Above: Portland Cello Project - see page 15
Cover: Rodrigo y Gabriela on a backdrop of Shannon Troxler’s “The Red Cello”
Back Cover: Brandon Gellis “uncharted 1-3”
photo by Wes Magyar
THE HAPPENINGS
4–15 20/21 18/19 22 16/17
CENTER PRESENTS
Extraordinary artists, musicians, and even a magician are taking the stage this season at The Center Theater.
THE PAVILION PROJECT
The Pavilion welcomes performing and visual arts, exhibits, classes, and spontaneous gatherings to The Center Park.
THEATER GALLERY+ CAMPUS SCHEDULE
The Center hosts a stunning array of artists this summer displaying in The Center Theater Gallery and The Center Courtyard, as well as collaborations with other arts organizations.
SEASON CALENDAR
An enriching variety of programs and events are coming this summer to our creative campus.
CENTER SPONSORS
Thanks to the generous support from these local businesses and organizations, The Center is able to continue to produce quality programming each season.
MISSION: TO CONNECT OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A DEDICATED CAMPUS, SUPPORTING EXCELLENT PROGRAMMING, AND NURTURING A COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT.
JUNE 27 / 7:30PM
Beloved by fans and critics alike, Mary Chapin Carpenter has recorded 15 albums and sold over 14 million records. Her newest album, Sometimes Just The Sky, released March 30, 2018, is a celebration of her acclaimed 30year recording career. The landmark record features new versions of some of Carpenter’s most beloved songs, as well as one newly written song, which became the title
track. While the five-time Grammy winner’s 15 albums have been less linear autobiography and more a resolute collection of sharply observed sketches, each has offered glimpses into the artist’s life, brimming with literary detail and ringing with universal truth. Carpenter has sold more than 12 million records worldwide and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.
GENRE COUNTRY / FOLK
THE CENTER BENEFIT!
Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/band leader Béla Fleck has reconvened the original ‘Béla Fleck & The Flecktones’, the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. Rocket Science marks the first recording by the first fab four Flecktones in almost two decades, with pianist/ harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/Drumitarist
Roy “Futureman” Wooten. The album sees the quartet creating some of the most forward thinking music of their long, storied career. While all manners of genres come into play – from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music – the result is an impossible-to-pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable.
GENRE BLUEGRASS / JAZZ
Two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene in 1978 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona over 15 critically acclaimed albums. Rolling Stone magazine put her on its cover twice in two years, and Saturday Night Live gave her an unprecedented three songs for her second appearance. Rickie is both a character in the
songs and the songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock, and what has come to be known as ‘confessional’ songwriter performances. Her latest album The Other Side of Desire was written, recorded, and rooted in New Orleans. Produced by John Porter and Mark Howard, this is the first new music Jones has written in over a decade.
GENRE COUNTRY / FOLK
Shovels & Rope is an American folk duo from Charleston, South Carolina composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels & Rope blends traditional folk, rock and roll, and country rock. The band made their network television debut playing “Birmingham” on The Late Show with David Letterman, January 30,
2013. On September 18, 2013 at the Americana Music Honors & Awards, Shovels & Rope received the honor of Emerging Artist of the Year, as well as Song of the Year for the song “Birmingham.” They also appear in an end scene and provide the episode background music for the Charleston episode of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
GENRE AMERICANA / FOLK
The Chick Corea Akoustic Band reunites Chick with longtime brothers-in-music John Patitucci and Dave Weckl, bringing the whipshot runs and lyrical flights that they pioneered in Chick’s Elektric Band back to a classic acoustic piano trio. Chick Corea has attained iconic status in music. The keyboardist, composer, and band leader is the fourth-most nominated artist in Grammy Awards
history. John Patitucci is one of the most widely-recorded and in-demand bassists today, in any genre, having performed on countless albums. For more than 35 years, Dave Weckl has developed and maintained a reputation among fans, peers, and the international music community, as one of the great living drummers. Don’t miss the Akoustic Band’s first tour in more than 20 years!
WITH JOHN PATITUCCI AND DAVE WECKL
GENRE JAZZ / POST-BOP
Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power – always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, the constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. From their days playing together as teenagers in the Washington, DC
area, through years of inventive Psylodelic rock in San Francisco, to their current acoustic and electric blues sound, no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. At the 2016 Grammys, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
WITH STEVE KIMOCK
GENRE BLUES / BLUES ROCK
SEPT 10 / 7:30 PM
Join Jackson’s all-time favorite folk musicians for a special performance on The Center’s stage. Once a year, the Hootenanny trades in its usual Monday-night venue in Moose, WY, and performs an in-town version of the longrunning tradition. Talented pickers, founding performers, long-time stalwarts, and special friends take the stage to perform covers and originals – all acoustically. The
Hootenanny began in the 1950s and continues to be a home for some of Jackson’s best musicians. The Center yearly gathering allows Jackson-based talent to belt out their tunes on the large stage and share the magic captured in front on the Tetons with a packed house. Past artists include Bill Briggs, Hank Phibbs, Dan Thomasma, and Byron Tomingas.
GENRE BLUEGRASS / FOLK
Since they left Mexico for Ireland in 1999, Rodrigo y Gabriela have established themselves as one of the most popular acoustic instrumental bands in the world. They have sold in excess of 1.5 million albums worldwide, and have sold out venues like the Hollywood Bowl, the Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Le Zenith in Paris. Their film work
includes the soundtracks to ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ and ‘Puss In Boots’, and they have collaborated onstage and on record with artists as diverse as Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Al Di Meola, Zack De La Rocha (Rage Against The Machine) and Anoushka Shankar. In 2010 Rodrigo y Gabriela played at The White House in Washington for President Obama.
GENRE ACOUSTIC / FOLK
For one week this fall over 100,000 film-lovers will gather in over 300 cinemas, universities, and museums spanning six continents for one purpose: to view and vote on the ten short films (18 minutes and under), that are finalists in the annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.
Established in New York City in 1998, the MANHATTAN SHORT receives over 600 short-film entries from over
45 countries a year. Ten of these entries are selected as finalists and you can be the judge! Audiences from around the world are given the opportunity to unite not only to view the films but to vote for the ONE film they think is best. MANHATTAN SHORT is, quite simply, a collection of some of the best short films currently screening in the world today.
GENRE SHORT FILMS UNDER 8 MINUTES
FEATURING GERALD CLAYTON, VINCENTE ARCHER, AND BILL STEWART
Iconic Grammy Award winning guitarist John Scofield teams up with pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewartin Combo 66, a new band that builds upon Scofield’s long legacy of masterful improvisation and stylistic diversity. Since the late 1970’s, Scofield has been a major influence on jazz, continuously finding new and exciting avenues to reinvent himself as
an artist. In recent years, Scofield won two consecutive Best Jazz Album Grammy Awards for Past Present and Country For Old Men and has received resounding critical acclaim for his 2017 release Hudson. Now, joined by three formidable artists in their own right, Scofield’s new band showcases an intricate interpretation of jazz’s limitless direction.
GENRE JAZZ / JAZZ FUSION
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Michael Grandinetti is making the ancient art of magic charismatic and contemporary. Named by Entertainment Weekly as “a great magician who can truly communicate with a TV audience” and Hidden Remote as a “fan favorite…with charisma and an easy rapport with an audience,” Grandinetti is not your ordinary magician. He has performed on national and international television,
in stadiums, arenas, and theaters around the country.
Grandinetti has collaborated with Oscar-winning composers and symphony orchestras, for major sporting events, Fortune 500 companies, and events at The White House. By blurring the line between illusion and reality, he has made a name for himself around the world as an extremely talented and innovative illusionist.
GENRE MAGIC / FAMILY
PERFORM RADIOHEAD’S OK COMPUTER
GENRE CLASSICAL / ROCK
Portland’s premiere alt-classical group brings a huge, orchestral ensemble (including guest vocals by Patti King of the Portland band The Shins) to perform a night in homage to Radiohead. Expect an evening of unique renditions of classical Radiohead pieces that wander from truly epic to breathtakingly intimate. OK Computer is a historic album that has proven over the years to yield
an infinite variety of artistic inspiration to people of all walks of life. All of the cellists in the group are classically trained, and have found a unique connection between Radiohead and their musical foundation. The deep layers of sonic ecstasy are reminiscent to late-19th-century music, but beyond that, each of the cellists has worked to bring out subtleties drawn from their own experience.
TOWN ENCLOSURE
The 2018 Pavilion Project, produced by Jackson Hole Public Art in partnership with Center for the Arts’ Creative in Residence program, and designed by Carney Logan Burke Architects is both a sculpture and a venue. In 2017, Jackson Hole Public Art led a “blind submittal” process and facilitated a panel of creative professionals to identify the pavilion design. Carney Logan Burke’s design, Town Enclosure, was chosen among many impressive design proposals.
Join us for an opening celebration of The Pavilion on June 27 5:30-7:30pm in The Center Park.
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Town Enclosure Pavilion is created from a circular composition of timber panels, the Pavilion and the space it creates are both transparent and opaque according to one’s position and perspective.
The Town Enclosure Pavilion will exist as a sculptural object in The Center Park but it is much more than a sculpture.
The Pavilion welcomes performing and visual arts, exhibits, classes, and spontaneous gatherings to The Center Park.
ABOUT CARNEY LOGAN BURKE
Since our inception in 1992, the Jackson-based studio has grown to accommodate a staff of more than 40 led by principals John Carney, Eric Logan, Kevin Burke and Andy Ankeny. We maintain an informal and collegial atmosphere that encourages individual creativity and teamwork in an open, collaborative environment. Each endeavor is guided with the firm’s philosophy in mind – inspired by place.
THEATER GALLERY SCHEDULE
HIT PAUSE
BY KATY ANN FOX
May 25 - June 26
Artist Talk / May 24 12-1pm
Reception / May 25 5:30-7pm
This series joins the aesthetic capabilities found in instant photography and oil paint to hit pause and dwell in a moment. The simplicity and charm of the snapshot photo informs the color choices, design and texture of Katy’s paint. Each painting celebrates spending time in an instant collected from her life as a resident of Jackson Hole.
INNATE CONFLUENCES
BRANDON GELLIS
June 28 - Aug 14
Artist Talk / June 28 12-1pm
Reception / June 29 5:30-7pm
Biological changes occur naturally across Earth’s many landscapes. In innate confluences, Brandon explores the acceleration of changes because of human impact. As a multimedia experience, this exhibit includes 3D printed and laser cut interactive pieces, landscape reconstructions of Wyoming and Rocky Mountain West landscapes, and original video of the artist’s time exploring nature.
NOTE BY NOTE
SHANNON TROXLER
Aug 16 - Sept 24
Artist Talk / Aug 16 12-1pm
Palates and Palettes
Reception / Sept 7 5-6:30pm
Shannon loves to draw inspiration from other disciplines. This body of work is a celebration of the visual symphony of music and dance: the graceful curve of a cello scroll, the arch of a dancers foot, the gestures, movement and raw passion embodied by an orchestra. Shannon transforms the gallery into a corridor full of ink drawings dipped in wax and back lit to glow with a translucent light. The exhibit will include a musical concert and a brief dance performance.
“The Red Cello” oil on rag paper
“i think i always will” oil painting
“heated memories” photo by Wes Magyar
CAMPUS SCHEDULE
POND SERIES
ADAM WOLPERT
The Center Conference Room
May 26 - Aug 25
Artist Talk / May 25 12-1pm
Reception / May 25 5:30-7pm
Pond Series is a full twelve-month cycle of 70 paintings of the same size and of the same view. While each individual painting is exquisite, the body of work viewed as a whole is profound. As you allow your eyes to settle on one image after another, you step across the threshold into real seeing and are invited into a parallel world in which you are led to notice subtle changes in light and shadow in a way that draws you into another way of seeing.
SAGUARO AT DAWN + MORAN WITH SNOW
BEN ROTH
Glenwood and Cache St. Entrances
Moran with Snow / March - June
Saguaro at Dawn / March - Summer ’18
These two sculptures signify the overarching theme in Ben’s work of exploring different environments and how they are changing. The works welcome visitors and indicate immediately that this is a home for creative thinking and exploration. The drastically different environments of mountains and desert bookend the vast artistic activity that occurs in this building and voice the importance of place.
CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG THE TREES
TREVOR AMERY
a collaboration with Teton Artlab
The Center Courtyard
July 30 - Oct 3, 2018
Artist Talk / July 26 12-1pm
Reception / July 27 5:30-7pm
Consciousness Among The Trees is an installation using firewood, found objects, and artworks that consider how people come together, relate personal experiences, influence one another, as well as our relationship to nature and the outdoors.
photo by Jonathan Crosby
SUMMER/FALL CALENDAR
JUNE
Presented by Dancers’ Workshop
The Center Theater / 6PM
Presented by Art Association of Jackson Hole
Presented by Jackson Hole Writers
OPENING CELEBRATION FOR THE PAVILION
Presented by Jackson Hole Public Art and Carney Logan Burke Architects in collaboration with The Center
The Center Park / 5:30PM
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 7:30PM
Presented by Art Association of Jackson Hole 6PM 28-30
JACKSON HOLE WRITERS CONFERENCE
Presented by Jackson Hole Writers
The Center Theater & Lobby / All Day
PUBLIC TALK: JEWELL PARKER RHODES –WRITING FOR YOUTH: EMPATHY, DIVERSITY AND THE EMPOWERED “I” VOICE – THEATER
Presented by Jackson Hole
Writers Conference
The Center Theater / 8PM
ARTIST TALK WITH BRANDON GELLIS
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater Gallery / 12PM
OPENING RECEPTION
FOR BRANDON GELLIS’ EXHIBITION
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater Gallery / 5:30PM
JULY
6-8 / 13-15
THIN AIR SHAKESPEARE - MACBETH
Presented by Off Square Theatre Company
The Center Amphitheater
THE CENTER IS SUPPORTING OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY’S 6TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIN AIR SHAKESPEARE as one of our collaborative programs. This summer’s Macbeth is performed by a talented
cast of visiting actors and locals and directed by Edgar Landa. Share the magic of theatre with the whole family and top it off with a picnic at The Center Amphitheater. FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
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THE CENTER BENEFIT WITH BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater & Lobby / 8PM
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DANCERS’ WORKSHOP GALA CELEBRATION FEATURING HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO
Presented by Dancers’ Workshop 6PM
26
ARTIST TALK WITH TREVOR AMERY
Presented by The Center in collaboration with Teton Artlab
The Center Courtyard / 12PM
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OPENING RECEPTION FOR TREVOR AMERY
Presented by The Center in collaboration with Teton Artlab
The Center Courtyard / 5:30PM 31
89.1 KHOL SUMMER MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Presented by Jackson Hole Community Radio, 89.1 KHOL 8AM
SEPTEMBER
RICKIE LEE JONES
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
PALATES & PALETTES RECEPTION WITH SHANNON TROXLER
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater Gallery / 5PM
SHOVELS AND ROPE
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
HOOTENANNY
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 7:30PM
ARTIST TALK WITH SHANNON TROXLER
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater Gallery / 12PM
VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP: DYNAMIC PAINTING IN OIL OR PASTEL
Presented by Art Association of Jackson Hole 9AM
JOHN SCOFIELD’S COMBO 66 FEATURING GERALD CLAYTON, VINCENTE ARCHER, AND BILL STEWART
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
DAVID DORFMAN DANCE
Presented by Dancers’ Workshop
The Center Theater / 8PM
THE CHICK COREA AKOUSTIC BAND WITH JOHN PATITUCCI AND DAVE WECKL
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
OCTOBER
ELECTRIC HOT TUNA WITH STEVE KIMOCK
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 7PM
VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP: HYBRID WORKS: SOLARPLATE AND MONOPRINTING
Presented by Art Association of Jackson Hole 9AM
MICHAEL GRANDINETTI
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 6PM
PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT PERFORMING RADIOHEAD’S OK COMPUTER
Presented by The Center
The Center Theater / 8PM
NOVEMBER 1
ANNAPURNA, BY SHARR WHITE
Presented by Off Square Theatre Company
The Black Box / 7PM
VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP: RELIEF SCULPTURE: NOT JUST A DRAWING IN CLAY
Presented by Art Association of Jackson Hole 9:30AM
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