong, owners of RARE Gallery, a contemporary Western gallery filled with a wide array of mediums from more than fifty established artists including Tomas Lasansky, Michael Kalish, and Kevin Box. RARE catches a different set of art enthusiasts thanks to late-night hours, sometimes well after 10 p.m. during peak season, and a prime location adjacent to Snake River Grill.

“Art really lights up at night,” Rick Armstrong says. “You eliminate the natural light and each piece takes on a life of its own. A lot of people come to our gallery knowing it is very comfortable and almost surreal in its

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feel; they can come in and hang out for an hour or two and peruse after dinner.”

The Armstrongs open their 7,000-square-foot gallery—including a 500-square-foot outdoor sculpture garden—to post-dinner wanderers and late-night shoppers who can focus on the experience of enjoying new art or mulling a purchase.

Although RARE advertises its hours as 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Armstrongs take it day by day. “If you don’t have the firm end-point, it is all the more enjoyable,” Hollee Armstrong said.

RARE Gallery on the southeast Other galleries pick certain days to catch corner of the Jackson Town the crowds. Tayloe Piggott Gallery extends Square is one of a select few its hours until 8 p.m. Thursday through art galleries that stays open Saturday, said gallery associate Carolyn late for evening art shoppers.

Ripps, encouraging a spirited environment in its South Glenwood space.

“There is terrific energy in and around Town Square throughout the summer months and we enjoy catching pre- or post-dinner visitors,” she said. “We often find that people are more interested in striking up a conversation or lingering over a specific piece of art or jewelry during the later hours.

Plus, we’ll often have wine or champagne on hand, which only encourages more conversation.” –KATE HULL

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New in Town Retail spaces pick up fresh painters this season.

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alleries are always changing up their mix of artists, discovering new talents and introducing seasoned veterans to the Jackson market. On your next free afternoon, stroll through Town Square—don’t miss adjacent hidden streets—and peruse. You may find your next must-have piece.

including painter Lee Hall and multimedia artist Xawery Wolski; in addition to daily hours, stop by Thursday through Saturday for late-night shopping. Born in Poland and now living in Mexico City, Wolski uses organic materials to demonstrate connectivity and community. Gallery associate Carolyn Ripps is anticipating an exciting solo exhibition from Wolski, set to open August 21.

Located just off the square on Broadway and known

Off Center Street, old masters, Latin American masters, and more hang on the walls of Heather James Fine Art, capturing a wide range of genres and styles.

Gallery Director Shari Brownfield is excited to show some new artists, including watercolorist Rob Townsend, sculptor Betty Gold, self-taught painter Stephanie Wilde, and Canadian painter Luc Bernard.

Nearby, Altamira Fine Art is a muststop for an array of compelling and vivid contemporary artists to explore.

Altamira has added three new painters this year, including David Grossman and David Michael Slonin, plus Jackson resident Travis Walker. The founder of Teton Artlab, Walker paints area landscapes, working on whichever location inspires him to pick up his brush that day.

Tayloe Piggott Gallery is showcasing new artists for the summer and planning exciting shows for later in the season,

as the “pre-eminent dealers in American representational art,” Trailside Galleries hosts some of the most coveted Western, wildlife, and landscape collections in the country. New this season are three Left: After an initial show at distinctive painters—Richard Hall, Dinah Altamira Fine Art attracted Worman, and Santiago Michalek—whose widespread acclaim, the works range from realist landscapes to repgallery picked up Jackson resentational portraits. painter Travis Walker, whose Diehl Gallery, on Broadway just west of Town Square, focuses on painting and landscapes of the area are sculpture and boasts an ever-changing arpopular with residents and ray of work from must-see artists thanks visitors. This is Snow King to the keen eye of founder Mariam Alaskari Whitewater Bus. Diehl. New artists include Casey Vogt, Mike Weber, Heather Jansch, Peter Haslam Fox, Right: New to Trailside Jeremy Houghton, and JenMarie Zelenak.

Galleries is Richard Hall, a Stop by and explore the wide range of styles.

British-born painter whose Jackson Hole’s art scene is never stagsubjects range from large-scale nant. Whether you enjoy scenes of wildlandscapes to intimate still life roaming the plains or modern art that lifes, like Riding the Rails, a leaves much to the imagination, you can find something for you. –KATE HULL 47-by-49-inch oil on board.

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Left: Glass panels designed and made

by Jackson artist John Frechette adorn the exterior of the Home Ranch Welcome Center.

Below: Randy Walker, of Minneapolis, weaves colorful strands of fabric into the Art Spot installation on Broadway Avenue last summer. The public art space gets a makeover regularly with installations from different artists.

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ozens of public art pieces bedazzle the valley, from Town Square’s iconic antler arches to sculptures to a rotating Art Spot on Broadway.

Jackson hasn’t always had the many masterpieces that beautify the community, however.

Valley organizations have ventured into exploring public art and installing pieces here and there, but until 2010 there really hadn’t been an organization devoted to the cause.

Carrie Geraci, who created Jackson Hole Public Art, first left the art-funding organization Center of Wonder in 2010 to create the project under the Cultural Council of Jackson Hole. The agency received its nonprofit status in 2012.

“Public art is an amenity, just like a pathway, that adds value to our community,” she says. “Public art in civic spaces inspires social interaction. It’s a visual connector between all of our public spaces.”

The pieces also invite walkability, which is in line with the community’s values of sustainability and its appeal for tourists, Geraci says.

“It’s a different way for visitors to experience Jackson Hole and learn directly about what we value here through the environmental or cultural heritage stories that public art tells,” she says.

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works—like Strands at the Home Ranch Welcome Center and Sky Play in the underpass from the Highway 89 pathway to the National Museum of Wildlife Art—and historic pieces, like the bronc rider that tops the war memorial in Town Square or the elk antler arches at the square’s corners.

In November 2012, the Town of Jackson approved public art guidelines for commissioning new work, maintaining existing work and decommissioning old work. The town signed a memorandum of understanding that Jackson Hole Public Art will be the service agency that helps it fund new pieces when and if it has the budget.

The organization recently hired designer Bland Hoke to be its artist-in-residence, Geraci says.

“He will be working with us to add excellence to projects,” she says.

This summer, the organization will be collaborating with Seattle artist John Fleming on a piece to make the five-way intersection on Broadway more pedestrian friendly and mark it as a gateway to the heart of downtown. A light installation by artist and professional snowboarder Rob Kingwill under the Pink Garter Theatre will be unveiled in June as well as an informative and fun project of icons that will remind people of etiquette while using the town’s expansive pathway system, Geraci says.

Other arts groups, like the Art Association of Jackson Hole, are happy to see more public pieces in the community.

“We support other organizations in the community that support public art as it enhances the vibrancy of our community and encourages our collective creative discourse,” manager Molly Lavelle says. –BRIELLE SCHAEFFER

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Public pieces add to the valley’s beauty, vibrancy.

ART SHORTS

Instruction by Immersion From photography to fiction to dance, arts groups spread knowledge, joy.

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week shooting around Jackson Hole and getting feedback from some of the sharpest eyes in the business.

The Jackson Hole Music Experience’s summer Rock Camp brings teenage musicians to the area to study and practice under the tutelage of Regi Wooten, Steve Bailey, Gregg Bissonette, Stanton Moore, and other famous (and, more importantly, working) musicians.

And then there’s the Jackson Hole Writers

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ackson Hole’s arts organizations educate hundreds, even thousands of children and adults each year.

Dancers’ Workshop, founded nearly fifty years ago primarily as a dance school, has 250 youth and up to 650 adults in its programs.

The Art Association publishes a thick catalog several times a year that lists its many classes and workshops—nearly 260 last year that served more than 2,000 kids and adults, according to the group’s accounting. And when the Jackson Hole Music Experience formed in the early 2000s, one of its main goals was to connect willing students with appropriate teachers.

Arts education is not only the cornerstone of many arts nonprofits’ missions, it’s the foundation of the financial model. And in some cases, it adds up to big business for the whole town.

“We have people come from all over the world,” Casey Springer, studio director for Scott Christensen, says of the workshops the highly soughtafter painter hosts in his Victor, Idaho, headquarters.

Students spend five days painting outdoors, watching demonstrations, and getting critiques. But they also stay in hotels, eat in restaurants, and typically take a few extra days to check out Jackson and the national parks.

Jim Wilcox, who has been painting the region’s mountains for nearly half a century, also attracts students from around the world for six or seven workshops a year led by Attendees of the him and some of the artists his galleries represent.

Photography at the “We’ve had people come in from as far as Hong Summit workshop Kong, Brazil, Britain, New Zealand,” says Narda line up their Wilcox, Jim’s wife, who with their two sons, Jeff cameras to capture and Eric, run the galleries and oversee the business the vista at Oxbow end of the Wilcox empire.

Bend at sunrise In fact, Wilcox has formalized the workshop in Grand Teton side of his enterprise by forming the Jackson Hole National Park.

Art Academy. Up to twenty students will travel to work with Wilcox, Greg Beecham, Caroline Anderson, and other well-regarded landscape and wildlife artists for four to seven days. This year’s schedule of courses includes a week on a real working ranch in Cokeville with cowboy artist Charles Dayton.

Rich Clarkson’s Photography at the Summit workshop convenes each fall at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where dozens of amateur and professional photographers pay more than $2,000 to spend a

Conference, marking its 22nd year this summer.

Co-founded and organized by novelist-screenwriter Tim Sandlin, its faculty of thirty-five or so writers, agents, and editors work with more than one hundred registrants on craft. The conference’s website includes a list of dozens of participants who have been published.

Registrants usually don’t have much time for extracurriculars. Their days are packed from early morning to late at night. The attraction for them is access to the conference’s distinguished faculty, which over the years has included novelist Christopher Moore, screenwriter Tab Murphy, and poet Bill Ransom.

“We all eat and talk and sit together,” Sandlin says. “We bring in people who are known for their accessibility. I know who the nice ones are and the egos, and I don’t bring in the egos.” –RICHARD ANDERSON SUMMER 2014 I M A G E S W E S T

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Wine Auction Toasts to Twenty New strategy of medium-sized events means tickets are tight.

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he Jackson Hole Wine Auction, celebrating its 20th year in 2014, has scaled back its size.

“The comments we get from guests about our event is that they like the intimacy,” says Megan Gallagher, special events manager at the Grand Teton Music Festival, which the wine auction raises money for. “They like that they get to talk to world-famous vintners and chefs. People here make connections and The Jackson Hole Wine friends. That’s what makes Auction in Teton Village us special.” allows patrons to dine To ensure the wine aucand sip new vintages tion, which has grossed upwhile participating in a ward of $20 million since its inception, stays special, it silent and live auction.

has a new strategy. In the past, the auction alternated between “big” and “small” years. A big-year event would be four days and include a gala with up to 500 guests. Small years would be one or two days and the gala auction would be around one hundred guests. “We’re going for mediumsized events every year now,” Gallagher says. “We think that’s the perfect level of intimacy and energy.”

As of mid-April one flaw was revealed in that thinking: Many events were already nearly sold out. “We’ve never had advance ticket sales like this before,” Gallagher says.

All four of the auction’s individual events had fewer than one-third of their tickets left. “Our goal is to create an event where people have so much fun, they put it on their annual calendars,” Gallagher says. Sounds like that has already happened.

The 2015 dates have been picked—June 25-27—and most chefs and vintners have been selected. The auction isn’t just popular with attendees, but also within the industry. “We have wineries and chefs contact us because they’ve heard how much fun it is,” Gallagher says. “We’re so very fortunate that we get to be so picky. But we always strive to include old favorites like John Besh and Nobu that have supported us for years, with new names to keep things fun and fresh.” See jhwineauction.com for tickets and information about auction items. –DINA MISHEV

Wine and Dine // THURSDAY, JUNE 26 5 p.m. Grand Wine Tasting Westbank Grill, Four Seasons Resort and Residences, $150 6 p.m. Taste of Jackson Hole Couloir Restaurant at the top of the Bridger Gondola, $125

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// SATURDAY, JUNE 28 4:30 p.m. Auction and Gala Dinner Snake River Ranch, $750

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Edible Art Chefs across the valley make plates (almost) too beautiful to eat.

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alk into CocoLove and you might want to order everything. Culinary Olympian— he’s competed at the World Culinary Olympics numerous times—Oscar Ortega crafts gorgeous bonbons, Viennoiseries, tarts, and more. Taking your treat and sitting down at one of CocoLove’s tables, though, you might find it difficult to eat. Whether a bonbon flecked with saffron dust or a flaky, dainty Napoleon, it’s just so darn beautiful. How can you destroy such a work of art? Writing from experience, the first forkful is always the most difficult.

Two blocks away at Trio Bistro, “We try to make all of our dishes beautiful,” says chef/co-owner Paul Wireman. “We’re a bistro, so we try to have a little rusticness to every dish, but much thought does go into colors and placement on the plate.”

This spring, the bistro’s beef short rib pasta was downright sculptural. A giant hunk of beef topped with vibrant pesto and brilliantly orange carrots sat

in a nest of pasta. “Looking at it makes me think of Tuscany,” says diner Warren Sarah. “The dish’s colors and its architecture were Tuscan, even if saying food has architecture sounds kind of silly.”

“I don’t know that most people consciously weigh what a dish looks like into how much they like it,” Wireman says, “but subconsciously, I think it definitely matters. People might not admit it, but a wine label’s looks can affect whether they Oscar Ortega’s buy it. Also, you walk into a pastry shop and pick out the desserts at prettiest pastry.”

Atelier Ortega At Persephone Bakery Boulangerie & Café, where there’s often a line out the door on summer mornings, and CocoLove are “we have a daily phone call where we go over the look and known as much taste of every item we receive from the bakery,” says cofor their artistic owner/cafe manager Ali Scheier. “You need to be vigilant presentations as to keep things looking and tasting great.” they are for their Persephone doesn’t strive for the same aesthetic as delectable taste.

CocoLove, however. “Rustic French pastry is what we define our style by,” Scheier says. “We really work towards a balance of a natural look and thoughtful aesthetic.”

Persephone’s orange extra-virgin olive oil cakes are a perfect example of this balance. “They are simple tea cakes that we place a full-circle, housemade candied orange slice on top of; they are often less than perfect but they look delicious, and clearly, energy was spent to create a beautiful rustic touch,” Scheier says.

This writer can vouch that they are indeed as delicious as they look. –DINA MISHEV SUMMER 2014 I M A G E S W E S T

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Fine Design Western Design Conference adds affordable goods, rooms styled with showpieces.

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ongtime Western Design isting brick-and-mortar stores. “Where the Exhibit + Sale showcases museum-quality pieces that will be passed down from generation to generation—archival pieces—Retail Conference Exhibit + Sale organizer Allison Merritt became the Row’s pieces, many of which will be jewelry or home goods, are more impulse buys.”

With lower price points and more options than the Exhibit + Sale, the idea of Retail conference owner earlier this year, but Row is to grow both collectors and artists. “I hear from artists that they’re intimidated don’t expect to see drastic changes. to apply to the Exhibit + Sale,” Merritt says. “This could be a less intimidating en“The roots of this show are the caliber of the art and artists and that will trance for them.” Also, only a small percentage of conference attendees can afford a never change,” Merritt says. “We’re still $20,000 desk. And there might be only one of those desks for sale. “Retail Row allows including a mix of artists who have been more attendees to take something beautiful home with them,” Merritt says. at the show before and new The Designer Show House includes talent; everyone will be bringWestern woodwork, wares, six timber-framed rooms erected ining museum-worthy pieces and furniture from various side the Snow King Sports and Events that raise the bar for functionartisans take center stage Center. Each room showcases the style al Western art and design.” at the Western Design of a selected interior designer. “The Since its founding in 1993 Conference Exhibit + Sale idea here is for professional designers in Cody, Wyoming, the event at the Snow King Sports to show the public how some of the art has been the country’s preand Events Center. and design at the show can be incorpomier showcase of functional rated into a home,” Merritt says. Two Western fine art. “I’ve looked and looked for shows similar to ours and of the six designers doing rooms are themselves artists. These rooms, one of which is a bathroom done found nothing,” Merritt says.

This year’s event September 4-7 will completely in custom tile, will include much of their feature two new elements: Retail Row own work.

Allison Merritt Another change for this year is an expansion of and Designer Show House. Both of these run concurrently with the conference’s the opening night fashion show. Previously held at the main event, the three-day Exhibit + Sale. Center for the Arts, the conference’s opening night gala will now be at the Snow King “Retail Row shows that one-of-a- center alongside the Exhibit + Sale.

“The fashion show is fabulous, but with the new location, we can celebrate all of kind doesn’t have to mean expensive,” the artists on opening night,” Merritt says. “Right when you walk in, you’ll see everyMerritt says.

Retail Row includes about twenty gal- thing!” Fashion show tickets start at $50 and cost $125 for VIP early entrance—and include an open bar and food. westerndesignconference.com –DINA MISHEV leries, boutiques, or artists that have ex-

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Grand Teton Music Festival is founded.

1963

Schwiering, Paul Bransom, and Grant “Tiny” Hagen begin advertising The Outdoor Art School, a painting instruction group.

1962

Conrad Schwiering begins selling his paintings in the balcony of the Wort Hotel.

1957

Archie “Teton” Teater opens his art studio and gallery in an odd-shaped log building on North Cache.

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Harrison Crandall spends his first summer in Jackson Hole. Dude ranch guests quickly discover his talents with a camera.

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Thomas Moran journeys to the Tetons, creates his first sketches and paintings of the range.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF JACKSON ART HISTORY Dick Flood Sr. opens Trailside Galleries, the first conventional Western art gallery selling works by nationally known artists.

Jackson Hole Art Auction’s inaugural event sells $8.4 million in its first year.

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The 500-seat theater of the Center for the Arts is completed. The concept of a sustainable home for the arts, brainstormed nearly thirty years earlier, is realized.

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Center Street Gallery begins representing contemporary artists.

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What will become the National Museum of Wildlife Art is founded by Bill and Joffa Kerr in a rented space downtown.

Plein Air for the Park event benefits Grand Teton Association.

A Grand Art Destination Early Teton painters blazed the trail for Jackson Hole to become a major art market.

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Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival is formed as a way to extend the tourist season and gain exposure for galleries.

homas Moran likely sold his first painting of the Tetons shortly after completing it in 1879. Harrison Crandall was caught up by the magic of the mountains in 1921. After graduating from the Art Students League of New York in 1941, Conrad Schwiering made his way back to the valley that bewitched him as a child, spending five decades painting its scenes and wildlife.

Since the days when canvases of the Teton landscape were the only game in town, art in Jackson Hole has exploded.

Millions of dollars are spent on art each year, not counting related expenses like framing, hotel stays, and Archie Teater painted on Broadway Avenue for meals for art patrons. The arts are a major force in our economic engine; per capita, Jackson Hole has more decades. Sometimes art dealers than New York City. he’d rent a horse to The National Museum of Wildlife Art has more draw customers. than five thousand works in its permanent collection and draws more than eighty thousand visitors per year to its 51,000-square-foot facility.

Dance, music, theater, writing, and film flourish on the same campus at the Center for the Arts, which houses seventeen arts and education organizations.

Fall Arts Festival, brainstormed thirty years ago by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, has extended the tourism season by a month.

People fly here just to bid on masterpieces being sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction, where the hammer went down on $8.4 million in 2013, and stay to shop at the thirty-plus art galleries in the valley.

Southwest Art’s Editor in Chief Kristin Hoerth says Jackson is “certainly among the top art markets in the Western part of the country.”

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Left: Harrison “Hank” Crandall was Grand Teton National Park’s first official photographer, although painting was his passion.

Bottom: Along with wife Hilde, Crandall produced hundreds of picture postcards, brochures, and other ephemera.

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vercome by the beauty of the West he discovered on the 1871 Hayden Geological Survey to the Yellowstone area, Thomas Moran (1837-1926) took many more journeys: Yosemite, the Grand Canyon with John Wesley Powell, and to the Southern Utah wonderland that is now Zion National Park. In 1879, “he made a long-awaited trip to see the Tetons,” according to the Grand Teton Association’s guide to the art collection owned by Grand Teton National Park. Several of his sketches and paintings are in the park’s collection.

Horseback was the most efficient way to head deep into the

wilderness and find stunning vistas, so the tall, thin man invariably rode with a pillow under his rump to cushion his tailbone.

While Moran never took up residence in Jackson Hole, painters eager to trade city comforts for majestic mountains were not far behind.

From his first summer in the valley in 1921, Harrison Crandall (18871970) loved sketching the Tetons. It was his talents with a camera that caught the eye of dude ranch clients and became his bread and butter for decades, though. Once Grand Teton National Park was created in 1929, Crandall was hired as its first official park photographer. It was decades before he could afford to put aside his camera and just paint.

The first landscape painter who made a living here was Archie “Teton” Teater (1901-1978). He first came in 1928, working on a trail-building crew for the first part of several consecutive summers. As soon as he’d earn enough money to feed himself the rest of the summer, he’d quit and spend the rest of the time painting. He got his nickname while living in a tent along the shores of Jenny Lake. He’d lean his paintings against trees.

When he was away from camp, a note requested that buyers pin payments to a blanket or drop them in a coffee can.

In 1941, he opened Jackson’s first art gallery, if you could call it that. It was an odd-shaped log studio a block north of Town Square where he worked and sold his paintings. Today, it’s home to JC Jewelers. He’d set up his easel along Broadway regularly and even rent a pony to tether next to him to attract potential buyers.

Conrad Schwiering (1916-1986) came to the valley in the mid-’40s shortly after finishing art training in New York City. The son of a University of Wyoming professor, Schwiering was determined to make a go of it as a painter, even though “people weren’t too conscious of art,” he wrote in the book Schwiering on the Square. “If I … painted it as I saw and experienced it, surely somebody would appreciate my paintings and buy them. Then I could paint more.”

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“Jackson has a large number of high-quality galleries for its size,” Hoerth says, “making it a great art destination. Add that to the important annual events and the highly regarded National Museum of Wildlife Art, and you have a market that matters to collectors.”

So how did we get from Moran to major market? Through 135 years, the constant has been the untrammeled vistas of the Teton Range.

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some works, but quickly Top: Conrad Schwiering found a better deal: free loved to demonstrate rent in the balcony of his craft, even operating the Wort Hotel, where the Outdoor Art School he peddled his paintings each summer with for twelve years. Despite fellow painters. being “untutored as to composition,” SchwierRight: Archie Teater ing wrote, proprietors painted the Tetons for John and Jess Wort would decades, long after his bring customers to the first summers when he balcony. “Here’s a purty pitcher,” John Wort lived in a tent on the would say, “and here’s shore of Jenny Lake. another purty pitcher.”

In the mid-’50s, Schwiering and fellow painters Paul Bransom (1885-1979) and Grant “Tiny” Hagen (19211977) decided to turn their group painting sessions into an art school. The Outdoor Art School began advertising in art magazines in 1957. Every month of the summer, dozens of people trained with them, gaining an appreciation for plein air painting and the valley.

In 1963, Jackson’s first commercial art gallery opened. Trailside Galleries represented the works of well-known Western painters such as Charles M. Russell, Olaf Wieghorst, and Ace Powell. Idaho Falls resident Dick Flood had been selling Western art out of his home for a decade before moving to Jackson and opening up Trailside on the southeast corner of the square,

where Wyoming Outfitters is today.

By the early 1970s, art was taking hold on the square.

“The town’s business area is loaded with art galleries,” Frank Calkins wrote in the book Jackson Hole, published in 1973. “An artist was painting pictures of the Tetons, apparently from memory, in the Pink Garter Plaza. He was whipping them out so fast that I could smell the oily paints. His lowest prices ran $8 and went up to $20. His stuff was as good as a lot of that being sold indoors at much higher prices.”

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n the commercial galleries on Town Square, landscapes, cowboys, and Indians were selling like hotcakes. But until Beth Overcast opened Center Street Gallery in 1987, bright, contemporary art was unheard of in Jackson. Overcast brought colorful canvases by Malcolm Furlow, R.C. Gorman, and Lynn Berryhill to town.

“People said, ‘You don’t think you can sell that stuff, do you?’ ” Overcast later told the Jackson Hole News&Guide. “My Top: The Jackson Hole Art thinking is if Jackson is going Auction sold $8.4 million to be an art center, you have to worth of art in 2013. offer all kinds of art.”

Martin-Harris Gallery followed Center Street’s lead in Right: The twelve-day 1990, representing the likes of Fall Arts Festival draws Donna Howell-Sickles and Bev thousands to Jackson Doolittle, artists who were still Hole each year for Western, but in a genre now shopping, shows, and called New West. the popular QuickDraw.

Although Center Street The 30th annual festival and Martin-Harris paved the starts September 3. way, “it was largely very traditional here” until the mid2000s, Diehl Gallery owner Mariam Diehl says, when “almost simultaneously Tayloe Piggott, Lyndsay McCandless, and I pushed through the cowboy ceiling and established a more contemporary market.”

Clients who are interested in contemporary art can find many artists in Jackson galleries whose works are recognized and sought after on a national level, Diehl says.

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of newspaper are in collections across the country, including Amangani Resort.

Despite the differences in Jackson’s gallery scene—Western traditional, contemporary, photography, functional art, fashion, and custom furniture—the Jackson Hole Gallery Association’s job is to work together, says president Amy Morton. On the third Thursday of each month, all association members stay open late, and many host parties for new exhibits.

“I feel Jackson is an art destination for all types of art,”

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Morton says. “Our town inspires all types of artists.”

Once people discover Jackson’s diverse, vibrant arts scene, Morton says, they return. And they tell their friends. “They say ‘You’ve got to go to Jackson. You’ve got to check out the galleries.’ ”

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rt collectors tend to be good storytellers.

A few years ago Meg Daly—a Jackson Hole scrivener who, among other things, writes about the valley’s growing corps of less traditional artists—and her husband, Mark Llinares, went to a show by painter Kathryn Mapes Turner.

They split up and viewed the work independently then reconnected at the end of the evening, when they both discovered they had independently chosen the exact same painting to buy: a tempestuous canvas, titled Lift, of geese or swans flying across a cloud-darkened sky.

“It’s interesting,” Daly says, “because couples don’t always agree on styles.”

That’s true for Daly and Llinares, as the second part to the story behind Lift makes clear.

Daly said contemporary art has always resonated with her while Llinares leans more toward representational art.

Before attending the Turner show, Daly and Llinares went to see the French film The Invincibles. In the movie there’s a scene in which the caretaker of a man in a wheelchair rolls him around a gallery. They encounter an abstract painting that the caretaker describes as a “nosebleed on canvas.” Llinares agreed and said he could Meg Daly says she may be make such a painting, and he set out to do so. the only art collector in “He spent months on it,” Daly says. “It took this Jackson to hang Kathryn whole artistic process to create it.”

Mapes Turner paintings When at last he presented it to Daly, she burst into on the same wall as an tears.

Aaron Wallis, center.

“I was so upset, so hurt and annoyed with this gift, because it felt like a big ‘F- you,’ ” she says. “So that’s Opposite: Turner’s how I got this painting,” she says of the Turner. rendering of the sky In Daly and Llinares’ living room, Lift shares wall above Mount Moran space with another, quite different Turner painting: a bright, airy scene of Mount Moran. drew Daly in.

“That was the first significant piece of art I ever bought,” she says. “It was maybe six years ago.

“It’s so ironic that my first big art purchase was Mount Moran, because I vowed when I moved here that I would never buy a landscape painting of the Tetons,” she says. “I was coming from the city, and I love the outdoors, but I don’t want it on my walls, but then I got seduced by this painting.”

More typically drawn by muted tones, Daly also happens to be attracted to shades of blue, and Turner’s cloud-swept Moran is set against a blue so evocative of a Wyoming summer day.

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Street I didn’t make a lot when I start“I freaked out and decided I In Lift, Kathryn Mapes ed,” Hirschfield says, though later needed to own it,” she says.

Turner sets a flock of in his career he ran 20th Century Fox The decision is still interesting birds against a dramatic and Columbia Pictures. Nevertheless to her: “I thought I had an idea of sky. Meg Daly and her he had an interest in contemporary art what I wanted on my walls, and now husband, Mark Llinares, and had over the years managed to colI’m more open to actually what resdon’t always agree on art, lect some prints by Picasso, Chagall, onates with me.” but choosing this piece Miro, Rothko, and Stella as well as a Daly’s home is not huge, and the was unanimous. few original works. interiors suggest an appreciation for In the mid-’70s, a good friend and space and order. Walls are not clutart collector, Charles Diker, approached tered with dozens of works—just Hirschfield and told him that he had begun collecta few pieces she feels deeply about. There are a ing Indian art. couple prints by September Vhay, one by Wendell “I said, ‘That’s about the last thing I need,’ ” he Field, and one by Mike Parillo. recalls, “but he said, ‘It’s very interesting, and it’s “We have a lot of great print works,” she says. cheap.’ Well, when he said it was cheap, it caught Originals include some Aaron Wallis works—inmy attention.” cluding a nude of Daly—a red panda by Emily Paul, His first acquisition was a basket. He has addand a bright, geometric encaustic by Amy Larkin. ed several more over the decades—including some And Daly isn’t done yet. She’s got a list of artlarge and exquisite examples—but he never made a ists she would like to acquire, including Camille Daspecialty of it. vis, Mike Piggott, Ben Roth, and Bronwyn Minton.

He really began to get serious about collecting “I’d love to have an Abbie Miller sculpture,” when he and his wife, Berte, moved to Jackson Hole she says. “I have nowhere to put it, but … she’s a about twenty-five years ago. dear friend of mine.”

“The house was really designed for the art,” he says, pointing out that the main living space is a — twelve-sided room modeled after a Navajo hogan.

“The logs and the art really work well. … Once we n the 1960s and ’70s, Alan Hirschfield had it, it started getting full.” was an investment banker working in At one point he thought he would focus on toNew York City. bacco bags, but his art consultant, Terry Winchell “As a young guy working on Wall 24

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of Fighting Bear Antiques in Jackson, talked him out of limiting himself to a niche.

“He’s really been my mentor,” Hirschfield says of Winchell.

“He’s been the guiding hand for me in terms of my collecting taste … and I think he’s one of the two or three most knowledgeable people in the country on this work, Right: This jacket, adorned especially the work of the with human hair, belonged Plains.” to Grant Short Bull of the While Hirschfield does Oglala Sioux Tribe, who have an impressive array of fought at the Battle of the tobacco bags, he also has Little Bighorn in 1876. some incredible shirts, craExtensive beadwork down dleboards, blanket strips, children’s items, saddle the sleeves and chest blankets, and more—150 to hints at the painstaking 200 pieces, he estimates, methods used to create mostly from the Plains such garments. cultures. A tour of “highlights” is a difficult proposition, not only because Hirschfield gets excited about pretty much everything in the collection, but because so many of the items are true treasures.

A Nez Perce shirt hanging above the entry is “one of the greatest in existence,” he says, pointing out the richness and variety of the beadwork. A blanket strip, also Nez Perce, circa 1860, is noteworthy for its intricate quill-wrapped horsehair designs. A pair of Sioux gauntlets looks as if it could have been created in the French baroque. And two Blackfoot headdresses, complete with eagle feathers (acquired well before federal laws made it illegal to buy, sell, or even trade bird parts) will one day end up in a museum, he said.

Another shirt was owned by Grant Short Bull, a lieutenant of Sitting Bull, who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

“This is a documented shirt,” Hirschfield says, pointing out the human-hair scalp locks.

After the Sioux War of 1876-77, Sitting Bull, Short Bull,

Alan Hirschfield has spent the last thirty years collecting Native American artifacts ranging from handbags and children’s toys to tribal chiefs’ clothing and headdresses. Though not Native American, Buffalo Bill’s leather jacket, right, is an exceptional piece of history.

and other Oglala Sioux settled in Canada for a number of years.

When Short Bull returned to the states he took to making twodimensional “ledger art,” of which Hirschfield also has a fine example, on display right below the famous shirt.

What especially astonishes him about Native American art is that it was all handmade by self-taught artisans mostly from materials taken from the earth. While beads came from traders, dyes were vegetable- or mineral-based. Some textiles also came from trade, but most items are made from animal skins.

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nated by large windows and colored by evocative, he says. “We treated them as savages—we always Avid art collector Susan often playful contemporary art. have—and practiced genocide on them. Unlike the McDowell’s Fall Creek “I like contemporary art,” the seventy-fourEuropeans, who they fought with in the RevoluRoad home displays year-old globetrotting fishing fanatic says. “First, tionary War. They admired their art and took it a three-dimensional contemporary artists are making comments on the back to Europe.” butterfly installation by world today. But also, Western art, it creates what Some of the greatest work is still in European Paul Villinski. you see anyway. … I like the idea of stepping into museums. In fact, earlier this spring he and Berte the artist’s head or world. … I find it stimulating. I were in Paris for an enormous show of Plains Indian like color, I like whimsy.” art at the Musee du Quai Branly. It included three McDowell has a remarkable eye. pieces from Hirschfield’s collection. The show is scheduled to “She’ll choose a work and it will turn out it’s the artist’s come to the U.S. this fall, with a three-month stay at the Nelsonfavorite,” says Tayloe Piggott, owner of Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and, next spring, where much of McDowell’s collection came from. Piggott has three months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. not only been helping McDowell locate and select works for the For those who can’t wait for those domestic shows, or who past eight years, she also designed the interiors of the house. don’t think they’ll be able to travel to them, Hirschfield’s entire McDowell lived in New York City in the 1960s, just around collection is the subject of a lavish coffee table book, Living with the corner from the Whitney Museum, and was exposed to the American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection (Gibbs Smith). sensational pop and abstract expressionist art of the time. She Written with Winchell and illustrated with hundreds of photobegan to acquire some works on paper while there and continued graphs by former Jackson Hole lensman W. Garth Dowling, it to do so the 1970s in Minnesota, after she and her late husband, also contains a foreword by Gaylord Torrence, curator of AmeriAlan, moved there. can Indian art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and curator When the McDowells moved to Jackson in 1993, their home of the Quai Branly exhibition. contained more Western art, she says.

Torrence says Hirschfield “likes pretty.”

“My husband didn’t like abstract expressionism,” she says.

“That’s kind of crass, but I do—I like beautiful objects,” When he died in 2006, she completely redid the house.

Hirschfield says. “It started with my wife.”

Spaces may not be jammed with art, but what does adorn the walls is striking, thoughtful, bright, and fun. Like the Donald — Baechler Suitcase that hangs at the bottom of the stairs leading down from her bedroom suite. The silkscreen on aluminum panel rom the outside, Susan McDowell’s Fall Creek home is cartoonish and makes her giggle whenever sees it, she says. has the look of distinguished tradition. There are “I don’t like the dark, negative things much at all,” she says, water features and stonework and massive timbers. recalling a piece by an artist whose name she couldn’t rememOne expects to step into the dark, heavy feel of a ber that contained lots of black. “The technique was amazing … stately old manor. but the composition was disturbing,” so she got rid of it. “I like Instead, one finds lots of open spaces, the white walls illumi-

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space, balance.”

Top: Wooden sculptures by That aesthetic is Christopher Romer are installed epitomized by a large on a high wall over a stairway in John Gibson canvas the home of Susan McDowell. of three orbs centered in a field of deep blue.

Right: Burnt paper art by Rakuko “It’s imposNaito, titled Paper, hangs in sible,” Piggott says McDowell’s home. of the way the three balls are balanced.

“There’s nothing holding them up. But that’s life—you find balance, you manage to keep the balls in the air. And it’s a great rendering of spheres.”

“That was one of the first pieces I bought,” McDowell says. “I just wanted it. I don’t know why. I just think it’s great. … It resonates.”

That’s McDowell’s M.O., Piggott says.

“When she finds something she connects with, she’ll find a place for it,” she says.

Or, conversely, when she has a space she’ll look for just the right thing to fill it. The two-story entry, for example, has a large, high wall extending over a stairway. Rather than several paintings, she and Piggott used the space for a Christopher Romer installation—a collection of several dozen round, smooth, painted wooden forms strewn across the wall.

“I love those,” she says. “I love what they do for the room. It’s a design element … it adds interest.”

Piggott observed that McDowell has a penchant for installation. In a bright, north-facing drawing room a large wall contains hundreds of lapis-colored butterflies, a custom installation by Paul Villinski. It’s an unexpected delight, encountering the flock of highly realistic crea-

tures inside, and not a little surreal.

Other standouts in the house include a colorful collage

by James Castle—“one of the most important American artists of the 20th century,” Piggott says—a finely rhythmic Caio Fonseca, a jaw-dropping collage made of thousands of singed paper flower petals by Rakuko Naito, and, overlooking the billiard table and wet bar, a Squeak Carnwath that bears the words “Guilt-Free Zone.”

“She really enjoys living with her art,” Piggott says.

“Often it represents a phase in her life. … It will click with her because of something that happened in her life. And that’s what artists do—they turn their life into art and hope it finds a connection with another person’s life.”

“There’s not a piece that I’m unhappy with in my house,” McDowell says.

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ONES TO WATCH These artists are about to be big. Really big.

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Top: David Grossmann has “a wonderfully naive elegance that is easy to enjoy,” Altamira Fine Art Gallery Director Dean Munn says.This is Winter Lines, a 34-by-20-inch oil on linen panel.

Opposite: Although Lee Hall first showed her work in the 1960s, she took three decades away from commercial shows. Tayloe Piggott Gallery now represents her. Rome Wall Study 7, a 10-by7-inch collage on paper, typifies her bold style.

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DAVID GROSSMANN ALTAMIRA FINE ART

Southwest Art has already called out landscape painter David Grossmann as one of its “Artists to Watch.” Because in March he signed on to be represented by Altamira in Jackson, we’re calling him out too. “I can distill multiple reasons [DaTop: William Alther began his career vid] is poised to really emerge as a zoologist. The Legacy Gallery to one: His introspective aprepresents his realistic wildlife proach has a wonderfully depictions like Canyon Shadows, a naive elegance that is easy 26-by-32-inch oil painting. to enjoy,” says Dean Munn, Altamira’s gallery and exhibition director. “He sees the Opposite Top: JenMarie Zelenak world as a quiet place, and places animals in contemporary the work has a meditative compositions. This is Take These quality that is relaxing and Words, a 26-by-26-inch watercolor necessary for today’s complipencil on paper at Diehl Gallery. cated lifestyle.”

Munn compares the Opposite Bottom: Joshua Clare mood and sense of place hangs a showcase of landscapes that Grossmann, who is only June 19 to 29 at Astoria Fine Art, thirty years old, creates in including Square Top Study, an his paintings to those created

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one between impressionism and illusion,” Munn says. Looking at a Grossmann painting, you never feel it’s unnatural or overworked. It seems easy and effortless. Still, his work is compelling and unique. “David is a great fit with our roster of artists by virtue of his strength of individualism,” Munn says. “His simplified palettes and restful nature provide appealing contrast to our artists who work in full-color palettes.”

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Scott Jones, general manager at Legacy Gallery, says William Alther is one of the gallery’s newer artists. “Each year we’ve seen increased recognition of his work,” Jones says. “Now we’re seeing some of our more seasoned collectors express interest in his work.”

A native of West Texas, Alther knows the wildlife he paints intimately. His degree from Texas A&M University is in wildlife biology. He was a zoologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Throughout his collegiate and zoologist life, Alther actively painted. In 2004, he began painting full time. “I do enjoy painting other things, but animals and landscapes just seem to automatically dominate my attention,” he writes in his artist’s statement.

“Bill’s anatomy is great,” Jones says.

“He uses bold brushstrokes, and has a dynamic sense of color. Those are what collectors are noticing with more and more frequency and what initially attracted us to his work.”

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In 2013, JenMarie Zelenak’s work, which mostly depicts animals, was featured in Animatopoeia, A Most Peculiar (Post Modern) Bestiary at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery and was included in Studio Visit magazine. “JenMarie has come into her own as an artist, both stylistically and emotionally,” says Diehl Gallery owner Mariam Diehl.

“She has fledged. I feel like her work is now ready for my collectors and Jackson Hole’s sophisticated audience.”

Zelenak’s wildlife isn’t a well-executed elk or bear on a hillside. “JenMarie has achieved that perfect balance between masterfully done animal art and intellectually provocative contemporary composition,” Diehl says.

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Heather James Fine Art shows the vibrant work of Penelope Gottlieb. This 23-by-17-inch acrylic and ink began as a print by John J. Audubon and now bears the name Paederia Foetida.

“Now it’s hard to find someone who follows the art industry who hasn’t heard of Josh Clare,” Fulton says. This summer, Astoria hosts its third major showcase of Clare’s work. The show will hang from June 19 to 29, with an artist’s reception set for 6 to 8 p.m. on opening day. The gallery will have Clare’s work the rest of the summer too, just not as broad a selection. “Collectors like the mix of impressionism and realism, and they tend to identify with his subject,” Fulton says.

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A Zelenak watercolor pencil on paper piece at Diehl Gallery this spring, Take These Words, initially looks like two foxes muzzle-to-muzzle. Look closely, though, and you’ll see an intricate network of spiderwebs inside the two animals’ mouths. Zelenak’s artist statement includes, “I seek to create a duality in the work through unconventional representations that induce an empathetic response for both the animals’ condition of being and the human condition.”

“She’s thought-provoking,” Diehl says. “As soon as I saw her work in Animatopoeia I was impressed. I called her immediately.”

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Joshua Clare, at the ripe age of thirty-one, has recently been winning major awards for his plein air paintings of landscapes and rural life. “His values have been increasing significantly,” says Astoria owner Greg Fulton. This past spring, articles about Clare’s work appeared in three national magazines, and he was featured on the cover of Southwest Art. In 2007, Astoria was the first U.S. gallery to represent Clare.

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Whether drawing attractive homes— her No $ Down series—or invasive species on top of pre-existing John Audubon prints—Invasive Species—Penelope Gottlieb’s work grabs you. It’s vibrantly colorful and fun. The way she can engage viewers across subject matters is what has her poised to become a major artist. “Her work is rich and luscious at times, and then sometimes I look at it and it’s cold and I feel removed from it,” says Shari Brownfield, Heather James Fine Art’s director. “It’s that dichotomy of wanting to jump right into that picture plane, yet at the same time being very apprehensive because it pushes you back both visually and intellectually; that’s what excites people.”

During the past few years, museums have begun to take notice of Gottlieb’s work. Her work has been added to the collections of or exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, University of California Davis Art Museum, Pasadena Museum, Santa Barbara Museum, Whitney Museum of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and here at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. “There are multiple factors that allow an artist to get to this point in their career,” Brownfield says. “Of most importance is subject matter and its resonance with people within the parameters of the world we live in. Penelope’s work is a contemporary conversation about the natural world around us without being ‘preachy.’ It’s thoughtful and provokes further contemplation.”

LEE HALL

SLEUTHING OUT THE NEXT BIG THING

Lee Hall first came to prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s. Her paintings hung in exhibitions beside work by Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. But then the abstract expressionist grew disillusioned with the gallery scene and selling works of art. It was 1981 when her last new pieces were for sale. Recently, she has decided to exhibit and sell her work again. Taylor Piggott Gallery was chosen to represent her in the Western mountain region. Hall’s work debuted in the gallery in February and was greeted with great acclaim from both critics and collectors.

“What has drawn me to this work is that you can identify the personal journey within the expanse of a horizon line, a shape of a mountain, and the far-reaching sky,” says gallery owner Tayloe Piggott. “There is truth and beauty in every piece. She speaks of the responsibility of being a painter, the validation and verification of the internal. It is amazing to me that these works have been in hiding for thirty years, and it is our privilege now to rediscover them.”

Art isn’t limited to galleries here. To find truly emerging artists, hit the spaces less traveled by collectors. “At The Rose, my goal is to provide another place for locals to present their work in a space that really highlights it,” says Lyndsay McCandless, The Rose cocktail bar’s curator and, since this past spring, the executive director at Center of Wonder, a valley nonprofit that supports artistic collaborations.

In addition to The Rose’s space in Pink Garter Plaza, there are more restaurants, shops, and cafes that exhibit the work of local artists. Also, there’s the Art Association’s galleries in the Center for the Arts. “I would say the Art Association’s biggest strength is that we allow an entry point for artists to begin showing and to build their skills,” says Ben Carlson, the group’s director of design and marketing. “Our goal is to help artists go from aspiring to showing, if that’s what they want to do.”

The Art Association’s most democratic exhibit is the annual Jackson Salon Show each winter.

It’s open to all of the association’s thousand-plus members. “We don’t get that many, but it is a very broad spectrum,” Carlson says.

The association’s Fall Arts Festival show, Jackson Rising, was designed to showcase emerging artists, but in a slightly more curated form. This will be the third Jackson Rising. The first year, the association picked out more than a dozen valley artists to include in the show. The next year, artists included in the show were nominated by the first year’s artists. This year’s artists were selected by last year’s. “I think artists picking each other, and us not having any repeats, really speaks to the amount of artists we have here,” says Carlson, who himself has exhibited at The Rose.

At The Boardroom, a snowboard and skateboard shop, the twenty-some artists hanging on the walls were curated by shop owner Lauri Aittola. “Art certainly wasn’t the direction I was thinking about going with the store, but now I like helping locals that might not exhibit anywhere else,” Aittola says. Most of the artists started out as customers of the shop. “Some of the art is definitely snowboard- and skateboard-related, but there are some great mountainscapes too,” Aittola says.

McCandless says, “It’s exciting to see so many opportunities for local art. I think the public is learning that they might not just have great food at a restaurant, but also see great art.”

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The Harmless Hunter Beyond cowboys and Indians, Charles M. Russell mastered wildlife works, showcased this summer at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. —

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n To the Victor Belongs the Spoils, a grizzly bear in a high rocky place in the mountains stands with a clawed paw on a deer.

But he’s not looking at his meal. Instead, his head is up and turned slightly, toward two skulkers behind. A third figure slips up on his other side, where the bear can’t see. Wolves.

What’s missing is what most Charles M. Russell devotees expect from the famous Montana painter and sculptor. There’s not a cowboy to be seen. Indians? None. Russell’s art is rooted in the Montana frontier, but his most famous subjects aren’t in this painting.

Instead, what you see is a scene without people, though still with the story and the drama that Russell wove into nearly all his art.

“Of the four thousand paintings, drawings, and sculptures that Russell did, about a quarter have to do with wildlife,” says B. Byron Price, a Russell expert at the University of Oklahoma. “He was the most prolific Western artist of his generation, and while everybody knows about his cowboy and Indian paintings, I thought it was strange that he had done so many works related to wildlife and wilderness and hunting, and nobody had seemed to pay attention to that aspect of his work.”

Any such lack of attention is remedied with The Harmless Hunter: The Wildlife Work of Charles M. Russell, a show at the National Museum of Wildlife Art hanging through August 17. The show, with Price as guest curator, focuses on the animals in Russell’s work. The work includes forty-three oils, watercolors, illustrations, and bronzes.

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Russell was born in St. Louis in 1864 and ran off to the West at age sixteen, dreaming of the cowboy life. It turned out his artistic talent far outpaced his skill as a cowboy. Without formal training, he began sketching his frontier surroundings and soon became popular.

From popularity he moved on to respect, and from there to fame. For a good part of his life, Russell, who died in 1926, was perhaps the premier artist-populizer of the West, his work selling for good prices to collectors and being used to illustrate books and magazines. Only Frederick Remington rivaled him in art of the West, and Remington spent much of his life and career back east.

Russell hung on. He loved Montana, the people and land and wildlife. And his wildlife work, though less known, turns out to be more enduring in some ways than the cowboy stuff. The cowboy and Indian life Russell re-created in paint and bronze is mostly gone, and the cowboys now wear ball caps and ride ATVs. But wildlife, though reduced in numbers, still lives the same life.

And Russell’s views of that life still speak directly to people, not colored with the nostalgia that can’t be separated from Indians and cowhands.

Russell’s wildlife work “shows someone who was ahead of his time in attitudes about conservation and the need to preserve the wilderness,” Price says. “He recognized the balance that had to be met between tourism and the preservation of wildlife. He held fairly progressive attitudes for the day about conservation of wildlife and the natural surroundings.

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Despite his aversion to hunting, Charles M. Russell captured dramatic scenes involving sportsmen and wildlife, as in Crippled but Still Coming, a 1913 oil owned by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.

“He believed in the superiority of nature, ‘Ma Nature’ as he called it.”

And, Price says, “He thought most people were pretty dumb when it came to understanding these issues.”

As with his paintings of people, in his work with wildlife Russell rarely was content just depicting a scene, but tried to tell the story he saw happening. To the Victor Belongs the Spoils is a simple tale of survival; but a similar encounter in Whose Meat? shows a bear and a human hunter with differing opinions about who owns the fallen mountain goat. Here the conflict is more complicated: Russell is showing the clash of the wild and the encroachment of civilization, of man versus nature. Price notes Russell’s “depth of allegory” and how he “often embeds symbols” into what at first seem to be simple scenes.

Russell’s work was suffused with a romantic view of the West, the same love of the Western life that first brought him to Montana. But the romantic mood could vary greatly, Bronzes like The Bluffers, 7.625 by 18 by 9 inches, are part from elegiac to cartoon humor. of Harmless Hunter. This one belongs to the JKM Collection “He held romantic and senof the National Museum of Wildlife Art. timental attitudes about the way things were or should have been,” Price says. “And he was sarcastic and humorous … He was a showman in many ways in that he was a great storyteller.”

And while Russell often played the woodsy innocent, there was more to the man than a first impression implied, Price says. Russell wasn’t faking his personality, but it was deeper than many thought.

“He didn’t have much traditional education, he didn’t really like the ‘book learning,’ if you will,” Price says. “But he was a native genius … He was a terrific observer and a guy who had an innate sense of what he wanted

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Small ink sketches like Old Man Coyote Listens share wall space with much more elaborate oils in the Harmless Hunter. This one belongs to the JKM Collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

to do and who had opinions on all kinds of things.

“He was not playing a role in his folksiness and the way he spoke and spelled—it’s not affectation, it’s the way he was,” Price says. “But it finally dawns on you the guy has a lot more on the ball than it appears he does.”

The “harmless hunter” name was Russell’s own. The life of hunters appealed to Russell, but not the killing.

“He loved the hunting camp, but he was not personally into the slaying of wild game or any animals,” Price says.

What Russell did get from hunting was a chance to study wild animals up close.

Though dead, the prey satisfied the artist’s hunger for detail he couldn’t satisfy when they lived. And, over the course of his career, it let Russell continually improve his skills.

The self-taught artist “began crudely, like you might expect,” Price says, “but he was a quick learner.”

The National Museum of Wildlife The boy who taught himself to draw and Art is located two miles north paint and sculpt became a successful artist. In of Jackson on Highway 89. The recent years, his oils have brought more than 51,000-square-foot museum has $5 million. more than 80,000 visitors a year Price holds the Charles Marion Russell who enjoy its galleries, special Chair in Art History at the University of Oklaevents, and the hillside view over homa and has been director of the Charles M. the National Elk Refuge.

Russell Art of the American West Museum for The museum is open from 9 twelve years. He wrote the catalogue raisonné a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission on Russell, the list of all his work and the story costs $12 for adults, $10 for behind each. people sixty and older, $6 for kids Price is like most of Russell’s fans: He’s five to eighteen and is free for spent decades immersed in the work without those younger than five. the appeal wearing thin.

Besides its regular exhibits of “The better I became acquainted with wildlife art, the museum schedules Charles Russell, the better I liked him,” Price special activities in connection says. “Sometimes familiarity breeds conwith its shows. For information, see tempt, but the quality of his work from the the calendar on page 70, or go to time he started to the time he died was just wildlifeart.org. phenomenal.”

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Party Time Gallery receptions offer people a chance to talk to artists, others amid refreshments.

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ing about what they’re seeing,” Morton says.

Top: Contemporary Dance The free wine doesn’t hurt either.

Wyoming members perform As a business owner, John Frechette likes having during a May 8 reception at receptions to mix things up in his downtown boutique, Tayloe Piggott Gallery for a show MADE. of paintings by Kaidi Dunstan and “Artist receptions are a chance for us to highlight an Raul Diaz. artist’s work,” he says. “They are also fun for customers to come and see our shop in a different light.”

Bottom: Artist Amy Ringholz circles Apart from the monthly walks, galleries host recepthe dance floor with a snowy owl tions most every week in summer. See the calendar on puppet during a performance page 70 for a selection of events. at her Something Wild This Way During September’s Fall Arts Festival, many galleries take their parties up a notch. The popular Palates & Comes party in 2012 on the Palettes Gallery Walk, which matches valley chefs with Center for the Arts lawn. galleries, is always packed with revelers.

The event is sandwiched between a normal art walk and an art brunch, which serves bloody marys and mimosas to pedestrians.

“The art sometimes dictates how the reception might be,” Morton says. “If you’re at a traditional Western gallery that’s catering to a different clientele, it’s going to be more what you expect, wine and cheese and people kind of talking.

As the art is more contemporary or more forward-thinking, people use different ways to reach out.”

ITP space, which typically shows alternative work, has been known to have more of a party atmosphere at its openings with music and themed cocktails.

Whimsical wildlife painter Amy Ringholz also has made a name for herself with her parties and is launching a new art installation movement with an interactive fete, Rise of the Fenix, on July 12 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. “We’re so fortunate in this town,” she says. “We have such a great art scene. I’m really excited about it. There’s something for everybody, and it’s really high quality.”

The next Art Walk is June 19, and the events continue on third Thursdays through October. The walks are held from 5 to 8 p.m.

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rom DJs to specialty drinks to the standard wine and cheese, Jackson’s art galleries know how to host a party.

The Art Walk on the third Thursday of most months is a way for people to connect to artists and to each other by touring galleries around town, Jackson Hole Gallery Association president Amy Morton says.

Walkers can look for the “Art Walk” banners to be directed to the more than thirty galleries that participate.

“It’s a great way for an artist to communicate to new clients and to old clients what he’s working on and where his mind and artistic talent is going,” she says.

Art can be subjective, and the evenings provide a social way for people to experience it and share their perspectives.

The Art Walk “becomes kind of a night when everyone is talking and think-

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he donation of artwork by painters or patrons is part of the engine that drives the valley’s cultural offerings. Behind the scenes, many more arts philanthropists ensure the arts never lack funding.

Kathryn Mapes Turner is “Most certainly the arts are donating this painting, a driving force of philanthropy in Always a Frontier, to the the valley as in any community, National Museum of because the arts are what enrich Wildlife Art for its Western a culture,” says Pontier Sackrey, Visions 27th annual Show president of the Center Fund at the Center for the Arts, Jackson’s and Sale, set for August art center campus that is home 30 to September 21. This to most of the valley’s arts non24-by-30-inch oil is one of profits. “The arts philanthropists dozens Turner has donated are very endearing because they to causes she champions. recognize that the arts are what lift our spirits and make life more meaningful.”

All year long, the Jackson community puts a tremendous vote of confidence in the arts by hosting an array

hundred local, regional, and national artists, inof fundraisers and events that garner ongoing supcluding Jennifer L. Hoffman, Jeremy Morgan, and port for the funding of programs, nonprofits, and Ricki Arno, created canvases. The pieces were uneducation, just to name a few. signed and unlabeled.

Thousands enjoy the many events associated Patrons put their names on a bid sheet for with the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s aneach artwork they want to buy, and winning bidnual Western Visions Show and Sale, the museders are drawn from a hat. um’s largest and longest-running fundraiser, set “Whodunnit is so popular and for August 30 to September 21 this successful because it makes qualyear. The philanthropy is twofold: In The Wild West Artist party ity artwork attainable to everyaddition to the patrons who purchase at the National Museum one,” says Amy Fradley, the Art works, artists also donate their finest of Wildlife Art is part of a Fair and events director at the Art pieces, making the museum the bentwenty-two-day fundraiser Association. “Artwork evokes so eficiary of their efforts. called Western Visions many emotions and the mystery of Come June 26 through 28, foodShow and Sale. Proceeds not knowing exactly who created ies and oenophiles will flock to benefit the museum’s which piece lends itself to the festive the renowned Jackson Hole Wine education programs. atmosphere of the evening.”

Auction that benefits Grand Teton The event not only brings admirMusic Festival. ers and art collectors of all kinds to Others will attend a nostalgic methe one-night show, but it turns the artist into the lodic evening at The Center’s benefit concert, this philanthropist. year featuring Pat Metheny and Bruce Hornsby “The artists themselves are the philanthroon July 24. pists because they all donate their artwork, One fundraiser in its sixth year uses artist phiwhich is such a generous gift. And the particilanthropists but standardizes their medium as a pants are able to purchase affordable art,” says 6-by-6-inch painting and keeps the price point Molly Lavelle, the general manager at the Art low, just $99. The Whodunnit Anonymous Art Association. “It’s kind of a switch-up to the traShow & Sale is the brainchild of, and benefits, the ditional idea of philanthropy.”

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Featured this Fall Festival highlights two artists in its thirtieth year, including a sculptor.

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he Fall Arts Festival’s 30th birthday this year is such a milestone that for the first time it has two featured artists: painter Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey and sculptor Joshua Tobey. It’s also the first time the festival has had a featured sculptor.

You can see their pieces—Forever Jackson by Cawdrey and Jackson Symphony by Tobey—at The Wort Hotel and rendered on posters, wine bottles, and more.

If you think Cawdrey’s painting of a moose looks too vibrant to be real, you’re right. Kind of. Montana-based Cawdrey, who has been represented by West Lives Opposite: Joshua On Gallery for nearly Tobey’s Jackson fifteen years, paints Symphony is the on silk, which gives first sculpture her work a luminesselected to cence unachievable represent the Fall with paints on canvas.

Arts Festival.

Cawdrey uses a palette that would be colRight: Nancy or-saturated on any Dunlop Cawdrey material; on silk it’s otherworldly. A recent created Forever article in Southwest Jackson as the Art went so far as to festival’s signature write that viewing one painting. of Cawdrey’s paintings is “like entering another world.” We’d like to visit the world in which moose are as Technicolor as the one in Forever Jackson.

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spent time studying studio painting. Later, when she and her husband lived in England, she studied with sculptor Tom Greenshields. Greenshields encouraged her to spend a year painting with only one color, a shade of gray. The idea was to learn composition and values. Cawdrey says she didn’t last the year but that the lesson was invaluable.

It was in the 1970s that Cawdrey first saw silk paintings. Painting on silk is actually a millenniaold technique that originated in the Far East. In the 1920s, the fashion industry used hand-painted silks.

It was shortly thereafter that artists began using it.

Intrigued, Cawdrey began experimenting with it while she continued to paint with watercolors and oils.

Today, she continues to work in watercolors and oils, but it is her dyes on silk she is best known for.

“We’ve seen lots of people try to copy Nancy’s silk work, but she’s still head and shoulders above anyone else doing it,” says Terry Ray, West Lives On’s owner.

Every silk painting—Cawdrey orders her silk, a heavy crepe de Chine, from a California supplier—includes fifteen to twenty layers of dye. Cawdrey starts paintings with the silk stretched flat so the dyes don’t run. It isn’t until a piece is more than half done that she flips it upright. Looking at Forever Jackson, which is one of the biggest silk paintings of Cawdrey’s that Ray has ever seen, you wonder how she managed to nail the composition when only able to look down on it.

“Nancy’s work has always wowed me, but this piece even more so,” Ray says. “It really strikes you.”

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Cawdrey will sign copies of the Fall Arts Festival poster featuring Forever Jackson from 3 to 5 p.m.

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oshua Tobey began sculpting in clay and casting in bronze when he was six years old. His father was sculptor Gene Tobey. His stepmother is noted ceramicist Rebecca Tobey.

Joshua says, “My childhood was full Left: Born to a sculptor and of gallery shows and art foundries.” ceramicist, Joshua Tobey began By age ten, Tobey was in his father’s sculpting at age six. Thirty years Santa Fe studio helping with drilllater, he is out of his family’s ing marble bases, working ceramic shadow and was chosen as the molds, and polishing jewelry.

After finishing a bachelor’s of first featured sculptor for the fine arts degree at Western State Fall Arts Festival.

College in Gunnison, Colorado, Tobey returned home to Santa Fe Right: Montana artist Nancy and began formal apprenticeships Cawdrey uses French dye on with both his father and stepmom. silk to create exceptionally Fast-forward a decade—Tobey is bright paintings. now thirty-six—and, “He’s out of his family’s shadows and really developed his own style and following,” says Greg Fulton, owner of Astoria Fine Art, which has represented Tobey almost since the day it opened in 2007. Fulton says Tobey is Astoria’s bestselling artist. “I think he’s the best-selling artist in

LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY JOSHUA TOBEY, RIGHT: PHOTO COURTESY NANCY DUNLOP CAWDREY

every gallery he’s in, whether it’s in Jackson, Santa Fe, or Portland.”

“If you had to define Joshua’s work with one asset, it’s patina development,” Fulton says. “He tries to develop—invent—a new patina for almost every piece he does.”

Fulton says most sculptors are done with a piece when they’ve finished the clay original. “They take it to the foundry and then the foundry takes over,” Fulton says. That’s not the case with Tobey. Tobey says, “Patina is really the second part of my creative process.

For my sculptures, the patina is as dynamic as the sculpture itself.”

Tobey says that patina “is a limited palette—it’s not like painting with oil where there are hundreds of colors and techniques.

Something I try very hard to do is play with what can make patinas different to make the color of every sculpture creative and different.

For me, the patina composition is as important to the artwork as the sculptural process.”

The small selection committee that decides each year’s Fall Arts Festival featured artist is secret, but it’s easy to guess Tobey’s patinas are a large part of why he was selected as the festival’s first official sculptor.

With everything from posters to wine labels printed with the official images, many sculptures might not translate from 3-D to 2-D as well as Tobey’s. “Joshua’s work is known for its color,” Fulton says. “They’re eye-catching enough for a poster.”

The honor of being the first sculptor chosen to promote the festival was a bit intimidating, Tobey said.

“I feel some pressure at being the first sculptor, but something I committed myself to long ago was to try hard and not let pressure interrupt my creativity,” Tobey says. “I really do hope that I do an outstanding piece and there are more featured sculptors in the future.”

“Jackson is a complete art destination, but where we really set ourselves apart is with sculpture,” Fulton says. “We’ve got more bronze than most places. With Joshua kicking things off, I think we’ll see more FAF featured sculptors in the future.”

Tobey will sign posters of Jackson Symphony from 4 to 6 p.m. September 10 at Astoria Fine Art. Throughout the festival, Astoria will exhibit a showcase of Tobey’s work including every piece in Tobey’s portfolio: almost fifty sculptures. A reception in Tobey’s honor is set for 1 to 4 p.m. September 12 at Astoria.

A reception for both artists will be held September 13 on Town Square. That morning, following the QuickDraw, both artists will be signing posters of their work. Also, Cawdrey’s original piece is up for auction at the conclusion of the QuickDraw.

Tobey’s Jackson Symphony is available for purchase in a limited edition through the Chamber of Commerce. An intent-to-purchase drawing will be held for the first ten sculptures.

Posters for both featured pieces cost $30 unsigned and $40 signed.

Plan Your Festival It’s thirty years old in 2014, but the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival is still growing.

The twelve-day event involves galleries, restaurants, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and an art auction. Here’s a sampling. // THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Western Design Conference Opening Preview Party includes the conference’s fashion and jewelry show, this year adds all of the other conference artists, and moves the whole shebang to the Snow King Sports and Events Center, where the conference itself is held. 6 to 10 p.m. at Snow King Sports and Events Center, tickets $50 and $125. westerndesignconference.com/fashion-jewelry // FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 TO SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale The conference jury has selected 100 of the continent’s finest functional Western artists and designers. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Snow King Sports and Events Center, $15 ticket allows repeat visits. westerndesignconference.com // FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk is one of the most anticipated festival events.

Galleries team up with restaurants for an art walk that feeds the eyes and stomach.

5 to 8 p.m. at participating galleries, free admission. jacksonholechamber.com // SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Historic Ranch Tours show you Jackson Hole’s cowboy heritage is still alive and well. Meet at 2 p.m. at Home Ranch Parking Lot on the Corner of Cache and Gill. $50. jacksonholechamber.com // SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 15th annual Takin’ It to the Streets is an open-air, juried art fair featuring forty local artists. 10 a.m to 4 p.m. in Town Square, free. jhartfair.org Taste of the Tetons proves valley chefs, restaurants, and caterers are artists in their own right. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Town Square, taste tickets cost $1 each (items require 2 to 4 tickets). jacksonholechamber.com // WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Art Walk includes more than thirty valley galleries. 5 to 8 p.m. at participating galleries, free. // THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Wild 100 Artist Party is part of the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions: Wild 100 Show & Sale. View the art, place bids, and meet artists. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art, $100. westernvisions.org // FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Wild 100 Show & Sale is your final chance to bid on a Western Visions piece.

5:30 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art, $150. westernvisions.org // SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 19th Annual Jackson Hole QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction is art and entertainment. Artists create one-of-a-kind pieces in ninety minutes as you look on.

9 a.m., Town Square, free. jacksonholechamber.com // SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Art Brunch Gallery Walk wraps up the festival with food and great art at galleries throughout the valley. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at various locations, free. jacksonholechamber.com For a full schedule, go to jacksonholechamber.com/fall_arts_festival.

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Clay Community Teton MudPots members find joy in Art Association’s ceramics studio.

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ome people like to get their hands dirty.

In Jackson Hole they’re called the Teton MudPots, and you can find them in the Art Association’s ceramics studio throwing pots, hand-building decorative pieces, and firing glazed pieces in the kilns.

MudPots say working with clay helps them find their flow—a term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe the mental state of being happily immersed in an activity.

“It’s the same kind of flow one experiences mountain climbing or fly-fishing,” Ginger Burley says. “When you’re doing it you’re so involved the world just seems to slip away. You’re totally involved in the clay.”

And when a finished piece is purchased or is given as a gift, a kind of spiritual bond is formed between the creator and the new owner.

“The maker’s energy is in every piece,” says Sam Dowd, ceramics and sculpture manager for the Art Association.

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Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole, channels spirit in a different way in her ceramic animal-track sculptures, which start with plaster-ofparis molds of prints found in the wild. The sculptures are a way to express what she sees in the outdoors of the greater-Jackson Hole area, she says, and bring that to life for other people.

“It’s almost like the animal is making an artistic statement,” she says.

Shane Barnhart works Thompson hand-builds and uses the wheel. with Mary Miller in his That’s unusual in the ceramics field, where “they are intermediate pottery almost like two religions.” throwing class in May at She makes functional pieces as well as decorathe Center for the Arts. tive artwork. Whatever the end product, she says, “I like throwing because clay is an accessible medium for people of all levels if you’re not present of talent. you’re not going to get “Even if you have no ‘artistic ability,’ anyone can do ceramics,” Thompson says. “But if you’re an anything done correctly,” artist there’s something very complex and engaging Barnhart says. “You can’t about the 3-D form.” be anywhere else.”

New Teton MudPots members are being created all the time at beginning throwing and hand-building classes at the Art Association.

Classes are what got Dean Stayner started. In 2007, he took one of Dowd’s beginner sessions with visions of filling his and his wife’s new house in the Indian Trails subdivision with lots of plants.

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National Park, but that to do something creative,” Stayner says. was it for a while. She got “I fell in love with it almost immediately, back into it six years ago and I had the will to become good at it.” when she moved to Moose So good that the former owner of the and was retired.

Jackson Hole Book Trader not only has “There was this absoa ceramics business, Earth Pottery, but lutely wonderful studio,” teaches classes at the Art Association, she said, “and I had lots including one called “Getting the Wonky of time.”

Out of Your Throwing.”

Like Stayner, she enStayner owns a wheel at home but joys the camaraderie of nonetheless gravitates to the ceramics the Art Association stustudio at the Center for the Arts. dio.

“I like the community aspect of it,” “The social aspect of he says. it is important, too,” she And aside from the people in it, the said. “I really like being studio itself is perhaps as responsible part of a community.” as the association’s classes for creating Want to get your new clay aficionados in Jackson Hole. hands dirty? The Art The sunny 2,052-square-foot space has Association offers regular thirteen wheels, among other equipment, classes as well as special sessions with and roll-up bay doors that make the out-of-town experts. From MudPots’ summer sale an July 18 to 20, Montana artindoor-outdoor experience.

Top: These small, ist Randi O’Brien, known for “I have tried to make the heart-shaped “pinch her animals and birds, will be ceramics studio an enjoyable pot” ceramic dishes by visiting. place to work and socialize, Jackson artist Michele And then there’s Open where members of the comEvans are among the top Studio: For $100 plus an munity can come to a safe sellers at Wild Hands in Art Association membership environment to create and downtown Jackson. (starting at $35), new and play,” Dowd says. expert ceramicists can come Thompson rememBottom: Shane Barnhart to the studio as many times bers that when she came to works on a big bowl as as they want in one month Jackson Hole nine years ago or seven times over a fourshe was delighted with her he draws the clay upward month period. A bag of clay discovery that “there’s this from the spinning wheel. is included. perfect ceramics facility in Want to just buy somethe heart of Jackson.” It enthing? Teton MudPots will ticed her back to an activhost its annual summer sale from 10 ity she hadn’t been into since she was a a.m. to 7 p.m. or so on Friday, June 27, child. and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 28, The studio motivated Burley, too. She at the studio in the Center for the Arts. took a pottery class at a community colEarly December will bring the annual lege in Merced, California, years ago when Christmas sale. she was a ranger/naturalist in Yosemite

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Peruse Pottery Sam Dowd not only teaches pottery classes and runs the Art Association’s ceramics studio but also operates a business, Dowd House Studios, with his wife, Jenny.

The couple make pottery for a variety of outlets in and outside Jackson Hole.

“We have made and continue to make pottery for the Wort and Four Seasons hotels, Moosehead Ranch, MADE, Antique Peaks, Wilson Formal, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art,” Sam Dowd says.

“Each store has a unique style of our work.”

Pottery lovers will find choices in abundance at Wild Hands, the store on Pearl Avenue.

Owner Sue Thomas is nutty about pottery, and the store is chock-full of it.

“If I had more room I’d have more pottery,” Thomas says.

The wares range from tiny heart bowls by Jackson Hole’s Michele Evans to big, bright modern-art serving platters by Jackson Charney, of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Works by another Jackson Hole potter, Valerie Seaberg, can be found at Wild Hands as well. Her pieces there feature designs she made by making impressions with antique lace.

Indeed, an exploration of Wild Hands will open your eyes to the creative possibilities of pottery. Thomas can point out pieces by Mike Hays, of Utah, on which the design was created by a hot-wax technique, or by another Utahn, David Socwell, who carves illustrations on his pieces.

And arts stores, hotels, and museums aren’t the only places to find pottery in the Tetons. Walk into Twigs, for example, a nursery in Movieworks Plaza, and you might find yourself buying a vase or water carafe, for example, or a large planter for your new flowers.

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Bottom: Jackson Hole artist Jennifer L. Hoffman paints Flat Creek and the National Elk Refuge from a piece of conservation property donated to the Jackson Hole Land Trust by Spring Creek Ranch.

Left: This is the painting Hoffman created that day. The 16-by-22-inch canvas is called Blue Ribbon.

Serene Scenes Artists, Land Trust partner for View 22 project’s second year.

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rtists who paint the terrain of Jackson Hole need no reminding that the valley would look a lot different were it not for the Jackson Hole Land Trust’s efforts to protect scenic vistas, open spaces, and historic ranches from rampant development.

Ask Jennifer L. Hoffman, who participated last year in View 22: Painting Jackson Hole’s Open Spaces, a placebased art project that will continue this summer and fall.

“As an outdoor painter,” Hoffman says, “I am constantly inspired by the beauty of the open spaces that won’t be developed, the stands of forest that won’t be cut down, the hayfields and ranches that will continue to remind us of the

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heritage of our valley.”

View 22 started as a collaboration between the Land Trust and the three artists who own Trio Fine Art—Hoffman, Kathryn Mapes Turner, and Bill Sawczuk. Their goal: to spotlight the role that land conservation has played in shaping the valley by having the artists paint scenes of Land Trust-protected parcels.

Through summer and fall, Hoffman, Turner, and Sawczuk worked en plein air at eighteen properties, places like Snake River Ranch, Bar B Bar Ranch, Circle Shoe Ranch, and Valley Ranch. They blogged about their experiences on view22.jhlandtrust.org and gave painting demonstrations. In December, Trio Fine Art hosted a show of the View 22 artwork, contributing a portion of the sales proceeds to the Land Trust.

The inspiration for View 22 was landscape painter Thomas Moran, whose sketches and watercolors of the region helped persuade Congress and President Grant to create the country’s first national park in 1872.

It was Turner who came up with the idea for View 22. Having grown up on Triangle X, a working dude ranch in Grand Teton National Park, she has an appreciation of Teton vistas that has only deepened during her

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career as an artist. Not surprisingly, she is a longtime Land Trust supporter.

“Landscape painters rely on open spaces,” she says, “but each and every person in Jackson Hole benefits. The Land Trust helps preserve Jackson for what it is.”

Season one of View 22 was filled with memorable moments for each artist. With his architecture and engineering background, Sawczuk appreciated painting old structures like the Huyler barn at the Rockin’ H Ranch and, at the Hofley Ranch, off Fall Creek Road, a log barn relocated from White Grass Ranch.

“Those are being preserved,” he says, “but a lot of that stuff is disappearing.”

Turner recalls a day on a 700-acre property along the Snake River. Her companions were elk full-swing in their mating ritual.

“It was during the rut,” she says. “They couldn’t have cared less that I was there. It made me feel so privileged, so lucky to be a painter.”

Hoffman says one of her “revelatory experiences” came on the Wilson Wetlands Trail.

“It’s about the tiniest piece of preserved land ever,” she says. “I’ve driven past it a million times, and when I got in there it was like this hidden explosion of color and texture surrounded by the sounds of traffic on Teton Pass and kids in Owen Bircher Park.

“It’s this oasis, complete with dragonflies and moose tracks and heavenly smells.

It made me realize how even tiny pieces of property are not only worth preserving but make a difference, even in the middle of town.”

View 22 is a perfect match for the Land Trust’s outreach goals, says Leslie Steen, communications manager.

“We have found that while people in the valley value and support the Land Trust’s work, they often can’t name or identify Land Trust-protected properties,” Steen says.

“We hope that through View 22 they will become more familiar with these places and will understand the extraordinary impact of having these open spaces protected forever.”

Joining Hoffman, Turner, and Sawczuk for season two of View 22 will be Jackson Hole painters Lee Riddell, Travis Walker, and Kay Northup. Their schedule will include the Land Trust Picnic on August 10 at the 4 Lazy F Ranch.

The new View 22 artwork will hang at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in December. A private party will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on December 11, followed by a Mix’d Media event open to all. The show will hang one week before and after the parties.

New painters should bring new perspectives and audiences to the View 22 project. The six certainly won’t run out of places to paint: To date, the Land Trust has worked with landowners to protect more than 23,000 acres in Jackson Hole and the greater Yellowstone area.

View 22 showcases the Land Trust’s work “in a unique and wonderful way,” says Laurie Andrews, executive director of the Jackson Hole Land Trust. “The artists that we are fortunate to work with have a deep understanding of how these open spaces affect their daily lives and livelihoods as landscape painters, and we are grateful to them for sharing their talent and creativity in support of our work.”

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Plein Air Parties

Flocks of landscape painters will alight in the area this summer.

Whether you’re a visitor to Jackson Hole or a resident, there’s something nice about viewing paintings of the mountains, waterways, and forests of the Tetons neighborhood.

And there’s also something nice about meeting the people who create those landscape paintings.

This summer presents opportunities for both.

On June 21, the National Museum of Wildlife Art will host Plein Air Fest on its Sculpture Trail. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day, forty-plus artists from more than half a dozen states will participate in a Plein Air QuickDraw, each creating a new work of art in four hours. The brand-new masterpieces will be sold by silent bid immediately after.

In July, the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters group returns to the valley for Plein Air for the Park, a national “paint-out” and show hosted by the Grand Teton Association to benefit Grand Teton National Park.

The artists will give demonstrations, participate in a quick draw, mount a group show, and just generally be out and about on their own creating new works of art—i.e., painting en plein air.

More than three-dozen members of the painters group plus invited guest artists are scheduled to participate. Among them will be Jackson Hole locals Jennifer L. Hoffman, Erin O’Connor, Bill Sawczuk, Kathryn Mapes Turner, Kay Northup, and Kathy Wipfler.

HERE’S A RUNDOWN OF PUBLIC PLEIN AIR FOR THE PARK EVENTS: // July 7 to 19: Artists paint in and around Grand Teton National Park and other parts of Jackson Hole. // July 12: Artists in the Environment painting demonstrations by Ann Larsen, Paul Kratter, Cody Delong and March Hanson (oil painters), and Michael McClure (watercolor). Look for them from 3 to 6 p.m. near the Bradley/Taggart trailhead and Cottonwood Creek areas of Grand Teton National Park. // July 16 to 20: Exhibition show and sale at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Moose. Forty percent of show proceeds go to the Grand Teton Association to support educational, interpretive, and scientific programs in the park. // July 16: Show opening reception at 7 p.m. and awards announcements at 7:45 p.m. at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center. // July 17: Group painting demonstration, 5 to 8 p.m. at the National Elk Refuge and the Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center on North Cache Street. // July 19: Quick Draw and Sale, 9 a.m. to noon at the Menor’s Ferry/Chapel of the Transfiguration area of Grand Teton. The event is an opportunity to watch artists start and finish a painting and to purchase the artwork immediately after.

For updates, visit jacksonholechamber.com or rmpap.org.

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Wearable Works One-of-a-kind jewelry pieces let you show your art to the world.

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hile most galleries around town are known for fine art, some of them, along with other shops, offer one-of-a-kind jewelry options for truly wearable masterpieces.

At JC Jewelers, artist-goldsmith Jeter Case creates commissioned works from engagement and wedding ring sets to specially requested pendants.

“My husband, Jeter, loves to do wedding rings,” gemologist and store owner Jan Case says. “He finds it to be the most rewarding part of his job.”

He has a portfolio of the thousands of rings he’s created over the years, she said.

“It’s amazing,” she says.

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and made fun pieces like a miniature gold working bear trap with a 2-carat diamond, and a diamond-encrusted poodle head pendant with a sapphire, she says.

“Jewelry is always for special occasions, so you Top Left: Jewelry designer get to see people at some of the most special times in Erica Courtney’s works are their lives,” Jan Case says. luxurious, like these opal Display cases at JC Jewelers, housed in a log earrings. Her trunk show cabin on North Cache Street, are filled with all sorts at Belle Cose is set for of shiny gemstones like peridot, garnet, hematite, mid-June. amethyst, sapphire, and blue topaz set in an array of rings and other baubles.

Top Right: Jeter Case “Handmade jewelry is much higher quality,” Jan of JC Jewelers creates Case says. “What that means for the customer is it wears for years and years and years. It’s a piece of art.” commissioned pieces like Hines Goldsmith also creates several keepsake rings with heirloom or items and commissioned pieces. special gemstones.

“Any of our pieces that we make in-house we can do custom,” owner Carolyn Hines says. “We have a lot of designers that will work with people’s gemstones and diamonds. We work with artists and customers to find the right style.”

Artists make custom jewelry inside the shop, including the Hines’ trademark Teton line of earrings, bracelets and necklaces that depicts

His work is also in the permanent colthe mountains from Snake River Overlook. lections of the Smithsonian, The Met, and The pendants are decorated different ways The Museum of Modern Art. for tastes and price points. Customers can The gallery also showcases work from choose to get pave diamonds inlaid in the Petra Class, who uses cut precious stones mountains or the river, or even pick beand brushed gold in her handmade, origitween textured or solid backgrounds. nal pieces.

The more than forty-year-old Jackson Kit Carson, another RARE staple, business also carries elk ivory pieces, colmakes whimsical cuffs and other items from lections from other designers, pearls, a silver recycled materials like tractor fenders and old line, and designer jewelry with one-of-a-kind gems bookshelves. and minerals like fossilized dinosaur bone, agates, and “Jewelry is such a great personal reflection of things you tanzanites. connect with,” Armstrong says.

Jackson Hole Jewelry Co.’s master goldsmith creates pieces Tayloe Piggot Gallery, another modern art exhibit space, repinspired by nature and wildlife. The relatively new store on Town resents nine different jewelry artists who have Square, owned by Turpin Fine Art Gallery, has a inimitable pieces made from raw diamonds to Teton Collection as well as a Wildlife Collection Clockwise from top left: Artist Pat druzy quartz to fossilized walrus ivory. featuring pieces like brooches and pendants of Flynn makes unusually beautiful “It’s important for us to have jewelry exotic animals such as an elephant with 14k gold creations from horseshoe nails, that’s contemporary and artistic,” the galtusks and garnets for eyes. gold, and rough-cut diamonds. lery’s director of jewelry, Libby Erker, says.

“We’re trying to get people what they want but See them at RARE Gallery.

“We’ve found over the years we have collecalso things that will last them a lifetime,” consultors who like jewelry as much as art.” tant Kiera Wakeman says.

These earrings by Petra Class Its collection is full of high-end, wearThe shop also sells Pearls By Shari creations, feature tourmaline and other able pieces by designers like Lauren Harper, which are handcrafted by Shari Turpin, like the stones set in 22-karat gold.

Todd Reed, Monique Pean, and Nicholas Teton Mountaineering bracelet made of pearls and Varney. leather. Pearls by Shari is right down the block from While some styles are similar, all stones the storefront and carries necklaces, bracelets, Ray Griffiths draws inspiration make the pieces truly singular. The designpendants, earrings, and rings all of high-quality, from architecture and antiques. A ers also frequently visit the storefront to handpicked exotic pearls. showcase of his pieces is set for work on custom jewelry.

RARE Gallery has several interesting designers August 11 to 13 at Belle Cose.

Most pieces are made in the U.S., Erker for sale in its jewelry showroom. says.

Master metalsmith and jeweler Pat Flynn makes Celebrities and socialites seek “We really want to give our clients the dazzling museum-quality pieces with horseshoe out Erica Courtney’s work, like this best of the best,” she says. nails inlaid with diamonds and gold. emerald ring.

Two other downtown shops—Belle Cose “His work is some of the most sought-after in and Goodie 2 Shoes—also display and sell the gallery,” RARE owner Hollee Armstrong said. jewelry from acclaimed designers like Alex “It’s an unmistakable style.”

Sepkus, Paul Morelli, and Temple St. Clair.

“We started with more costume jewelry and then we brought in a few more fine pieces and realized there was a demand here in Jackson that wasn’t being met,” owner Jane Carter-Getz says.

There are people who travel all over the world—and to Jackson—who want to collect different designers.

Her two shops are hosting roughly fifty trunk shows during the summer to showcase different jewelry and designers.

“Because of the stones they’re using, there are pieces here you’ll never see again,” she says. “There’s something about putting shiny and sparkly on yourself that makes you feel good.

Something one-of-a-kind makes it more special.”

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East in the West China’s strict policies on art help produce talented, classically trained painters.

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n art trend that’s spread around the United States has its roots in Chinese communism.

During decades of authoritarian rule in China, art was controlled by the government. Unlike the United States, where anyone with pencil and paper can be an artist, in China art and politics were tied at the ankle. Every aspect of life was controlled, and becoming an artist required more than desire, more than talent—you needed official OK. “They were forced to paint what they were forced to paint,” says Joan Griffith, director of Trailside Galleries, which represents many Chinese artists, includ-

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ing the star Mian Situ.

At Wilcox Gallery, Narda Wilcox learned the same representing the artist Zhang Wexin: “He used to tell us that when he was in China he had to be approved to be an artist,” she says.

But government control, though Chinese painter Mian Situ has stifling, had an advantage: If they did enjoyed great commercial success win their way into art school, artists in the United States. In Jackson, his were trained rigorously.

“It wasn’t like, ‘I want to be works at Trailside Galleries include an artist, I’ll show my paintings,’ ” With Grandmother, a 28-by-24Wilcox says. “They made them use inch oil. nothing but pencil for years before they were allowed to pick up a paintbrush and use color ... they trained them very stringently, kept them to very high standards.”

Also Asian While most of the art hailing from Asia in Jackson galleries are the fine oils of classically trained Chinese, there are a few outliers in the market, artists who are doing something completely different.

At Tayloe Piggott Gallery, the Japanese artist Tadaaki Kuwayama shows his minimal art, multipanel works that use metallic paints in green, pink, and silver that strive to create a kind of rhythm over the course of the work. The gallery calls each work “a presence, a harmonized order of form and color.”

Tayloe Piggott also represents Rakuko Naito, a Japanese artist, mathematician, and inventor who uses paper and wood to create “elegantly formed and seemingly vary rational systems.” Her monochromatic constructions are based on planning, order, and structure.

At Diehl Gallery, Hung Liu draws her inspiration from historical Chinese photos, focusing on what she called “mythic poses.” Her subjects are people working, eating, traveling, fighting, and dreaming using human figures but are layered with traditional Chinese-style representations of birds, flowers, insects, and dragons.

That formal training is the reason so many Chinese-born artists have become popular in the U.S. in the past twenty years, whether they still live and work there or whether they have immigrated to the United States.

“They’re fabulous painters, they’re all academically trained, in the manner of the Russians,” Griffith says. “Anyone who has a decent eye, the first thing you’re going to see is the quality.”

Astoria Gallery owner Greg Fulton, who represents Zhaoming Wu, sees it the same way.

“The artists that trained in China just received such amazing fundamental painting instruction,” he says. “These guys are so good with a paintbrush—they really stand out in the American art market.”

Besides the quality of their work, another first impression the Chinese-born artists make is that their work doesn’t look Chinese.

Their training was in the Western style, and they produce richly colored oils that might have come from nineteenth-century France.

There are paintings of Chinese scenes, of villages, and people.

But the Chinese have adapted to their customers and enjoyed their new freedom, finding new subjects. Some paint landscapes that are as American in their look as any produced by homegrown artists; some paint portraits in European style. Some Chinese have even become specialists in art that’s not just Western style, but of the West: Scenes of Indians are common.

That’s the case with Mian Situ: “He may be Chinese, but he knows his Western stuff,” Griffith says. “He has books on anthropology, he has been to reservations, he does his research.”

Combinations are also to be found, Fulton says: “A lot of Mian Situ’s most popular work is Chinese and Western, it’s early Chinese working on the railroad, or scenes from San Francisco.”

The surge in appreciation and sales of Chinese artists seems bound to continue, gallery people say, though the supply might slow a bit as conditions in China change. High-quality training in China still exists, but not every artist is bound to follow the path paved in recent decades.

“There’s a lot more freedom in China today,” Fulton says. “What we’re seeing there now is not just traditional styles ... Now the young Chinese artists I see are painting whatever they want, in whatever style.”

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Top: China-born painter Hung Liu uses paintings as a jumpingoff point in her artwork before adding many layers of paint and varnish, as in Heart III, a 28.5-by-20.5-inch mixed media on panel available at Diehl Gallery.

Right: Astoria Fine Art represents Chinese painter Zhaoming Wu. This is New Alone, a 12-by-9-inch work.

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Classic Forms Sketching the human figure appeals to artists of varied genres.

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he unclothed human figure has commanded the attention of artists throughout the ages, even in the wild and rugged setting of the Rocky Mountain West.

Here, artists can draw inspiration from staggering mountain peaks and some of the wildest fauna in the Lower 48.

Still, many say they are repeatedly drawn back to the most familiar image of all—the human body.

“People are interesting, bodies are interesting,” painter Jeff Ham says.

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of vibrant color to shade and highlight shadows on skin or light playing off a cheekbone.

The study of the human figure is a time-honored tradition, Ham said. That is true in and out of Jackson Hole. Indeed, nude artwork is practically as old as art itself.

Studies of the body go back to before reTop: Jennifer Hoffman and corded history, when ancient humans painted her partners at Trio Fine Art the walls of caves and carved shapely renderings Gallery regularly hire models of the female anatomy out of mammoth tusks. to hone their sketching skills.

From Renaissance sculptors to the painters of today, our own physique has long been the Opposite: “Bodies hold my artist’s chief inspiration. curiosity more than anything Artwork depicting the naked body isn’t as else,” says Kaidi Dunstan, common on the walls of Jackson Hole galleries painter of Red Figure, a as, say, bison or bears, but the human anatomy holds a special place for artists who work and charcoal and mixed media show here nonetheless. on canvas.

Some use the familiar form to sharpen their skills, be it with a pencil or a brush. Others see nudes as an end in themselves. All seem to agree that the body is one of the artist’s few original and steadfast muses.

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The body is often the subject of the work of Jackson native Kaidi Dunstan, who uses collages, oil charcoal, gouache, and acrylic to explore the human form and the connection between bodies.

Her work, which shows at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, sometimes depicts a single figure, groups of people, or even just body parts.

“We try to connect to other bodies in different ways, building bridges between us, some fleeting, others complex,” Dunstan says in her artist statement.

Her figures can be alone, slightly distorted, and isolated, crouched in the corner of a canvas. Others show a group of people interacting, or in some instances, attempting to interact.

“Bodies, as beings or selves, hold my curiosity more than anything else, so that’s why I work in this realm,” Dunstan says.

Even as a child in Jackson Hole, growing up amidst mountains and animals, Dunstan drew inspiration from the human figure.

“My favorite piece of ‘art’ I saw growing up in Jackson as a child was the 3-D diorama of the Indian village, up at the [Grand Teton National Park] Visitor Center in Moose. There were small imaginative figures, made to illustrate people busy going about their lives.

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they were Indians particularly, but because they were bodies, made by a human, to represent some idea.”

Gallery associate Carolyn Ripps describes Dunstan’s mixed-media works as focusing on “the interplay between self and space.” The figures are distorted Top: Arizona painter “just enough,” she says, to give the viewer pause.

Cyrus Afsary uses figures Nude artwork can be found in one form or in many of his works. another around town, sometimes front and center in the window of a more contemporary galArtamis is a 9-by-12-inch lery, other times in the back room, awaiting the oil at Trailside Galleries. right collector.

More classical imagery of the body is also Bottom: Astoria Fine Art available in the valley. represents Zhaoming Heather James Fine Art never seems to shy Wu. This is Theme from away from the human form, whether it be an anMissing. cient sculpture or a contemporary painting.

The gallery has classic nudes, from the old master to prints from modern-era artists.

Astoria Fine Art carries nudes from time to time, most often from San Francisco-based artist Zhaoming Wu.

The artist uses “the figure as a landscape,” owner Greg Fulton says.

His nudes have an airy, soft feel, with the subjects always gazing down or away.

It’s about more than just copying an image, Fulton says. That’s why artists prefer live models. It allows them to capture mood or even character traits.

Others view figure studies as a foundation of an artist’s craft that can be used to hone skills, even if the human form isn’t a part of the artist’s professional repertoire.

“There’s such a tradition of it and for good reason,” Trio Fine Art partner Jennifer L. Hoffman said of studying the body.

Indeed, Hoffman and a handful of other valley artists have been participating in a tradition for more than a decade that focuses on the human body.

It began with the late Greg McHuron, who would organize figure studies at his studio north of town during the offseason.

The sessions would often be standing room only, Hoffman says, as artists who normally specialized in wildlife and landscape paintings would attempt to hone their skills by sketching naked models. Participants included her fellow Trio artists, Bill Sawzcuk and Kathryn Mapes Turner.

“Everybody went as much for the jokes and the camaraderie,” Hoffman says.

But they also went for the practice.

The human body is at once familiar but also tricky to render on canvas or paper, she says.

If proportions are slightly off, it is immediately obvious to a viewer, she says. It may not be as easy for a layperson to tell whether a tree or a moose is slightly distorted.

Sessions would begin with a model holding a pose for thirty seconds as the artists sketch and scribble the figure as quickly as possible. From there, more time would be taken for each pose.

“It’s really about understanding form and gesture,” Hoffman says.

The practice helps those who specialize in Western art sharpen observation skills.

“It really does force you to slow down and pay attention,” Hoffman says.

Now the Art Association of Jackson Hole organizes figure studies year-round at the Center for the Arts.

Trailside Galleries represents a handful of artists who paint nudes with a Western backdrop. One can be found on the second floor, tucked away on a shelf.

An oil by Stan Davis depicts the arched back of a woman, perhaps braiding her hair, sitting next to a creek.

“It’s a classic art form, it crosses all genres,” Trailside Fine Art Consultant Pam Winters says.

Other artists at the gallery also incorporate the unclothed body into their canon, including Cyrus Afsary, William Whitaker, and Howard Rogers.

Regardless of the style—abstract, realistic, or whimsical—Winters agreed that body is an ambitious, demanding subject.

“To me the human form is one of the most difficult things to paint. The proportions are so important,” she says.

Kaidi Dunstan hung a show at Tayloe Piggott Gallery in May that included Walking Figures, a collage, gouache, and charcoal on board.

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ackson’s art scene isn’t just visual. Especially in summer, you can catch live music almost every night.

Start the week off with “church” at Wilson’s Stagecoach Bar, where the Stagecoach Band has been performing from 6 to 10 p.m. on Sundays for more than forty-five years.

Western swing and country covers round out sets perfect for two-stepping.

Although its membership is fluid, the band is often comprised of Bill Briggs on banjo and Autoharp, Derrik Hufsmith on guitar, Kenny Bradberry on bass, Don Christensen on keys, and Ed Domer on drums. Everyone trades off on vocals.

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3 show is planned with Jackson world music band The Stagecoach Band Calle Mambo and a Fourth of July show with the has performed at its Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole as well as popunamesake bar in Wilson lar rockers Mandatory Air. Other shows include every Sunday for forty-five the Infamous Stringdusters on July 20, Nahko and years. From left, Phil Medicine for the People on July 27, the Dirty Dozen Round, Derrik Hufsmith, Brass Band on August 10 and Dumpstaphunk on and Bill Briggs let loose August 24. Listeners are encouraged to bring blanas Christine Langdon and kets or chairs to enjoy the free tunes.

Ed Domer lay down bass On Mondays, the Jackson Hole Hootenanny and drum lines. begins at 6 p.m. at Dornan’s Spur Bar in Moose at the Pavillion behind the Chuckwagon.

The weekly acoustic open mic has musicians sign up for two-song sets and play right in front of the Tetons.

There are about twenty spaces on the list, with a standby list often filling, too. Performances conclude by 9 p.m.

The Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel hosts Bluegrass Tuesdays, with music most often performed by Jackson’s own One Ton Pig. The sextet—bassist Andy Calder, guitarists Justin Smith and

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The Rose cocktail bar at the Pink Garter Michael Batdorf, mandolinist Tim Farris, drumTop: Josh Metten and Jim Curran, has DJs on most late weekend nights. Some mer Jason Baggett, and fiddler Matt Herron— center, practice with other musicians scheduled acts for the hip venue include pohave made quite the name for themselves since before their turn at the Jackson Hole litical singer/songwriter Steve Earle on June forming in 2006 and releasing three records.

Hootenanny last summer in Moose. The 16 and funky rockers G. Love and Special Their range of jams from rocking bluegrass weekly open mic showcases a variety of Sauce on July 7. to rootsy folk appeal to a wide crowd and get musical talent beneath the Tetons.

The Center’s summer concert series ineveryone from weathered ranch hands to freshcludes a benefit concert with Pat Metheny faced raft guides grooving.

Bottom: One Ton Pig picks out some Unity Group and Bruce Hornsby on July 24 Grand Teton Music Festival kicks off July dance-worthy bluegrass music each and rocker Chris Isaak on August 11.

3 with concerts Tuesdays, select Wednesdays, Tuesday at The Wort’s Silver Dollar Bar. The valley’s free summer concert seand Thursdays through Saturdays until August ries JacksonHoleLive also will have several 16 at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village. In its outside concerts on varying days during the 53rd season, the festival is composed of musisummer at the base of Snow King Mountain. The lineup incians from renowned orchestras who play under the direction of cludes rocker Anders Osborne on June 22, up-and-coming folk Donald Runnicles to create a world-class symphony. pop band JohnnySwim with co-headliners Playing for Change On Thursdays, the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar has country on July 3, County songster Craig Campbell with co-headliner swing lessons at 7 p.m. so people can learn the moves before bluesy The Black Lillies during the Teton County Fair on July two-stepping the night away to live music around 9. The Cowboy 25 and jazz powerhouse Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue hosts country-rock bands six nights per week. on August 13. A fifth show in the series is yet to be announced.

On the other side of the hill, the Teton Valley Foundation For comprehensive music information each week, check out hosts Music on Main in Victor, Idaho, on seven Thursdays the Stepping Out section of the Jackson Hole News&Guide or see this summer: June 26 to August 14, excluding July 3. The famthe Jackson Hole Calendar at jhnewsandguide.com. ily friendly and free outside events will feature Celtic rockers the Young Dubliners and Americana songwriter James McMurtry.

Fridays find many people sipping cocktails at Spring Creek Ranch’s Granary Restaurant, taking in Jazz Night.

A rotating group of jazz musicians is anchored by Keith and Pam Drews Phillips. During the summer, Spring Creek Ranch’s lounge has live music Wednesday through Saturday to accompany its fine fare.

On Friday and Saturday afternoons starting July 4, Teton Village eatery The Handle Bar will have live music from 3 to 6 p.m.

The fine dining restaurant the Blue Lion also provides live acoustic tunes most nights to accompany dinner service, which begins at 5:30 p.m.

Other popular and dedicated venues like The Pink Garter Theatre and the Center for the Arts have several shows scheduled throughout the summer.

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Troupes in Residence Bringing big-city companies here for extended visits builds skills, gives connections to younger dancers.

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rowing up in a small town in Iowa, Babs Case thought what her community offered was as far as she could go in dance.

“I just never thought ‘Oh, gee, I could go to New York and take a class’ or I could and see what was out there,” she says.

But Case was lucky. Her mother was an artist and nurtured her creative side. Case left Iowa and eventually arrived in Jackson in 1998. That year, when Dancers’ Workshop asked Case to choreograph a piece, she brought in a Chinese dancer she’d met in graduate school and built a duet around him and Jackson dancer Jodeen Tebay.

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companies that don’t just perform, but Gallim Dance from stay in residency, ensuring that Case’s stuNew York City puts on a dents will never feel as isolated as she did, stunning show in 2013 that they will know the extent of the dance as troupe members world and what they need to do if they want perform Fold Here, a to pursue it professionally. one-hour modern dance This summer, Bill T. Jones and the show that incorporates Arnie Zane Dance Company are in resicardboard boxes. Dancers’ dence for the first time in Jackson from July Workshop has two big-city 14 to 21, followed by New York City Ballet companies scheduled for Moves in residence for the fifth time from residencies this summer.

August 4 through 10.

When a company comes they often stay at least a week, if not longer, working with students, rehearsing where people can come and watch, and offering master classes. They share their inspiration and process.

It takes more money to bring companies in for an extended time and it takes artists open to the format,

classes in New York City, but in Jackson you don’t have to leave to get it,” she says. “It comes to you.”

This spring, Michaela Ellingson graduated from Purchase College, SUNY, with a bachelor of fine arts in dance. She is one of the few dancers at the prestigious school to come from a small town and not spend the bulk of her time dancing elsewhere.

“I think the residency program at DW is ridiculous,” Ellingson says, “that such a small town can have such wonderful and world-renowned companies come and work with their students. It made me able to compete in the dance world.”

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but it creates a more meaningful experience for everyone involved—students, the professional company, and the public—and it’s a standard that has become the norm at Dancers’ Workshop.

“I am not really interested in interacting with dance companies in any other way,” Case says. “The whole onenight stand, come in and perform and leave, doesn’t work for me.”

Visiting companies get a chance to focus on their work without the daily distractions of their home cities. It’s like a retreat. There aren’t long commutes. They can walk to the studio and maximize their time. When they aren’t dancing, many find Jackson relaxing and creatively inspiring.

Dancers’ Workshop gets a unique opportunity to expose students to a variety of styles of dance and offer them a chance to learn from some of the best dancers in the world.

“I’ve seen the influences,” Case says.

“It’s remarkable what they pick up by just watching and listening.”

It also makes the students realize what is possible for themselves in dance and provides professional connections that are invaluable.

“It sort of demystifies—it breaks down that inhuman barrier that sometimes the professional dancer has,” Case says. “Now our students are friends with New York City ballet dancers.”

When Ruby Jones, who graduated high school this year, interviewed at her dream school, the London Contemporary Dance School, she mentioned Gallim, a New York City company for which Dancers’ Workshop co-commissioned a piece. The company not only choreographed much of the piece Fold Here in Jackson, but also taught classes that Jones took. A dancer involved in Gallim who taught at Dancers’ Workshop was working on a certificate program at the London Contemporary Dance School when Jones interviewed. That dancer knew her and could recommend her to the school. It was an important connection for Jones as she interviewed.

Being able to name-drop other dancers Jones knew or had worked with, like Benjamin Millepied of New York City Ballet or Alonzo King of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, gave her an edge in interviews, she says.

“I never would have been that impressive on paper without those,” she says.

But aside from the networking, the chance to work with other instructors and choreographers makes the students better dancers and exposes them to new types of dance, Jones says. Gallim uses a movement technique called gaga, developed by an Israeli choreographer.

“Guest artists are really important for expanding your entire repertoire of dance,” she says.

Jones liked gaga so much, whether a school offers training in it became criteria she used when deciding where she wanted to audition.

It also is good practice to work with teachers with different styles. When auditioning, dancers have to be easily adaptable to a new instructor or choreographer.

“You can get those experiences by going and taking

nies made her a more marketable dancer.

“The more people you work with the more versatile you become,” she says. “You are really able to taste a lot of different movement vocabularies and from there you can start to build a strong skillset.”

It’s not just the students who benefit from the residencies, but also the community. In addition to the performances, rehearsals and master classes are open to the public. Talkback sessions encourage people to ask questions.

“I think there are benefits to observing dance,” Case says. “There’s the beauty of it. You can stand back and look at the beauty of a mountain and not climb it and still gain something from it. Art in general enriches our lives in a way that is difficult to understand. I see it as it takes us someplace else in an emotional or sensory way that is important to go because we learn things about ourselves, our ideas, our perspectives, our beliefs. Art can push the boundaries on those things and ask you to question your own beliefs or perspective or just to look at something and not judge and just see the beauty in it. My goal is that everyone could be an artist. Everybody could dance.”

Jonathan Stafford, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, teaches a ballet workshop to kids in 2011 at the Center for the Arts.

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This Summer Jackson Hole Playhouse (307) 733-6994, jacksonplayhouse.com // MAY 31 – OCTOBER 4 Paint Your Wagon Off Square Theatre Company (307) 733-3021, offsquare.org // JULY 12 & 18 Thin Air Shakespeare: Twelfth Night // AUGUST 23 New Work Premiere: staged reading

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Theater’s Teton Roots As long as there are stories to tell, motivated actors will perform.

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ig Time in Jackson,” the headline on the front page of the July 15, 1920, Jackson’s Hole Courier read.

“On Saturday night, July 24, the Tetonia Dramatic club will present a three-act drama entitled ‘Hand of the Law’ in the IOOF [Oddfellows] hall at Jackson. On Monday night, July 26, the same club will put on a four-set melodrama entitled ‘The Bank Cashier’ at the same hall. There are ten characters in each play, and every part is taken by a person who had training and experience.

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There almost certainly had been earlier theatrical performances presented in old-time Jackson Hole—the early pioneers and homesteaders had since they arrived in the valley been figuring out ways to have a little fun between the long stretches of hard labor that was life in the Recent plays by Off Tetons way back when—but that’s the first reference Square Theatre Company that a speedy review of early Couriers revealed. include the risqué And of course it was far from the last. As long as and sultry production, there are creative people who love putting in ridicuCabaret. lously long hours learning lines, creating sets, and bringing words to life beneath the bright lights of the stage (all on top of their full-time jobs), theater will thrive in Teton County.

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for the Arts, now staging most of its production in the center’s House Next Door,’ a Three-Act Comedy,” the May 4, 1922, Black Box Theatre, and often bringing in guest actors and direcCourier declared. “All Star Cast.” tors from out of town. For years the laboratory of theater vetBack then most productions were staged in the Clubhouse— eran Bob Berky, Off Square’s fare over the year has ranged from the 1897 structure that still survives, though much altered, on early workshop versions of Berky originals (The Fourth Nail) the southeast corner of Deloney and Center streets—but the to crowd-pleasing musicals (Scrooge and Cabaret) to challengearly 1950s saw the emergence of a new venue, the Pink Garter ing contemporary drama (Stones in his Pockets, Doubt). It also Theatre, in what had been Charles “Pap” Deloney’s shop on the mounts an extravagant youth musical each year featuring as street that bears his name. Offering light musical fare, one of its many as one hundred students. claims to fame was casting a young Dawn Wells for several shows Last, but far from least, came the upstart garage company a few years before she became marooned on Gilligan’s Island.

Riot Act Inc. Conceived in 2002, it has challenged preconceived From then on, theater was a regular part of the lives of notions about what theater in Jackson Hole is all about, stagJackson Hole residents and visitors, with more and more offerings each decade. The Jackson Hole Shootout fired its first shots in the summer of 1957, with the outlaw Clover the Killer causing mayhem and mischief until the Cache Creek Posse strung him up. The free show on Town Square has continued every summer since, making it the longest-running shootout show in the country.

In 1972, Jon Stainbrook founded Dirty Jack’s Wild West Theater in what is today the Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum. For twenty-three years Stainbrook, who was born in Texas but raised in Jackson from the age of seven, and a devoted crew of like-minded pranksters staged both well-known Western-themed musicals (Cat Ballou, Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Paint Your Wagon) as well as their own hokey and hilarious farces (Calamity at the Flat Beaver Fault Line, Doc’s Holiday at the Wild Still Saloon, Double Trouble at the No Show Depot).

By the time Dirty Jack’s curtain came down in 1995, there were at least two other dramatic organizations staging shows. In 1980, the Garnick family ing daring, often experimental productions that of Buffalo Valley took over the old Pink Garter and Starting in the summer of run the gamut from re-imaginings of Shakespeare rebranded it as the Jackson Hole Playhouse, pre1957, the Jackson Hole and Euripides to Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider senting Western musicals and melodramas such Shootout began offering Woman and Bertold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for busloads of gunslinger drama six nights That quick history doesn’t even mention the tourists through the summer. In recent years the a week. thriving drama program at Jackson Hole High Garnicks have added other seasonal shows such School, which in recent years has staged plays as Phantom at the Playhouse for Halloween and a and musicals that attract audiences far wider than proud parChristmas show in December. ents and best buddies, not to mention the dozens of others who And in 1978, the all-volunteer Actors Co-op was created. have staged plays whenever they could and in whatever spaces Renamed the Jackson Hole Theater Company in 1995, it lives they could wrangle. on—albeit after a long, bumpy and circuitous journey—as “As humans we tell stories to learn about ourselves, to make Jackson Community Theater. Old-timers (well, relatively oldsense of the world,” Eve Bernfeld, one of the co-founders of Riot timers) still recall early productions of Dracula and Greater Act Inc., writes in a “manifesto” about the company’s creation.

Tuna and Little Shop of Horrors with fondness. But its ever“Stoking the fire on a bleak, overcast but not yet snowing morngrowing list of ambitious projects includes Into the Woods, ing in Wilson, Wyoming, I don’t have access to the smorgasHair, Vagina Monologues, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?, bord of theatrical options available in a city, but the need for Proof, and The Mousetrap. While it also enjoys doing spoofy stories—entertaining, thought-provoking, edgy, hilarious, tragdinner theater mysteries, its annual night of one-acts has ic—is no less pressing. If these stories, and thus the theater, are spawned winning entries in state and regional community thenecessary to civilization, culture, society, to life, then is it not ater competitions. equally important to have a thriving, vital theater community in JCT’s bumpy journey also jarred loose a third group—Off Wyoming as it is in, say, New York City?”

Square Theatre Company, nee the Performing Arts Company of That seems to be a question that has been more than adJackson Hole. Founded in 1998, it has become Jackson’s only equately answered. year-round professional company, operating out of the Center

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— ART ALL SUMMER — THIRD THURSDAY ART WALKS: 5-8 p.m. on third Thursday of each month. Thirty or so members of Jackson Hole Gallery Association stay open late.

Refreshments also allure. For map, see page 65.

GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: Symphony orchestra concerts five nights per week July 3-August 16. Concerts start at 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and 6 p.m. Saturdays in Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village. Ticket prices vary. (307) 733-1128, gtmf.org NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART: Perched north of town overlooking the National Elk Refuge, the museum is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Exhibits include “Harmless Hunter: The Wildlife Work of Charles M. Russell” (see page 32), “Elegy: The African Photography of Nick Brandt,” “From Stone to Glass: Wildlife Sculpture in Multiple Media,” “Conservation Gallery,” “Wonder Cabinet: A Collection of Curiosities,” “Junior Duck Stamp.” Experience free yoga on the outdoor sculpture trail at 10 a.m. each Thursday July 10-August 28. Open studio for art making (all ages) daily July 21 to August 17. $12 adults, $10 seniors, $6 children, free to kids younger than five. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday with exhibits on homesteading, hunting, and early times in the valley. Admission $5 adults, $4 seniors and students, free to kids younger than 12. Hourlong free historic downtown walking tours meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from center of Town Square. jacksonholehistory.org JACKSON HOLE HOOTENANNY: Acoustic performances by variety of artists, 6 p.m. each Monday at Dornan’s in Moose. Free.

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Kathryn Mapes Turner will present scenes of the valley’s landscapes and wildlife in the show Home. Land from July 9 through 26 at Trio Fine Art, including Emergence of Fall, a 12-by-26-inch oil on canvas.

DINNER THEATER: Jackson Hole Playhouse presents the musical “Paint Your Wagon” six nights per week through October 4. Dinner is at 5 and 6:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. (307) 733-6994, jacksonplayhouse.com TETON VILLAGE EVENTS: Teton Village Association puts on several free, repeating family events at 5 p.m. most nights, including Concert on the Commons, 5-8 p.m. Sundays; wildlife talks at 5 p.m.

Tuesdays; raptor demonstrations on Wednesdays; symphony musicians on Thursdays and a variety of presentations on Fridays. tetonvillagemix.com

— JUNE — 19 RECEPTION FOR SHOW BY JOSH CLARE, 5-8 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. (307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com 19 RECEPTION FOR “YELLOWSTONE AND BEYOND” SHOW BY DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI, 5-7 p.m. at Altamira Fine Art. 739-4700, altamiraart.com 20 PUSH: PHYSICAL THEATER, 7:30 p.m. in Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. Gravitydefying dance and acrobatic hijinks. $12-$25.

Tickets: jhcenterforthearts.org 20 to 22 ALPINE SOLSTICE FINE ART FESTIVAL, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on grounds of Nordic Inn in Alpine. Free. (307) 413-9911, alpinesolstice.com 21 PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 7335771, wildlifeart.org 22 PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL ARTIST BRUNCH, 11

a.m.-3 p.m. at Horizon Fine Art. Meet artists Dean Bradshaw, Pat Clayton, Jill Hartley, Mark Kelso and Kay Stratman. Free.

26 to 28 JACKSON HOLE WRITERS CONFERENCE at the Center for the Arts. Lectures, workshops, publishing discussions with tracks in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and young adult writing. $395. (307) 413-3331, jacksonholewritersconference.com 27 OPENING RECEPTION FOR “PASTURE” SHOW BY JANE ROSEN, 5-8 p.m. at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Show hangs through August 10.

(307) 733-0555, tayloepiggottgallery.com 26 to 26 JACKSON HOLE WINE AUCTION. Fundraising events include tastings, dinners and gala auction to benefit Grand Teton Music Festival. $125-$1,000. Tickets: (307) 732-9965, jhwineauction.org 28 to July 9 GARY CARTER SHOW at Legacy Gallery. Meet the artist. (307) 733-2353, legacygallery.com 30 to July 2 ART IN ACTION residency with Jen Hoffman at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org

— JULY — 2 to 4 ART IN ACTION residency with Bill Sawczuk at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org 3 INDEPENDENCE DAY celebration in Teton Village include live music and fireworks. Free.

3 “THE FETE” at Diehl Gallery. Season-opening all-artist exhibition. Works hang through July 22. (307) 733-0905, diehlgallery.com 3 CYNTHIA FEUSTEL SHOW, 6-9 p.m. at Turpin Gallery. The gallery also will stay open until 9 p.m. each Thursday through September 11.

(307) 733-7530.

7 to 11 ART IN ACTION residency with Amber Jean at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org 8 to 10 JEWELRY SHOWCASES BY VICTOR VELYAN AND GURHAN at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Meet the artist. (307) 733-0555, tayloepiggottjewelry.com 11 to 20 ROBERT “SHOOFLY” SHUFELT SHOW at Legacy Gallery. Meet the artist. (307) 733-2353, legacygallery.com 11 to 13 MC PRESENTS TETON VILLAGE ART AND ANTIQUE SHOW outdoors in Teton Village.

Free admission. mcpresents.com 12 to 13 THIN AIR SHAKESPEARE, 8 p.m. on lawn at Center for the Arts. Come early with your picnic. Free. offsquare.org 9 to 26 “HOME. LAND” EXHIBIT at Trio Fine Art. triofineart.com 12 RISE OF THE FENIX FORMAL ART EVENT, July 12 at National Museum of Wildlife Art. Live music, food, art. $100-$200. ringholzstudios.com 14 to 25 ART IN ACTION residency with Amy Ringholz at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org

Jill Soukup’s Frosted is one of the large canvases she will feature in a show August 8 to 18 at Astoria Fine Art. A reception is set for 5 to 8 p.m. on the opening day.

14 to 21 BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY in residence at Dancers’ Workshop.

Master classes, open rehearsals, and a work-inprogress showing. Price varies. dwjh.org

lawn at Center for the Arts. Come early with your picnic. Free. offsquare.org

15 to 17 JEWELRY SHOWCASE BY TODD REED at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Meet the artist.

(307) 733-0555, tayloepiggottjewelry.com 16 RECEPTION FOR “SPIRITUAL REALMS” SHOW FEATURING BRANDON COOK, 5-8 p.m. at Horizon Fine Art. (307) 739-1540, horizonfineartgallery.com

21 HOOTENANNY AT THE CENTER, 7 p.m. in Center Theater at Center for the Arts. Allstar acoustic folk showcase. $10. Tickets: jhcenterforthearts.org 22 to 24 JEWELRY SHOWCASE BY NICHOLAS VARNEY at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Meet the artist.

(307) 733-0555, tayloepiggottjewelry.com

16 TO 25 SHOW OF NEW WORKS BY EWOUD DE GROOT at Astoria Fine Art. astoriafineart.com

24 to August 12 GWYNN MURRILL SOLO EXHIBITION at Diehl Gallery. (307) 733-0905, diehlgallery.com

17 to 18 THIN AIR SHAKESPEARE, 8 p.m. on

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HORNSBY WITH SONNY EMORY CONCERT, 8 p.m. in Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. Benefits the Center for the Arts. $150$350. Tickets: jhcenterforthearts.org 26 RECEPTION FOR SHOW BY AL AGNEW, 5-8 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Exhibit hangs through August 4. (307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com 29 to 30 ART IN ACTION residency with Kathryn Turner at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. (307) 733-5771, wildlifeart.org 29 to 31 JEWELRY SHOWCASE BY MONIQUE PEAN at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Meet the artist.

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30 to August 16 THE WORK OF BILL SAWCZUK EXHIBITION at Trio Fine Art. triofineart.com

from Home Ranch. Tickets $50 in advance: jacksonholechamber.com 7 TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS, 10 a.m.4 p.m. on Town Square. Open-air, juried art fair featuring 40 local artists and artisans. Free. jhartfair.org

— AUGUST — 3 PETER SAGAL, 8 p.m. in Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. Host of NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” $35$55. Tickets: jhcenterforthearts.org

7 TASTE OF THE TETONS, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in Town Square. Chefs prepare bite-sized delights. Taste tickets cost $1, plates cost two to four tickets. jacksonholechamber.com

4 to 9 NEW YORK CITY BALLET MOVES in residence at Dancers’ Workshop.

Performances at 8 p.m. August 8 and 1:30 and 8 p.m. August 9. $35-$75.

Tickets: (307) 733-4900, dwjh.org

10 FALL ARTS FESTIVAL ART WALK, 5-8 p.m. at valley galleries. Free.

8 RECEPTION FOR SHOW BY JILL SOUKUP, 5-8 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Exhibit hangs through August 18.

(307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com

11 RECEPTION FOR TWO-MAN SHOW: JOSEPH ALLEMAN AND GERALD BALCIAR, 3-6 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Exhibit hangs September 4-14. (307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com

11 CHRIS ISAAK, 8 p.m. in Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. $95-$120. Tickets: jhcenterforthearts.org 14 to September 3 DAVID PIRRIE “MAPPING THE TETONS” EXHIBITION at Diehl Gallery. Works hang through September 3. (307) 733-0905, diehlgallery.com

11 WILD ONE HUNDRED ARTIST PARTY, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. $100. Tickets: westernvisions.org

The Fete at Diehl Gallery on July 3 features new works from the gallery’s stable of artists. This is Hero Time by Casey Vogt.

15 to 17 ART AND ANTIQUE SHOW indoors and outdoors at The Virginian Lodge. Free admission. mcpresents.com 22 to 24 TETON VILLAGE ART AND ANTIQUE SHOW outdoors in Teton Village. Free admission.

23 to 24 PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP featuring Nancy Lewis in Driggs, Idaho. $125 per day or $200 both days. driggsdigspleinair.org 25 to August 2 DRIGGS DIGS PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL in Driggs, Idaho. More than 60 painters gather for painting, competition and camaraderie. $55 to participate, free to watch. See full schedule at driggsdigspleinair.org 28 to September 25 PENELOPE GOTTLIEB EXHIBIT at Heather James Fine Art. Reception 5-8 p.m. September 5. (307) 200-6090, heatherjames.com

— SEPTEMBER — 3 WESTERN VISIONS JEWELRY AND ARTISAN LUNCHEON, 11 a.m. at Snow King Resort. $100.

Register: (307) 732-5412.

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4 WESTERN DESIGN CONFERENCE OPENING PREVIEW PARTY, 6-10 p.m. at Snow King Sports and Events Center. $50-$125. westerndesignconference.com 5 PALATES & PALETTES GALLERY WALK, 5-8 p.m. at participating galleries. Chefs team with galleries. jacksonholechamber.com 5 OPENING RECEPTION FOR CAIO FONSECA AND XAWERY WOLSKI, 5-8 p.m. at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Show hangs August 21-October 4. 7330555, tayloepiggottgallery.com 5 to 7 WESTERN DESIGN CONFERENCE EXHIBIT + SALE, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Snow King Sports and Events Center. Features 100 of North America’s finest functional Western artists and designers. $15 ticket allows repeat visits. westerndesignconference.com 5 through October 18 “RE-BUFFED” EXHIBITION at Diehl Gallery explores the bison in contemporary art. Literal, abstract or conceptual.

(307) 733-0905, diehlgallery.com 6 HISTORIC RANCH TOURS depart at 2 p.m.

12 RECEPTION FOR EXHIBITS BY GREG BEECHAM AND JOSHUA TOBEY, 1-4 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Exhibit hangs September 4-14.

(307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com

12 WILD ONE HUNDRED SHOW AND SALE, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Final chance to bid on Western Visions pieces. $150. Tickets: westernvisions.org 13 19TH ANNUAL JACKSON HOLE QUICKDRAW ART SALE AND AUCTION, 9 a.m. in Town Square.

Artists create in just 90 minutes. Works auctioned at end. Free.

13 RECEPTION FOR SHOW BY EWOUD DE GROOT, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Exhibit hangs September 4-14. (307) 733-4016, astoriafineart.com 13 FALL ARTS FESTIVAL FEATURED ARTISTS PARTY FOR JOSHUA TOBEY AND NANCY DUNLOP CAWDREY, 6-9 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. Free.

14 ART BRUNCH GALLERY WALK, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at participating galleries. Food and art wrap up Fall Arts Festival. Free. jacksonholechamber.com

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20 to September 6 JENNIFER L. HOFFMAN SHOW at Trio Fine Art. triofineart.com

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