FALL ARTS FESTIVAL, Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 13B
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himsical wildlife is the focus of the Fall Arts Festival featured artist at Made. Painter Kat Houseman, of Bellingham, Wash., will show about 30 pieces in the small downtown shop in Gaslight Alley, which features handmade art and gifts. The artist creates fanciful oil and acrylic depictions of birds, wolves, bears, bison and other wildlife in and around the Yellowstone area. “This is way more wildlife-ish than we have ever done before,” Made owner John Frechette said. “She has work that is more detailed and true to life. She also does stuff that’s wild and crazy, with added colors, a little bit looser work and bigger brushstrokes.” Besides liking Houseman’s artistic approach, Frechette likes that her work is reasonably priced. None of her pieces, from miniatures to large canvases, costs more than $600, he said. “We like to be a place where people can actually afford something,” Frechette said. Houseman is also a fresh face for the festival. With her arms sleeved with tattoos and with an aesthetic that’s more avant-garde than usual in Wyoming, she’s not the typical artist found in Jackson Hole, Frechette said. “We just love Kat,” he said. “We just started carrying some of her smaller stuff we’ll carry all the time in the shop.” Her work has been well-received by Made customers. Within 24 hours of bringing a few of her paintings into the store in July, two were snatched up. No stranger to the area, Houseman has exhibited and sold her work at the Art Association of Jackson Hole’s summer art fairs. She received her bachelor’s degree in studio fine arts with a focus in painting from Montana State University in 2000. She will be at Made for several festival events, including an opening reception for her show on Sept. 12. “We’ll have a big opening sort of blowout with as many paintings as we can fit,” Frechette said. The shop also plans to collaborate with the artists at Teton Artlab to create a limited-edition screen-printed poster, he said. The poster — which will highlight Houseman, Made and the whole Fall Arts Festival — will be given out to the first 100 Made customers at the Sept. 6 Palates and Palettes gallery walk. Teton Artlab has also been doing original posters for concerts at the Pink Garter Theatre, Frechette said. “It’ll be something that’s cool,” he said of the poster in the works for Made. While Made is not a traditional Jackson Hole gallery, Frechette likes to be involved in the Fall Arts Festival because
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it’s a great town experience, he said. “It brings everybody out of the woodwork,” he said. “We like being part of the gallery events because we work with a whole bunch of different artists. It’s fun for them to get the exposure.”
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