Gardens: Collaborations with Nature—A BIG IDEA project of Sun Valley Museum

Gardens: Collaborations with Nature JUNE 16–AUGUST 20, 2022 A BIG IDEA PROJECT

THE MUSEUM 191 Fifth Street East, Ketchum, Idaho Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat, 11am–4pm HAILEY CLASSROOM 314 Second Ave South, Hailey, Idaho Scheduled Class Times SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART P.O. Box 656, Sun Valley, ID 83353 208.726.9491 • svmoa.org

COVER: Ana María Hernando, La Memoria de la Montaña / The Memory of the Mountain, in progress at her studio, 2022, tulle, embroidered organza, and pins, courtesy the artist and Robischon Gallery, Denver INTRODUCTION PANELS: Katy Stone, Untitled Intervention, Hailey, Idaho, Oct 2018, hand-cut ribbon with hosta, courtesy the artist Jil Weinstock, Unwanted Collaborator #14, 2022, thread, plant life, rubber, watercolor paper, courtesy the artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles BACK PANEL: Ana María Hernando, La Montaña Trae Barcas de Azucenas II / The Mountain Brings Us Boats Full of Lilies (detail), 2010, embroidered fabric, woven wool, beads, polymer resin, installed at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, courtesy the artist

INTERIOR, TOP TO BOTTOM, CLOCKWISE: Sarah Jones, Cerements, 2022, screen ink on silk, courtesy the artist Katy Stone, Untitled Intervention, Hailey, Idaho, Oct 2018, hand-cut Dichroic film with sunflower, courtesy the artist Ana María Hernando, Flores hechas de cielo #1 / Flowers Made out of Sky #1, 2021, color lithograph with cut-outs, ed. 25, courtesy the artist and Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO Jil Weinstock, Unwanted Collaborator #2, 2022, thread, plant life, watercolor paper, courtesy the artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles

etchum—the home of Sun Valley

tours and film, Gardens: Collaborations with

Museum of Art—is a town sur-

Nature uses the ideas of nature as collabora-

rounded by vast areas of wilderness. This BIG

tor, nature as curator and nature managed as

IDEA project considers natural spaces that

lenses through which to view the role of gar-

are in many ways the inverse of wilderness:

dens in our lives. How do gardens inspire and

gardens, where people collaborate with nature

express artistic creativity? How do they offer

in order to shape or transform it. Gardens are

solace and joy, changing our human experi-

also places that transform those who experi-

ence of the natural world? How do flora and

ence them, whether as gardener or visitor.

human beings work together as partners in the

Through a museum exhibition, classes,

creation of garden spaces?

plant material is bundled inside paper and steamed to release the natural plant dyes. Each print is unique.

Students are encouraged to bring plant materials from home and to use some from the garden outside the classroom to make beautiful organic artworks.

16 years and older, beginners welcome.

2022 Craft Series Workshops are generously ­supported by Heather Horton.

TEEN WORKSHOP LET’S PRINT HAILEY!

Gardens: Collaborations with Nature JUNE 16–AUGUST 20, 2022 A BIG IDEA PROJECT MUSEUM EXHIBITION

OPENING CELEBRATION AND STREET PARTY

Denver-based artist Ana María Hernando spent time in the Wood River Valley in the summer of 2021, visiting a variety of gardens and leading a community workshop and film screening. She returns for this exhibition to install a large-scale textile work made in response to her residency. Working with materials like tulle and organza, Hernando creates sculptural works and installations that evoke lush gardens, immersing viewers in the colors and textures of fantastical flora.

Hernando works with a range of collaborators, from the cloistered Argentinean nuns who cut and sew pieces of fabric incorporated into her installations to the Peruvian women whose handmade petticoats Hernando often uses in her sculptures.

Based in Missoula, Montana, Sarah Jones uses gardens and flowers as tools for exploring ideas about absence, loss and the ephemeral. Jones’s installation for this exhibition includes recent paintings of flowers made with white ink on silk, suspended from the ceiling of The Museum’s project room like a hanging garden. These quiet works reflect Jones’ interest in “the things that are barely there, the traceries and stains left behind by the subject, the residues.”

Several years ago, Seattle-based artist Katy Stone visited SVMoA as an artist-in-residence and spent time making small installations in the gardens at The Museum’s Hailey House. Working with painted Mylar, glitter and other materials, she collaborated with flowers and plants to create temporary artworks that invite viewers to look closely as they discover her subtle interventions. Stone is creating new interventions in the flowerbeds outside The Museum. Visitors can enjoy them as they evolve throughout the course of the exhibition, which also features photographs of Stone’s works in Hailey.

Based in New York, Jil Weinstock has spent the past two years creating a body of work she calls ­Unwanted Collaborators, using plant life, fabric, thread, paper and rubber to explore the relationship between the natural and the artificial. Her delicate, painstakingly made works invite viewers to consider how humans, from the plant’s point of view, might be “unwanted collaborators,” while those who garden know the challenge of keeping weeds and other ­invaders from disrupting the gardener’s work.

Thu, Jun 16, 5–7pm The Museum, Ketchum FREE We’re closing the street and having a party! Join us as we celebrate the opening of our summer BIG IDEA project and honor Artistic Director Kristin Poole’s 25 years of service to the arts and our community.

Special thanks to Jennifer Wilson for her ­generous support of the Ana María ­Hernando and Katy Stone residency projects and ­installations.

EVENING EXHIBITION TOURS Thu, Jun 23, Jul 14 and Aug 18, 4:30 and 5:30pm (2 sessions) The Museum, Ketchum FREE, pre-registration recommended (space is ­limited) Favor de llamar al Museo para arreglar visitas guiadas en español.

GALLERY WALKS Fri, Jul 8* and Aug 6, 5–7pm The Museum, Ketchum FREE *On July 8, come say hello to Jennifer Wells Green, SVMoA’s new Executive Director. Remarks by Board Chair Andrea Laporte at 6pm.

CLASSES CREATIVE JUMP-IN “FLORAL OIL PAINTING CRASH COURSE” WITH CAROL JOHANSEN Fri and Sat, May 13 and 14, 9am–4pm Hailey Classroom, Hailey $200 / $250 nonmember Award-winning plein air artist Carol Johansen will help you kick your inner critic to the curb, loosen up and enjoy the creative process of floral oil painting.

Learn how simple shapes and a limited color palette are the foundation for creating beautiful floral paintings. S­ tudents are encouraged to bring a portable easel if available; all other supplies for the class will be ­provided. 17 years and older, beginners welcome.

CRAFT SERIES WORKSHOP “ECO PRINTING ON PAPER” WITH DIANE HILL Wed, Jun 22, 10am–1:30pm and Thu, Jun 23, 10–11:30am Hailey Classroom, Hailey $65 / $75 nonmember Artist Diane Hill will guide students as they learn the technique of eco printing, a printmaking method that transfers plant color and shape onto paper. The

Thu, Jul 7, 12–4pm Hailey Classroom, Hailey $10, pre-registration required Artist Kimber Traue will guide teens as they capture an environment through printmaking. Students will use textures from their surroundings to create multilayered prints. They will also design a personal chop, or stamp, to finish their prints with their own signature seal. Artwork created in this workshop will be displayed in the SVMoA Ketchum Classroom.

Traue teaches art and reading at Bellevue ­Elementary School. In her personal practice, she works with ­watercolor, printmaking, mixed-media and fiber arts.

Teen workshops are generously supported by Joyce B. Friedman.

CRAFT SERIES WORKSHOP “ART IN THE GARDEN: DRAWING AND PAINTING FLOWERS” WITH POO WRIGHT-PULLIAM Sun, Jul 24, 8:30am–12:30pm Sawtooth Botanical Garden $80 / $100 nonmember Join Poo Wright-Pulliam for a fun morning of ­sketching plants and flowers in the beautiful S­ awtooth ­Botanical Garden. Students will learn anatomy of ­flowers and plants as well as basic drawing skills before heading outside to explore plants and their ­intricacies, and draw directly from nature.

Participants need to bring colored pencils and/or ­watercolors and a 4”x6” or 5”x7” watercolor or sketch notebook. An award-winning artist, Wright-Pulliam has been Artist-in-Residence at Craters of the Moon National Monument, City of Rocks National Reserve and the Wood River Land Trust. 16 years and older, beginners welcome.

This workshop is co-presented by SVMoA and Sawtooth Botanical Garden.

CRAFT SERIES WORKSHOP “EMBROIDERED GARDENS” WITH JEANNA WIGGER Thu, Jul 28, 1–5pm Hailey Classroom, Hailey $65 / $75 nonmember Jeanna Wigger has been creating with textiles for more than 30 years, practicing quilting, knitting, ­g arment sewing, embroidery and needle felting. In this workshop, participants will learn a variety of floral embroidery stitches and techniques, then combine these stitches to create an embroidered garden of their own design on fabric or a well-loved garment that needs new life. 14 years and older, beginners welcome.

2022 Craft Series Workshops are generously ­supported by Heather Horton.

FILM PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN Thu, May 12, 4:30 and 7pm Magic Lantern Cinemas, Ketchum In a historical vegetable garden on a Dutch estate, the 85-year-old pruning master and the gardener tend to the espaliers. As they prune, the men chat about food, the weather and the world, and they share their knowledge of horticulture. Despite his age, the pruning master is still inexhaustible and driven. As he worries about the loss of centuries of knowledge, the younger gardener makes an effort to learn everything he can. Meanwhile, the seasons go by.

SPECIAL EVENT SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ­ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR Sat, Jul 23, 10am–2pm Private gardens throughout Hailey Tickets available through Sawtooth Botanical Garden The Sawtooth Botanical Garden’s Garden Tour is an annual exhibition of outstanding private landscapes within the Wood River Valley. The Garden Tour serves as an opportunity for garden lovers to experience new and unique private landscapes and take away ideas for their own spaces. This year’s tour takes place in Hailey.

Special thanks to Cynthia and Blair Hull for their generous support of Gardens: ­Collaborations with Nature.