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A special supplement to the Jackson Hole News&Guide

September 5-16, 2018

“Teton Reflections” by Dennis Ziemienski was chosen to be the featured work of the 2018 Fall Arts Festival. Ziemienski’s work will be shown by Altamira Gallery.

‘The new Old West’ Dennis Ziemienski enjoys exploring an era of Western art that’s mostly ignored.

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SCHEDULE Get the skinny on festival events.

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QUICK, DRAW! Artists try to beat the clock.

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STREET ART FAIR Regional artisans populate square.

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Jackson named ‘vibrant arts’ town.

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ennis Ziemienski’s featured Fall Arts Festival painting depicts a woman on horseback, her steed drinking from a clear pool of mountain water as she tips her face to the sky.

The work, aptly named “Teton Reflections,” is the perfect theme for the 34th Fall Arts Festival. It’s also the perfect time for reflection on Jackson’s art scene, examining where it’s been, where it is now and where it’s headed.

We start with Ziemienski, whose work provides opportunity to dive into “the new Old West,” an examination of Western art with a twist. When submitting work for consideration in the festival, Ziemienski only picked work that showcased women, a self-described nod to a recent political swelling that has 2018 unofficially dubbed “the year of the woman.”

The piece speaks to inclusion, of an artist seeing a societal blind spot and addressing it head on. It’s a concept friendly to creatives, who have long used their chosen medium as a way to inspire action. This year we reflect upon that tenacity, looking at artists who use their work to spotlight the wild lands and animals of our natural world (see section F).

We also reflect upon a recent accolade, a feather in the town’s artistic cap. “Jackson lands on the map,” a feature found in section B, shares the story of how a small Western town has grown into an community named the second most vibrant arts town, standing behind Edwards, Colorado.

In addition to other themes, Ziemienski’s “Teton Reflections” also showcases the natural beauty of the Teton Range, a place that along with the rest of the Yellowstone region has drawn artists from around the world. The anchoring feature in section C, “Peaks of Inspiration,” examines this place as a spring of inspiration, while the next feature, “Home on the Range,” details the challenges local artists face when making their living and their home in the shadow of the Tetons.

Finally, we turn our reflections to our roots in section D, to the galleries and artists who were creating Western Art before Western Art was a genre. We look to artists who are “redrawing the West,” exploring new themes and mediums, and the statements they’ve made with their work.

We hope you take time to reflect upon what this festival, these artists, this work and this community means to you as you explore 10 days of arts and events. Welcome to the 2018 Fall Arts Festival.

— Melissa Cassutt and Julie Kukral, 2018 Fal l Arts Festival Editors

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2018 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Wednesday, Sept. 5 Two Grey Hills Indian Art and Jewelry, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5-Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8 Guest jewelry artist Artie Yellowhorse visits the store, 110 E. Broadway. Free. FineIndianArt.com.

Thursday, Sept. 6 Rare Gallery, 3-5 p.m. Open gallery. Be the first to view the world-class art that has arrived at Rare Gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. 733-8726. Free.

RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

Opening Preview Party and Fashion Show, 6-10 p.m. at Snow King Center, 100 E. Snow King Ave. Wander through designer showrooms, take in a couture fashion show of the latest trends in Western wear and attend a live auction.

690-9719. $50 general admission; $125 VIP. WesternDesignConference.com.

Friday, Sept. 7 Native Jackson Hole, all day. Artist Ruth Stringham Nordstrom paints in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway, and Annie Band holds a trunk show. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Thal Glass, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8. Open studio, 3800 Linn Drive in Wilson. Meet artists Laurie Thal and Dan Altwies. 6902491. Free. ThalGlass.com.

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 9 and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at Snow King Center, 100 E. Snow King Ave. From cowboy to contemporary, meet the maker and shop direct at every price point during this festive event. Over 100 national artists. 690-9719. $15 day pass.

WesternDesignConference.com.

National Museum of Wildlife Art, 3-5 p.m. Enjoy food, drink and the Western Visions show at the pre-Palates and Palettes party at the museum, 2820 Rungius Road. 732-5412. Free.

WildlifeArt.org.

Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, 5-8 p.m. at various galleries. More than 30 art galleries open their doors to showcase magnificent art with food, wine and music.

Free. JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Saturday, Sept. 8 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artist David Dean paints in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway, and Annie Band holds a trunk show. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

The Grand Fine Art, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 and Monday, Sept. 10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 and Saturday, Sept. 15. Gallery artists will be creating in the gallery, 130 W. Broadway. Check online for updates on who will be featured. 201-1172. Free.

TheGrandJH.com.

Historic Ranch Tours, 2 p.m. Visit two historic ranches, visit with cowboys, enjoy Western entertainment and barbecue from Moe’s Original BBQ. Buses leave the Home Ranch parking lot, 250 N. Cache St. Register: caitlin@ jacksonholechamber.com. 733-3316. $60.

JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Fall Arts Festival: Paint Out, 4-7 p.m. at Triangle X Ranch. A five-artist “paint out.” Paintings will later be for sale. 734-4444. Free; reservations required.

TurnerFineArt.com.

Rare Gallery, 5-7 p.m. Sculptor Dan Burgette artist demonstration in the gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. 733-8726. Free.

RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

Mangelsen Images of Nature, 5-9 p.m. Wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen will share his latest images and visit with collectors. Gallery located at 170 N. Cache St. 733-9752. Free.

Mangelsen.com/jackson.

Gray Crane Studios, 5-7 p.m. at Gray Crane Studios. Artist reception with photographer Gary Crandall. 699-3050.

Free. CrayCraneStudios.com.

Gallery Wild, 5-8 p.m. “Get Wild,” a hands-on art showcase where participants can try mediums for themselves in the gallery, 40 S. Glenwood St. 699-2077. Free.

GalleryWild.com.

Horizon Fine Art Gallery, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Artist talk and showcase with Miles Glynn and Karen Kurka Jensen. Artists will also be present post-QuickDraw. Gallery located at 30 King St. 739-1540. Free.

HorizonFineArtGallery.com.

Sunday, Sept. 9 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artist David Dean paints in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Takin’ It to the Streets art fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Jackson Town Square.

An open-air, juried art fair presented by the Jackson Hole Art Association that features 40 local artists. 733-8792. Free.

ArtAssociation.org.

Two Grey Hills Indian Art and Jewelry, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Guest jewelry artist Artie Yellowhorse visits the store, 110 E. Broadway. Free. FineIndianArt.com.

Taste of the Tetons, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Jackson Town Square. Valley chefs, restaurants and caterers put their best culinary work on display. $2-$5 per plate.

JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Rotary Supper Club’s Sips on the Square, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Jackson Town Square. Wine tasting and silent auction to benefit Central Wyoming College’s nursing program. $1 per tasting ticket.

Facebook.com/jhrotarysupperclub. ”Arts’ Role in Conservation,” 2-4 p.m. at Rare Gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. Presentation and discussion

by Rick Armstrong. 733-8726. Free.

RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

Azadi Fine Rugs and the Stapleton Gallery, 2-6 p.m. Montana-based painter Judd Thompson of the Stapleton Gallery will share his artistic voice at the gallery, 55 N. Glenwood St. Free.

AzadiFineRugs.com; StapletonGallery.com.

Monday, Sept. 10 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artist Jim Wilson paints in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Jackson Hole Jewelry, all day. West Coast diamond trunk show: 10 a.m.6 p.m. from Monday, Sept. 10-Wednesday, Sept. 12. Invitation-only soiree, 6-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 11. East Coast diamond trunk show: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. from Wednesday, Sept. 13-Friday, Sept. 15. Invitationonly soiree, 6-9:30 p.m., Friday, Sept.

15. Free; some events invitation-only.

JacksonHoleJewelry.com.

Tuesday, Sept. 11 Native Jackson Hole, all day. Artists Marie Jenkins and Lori Monson paint in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway. 733-4069.

Free. Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Wednesday, Sept. 12 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artists Richard Lloyd Biddinger and Marie Jenkins paint in the gallery,

10 W. Broadway. 733-4069.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Free.

Scott Christensen Studio and Gallery, 1-7 p.m. “Prelude to a Painting,” an artist talk and showcase with Scott Christensen, Christine Lashley, Jason Saunders, Scott Tallman Powers and Larry Moore.

Gallery located at 1100 E. 5000 S in Victor, Idaho. Free. ChristensenStudio.com.

Altamira Fine Art, 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 and Thursday, Sept. 13 and 2-5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. Artists reception for David Grossmann and Jivan Lee. Gallery located at 172 Center Street, No. 100. 739-4700. Free. AltamiraArt.com.

Altamira Fine Art, 4-7 p.m. Poster signing and artist reception with Dennis Ziemienski. Receive a signed poster of his featured painting, “Teton Reflections.”

Gallery located at 172 Center St., No. 100.

Free. AltamiraArt.com.

Ringholz Gallery, 5-8 p.m. Artist reception with Amy Ringholz. Gallery located at 140 E. Broadway Ave., No. 6.

734-3964. Free. AmyRingholz.com.

Gallery Wild, 5-8 p.m. Meet Rip and Alison Caswell, a husband and wife sculpting duo. Cocktails, wine and beer will be served at the gallery, 40 S. Glenwood St. Free. GalleryWild.com.

Thursday, Sept. 13 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artists Richard Lloyd Biddinger and Richard Miles paint in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway, and Calvin Begay holds a trunk show. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Astoria Fine Art, 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, 1-4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15. “Celebrating Contemporary, Honoring Traditional,” an artist reception and showcase.

Gallery located at 35 E. Deloney Ave. 7334016. Free. AstoriaFineArt.com. ”One Perfect Image,” 3-5 p.m. at Rare Gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. Presentation by Rick Armstrong. 733-8726.

Free. RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

West Lives On, 5-8 p.m. Artist reception with Mark Keathley and Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. Gallery located at 75 Glenwood St. 734-2888. Free.

WestLivesOn.com.

Western Visions Artist Party, 6-9 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2820 Rungius Road. View the art, place bids and mingle with artists before the big sale. 732-5412. $150; $125 for museum members. WildlifeArt.org; JacksonHoleChamber.org.

Friday, Sept. 14 Native Jackson Hole, all day.

Artists Richard Lloyd Biddinger and Richard Miles paint in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway, and Calvin Begay holds a trunk show. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at various homes around Jackson Hole. One-day, self-guided fundraising tour to experience the craftsmanship of some of Jackson’s most spectacular homes. $75 (benefits local nonprofits).

HomesteadMag.com.

Jackson Hole Art Auction, noon at Center for the Arts, 265 S. Cache St. One of the premier art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered in a variety of genres. Session 1, a shorter sale with more accessibly priced pieces. 866-549-9278. Free; registration required. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com.

Legacy Gallery, 2-4 p.m. Artist reception with Tim Shinabarger and Greg Beecham. Gallery located at 75 N. Cache St. 733-2353. Free. LegacyGallery.com.

Rare Gallery, 3-5 p.m. Patricia Griffin paints on the deck at Rare Gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. 733-8726. Free.

RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

Western Visions Show and Sale, 5-8 p.m. at National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2820 Rungius Road. Featuring works by the country’s leading wildlife artists; the final opportunity to place bids prior to the drawing. 732-5412. $150; $125 for members. WildlifeArt.org; JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Gallery Wild, 5-8 p.m. Artists reception for Jennifer Johnson and Carrie Wild.

Gallery located at 40 S. Glenwood St. Free. GalleryWild.com.

The Grand Fine Art, 5-8 p.m. Artist reception for painter Joe Kitzmiller. Gallery located at 130 W. Broadway. 2011172. Free. TheGrandJH.com.

Saturday, Sept. 15 Native Jackson Hole, all day. Artist Richard Lloyd Biddinger paints in the gallery, 10 W. Broadway, and Calvin Begay holds a trunk show. 733-4069. Free.

Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole.

QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction, 9 a.m. at Jackson Town Square. Nationally, regionally and locally recognized artists paint and sculpt a work in 90 minutes.

Work auctioned off immediately following, along with the sale of featured Fall Arts artist Dennis Ziemienski’s “Teton Reflections.” Free. JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Mountain Trails Gallery, 11 a.m.6 p.m. Artists reception and exhibit with Amy Lay, Troy Collins, Lyn St. Clair, Vic Payne, Dustin Payne and Chris Navarro.

Gallery located at 155 Center St. 7341850. Free. MtnTrails.net.

Rare Gallery, 11 a.m. Post-QuickDraw artist reception with David Riley, a Western contemporary artist. Ten percent of proceeds from his new Endangered Species collection will be donated to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation. Gallery located at 60 E. Broadway Ave. Free.

RareGalleryJacksonHole.com.

Jackson Hole Art Auction, noon at Center for the Arts, 265 S. Cache St. One of the premier art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered in a variety of genres. Session 2, featuring conservatively priced small works to museum-quality artwork. 866-549-9278.

Free; registration required. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com.

Gallery Wild, noon-6 p.m. Celebrate wildlife, wild places and the experience of wild that inspires the world of Gallery Wild artists. Gallery located at 40 S. Glenwood St. Free. GalleryWild.com.

Sunday, Sept. 16 Art Brunch Gallery Walk, 11 a.m.3 p.m. at various galleries. Brunch and festive beverages are served up at this closing-day celebration of the 2018 Fall Arts Festival. Free. JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Western Visions Celebration Salon, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Diehl Gallery, 155 W. Broadway. Featuring Claire Brewster, Helen Durant, Susan Goldsmith, Kollabs and JenMarie Zeleznak. Salon-style showing. 7330905. Free. DiehlGallery.com; JacksonHoleChamber.com.

Schedule is subject to change. Contact the gallery or participating organization for the most current information.

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Fast work makes good show on square 23rd annual QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction Artists start at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, with auction at 10:30.

Town Square Free JacksonHoleChamber.com

By Scott Eren

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ometimes it’s fun to rush. That’s the thinking behind the 23rd annual Jackson Hole QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction, where local, regional and nationally recognized artists race to complete paintings, drawings, or sculptures in a 90-minute dash.

The event will unfold in two parts.

First, beginning at 9 a.m. 40 or so artists will hurry to create their pieces from scratch. Artists can work in whatever medium they see fit, so be on the lookout for a variety of paints, techniques and styles as well as a sculptor or two working with clay. Spectators are encouraged to walk among the creators while the pieces are in progress. Bold observers can even toss out a question, should someone hurrying to make a complete piece of art in less than two hours have any attention to spare.

Adding to the excitement of the performative portion is the show-must-go-on nature of this outdoor event. No one can predict what weather may be in store for mid-September. It could be sunny and warm, smoky from wildfires or, like the event in 2017, filled with rain and near-freezing temperatures.

“I had to dodge raindrops,” watercolor painter Kay Stratman said shortly after the 2017 event.

“Any raindrop on my painting would make a mark, so I’d have to put a cloud there or change the skyline of the mountains to meet the raindrop, or add trees, something I wasn’t initially planning to do.”

It’s the unpredictability that tends to capture the attention of artists and the crowd.

Sculptors in particular are challenged when the temperatures drop.

“When it gets that cold it’s like working with a

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Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey finishes her piece in the final minutes of the 2017 Fall Arts Festival QuickDraw. The event gives artists 90 minutes to create a work that will be immediately sold at auction.

rock,” sculptor Chris Navarro said.

At the 2017 QuickDraw he relied on a team of blow-dryer-wielding assistants to keep his oilbased clay warm enough to remain pliable.

Regardless of weather, at the end of 90 minutes be sure to be there for the dramatic finish, complete with 10-second countdown.

After the bell tolls the second portion of the event begins. The fresh paintings are framed before being presented to the crowd to be auctioned off. Visitors and locals will descend into bidding wars, fighting for the unique opportunity to own a one-of-a-kind piece of art created before their eyes.

After the pieces created during the QuickDraw have been sold comes the grand finale, the auctioning of this festival’s featured painting, “Teton Reflections” by Dennis Ziemienski.

Last year’s featured painting, “Rise Above,” by Mark Keathley, fetched an astonishing $77,500.

Surely this year’s spectators will be abuzz wondering if Ziemienski’s painting of a cowgirl and her horse set against the Tetons can top last year’s record-setting sale.

Whether you’re going just to watch the birth of a masterpiece or planning on taking something home, the event is sure to be filled with surprises not to be missed.

FA L L A R T S F E S T I VA L H I G H L I G H T S :

CONTEMPORARY MEETS TRADITIONAL MARK EBERHARD & JOSHUA TOBEY LUKE FRAZIER & RICHARD LOFFLER

Above Rocky Lake Rich Loffler

MEET THE ARTISTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH 2:00-5:00 P.M. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH 1:00-4:00 P.M. Fall Aspens Mark Eberhard

Ambassador Joshua Tobey

Old Three Toes Luke Frazier

307.733.4016 • On the Town Square at 35 E. Deloney Ave. • www.astoriafineart.com 350926

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Sunday sips to benefit nursing program Jackson Hole Rotary Supper Club’s Sips on the Square 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 Town Square $1 per tasting ticket Facebook.com/jhrotarysupperclub

By Allie Gross

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ake a break from strolling through galleries to taste wines, beers and spirits for the Jackson Hole Rotary Supper Club’s Sips on the Square.

The annual Rotary fundraiser is a chance to sample beverages from local and national distilleries, vineyards and restaurants. For $1 per tasting ticket, tasters can sip spirits from all over the region.

“The goal here is to create a fun event that has a draw for everyone in the community, locals and visitors alike,” event manager Virginia Powell Symons said.

Most booths will be staffed by local purveyors like Snake River Brewing and Jackson Hole Winery, offering the local stars a chance to showcase their products. Rotarians will also be serving donated wine from additional establishments. Attendees can purchase a keepsake wineglass to use throughout the day.

While they are sipping, attendees have an opportunity to check out silent auction tables, “with something for every demographic,” Powell Symons said. From locally-made jewelry to fine artwork to bike tune-ups, the auction has “a little bit of everything.”

Symons said that while many auctions in Jackson Hole focus on specific items, like ski passes and equipment or high-end artwork, this auction has been designed to include an array of

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Jena Sonnenburg examines auction items at the Rotary Supper Club wine tasting, an event reborn as Sips on the Square.

For $1 per tasting ticket, sippers can taste spirits from all over the region.

diverse prizes.

“What makes this auction unique is Rotarians come from absolutely every walk of life,” Powell Symons said.

“They’re all ages. They’re just members of our community who want to participate civically and give back.”

Funds raised through the auction will benefit the Central Wyoming College nursing program this year.

Proceeds will go toward equipping

two nursing facilities, like a simulation lab and equipment for interactive learning. The Rotary Supper Club is aiming to raise $90,000 for the nursing program through Sips on the Square and Old Bill’s Fun Run for Charities.

For Powell Symons what sets this year’s Sips on the Square apart is an emphasis on bringing out residents, in addition to tourists.

“I would love to see our local folks coming out and participating in this,” she said.

Sips on the Square happens in conjunction with Taste of the Tetons, which invites valley chefs and restaurants to share bites of some of their favorite dishes. Also at the same time on the square is Takin’ It To the Streets, an open-air art fair presented by the Jackson Hole Art Association.

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Palates and Palettes is a party in motion Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Various galleries Free JacksonHoleChamber.com

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By Jen Kocher

hat pairs better together than food, wine, beer and art?

More than 30 galleries will join with restaurants and artists for the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, which draws big crowds downtown during Fall Arts Festival.

“It’s always a great time and wonderful opportunity to open our gallery doors and come together as a community” Rare Gallery owner Hollee Armstrong said.

This year Rare has partnered with Snake River Grill. A number of artists will be at the gallery, including Kivie, a photographic-based, mixed-media artist, Utah painter Ron Russen and Pennsylvania-based wildlife painter Patricia Griffin.

Heather James Fine Art Gallery has paired with neighbors Altamira Fine Art and Teton Tiger, a popular Asian fusion restaurant.

For Heather James gallery manager Sarah Fischel it’s a Center Street party.

“It’s really nice to have a great gallery like Altamira to work with and to be able to bring in Teton Tiger,” she said.

Last year, she figures, they had

around 500 people, many familiar faces as well as new ones.

“The art walk is a good way to bring in new people and a wonderful opportunity to open our doors to the public and share our art,” she said.

Artist Kathryn Mapes Turner will be celebrating her first successful year under the new brand of Turner Fine Art, which grew out of the former Trio Fine Arts that Turner ran with partners and fellow artists Jennifer Hoffman and Bill Sawczuk.

The gallery will self-cater the event, which will feature Turner and fellow artists and close friends Jane Hunt, Mitch Baird, Stacey Peterson and John Felsing. The diverse group of world-class painters are coming from all over the country for the event and will be making their debut in Jackson.

“We are excited that all five of our exhibiting artists, including myself, will be present during the reception,” Turner said.

Diehl Gallery will partner with Glorietta Trattoria and host Heather Jansch’s first local solo exhibition. The U.K. artist, one of the leading contemporary sculptors, has established a world-class reputation for life-size driftwood, bronze horses.

For gallery owner Mariam Diehl Palates and Palettes is one of her favorite community events.

“It’s fun for us to get to mingle with rafting guides and ski instructors, along with our collectors, who come to all of our shows,” she said. “It’s definitely a busy night, but there’s a fun, electric vibe.”

Eat, drink and be arty at brunch walk finale Art Brunch Gallery Walk 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 Various galleries Free JacksonHoleChamber.com

By Jennifer Dorsey

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he Fall Arts Festival’s final day is all about the leisurely appreciation of creativity.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, the Art Brunch Gallery Walk invites people to stroll from one gallery to another, enjoying food and beverages while perusing artwork and chatting with some of the painters and sculptors who produced it.

It’s a calm conclusion to a weekend that includes the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Show, the QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction and the Jackson Hole Art Auction.

“The Art Walk Brunch is a wonderful way for collectors to finish out what can be a very hectic weekend of events and art,” said Kiera Wakeman, sales manager for Diehl Gallery and president of the Jackson Hole Gallery Association.

“It allows collectors to visit with galleries and see works that they may have missed or that they particularly liked in a relaxed setting.”

Diehl will reprise its Western Visions celebration, which spotlights the gallery’s artists who are in the Western Visions exhibit with a salon-style show.

Among them this year are Claire Brewster, Helen Durant, Susan Goldsmith and JenMarie Zeleznak. And, of course, brunch offerings will be on tap.

“Diehl Gallery has in the past done everything from lox and bagels to gourmet doughnuts,” Wakeman said. “We always have delicious bloody marys and a mimosa bar.

“Other galleries have been know to do omelet bars, pastries, gourmet coffees, etcetera,” she said. “It really depends on the gallery you go to, which is part of the fun of the Art Walk Brunch.”

West Lives On will carry on a tradition of bringing in a chef from The Wort Hotel to make omelettes and pour bloody marys and mimosas, gallery owner Terry Ray said.

Saturday’s QuickDraw will have lured festivalgoers to Town Square.

The Art Brunch walk is a way to lure them back to the gallery, he said. West Lives On visitors will find artists aplenty to mingle with, including Nancy Cawdry and Mark Keathley, both of whom will have shows at the gallery during the festival.

“Sunday is our all-gallery open house, which we encourage all of our artists to come to and be involved in,” Ray said. “I’ll bet we’ll have at least 30 of our artists here.”

Brunch walkers who visit Astoria Fine Art that morning will find bagels and pastries, along with mimosas and bloody marys. Credit for the tomatoey brunch drink goes to sculptor Joshua Tobey’s wife, Josephine.

“She’s got this secret recipe that’s really phenomenal,” Fulton said. “She made them for one of our events four or five years ago. Everyone loved them so much that people started coming back and asking for them.”

The Art Brunch Gallery Walk ensures that festivalgoers from out of town enjoy their last day in the Tetons.

And for galleries that Sunday is an important day for sales, Fulton said.

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Ziemienski started his career as an illustrator. When illustration moved away from old-style hand drawing and into digital he stuck to his painting roots and reestablished himself as a fine art painter.

‘The new Old West’ “Before I started doing the Western work, I thought Native Americans are either shown in fine art as in the olden times, with tipis and horses, or shown in modern times,” he said. “Watching the old movies, you start wondering when did they start having pickup trucks?”

The transition period wasn’t regularly pictured, and Ziemienski capitalized on the opportunity to capture the West as it move from one era to another.

Dennis Ziemienski enjoys exploring an era of Western art that’s mostly ignored.

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rtist Dennis Ziemienski has never been too comfortable on a horse.

But his daughter, Sofia — also an artist and, in the painting “Teton Reflections,” a muse — is made for the saddle. In Ziemienski’s featured Fall Arts Festival painting she’s the cowgirl seated on the sorrel horse that is drinking mountain water.

She’s also, at least parttime, her father’s teacher.

“It’s an exchange,” the illustrator-turned-painter said. “I teach her traditional painting techniques, and she teaches me digital. Right now I’m learning how to use Illustrator.”

When Ziemienski started making poster sketches for this year’s Fall Arts Festival he went into the archive of posters from festivals past. He wanted to create something different.

“I hadn’t noticed a cowgirl before, so I decided to go with that,” he said.

The inclusion of a cowgirl is a nod to the current momentum of the women’s movement.

“Women are getting into politics more,” he said, alluding to events of the past year that have led to some people to dub 2018 the 21st century’s “year of the woman.”

The reference wasn’t lost on

Once an illustrator

Dennis Ziemienski is fascinated in the early 1900s in the West because he believes that transitional period is mostly undocumented by artists.

“When I started doing the Western work, I thought that Native Americans are either shown in fine art as they were in the olden times — with tipis and horses — or shown in modern times. Watching the old movies, you start wondering when they start having pickup trucks?” Ziemienski will be at Altamira Fine Art on Sept. 12.

the panel of poster judges.

“We were looking for something more contemporary” both in style and content, said Chamber of Commerce Director of Special Events Maureen Murphy.

Every year the Fall Arts Festival committee chooses the following year’s poster competition winner at the end of the festival. Next year is the centennial anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement — 1919, the first “year of the woman.”

Murphy explained that Ziemienski’s cowgirl nicely tees up the festival to celebrate the centennial in conjunction with its 35th anniversary in 2019.

‘The new Old West’

The combination of tradi-

tional themes in modern contexts showcased in “Teton Reflections” is characteristic of a lot of Ziemienski’s Western work.

Ziemienski is interested in pictorializing what he defines as “the new Old West.”

Growing up in a suburb of San Francisco in the ’50s and ’60s, Ziemienski would often drive out of the Bay Area to visit family in the Central Valley.

“There was an old romance to all those old neon signs and motels and pickup trucks,” he said. But Ziemienski was more interested in the fragile time between tumbleweeds and neon signs, “the interim time between the 1910s and 1940s where things in the West started changing.”

Ziemienski’s style is no doubt inspired, but not tied to, his career as an illustrator.

After attending the California College of the Arts in Oakland, Ziemienski moved to New York City in the early 1980s to further his career. During his relatively short career as an illustrator, Ziemienski racked up a long list of commissions, including works for Time-Life, Levi Strauss, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Super Bowl XXIX. He became known for his modern take on a vintage style, particularly drawing influence from the old citrus fruit crate labels of the ’50s and ’60s he was accustomed to seeing growing up in California.

After six years establishing himself in New York City, Ziemienski moved back to California, opting to relocate to the rural Sonoma wine country.

“I love the city, but too much of that you want to have the country,” he said. “Too much of the country, I want to have the city.”

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Ziemienski now splits his time between California and New York.

Ziemienski continued his illustration career into the early ’90s, until he was confronted with a period of rapid modernization.

“Computers started coming into vogue and I was still working in paint,” he said.

In the contemporary world of illustration, paint is to a horse and buggy as Adobe is to a Model T. Ziemienski opted to stick with the horse and buggy but refashion it for a different purpose.

“I started working on my own, painting my own pictures for my pleasure,” he said. “But then people started saying they wanted to have my illustrations for their walls, and I started thinking I could sell my work in galleries.”

Ziemienski adopted a more painterly approach to his work.

“It doesn’t have to look like illustration,” he said. “It’s just my style.”

Ziemienski was briefly lured back into the world of illustration in 2006 when he was commissioned

by Churchill Downs to create the official poster for the Kentucky Derby.

As with “Teton Reflections,” Ziemienski studied the archives of past posters and opted to paint something new. For the first time in the Derby’s history, the poster featured only one horse, which Ziemienski randomly numbered 8.

As luck would have it, horse no. 8 won the race.

A contemporary artist

Ziemienski has been showing with Altamira Fine Art for almost a decade. Altamira Executive Director Mark Tarrant picked up Ziemienski shortly after the Recession, when sales were finally beginning to pick up a bit.

“Mark had most of my colleagues from another Southwestern gallery I was showing in and a lot of people that I like,” Ziemienski said. For him the most important factor in deciding to show in a gallery is being surrounded by other artists he admires.

Ziemienski paints what he calls the “new Old West,” a time when the western United States was at a crossroads between the days of horse and buggy and the switch to the auto age.

With locations in Jackson Hole and Scottsdale, Arizona, Altamira distinguishes itself in the Western art market by pushing the boundaries of the genre and including fresh takes on traditional themes. The gallery’s focus is on contemporary art above all else.

Ziemienski has a hard time defining himself within the realm of contemporary and Western art.

“Even though I’m known as a Western artist in some circles, I love doing everything else too — seascapes, urbanscapes, portraits,” he said. “That’s an old illustration at-

titude I guess. If I just do one thing I’ll miss the other.

“There are several different styles I like doing, some are more impressionistic, others more representational,” he said. “It’s rough to categorize myself because I am at a loss for saying where I fit.”

Altamira artists capture the aura of the West Dennis Ziemienski Poster signing and artist reception 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 David Grossmann Artist meet and greet 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 12-14 Altamira Fine Art, 172 Center St. Free AltamiraArt.com

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his summer Altamira Fine Art celebrated a decade of bringing contemporary Western art to Jackson Hole. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to nurturing and expanding the Western genre by finding the most modern artists working within this broad tradition.

Their choice of Dennis Ziemienski to represent the gallery as a featured poster artist for the Fall Arts Festival represents that pioneering spirit: Ziemienski’s illustrative paintings capture the spirit of the West at a crossroads, the “new Old West” as he calls it — an airplane flying above a cowboy, a Native American chief buying a Model T Ford, and for this year’s poster, in the “year of the woman,” a cowgirl reflecting upon the natural splendor of the Tetons.

Altamira will host a poster signing for Ziemienski 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, where the public is invited to

David Grossmann is a plein air painter. He described the setting of his new work “Autumn” as “a luminous aspen stand in Grand Mesa National Forest in western Colorado” that offers “total immersion in the forest, in the cascade of color as falling leaves whispered of time passing — heartbreaking sentinels of seasonal shift.”

meet Ziemienski and receive a personally signed copy of “Teton Reflections.”

Throughout the week Altamira is hosting three other opportunities to meet another featured artist, David Grossmann.

Like Ziemienski, Grossmann’s work also represents crossroads. The Colorado painter bridges old techniques with modern aesthetics using a gentle, soothing color palette to render abstracted yet graceful landscapes that blur the line between reality and imagination.

His new show, “Autumn” is some of the artist’s best work, said Amanda Sullivan, the gallery’s registrar: “It’s absolutely breathtaking.”

Sullivan said she knew the work was a cut above even the moment digital images came to the gallery.

“He just took it to a whole new level,” she said. “You can feel the elements.

He paints a lot of leaves blowing around.

It’s like you stepped out into the field with him where he was painting.”

Grossmann has been with the gal-

lery since 2014. He is a plein air painter, meaning he works in nature rather than a studio.

Grossmann describes the setting for his “Autumn” painting sessions as a “luminous aspen stand in Grand Mesa National Forest in western Colorado.”

The sensation: “Total immersion in the forest, in the cascade of color as falling leaves whispered of time passing — heartbreaking sentinels of seasonal shift.”

“The deepest reason is that when I am out in nature, that’s when I experience God’s presence,” Grossmann told Southwest Art Magazine. “And when I paint en plein air it gives me the opportunity to absorb a sense of place and a sense of being there. I hope that sense of place and the emotion I feel when outdoors comes through to the viewers.”

In 2012 the magazine named him as an “artist to watch.” Since then his work has been included in Plein Air Magazine and American Art Collector Magazine, as well as in national shows sponsored by Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society and Salon International.

Grossmann will be at Altamira to meet people from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 12, 13 and 14.

Grossmann was oringinally scheduled to show with fellow landscape painter Jivan Lee, however that show is postponed until October.

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Local creatives take over Town Square Takin’ It to the Streets art fair 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 Jackson Town Square Free ArtAssociation.org

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ore than 50 valley and surrounding area resident artists are taking their creations to the streets on Sunday, Sept. 9.

The 19th annual Art Association of Jackson Hole’s “Takin’ It to the Streets” event is an opportunity for local painters, photographers, ceramists, jewelry makers and more to strut their stuff, so to speak, around Town Square.

According to Director of Events Molly Fetters, the association defines “local” as artisans living within a 90-mile radius of Jackson.

“The nice thing about Takin’ It to the Streets is that the participating artists are not necessarily represented in any of the galleries here, and if they are it’s just for one show, so you don’t always have the chance to meet them,” Fetter said. “It’s great that at this event you can speak with the artist in person.”

This year’s fair features a lot of returning artists in addition to a number of new participants. A few of the new ones include multidisciplinary artists Bronwyn Minton and Lyndsay McCandless, both of

“Lyndsay and I will be sharing a booth because although we have very different work to show, it has a similar feel aesthetically and they do complement each other,” Minton said.

For the past few years Minton has been experimenting with making some smaller art — necklaces that she calls “sculptural jewelry” — that is related to her larger sculptural work.

“The components for the necklaces that I have available are made of sandcastle pewter, wood and glass,” Minton said. “This follows one of the things I have been working with in my larger body of work for a long time: collecting and arranging objects that feel good together or have some relationship to each other.”

Two veterans of the event are ceramist Jenny Starry Tea Set is by ceramist Jenny Dowd, of Alpine. This Dowd and watercolor painter Deborah Fox. Both will be Dowd’s sixth year exhibiting her work at the Art said exhibiting at this fair is a fun chance to reAssociation’s Takin’ It to the Streets event. Her husband, connect with other local artists. fellow ceramist Sam Dowd, will share her booth.

“I really like the event because of the good energy, the great variety of artists and the people Jackson, who will share a booth. attending,” Dowd said. “We all come out of sumAfter many years of displaying and exhibiting her sculptures and other artwork throughout the mer hibernation, and it’s where I catch up with valley, longtime resident Minton finally decided everybody. It’s my favorite part of Fall Arts.”

This is Fox’s fourth year participating. to take part in this show because it has always “I enjoy it because I get to connect with friends been one of her favorite events of the Fall Arts that try to avoid town all summer,” Fox said.

Festival.

“This is one of the first times that I have had “This fair allows locals that don’t have the time smaller work available,” Minton said. “It is a nice to do — or can’t get into — other fairs to come way to participate in an Art Association event together, so you get to see a good cross section of what local art is out there.” and in the Fall Arts Festival.”

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Tours showcase the ranching way of life Historic Ranch Tours 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 Snake River Ranch and another local outfit $60 JacksonHoleChamber.com

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he Chamber of Commerce will give tours of Jackson Hole ranches next month, opening a window into the region’s centuryold cowboy heritage.

Rick Howe, vice president of the Chamber, said participants will learn the history of the ranches from the managers and ranch hands who run them.

“It’s about a legacy, a lifestyle and a culture,” he said. “You put all those together, and I’ve never seen anyone who doesn’t walk away going, ‘Wow, I didn’t know any of that.’”

The tour will first visit the Snake River Ranch, founded in 1929 and still family-run today. Howe said there will be a second ranch, though at press time it hadn’t been chosen.

Many of Jackson’s ranches have stayed in a single family for decades, Howe said. Often people’s greatgreat-grandparents homesteaded in Jackson in the late 1800s or early 1900s, and their descendants now work to preserve that iconic way of life.

But the task is growing more difficult year by year, Howe said, as development pressure and land prices encroach upon the ranches.

He said the people who own ranch properties in Jackson Hole struggle to ensure they remain ranches.

“You hear the story of it, and how the family has fought to keep

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Chase Lockhart, of the Lockhart Cattle Co., cuts bulls from a small herd along the Snake River bottom to be taken to graze with cows at a pasture in South Park. The Ranch Tours during Fall Arts Festival open a window on the region’s cowboy heritage.

it as a ranching culture,” Howe said.

“Because it’s not easy nowadays.”

Besides the behind-the-scenes look at the hard work that goes into maintaining and operating a ranch, participants will get a show of traditional Wyoming entertainment — usually a couple of guitarists dressed in Western attire and singing Western music.

“It’s a historical experience,” Howe said.

The tour also includes a “good ol’ fashion” barbecue, catered by Moe’s Original Bar B Que. The ranches the Chamber selects are not generally open to the public, said Special Events Manager Caitlyn Colby, making the tour an exclusive opportunity.

The tour group of about 80 people will meet at the Home Ranch parking lot and depart by bus at 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8. The $60 event usually sells out, Howe said, and anyone interested should reserve a spot.

“While we still have these great ranches in our valley,” Howe said, “it’s certainly something people should do.”

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Small plates will be served up at Taste of the Tetons, an event that offers samples of local restaurants’ best culinary creations for $2 to $5.

Small plates satisfy big tastes cheaply Taste of the Tetons 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 Town Square $2-$5 per plate JacksonHoleChamber.com

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mid all of the wonderful gallery parties and show-stopping annual favorites like the QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction, A Taste of the Tetons stands out as the Fall Arts Festival’s love letter to culinary crafts.

Highlighting the artistry of Jackson-area chefs, restaurants, food trucks and caterers, the event allows visitors to purchase tickets for a dollar each that can then be exchanged for small bites, with most bites going for between two and five tickets.

Treat yourself to a day when you and your darling don’t have to stress over agreeing on a place to eat. Just find a dish that piques your interest and munch away.

Locals should be on the lookout for special items celebrating late-summer to early-autumn ingredients, while visitors can expect a taste of the West with game meats like bison, elk, and pheasant frequently popping up at this event. Past events have also al-

lowed cooks to show off, with elaborate grills and whole roasted pigs making an appearances.

Kendra Alessandro of the local ice cream maker Cream and Sugar tells attendees to keep an eye out for ice cream sandwiches.

“On a warm day, these four-bite sammies are the perfect dish,” she said.

To go along with food, revelers can expect live music to wash over the square, elevating the tasting to a full-blown party. For those looking for something to wash down their bites with a bit of wine it is worth noting that A Taste of the Tetons is hosted in conjunction with the Rotary Supper Club’s Sips on the Square, a wine tasting event with proceeds benefiting the Central Wyoming College nursing program.

Those who simple can’t enjoy an Art Festival event without perusing or purchasing art will be pleased to know that the 19th Annual Takin’ It to the Streets art fair will also be taking place on the square along with the bites and the sips.

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Inside and out, architecture is truly art Showcase of Homes 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 Various locations around Jackson Hole $75 (benefits local nonprofits) HomesteadMag.com

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rt doesn’t always come framed and hung on a wall.

The sixth annual Showcase of Homes invites participants to think bigger, making art out of four of the valley’s most exceptional properties.

“The Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes fits perfectly with the Fall Arts Festival, as it’s a showcase of art in a different medium,” said Latham Jenkins, founder of the event and publisher of Homestead Magazine.

The showcase is a self-guided tour: After purchasing a ticket, people are provided with a map to find all the properties. At each one, architects, builders and interior designers will be on hand to answer questions and give people inside information.

“Much like when you go to a museum and get a tour with a docent, you walk away with a greater appreciation for what you’re seeing,” Jenkins said.

The tour is a fundraiser for local nonprofits. The homeowners decide which ones they want proceeds to go to from a list of chosen organizations. By press time the only nonprofit that had been nailed down was Horse Warriors, an organization that offers programs for youth empowerment and family support through working and learning with horses.

This year the homes opening their doors are in Teton Village, along Highway 390 and in Wilson and East Jackson.

The tour gives viewers a unique opportunity to see the inside of homes they may otherwise not get the chance to meander through. Legally, that is.

“During construction, if we were to put up a webcam at our properties to see how many people climb through the house to see the property when no one is around, we would see a lot of people,” said architect Chris Lee, the owner of Design Associates Architects.

Lee’s company will show a home in Wilson during

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You can take a peek inside the Kuney Wish residence in Wilson during the Showcase of Homes. The property, one of four on the self-directed tour, was designed by Chris Lee and Design Associates Architects. During the tour, architects, builders and designers will be available to provide insight on construction and notable features.

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The house is notable for its huge windows that wrap around most of the house. The size of the glass and the simplicity of the interior decoration can make you forget you’re inside, Lee said.

“Man, when you’re out there and there’s a storm rolling through the valley, it’s like you’re outside,” he said.

The structures themselves aren’t the only element of beauty on the tour. Many of the properties boast envy-inducing views.

The house in Teton Village, built by Couloir Construction, is a three-story mountain modern home with

views to the south and up to the Hoback range.

Derick DiVenere and Jesse Roy, project managers with the company, agreed that this house, along with the others on the tour, is a work of art. As with a painting it’s hard to know exactly how a home is going to turn out at the outset, but they are proud of the outcome, they said.

“It has its own views,” Roy said. “Not many places have those perspectives of the valley and the mountain.”

Self-directed tours run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. Tickets cost $75. All tour participants must be 21 years old or older.

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A special supplement to the Jackson Hole News&Guide

September 5-16, 2018

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Gray Crane Studios owner Gary Crandall will be handing out signed posters of “Wish You Were Here” to the first 100 visitors during the gallery’s receptions.

Jackson lands on the map The growing arts community was recently named the second most vibrant in the country.

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Photos display the wild world in sepia Gary Crandall Artist reception 5–7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7, and Saturday, Sept. 8 Gray Crane Studios, 35 W. Broadway Free GrayCraneStudios.com

By Jen Kocher

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ome days Gary Crandall finds himself a bit closer to wild animals than he wants to be, but that’s part of the job. As a professional wildlife and outdoor photographer, nature is his studio.

“It’s unnerving,” he said, especially when that means coming within spitting distance of a bear.

“But I love what I do.”

Crandall started his career in Salt Lake City, where he founded his own business in 1993, before moving to Jackson in 2012 to partner with longtime friend Sean Love, owner of Jackson Trading Company. The move made sense, according to Crandall, who over the years had been spending more and more months out of the year in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and surrounding areas.

Since then he’s grown Gray Crane Studios into a place where he produces calendars, posters, photographic prints, mini-prints, bookmarks, notecards and does all the framing.

Crandall feels most at home when he’s outside.

He has always loved the natural world, particularly birds, which continually interest him. Recently, when his daughter told him that their last name translated meant “valley of the crane,” he was not surprised.

“I thought that was wild,” he said, “and suddenly it made a lot of sense.”

Were it up to him he might stick to sandhill cranes and other favorites, but his bread and butter comes from photographing the larger critters in the park that tourists drive hundreds of miles to see.

He likes those, too, particularly when it means spending as much time as he can outside, capturing what he sees as the animals’ unique traits and personalities. He likes to be alone and has no prefer-

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“Wolf Eyes” is Gray Crane gallery owner and photographer Gary Crandall’s latest image in his sepia collection, one of many images currently on display.

ence when it comes to weather. For him, it’s about finding the best shot, which means a lot of return trips and hours of watching and waiting.

“You have to really put your time into it and that’s what you do when you love it,” he said. “It’s like a little puzzle. You try to figure out the best way to solve it.”

Recently he’s begun experimenting with sepia tones, a look that is beginning to really grow on him for both its unusualness and soft quality.

“Sepia is really Western and has a dreamy quality,” he said. “It’s a different style and really softens up the image.”

Along with the ethereal aura of the golden sepia tones, Crandall’s unique compositions push the

boundary between the subject and how that translates through his eye. That’s seen in images like “Brown-Eyed Girl,” in which the close-up face of a bear’s icy snout and faraway stare suggests an animal lost in daydream, capturing a much softer side of an animal most commonly associated with viciousness and fear.

Crandall’s collection of sepia images will be on display during the arts festival, with receptions from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, and Saturday, Sept. 8, at Gray Crane Studio. At the receptions he will sign posters of his image “Wish You Were Here,” and will give away the first 100 for free.

He will also give away a framed, signed piece at the end of the festival to one of the gallery visitors.

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Jackson was recently named the second most vibrant arts community in the country for a community of its size. “It’s a ‘something for everybody’ destination,” said Greg Fulton of Astoria Fine Art. The Fall Arts Festival has played a role in making Jackson a destination for culture as well as outdoor recreation.

Jackson lands on the map

Creative community’s efforts have raised valley’s profile as an arts center.

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hat started as one weekend aimed at extending the shoulder season has turned into a 10-day art-a-poolaza that brings together galleries, artists, restaurants, musicians, nonprofits, residents and visitors alike.

“It used to be dead here in September,” said Maureen Murphy, the Chamber of Commerce’s director of special events.

Now the weekends of Fall Arts Festival coincide with the weekends the most private planes fly into Jackson Hole Airport. With help of the community’s galleries — over 30 — the Fall Arts Festival has made the small town of Jackson a premier national and international art market.

Greg Fulton at Astoria Fine Art believes that the festival and Jackson as a town and as an art market have evolved together. Fulton has watched the growth over the past 13 years his gallery has been in Jackson.

Mostly, the inventory has become more diverse.

“Jackson 20 years ago was a traditional, Western art market,” Fulton said. “Now it still has the best of the Western artwork but also covers all genres.”

His show this year, titled “Contemporary Meets Traditional,” showcasing contemporary painters and sculptors with their traditional counterparts — is representative of that change.

“It shows that these markets can intermingle and cross over,” he said.

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Jackson’s art market has expanded over the decades to encompass not only traditional Western art but also contemporary shows. “Now, it still has the best of the Western artwork but also covers all genres,” Fulton said.

The diversity in artwork is both a reaction to and a representation of that diversity in clients who come each year, he said.

“It’s a ‘something for everybody’ destination.”

While Fall Arts Festival brings in patrons of the fine arts, a new campaign spearheaded by a group of fearless volunteers aims to raise awareness of Jackson’s thriving arts and culture community across all levels, from visual arts to music to dance.

Jackson was recently crowned the second most vibrant arts community for a town its size by the National Center for Arts Research. The study was based on many factors, including the number of galleries, independent artists and arts nonprofits.

In a town of roughly 10,000 the nonprofit arts and culture sector alone is a $51.2 million industry that sup-

ports over a thousand jobs and generates $5.1 million in local and state government revenue.

The Center for the Arts, the “hub for artistic, cultural and creativity activity in Jackson” can be largely credited for the town’s artistic vibrancy.

Beyond bringing in big-name acts to perform on its stage, from Bela Fleck to the Flaming Lips, the Center is also the landlord to 18 other arts nonprofits in town. Having a strong concentration of creative minds under one roof is powerful. The new arts campaign speaks to that.

Campaign promotes local art

Anne Bradley of the Center for the Arts and Kirsten Corbett of the Center of Wonder wanted to make sure the story of Jackson’s vibrant art and culture scene was being told on a local, regional and national level.

It started with an informal meetup of artists and nonprofit representatives brainstorming ways the arts community could support each other as a whole through collaborations and joint marketing efforts.

And then Bradley had the idea of taking the campaign idea to the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board.

There are lots of reasons why people come to Jackson Hole, but one that tends to shine the brightest is a love for outdoor recreation.

The vibrant arts community is discovered by happenstance.

“We pitched the Travel and Tourism Board that there’s this really incredible cultural component to our community,” Bradley said. “There are so many stories that we’re not telling.”

A lot of the time, Bradley said, people realize this when they come here, not in advance of their trip.

With renowned artists showing in Jackson galleries and world-class musicians performing at the Center for the Arts, there is much more to Jackson’s culture than just the iconic Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. The Travel and Tourism Board was sold, awarding the initiative $72,000 for phase one of the campaign that eventually became Wildly Creative JH. This spring Wildly Creative JH along with New Thought Digital Agency launched phase one, which highlights individuals and initiatives in the community through online, Instagram and artist profile videos.

Phase two of the campaign, which the board funded for an additional $74,740, will focus on reaching out to regional advertising this fall.

Follow @wildlycreativejh on Instagram to see why Jackson Hole was voted one of the most vibrant arts communities in the country.

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During the 2017 Western Visions Show and Sale the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s board of trustees bought this work, “Sky,” a 30-by-30-inch oil painting by Kathryn Mapes Turner. It’s now part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Museum set to host 31st Western Visions Western Visions Artist Party Opportunity to bid on art and meet the artists 6-9 p.m. Sept. 13 31st Western Visions Show and Sale 5-8 p.m. Sept. 14 National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2820 Rungius Road Single-day tickets $125 for members, $150 for others; Two-day tickets $200 for members, $250 for others WildlifeArt.org

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et out your pocketbook. Or, for those river rats with a refined taste in art, your credit card.

It’s time for Western Visions, the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Brobdingnagian art show and sale.

“It’s the museum’s largest and longest-running fundraiser,” said Amy Goicoechea, the museum’s director of programs and events.

The show and sale is returning for its 31st year. It started the year the museum opened, making the show part of its fabric. Though the sale is ostensibly a way to make money, as all fundraisers are, it is intrinsically tied to the museum’s mission.

“It is beneficial for us, as we are still collecting fine art,” Goicoechea said. “It’s also an opportunity for visitors to experience the museum in a new and different way.”

The sale’s structure makes it inviting to everyone, not merely those ready to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for a piece. First, it is not closed to those unwilling to purchase, hence the “show” in the title. The works stay up from Saturday, Sept. 8 until Sunday, Oct. 7, even if they have been sold.

And the works aren’t just from any artist off the street. The show is an invitational. Goicoechea and a committee sifted through about 175 artists’ works to decide on the 107 featured this year. Each was invited to submit two works — one sketch and one finished piece — though some contributed only one.

So even if you go only to peruse the art, you’ll have the chance to see the work of renowned artists, both national and local. You’ll also see something that ends up in the museum’s permanent collection. The board of trustees chooses one artist for the coveted Trustees Purchase Award, and the museum buys that person’s work.

Last year the trustees purchased “Sky,” a painting of a sandhill crane

by Jackson artist Kathryn Mapes Turner, whose work “One O’clock Fox” is featured in the 2018 show’s catalog. Being part of the museum’s collection is a dream come true for the painter.

“I’m pinching myself because I hold the museum in such high regard and high esteem,” Turner said.

Every piece is sold at a fixed price — no bidding — and the final decision on who takes it home is left to Fortune’s wheel. The intent-to-purchase, or random-draw, sale means that interested parties, both those who bought tickets and those who bid remotely, put their names into the proverbial hat, and one person’s name is drawn.

“We did it this way for years, then experimented with a digital platform of the auction,” Goicoechea said.

“We’re returning to the familiar beloved practice, getting rid of digital online device-based bidding.”

The switch back is due to popular demand and its “successful history,” she said.

Though the museum does have free events throughout Fall Arts Festival, the show and sale is not one of them. Tickets are required, and both single-night and combination tickets are available. Goicoechea encouraged people to attend both nights.

“There’s incentive to come to both nights,” she said. “In previous years the auction was just Friday night.

This year we’re going to do drawings for sketches Thursday and the rest of the show on Friday night.”

River rats, come both nights, but be prepared to buy at the artists’ party the night of Sept. 13. Sketches will priced as low as $250, but the prices will rise considerably for the main sale Sept. 14, when pieces could go for as much as $50,000.

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Though Auction Coordinator Madison Webb said there are surprises at every auction, this piece by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait is expected to catch top dollar.

Art auction solicits bids for beautiful art Jackson Hole Art Auction Noon, Friday, Sept. 14; noon, Saturday, Sept. 15 Center for the Arts, 240 S. Glenwood St. Free to enter JacksonHoleArtAuction.com

By Tom Hallberg

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n a festival chock-full of expensive artwork, nothing eclipses the Jackson Hole Art Auction.

The two-day event at the Center for the Arts is a chance for art collectors of all stripes to pad their collections with works by well-known masters and emerging artists. Session I starts at noon Friday, Sept.

14, and Session II is at noon Saturday, Sept. 15.

If spending hundreds of thousands on a piece of art is your thing, it’s a sure bet, but, surprisingly, for those looking for deals it also may be the best ticket in town.

“In the first session the majority of pieces are unreserved,” auction coordinator Madison Webb said.

“So it will sell no matter what.”

For those not up on their auction terminology, unreserved means the pieces don’t have a minimum price.

In many auctions, if the bidding doesn’t reach a certain threshold the piece doesn’t sell, but for the Art Auction’s unreserved pieces a collector could go home with one for less than expected.

“That session is geared toward the emerging collector or the older collector without as much wall space, with pieces expected to go at or under $10,000,” Webb said.

Albert Bierstadt’s paintings, like this one, named “Source of the Snake River,” a 14-by19-inch oil on canvas, showed the beauty of the Intermountain West to people on the East Coast and helped gain protection for some of its lands.

“An original One highlight could go for tens from the first “There are pieces of thousands,” session is an unWebb said. “But authorized set of in every price point. we expect it to Frederic Remington sculp- People might go home go for less than $10,000.” tures. They were The real inmade from Remwith something they trigue will be ington’s original, in Session II, foundry-made weren’t expecting.” when the famous molds, but they — Madison Webb works by housewere cast after his death, meanJH ART AUCTION COORDINATOR hold names are sold. The second ing they are session brings in ostensibly the same as an original but without the the bulk of the auction’s revenue, an estimated $5 million last year. prestige.

Webb expects four pieces in particular to drive the bidding this year, “though, there are always some surprises.”

One exciting piece is “Source of the Snake River,” an Albert Bierstadt oil on paper mounted on canvas. Bierstadt’s paintings were part of the movement that introduced the landscapes of the West to people on the East Coast, helping bring protections to places like Yellowstone National Park.

Webb also sees “Territorial Dispute,” a John Clymer oil on board selling well, and “Basic Training,” a Bob Kuhn acrylic on Masonite.

A Kuhn painting called “Closing the Distance” was last year’s surprise top-seller, garnering $409,500.

Webb had expected the savannah scene to sell for between $100,000 and $150,000.

The big, featured piece for this year’s auction is “A Slight Chance,” an 1883 painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. The oil on canvas shows a pair of men rowing a canoe in a placid body of water, the man in the bow toting a gun while two deer wait on the far bank.

“We think that will go for $400,000 to $600,000,” Webb said.

Those kinds of numbers may scare the average art fan or smalltime collector, but, even for those not looking to buy, the auction is an exceptional experience, giving people the opportunity to view art they may not find in museums up close.

And, especially during Session I, you never know what might happen.

“There are pieces in every price point,” Webb said. “People might go home with something they weren’t expecting.”

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This 2015 work by Micqaela Jones, a Shoshone artist, shows her style, which turns wildlife art traditions on their head. Jones will spend the evening of Thursday, Sept.

13 at The Grand Fine Art and meet the public.

Grand’s new focus is now on display The Grand Fine Art Gallery is hosting events on most days through the festival The Grand Fine Art, 130 W. Broadway Free TheGrandJH.com

By Tom Hallberg

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he Grand Fine Art, a gallery on Broadway near Town Square, is a year into a rebranding. The change, which included the gallery’s name, logo and overall atmosphere, was meant to reflect the contemporary art the gallery represents.

“I wish I had done it the year before,” said Mary Beth Warren. “It has been very successful as far as image.”

Formerly known as The Grand Teton Gallery, The Grand has morphed under Warren’s direction.

She purchased it in 2014, when it was similar to many galleries in Jackson, stuffed with wildlife paintings and photos, and replete with bison bronzes. Traditional wildlife art, which permeates the Jackson art scene, wasn’t Warren’s jam.

In the intervening years she shifted the gallery’s focus.

“It’s kind of coming to feel like it’s my gallery,” she said last year.

The Grand is a celebration of art that may not otherwise be represented in Jackson. The pieces that line its walls are often colorful, subverting the normal Earth-toned animals and landscape panoramas. Warren brings in artists who challenge those traditions, including a couple of new names: Oryan, a liquid-fusion painter, and Nano Lopez, a Washington state sculpture artist whose works are anything but ordinary.

Warren takes full advantage of Fall Arts Festival. She does not merely participate in the premium events, like Palates and Palettes, but embraces the festival atmosphere, inviting

artists to spend time in the gallery.

First up is Shannon Marie Schacht.

She paints intricate, colorful portraits of animals, and she will mingle with guests during Friday’s Palates and Palettes, the first big event of the festival.

From 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

13, Warren will welcome Micqaela Jones for a reception entitled “Vibrant Visions of Contoured Color.” The Native American artist employs symbolism in her works, which feature detailed animals that are often looking straight off the canvas at the viewer.

“My work has evolved into an intertwining of my Shoshone culture along with contemporary expressions, resulting in colorful vivid paintings,” Jones says on her website.

Another of Warren’s artists will spend the evening of Friday, Sept.

14 in the gallery: Joe Kitzmiller. He joined the gallery last year and creates mixed-media works on wooden panels. He claims Jackson Pollack and Vincent Van Gogh as influences, and it shines through in his works.

He often employs animals or mountains, or at least their outlines.

He builds layers, using techniques similar to Pollack’s to spread paint around the boards and piling it on so thickly that it splits and cracks, creating texture.

It’s a way of drawing emotion out of life and into his works.

“Painting allows me to embrace my most precious memories and feelings,” he said.

Because Fall Arts is a multi-day affair, Warren wants to give people the most chances to meet her artists.

To achieve that she will host an artist-in-residence in the gallery most afternoons during the festival. For a full schedule of who will be in the gallery, see the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce’s Fall Arts Festival calendar.

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Morgan Weistling, The Ducklings, oil, 36 x 36 inches (sold by draw)

Adam Smith, Onset of Winter, acylic on canvas, 28 x 40 inches

Dustin Van Wechel, A Season of Brotherhood, oil on canvas, 24 x 48 inches

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Sueellen Ross, Very Happy mixed media, 14 ¾ x 12 ⅞ inches

Jhenna Quinn Lewis, Birding Opportunities, Male American Goldfinch, oil on linen mounted, 16 x 12 inches

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SESSION I: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH | 12:00PM MDT C E N T E R F O R T H E A R T S , 2 6 5 S O U T H C AC H E SESSION I PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 13TH, 10AM-7PM & SEPTEMBER 14TH, 9AM-12PM TRAILSIDE GALLERIES, 130 EAST BROADWAY

The majority of Session I will be sold unreserved!

Lot 34: Jerry Jordan (1944- ) Spirit Welcome, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 inches Estimate: $10,000-$15,000

Lot 37: Kyle Sims (1980 –Present) Like a Moth to a Flame, oil on canvas 30 x 26 inches, Estimate: $7,000–$10,000

Lot 62: Bill Anton (1957- ), Now or Never oil on board, 24 x 36 inches Estimate: $15,000-$25,000

Lot 70: Frederic Remington (1861-1909) The Bronco Buster, modeled 1895, cast by 1939, bronze, 22 x 18 1/2 x 11 inches Estimate: $5,000-$7,000

Lot 130: Conrad Schwiering (1916–1986) Touch of Spring, 1968, oil on board, 16 x 24 inches Estimate: $5,000-$7,000

Lot 125: Bonnie Marris (1951- ) Fox on the Rocks, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches Estimate: $6,000-$9,000

SESSION II: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH | 12:00PM MDT C E N T E R F O R T H E A R T S , 2 6 5 S O U T H C AC H E SESSION II PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 14TH, 10AM-7PM & SEPTEMBER 15TH, 9AM-12PM CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 265 SOUTH CACHE

Lot 281: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) A Slight Chance, 1883, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches Estimate: $400,000-$600,000

Lot 231: John Clymer (1907-1989), Territorial Dispute oil on board, 24 x 40 inches, Estimate: $150,000-$250,000

Lot 257: Gerald Ira Diamond Cassidy (1879-1934), Pueblo Mother oil on canvas, 31 x 22 inches Estimate: $75,000-$125,000

Lot 327: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) Source of the Snake River, oil on paper mounted on canvas 14 x 19 inches, Estimate: $300,000-$500,000

Lot 230: Bob Kuhn (1920-2007), Basic Training, 1980 acrylic on masonite, 16 x 35 1/2 inches, Estimate: $90,000-$120,000

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Horizon celebrates 20 years in Jackson Miles Glynn and Karen Kurka Jensen Artists talk and showcase 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8; post-QuickDraw on Saturday, Sept. 15 Horizon Fine Art Gallery, 30 King St. HorizonFineArtGallery.com

By Kate Hull Heidenreich

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orizon Fine Art Gallery is celebrating 20 years of exhibiting exemplary art to the Jackson community with the 2018 Fall Arts Festival. Owner and curator Barbara Nowak is marking the anniversary with a showcase of two artists that captures the breadth of work inside the gallery: Montana photographer and mixedmedia artist Miles Glynn and sumi-e artist Karen Kurka Jensen, of Utah.

“I wanted to do something different, and this is different,” Nowak said. “Jensen will be demonstrating in the gallery, and Glynn will be here to answer questions about his process and his work.

Both artists’ work is fantastic.”

Nowak has lined the walls of her gallery with artists running the gamut of style, process, and technique. It is ever-changing.

“The gallery has changed so many ways in so many years,” Nowak said. “I have gone from traditional Western to European to eclectic. I try to stay fresh and innovative, whether it be cowboys, Chinese art, traditional impressionism or whatever it may be.”

The gallery will host Glynn and Jensen on Saturday, Sept. 8, for a demonstration, talk, and meet and greet. Jensen will also be painting her abstract landscapes done in sumi-e, a Chineseand Japanese-style of brush painting with ink and water on delicate rice paper.

“Her story that led to her style of work is very long and intricate,” said Diane Mahin, sales associate at the gallery. “Her inspiration that evolved to this style came after an illness. She found no relief until she found Chinese medicine, which inspired her to study the arts of the East.”

In contrast, Glynn will showcase his series

“Calf #2,” part of Miles Glynn’s Wallflower Series, is photography on linen and measures 26 by 39 inches.

combining vintage wallpapers and animals.

“His work makes people smile,” Nowak said.

“Each piece is printed on Belgian linen, which gives it a vintage feel you are drawn to.”

Glynn takes photographs of striking wallpapers from his travels to abandoned homesteads and ghost towns teeming with history, then combines them with animals, like bison and horses, to reconcile the natural and man-made world.

“Glynn will share his methods and his inspiration from the rich historical stories of where he’s been and what has taken place there,” Mahin said.

After the QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction on Saturday, Sept. 15, patrons are invited to

Horizon to meet the four artists featured at the event: oil artist Caleb Meyer, watercolor artist Kay Stratman, contemporary oil artist Kathryn Ashcroft and photorealism painter Mark Kelso.

Looking back on the past two decades of participating in Fall Arts Festival, Nowak and Mahin anticipate the buzz it brings to the art community year after year.

“It is just the ultimate event to showcase the culmination of wonderful art throughout the year,” Mahin said. “Seeing the artists again, seeing how they have evolved and seeing the people that come to the event looking to talk about the things we love — it’s a wonderful time.”

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Herb Alpert’s abstracts combine the same energy and whimsy associated with his music. Alpert’s paintings and sculptures will be featured during Fall Arts Festival, along with the collections of Edward Hopper and Sir Winston Churchill. “Black Horizon,” is a 48-by-72-inch acrylic and coffee on canvas.

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uilding on its commitment to be a resource for the communi- Winston Churchill enjoyed being near ty as well as a venue for high- water and painting landscapes, like end collectors, Heather James Fine “Lake Near Breccles in Autumn,” 22-byArt introduces yet another round of 29-inch oil on canvas, as a means relaxation and temporary escape top-notch exhibits for the Fall Arts of from the pressures of his public life.

Festival. With storefronts in Palm Churchill’s great-grandson Duncan Springs, California, New York City Sandys will share insights and stories and San Francisco, the gallery has about the prolific statesman’s collection long been a place where Jacksonites of oil paintings Tuesday, Sept. 11. and visitors can explore some of the world’s finest art. also important historically.”

“We are lucky to have the artists Even more exciting for the galwe do on our walls in Wyoming,” lery is to have Duncan Sandys, Heather James Fine Art Gallery Churchill’s eldest great-grandson, Manager Sarah Fischel said. “We in the gallery during the festival to consider ourselves to be a resource lend further insight into the man and within the community to provide share personal stories from the famart that otherwise might not be seen ily. He will speak from 5 to 7 p.m. without travelTuesday, Sept. ing hundreds of 11. miles away to a Churchill’s oil museum.” paintings will re“We are lucky To follow its main on display earlier exhib- to have the artists we through Sept. its of works by 16.

Elaine de KoonAlso new do on our walls ing and Andy to the gallery Warhol, the this month is a in Wyoming.” gallery is finunique collection ishing its busy — Sarah Fischel of paintings and summer season HEATHER JAMES FINE ART sketches by Edwith collections GALLERY MANAGER ward Hopper, inby Herb Alpert, cluding a sketch Edward Hopper that was done and Sir William while vacationChurchill. ing in Jackson.

Fischel is particularly excited to The works are varied and run the show the 10-series oil paintings by gamut between cartoonish, landChurchill, which have been circulat- scape and architectural, according ing throughout the country only for to Fischel, who noted the unique of the past four years. Many people this particular exhibit. had no idea Churchill was a prolific “It’s a really canonical exhibiamateur painter with considerable tion in that we get all the different talent, because for the most part he sides of a well-known American artpainted secretly under pseudonyms ist,” she said. “The same way that to maintain his artistic endeavors as we try to bring big artistic names an escape. to Jackson, it’s always nice to see They represent another layer of the landscape that we get to work the infamous statesman and Nobel in and play in and how it inspires Prize winner, Fischel added, and the world-famous artists.” gallery’s managers feel lucky to show Former Tijuana Brass front man them.

Herb Alpert’s “Visual Melody” se“Artistically, it’s a strong exhibi- ries of abstracts and sculptures will tion,” she said, “and it’s exciting for be on display through the end of us because our program typically September. features important figures in art hisMore informationcan be torically, but now we have a chance found on the gallery’s website, to have a prolific statesman who is HeatherJames.com.

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Astoria spans the spectrum of wildlife art

‘Celebrating Contemporary, Honoring Traditional’ Artists reception and showcase 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13; 1-4 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 14; 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 15 Astoria Fine Art, 35 E. Deloney Ave. Free AstoriaFineArt.com

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nside Astoria Fine Art, contemporary meets traditional with a range of artists spanning five countries and twenty-five states. For owner Greg Fulton, the artists represented in the gallery embody diversity and quality.

“We are one of the only galleries that represent both contemporary and traditional artists and a variety of subjects, including Western, non-Western, coastal scenes, international scenes and more,” Fulton said. “We also have one of the biggest selections of historical works from deceased masters. In regards to quality, our gallery has one of the highest concentrations of national museum-held artists and international award-winners.”

For Fall Arts Festival Fulton is showcasing this diversity by bring-

ing renowned artists from both spectrums of the wildlife genre, with a selection of artist receptions and showcases throughout the festival featuring more than 20 artists represented by the gallery and four featured artists.

The featured artists in attendance will be oil painters Mark Eberhard and Luke Frazier and sculptors Joshua Tobey and Rich Loffler.

“Any time you can get major national artists in the gallery to meet clients is a real exciting experience,” Fulton says.

Eberhard, a celebrated contemporary wildlife artist, combines animals, particularly birds, in intricate detail with simple, striking backgrounds, whether it be an owl resting on a leafless tree or a kestrel on a spring branch.

“Mark Eberhard is one of the top contemporary wildlife artists working today,” Fulton said.

His works are displayed in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Whitney Museum of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum’s National Birds in Art collection.

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“Autumn Pronghorns” is a 20-by-26 inch oil painting by Mark Eberhard.

artists. Astoria Fine Art is teaming up Tobey, one of the top contempoContinued from 12B rary sculptors and the 2014 Fall Arts whether fishing, hunting or Festival Featured Artist with Loffler, a leading traditraveling. tional sculptor.

“We thought Loffler is the it fitting to add artist behind the “Any time you can one of the top bison herd montraditional wildget major national ument that is life and sporting artists to comat the Naartists in the gallery found plement Mark tional Museum Eberhard,” Fulof Wildlife Art. to meet clients ton said. “Luke Whether a fan Frazier has been of the modern, is a real exciting one of the bigthe traditional, gest artists in or even historiexperience.” this field for the cal — Astoria is past two de— Greg Fulton acquiring a largcades. His work OWNER, ASTORIA FINE ART er collection of can be found in 19th- and 20thmajor collections century works across the country.”

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Andrews, Blondes star at Tayloe Piggott Mari Andrews and Jeffrey Blondes Art on display through Saturday, Oct. 6 Tayloe Piggott Gallery, 62 S. Glenwood Ave. Free TayloePiggottGallery.com

By Rachel Attias

Tayloe Piggott Gallery is pulling two big names to show work during the Fall Arts Festival: Mari Andrews and Jeffrey Blondes.

Andrews, a sculptor, lives in Emeryville, California, just outside San Francisco.

She arrived in Jackson on Aug. 27 to install her sculptures in the gallery’s “Project Space,” where they will be on display in a show opening Sept. 5.

Located next door to Tayloe Piggott, the Project Space is an expansion of the main gallery. It’s described as “a collaborative place for the community to share ideas, showcase works, host events and expand artistic concepts.”

The space features white walls, natural light and a large window overlooking the street, so passersby will be able to view the art.

Andrews combines natural objects like acorns, twigs, lichen and rust with man-made steel wire to create her work. Her sculptures vary in size and composition, and for this exhibit she will install one large, freestanding piece in the center of the Project Space, along with smaller sculptures around the room.

American-born and Paris-based artist Jeffrey Blondes also interrogates the natural world, but through film and photography, rather than sculpture. His work is large, both in scale and concept.

Blondes’ long-format videos focus on “natural cycles in the landscape and the perception of time.” The high-definition videos capture the natural world and are anywhere from 24 to 72 hours.

Often Blondes aligns his filming schedules with seasonal or celestial events, but his work also captures the everyday intimate moments that occur in nature. One video that will be on display, “Wyoming 3x180,” is composed of three sweeping 180-degree arcs shot in an intimate setting over

California artist Mari Andrews, whose work is shown here, will exhibit sculptures in Tayloe Piggot Gallery’s Project Space. Jeffrey Blondes, a photographer and filmmaker, will also be featured during the 2018 Fall Arts Festival.

several seasons.

The seeming stillness of the videos is accompanied by silence, which causes the viewer to focus on small details of the landscape.

“At first glance you think it’s a photograph, but if you look longer you can see a twig or a leaf moving,” Schwabacher said.

The rate of change is almost imperceptible, so visitors to Tayloe Piggott Gallery may see one of Blondes’ videos in full daylight, while those who come a few hours later will see the same landscape at a different time, in a different light.

Many of Blondes’ videos are shot near his home

in France, but he also travels to shoot. Schwabacher described his work as having an important “aspect of place,” and the connections are even stronger in this show, with some of his work having been shot in Wyoming.

“He’s interested in the same place we’re interested in,” she said.

It’s not often that the gallery brings in artists for events, so this opening promises to be special.

“We don’t work with a lot of local artists,” Schwabacher said, “so it’s rare for us to be able to introduce the community to the people making this art.”

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“Last Glance, Paintbrush Canyon,” is a 24-by-24-inch oil-on-panel painting by Stacey Peterson. Peterson will make her Jackson debut at Turner Fine Art as part of the Fall Arts Festival.

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Gallery Wild goes big in 1st Fall Arts Fest ‘Get Wild,’ with artists Carrie Wild, Bregelle Whitworth Davis, Rip and Alison Caswell, Jason Williams and Dwight Vasel Hands-on art showcase where participants can try mediums for themselves 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 Gallery Wild, 40 S. Glenwood St. Free GalleryWild.com

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ackson Hole’s newest fine art gallery, Gallery Wild, is taking full advantage of Fall Arts Festival, hosting five receptions and events over the course of the festival.

The gallery, which opened in early July, is owned by husband-and-wife artist team Carrie Wild and Jason Williams. Gallery Wild showcases contemporary wildlife art in a variety of mediums, including paintings, sculpture and photography.

It also doubles as a studio for Wild, who is a painter. She and Williams, a photographer, hope people will visit to not only see finished art but also watch Wild and visiting artists work. Including viewers in the artistic process is a theme throughout the events they’re hosting for the festival.

“We want to engage the community, bring them in and share the work with them,” Williams said.

To that end, on Saturday, Sept. 8, Gallery Wild will host an event called “Get Wild,” at which attendees can try their hand at the mediums showcased in the gallery. Featured artists will offer demonstrations on using clay, paint and professional photography equipment, and people will have the opportunity to pick up a block of clay, a paintbrush or a camera.

“We feel like it will really bring a new dimension to the Fall Arts Festival by encouraging guests to play with the materials and ask questions about the process,” Williams wrote in an email.

During the Get Wild event, painters Wild and Bregelle Whitworth Davis, sculptors Rip and Alison Caswell and photographers Williams and Dwight Vasel will be at the gallery for demonstrations and to aid participants.

“King of Autumn,” a 36-by-24 inch oil, is by Coloradobased artist Jennifer Johnson. She makes her paintings look like historic national park posters. Gallery Wild will host a Thursday, Sept. 14 reception with Johnson and fellow artist Carrie Wild, one of the gallery’s owners.

The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Cocktails, beer, wine and appetizers will be served.

Wild and Williams have invited the visiting artists to use the gallery’s studio space throughout the festival. People can come to the gallery throughout the week to meet the artists and see them work, Williams said. He and his wife are hoping to create a balance between a gallery space and a working artists’ studio.

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“Most galleries don’t want artists working in them,” Williams said. “We’re the exact opposite.”

On Friday Sept. 14, Gallery Wild will hold a reception for Carrie Wild, the gallery’s namesake. She will be joined by wildlife painter Jennifer Johnson, who is from Lakewood, Colorado.

Wild and Johnson paint contemporary portrayals of wildlife common to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Included in Johnson’s portfolio are original designs painted to look like historical posters from national parks. Wild and Williams have commissioned new posters from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks that will be on display at Gallery Wild during the Fall Arts Festival.

Wild’s paintings are more abstract, featuring buffalo, horses, foxes and other animals in bold, bright landscapes. The colors Wild uses portray the emotion behind each experience, she said.

“The pieces are powerful,” Wild said. “They evoke what I was feeling whether that’s happy or heart pounding.”

A photography exhibition and artist reception is scheduled at Gallery Wild for 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, with photographers Williams, Josh Myers and Vasel, each of whom dovetails his passion for photography with a passion for the outdoors through thousand-mile through hikes, wildlife safaris and other outdoor adventures. The photographers will share their images and the stories behind them.

Another Fall Arts event at Gallery Wild is a reception with sculptors Rip and Alison Caswell on Wednesday, Sept. 12. Saturday, Sept. 15, brings Gallery’s final reception of the festival, “Life Lived Wild” with Wild and Williams, Vasel, the Caswells and Davis. The artists — chosen to display their work at Gallery Wild for its deep connection to wild places — will be available to answer questions and share their creative process.

Wildness extends beyond Wild’s name and the artwork in the gallery. It’s a theme Wild and Williams are curating to support conservation efforts in the wild places they love.

They hope their new gallery can connect art collectors to the natural world and offer avid outdoorsmen and women artwork that commemorates their favorite experiences, Williams said.

During Fall Arts Festival, Gallery Wild will be open seven days a week, from noon to 8 p.m. The gallery’s regular hours are noon to 8 p.m. weekdays.

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More than 30 art galleries open their doors to showcase magnificent art with food and wine. This festive event is a local’s favorite.

Meet artist Dennis Ziemienski and receive a personally signed poster of his featured painting, “Teton Reflections”.

Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk

3-5pm | National Museum of Wildlife Art Open to the public 5-8pm | Various locations, see gallery map | Open to the public

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Historic & Western Ranch Tours

Visit historic valley ranches where Jackson Hole’s cowboy heritage still thrives. The tour is complete with cowboys, Western entertainment, and a good old fashioned barbeque. Hosted by Mountain Living magazine.

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Poster Signing with the Featured Artist

4-7pm | Altamira Fine Art | Center Street Open to the public

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23rd Annual Jackson Hole QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction

Recognized national, regional and local artists demonstrate their skills at this unique alfresco event. One-of-a-kind artwork, along with Dennis Ziemienski’s 2018 featured artwork, will be auctioned off following this ninety-minute creative process where spectators watch artists paint and sculpt.

9am | Jackson Town Square | Open to the public

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Taste of the Tetons

Valley chefs, restaurants and caterers put their best culinary work on display at this open-air tasting fair. You’ll also enjoy live music, Sips on the Square, and the “Takin’ It to the Streets” art fair.

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Thomas Moran has been credited as the first well-known painter to visit the Tetons. His sketches and paintings of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, produced on a trip to northwestern Wyoming in 1871, helped convince Congress to designate Yellowstone as the country’s first national park. This piece, titled “The Three Tetons,” hangs in the Oval Office.

The peaks of artistic inspiration The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has long served as a spring of creativity.

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rtists often find inspiration from a sense of place. Although it’s no Big Apple or City of Lights, Jackson Hole has a draw on artists from all over the world.

A large part of that magnetism is due to the stunning natural landscape. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem awes international observers with its flora, fauna and geological features.

Closer to home, the iconic mountainscape of the Tetons draws millions of visitors to Grand Teton National Park each year.

“It’s a wonderful place,” said Amy Goicoechea, director of programs and events at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. “It has this historical confluence of the power of creativity and of the environment that brings not only artists but collectors. Jackson has become, over the past 20 or 30 years, a top arts destination.”

For seven years the National Museum of Wildlife Art has hosted a Plein Air Festival on its doorstep, the Sculpture Trail overlooking the National Elk Refuge. Each year 50 artists are invited to paint “en plein air,” a landscape art tradition in which artists venture outdoors to paint the scene as they see it before them.

Many of the artists aren’t local, Goicoechea said.

They travel for the views of Jackson’s landscape.

The Art Fair, hosted each year by the Art Association of Jackson Hole, also draws artists from around the country.

According to Kathryn Jeffords, director of marketing and communications at the association, artists come to Jackson “not only to be inspired by landscape but to have that separation from all the noise of living in a city and have the space here to grow and work and reflect.”

“Beyond being inspired by the landscape and wildlife, the valley offers something unique for

artists,” Jeffords said.

The recorded history of art in the valley began in the 19th century.

Albert Bierstadt, an American painter known for his sweeping, golden light-suffused landscapes, painted several pieces of the Tetons. Although historians doubt whether he set eyes on the mountain range in his expeditions west in the late 1850s, vistas like the Tetons had captured public imagination and proved bankable subject matter.

In 2016 a detail of his oil painting “Scenery in the Grand Tetons” was featured on a Forever stamp commemorating the centennial of the National Park Service.

Thomas Moran was likely the first well-known painter to actually see the Tetons. Moran traveled on a U.S. Geological Survey trip to northwestern Wyoming in 1871. His sketches and paintings of Yellowstone helped convince Congress to designate area the world’s first national park, a move that has served as a template for conservation in countries around the globe. His 1895 work “The Three Tetons” now hangs in the Oval Office opposite the president.

Though the valley is no longer the untouched, unpopulated place it was a century and a half ago, legions of artists, local and visiting, have sought inspiration from its scenery. One of the most prolific, local artist Conrad Schwiering, painted hundreds of landscapes and captured the changing of the seasons in the Tetons in vibrant color.

The mountainscape has also been rendered in other mediums. In 1942 American landscape photographer Ansel Adams trained his camera on the Tetons and captured a scene that helped establish photography as an art form in its own right.

The iconic shot, “The Tetons and the Snake River,” also swelled the fame of the Tetons with its reproduction in subsequent decades in prints, posters and calendar pages. The photograph surpassed global fame for something a bit more cosmic when it was encoded on NASA’s Golden Record with other material intended to represent the sounds and images of Earth and sent with both Voyager spacecraft on their 1977 launch. Onboard Voyager 1, the image of the Tetons left the solar system in 2012 and entered interstellar space.

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The Grand Teton Park Foundation’s Plein Air for the Park event invites artists from around the country to paint “en plein air” with the Teton Range often serving as the backdrop.

In addition to photography, the well-known skyline of the Tetons has been styled in acrylic, oil, watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, screen print, sculpture and on less highbrow mediums like postcards, posters, advertisements, T-shirts and logos.

The environment of Grand Teton National Park has also served as an inspiration to musicians.

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Turner Fine Art brings painters for ‘art that inspires’

Kathryn Mapes Turner, John Felsing, Jane Hunt, Mitch Baird and Stacey Peterson “Art That Inspires: A Curated Show of Master Painters” 5-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Turner Fine Art, 545 N. Cache St. Free TurnerFineArt.com

By Jen Kocher

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nspiration comes in many forms, and this fall Turner Fine Art gallery owner Kathryn Mapes Turner is celebrating the artists in her life who have had a direct influence on her. Four will join her in a curated show of master painters that opened Sept. 3.

Among the group is Michigan painter John Felsing, who she tracked down 13 years ago after seeing one of his paintings at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where she worked at the time. The dusky, early morning oil painting of two Canada geese resting in the brush along a riverbank caught her eye because of its unique rendering of what otherwise might have been a commonplace scene.

“There was something so mysterious and illuminating that really caught my eye,” she said. “He even made the geese look beautiful, which isn’t exactly easy.”

That prompted her to seek out his work and learn about the painter and his unique style. She tracked

down as many paintings as she could with the help of the museum’s curator, and reached out to the reclusive, quiet artist, who eventually became a pivotal figure in both her personal and artistic life.

“He turned me on to books and other artists I would have never found on my own,” she said. “He was absolutely instrumental in my own development as an artist.”

During the Fall Arts Festival her mentor with join her and three other world-class painters: Jane Hunt, Mitch Baird and Stacey Peterson.

The group of friends frequently critique each other’s work and talk regularly.

“It’s testimony to how small and how supportive the art world is,” Turner said. “It’s a collaborative process, and we all inspire each other.”

Despite their unique styles and subject matter, what the five award-winning painters have in common, according to Turner, is their deep, inherent love for creativity and the natural world.

“It’s art that inspires the viewer,” Turner said. “It’s beautiful and uplifting and contributes something to your life in a time when the worlds needs more beauty.”

Turner is most excited for the opportunity to host her close friends and colleagues in her hometown, where all will be making their debut.

The artists will be at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. The collection remain on display through Sept. 28.

Kathryn Mapes Turner painted “Leap,” a 12-by-60 inch oil on board painting.

‘Paint Out’ at Triangle X Kathryn Mapes Turner will host a live “Paint Out” for five artists at her family’s Triangle X Ranch north of Moose from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.

The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited to 20 people, and reservations are required. To save a spot call the gallery at 734-4444.

Refreshments will be provided, but viewers are asked to bring camp chairs to watch the artists.

The paintings will later be for sale.

“It’s going to be so wonderful to paint together,” she said, “and I really think people will enjoy being a part of it.”

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Painters to lift curtain on their process ‘Prelude to a Painting’ with Scott Christensen, Christine Lashley, Jason Saunders, Scott Tallman Powers and Larry Moore Artist talk and showcase 1-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 Scott Christensen Studio and Gallery, 1100 E. 5000 S in Victor, Idaho Free ChristensenStudio.com

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or art lovers, viewing a painting is all about the finished product: a landscape with striking light, a unique portrait, a photorealistic depiction of wildlife. But Victor, Idaho-based landscape artist Scott Christensen knows that the steps that lead to the painting are just as captivating.

“What people don’t see is the process of painting,” Christensen said. “They just see what someone painted. They don’t know the little thumbnail sketches, the bad paintings, the changing in composition that led to that.”

Christensen has been deeply rooted in process lately as he creates a new body of work for a show opening in October at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. A conversation about divergent versus linear thinking sparked an idea to share the process.

“We don’t challenge ourselves to think differently,” he said. “We overthink and push our conformality away from creativity. We work hard to be creative. The creative thought process is not as linear as math. It is based on feeling and knowledge, so your knowledge procures your execution and your intent.”

Christensen and four artists — Christine Lashley, Jason Saunders, Scott Tallman Powers, Larry Moore — invite art devotees and artists to Scott Christensen Studio and Gallery in Victor from 1 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12. Visitors will be able to dive into the process with conversation, live painting and an exhibit of small works with pieces focused on stages of paintings.

Lashley, a contemporary impressionist painter

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Scott Tallman Powers is one of the artists in “Prelude to a Painting” at fellow artist Scott Christensen’s studio.

visiting from Virginia, is known for her painterly realism-style. She said process for her, like many artists, is ever-changing. She took one of Christensen’s workshops and, after he and she crossed paths at art events a friendship developed.

“Scott and I got excited to share, not only with the public but with the other artists, this idea of how we vary our visual voices,” Lashley said. “It’s about taking an idea or a thumbnail sketch or a couple of color chips and a sketch book and making that into a painting. It boils down to, what is your idea and how can you best express that idea.

Sometimes that means repainting, sometimes going smaller and sometimes going bigger.”

Each artist will discuss his or her individual pro-

gression and share what makes an idea develop beyond the initial concept. The event will also feature accessible painting sizes with affordable prices by each artist. The artists will also all contribute to a painting, adding their style and voices.

“It is a great way to learn about your personal aesthetic,” Lashley said. “You find out what the other artist’s intent is and see how that feels.

Sometimes it feels good, and sometimes it feels uncomfortable. But sometimes it is good to feel uncomfortable.”

From watercolor to photorealism, each artist will bring a different perspective and creative background to an afternoon of art, conversation and learning.

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Visions West shys from Western cliches ‘UpRoar’ contemporary wildlife show Now through Sept. 16 Visions West Gallery, 130 S. Jackson St. Free VisionsWestContemporary.com

By Julie Kukral

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isions West Contemporary is a relatively new gallery in Jackson, though with prominent galleries in Denver, and Livingston and Bozeman in Montana, the gallery had already made a name for itself by bringing contemporary art to Western markets before opening in Jackson almost two years ago.

“Because ‘West’ is in our name, people think we show Western art, or stereotypical Western art,” Gallery Director Nathan Larramendy said.

To an extent, it does. Visions West showcases contemporary art that was made in the West. As a result there are prevailing Western themes. For example: wildlife.

“Really, we focus on work that’s about the environment, about animals and about animal protection,” Larramendy said.

For its Jackson Fall Arts Festival show, “UpRoar,” Visions West is featuring work from William Sweetlove, Robert McCauley, Brad Rude, Troy Abbott, Bryan Christiansen and Shelley Reed.

All six are wildlife artists whose work ranges from fire-engine-red statues of penguins with plastic water bottles strapped to their backs to impressively rendered black-and-white paintings of tigers, livestock and birds inspired by historical paintings.

Larramendy was particularly ex-

Shelley Reed’s “Tiger (after Jenssen and Landseer)” is composed of 12 framed pieces, creating a 90-by-88 inch piece of art. Reed is inspired by paintings from the mid-17th through 18th centuries.

During this period — the Enlightenment — there was a profound interest in science, nature and the animal world.

cited about technology artist Abbott, who refashions vintage bird cages with LED screens with bird videos on them.

“What I like about his work is that he incorporates technology with something that’s very old,” Larramendy said. “Oftentimes technology-based art, especially video, is very rapid.

Abbott’s work is very quiet. Very still and peaceful.”

“I’m excited to bring in something like that in Jackson on a regular basis,” he said.

During the week Visions West will also host an Adonna Khare coloring book party.

Khare had a solo exhibition at the gallery earlier this summer. She is a graphite virtuoso known for her absurdly large-scale drawings of whimsical yet hyper-realistically rendered animals and hybrids placed in highly

Matthew Sweetlove makes art to defend the environment. His series of penguins with water bottles strapped to their backs is about the world’s shrinking supply of viable drinking water and the endangerment of species due to rising sea levels.

unlikely situations, like a rabbit and a fox nuzzling on top of a bear.

Khare published a coloring book in April 2017. Each fantastical page proves there is no limit to the “recommended age” for coloring books.

Larramendy threw a similar event in Denver that attracted people of all ages, from kids to teenagers to seniors.

“It really hit a cross-section in the community,” he said.

Larramendy and Jackson Gallery Director Billi Harrington were still finalizing plans when News&Guide talked to them. They said the event is likely to include donuts and champagne.

With four widely separated locations and new to a town with a high concentration of galleries per capita, Visions West is still devising

ways to bring fresh ideas to Jackson. Harrington has played with the possibility of doing monthly pop-ups and giving artists the creative freedom to experiment in the alternative gallery space. The gallery’s new home, a small remodeled house on Jackson Street, is just funky enough to be conducive to the team’s vision.

“We will have a few surprise shows throughout the year,” Larramendy said.

With Harrington holding down the fort in Jackson, Larramendy supporting from Denver and owner Nikki Todd calling the shots from Montana, Visions West and its starpacked roster of artists are sure to carve out an exciting new space for contemporary art in Jackson.

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At By Nature Gallery, Earth is the artist Fine art minerals and unique fossils showcased at gallery.

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This table made of petrified wood is the kind of unique item found at By Nature Gallery.

cor, By Nature has a little bit of everything. Among Ebare’s favorite items are the watches, pendants and rings crafted from meteorites. Due to their nickel-iron and stone composition and colorful, crystal patterns, the space rocks make beautiful “gems” for jewelry.

“They’re like mathematical equations,” he said, describing the many intricacies and patterns in their shapes.

He ticked off a long list of other popular items, including a wide selection of fish fossils from Kemmerer and the Green River Basin, which is well-known among paleon-

tologists as a spot for retrieving these prized fossils.

Another favorite is Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Rustic’s hand-carved cedar duck figurines. They are designed by artist Tim Bergren, who uses reclaimed fence posts from ranches and fields across the West for his one-

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By Nature Gallery they are transformed into art. Known as the gallery representing Mother Nature, it’s the place to come for those in the market for a triceratops skull, fossilized fish, rocks and minerals or shimmering green spherical bits of petrified wood. And it’s also a place for those just wishing to explore and learn more about natural history.

Gallery director Greg Ebare is perfectly at home among the old bones and rocks, and his enthusiasm for his merchandise is contagious. Two years ago he wandered into the store one day and then came back every day for a week. Now he runs the place, doing a job he hardly considers work.

“It’s more like hanging out in a natural history museum,” he said. “You never get bored, and there’s always something new to learn.”

Whether you are in the market for a collectible item or exquisite jewelry or de-

of-a-kind waterfowl.

Don’t forget the petrified wood logs, spheres, tabletops and bookends or the triceratops skull or massive sloth foot. By Nature also carries an extensive collection of rare prehistoric fossils from around the world, including a titanothere jawbone and the skulls of an oreodont, woolly rhinoceros and cave bear, among many others.

The mineral collection is another favorite, with oneof-a-kind earth pieces like jade, blue calcite and pyrite spheres that have been handcrafted by nature.

A visit to the gallery is a perfect way to look at history and enjoy the opportunity to see a variety of rare and beautiful artifacts, Ebare said, including rocks and minerals, the cheapest of which can be purchased for a nickel.

“We have a little bit of everything and encourage anyone with an interest in the natural world to come in and take a look,” he said, “from collectors to those who are just curious about learning more.”

The store also caters to children with a Kids Corner, where young discoverers can dig and search for stones to take home as souvenirs.

During the Fall Arts Festival the gallery at 86 E. Broadway will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. Ebare encourages visitors to bring their curiosity and drop by for a unique glimpse of the natural world.

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Mt. Everest Trading Company is a new store at 50 Deloney Ave. Along with an extensive inventory of adventure-inspired jewelry and accessories, owner Ronnie Turpin will have his photography for sale, including images from his bear collection.

Adventure inspires Mt. Everest Trading Company tion in meters, 8,848. The popular memento is for climbers or those who have reached the top or been to base camp, and also for those who, like Turpin, are inspired by its majestic beauty and the feat required to ascend.

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By Jen Kocher also carries adventure-inspired jackveryone has their own prover- ets and clothing in the same vein as bial Mount Everest to ascend. Willis & Geiger and vintage AberFor some people that might crombie & Fitch. Turpin also stocks a literally mean climbing the world’s number of bags as well as large 4-bytallest mountain, while for others 6-foot prints from his bear collection.

The photographer and artist, who it might be running a marathon or has spent considerable time in Nelearning Italian.

That is the idea behind Ronnie pal photographing Mount Everest, Turpin’s Mt. Everest Trading Com- is excited to bring his inspiration into the store. A novice climber, pany, which opened Sept. 1.

The “to ascend” on the store’s logo Turpin may not have any ambition more or less says it all, according to to climb the world’s tallest mounTurpin, who detain himself, but scribed the place he appreciates as catering to the adventuring adventurers of spirit of others “Maybe a person’s all shapes and who take on the sizes with the feat themselves ambition in life common goal of as well as those reaching high. just wishing to or the big thing “Maybe a percelebrate the son’s ambition you want to do is will to achieve in life or the their goals. big thing you to climb Mount Everest, P e r s o n a l l y, want to do is Turpin loves the to climb Mount which is Everest 8,848 Everest, which piece, and it’s is an amazing an amazing feat.” that spirit he feat,” he said.

— Ronnie Turpin hopes to capture “For many peowith his advenOWNER, MT. EVEREST TRADING COMPANY ple, their Mount ture-inspired Everest might line of jewelry, be totally difclothing and ferent.

Maybe it is going to France or mastering other accessories.

Turpin, who recently closed his photography or coming to the place Turpin Gallery storefront to move in their life that they want to float down the Amazon. The idea is to exclusively online, is excited for the new store opening and has plans to celebrate goals and inspiration.”

The store combines outdoor ad- grow the Mt. Everest Trading Comventure with high-end jewelry and pany brand.

“I’m really looking forward to accessories for men and women aspiring to ascend “the peaks of life,” this new adventure,” he said.

He will visit Mount Everest base such as Roman coins featuring Alexander the Great as well as gold camp this fall.

Mt. Everest Trading Company and silver climbing-themed pieces will host a public reception serving inspired by Sir Edmund Hillary.

The store will also carry a large Moo’s Gourmet Ice Cream in conline of K2 and Everest jewelry, like junction with Palates and Palettes the 24-karat gold charm with an en- on Friday, Sept. 7, at the new store’s graving of Mt. Everest and its eleva- location at 50 Deloney Ave. Mt. Everest Trading Company Palates and Palettes public reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 50 Deloney Ave. Free

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Native JH offers a variety of art events Annie Band trunk show Friday, Sept. 7-Saturday, Sept. 8 Ruth Stringham Nordstrom painting in gallery Friday, Sept. 7 David Dean painting in gallery Saturday, Sept. 8-Sunday, Sept. 9 Jim Wilson painting in gallery Monday, Sept. 10 Lori Monson painting in gallery Tuesday, Sept. 11 Marie Jenkins painting in gallery Tuesday, Sept. 11Wednesday, Sept. 12 Richard Lloyd Biddinger painting in gallery Wednesday, Sept. 12Saturday, Sept. 15 Calvin Begay trunk show Thursday, Sept. 13Saturday, Sept. 15 Richard Miles painting in gallery Thursday, Sept. 13Friday, Sept. 14 Native Jackson Hole, 10 W. Broadway Free Facebook.com/nativejacksonhole

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here is something welcoming about walking into the Native JH Gallery.

Safaa Darwiche, the owner, is often there to greet you, chatting about community issues or business on Town Square. She and her husband, Jim, came to Jackson almost 40 years ago from Lebanon, and they describe the Middle Eastern country as just like Jackson.

“Lebanon looks just like this. It’s beautiful,” she said.

The gallery, at 10 W. Broadway, began in the basement of A Touch of Class. After renaming the gallery Native, the Darwiches started showcasing

Ruth Stringham Nordstrom created “Sunset’s Last Glow.” She’ll visit Native Jackson Hole.

fine art and jewNative will showcase longtime elry with a flare collaborator Ruth for the culture and Stringham Nordtaste of the West.

“My challenge strom. An impresOver the next four is to put on canvas sionist, Nordstrom decades the Darworks with oils wiches expanded the beauty and pastels. to everything from “My challenge art and jewelry to of the world.” is to put on canhotels, fine dining vas the beauty and the Farmers — Ruth Stringham Nordstrom of the world, Market.

ARTIST the people of New for Nathe world and tive this year is a the inspiration partnership with sister business Figs Restaurant, of their lives,” Nordstrom wrote. boasting authentic Lebanese cuisine “I have been called a colorist, and for Palates and Palettes. Darwiche I truly believe this type of study said she eats lunch there every day. is essential to understand the relaAnother new addition is the Sunday tionship of color and light, which as Brunch Gallery Walk. paint is applied to canvas can be-

come a symphony of color.”

The gallery owners have learned a thing or two about hosting events during the festival over the years and have several things planned.

“My first year here at Native JH, four artists showed up on the same day of the festival to paint in the gallery and they were all on top of each other,” sales associate Kathy Morgan said.

Morgan reorganized the experience for artists and guests, and this year a different artist is scheduled each day.

“When guests come in to the gallery, you want to make sure that they can spend time with those artists and not be overwhelmed, and the artists get enough time with the guests,” she said.

Two trunk shows will highlight Annie Band and Calvin Begay. With degrees in biology and poetry, Band earned a master’s degree in wildlife biology, and her art is influenced by the environment.

Begay is Navajo. He incorporates spectacular colors in his jewelry, depicting images of wildlife and its surroundings.

In addition to the artists it is hosting, Native has two artists in the Quick Draw — Aaron Yount and Charlie Shipley. Painting from Montana to Maine, Yount uses acrylics and oils, mastering his wildlife subjects in their natural environment.

Shipley grew up in Arizona and learned to paint from his father.

The raw mountainscapes of the desert and the harsh mountain peaks of Montana, where he lives, have provided a lifetime of inspiration.

“It’s the culmination of another summer in Jackson,” Morgan said of the Fall Arts Festival. “It’s the highlight of the season. I’m excited.

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figures in cowboy hats and chaps in his nostalgic but realist style.

Continued from 3C In contrast, Warhol’s “Cowboys and Indians” reimagines Western positions inspired by the park’s wild images in bold pop style, juxtaposlands. Composers invited to create for the festival hail from around the U.S. ing famous figures like Annie Oakley Whether auditory or visual, the and General George Custer against Tetons likely have made an appear- Native American imagery.

The genre of Western art unance in more art than any mountain range in the West. doubtedly owes a debt to Native The concept of Jackson Hole is American culture. Not only have indeeply entwined with the natural envi- digenous populations often been the ronment, but its artistic force extends subject of Western art, their own beyond geography. Cowboy culture art style and materials frequently has long lured artists from around the merge with those of the Old World’s country and inspired countless works art traditions. Alongside the oils of in art, film, muearly expeditionsic, fashion and ers and acryldesign. ics of modern “Jackson The popularWestern paintity of spaghetti ers are geometric has become, Westerns, films weaves and potmade in Europe tery, beadwork over the past about the Amerand turquoise ican West, illusjewelry.

20 or 30 years, a trates the reach Jackson’s aesof that allure. thetic of “The top arts destination.”

Many films Last of the Old about cowboys — Amy Goicoechea West” has more and their esNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART than piqued the capades were interest of some shot closer to abroad.

China the source, in Jackson Hole. A full built a replica “Jackson Hole” two list would be longer than a cattle drive in the heat of July, but a few hours north of Beijing, complete of the better-known titles include with tall wooden storefronts, locals 1922’s “The Cowboy and the Lady,” dressed as cowboys, and interiors John Wayne’s 1930 “The Big Trail,” decorated in full Western accoutre1940’s “Wyoming,” 1951’s “The Big ment, including antler chandeliers, Sky,” 1953’s “Shane,” 1963’s “Spen- cowhide and wagon wheels. The cer’s Mountain” and Clint East- town places Jackson Hole among wood’s 1976 “The Outlaw Josey the likes of Paris and London, the Wales.” monuments and architecture of both A colorful version of the romantic of which China has also duplicated.

West lives on the paintings of Ray McThe fountain of Jackson Hole’s arCarty, some of which now hang in the tistic inspiration springs from many Silver Dollar Bar. The mythos of the sources. At the crossroads of wildOld West has also captured art his- lands and Wild West past, Jackson tory notables like Norman Rockwell continues to inspire new generations and Andy Warhol. Rockwell’s anthol- of artists and write new chapters in ogy of early 20th-century life includes the history of Western art.

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wo Grey Hills was founded on heart and curiosity, beginning with a German immigrant who fell in love with a Navajo rug.

After purchasing Quality Cleaners laundry service in 1954, Elfriede Jourdan regularly cleaned customers’ hand-woven rugs. She was amazed by the quality and craftsmanship and felt a growing respect for a culture she knew nothing about.

“She had never seen anything quite like it,” said grandson Scot Mattheis, who now runs the Two Grey Hills store with his parents. “She cleaned and cared for those rugs, and over time her interest continued to grow.”

Ultimately, Jourdan coerced her son, Gary, to take a trip to the Southwest to meet some of the artisans. From there the deal was sealed.

“She and Dad just fell in love,” Mattheis said, “with the people and Native American arts in general.”

That was especially so when Jourdan happened upon the handmade turquoise jewelry that, much like the woven rugs, was completely new and fascinating to her. After they made a few more trips to the Navajo reservation and surrounding areas, their love and admiration for

the hand-woven rugs, jewelry artists, silversmiths and fetish carvers quickly developed into a deep appreciation and admiration for the people and their arts.

They were determined to open a store one day in Jackson to sell those products locally.

Finally, their dream came true in 1976 with the opening of Two Grey Hills, where they sell Navajo rugs and an assortment of Pueblo pottery and jewelry.

One of their long-term artisans, Artie Yellowhorse, will be on hand during part of the Fall Arts Festival to meet customers and discuss the traditions and techniques that go into her jewelry.

There’s a lot of tradition and history — often unbeknownst to the buyer — tied up in each of these products, Mattheis said. Other than their beauty and craftsmanship, various tribal traditions and culture are reflected in each piece.

Mattheis sounds like a teacher as he launches into the histories of the particular tribes and geography that accounts for the various designs and materials — clay, wool, stone and silver — that make each item unique.

He, like his parents, has made frequent trips to visit these tribal communities and has spent even more time reading and studying their histories.

His love for the people and art slowly grew out his grandmother and father’s stories and watching them interact with customers. He had started working in the store part time nearly a decade ago thinking he would eventually go on to do something else. Though he’d grown up hearing the history and stories behind the rugs and pottery from his grandmother and always had an appreciation for their quality and beauty, none of it really stuck. That changed when he

The jewelry of Artie Yellowhorse is known not only for its ancestry but also for the fresh and contemporary silver work skillfully paired with the finestquality stones from around the world.

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“The more questions I asked, the more I fell in love,” Mattheis said.

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“I couldn’t believe all the work that went into each detail,” he said. “And over time I began to see the difference between quality and average work.”

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This new work by Wendell Field shows off the yurt park he lives in. Field is often inspired by his everyday life.

Home on the range Despite challenges to secure housing and studio space, artists grow roots in Jackson Hole.

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Ephemeral art enlivens alleys, businesses Jackson Hole Public Art’s ‘Stickum Up’ Palates and Palettes artists meet and greet 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Alleys of downtown Jackson Free JHPublicArt.org

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here’s no need to enter a gallery to appreciate the art featured in this year’s “Stickum Up,” a temporary mural walk coordinated by Jackson Hole Public Art. The art will come to you — or, rather, you may just pass it by.

The nonprofit will adorn outdoor spaces during the Fall Arts Festival, assisting with large-format installments in downtown alleyways. Featured artists will be present to discuss their work during the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk as well.

“The concept came from cruising around the different alleys and seeing all these concrete walls that can be used as canvases,” Public Art Project Manager Cal Brackin said. “This is a way to activate some of those forgotten spaces in really cool ways.”

Public Art will work with businesses to select walls for display, enlist 10 artists to create work for the spaces and curate the flow of pieces around town. Artwork averaging 6 feet by 10 feet will be installed using a wheat paste mixture that both adheres and seals art to the wall, similar to that used for paper mache.

Viewers can conduct self-guided tours of the pieces until Sept. 16, when the murals come down.

Opportunity for art

“Our main goal is to create opportunities for artists,” Public Art Executive Director Carrie Geraci said. “Some are big and permanent; some are temporary and ephemeral.”

Public Art has several placemaking events planned for fall and winter, including its third annual “Park(ing) Day,” on Sept. 21. According to staff artist Bland Hoke, the project started in San Francisco and grew into a worldwide event of creating single-day “parklettes” that offer visitors a place to contemplate, create or explore.

“It’s a really timely exploration of how we look at our downtown with the new parking study that

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Artist Walt Gerald presented an installation involving spinning plates and dyes at the inaugural Moonshots 5x5 event in January. The call for projects is one of several ways Jackson Hole Public Art seeks to “create opportunities for artists.”

has just been released and our commitment to have a vibrant, walkable downtown,” Geraci said.

Last year the group handed out more than 300 maps to people during the event.

Cultivating creativity

Public Art also supports generating ideas for new projects in Jackson. This October it will host its second “Moonshots 5x5” event, described by Brackin as “five different artists, each with five minutes and five slides to discuss some outstanding public art concepts.”

Based on ideas from the first 5x5, Public Art is planning a four-month winter “Glow Festival” featuring original artwork that uses light as a medium

and taking inspiration from natural phenomena in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Public Art installations are a common sight in the valley, whether one is exploring the Pavilion on the lawn of the Center for the Arts, produced in collaboration with the Center’s Creative in Residence Program, or admiring the “Art Spot” on Broadway, passed by an estimated 30,000 cars daily.

“We never do something by ourselves. We’re always partnering with artists and other organizations,” Geraci said.

These partnerships provide the foundation for public art that welcomes visitors to the valley and allows locals to see and use familiar spaces in new ways.

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Taryn Boals, who draws in charcoal, moved to Jackson Hole for the arts. In addition to being an artist she works at a gallery.

Home on the range

Artists find inspiration and energy here and juggle jobs so they can stay.

By Julie Kukral

“Most people move here for the mountains and to ski, but I moved here for the arts,” Taryn Boals said.

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oals is an art consultant for Mountain Trails Gallery and an artist herself. She specializes in charcoal drawings of horses as well as the wildlife she finds in her own backyard. When Boals last talked to the News&Guide she was celebrating her new show at Cowboy Coffee, her workday caffeine lifeline as well as the home of many of her shows over the years.

With over 30 art galleries and an almost equal number of arts nonprofits, Jackson has become a thriving and welcoming community for artists. In fact, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Arts Research, Jackson has one of the country’s highest number of artists per capita. The News&Guide interviewed valley creatives about what it’s like to live and work as an artist in Jackson Hole.

Mountaineers and painters alike find inspiration in the Tetons. The tallest towering at 13,775 feet, the dramatic peaks of the Tetons dominate the valley scape, drawing millions of visitors from around the world each year. For artists the mountains not only serve as a source of inspiration but also provide the space — mental and physical — for their creative energy.

“There is so much to be inspired by, it can be overwhelming,” Travis Walker said.

Walker, Boals’ boyfriend, is a nationally known landscape painter who shows at Visions West Contemporary and Altamira Gallery in Jackson and other galleries in the West. He is also the founder of the Teton Artlab.

While Boals is inspired by Jackson’s wildlife Walker said that “the light and color of our landscape is incredible, as is the diversity of life and natural textures.”

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Walter Gerald does freelance design and print work at the Artlab, handling jobs from Stio, Mountain Khakis, the National Museum of Wildlife Art and Vertical Harvest, among other clients. “The Artlab is a great place to develop my artistic sensibilities,” Gerald said. “It’s an affordable artist space for local artists, and there’s a rotating artist program for artists all over the world.”

The counter to the abundance of natural space in Jackson Hole is the lack of affordable housing and, for artists, studio space.

“The housing struggles are well documented, but it is often the lack of studio space that drives artists out of the valley,” Walker said. “The creatives that have the most success often use the landscape as a studio or a backdrop.”

Of course, working “en plein air” is comfortable for only about five months out of the year in Wyoming.

Enter Teton Artlab.

Walker founded Teton Artlab in 2008 after working for years in Jackson’s arts nonprofit sphere.

“As an artist I recognized a basic need to support artists where they most needed it,” he said. “These basic needs are most often studio space, housing, stipends, exhibition and performance space, tools and networking opportunities.”

Since its inception, Teton Artlab has distributed over $100,000 in stipends to artists and invited over 50 visiting artists from seven countries and 23 states to the valley through its acclaimed residency program. And

since 2010, local artists have received over $200,000 in subsidized studio rent.

“Over the last 11 years we have helped hundreds of artists move forward in their careers and break into new creative territory,” Walker said.

Walter Gerald, a graphic designer at Wild Iris Press, credits the Teton Artlab for helping him jump-start his career. Gerald moved to Jackson seven years ago and built his graphic design career from the ground up.

“I would really credit the Teton Artlab for helping me out when I was first developing my own voice as an artist,” he said. “It was great to work alongside a lot of other creative minds.

That collaborative environment is really advantageous.”

Beyond its natural beauty, Jackson attracts what Walker describes as a “high-energy type of artist.”

“Most of the individuals who make art in the valley work very hard at their craft and pursue life with an equal amount of zest,” he said.

Perhaps the hustle is also a typical trait of mountain towns. There are infinite activities to check off, sports to try, trails to hike and vert to earn when the Greater Yellowstone Ecosys-

tem is your playground. Having a highenergy drive is necessary to making it as an artist anywhere, but particularly so in Jackson Hole, where the price of living is disproportionately high.

“It’s always a challenge, which is good. It keeps you on your toes,” said Gerald, who in addition to his graphic design career receives a steady paycheck from Teton County Library. It’s not uncommon for artists to pick up two, three and sometimes four jobs to make ends meet.

Walker, too, decided to stay in Jackson, despite the odds, for the landscape and the community.

“I decided love is more important than saving for retirement,” he said.

Jackson’s art scene continues to reinvent itself.

“It’s moving in a more innovative direction,” Walker said. “In the last 10 years, we have hosted artists such as Ai Weiwei, Jack White, Damien Hirst, TV on the Radio, the Flaming Lips and Kanye freakin West.”

“Before that it was more of a cowboy art and jam band kind of town, a place that felt about 20 years behind the rest of the country. The expansion of the internet and social media has attracted a new kind of artist, one that doesn’t conform to ‘Western’ standards and is capable of making a living doing a variety of work, often working remotely.”

Local painter Wendell Field echoed Walker. Field has lived in the valley on and off since 1992, splitting time between here and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“One reason why I moved was because the art scene wasn’t really happening here,” he said. “It was very traditional, wildlife, cowboy and Indians type of thing, and that’s really changed.”

Field credits the founding of the Center for the Arts, new contemporary galleries and the diversity of the type of artists moving here to Jackson’s increasingly vibrant art scene.

As Gerald explains, there is always more to discover in Jackson even though it’s a small town.

“I meet new people every day that I had no idea were artists or doing creative stuff,” he said. “That theme of discovery — you get that a lot out in nature and the ecosystem that we get to live in. But there’s also so much going on culturally and a lot to celebrate.”

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Joanne Hennes, owner of Hennes Studio, frequently paints Teton landscapes. She does studies in the field, then produces the final work in her home-based studio.

Home is where the art is for Joanne Hennes “I first came here with my parents when I was 10, and that’s when I knew I wanted to live here,” she said.

She returned on her honeymoon in 1954 and finally settled here full time in the late 1960s, splitting her time between the Tetons and Hawaii. Growing up in Rockford, Illinois, Hennes was uninspired by the

By Julie Kukral simple barns and farmlands of Illinois and even less so by the urban oanne Hennes proudly owns the scenes of nearby Chicago.

“I wanted to start with something only gallery in Jackson with a beautiful,” she said. view of the Grand Teton.

She was first inspired to paint Luckily for Hennes and her visitors, her gallery is also her home, mountains on a trip to Switzerland.

The Grand Teton was the closest studio and personal museum.

Hennes has lived and painted thing to the Matterhorn she could in Jackson for half a century. Her find in North America.

In the week before she talked to gallery is adjacent to her house at News&Guide, Hennes had visited Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis Club Grand Teton National Park six up the recently refinished Spring times.

At age 82 she still likes to exGulch Road. plore the off-the-beaten path parts “Every window in the house has of the park to gather scenes for her a view,” Hennes said, explaining paintings. that she and her She is parlate husband, ticularly fond Wayne, oriented of finding rare their house due h i g h - e l e va t i o n north so sunwildflowers.

“I wanted light wouldn’t “I go for the run across her to start with views,” she said, canvas when she rather than the painted. something beautiful.” classic and ofHennes bought ten-produced — Joanne Hennes views seen from the second lot PAINTER the road. sold at the club, right beIn the field fore Jackson Hennes paints Hole Mountain black-and-white Resort was built. She and her hus- watercolors to get a good sense of band made it their own little slice the depth and the contrast of the of Teton heaven, taking landscap- scene. ing inspiration from their favorite She brings her watercolor studies painting spots in the national park. and photographs back to her studio, “It was fun to copy some of where she continues to soak in inmy scenes with the landscaping,” spiration from her home’s natural surroundings.

Hennes said.

Visitors are welcome to tour Outside her house a stream runs through the back, complemented Hennes’ gallery, studio, home and by a forest of spruce trees, large grounds. The gallery is home to boulders, a waterfall and a stun- her personal work, as well as the ning backdrop of the Grand Teton. works of painters Archie Teater When Hennes purchased the lot she and Conrad Schwiering, Wyomingbought 100 spruce saplings for $5. based bronze sculptors Rose Cash Today they encircle her home, rising and Pershing Geiger, glass sculptor 40 feet into their air, blocking any Karen Ladd and Choctaw/Cherokee other house from view. potter Paul Hacker.

It’s like she lives on her own little Golf and Tennis is about a 15-minannex of the park. ute drive from Town Square. It is Hennes has painted all over the accessible from two roads: Spring world — from Thailand to Hawaii Gulch Road off Highway 22 toward to Tahiti — but she absolutely loves Wilson or off Highway 89/189/191 the Tetons. just south of Jackson Hole Airport.

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“We look for beautiful, original designs,” he said. “The weavers construct the finest handmade

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The Center of Wonder donated the ArtSpot to Jackson Hole Public Art. The Center also maintains a Daily Wonder calendar as a guide to arts events in the valley.

During the Fall Arts Festival it will be handy guide to everything that’s happening.

Center of Wonder keeps community’s creative calendar gage people through Daily Wonder,” and what better way to do it than to simplify the chaos with a convenient, easy-to-read calendar?

The calendar can be broken down into categories based on the type of event, so users can home in on specific

By Rachel Attias sections like live performances, visual arts and galleries, music and film. he Fall Arts Festival is a whirl- Corbett uses the calendar herself and wind of events, and the Center keeps it handy on her phone. of Wonder is taking on the task “It’s not an app,” she said, “but it of organizing everything. is a very mobile-friendly site.”

A nonprofit that supports the She added it to her phone’s home arts and artists in Jackson, the Cen- screen and recommended that the ter funds artists, events and galler- public do the same. ies through town- and county-funded Creating the calendar is a large grants. task, and on any given day there are Its funding and support is an es- around 20 events taking place. The sential part of Jackson’s art scene, but process is a partnership between galthe Center also tracks day-to-day hap- leries and the Center of Wonder, she penings. Kirsten said.

Corbett, the CenThere are ter’s arts commumore than 100 nications expert, people and or“It’s not an app, runs the Daily ganizations who Wonder calencan add their but it is dar, the definievents to the caltive guide to artsa very endar. related events in “We also cumobile-friendly site.” rate the calenJackson.

The calendar dar,” Corbett — Kirsten Corbett said. runs year-round, CENTER OF WONDER’S ARTS but during the The CenCOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT ter Fall Arts Festival, meticulousit will have a colly searches for lection of festival events it might events created with the help of the have missed, like pop-up spaces or Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. events whose advertising exists only Anyone will be able to “pull up a day on Facebook, and adds them to the and at a glance see all of the different calendar.

“We think it’s just as important things that will be happening,” Corthat a reception at Pearl Street Bagels bett said.

Users can purchase tickets for is out there just as much as a big reevents from the Daily Wonder web- ception someplace else,” Corbett said.

The Center works tirelessly to site, add events to their Google Calendar and view directions to galleries maintain the calendar, and a glance in October and May reveals that even and events with Google Maps.

For locals and visitors alike, the the offseasons have a wide variety of Daily Wonder calendar will be an es- arts events. sential tool in navigating the festival’s During the Fall Arts Festival, and gallery openings, art shows, perfor- beyond, users can keep an eye on the mances and auctions. Corbett said calendar to keep ahead of the many one of the Center’s missions is “to en- arts events Jackson has to offer.

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And in Jackson Hole a new business debuted. A young couple named Jan and Jeter Case started JC Jewelers with three display cases inside Jackson Hole Clothiers, featuring Jeter’s fine-crafted pieces.

The clothing store is gone, but JC Jewelers has grown and thrived to the point it is now preparing to debut a collection at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Cases — he designs the pieces, she’s the gemologist and also runs the store — are treating 30 years as JC Jewelers’ diamond anniversary and will take advantage of the Fall Arts Festival to celebrate it.

“We will have anniversary sales,” Jan Case said. “And we are also going to donate a portion of the profits from our sales during those weeks to a local nonprofit.”

That nonprofit will be Hole Food Rescue, which saves edible items from going to the landfill and distributes them to people in the community in need. Case recently listened to a humanitarian discuss starvation on NPR and was struck by the breadth of the problem.

“I think there’s more of it than we know,” she said.

JC Jewelers operates just around the corner from its birth place, in a cabin on North Cache that once was artist Archie Teater’s studio. Visitors this past summer saw huge diamond cutouts on the adjacent lawn and a little sign with #jcgemstones.

“We’re having people take their photos and post them on Instagram,” Case said in August. During the Fall Arts Fes-

A blue diamond set in rose gold is one of many rings designed and sold by JC Jewelers.

tival “we’ll have them hanging all over the cabin.”

Festivalgoers who visit JC Jewelers will also get a sneak peak of some of the pieces for Design Earth, which will debut at Sundance in Park City, Utah, in January.

“We have been asked to feature our jewelry at the Sundance Film Festival in a three-day private party,” Case said.

“We are going to do a limited-edition line of jewelry for that show.”

It all came about when Case received a call “out of the blue” from the TV show “Entertainment Tonight.” The show had done a Sundance party for 15 years and always showcased three artists.

“We’ve been following you for a couple of years, and we’d like to extend the invitation to you,” Case recalls her saying.

That will be in January. But there’s another party happening sooner, the Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk that kicks off the Fall Arts Festival.

For that occasion JC Jewelers will co-host a party with the Scout Guide, which the store is featured in. They will serve chocolates from Lindsey Johnson’s Wild West Bakery and pour glasses of bubbly. Wyatt Lowe and the Mayhem Kings will provide the tunes.

“Their music is so much fun,” Case said. “And we are going to have sparkling wine — it’s just the celebration theme.”

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Penny Lane highlights the local art scene Co-op opens spot for fashion, art and spending time.

By Melissa Snider

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enny Lane Cooperative is home to both art and fashion, artists and community.

“My original vision for Penny Lane was to be a space that could house local artists and affordable fashion,” store owner Andi Dornan said.

Dornan runs a traditional women’s clothing boutique in the front portion of her shop — filled with “apparel that is on-trend, but conducive to the Jackson lady lifestyle” — and recruits and manages local artists (currently a dozen) to display their work for sale in the back.

“I try to curate the whole space with a good balance of two-dimensional work, ceramics, jewelry, screen-printing, glass blowing, photography — I don’t want to be too heavy in one medium,” Dornan said.

Artists also have the opportunity to use the co-op as a place to host events such as art openings and wine and paint nights. Dornan described the cooperative nature of her business as a mutually beneficial relationship.

“On top of it being an artists’ co-op and a women’s clothing store, it’s a community space,” she said.

In addition to the fashion Dornan selects for sale, clothing connoisseurs can choose from several local companies’ apparel at Penny Lane. The Western Range Clothing Company offers unique formal wear for men and women, Bird and Buf-

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Penny Lane Cooperative owner Andi Dornan is celebrating her third year combining fashion, art and community.

Ceramics and fiber artist Jenny Dowd is one of several artists represented at Penny Lane. She has shown her work at Penny Lane since its inception.

falo sells screen-printed shirts and sweatshirts for adults and children, and Abby Paffrath’s stylish, brightly colored trucker hats accent the store’s front counters.

Dornan said using a cooperative model at Penny Lane was “as much a passion decision as a business decision” for her.

“I honor people who are working hard to make a living doing something that they love, and want to support that,” she said.

If not in the market for wearable art, shoppers can find boldly-colored wildlife and landscape paintings by Nicole Gaitan or glasswork

by Ben LaBrecque. Tenley Thompson of Jumping Jackalope Studios displays her largest retail selection of textiles and ceramics at Penny Lane. Her work includes map-covered pillows and coasters, and geo-

metric line-drawings of wildlife and mountainscapes on ceramics. There are photographs printed on brushed aluminum by Facing West Photography’s Randy Frazier, framed black-and-white landscapes by photographer David Stubbs and original sculptural art by Ben Roth.

Roth and ceramics artist Jenny Dowd have been on board with the concept of Penny Lane Cooperative since its start, said Dornan, describing them as “household-name artists” who have anchored the store.

“I let the local community direct the future of the store,” said Dornan, in the midst of change herself, as she and her husband are expecting their first child in September.

“It’s an evolution, and I’m still learning. In my third year, there’s a lot of opportunity for growth and change.”

Penny Lane artists Twelve local artists and companies have work for sale inside Penny Lane.

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Hand ‘Made’ goods with artistic flair Made, Mountain Dandy, Mountain Dandy Showroom Palates and Palettes public reception 5–8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Made, 125 N. Cache Free MadeJacksonHole.com

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ade owner John Frechette opened his first store in 2010 with the goal of selling his fused-glass belt buckles.

Since then he’s established a thriving venue for more than 300 other artisans like him. All of the products have one thing in common: You’ll never find them at Walmart.

Frechette has a passion for unearthing artists and showcasing their unique handmade products in his store, including decorative goods and wares like large wooden bowls, blankets, dishwares, leather aprons and handmade cards and stationery, among others.

Made’s brother store, Mountain Dandy, features a more collegiate, men’s club atmosphere, showcasing male-inspired items like leather club chairs, men’s candles, industrial desks, cashmere pillows and more.

Since doubling the size of his store in Gaslight Alley, adding 1,000 square feet last year, Frechette is again expanding inventory by partnering with Best Made, which, like his stores, emphasize hand-crafted goods and wares and unique art works in general. Best Made, which has stores in New York and California, will be on hand during Fall Arts Festival with a trunkload of unique merchandise to share.

Much like Frechette’s flagship store, Best Made originated as a venue for

selling the artists’ decorative, painted axes and hatchets, and grew as it began by opening its doors to other artists. The axes and hatchets will be on display during art fest, along with field desks, tiny wooden dresser boxes and much more.

“They’ll be bringing in stuff from East Coast artists and introducing a lot of different products and styles,” Frechette said.

The two companies pair nicely, Frechette said. Much like Made and its sister stores, Best Made believes in handmade products and in supporting and empowering artists. The idea is a return to old-school values of using your hands, tools and imaginations to create products not found in the chains or big box stores.

There’s a real demand for such products, Frechette has found, and he considers it his mission to track down as many artists as he can, including a Tel Aviv artist who makes “knots,” which are essentially intricate pouf ottomans made out of silk and velvet, tied into knots and fastened with handmade wooden rings.

It was something that Frechette had never seen before, and he is excited to carry her work in the store.

Locally, he’s also grateful to have discovered 18-year-old potter Theo Hirschfield, a prolific artist. Hirschfield is new to throwing pots, but apparently was an instant master. The artist, Frechette said, was born deaf and has cochlear implants.

“His mother said that he has always been good with his hands,” Frechette said, “and I couldn’t believe how good he was.”

Hirschfield’s first batch of decorative vases, pots and bowls sold out in four days. Luckily, Frechette was able to get another batch from him before the freshman headed off to college.

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1. Altamira Fine Art

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2. Astoria Fine Art

35 E. Deloney Ave. • 307.733.4016

3. Brookover Gallery

125 N. Cache • 307.732.3988

4. Cayuse Western Americana

255 N. Glenwood St. • 307.739.1940

5. Diehl Gallery

155 W. Broadway • 307.733.0905

6. Fighting Bear Antiques & Fine Art

375 S. Cache St. • 307.733.2669

7. The Grand Fine Art 130 W. Broadway • 307.201.1172

8. Gray Crane Studios 35 W Broadway Ave. • 307-733-2735

9. Heather James Fine Art

172 Center St. • 307.200.6090

10. Hennes Studio & Gallery

5850 Larkspur Dr. • 307.733.2593

11. Horizon Fine Art

28 E. King St. • 307.739.1540

PALATES & PALETTES GALLERY WALK Friday, September 7

12. Jackson Hole Art Auction

National Museum Of Wildlife Art • 3-5pm In Town • 5-8pm

14. Mangelsen Images Of Nature Gallery

130 E. Broadway • 866.549.9278

13. Legacy Gallery

75 N. Cache St. • 307.733.2353

170 N. Cache St. • 307.733.9752

15. Mountain Trails Gallery

155 Center St. • 307.734.8150

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16. National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Runguis Rd. • 307.733.5771

17. Native Jackson Hole 10 W. Broadway • 307.733.4069

18. RARE Gallery

60 E. Broadway • 307.733.8726

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19. Ringholtz Studios 140 E. Broadway Suite 6 • 307.734.3964

20. Tayloe Piggott Gallery

62 S. Glenwood St. • 307.733.0555

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55 N. Glenwood St . • 307.734.2888 75 N. Glenwood St. • 307.734.2888

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Join us us for for our our Join Fall Arts Arts Festival Festival Events Events Fall Be our guests to experience Jackson Hole’s newest fine art gallery! Founded by contemporary wildlife artist Carrie Wild and wildlife photographer Jason Williams, Gallery Wild will highlight fine art and artists that celebrate wildlife, open spaces and conservation of the natural world.

Friday, September 7 | 5pm - 8pm

Dwight Vasel

Photography Exhibition & Artist Reception Join us for Palates and Palettes as we pair up with Gather for fun eats and drinks while enjoying the work of wildlife photographers Dwight Vasel, Josh Myers and Jason Williams as they share their vision, inspiration and stories from the field.

Carrie Wild

Saturday, September 8 | 5pm - 8pm

Get Wild – Find Your Inner Artist Get wild (or at least get your hands dirty) with Gallery Wild artists as they share their craft with hands on demonstrations including how to sculpt, paint and create outstanding images.You will have the opportunity to experiment with materials, tools and equipment in a working artist studio.

Wednesday, September 12 | 5pm - 8pm

Rip & Alison Caswell

Artist Reception Rip and Alison Caswell Don’t miss your opportunity to meet Rip and Alison Caswell! This dynamic husband and wife sculpting duo has work that spans several genres and includes everything from prestigious monuments at Pearl Harbor and beloved university mascots to small collectible pieces to enjoy at home.

Friday, September 14 | 5pm - 8pm

Jennifer Johnson

Artist Reception Carrie Wild and Jennifer Johnson

Jason Williams

Jennifer Johnson and Carrie Wild invite you to celebrate the wildlife and wondrous landscapes of the west that inspire them. Their contemporary vision of the wild is bold, exciting and fresh while maintaining an accuracy that is difficult to achieve. See their newest works, get inspired and enjoy a great evening of wild art!

Saturday, September 15 | 12pm - 6pm

“Life Lived Wild” Artist Celebration

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Following the Quick Draw - Join the Gallery Wild artists to celebrate wildlife, wild places and the experience of wild that inspires their work. Gallery Wild artists will be available to answer questions, tell stories and share their process of creation.

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Tracy Stuckey’s satirical works juxtapose traditional Western elements with shallow modern consumerism. Stuckey is represented by Visions West Contemporary.

Redrawing the West Spirit of Western art remains as new interpretations emerge.

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egacy Gallery represents over 100 nationally known artists between its two locations in Jackson and Scottsdale, Arizona.

During the Fall Arts Festival it will host one-man shows for wildlife sculptor Tim Shinabarger and painter Greg Beecham.

“We’ve always tried to have wildlife shows, especially during Fall Arts Festival, which is centered around wildlife with all the museum shows,” said Janell Grady, the gallery’s marketing manager.

Shinabarger’s sculptures and Beecham’s paintings are showcased at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, which has been a cornerstone of the Fall Arts Festival since its founding.

Shinabarger has been preparing for the show for 15 months, creating nine pieces just for Legacy.

“That’s a lot for a sculptor,” Grady said.

This is Shinabarger’s first solo show at Legacy in five years, so he and the gallery wanted to go big.

The show is titled “Forever Wild,” which speaks to Shinabarger’s lifelong fascination with wild-

life. It led him to work as a guide, taxidermist and backcountry ranger at a young age. Through his artwork he has traveled all around the world — from Alaska to Africa — to study and observe wildlife in its true nature.

In “Forever Wild,” Shinabarger will show animals of the American West, along with one African lion.

In addition to the nine new sculptures he will display a few last-edition pieces that will be available by draw.

More of Shinabarger’s work can be seen at the entrance of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where his large sculpture of an elk greets visitors right as they drive into the museum.

Beecham’s wildlife paintings will adorn Legacy’s walls to complement Shinabarger’s bronze masterpieces.

Beecham’s show is what Legacy calls an “artist focus” and will feature only seven or eight paintings.

Like Shinabarger, Beecham believes spending time out in the wild with animals is integral to his practice. He lives in the high Wyoming Rockies and enjoys observing, photographing and painting wildlife of the American West.

His father is another renowned wildlife painter, Tom Beecham.

The younger Beecham takes a more contemporary approach. Instead of painting wildlife in traditional landscapes, he places his hyperrealistic renderings of animals in more abstracted, minimalistic backgrounds.

“It’s just striking,” Grady said.

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Into the Wild is by Vic Payne. During the Fall Arts Festival the Mountain Trails Gallery artist will show a new sculpture featuring elk.

West and wildlife take the floor at Mountain Trails Amy Lay, Troy Collins, Lyn St. Clair, Vic Payne, Dustin Payne and Chris Navarro Artists reception and exhibition 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 Mountain Trails Gallery, 155 Center St. Free MtnTrails.net

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oon after the QuickDraw six artists will make their way across Town Square to Mountain Trails Gallery to celebrate the annual competition, Fall Arts Festival and their latest works.

Among the artists quickly crafting mini masterpieces in the annual competition will be Amy Lay, Troy Collins, Lyn St. Clair, Vic Payne, Dustin Payne and Chris Navarro, all of whom are represented by Mountain Trails.

It’s become a gallery tradition to host a celebration in conjunction with the QuickDraw, said Taryn Boals, an art consultant there.

Mountain Trails is perfectly positioned for collectors to take in the QuickDraw and then walk into the gallery to see more work by the artists they admire in the field. It also gives collectors a better understanding of the artists. Collectors can watch the artist work rapidly during the competition and later see their larger bodies of work and ask them more in-depth questions about their processes, Boals said.

The gallery always has an all-star list of QuickDraw participants, and this year the six representing Mountain Trails are some of its most familiar names, Boals said.

Anyone who has visited Mountain Trails has seen the huge stagecoach sculpture, a showcase piece in the gallery for nine years. That is the work of Vic Payne.

“His pieces have a lot of punch,” Boals said.

Payne, who also founded Mountain Trails Gallery, will debut a new large sculpture during Fall Arts Festival, a piece more than 2 feet tall of elk running through the trees.

Payne’s father was also a sculptor,

as is his son, Dustin, who is also participating in the show.

The younger Payne is also a cowboy artist known for the details in his sculptures that capture life out West.

Dustin Payne might work live in the studio after the QuickDraw, as will some of the painters, Boals said.

St. Clair lives in Gardiner, Montana, on the edge of Yellowstone National Park, where bears climb onto her back porch and foxes greet her in her yard, Boals said. St. Clair documents specific animals and portrays the quirks and personality of each one.

“These are the ones in her world,” Boals said. “There is always a great story behind each piece.”

Collins is an entertaining artist to watch at work. He sometimes uses his fingers instead of brushes to create the fall aspen trees he’ll show during Fall Arts Festival, Boals said.

“He’s so liberal with his paint,” she said. “You can just see him have fun and play with the paint.”

Jackson-based Lay was a watercolorist before becoming an oil painter, a background that inspires the way she works with paint to create unique pieces, Boals said. Her work showcases her draftsmanship, and then she builds up layers of colors for a soft and almost feminine look.

Navarro, the final artist on the gallery’s QuickDraw roster is “a real cowboy,” Boals said. His sculptures reflect his rodeo days and scenes from daily life at his ranch near Casper.

The artists reception will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the gallery. The artists will join after the QuickDraw.

Fast art The QuickDraw is an annual event that draws dozens of art aficionados to Town Square to see artists in action. The artists who participate have 90 minutes to whip up an original piece before the curious eyes of the public. Learn more about the event in Section A, page 4.

“Morning Song” is by Troy Collins, a Mountain Trails artist. He’ll be in the QuickDraw.

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West Lives On teams up with The Wort ago. Gallery director Terry Ray particularly likes the painter’s exquisite use of light when capturing the feeling of the Old West.

Contemporary artist Cawdrey is another longtimer at the gallery, having been with West Lives On for 18 years. When the gallery extended into separate contemporary and traditional galleries, Cawdrey

By Julie Kukral moved with the gallery into its second space.

Cawdrey brings international est Lives On extends into two gallery spaces, taking techniques to the American West. up half a block on GlenThe Montana artist creates stunwood Street, across from the histor- ningly bold, colorful Western scenes ic Wort Hotel. The gallery is equally by painting French dye onto Chidedicated to both traditional and nese silks. She picked up the techcontemporary works in its two spac- nique while studying at the Ameries. During Fall Arts Festival, West can University in Paris, where she Lives On will team up with The received studio instruction from Wort to host concurrent exhibits French painters at the Sorbonne. throughout the event.

Cawdrey masterfully lays a viOn Thursday, Sept. 13, the gal- brant palette of dyes onto the silk, lery will host receptions for tradi- turning brilliant Western scenes tional painter Mark Keathley and technicolored. contemporary painter Nancy Dun“Her work is very colorful,” Ray lop Cawdrey. said. “It makes Keathley will people smile.” be familiar to Cawdrey and those who atKeathley will “Her work tended the last both particiFall Arts Fespate in the fesis very colorful. tival. Keathley tival’s “Quick It makes people was the 2017 Draw” event, featured artist, along with sevsmile.” earning the receral other West ognition for his Lives On artists — Terry Ray Brandon Bailey: painting of warOF NANCY DUNLOP CAWDREY’S WORK Laurie Lee, D. dressed Native Lee and Michael Americans on Untiedt. horseback, titled West Lives On will team up with “Rise Above.”

Keathley’s piece sold for a record- its neighbor, The Wort Hotel, for Palates and Palettes on Friday, breaking $77,500.

Keathley has been with West Sept. 7, as well as its signature fareLives On since its inception 20 years well brunch on Sunday, Sept. 16.

Mark Keathley and Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey Artists reception 5-8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13 Free West Lives On, 75 N. Glenwood St. WestLivesOn.com

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West Lives On artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey paints French dye onto Chinese silk, a technique she learned while studying art in France.

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Taylor Glenn creates elegant portraits of wild animals. Craig Spankie layers textures into landscapes. Tim Rein sculpts limestone and alabaster into organic forms, and Ed Riddell creBy Kirsten Forrester ates minimal and contemporary portraits of nature. he WJR Design Showroom demAshley Tudor juxtaposes bronze onstrates that art and accesso- skulls with wild game antlers, while ries make a house a home. Walk- Lee Riddell paints plein air landscapes ing into the gallery is like walking into and Julie Chapman details the drama a house: You can watch a story unfold. of the rodeo in scratchboard. Bradford WRJ gives artists real-life backdrops Stewart paints abstract forms that for their work. Each piece is incorporat- echo classical music. ed into a showroom as it would be in a The WRJ design aesthetic is inhome, the focus being on creating beau- spired by spring and summer morntiful spaces that embody harmony and ings in the Tetons, where low-hanging tranquility. Art, clouds shroud the whether it be the mountains and palette, texture, the air is crisp.

“A curated collection It’s about discovscale or tone, can balance different ery and romantic can become elements throughbeauty. Through out a room, servdesign WRJ seeks a treasure hunt ing as the finishing to create expetouch to a design. riences, and by inviting exploration “Perhaps most adding art makes importantly, ar- throughout the home.” living spaces tistic elements come alive with add charm and — Rush Jenkins personality. warmth to an “Art and DIRECTOR, WRJ DESIGN environment,” thoughtful accesco-founder and sories invite such Director Rush Jenkins said. “Be it a reflection, providing an opportunity touch of whimsy or an aesthetic medi- to pause, ponder and ultimately entation, art conveys personality through gage with people and place,” Jenkins compelling imagery. A curated collec- said. “Passions resonate in pictures tion can become a treasure hunt invit- referencing hobbies, journeys or ining exploration throughout the home.” tellectual pursuits. Unexpected affinWRJ Design didn’t originally show- ities can add depth to the host-guest case art, but through helping clients relationship.”

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Designer Cate Havstad carefully crafts each of her hats to carry the story of landscapes. Each is dyed naturally with plants and hand-shaped using techniques that date back to the late 1800s.

Western wares run the gamut of styles 26th Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 9; 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

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he 26th Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale is a celebration of Western design for both people and place.

The four-day event featuring 100plus artists and designers kicks off with an opening preview party and fashion show Thursday, Sept. 6 (see sidebar), followed by three days of open booths for attendees to wander among.

The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7; from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8; and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 9. Be sure to catch the “Artitude Adjustment,” a happy hour taking place each afternoon that will serve local spirits. A day pass to the event is $15.

It doesn’t matter if “you’re a traditional guns-blazing cowboy or a sophisticated trendsetter,” Western Design Conference Executive Director Allison Merritt said.

The exhibit and sale, which launched in Cody in 1992, moved to Jackson in 2007 and has evolved to offer a range of styles “from cowboy to contemporary,” as well as a range of price points, she said.

The Designer Show House, a trueto-scale multiroom home, showcases Western-style home decor. The floor of Snow King Events Center is transformed by the conference, offering 28,000 square feet of floor space for jewelry, fashion, woodworking and mixed media.

Some artists, like Matt Wanner of Burns Saddlery, carve and stamp their art with leather tools. Others create their works with plants

plucked from the desert — like Cate Havstad, who uses desert plants like sage and juniper to create dyes for a custom line of hats — or elk sheds.

Keep an eye out (though it will be hard to miss) for one of the world’s largest antler sculptures, created by Matt Rivetts.

Artists will be present to chat about their work and inspirations.

Proceeds from art sales go directly to the artist; the conference does not take a commission.

Artists are also in the running for top honors like “Best of Show and “Best Artist” of a specific category, the titles determined by a jury of esteemed artists and designers.

The show is sure to showcase some one-of-a-kind pieces.

“Each year we are committed to showcasing the finest examples of American contemporary craft offerings with a uniquely Western twist,” Merritt said, “from Old West cowboy references to fresh textile designs sourcing regional materials and techniques.”

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“American Family” is by Travis Walker, a Jackson Hole painter who is among a growing number of artists offering fresh takes on the Western genre.

Redrawing the W Spirit of Western art remains as new intepretations emerge.

By Julie Kukral

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raditional Western American art may conjure classic images of bucolic landscapes, dramatic “cowboy and Indian” scenes and hyper-realistic renderings of defiant wildlife.

And while many pieces shown in any of Jackson’s 30-plus galleries fall into that classic tradition, the genre is constantly changing just as the West continues to reinvent itself.

Today contemporary artists are expanding the genre of Western art by incorporating traditional themes into their work while offering fresh aesthetics, perspectives and commentaries.

Earlier this summer Wilcox Gallery hosted a three-man “Paintbrush Cowboy” show featuring painters “who live their subject matter.” One of those artists is Wyoming-bred rancher and painter Charles Dayton.

Timeless themes

“The great redeeming feature of Western art is the timelessness of its elements: the figures, landscapes and animals,” Dayton said in a statement.

“How often do you see a painting of a salesperson making a sale, or a group of executives developing strategy? The figure of my father moving cows or making his way up a steep trail with a pack string will always be beautiful.”

The timelessness of those scenes prevails in the way Americans still identify American virtue with the myths and ideals associated with the West.

The mythologization of the West can first be attributed to the time when white Americans began

settling the frontier in droves. The Homestead Act of 1862 sparked a wave of migration into the Western territories at a time when the nation was still bitterly divided about the Civil War. The West, being neither North nor South, became a neutral land of opportunity, not just for individuals but for Americans to project a new shared national consciousness.

The characters of the West, known for their rugged individualism and devotion to a chivalric code of brotherly conduct (think John Wayne), became entwined with the shared mythology of what it meant to be an American.

“Western American art is crucial to helping us understand American culture even in the contemporary moment,” Jennifer Henneman of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art said in a PBS documentary about the genre.

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The genre includes work that casts a critical eye on the mythology of the West. Andy Warhol’s “Cowboys and Indians” series contrasts iconic Western “heroes” like John Wayne with Native American images. The series was a limited edition of 250, and it’s rare to find a complete set of 10 prints. You can see the full series at Heather James Fine Art until the end of September.

Maryvonne Leshe of Trailside Galleries has watched the genre evolve over the last half century. One of the first galleries to open in Jackson, Trailside recently celebrated its 55th anniversary. Leshe has been involved with the gallery for the past 41 years.

Trailside opened at an important turning point in the history of Western American Art, at the same time the Cowboy Artists of America formed in the early ’60s.

“When the Cowboy Artists of America had their first show, nobody knew if it would be a total flop or sell out,” Leshe said.

At that point Western art did not hold the cultural and artistic value that it does now, she explained.

Trailside went on to represent all the early Cowboy Artists and help raise the status of the genre through satellite galleries throughout the country.

Growing interest

The newfound legitimacy of Western art in the second half of the 20th century reinvigorated the genre, opening it up to more participation and, subsequently, wider interpretation.

Leshe also identified an increasing interest and acceptance of wildlife art as fine art as one of the most notable trends in Western art in the past 50 years: Her colleague Joan Griffith said that new interest has grown out of an growing concern about conservation.

Today images of the New West are alive on the very walls of Jackson’s galleries. Some work still resembles the traditional scenes and elements of

Frederic Remington. The persistence of these works reinforces the legitimacy of the traditional “Western” ideals still in contemporary American cultural fabric today.

Other art takes a more critical approach to Western mythology.

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Art hung a collection of Andy Warhol’s “Cowboys and Indians” series this summer that will be up through the end of the month. Warhol contrasts iconic Western “heroes” like Annie Oakley with pop art-renderings of Native American images and motifs.

“While his subject matters vary greatly,” gallery manager Sarah Fischel said, “the thread of his commentary runs through all of his works, which is to challenge the viewer to contemplate what makes an icon or hero and

what’s behind the admiration.”

Visions West Contemporary also features various artists who take critical stances against the tropes of Western imagery. Underscoring that the gallery doesn’t show stereotypical Western art, gallery director Nathan Larramendy noted that while there’s often a Western theme to the work, it’s usually satirical.

Poking fun at cliches

He pointed to Tracy Stuckey as an example. Stuckey paints images of high-fashion ski bunnies roughing it in quasi-modern, faux-traditional backgrounds, or seemingly rustic mountain men in fur coats with puffy jackets underneath. In doing so he pokes fun at the cliches and empty romanticism of Western ideals that, as Warhol also explored, have become commodified.

And then there are artists who simply apply modern aesthetic onto Western scenes, like Altamira Fine Art’s David Grossmann, who paints the traditional subject of landscapes in a highly untraditional way. Or Diehl Gallery’s Helen Durant, who paints raw, loose depictions of wildlife that is both humanizing and mystifying.

The prevalence of Western themes and their openness to reinterpretation prove the relevance of the genre as a tool to explore American cultural questions and identities. The broad acceptance of “Western art” and the willingness of artists to work within and against the themes of the genre are what make Western art continue to be relevant in the 21st century.

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Painter captures ordinary lives of frontier days

Morgan Weistling, Dustin Van Wechel, Adam Smith, Sueellen Ross and Jhenna Quinn Lewis Artists reception 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 Morgan Weistling book signing 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 14 Trailside Galleries, 130 E. Broadway Free TrailsideGalleries.com

By Kelsey Dayton

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he faces in Morgan Weistling’s paintings may seem familiar if you’ve seen the California artist’s work before.

In one painting, the face of the young woman watching a snake oil salesman might ring a bell. Viewing another painting, you might get the feeling that the man singing in church is someone you’ve encountered before.

And you would be right.

The churchgoer was a stagecoach driver in an earlier painting. The young woman in the crowd was once a little girl picking apples and later an apprentice at a dressmaker shop.

“A person grows up throughout the lifetime of my paintings,” Weistling said. “One person might buy one painting, but it’s sort of like they are buying a piece of a larger story.”

That’s why Weistling created the book “A Brush With History,” which features his favorite paintings from his career.

He’ll sign copies of the book from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 14, at Trailside Galleries. Trailside will also host a reception for his show, which shares the name of his book, from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15. It is one of several shows the gallery will celebrate that evening.

Weistling’s paintings are set in frontier America in the 1800s, but instead of cowboys on horseback the artist captures people tending to daily chores.

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to survive day to day. They made butter and candles and seemed to always have to cook.

“And when you throw beautiful light on those kinds of actions and those kinds of chores, it just becomes alive for me,” he said.

Weistling grew up in California watching Western movies with his father. He started creating movie posters when he was 19 and worked in the film industry for 15 years, but as computers became more prevalent the illustration market changed.

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“I’ve been very consistent for 20 years,” he said. “I haven’t strayed from my goal. It’s always been to build a world — a shared universe — for all the people living in my paintings. I carry their stories throughout my paintings, and my new show is a continuation of those story lines.”

Weistling is “one of the finest portrait painters working,” said Maryvonne Leshe, managing partner at Trailside. “There is nothing stiff about his figures. Every face has its own personal expression. Yet they are not saccharine at all.”

His show is one of several Trailside is hosting during Fall Arts Festival to celebrate Trailside’s 55th year.

Dustin Van Wechel’s show is called “Seasons of the West,” and Adam Smith’s exhibit is named “A Natural Selection.”

Both artists are wildlife painters, but with different styles, Leshe said.

Smith’s work is detailed and uses strong realism. Wechel has a softer, more painterly style.

Trailside will also show Sueellen Ross’ “Pet Projects.” She’s known for her “beautiful and joyful” colored pencil renderings of dogs and cats, Leshe said.

Jhenna Quinn Lewis will show elegant bird paintings in her exhibit, “Birds Within Other Worlds.”

The variety of work is meant to appeal to a variety of tastes and collectors, Leshe said. All the artists will be present at a reception on Saturday, Sept. 15.

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Western Americana old and new shines in Cayuse collection

Both utilitarian and beautiful items can be found at Cayuse Western Americana.

By Jen Kocher

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alking into Mary Schmitt’s Cayuse Western Americana gallery is a lot like walking into a museum.

At Cayuse you will find hundreds of valuable collectors’ items and one-of-a-kind antiques that tell the true history of the old West.

Schmitt’s life reads a bit like a history book, involving a circuitous route to her American roots. After living abroad for years, learning to speak six languages and obtaining a degree in international relations, Schmitt realized she was drawn to her own country and culture.

During her career in high-tech product marketing, she found herself increasingly yearning for tangible products that last and began scouring flea markets and going to auctions. Eventually, when her friends started sending her on buying missions, she figured she had a talent for saving lost things.

Taking an enormous leap of faith, she combined her love of Native American, cowboy and national

park history with her talent at finding and appraising artifacts.

The rest is history.

Since opening her doors in 1997, Schmitt has turned her downtown store into a treasure trove and cultural tour, with a wide variety of cowboy, Native American and national park artifacts.

“Ninety-nine percent of these things, no one thought that they would still be around,” Schmitt said in an earlier interview with the News&Guide. “It’s hard to find early pieces because they really were used. This stuff got worn out.”

She began the store with the idea of selling utilitarian items like 19thcentury Native American horse blankets, saddle bags and beaded gauntlets, pots, moccasins and blankets.

Although the items were designed to look good, they still had a job to do.

The story and history behind many of the once-common items make them so interesting and extraordinary today and so appealing to historians and collectors.

Other items in her store are just plain beautiful. Like the large collection of silver-and-turquoise jewelry, decorative leather, beaded clothing and cowboy spurs, Navajo rugs and jewelry, early art and photography and more.

The gallery is located at 255 N. Glenwood St. It is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday through the Fall Arts Festival.

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he Wilcox Gallery is almost overflowing with art. Sculptures adorn the carpet and sit on the desk where Narda and Jim Wilcox conduct the daily operations of their two galleries. They constantly bring in new pieces, and they expect to receive many more for the Fall Arts Festival.

The original Wilcox Gallery sits just north of town, with prime views of the National Elk Refuge. It has long been a Jackson staple for Western, wildlife and landscape art. The second branch of the gallery is downtown and opened in 2005.

The galleries are a family affair: Narda and Jim Wilcox co-own them, and their sons manage them.

Art lovers will have several chances to view artists at work in both Wilcox galleries throughout the week of the Fall Arts Festival, but the official artists reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15.

Light refreshments will be served, and visitors will be able to watch as up to eight artists practice their crafts in the gallery space. The event draws artists who’d like to sell their work and many collectors looking to buy it.

“Each artist has their own style, and it’s fun to meet the artist behind the paintings and the sculpting,” Narda Wilcox said.

She said watching an artist create in person is a huge draw for many collectors.

“They love being able to buy the product that they watched being created,” she said.

The galleries will display work by more than 40 artists, many local or regional and some from as far as the East Coast and Argentina.

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“My Home Away From Home” is by Jim Wilcox, one of the owners of the Wilcox Gallery. He will paint in the QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction on Saturday, Sept. 15, on Town Square.

painter Scott Burdick’s colorful landscapes and portraiture will be on display as well.

Narda Wilcox, a lover of art and the Jackson art scene, is passionate about every artist in the large group the gallery displays.

“We have 40 artists on display because we love all of their work,” she said.

The gallery gave rising star Kyle Ma his start by putting on his first exhibit when he was 16. Ma, known as the

“prodigious prodigy,” nearly sold out his first show at the gallery. Now 18, he recently had another exhibit at the gallery, in which he sold all but seven of 52 paintings.

The Wilcoxes have had the pleasure of participating in many Fall Arts Festivals, both as art gallery owners and as artists. Jim Wilcox and his son Eric are well-known local artists, and their work is on display at the galleries. Jim Wil-

cox will participate in this year’s QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction.

Next year will be Wilcox Gallery’s 50th anniversary.

After all these years Narda Wilcox is still thrilled to be a part of the Jackson art scene and the Fall Arts Festival.

“Jackson is an amazing art market, and the quality of the art here is incredible,” she said. “People come from all over for this little Fall Arts Festival.”

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“I was 14 when I first bought and sold a piece for a profit at an auction,” Winchell said. “I’ve been hooked ever since.”

Not every 14-year-old has that kind of gumption, but Winchell’s eye for antiques has proved to be a valuable skill, one that has propelled a fourdecade career and spawned a business, Fighting Bear Antiques.

The store started in 1978 as a small venue for antiques, but it has grown into a business that also renovates lodge interiors and sells estates.

“I want to do everything,” Winchell said in the store’s description on its website.

Doing everything may be possible, but it keeps Winchell busy. Fighting Bear usually puts on events during the Fall Arts Festival, but an estate he took on this year has occupied most of his time this summer.

That body of work came from an art collector who had over 200 works in his collection, including a Carl Rungius and pieces from several other famous wildlife artists. Winchell has sold some of the collection, but he said some choice pieces will still be available and up in the store during the Fall Arts Festival.

On top of estates, Fighting Bear sells everything from Native American beadwork and baskets to carvings, blankets to Western furniture, including an array of Thomas Molesworth pieces. Winchell has had a long-running relationship with Molesworth’s work, which essentially created the Western design aesthetic.

“Molesworth was the first designer savvy enough to know he could sell the Western mystique and ambience to Easterners for big bucks,” wrote Elizabeth Clair Flood in her book “Cowboy High Style: Thomas Molesworth to the New West.”

Wealthy families and lodges commissioned Molesworth to design interiors and build furniture across the West. His work featured knotted and burled logs, bright colors and leather. Winchell has made Molesworth a central tenet of his business, embarking on trips across the region to procure pieces.

“I’m leaving Monday to go to Montana to buy more Molesworth,” he said in mid-August when reached by the News&Guide.

Even though Fighting Bear won’t have any events during the festival, it will be worth a visit. The Molesworth pieces Winchell picked up in August might be on display, and the store will boast lots of other new items.

“We’ll have a lot of Native American pieces from our own collection that we will put out as well,” he said. “We have a large collection of Native American art. We’re going to thin it down.”

That fact alone might be worth making a stop. A man who has bought and sold antiques for 39 years has probably amassed a lot of good pieces along the way, and will give buyers the chance to purchase some rare ones.

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A special supplement to the Jackson Hole News&Guide

September 5-16, 2018

TOM MANGELSEN / MANGELSEN IMAGES OF NATURE

Award-winning renowned local photographer Tom Mangelsen makes an annual trek to Antarctica to photograph one of his favorite animals, the polar bear, waiting for hours to finally capture the bears in their magic moment. This image is titled “Polar Dance.”

Moving from

values to action Conservation-minded artists aim to provoke emotion, encourage meaningful change.

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BIG DIEHL Sculptures aid elephant fund.

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FREE HUGS Ringholz pairs unlikely species.

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STORMY SKIES Bad weather makes good art.

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GLASS CORAL See Thal, Altwies’ homage to planet.

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Wildlife art museum ready for festival

Western Visions Fundraiser 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 through Sunday, Oct. 7 Jewelry & Artisan Luncheon 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5 Sold out The Artist’s Perspective: Insights Into a Life of Love and Labor 10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 Free Western Visions Artist Party 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 31st Western Visions Show and Sale 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 Single-day tickets $125 for members, $150 for others; Two-day tickets $200 for members, $250 for others National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2820 Rungius Road WildlifeArt.org

By Julie Kukral

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he National Museum of Wildlife Art has grown up with the Fall Arts Festival.

The museum was founded 31 years ago, three years after the festival’s inception. The original museum occupied a small space on Town Square across from where Mountain Trails Gallery lives today.

“The museum has been a cornerstone of the Fall Arts Festival for all 31 of those years,” said Amy Goicoechea, the museum’s director of programs and events.

In its infancy, the museum hosted a “miniatures” show, in which the artists whose work was beginning to be incorporated into the museum’s permanent collection were invited to give the museum a small painting or sculpture to be auctioned off to visitors.

The museum kept a percentage of the sales. The museum’s show follows a similar format today.

Today the miniature auction has grown into the museum’s longest running and biggest fundraiser of the year, Western Visions, which runs from Saturday, Sept. 8, to Sunday, Oct. 7.

The show features over 200 paintings, sculptures and sketches by the world’s finest living wildlife artists working in contemporary and traditional styles.

Adonna Khare, one of two new artists featured in the Western Visions show this year, masterfully uses pencils to depict wildlife in fantastical situations. Khare shows at Visions West Contemporary.

“It’s a very exclusive show,” Goicoechea said.

This year the museum has only two new artists represented in the show, Adonna Khare and Peregrine O’Gormley.

Khare, who is represented by Visions West Contemporary, is a graphite pencil virtuoso. Her large works, sometimes spanning 8-foot-by-11-foot murals, take months, sometimes even a year, to complete. She places masterfully drawn animals in fantastical situations, bringing a storybook quality to the world of fine arts.

O’Gormley is a contemporary wildlife sculptor who works primarily with driftwood. His work has been exhibited in the Brookgreen Gardens, Bain-

bridge Island Museum of Art, Smith and Vallee Gallery in Edison, Washington, and Gerald Peters in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

For the show artists were asked to submit two pieces — one finished piece, and one that is considered a sketch. Many of the artists also show in galleries in Jackson or already have works in the museum’s permanent collection.

The museum holds a series of public and invitation-only events to benefit and celebrate the fundraiser throughout the festival.

The first event of the week is the sold-out Jewelry and Artisan Luncheon, which will take place at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 5. (See sidebar.)

The first public event is the the annual Palates and Palettes event on Friday, Sept. 7, which previews the fundraiser. The event is held throughout town, as restaurants partner with neighboring galleries for an evening of art, tastes and libations.

“We hold ours from 3 to 5 so that locals and visitors can come see the Western Visions show and sale and still get into town and enjoy Palates and Palettes there,” Goicoechea said.

The next week the museum will host a free, but limited, artist talk with Dustin Van Wechel, Amy Elizabeth Lay, Andrew Denman and September Vhay from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept 13.

That evening all featured artists and patrons are invited to an Artist Party from 6 to 9 p.m.

The party will give patrons the opportunity to view the collection, bid and mingle with the artists before the big sale the following evening. Attire is “festive Western.”

The show concludes with a Western cocktail party from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept 14. It will be the last opportunity for patrons to bid before the museum’s draw to determine who will take each piece of artwork home. Each piece is at a fixed price, and bidders are randomly drawn.

The event is invitation only. To be considered, visit WildlifeArt.org/western-visions for more information.

The museum closes the festival with a bloody mary-infused brunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. Here, any unsold pieces will be on display and available for sale through Sunday, Oct. 7.

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Heather Jansch’s miniature sculptures of elephants inspired Mariam Diehl to have all of Diehl Gallery’s summer programming benefit the Elephant Crisis Fund. The Elephant Crisis Fund is a joint initiative of Save the Elephants and the Wildlife Conservation Network, in partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. It has zero overhead, meaning 100 percent of donations to the fund goes directly to saving elephants.

Sculptures speak to loss of largest land mammal When Jansch holds her elephants, she feels the weight of the species. Or, rather, the weight of loss of the species.

“At one time there were apparently over 300 species of elephants. Now only two remain, and their survival lies in our hands,” she said. “So I shall keep on making and drawing as long as I am able.”

Her elephants inspired Diehl’s commitment to the Elephant Crisis Fund this summer.

“These elephants and a conversation about them with one of our collectors resulted in our entire summer exhibition program benefitting the Elephant CriBy Julie Kukral sis Fund,” gallery owner Mariam Diehl said.

Diehl Gallery will also host a Western Visions ll summer Diehl Gallery has invited collectors Celebration Salon from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, to donate 5 percent of their purchases to the Elephant Crisis Fund. The artist who inspired Sept. 16. The show will feature the work of Diehl the partnership, Heather Jansch, will present her Gallery artists who were invited to the National first solo U.S. exhibition at Diehl during the Fall Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Show and Sale.

Arts Festival.

This year the artists include Claire Brewster, The British sculptor is best known for her large-scale driftwood and bronze sculptures of Helen Durant, Susan Goldsmith, Kollabs and Jenhorses, one of which will be on display at the Marie Zeleznak. Another Diehl artist, Les Thomas, will show during the salon. contemporary gallery during Thomas was invited to the the festival. museum show and sale, but But recently Jansch dramati“Their survival lies due to a flood near his studio cally shifted her scale. She rein Toronto was unable to send cently sculpted a family of small in our hands. So I work. bronze elephants in a white-grey All the artists offer a fresh, patina. shall keep on making intriguing Fans of Jansch’s art have take on contempocontacted her for years, asking rary art. and drawing as long for life-size driftwood sculpBrewster, another English tures of elephants. She declined artist, is known for her intricate, as I am able.” the commissions, thinking the delicate paper sculptures of birds pieces would be too big and — Heather Jansch and plants. would deplete her precious Durant, an American who SCULPTOR stock of the material. had her first solo show in Jack“However, I started to see imson, “Untamed Beasts,” earlier ages of elephants almost everywhere, and they began this summer, paints loose, movement-filled depictions to invade my dreams,” she said. “I started to make of wildlife in the American West. idle drawings of them, doodling whilst on the phone Kollabs, a collaboration between Anke Schoand such.” field and Luis Garcia-Nerey, contrasts wildlife Jansch was reminded of her grandmother’s trio of against stark urban backdrops. Their work is colebony elephants. Feeling sentimental, she searched for orful, comical and thought provoking. similar pieces and eventually made her own.

The salon-style show is based off the Paris Salon of “There was something compelling about hold- the late 19th century. Work is presented on easels as ing the largest land mammal in the palm of my well as on the walls.

“Unlike the Paris Salon, we won’t hang numerous hand,” she said. “Before long there was a little works on a wall from top to bottom, with the most herd that continued to grow.”

Heather Jansch’s first U.S. solo show Now through Saturday, Oct. 27 Free Western Visions Celebration Salon Various artists 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 Free Diehl Gallery, 155 W. Broadway DiehlGallery.com

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Claire Brewster makes delicate, intricate paper cutouts of birds and plants from vintage materials. “Are You Going My Way (Great Horned Owl)” was cut out of a vintage map of land classification and density of standing timber in the Bald Mountain Quadrangle.

important works at the bottom and lesser-known artists at the top,” Diehl said. “Hierarchy doesn’t play a role in our salon.”

During the salon, the gallery will serve afternoon bloody marys, mimosas and brunch.

The Elephant Crisis Fund is a joint initiative of Save the Elephants and the Wildlife Conservation Network, in partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. It has no overhead, meaning 100 percent of donations to the fund goes directly to saving elephants.

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Artists find the right fit at Rare Gallery Dan Burgette, Patricia Griffin and Rick Armstrong Artist receptions and talks Various times throughout the festival Rare Gallery, 60 E. Broadway Ave. Free RareGalleryJacksonHole.com

Meet Rare artists Dan Burgette artist demonstration 5-7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8 ‘Arts’ Role in Conservation,’ a presentation

by Rick Armstrong 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 9 ‘One Perfect Image,’ a presentation by Rick Armstrong 3-5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13 Patricia Griffin paints on the deck 3-5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14

By Tom Hallberg

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or the Jackson art community Fall Arts Festival is a culmination, a signal that the summer season is ending. The owners of Rare Gallery see it as a final time for artists, gallery owners and patrons to gather.

“It’s a positive time for bonding; there’s a sense of decompression,” Hollee Armstrong said before last year’s festival.

For Armstrong and her husband, Rick, it’s the chance to highlight their new artists as well as ones they have cultivated relationships with over many years of representation. They see Rare Gallery as “an incubator,” a place for artists who may not usually fit into the Jackson art market. That includes one new artist, David Riley, whose arresting paintings of endangered species are showing in the gallery this summer. Riley and the Armstrongs have teamed up with the International Anti-Poaching Federation to donate 10 percent of the proceeds from the works.

Rare has several events throughout the festival, as well as opportunities to meet artists and see them in action.

Patricia Griffin is an artist the Armstrongs have built a relationship with and have invited to the gallery for previous festivals. Rare has represented her for nine years, and it was apparent immediately when she met Hollee Armstrong that the gallery was a good fit.

“She treated me with such warmth that I knew it was the space I wanted to be in,” Griffin said.

This will be Griffin’s sixth year painting on the deck of Rare Gallery, which overlooks the bustle of Town Square. She will be there from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. She is one of three artists scheduled to either paint or present at the

David Riley and the owners of Rare Gallery teamed up with the International Anti-Poaching Federation to create 10 paintings of endangered species.

gallery during the festival, the others being Dan Burgette and owner Rick Armstrong.

Burgette will grace the gallery with his presence from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. He brings a distinctive sensibility to his carvings and sculptures: solitude. Many artists purport to value solemnity and being alone in creating, but they also usually go home at night.

Burgette, who recently had a work purchased by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, hightails it for the Arctic most summers, traipsing through permafrost and frozen landscapes in search of transcendent additions to his art making. He returns home to create sculptures that employ carved and found wood, bronze, forged metal and rock. Many of his sculptures are of

birds, a fascination of his — and artists through the ages — for a long time.

Though Rare has other events, like the postQuickDraw show and Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk, at which you can rub elbows with renowned artists, a couple of the highlights feature Rick Armstrong, who has melded art with conservation in a way that goes beyond the words of his artist statements into the way he runs his gallery.

“We as artists seek these natural wonders of the world,” he said. “So the environment needs to be pristine, and access needs to be easy. In light of that, conservation is a natural partner.”

From 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Armstrong will present “Arts’ Role in Conservation,” a talk that details how his environmental convictions merge with his artistic predilections. Then from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 13 he will give a talk called “One Perfect Image,” in which he will use his photograph of the total solar eclipse that passed over Jackson last summer to talk about landing incredible shots.

For more on Rare Gallery, visit RareGalleryJacksonHole.com or stop by the Town Square establishment to peruse the artwork. The Armstrongs don’t mind.

“They greet anyone who walks in the door without apprehension and judgment,” Griffin said. “They want everyone to have an enriching experience in their space.”

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Shown together, the animals tell a story Amy Ringholz Artist reception 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 Ringholz Gallery, 140 E. Broadway, Suite 6 Free AmyRingholz.com

By Kelsey Dayton

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he drawing began as a white wolf.

Then Amy Ringholz added a bear, but it seemed a little dark, like one animal was hunting the other. So she added a “sweet fox nuzzling in,” she said. “And it changed the whole feel of the piece.”

The drawing, “Can’t Stay Mad at a Fox,” also inspired Ringhholz’s latest series of work showcasing animals that don’t typically belong together. She’ll display 10 new works in an exhibit called “Hugs” during the Fall Arts Festival.

“I think the week is extremely busy, and having an extra event where you might not be on top of too many other events, allows people to come in and really see the work,” Ringholz said. “The Palates [and Palettes] Walk is so crazy it’s hard to really see the art.”

And people will want to spend time with drawings and paintings in the show, which Ringholz calls “fun and sweet.” The new work blends realism with a dreamlike quality, creating scenes that wouldn’t normally occur naturally.

Ringholz planned to use the “Hugs” theme as an abstract guide as she created work for the show.

It is part of her ongoing efforts to push her work in a more contempo-

Amy Ringholz designed “Out of the Blue,” a 48-by-60 inch graphite and acrylic on panel. “These works allow me to make my own scenarios and create my own stories, whether nature agrees with me or not,” she said. “Maybe the animals are all friends deep in the middle of the night, when no one is around.”

rary direction.

“I am continually on a path to create more modern animals,” she said. “I’m reaching out to abstrac-

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“Modern Family,” a 36-by-48-inch piece done in graphite and wood stain on panel is one of Amy Ringholz’s new works. “The great part about being an artist is getting to exercise your imagination,” Ringholz said.

“It was a fun way to explore families and the different ways they are Continued from 6F made up,” she said. “It’s about how families come in all shapes and sizes there is more. and varieties of people.”

People often immediately fall for The show is just one way Ringone of the characters in the work, holz is participating in the Fall Arts she said. That’s what draws them in Festival. She has several appearancto the story. Then they explore each es lined up. personality in the piece.

First on the list, Ringholz is part“It’s almost a 2-for-1 or a 3-for-1, nering with Local for the Friday, because there are so many person- Sept. 7, Palates and Palettes Art alities and story Walk. She will lines that make host an artist reup the drawings ception Wednes“There are so many or paintings in day, Sept. 12, at this show,” she personalities and story her studio, and said. will participate Ringholz ap- lines that make up the in the Western proached the Visions Show paintings in the and Sale on drawings or paintings show like famThursday, Sept. ily portraits. A 13 as well as the in this show.” deer, raccoon Quick Draw on and two rabbits — Amy Ringholz Saturday, Sept. are like a modARTIST 15. ern family, she She will also said. It was an have work in the especially poignant subject for her Jackson Hole Art Auction, and her to play with in her work given that gallery will be open during the final she’d recently married and created festival event, the Sunday, Sept. 16, a new blended family.

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TOM MANGELSEN / MANGELSEN IMAGES OF NATURE

Tom Mangelsen has been photographing 399 in Grand Teton National Park for the past 22 years, shown here in “Teton Rush Hour.” Over the years, Mangelsen has seen the proud mama rear three sets of triplets and a pair of twins. Mangelsen recently drew a grizzly hunting tag and has vowed to “shoot ‘em with a camera.”

Moving from

values to action Conservation-minded artists aim to provoke emotion, encourage meaningful change.

By Tom Hallberg

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onservation is ubiquitous in Jackson Hole.

Banners from the Jackson Hole Land Trust greet drivers on Highway 22; fences with elk jumps line the road along the National Elk Refuge; moose cutouts warn drivers of the megafauna on Moose-Wilson Road.

That ubiquity especially extends to the artistic community.

“We as artists seek these natural wonders of the world,” said Rick Armstrong, an artist and owner of Rare Gallery. “The environment needs to be pristine, and access needs to be easy. In light of that, conservation is a natural partner.”

One can walk through just a sampling of Jackson’s galleries to find that the natural world is a constant theme.

From traditional bronzes in the National Museum of Wildlife Art to Deb Fox’s colorful renderings of wildlife in The Grand Fine Art, local galleries embody the intersection of conservation and art.

Instilling value

For visual art the content of a piece

is reflective of its theme. Unlike writing, there are usually no words to provide an explanation or context. The way in which a painting or photo is arranged — what the artist highlights, what the artist leaves out — creates the viewer’s emotional response.

In art that deals with conservation, the desired response is often making the viewer see value in a protected environment.

For Tom Mangelsen, a filmmaker and photographer, it means photographing animals in untrammeled habitats in hopes of portraying their inherent beauty and power.

“Hopefully I bring some awareness and joy and appreciation to people who may not have had the same opportunities as me to spend time in these places,” he said.

Mangelsen’s resume boasts conservation-themed projects across the Western Hemisphere. From the Platte River in Nebraska, where he filmed whooping cranes, to the sub-Arctic, where his photos of polar bears brought prominence to the problems of melting sea ice and shrinking habitat, Mangelsen has dedicated his art to conservation.

Closer to home, he has spent decades following grizzly bears around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, illuminating the daily lives of Jackson Hole’s most famous bruins.

“We had an article written about 399 and her daughter 610,” he said.

“Both had cubs, and that was picked up across the world.”

Grizzlies, perhaps the most recognizable charismatic megafauna in the region, are big news even as far away as Europe.

“Jane Goodall said she saw the article on ‘my bears’ in the Sunday Daily News in London,” Mangelsen said.

“That kind of exposure for 399 and 610 and bears I’ve photographed makes people think about them and see their importance.”

Fox, the colorful painter, agreed.

“Living here, we’re in a vibrant, wild community,” she said. “I want people to see wildlife differently.”

Though the pristine natural world is a powerful theme, humankind’s presence has undeniably altered our world, and some artists choose to frame their works to include powerful natural phenomena and people.

“I’ve been doing this lunar series on the moon,” Armstrong said, “and I’ve been trying to get this interaction with the human world and that little piece of space.”

Armstrong’s photo of the August 2017 solar eclipse epitomizes that effort. The image, which was taken on Town Square, captures the moon passing over the sun, the corona prominent in the upper left of the image, but in the foreground it captures onlookers, their faces mesmerized, and the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar’s sign, its neon lights brighter than the eclipse itself.

The man-made lights almost overshadow the rare solar event, which might pass for a comment on how man’s See ACTION on 9F

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RICK ARMSTRONG / RARE GALLERY

Rick Armstrong’s photo of the total solar eclipse in 2017 is part of a series he’s been working on juxtaposing the moon and the human world. He’ll use the photo as a jumping-off point for his presentation “One Perfect Image,” which is about taking, well, the perfect image.

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needs often supersede those of the environment.

ing the spirit and strength the animals innately have and their fragility from how they’re being treated,” Riley told the News&Guide when the show debuted.

Promoting action

Going hunting

ACTION

Mangelsen is taking a different The millions of visitors to Jackson each year, many of whom live in ur- tack. The photographer teamed ban areas, are exposed to the value of up with other advocates to lobby the environment both on the walls of against the Wyoming Game and art galleries and in the national parks Fish Department’s move to reinand forestlands on which they come state a grizzly bear hunt. He went to to recreate. But simply being exposed Washington, D.C., in an attempt to to that value may not change their convince policymakers to maintain minds or influence them to make con- grizzlies’ Endangered Species List protections, and servation-minded he embarked on decisions. a nationwide A January tour to talk 2016 Washington about bears and “As artists we owe it Post article cited spread awarea curious statistic: to these animals to ness.

Sixty-three perBut those accent of Americans help them survive.” tions weren’t surveyed said enough.

Grizthey were worried — Rick Armstrong zlies were delabout climate OWNER, RARE GALLERY isted, and Game change, but only and Fish set a 47 percent said hunt for this fall. the government So Mangelsen, in should do somean effort to galthing about it. The gap between the vanize people to move past mere people who are concerned and those support for bears into action, enwilling to act is called the “value-action tered the lottery for a tag in the gap” or the “attitude-behavior gap.” hunt, pledging to use only a camera, Narrowing that gap is a goal of not a rifle. conservationists and artists, but it is In an unlikely twist, he received not easy. The emotional response to tag No. 8. a piece of art may not last when a “A mathematician friend told me visitor returns home, so Armstrong I had 0.001 chance of getting drawn. devised a way to allow his clients to It was the same odds as winning a take action. $3 million to $4 million California “We had David Riley and commis- Powerball,” he said. “I was the least sioned him to do 10 endangered spe- likely person that Game and Fish cies pieces,” Armstrong said. “A per- would like to have a tag.” centage of the proceeds went to the If the hunt is still on when ManInternational Anti-Poaching Founda- gelsen’s turn arises (in some areas tion. It was good. We brought in a lot it ends after one female is killed), of money for them.” he’ll spend his 10 days in the field Riley’s work bridges the two sides looking for grizzlies, just like any of the value-action gap, encouraging hunter, but he’ll be armed with only people to dig into their wallets to sup- lenses and a camera.

Maybe the photos Mangelsen port conservation.

“It was a balance between showcas- brings out of the woods will hang

Deb Fox forgoes the typical conventions of wildlife painting, embracing vibrant color in an effort to make the viewer “see wildlife differently.”

on the walls of houses around the country. Maybe Fox’s paintings will cause people to recognize animals as individuals and take a second look.

And maybe Armstrong’s juxtapositions of the human and natural worlds will cause people to remember that we share this world with a

host of animals whose fates could be determined by our actions.

“A lot of people are calling this the sixth extinction. It makes conservation extremely important,” Armstrong said. “As artists we owe it to these animals to help them survive.”

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Mangelsen takes shots for conservation Tom Mangelsen Artist reception 5-9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8 Mangelsen Images of Nature Gallery, 170 N. Cache St. Free Mangelsen.com/jackson

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om Mangelsen’s phone is ringing off the hook these days.

The world-renowned wildlife photographer and activist is on a campaign to save one of his frequent subjects, a grizzly known as 399. His quest to save the bruin and others like her comes in the wake of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s decision to recommence trophy hunting for bears after 44 years of protection on the Endangered Species list.

After recently being one from thousands to make the short list for the coveted licenses, his “Shoot’em With A Camera — Not A Gun” campaign has garnered national attention, as reporters from all over the country are calling to find out his plans for his time in the field.

Mangelsen doesn’t mince words when it comes to his disdain of trophy hunting, which extends far beyond his background in the Tetons.

Once an avid hunter who spent his childhood bird hunting with his dad on the North Platte River in his home state of Nebraska, he has no objection to those who hunt to put food on the table. He just doesn’t like to see animals killed for sport or egregious profits.

Having spent the past couple decades traveling the world, including annual trips to Africa to photograph

TOM MANGELSEN / COURTESY PHOTO

“Ruler of the Pride,” showcases a scene from one of Tom Mangelsen’s annual trips to Africa. The globe-trotting photographer spends nearly half of the year on the road documenting wildlife in their natural habitat.

rhinos, elephants soft-spoken and other wildlife, 72-year-old he’s seen firstphotographer a “You just have hand the damage bit up in arms, to watch and wait poaching has had especially when on wildlife. Unforit comes to for that decisive tunately, it’s be399, who he come a lucrative has watched for moment when they more than 20 business, with a single rhino horn Like a reveal themselves.” years. selling for upward proud father he of $1 million, talks about the — Tom Mangelsen many litters of Mangelsen said.

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER cubs she’s had “It’s a status symbol in some and the joy he cultures,” he said, explaining that feels every spring when she emerges the horns are ground into powder out of hibernation. and sold as designer medicines.

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It’s clear these are more than just animals to the world-famous photographer, who strives to find their unique personalities beyond just getting a good shot, often spending hours in the field watching them with pleasure. It’s not work for Mangelsen, who is modest about his success, despite his numerous awards and television and media appearances and the popularity of his prints.

It’s about the love for and curiosity of his subjects that is evident in his images, from the wisened, protective eyes of 399 as she watches her cubs cross the road or the playful dancing of two polar bears as they dust up snow and almost seem to be smiling.

Mangelsen doesn’t just take photos of animals, he humanizes them with his lens.

“They have emotional lives and different personalities just like humans,” he said. “You just have to watch and wait for that decisive moment when they reveal themselves.”

This might be a particular gesture or the highlight of an eye, or as in the case of one of his most famous photos, “Catch of the Day,” which is often hailed as “the most famous wildlife photograph in the world.”

The photo of a fish, suspended millimeters from a bear’s open mouth, is about suspense, Mangelsen said. It’s not clear from the photo whether the bruin caught the fish.

That sort of mystery delights him.

“It tells a story, and you’re left to wonder whether the fish got away,” he said.

When he’s out in the field he watches for the story to unfold. It’s about patience and curiosity, Mangelsen said. He attributes his success to that ability to wait.

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Seeking beauty in nature’s extremes Henry H. Holdsworth Palates and Palettes artist reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Wild By Nature Gallery, 95 W. Deloney Ave. Free WildByNatureShop.com

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hotographer Henry H. Holdsworth tends to look for the worst. At least when it comes to weather.

“Some of the photographs are of storms, playing off of the moodiness of the weather,” he said of his latest photography, a series that showcases classic landscapes of the region but in a different light.

“I typically like to go out during a storm or just after when the weather is at its worst,” he said.

His dark and stormy work can be found inside his gallery, Wild By Nature Gallery, the photographer’s home base.

While clouds and storms haven’t always been his focus, the outdoors have always caught his attention: He studied biology and environmental studies as a college student. He also picked up a camera in college and moved West after graduation to pursue the newfound passion full time.

Wishing to upgrade his mountains from New England to taller peaks, the wild landscape of Wyoming seemed like a natural fit for the budding lensman. Holdsworth first landed in Yellowstone, where he worked for a summer, then made his way down to Jackson, where he’s resided for 35 years.

In his early career Holdsworth balanced work as a biologist and photographer, capturing images of wildlife that he would sell to magazines like Jackson Hole Magazine or Wyoming Wildlife. Over time his work caught the eye of larger publications, like National Geographic, National Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation.

But while the Tetons are a typical backdrop for his work, the photographer also seeks out animals and landscapes far away from his Wyoming home.

“I like to go to wild places, especially those with lots of wildlife,” he said, citing Alaska, Can-

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Photographer Henry H. Holdsworth says a little bad weather is a good thing for an image, as seen in “Stormy Monday.”

ada and Africa as spots he has worked.

And while he’s a photographer who’s documented everything from grizzlies to gorillas, he’s still working on a long bucket list of animals he wants to photograph and destinations he wants to capture.

Penguins and Antarctica being two.

“I tend to like the extreme places,” Holdsworth said with a laugh.

And extreme scale.

While Holdsworth’s images have graced the glossy pages of local and national magazines, he admitted he’d felt the impact of some of his work was limited when reproduced at a smaller scale.

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To really capture the terrain he found much larger images were needed.

As a result he started showing more of his work in his hometown, varying the theme. Sometimes the pieces focus on a specific animal — for example, a few years ago he focused an entire show on a mammal well known to the area: moose.

His current show dabbles in light play, homing in on the drama sparked by the region’s weather. He also includes wildlife in the collection — wolves, bison and swans, to name a few — and has introduced a new medium for printing. For the first time in his career his work will be printed and displayed on metal.

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Colors and curves go with nature’s flow Laurie Thal and Dan Altwies Studio open houses 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8 Thal Glass Studio, 3800 Linn Drive, Wilson Free ThalGlass.com

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eeting an artist in his or her studio is like watching wildlife in its natural habitat: an intimate and informative experience.

Fall Arts Festivalgoers: Here’s your chance to do just that.

Glassblower Laurie Thal and her partner, sandblaster and glass fabricator Dan Altwies, will host visitors for two days of studio open houses on Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8.

An open studio “gives people a much better opportunity to see the whole range and scope of our work,” said Thal, noting the fragile nature of their art.

While Thal does create smaller, gift and decor items, such as perfume bottles, vases and stemmed drink glasses, much of the glasswork the pair is pursuing lends to pieces not easily displayed in a booth on Town Square.

“We’re going to spend a good portion of this year creating new wall pieces and free-standing fused glass sculptures,” Thal said.

One of their newest works, titled Cascade Canyon, consists of two 3-foot-by-20-inch glass panels fused and placed in a wave pattern.

“We’d like to work more in architectural glass,” Thal said. “Room dividers, chandeliers, sconces — that’s an exciting direction for us to be taking.”

ly larger pieces.

Altwies and Thal generally conceive of an idea together, then Thal will draw or paint a design based on their idea.

“I do all the fabricating, which is the cutting and the technical part of putting the glass together,” Altwies said. “It’s really similar to what I used to do with stained glass, except there’s no soldering or lead involved. There’s a lot more range in terms of what you can do as far as shaping the glass.”

Thal and Altwies are known around the valley for their signature bowls, marked by intricate design and shades of color created by Altwies in the sandblasting process. He also painstakingly carves edges to create glass pieces as organic as the natural elements that inspire them.

“It makes sense that our work reflects this beautiful valley and the place,” Thal said.

The pair found a new source of environmental inspiration while crewing on a six-week sailing trip from Fiji to Vanuatu in 2017.

“We explored so many small islands and were heartsick at the devastation of the coral reefs,” Thal said. That experience led to the creation of a pair of bowls — one vibrant, one “in crisis.” The design and color schemes of the latter echo the coral Thal and Altwies observed.

They were among 120 artists from around the country — and only five in glass — who were invited to participate in the Smithsonian Craft Show last April.

“It was a great honor,” Thal said.

“We loved being in Washington, D.C., but it’s even more fulfilling to have people come and visit us in our own studio and have one-on-one time.”

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1 ADAM FOSTER FINE JEWELRY A study in contrasts; past and present, traditional and contemporary, delicate and bold. Each piece is visually arresting and modern, with design as the focus, believing that jewelry would reflect the wearer, with individuality being of utmost importance. Exclusively at Tayloe Piggott Gallery.

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Owner Cheryl Frey provides a local opportunity to purchase mid century designer pieces and more. 245 W Pearl. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm. www.alleymodernandmore.com

3 ALTAMIRA FINE ART Western Contemporary Art featuring R. Tom Gilleon, Theodor Waddell & more. Expertise in estate collections, auctions & other curatorial concerns. 172 Center Street.

307.739.4700. www.altamiraart.com

American Rockies and its diverse wildlife has been Gary’s mission for almost 30 years. www.graycranestudios.com, 35 W. Broadway, 307.733.2735

13 JACKSON HOLE GALLERY ASSOCIATION Dedicated to supporting the artistic and cultural heritage of the greater Jackson Hole area. The local galleries proudly present a broad range of work from ‘old masters’ to well known contemporary artists. www.jacksonholegalleries.com

14 JACKSON HOLE JEWELRY CO Specializing in bespoke GIA engagement rings, fancy colored diamonds, and custom designs inspired by the unique lifestyle of Jackson Hole. Visit our showroom and see why discerning jewelry collectors celebrate with us.

60 E Broadway, on the Town Square. 307-201-1722. www.jacksonholejewelry.com

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Native JH offers a wide selection of traditional and contemporary Native American Jewelry, sculptural jewelry, fine bronzes, acrylics, watercolor, oil, and wood. Whether you are looking for a local landscape or a unique heirloom piece of jewelry, we are delighted to help. 10 W. Broadway.

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Ringholz Studios exclusively features the contemporary work of local artist Amy Ringholz. Original wildlife oil paintings, oil pastel landscapes, watercolors, ink drawings and phone cases are available for purchase. Located across from Persephone Bakery at 140E. Broadway, Suite 6. 307-734-3964. www.ringholzstudios.com.

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Specializing in contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, limited edition prints, hang-blow glass and unique designer jewelry. Our staff has the knowledge and expertise to help facilitate the intricacies of buying contemporary art. 62 S. Glenwood St. 307-733-0555. www.tayloepiggotgallery.com.

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On the Town Square, a spectacular collection of award winning and museum-held artists.

Featuring traditional and contemporary works, Astoria’s reputation for quality make the gallery a highlight of the JH art scene. 35 E. Deloney Ave. 307-733-4016. www.astoriafineart.com

Featuring over 60 platinum/palladium, silver gelatin and bromoil prints, the Brookover Gallery is steeped in tradition and is recognized by fine art collectors around the world as the definitive, must see photography gallery in Jackson Hole. 125 N. Cache St. (307) 732-3988. www.brookovergallery.com.

The Nation’s premier collection of fine wildlife art.

Featuring a Children’s Gallery, Museum Shop and Palate Restaurant. 307.733.5771 2.5 miles north of town. www.WildlifeArt.org.

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Wyoming’s finest jewelry experience since 1976! This extraordinary gallery features wearable works of art from contemporary expressions an precious metals & unique gems, pearls and elk ivory, and distinctive wedding sets. 125 N Cache, in Gaslight Alley. 307-733-2259. www.danshelley.com

10 DIEHL GALLERY Dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary art. We specialize in world-class contemporary painting and bronze sculpture. Services include collection development and curation. 155 W. Broadway.

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11 GALLERY WILD Gallery Wild, the newest fine art gallery in Jackson Hole, features art inspired by wildlife, wild open spaces and the conservation efforts needed to protect wildness for future generations. Gallery Wild artists produce work inspired by actual subjects, roaming the wild and making all of our lives richer. 40 S. Glenwood. 307.690.2077. www.gallerywild.com

12 GRAY CRANE STUDIOS Gray Crane Gallery exclusively showcases the wildlife and scenic photography of renowned regional photographer, Gary Crandall. Capturing the essence of the North

25 TURNER FINE ART (Formerly Trio Fine Art) Passion for great art and our mission to bring visitors in direct exchange with artists remains the same. We share worldclass art that engages visitors, in an appreciation of beauty and the natural world. 545 N. Cache. 307-734-4444.

Two Grey Hills has featured the highest quality hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind works of American Indian Art. Specializing in exceptional and award-winning Navajo Rugs and Pueblo Pottery, we also carrie a beautiful selection of contemporary and traditional Native American fine jewelry. 110 E. Broadway 307-733-2677. www.fineindianart.com

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Scott L. Christensen’s oil paintings capture landscapes from the California coast to the English countryside and are found exclusively at Christensen Studio. The unique gallery experience includes an opportunity to view the artist’s studio and working space. All visits by appointment. 1100 E 5000 South, Victor, ID. 208-787-5851. www.christensenstudio.com

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Trailside Galleries represents the finest painters and sculptors and regularly featured a impressive collection of Western, impressionist, landscape, still-life and wildlife art. The gallery is also home to the annual Jackson Hole Art Auction held in September. 130 East Broadway, Mon-Sun 10-6pm, 307-733-3186. www.trailsidegalleries.com

VISIONS WEST CONTEMPORARY 15 KISMET FINE RUGS Jackson’s largest rug showroom and only locally owned and operated gallery since 1990, with over 12,000 rugs in inventory. 150 East Broadway. 307.739.8984. www.kismetrugs.com

16 LAURIE THAL Featuring fine, hand-blown glass that reflects the stunningly beautiful environment of Jackson Hole. Every piece is one of a kind and has unique qualities, layering multiple hues to create captivating pool of light and depth. 307690-2491. thallaurie@gmail.com. www.Thalglass.com

17 LEGACY GALLERY Specializing in fine quality original oils, watercolors and bronze sculptures. Featuring impressionistic and traditional Western works as well as wildlife and landscapes by prominent contemporary and past masters. 75 N. Cache St, on the NW side of the Town Square. 307-733-2353

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OF NATURE GALLERY Representing exclusively the work of acclaimed wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen. Dedicated to the preservation of Nature and the respect of wildlife, Mangelsen has traveled the world to bring back unwise portraits of wildlife and sceneries. 170 N. Cache st. 307733-9752. www.mangelsen.com

19 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Mountain Trails Gallery leads the west as a premiere fine art gallery. The gallery features a diverse mix of representational, impressionistic and contemporary paintings in addition to a variety of sculpture, furniture and Native American artifacts. 155 Center Street, Jackson. 307-7348150. www.mtntrails.net.

Visions West Contemporary is a dynamic art gallery with a passion for nature, animals, environmental issues, and the West. The Stable provides an rotating and fresh platform for art in Jackson Hole. 130 S Jackson Street.

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Both galleries have an impressive collection of fine art reflecting the rich heritage of the American West. Find western, wildlife and landscape art by over 100 regional and local artists. Both galleries found in the famous Wort Hotel downtown. 307-734-2888. www.westliveson.com.

29 WILCOX GALLERY & WILCOX II Featuring original paintings, prints, sculpture, fine-crafted wood, jewelry and pottery by nationally renowned artists. Explore Wilcox II at 110 Center St or Wilcox Original on Hwy 89, two miles north of Town Square. Mon-Sat 10-6pm. www.wilcoxgallery.com.

30 WILD BY NATURE GALLERY Fine art photography featuring local wildlife and landscape photographs by Henry H. Holdsworth. Nationally recognized for his work with publications such as National Geographic. Located 1 block west of the Town Square.

307- 733-8877. (888) 494-5329. 95 West Deloney. www.wildbynaturegallery. com.

31 WORKSHOP hand. made. things. Offering unique and contemporary gifts including jewelry and accessories, ceramics and tabletop, children’s clothing and toys. Featuring Jill Zeidler Ceramics, Justine Moody, Coral & Tusk, Susan Fleming Jewelry, and more.

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Photographer chases moody landscapes David Brookover Palates and Palettes artist reception 5-8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7 Brookover Gallery, 125 N. Cache St. Free BrookoverGallery.com

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ne might think the life of a photographer is spent entirely behind the lens, but for gallery owner and photographer David Brookover it’s not always that exciting.

“Summers I’m pretty much tethered to the gallery,” he said.

It could be worse. Brookover Gallery is right near Town Square, but the spacious interior, with islands built in the middle to display framed photographs, is insulated from the bustle of downtown. Walking through it feels like stepping back in time.

Brookover is a connoisseur of antique photography methods. He shoots with an 8-by-10-inch camera, the type one can imagine Ansel Adams lugging into Yosemite National Park.

Many photographers, for better or for worse, shoot fast and loose, taking hundreds of shots in hopes of having a few worth looking at in Photoshop.

But Brookover eschews technological advancements. Working with a select group of printers, he uses silver gelatin, photogravure and platinum palladium methods to develop his photos, often devoting dozens of hours to one image.

The photos are stunning, from sharp panoramas of the Tetons to “The Inseparable,” a sepia-toned image of a goat and horse staring out the window of a barn that could have been taken a century ago. Many that are hung in the gallery are his classics, ones collectors want, but several are new this year, taken during the times he can escape

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David Brookover can take drab days in Jackson Hole and turn them into moody scenes in which the contrast between valley, mountains and sky becomes more apparent the longer you view it. This is “A Valley Where Eagles Soar.”

the gallery and hit the road with his camera.

“I love the offseasons,” he said. “Because you really want to be in the field, and that’s when I can get away.”

On a trip to Carmel, California, Brookover, a fan of dramatic clouds to give his pieces contrast and depth, found himself at the mercy of the elements.

“We went to Point Reyes, and we got an Airbnb for six days, and the weather was like this the whole time,” he said, swinging his arm toward the cloudless blue sky. “I couldn’t buy a cloud, and blue sky, what I am going to do with that?”

His strikeout led him north to Cape Disappointment, a spit of land on the Washington coastline near the mouth of the Columbia River. The result was “7:18 and Mocha’s Hungry,” a shot of a narrow cove bordered by craggy, treed hills with luminous, wispy cirrus clouds above. The name is an homage to Mocha, his dog and road trip partner, who spends her days lounging in the gallery, inviting those who stop in to pet her.

Another trip took him on a drive across the South, where he took photos of archetypal Southern oak trees laden

with moss and fog. He visited the Muscle Shoals music studio, too, immersing himself in the culture and beauty of the region while rolling his odometer over.

“I had a brand new pickup truck, 60 miles on it,” he said. “When I got home it had 11,000 miles.”

That’s a lot of time to take pictures, so Brookover has lots to share this Fall Arts Festival. He will host a party during Palates and Palettes, with food from Amangani, then he and Mocha will be at the gallery for the rest of the festival, Brookover ready to give folks the tour, Mocha ready for some belly rubs.

“Within a month I was going on long, long walks. The follow-up and the phone calls were great. I felt like I knew what was going on throughout the process.”

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