Fall Arts Festival 2023

THE 2023 JACKSON HOLE

FESTIVAL FALL ARTS

A note from the editor

The 39th Annual Fall Arts Festival attracts visitors from across the countr y, invites artists out of their studios and fills the streets of Jackson with the wilds of material culture. From contemporary to still life to photographs of ranch life, the many mediums and events of Fall Arts remind us that beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder, it’s all around us.

With so much to take in — fashion shows, auctions, demonstrations, pairings and of course, QuickDraw — the festival schedule often feels like a relay race. Nearly every gallery in town has a special event or featured artist with a new show.

This year we focus on the evolution of the art scene in the Tetons: The Art Association’s 60th anniversary, the growth of auxiliar y art communities in Teton

Valley, Idaho, and Star Valley and the widening reach of Jackson Hole’s niche art market that’s no longer filled only with art depicting wildlife and pastoral scenes but also features bold renderings and many mediums.

Let this year’s special section be your guide to the Fall Arts Festival. Be in the know, discover something new or meet up with your favorite artist. Running Sept. 6 through Sept. 17, art walks, popups and auctions bring together visitors, residents and art buyers to revel in the wonder of the Western landscape and where it meets the canvas. The Tetons may be known for unmatched recreation, but this annual ode to art and design reminds all of us that the mountains inspire creativity as much as they drive endurance.

— Tibby Plasse

PUBLISHER

Adam Meyer

EDITOR

Johanna Love

MANAGING EDITOR

Rebecca Huntington

Section EDITOR

Tibby Plasse

Photographers

Bradly J. Boner, Kathryn Ziesig, Morgan Timms

EDITORIAL DESIGN

Andy Edwards

WRITERS

Michael Carmody, Mark Baker, Jeannette Boner, Sophia Boyd-Fliegel, Lauren Fox, Deb Gruver, Kate Hull, Charlotte Flood Kane, Britney Magleby, Lacey McNeff, Kelsey Persyn, Tibby Plasse, Kate Ready

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Sarah Wilson

ADVERTISING DESIGN

Lydia Redzich, Luis Ortiz, Chelsea Robinson

ADVERTISING SALES Managers

Karen Brennan, Tom Hall, Megan LaTorre, Tatum Mentzer

DIGITAL CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Tatum Mentzer

Customer Service: Lucia Perez, Rodolfo Perez

CIRCULATION MANAGER: Jayann Carlisle

CIRCULATION: Oscar Garcia-Perez, Rulinda Roice

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Balancing realism with abstraction

By Michael Carmody

Though Jackson Hole is a long way from the quaint fisherman’s village of Egmond aan Zee in the northern Netherlands, the distinctive and striking wildlife artwork of Ewoud de Groot is at home in both.

The Dutch painter returns to the Jackson valley once again, this time as the 2023 Fall Arts Festival featured artist, for a series of events at Astoria Fine Art.

According to Greg Fulton, managing partner at Astoria, it was only a matter of time before de Groot was so honored.

“My first discovery of his work was probably about 15 years ago,” Fulton said. “I saw one of his paintings at another gallery in Santa Fe, and I loved it. I actually bought it — and I don’t usually go out and buy paintings from other galleries, being that I’m in the art business, and I work directly with the artists. But I just thought he was such a fantastic painter that I bought this painting for myself for my own collection.”

A graduate of Minerva Academy of Art, de Groot cut his teeth illustrating nature books before devoting his eff orts full time to fine art painting in 1999. His idiosyncratic style, balancing sharp animal subjects in the f oreground against abstracted settings — often peppered with his signature colored dots — quickly got people’s attention, and it didn’t take long before his work began influencing other ar tists. Though this particular blending of traditional and contemporary styles has now become more commonplace in the wildlife art world, de Groot was doing it more than 20 years ago.

“What’s interesting is that this trend is fully developed now,” Fulton said, “but when it first started, Ewoud was right at the forefront of it, of bringing good wildlife art but with a much more modern and contemporary approach.

“And now, how many painters have started to use his dot method? And it all started with him — not that he wasn’t influenced by other artists, of course. But the contemporary wildlife world that has developed, he played a big role in that.”

The quality of being groundbreaking yet still approachable gives de Groot’s paintings a wider potential fan base than adherents to either purely traditional or modernist styles. Fulton said the artist has a nice contemporary edge to his work.

“You see wonderful realism in the animals but very contemporary backgrounds. And it’s just such a unique st yle. People will see his work and immediately identify it as a de Groot painting. He truly has his own technique in the way that he’s kind of br idged contemporary and traditional

wildlife into one painting.”

That’s part of why the artist is so popular, Fulton said, pointing to the fact that de Groot’s work is in the collection at the National Museum of W ildlife Art.

“It isn’t just contemporary; he’s really a good painter in that tradition of knowing how to execute in oil paint at such a polished level. There’s a lot of guys out there that are all about these fresh ideas and bold colors and everything but probably are not going to find their way into a museum.”

Fulton added, “Because you have to not only have the creativity but also the skill set. And that’s where he’s stood out — he’s just phenomenal. Like a Picasso, where if you wanted him to paint a realistic portrait of you he could, but that’s just not what he wants to be.”

Though Fulton recognized the mastery and innovation in de Groot’s style r ight away, it took some time before their paths crossed in person.

“A couple of years after I first saw his work,” Fulton said, “he was at the National Museum of Wildlife Art for their annual September show. I introduced myself, and he’s just a wonderful man. I told him I had bought one of his paintings, and I’d love to have

his work in the gallery, and we’ve been working together ever since. I’ve represented him now for the last 13 years. And he’s been one of my best-selling artists since the day we started carrying his work.”

The long working relationship between Astoria and de Groot has given Fulton a privileged view of the artist’s rise to prominence.

“To see him be the featured artist at the National Museum of Wildlife Art,” said Fulton, “that was his first really major accolade in the United States. And at that point in time they had only had two European artists ever. It’s been great seeing him become so much more popular coast to coast. He’s got galleries on the East Coast and the West Coast and in between, and he’s very well-known throughout the country. I kind of knew that, e ventually, they were going to choose him to be the featured artist for the Fall Arts Festival. And so obviously I was just thrilled when 2023 became the year.”

Astoria has in the past hosted de Groot’s shows earlier in the season, but with the spotlight on the painter this year it seemed only right to hold his first solo show in four years during the festival, with eight new paintings.

This year’s Fall Arts Festival poster is a reproduction of de Groot’s oil painting “Twilight Elk,” a depiction of a quiet moment in a wooded stream, rendered in a panoply of blues. Those who purchase a copy can have it signed by the artist at Astoria Fine Art on Wednesday, Sept. 13.

“The Chamber of Commerce produces these really beautiful posters with the painting, kind of commemorative posters,” Fulton said. “People c an buy those posters through the chamber, and from 1 to 4 p.m. they can bring them into the gallery and the artist will sign and personalize the posters.”

Additionally, de Groot will be on hand at Astoria on Friday, Sept. 15, for an “Afternoon with the Artist” reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Other Astoria events during the Fall Arts Festival include an open house with Joshua Tobey and other Astoria artists from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday the 14th, an artist open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday the 15th, and the QuickDraw reception from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday the 16th, which will see the sale of the de Groot pieces featured during the festival.

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Meet Ewoud de Groot Poster signing at Astoria Fine Art

Realism and contemporary aesthetics prevail in Fall Arts Festival featured artist’s work.

Fall Arts Festival featured artist Ewoud de Groot has a unique style, as seen here in “Flight of Egrets,” a 43-by-43-inch oil.

Intrigue Discovery Beauty

A celebration of passion and artistry.

SEPTEMBER 5 – 17

Solo exhibitions by Mary Roberson

Travis Walker

Geoffrey Gersten

SEPTEMBER 8

5-8pm / Palettes & Palates

Artist Receptions Roberson & Walker

SEPTEMBER 13

5-8pm / Artist Reception Gersten

SEPTEMBER 15 & 16

1-4pm / Artist Demos in the gallery

172 Center Street | Jackson Hole, Wyoming 307-739-4700

See all artists at AltamiraArt.com

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Details of Passage by Mary Roberson, Spring in Jackson by Travis Walker, and Polaris by Geoffrey Gersten

Baubles meet bubbles at pairing party

Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts

5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6

The Wort’s Silver Dollar Showroom

50 N. Glenwood St.

$50

WortHotel.com

Arts Festival” syrah and 7Stories’ Grati2ude, a 2019 Bordeaux blend.

“We’re definitely featuring late summer flavors and lighter-tasting wines for the event,” Caruso said. Her bottle picks will range from hints of tobacco and cherry to melon and citrus.

By Tibby Plasse

Indulge from the start in Fall Arts’ 12 days of Western art with a flute and a fancy.

Before downtown Jackson is flooded with jewelers, designers, collectors and furniture makers, be sure to grab one of the limited tickets for the indulgent pre-party and multiartisan trunk show at The Wort Hotel.

The jewelry and wine pairing was au courant in its inaugural year in 2022. The Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts event replaced the jewelry luncheon at the National Museum of Wildlife Ar t that used to signify the start of Fall Arts.

Allison Merritt of the Western Design Conference and Andi Caruso, sommelier for The Wort, returned as the collaborating team curating an evening that raises the question: Does opal go better with a pinot noir or sauvignon blanc?

Among the releases The Wort is showcasing will be local winemakers, Jackson Hole Winery’s “Fall

The pairing party is also expanding this year not just in its wine flight but in its gemstone tour as well, increasing the number of artisans in the showroom to nine vendors.

At each station, guests will be able to speak with designers, mingle with the sommeliers and purchase the perfect bauble or chunky chain.

This year’s jewelry designers hail from across the nation, with artists traveling from Missouri, New York, California, Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming.

Theresa Wangia of Beltshazzar Jewels, Christine Glenn, Cornelia Goldsmith, Jill Duzan Jewelry, Mirta Tummino Studio, Pat Flynn, Stephanie Zier Jewelry and James Ciaravella join the wine event with their show-stopping bolo ties, belt buckles, pendants and gold cuff bracelets.

Only 40 tickets will be available for this year’s boutique and bejeweled affair. Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts at The Wort tickets c an be purchased through Eventbrite on the Wort’s and Jackson Hole Chamber’s websites. Contact Tibby Plasse at tplasse@jhnewsandguide.com.

Brownfield shines limelight on women

Shari

ing to the National Endowment for the Arts (2019).

By Lauren Fox

When Shari Brownfield first moved to Jackson, the contemporary art scene seemed not to have a place in the valley. Western and wildlife art dominated the art world.

Brownfield, the private art advisor and appraiser of Shari Brownfield Fine Art, has a background in contemporary art from her BFA study in painting and art history.

“I’ve been seeing for over a decade a number of other [Jackson] galleries that are switching their focus to contemporary Western rather than historic Western,” Brownfield said.

Sitting in her lightfilled house in Jackson, Brownfield spoke about the variety of mediums and artists that make up the collection of work on her walls, many of which will be featured in the Fall Arts exhibition “No Man’s Land.”

While Brownfield has participated in Fall Arts for years prior, this year is unique for her, as she is featuring all female artists. Her gallery will be showcasing 45 artworks by 22 women from the 1950s to now.

“I’ve been aware of the underrepresentation and the undervaluation of women artists for many years, and it took me some time, but I was finally able to start collecting female artists myself,” Brownfield said.

Brownfield explained that, historically, female artists would produce art as counterparts to their male contemporaries, but today 85% of museum exhibitions feature solely male artists, accord-

“I started to take notice five, six years ago myself and have started to either collect some of these artists or place them in client collections,” Brownfield said. “Whether it’s the ‘Me Too’ movement or other social justice movements, we’ve been seeing just this enormous growth in this marketplace for female artists.”

In this year’s Fall Arts exhibit, Brownfield focuses on this female-driven theme rather than a specific medium or concept. “No Man’s Land” will run through Sept. 20.

Brownfield questions how art differs when it is done by a male or a female artist, especially when the art is portraying female relationships or bodies.

“ Do you think a mother and child painting or a nude, say from the 1800s or from 1980, whatever it is, might be painted differently from a man’s perspective?” Brownfield asked. “No Man’s L and” will challenge this idea by celebrating the work of female ar tists.

The exhibit will be organized in clusters of differing time periods and styles while exploring concepts such as different interpretations of nature.

“We use the [gallery] space not just as a place to showcase art we like but also to tell stories or show different ways that artists manipulate their mediums or, in this case, artists who are overlooked,” Brownfield said.

Exhibit visitors will be able to see the work of artists spanning the globe, such as the famed Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, as well as artists local to Jackson, including painter Pamela Gibson.

“It is so diverse,” Brownfield said of the exhibit. “There will be something that speaks to everyone who enters the room.”

Contact Lauren Fox via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

COURTESY PHOTO

The Wort’s Andi Caruso and Jesi Gelber are part of the team for the Wine Down Wednesday and Wind Up for Fall Arts event.

Informed by the incandescent Western landscape, Pamela Gibson’s abstract encaustic paintings come into being at the intersection of vision and the passage of time. Layers of molten beeswax, vibrant pigment and found objects are fused together by fire to reveal captured moments, as seen in “Lost and Found.” Her work will be part of the “No Man’s Land” show at Shari Brownfield Fine Art.

“There will be something that speaks to everyone who enters the room.”

Shari Brownfield

ART ADVISOR AND APPRAISER

Contemporary creations weave in Western heritage on the runway

Western Design Conference

Exhibit + Sale

Thursday, Sept. 7, to Sunday, Sept. 10 Snow King Center, 100 E. Snow King Ave. Preview party and fashion show at 6 p.m. Sept. 7 Exhibit and sale Sept. 8 to 10 WesternDesignConference.com

By Deb Gruver

New York native Jeff Parness was thumbing through Mountain Living and Western Art & Architecture magazines when he came across advertisements for the Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale.

“I was always blown away by these advertisements,” said Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You, a CNN Hero and a former venture capitalist. “I followed a lot of the different artisans already. I was first drawn to the individual people, and then I realized they went to the show.”

A woodworker himself, Parness was particularly smitten with Steve Henneford’s furniture.

Parness flew to Jackson for his first conference and made fast friends with Allison Merritt, executive director of the conference, which is in its 31st year and will be held Sept. 7 to 10.

Henneford, who lives in Montana, has exhibited his work at the conference for about a dozen years.

“It’s a fun show, first off,” Henneford said when asked why he makes a point to

return to the conference. “Allison does a great job of just making it a special event. She has hors d’oeuvres and cocktails every day, which is different than a lot of art shows. It’s very heavy on the woodwork-

ing side, which is unusual for an art show.” He also keeps coming back, he said, because “it’s fun to see what other people are doing and what’s possible in woodworking. There are so many styles

and techniques.”

How often does he change things up?

“The bad thing is I’m too busy to come up with new stuff, and the good thing is

The Sadie bag by Beargrass Leather is handmade in Montana by husband-and-wife team Samantha and Ben Dankert. It’s featured here beside their favorite river

COURTESY PHOTO

Brandy Tuttle models on the runway during the fashion show at a past Western Design Conference. Tuttle’s father, Sonny, was an award-winning artist who featured Native American pieces annually. Brandy Tuttle and her daughter, Malia, model annually.

WESTERN DESIGN

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I’m too busy to come up with new stuff,” he said, laughing.

On the other side of the show spectrum is Rhiannon Griego. A weaver, she’ll exhibit her wearable art and pillows for the first time at the conference.

“It’s excitedly my first year,” she said.

Griego, who lives in New Mexico, is a self-taught artist, first diving into beadwork and jewelry. She’s been weaving for 10 and a half years. She also makes fine art textiles and home decor items such as lumbar and meditation pillows. She’ll be bringing garments and pillows to the show.

“It’s very ancestrally rooted for me,” said Griego, who is Spanish and Tohono O’odham. “It’s deeply rooted to my connection to the land.”

Mirages and landscapes lead her work.

“It’s the loom that informs me,” she said, explaining how she chooses colors and patterns.

“I allow the loom to guide me. I have a communion with the land that provides an abstract visual for my work.”

Vogue Knitting magazine has featured her art on its cover, which is how she thinks she got the attention of the conference’s organizers — that and her Instagram account.

“I believe they’ve been following me for

a few years,” she said. “With the expansion of my garments, Allison and I started chatting a bit more. We made that connection.”

Griego has never shown in Wyoming or visited Jackson.

She aims to bring 25 to 30 wearables and 10 to 15 pillows.

The show has “deep historical significance” and serves as a bridge between the public and the artists who exhibit, Merritt said.

Parness and a model at the show bonded when a friend of the model bought a cowboy hat that Parness had coveted.

“It had the most amazing red hatband,” he said.

He collects hats and boots, displaying them in his Manhattan apartment and at a farm he and his wife own outside Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“It’s that fusion that the show embodies,” Merritt said.

“Artists and designers across the country are inspired by the rugged landscapes, rich cultural heritage, and frontier spirit of the American West, resulting in a diverse range of contemporary creations that pay homage to the past while embracing the present,” Merritt wrote in a welcome packet for attendees of this year’s show.

Contact Deb Gruver via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

New to the Western Design Conference this year is SR Woodworking, from Utah. Armchair No. 2 with footrest was designed to balance the line of midcentury modern and contemporary furniture. Solid walnut is matched with black deertan cowhide leather and mortise and tenon joinery.

Stephanie Zier of Zier Jewelry returns to the Western Design Conference with her unpredictable and elegant lines of jewelry. This head-turning cuff was inspired by leather cowboy cuffs and hand forged in her Wyoming studio.

LIVE SALE SEPTEMBER 16 • 12:30PM MDT

PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 15, 10AM–8PM • SEPTEMBER 16, 9AM–4PM CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 265 SOUTH CACHE

TO VIEW THE 2023 AUCTION & REGISTER TO BID OR ATTEND VISIT JACKSONHOLEARTAUCTION.COM

For additional information and to purchase a catalog please contact: Auction Coordinator, Amy James coordinator@jacksonholeartauction.com 866-549-9278 www.jacksonholeartauction.com

LOT 197: JOHN CLYMER (1907–1989) Last of the Buffalo (Buffalo Killers), $175,000 – $275,000

LOT 203: BOB KUHN (1920–2007) Stairway to the Stars, 2003, $100,000 – $150,000

LOT 130: TUCKER SMITH (1940– ) Desert Muley, 2000, $35,000 – $55,000

LOT 65: MARTIN GRELLE (1954– ) Heart of a Lion, 2008, $20,000 – $30,000

LOT 205: BOB KUHN (1920–2007) A Universe of Smells, $120,000 – $200,000

LOT 107: ROBERT PUMMILL (1936– ) Wyoming Ranch Station, 1989, $15,000 – $25,000

LOT 95: CHARLIE DYE (1906–1972) Top Hand, $50,000 – $75,000

LOT 218: RICHARD LORENZ (1858–1915) Indian Chief, $30,000 – $50,000

LOT 104: TUCKER SMITH (1940– ) Drift Fence, 2007, $70,000 – $100,000

LOT 122: EDGAR ALWIN PAYNE (1883–1947) Packers, $40,000 – $60,000

LOT 217: BRUCE K. LAWES (1962– ) On the Move, 2023, $25,000 – $45,000

LIVE SALE SEPTEMBER 16 • 12:30PM MDT

PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 15, 10AM–8PM • SEPTEMBER 16, 9AM–4PM

CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 265 SOUTH CACHE

TO VIEW THE 2023 AUCTION & REGISTER TO BID OR ATTEND VISIT JACKSONHOLEARTAUCTION.COM

For additional information and to purchase a catalog please contact: Auction Coordinator, Amy James coordinator@jacksonholeartauction.com 866-549-9278 www.jacksonholeartauction.com

LOT 116: HOWARD TERPNING (1927– ) Status Symbols, 1982, $200,000 – $500,000

LOT 102: CONRAD SCHWIERING (1916–1986) Cuttin’ ‘Em In, $15,000 – $25,000

LOT 214: ROBERT BATEMAN (1930– ) Above the Rapids–Gulls and Grizzly, 2005, $50,000 – $75,000

LOT 267: J. BRADLEY GREENWOOD (1961– ) Sagamore Entry Table, $20,000 – $30,000

LOT 139: LANFORD MONROE (1950–2000) Processional, $25,000 – $45,000

LOT 161: BILL ANTON (1957– ) Emerald Oasis, $15,000 – $25,000

LOT 118: HAROLD VON SCHMIDT (1893–1982) Return of the War Party, 1925, $15,000 – $25,000

LOT 137: CARL BRENDERS (1937– ) Lookout Tower, Timberwolves, 2009, $60,000 – $90,000

LOT 160: BO BARTLETT (1955– ) Deer, 1993, $80,000 – $120,000

LOT 128: CARL RUNGIUS (1869–1959) Caribou, $500,000 – $700,000

LOT 189: HOWARD TERPNING (1927– ) Blackfeet Regalia, 1992, $100,000 – $200,000

Toast the art and taste the town at P&P

Palates and Palettes

5 -7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8

Various galleries

Free JacksonHoleChamber.com/events/ annual-events-festivals/fall-arts-festival

By Charlotte Flood Kane

Kick-starting the biggest season of the year for valley art galleries, Palates and Palettes celebrates its 20th-anniversary food pairing and art walk during the 2023 Fall Arts Festival.

The free gallery walk invites all to peruse fine art around the Town Square while enjoying complimentary appetizers and drinks. There are 17 galleries to see, each with its own edible offering.

“Friday is really the kickoff and is when a lot of people come into town,” said Navarre Heard, Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce special events coordinator. “They check in, and then they hit Palates and Palettes for their first night out on the town and have a great time and get excited for the week.”

The night will feature new partnerships and old favorites.

West Lives On Gallery will be partnering with The Wort Hotel for the 20th time. The traditional gallery will have a dynamic buffet of dinner snacks, and the contemporary gallery is set for desserts.

“That night it’s just a lot of people, and we just try and take care of them,” gallery owner Terry Ray said.

Diehl Gallery is continuing to offer bites from the Mexican restaurant Hatch. The night coincides with a reception and gallery opening for Heather Zusman. The show will benefit the Animal Adoption Center.

Zusman creates abstracted wall-mounted wood sculptures. Chad Repinski of Diehl said, “It’s basically strips of veneer that are arranged to make a flowing organic relief. Essentially it’s a wall piece, but it’s not flat at all; it definitely sticks out.”

Altamira Fine Art and Heather James Fine Art

have joined forces with Teton Tiger for some Asianinspired drinks and small bites.

On the night of Palates and Palettes, Altamira plans to host a reception for Mary Roberson, a contemporary wildlife artist based in Idaho. Her painting “The Mystic Forest” is part of the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection.

Altamira owner Jason Williams said Roberson will attend to meet and mingle.

“She’s a cool character,” he said, “well known and fun to hang around with.”

Medicine Bird Gallery will be serving food in conjunction with Blue Collar Restaurant Group, which manages Bubba’s, Liberty Burger, The Blue Lion and others.

Although the gallery was open during the event last year, it was not paired with any restaurant.

“It’s been a challenge to find people to partner with

because restaurants have been so busy,” General Manager Wyatt Bradford said.

This will be Astoria Fine Art’s 18th year of Palates and Palettes, and the gallery will be continuing the fun-filled tradition of root beer floats.

Managing partner Greg Fulton has two kids of his own and hoped to turn Palates and Palettes into a more family-friendly affair.

“We wanted to make it more of a party atmosphere and have people with kids to bring them along,” Fulton said. “It’s been a hit ever since.”

Astoria expects to serve 600 root beer floats throughout the evening.

A walking map and list of participating galleries will be available at the Chamber of Commerce, in participating galleries and online.

Contact Charlotte Flood Kane via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

KATHRYN ZIESIG / NEWS&GUIDE

Gallery walkers enjoy food and drink from Gather while exploring Gallery Wild during the 2022 Palates and Palettes. This year galleries will once again partner with restaurants, chefs and caterers for the popular event.

JH Art Auction showcases fresh finds

Jackson Hole Art Auction

Friday, Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., free preview

Saturday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m.noon free preview; live auction at 12:30 p.m. Center for the Arts, 240 S. Glenwood St. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com

866-549-9278

By Michael Carmody

Amarquee event for 17 years, the Jac kson Hole Art Auction’s live auction will bring 250 pieces across the platform at the Center for the Arts on Sept. 16, and amid the trove are some works up for sale for the first time.

Kevin Doyle, the auction’s managing director, is especially keen on Carl Rungius’ “Caribou,” which has been in the same famil y’s hands since it was painted 90-plus years ago.

“It’s never been seen before in public,” said Doyle, “so it’s a really nice highlight. It’s not dated, but we talked to the wildlife museum and we’re guesstimating that it was painted anywhere from 1925 to 1930.”

A German immigrant, Rungius was the first career wildlife artist in North America, and his work as both a commercial illustrator and, later, fine artist was vastly in-

fluential in spreading the concept of natural conservation to average Americans at the time President Theodore Roosevelt was establishing the U.S. Forest Service and many national parks, national monuments and game preserves.

Doyle also points to four works by Conrad Schwiering in this year’s catalog as a point of interest.

“Last year we set the auction records for Schwiering with ‘Coming Home,’ which sold for $98,000,” Doyle said.

“And that was part of Cliff Hansen’s estate, the former senator and governor of Wyoming. So we are pleased to have some this year that are really fresh to the market,” he said.

Doyle said the artworks

have been with the owner since the 1970s and are pictures of cattle ranchers in front of a Teton backdrop.

“And we have another one from another collector, called ‘Winter Haven.’ It’s two moose in front of Mount Moran, in the snow, and it’s really nice. We’re delighted to get that in,” he said.

In addition to North Amer-

ican wildlife there will be numerous pieces depicting animals from Africa as well.

“As far as African wildlife, we had a lot in the auction last year,” said Doyle. “This year we have sculptures by Jonathan Kenworthy, including a really nice hyena and cub piece called ‘Mother and Child.’ That’s a really, really great piece. It’s pretty rare. There are only a very small edition of bronzes.”

There is also an original work by Frederic Remington.

“It was part of a series of illustrations he did for a magazine,” Doyle said. “It’s pretty great to look at in person. It’s done oil en grisaille, which basically means it’s gray tones. He painted it that way so it would translate into a printed publication.”

Doyle would like to remind the public that anyone, anywhere, is eligible to participate in the auction.

“We’re very excited to welcome people into the gallery at the auction. Registration is free and open to the public. Anybody with an ID can register to get a paddle and bid. They can also bid online, which is what many of our clients are doing these days, and we do have telephone bidding as well, and we also take absentee bids.”

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Conrad Schwiering’s “Cuttin’ ’Em In,” an oil on board measuring 30 inches by 40 inches, will be up for sale at this year’s live Jackson Hole Art Auction. Last year Schwiering’s “Coming Home” broke auction records, fetching $98,000.

A look back at six decades with the Art Association, featuring artwork by Katy Ann Fox, Connor Liljestrom, Amy Ringholz, Kathryn Mapes Turner, Tom Woodhouse, and Anika Youcha. Learn more at artassociation.org

Fighting Bear plans ‘last hurrah’ for fest

Thus, Winchell supplemented his college tuition. What began as a focused taste for antique cars quickly expanded into other artifacts worth preserving.

By Kate Ready

Will it be the last Fall Arts Festival for Fighting Bear Antiques? “It might be,” said owner Terry Winchell, 73.

After 42 years in business, Winchell and his wife, Claudia, Fighting Bear’s co-owner, are ready to downsize.

“It’s not closing really, it’s shrinking,” Winchell said. “It’s an important thing that ... you quit when you’re on the top.”

Fighting Bear is known for highquality Western collectibles, from furniture to rugs to copper-plate photography, as well as pottery, baskets, mocc asins and beadwork crafted by Native American tribes such as the Sioux, Southern Cherokee and Crow.

For photography lovers, Fighting Bear counts Harrison R. Crandall’s vintage prints among its collection. Crandall was Grand Teton National Park’s first official photographer.

For Fall Arts this year Winchell is planning a “last hurrah.”

“One thing that I really want to do is try and include some nonprofits in what we do as far as liquidating part of our inventory,” Winchell said. “I’m a big person on giving back to the community.”

The husband-wife duo will be featuring their antiques in a charitable sale that benefits the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum this fall during the Fall Arts Festival at their 375 S. Cache St. location, the week after Old Bill’s Fun Run.

With the popularity of the TV show “Yellowstone,” Winchell has seen a resurgence of interest in Western wares.

Turquoise jewelry is having a moment, Winchell said, along with “cowboy collectibles.”

His fire for the once-forgotten began when he was 14.

“All through college I collected antiques. I was a Culligan man,” Winchell said, of the water treatment company. “And so I would get into people’s houses and I would say, ‘Oh, you want to get r id of that junk in your basement?’”

Since 1981, Winchell has fostered a loyal business of repeat customers, not to mention working with national auction houses like Sotheby’s. He has scoured estate sales and private collections. He has also written two books, one on the furniture of Thomas Molesworth, a famed rustic furniture craftsman from Wyoming and another on living with Native American art.

“When we first opened our store in Jackson there were like eight other antique stores,” Winchell said. “Now we’re the last one left.”

Winchell chalks up the waning competition to the cost of operating a business and living here. Plus, postCOVID it’s been harder to retain staff.

“We were able to do it because we owned our own space,” Winchell said. “We did it gradually over a number of years, and I’m just one of those people that’s too dumb to quit.”

But the heavy winter and sparser foot traffic in the store led Winchell to take stock. Still working 60-hour weeks in his eighth decade, he’s ready to simplify.

Looking forward, Fighting Bear Antiques may be whittling down its wares and migrating to a warehouse on South Highway 89 near the Maverick gas station. Winchell said the warehouse would feature “more refined inventory.”

“ We want to focus more on the things that we do best. A lot of it is just getting rid of accumulation.”

In the era of chasing cheap factorymade reproductions, nostalgia still sells. But Winchell’s ready to pass along his success to Jackson nonprofits to ensure they don’t become relics.

He hopes to donate half of the proceeds from 50 to 60 photographs to the Historical Society and Museum; possibly other nonprofits, too, “if they’re willing.”

“Over the years we’ve been in business we’ve probably given a million dollars to local nonprofits, which I doubt many businesses in town have ever come close to that,” Winchell said.

“That’s kind of how I’d like to be remembered. Really, it’s not about me, it’s about our community.”

Grand Teton National Park’s first official photographer, Harrison R. Crandall (1887-1970), took countless shots of the park. This is “Mirrored Granite Peaks, Image No. 1095.” Crandall photos are part of Fighting Bear Antiques’ collection.

At the speed of art, QuickDraw attracts artists and awe

QuickDraw

Saturday, Sept. 16

On the Town Square

8 a.m.: Artists begin

9:30 a.m.: Artists finish

10 a.m.: Auction begins

1 p.m.: Auction finishes

JacksonHoleChamber.com/ events/annual-events-festivals/ fall-arts-festival/quickdraw

By Kate Hull

Aficionados and collectors from across the globe attend the Fall Arts Festival to explore, seek out a masterpiece and meet favorite artists. And while the downtown galleries are bustling with chance meetings and unique shows, one event allows patrons to see artists up close and in action. The catch? The artists in the annual QuickDraw have only 90 minutes to complete their work.

John Morgan, the director of events and communications at the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, called the occasion one of the most highly anticipated live art events in the nation.

“ This exhilarating event showcases the talent of 30 nationally and internationally renowned artists as they complete their artwork in front of the live audience on the historic Jackson Hole Town Square,” he said. “Many of our most popular participants will return to the QuickDraw this year, along with a great crop of artists that are new to the event.”

Participants include celebrated Jackson Hole artist Amy Ringholz of Ringholz Studios; renowned painter Kathryn Mapes Turner, the owner and principal artist of Turner Fine Art; and Fall Arts Festival featured artist Ewoud de Groot, represented by Astoria Fine Art.

“Unlike traditional art auctions, the QuickDraw is an immersive event that offers spectators the opportunity to observe the artists as they create their work,” Morgan said. The 30 artists represent the best in wildlife, Western and landscape art.

“The location, elements and environment all influence the art, as artists absorb the excitement of the audience and are urged on by the limited time to finish their work,” Morgan said.

The QuickDraw auction takes place immediately following the last brushstroke. Excited patrons will then bid on a painting or sculpture they may be lucky enough to take home.

The event is not just a special one for those watching the art unfold. Some, like Turner, say the event allows them to share a piece of the magic of making art with those watching.

“It gives me 90 more minutes to do what I love,” she said. “I also do it because I realize over the years how magical it is for the guests to watch artwork get created right before their very eyes. There is a magic to the creation of art, and it is a time when us artists can share that magic. To me it is a bit of service.”

Morgan echoes Turner.

QuickDraw roster

Here’s a list of the artists participating in the 2023 QuickDraw on the Town Square and the Jackson Hole galleries that represent them.

Geoffrey Gersten of Altamira Fine Art

Travis Walker of Altamira Fine Art

Mary Roberson of Altamira Fine Art

Katy Ann Fox of Art Association

Fred Kingwill of Art Association

Andrew Denman of Astoria Fine Art

Ewoud de Groot of Astoria Fine Art

Patricia A. Griffin of Gallery Wild

Amber Blazina of Gallery Wild

Caleb Meyer of Gallery Wild

Aaron Hazel of Gallery Wild

Gleb Goloubetski of Horizon Fine Art

David Mensing of Horizon Fine Art

Troy Collins of Mountain Trails

Bryce Pettit of Mountain Trails

Lyn St. Clair of Mountain Trails

Colt Idol of Mountain Trails

Renso Tamse of Mountain Trails

Deborah E. Fox of NativeJH

Quent Cordair of Quent Cordair Fine Art

Amy Ringholz of Ringholz Stuidos

Mike Piggott of Tayloe Piggott Gallery

Kathryn Mapes Turner of Turner Fine Art

Nancy Cawdrey of West Lives On Gallery

Laurie Lee of West Lives On Gallery

Mark Keathley of West Lives On Gallery

Trey McCarley of West Lives On Gallery

Julie Jeppsen of Wilcox Gallery

Allie Zeyer of Wilcox Gallery

Tom Mansanarez of Wilcox Gallery

Jim Wilcox of Wilcox Gallery

“Autumn in Jackson Hole is a special time with colorful foliage, abundant wild life and exhilarating mountain air,” he said. “The opportunity to host this event outdoors on our Town Square in the crisp morning air is a delight for the artists, buyers and spectators alike. There is nothing quite like the excitement of this live auction.”

A highlight of the event is a chance to take home the featured art of the Fall Arts Festival. De Groot’s artwork, the image on the Fall Arts Festival poster, will be up for auction. A Dutch wildlife painter living in Egmond aan Zee, Holland, De Groot is known for combining stunning realistic wildlife images with a modern, more abstract background, creating work that is distinctively his style.

“Ewoud de Groot has captured the mystical essence of the autumn rut with this year’s featured piece, ‘Twilight Elk,’” Morgan said. “De Groot is recognized for his brilliant colors, compositions and contemporary approach to wild life.”

Visitors can preview the painting at The Cloudveil hotel on Center Street through Sept. 15.

The 90-minute QuickDraw is free to spectators. Art buyers and spectators looking to reserve a spot at the auction should visit the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce website to buy tickets. Each ticket, costing $75, includes one bidder paddle and up to two seats in the auction tent.

Contact Kate Hull via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Geoffrey Gersten’s painting comes together during the 2022 QuickDraw. He was one of 30 artists who participated. This year the event is set for Sept. 16.

Chris Navarro’s sculpture takes shape during the QuickDraw last year. Finished sculptures are bronzed after being purchased at the live auction immediately following the QuickDraw.

Real perspective runs a little abstract

Tayloe Piggott Gallery

Kathryn Lynch and Wolf Kahn solo shows: through Sunday, Sept. 17. 62 S. Glenwood St. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday 307-733-0555

TayloePiggottGallery.com

By Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Teenagers, and those familiar with them now, know the noble intentions of the popular app BeReal. A backlash to “toxic” curation of social media predecessors, the app encourages its mostly very young users to share photos randomly. W hether you’re eating, shopping or crying, the goal is to c apture a moment in the raw. To the outsider this may seem strange, even invasive, but over 100 million downloads since 2020 show the app is striking an ancient issue: the rarity of realness.

Artists have toiled over the concept for millennia. What does a real feeling look like? How can you share realness with others?

Two painters this summer and fall — Kathryn Lynch and Wolf Kahn — offer answers to those questions in two solo exhibitions at Tayloe Piggott Gallery.

“I am not painting a specific place; I’m painting a specific mood and feeling about a place,” New York-based painter Kathryn Lynch said.

“ Here Comes the Sun and other Situations” is Lynch’s

solo exhibition running through Sunday, Sept. 17 at Tayloe Piggott Gallery.

Gravitating to natural subjects, Lynch squeezes out the essence of a thing and skips the rest. This evokes, as she puts it, the “poetry of a place, rather than the place.”

A memory evoked by a house in the distance or the close-up petals of a flower you’ve never seen elicits in-

tense attachment.

German-born American Wolf Kahn strikes such phenomena in landscapes saturated with bright, surprising colors.

W hile the art world’s fever in the 20th century focused on abstraction in unrecognizable forms, Kahn brought that same energ y to his landscapes. In one paining, red trees push orange into a green sky. You

may not recognize these trees, but you know them.

Gallery Associate Director Katie Franklin Cohn regards Kahn, who died in March 2020 at 92, as a “total maverick.” Kahn’s solo show will also r un through Sept. 17.

“He wanted to bring nature alive in a way that nobody else had,” Franklin Cohn said.

Social media is no art show, but since camera phones have

made us all into creators, we might as well strive for a little more realness.

So get out there and notice the feelings brought up by the far-away house, the red trees and the green sky. And take your teens. They get it.

Contact Sophia Boyd-Fliegel at county@jhnewsandguide or 307-732-7063.

Wild By Nature presents two-man exhibit

Wild By Nature Gallery

95 W. Deloney Ave

307-733-8877

Open seven days a week, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. WildByNatureShop.com

By Lauren Fox

Staring into the eyes of a bear leading her pack of cubs, a viewer feels a sense of voyeurism at the shar p and powerful images taken by Henry Holdsworth. A photographer at the intersection of animal and environmental biology, Holdsworth has owned the Wild By Nature photography gallery in Jackson for 28 years.

Holdsworth has participated in the Fall Arts Festival in past years, but this one is different, as his assistant, Travis West, will have some of his work featured in a joint exhibition. This will be West’s first major show.

“Part of this year’s theme will be featuring Travis; I want to reward him for sticking around for all this time,” Holdsworth said of his employee of 15 years. West will be including some of his local landscape and wildlife images in the Fall Arts show.

“This is a really wonderful opportunity that I am really proud to be part of,” West said.

Holdsworth’s featured work during the show will be primarily black and white, high-contrast, and high-key type images printed on metal.

He explained that this print on metal framing will allow the images to “have a real dynamic look to them.”

West works at the Wild By Nature gallery while Holdsworth is holding workshops around the globe or in the

field taking photos.

“I met Henry in Seattle when he was asking for employees, and a month later he called me asking if I wanted the job; I moved out here instantly,” West said. West went to photography school at Colorado Mountain College during the days of film and later earned a second degree in photography at Northwest Community College, where he learned

more about digital images.

Holdsworth’s featured images in the show will be a mix of work from the past year as well as a few “oldies but goodies.”

“It is such a dynamic and inspiring place here in the Tetons that really brings a lot of artists together,” Holdsworth said, “It is nice to have a lot of different things showcased in town that week to meet new people and see old friends.”

Holdsworth spoke about his shooting process to capture the intimate images of wildlife in the valley, including waking up as ear ly as 3:30 a.m. to shoot at sunrise before coming into the gallery.

“I probably photograph somewhere between 250 and 300 days a year,” Holdsworth said.

He also holds photography workshops both locally and globally and r uns a guiding business that recently took him to Alaska to teach a grizzly bear workshop.

“I usually do a spring, fall and winter workshop around Jackson,” he said.

Holdsworth owns a notecard business and sells the products in his gallery. He has also published multiple photography books of his images, “Portrait of Jackson Hole & the Tetons.”

Contact Lauren Fox via fallart@ jhnewsandguide.com

HENRY HOLDSWORTH

Photographer Henry Holdsworth shoots 250 to 300 days a year, sometimes rising as early as 3:30 p.m. so he can photograph at sunrise before coming into his gallery, Wild by Nature. During the Fall Arts Festival his images will share the spotlight with photographs by his longtime assistant, Travis West.

The late Wolf Kahn’s “Tobacco Valley (aka Tobacco Barns)” — an oil painting from 1983 — hangs at Tayloe Piggott Gallery.

Tigers prowl new Mangelsen collection

Mangelsen Images of Nature

70 N. Cache St.

9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily Mangelsen.com

307-733-9752

By Jeannette Boner

The lens through which Tom Mangelsen views the world remains focused on some of its most vulnerable and powerful creatures.

From India’s tigers to France’s ancient horse herds and back again to his home state of Nebraska and its graceful cranes, this fall Mangelsen is set to unveil the natural worlds that remain hidden in our everyday hustle and bustle.

“I want to go to the places that you can’t get to by road,” Mangelsen said of traveling to the ends of the Earth to capture India’s Bengel tigers and the world’s oldest horse breed, the Camargue of the Rhône delta in southern France. “I want to go there before it’s too late.”

And before it is too late you can find these new images at his gallery, Images of Nature, during the Fall Arts Festival.

Mangelsen is one of the globe’s most prolific and fervent wildlife photographers. His works hang in some of the world’s most famous galleries and collections.

He is also one the world’s foremost conservationists. In 2011 he was named Conservation Photographer of the Year by Nature’s Best Photography, placing his work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

He was named one of the 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers by Outdoor Photography. And his image “Polar Dance” was selected by the International League of Conservation Photographers as one of the 40 most important nature photographs of all time.

Mangelsen does not digitally manipulate his images and is vehemently op-

posed to photographing “animal models” in game farms. Instead he focuses

on three main elements to capture the ideal photograph: patience, light and

animal behavior. Over the years he has mentored many young photographers and was a founding fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

L ocally, Mangelsen is known for his work documenting and advocating for grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone region. In 2015 he published “Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek: An Intimate Portrait of 399,” offering up stunning images with text by Todd Wilkinson. The book has been called “unprecedented” by Jane Goodall.

The gallery will, of course, hold images of Tetons and the magic of the grizzly bear, but those familiar with Mangelsen’s work will find his new pieces featuring the more exotic.

It’s been 25 years since Mangelsen first traveled to India. The product of his return trip is a collection called “Light and Shadows.” It captures the intensity and serenity of the Bengal tiger in the Kanha National Park of Madhya Pradesh, India.

“Although I am enamored by all wild cats — cougars in America, jaguars in South America, and lions, leopards, cheetahs and other smaller cats in Africa, I have to admit, tigers are my favorite,” Mangelsen wrote on his blog on his website. “It’s difficult to describe my feelings for them. Their obvious features are their visceral beauty, and their size, although not that much bigger than a male lion or jaguar.”

Before India, Mangelsen was in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, where climate change is putting hundreds of species more at risk of going over the brink of extinction.

“I have been so very fortunate to witness such incredible animals in the wild,” he said in his online blog. “Africa soothes my soul, inspires me to keep fighting the good fight and brings me infinite joy! We cannot lose what Africa and all wild places give us.”

Contact Jeannette Boner at 307-7325901 or schools@jhnewsandguide.com.

Native JH: Discover treasures of the West

By Kate Hull

Native Jackson Hole is a staple for Western art anchored by its one-of-a-kind jewelry and captivating artwork. For more than 30 years the gallery has represented artists known for iconic jewelry, fine art and lifestyle pieces that celebrate the classic elegance of life in the Tetons, both past and present.

“It is the place where original and exquisite jewelry converge,” said Cristina Calcai, manager of Native JH.

“Immerse yourself in a world of creativity and craftsmanship that will leave you awe-inspired,” she said. “When you step into our gallery you will be greeted by stunning sculptures that evoke emotions. Our gallery is a haven for art enthusiasts seeking something truly extraordinary.”

Visitors can explore Navajo pearls, multistrand turquoise pendants and 14K moonstone rings for a statement piece that’s wearable art and peruse the wildlife and landscape art from exceptional local, regional and national artists known

for capturing the spirit and essence of the West.

During the Fall Arts Festival, Native JH will be pulsating with energy and excitement as it welcomes an artist to the gallery every day.

“Artists will be present in the gallery painting and sculpting, offering a new experience each day,” Calcai said.

Expect notables like Western, equestrian and wildlife sculptor Jack W. Muir; landscape painter Richard Biddinger; Utah native Richard Miles, known for his landscape paintings that honor the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains and their bold surroundings; and Shawndell Oliver, who paints in oils and acrylics.

Oliver is recognized for working in bold colors that explore light, shadows and 3-dimensional textures to encapsulate the emotion of her work.

Native JH is also excited to have local artist Deborah Fox participating in this year’s Quick Draw.

“Fox loves watercolors because their unpredictability excites and encourages her to experiment and express herself,” Calcai said.

During the Fall Arts Festival, Native JH will be celebrating two new artists now represented by the gallery: Craig Magill and Isaiah Johns.

“The sights, fauna and flora are the inspirations for Craig Magill’s paintings,”

Calcai said. “Wildlife is his subject of choice; oil is the medium.”

Magill explains that he is drawn to the contrasts of light and dark in his work. In his artist’s statement he says that his goal is to “breathe life into the subjects so others will see the beauty in them.”

The other new artist, Johns, is a member of the Hopi Tribe. Calling his work honest, representational art, Johns said his goal is to create an image that can capture people’s attention and move them to spend more time with and within the painting.

Content Kate Hull via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

THOMAS D. MANGELSEN

Photographer Tom Mangelsen traveled to India in search of tigers. He is enamored of all wild cats, but tigers are his favorite. This is “Eyes of The Wild — Bengal Tiger, Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.”

Sculptor Jack W. Muir is known for his wildlife, Western and equestrian works, like this piece, Mustang Thunder.

Camera captures rhythms of ranch life

By Tibby Plasse

David Brookover’s gallery has become a touchstone for wildlife photography enthusiasts to find one another and take in the splendor of famous bears like 399 and remote vistas around the region. But this Fall Arts season, Brookover is handing over the reins to his apprentice and letting the animals from the ranch take the spotlight.

Ryane Shields didn’t know who David Brookover was on her first visit to Jackson Hole in 2021, and coincidently she wasn’t sure at the time how to actualize her vision for her own photography.

“I stumbled across David Brookover’s gallery, and I knew right away that this is exactly how I wanted to represent my work,” Shields said from the basement of Brookover Gallery.

Shields fell for Brookover’s “authentic and traditional processes” for reproducing photographs. His techniques include working with platinum palladium, silver gelatin, photogravure and bromoil.

Shields describes a sort of courtship with the gallery. She came to speak with Brookover and his co-workers five to seven times that year, before she worked up the courage to ask the photographer to be her mentor.

Her series is six photographs with limited prints that she has been working on for over two years.

“This show is all based off the Alejos family and my relationship with my own Spanish descent,” Shields said.

“My third grandfather was the biggest cattle rancher in Chihuahua: Don Luis Terrazas. I really feel my roots when I’m horse and cattle ranching with Jose and his family. And being able to find art on the ranch with him has been really, truly phenomenal.”

The amount of time Shields has spent with the 52-year-old globally acclaimed horse trainer in Afton at

the Bronze Buffalo Ranch is obvious when you see the emerging photographer’s images, including smoke rising from around a saddle horn and lightning strikes.

Narrative is a clear driving force for Shields, and the photographer sees the art form as a pure way to provide a different perspective.

“There are different cultures coming together here,” she said. “I tend to have my foot in both, and the Spanish, the Mexicana, do things differently than my Oklahoma cowboy cousins.

“I have a bracelet that Jose makes out of leather that reminds you everything is living. And that’s what I really want: to draw that out in my photography,” she said.

The smoke you see in “Smoke & Reins” is the result

RYANE SHIELDS

of heat generated by the rope wound around the saddle horn as it burns through the wooden horn. It’s a one-ina-million shot.

“I want to see the movement in every image and take a breath in every frame.” Shields said. “It’s not just taking a photo. It’s really thinking about what this is going to look like and the feeling that people are going to get.”

Shields’ show captures the subtle and surprising choreography of ranch life in its entirety, with images of mustangs thundering away, cowboys waiting on deck at the rodeo, the shape of a lasso and the force of a herd being pushed to grazing.

Contact Tibby Plasse at tplasse@jhnewsandguide.com.

Ryane Shields has spent considerable time photographing Jose Alejos, a 13th-generation Guatemalan horseman, and his family as they carry on century-old traditions in Afton.

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FALL ARTS FESTIVAL

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Join the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce in celebrating the 39th Annual Fall Arts Festival featuring world-famous artists, hundreds of collectors and buyers, and over 50 events showcasing fine art, live art, performance art, culinary art and more.

FEATURED EVENTS

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FEATURED ART

Ewoud De Groot is recognized for his brilliant colors, compositions, and contemporary approach to capturing wildlife. The 2023 Fall Arts Festival Featured Artwork will go to auction at the height of the Jackson Hole QuickDraw on September 16th.

A poster signing will be held Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 13TH , 1-4pm at Astoria Fine Arts. Posters are also available for purchase at JacksonHoleChamber.com.

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SEPTEMBER 16

Jackson Hole QuickDraw + Auction

Presented by ARK SGO JH

8 am - 1 pm | Town Square | $75 bidder paddles

For tickets, a complete listing of events, or poster purchase, scan the QR code or visit jacksonholechamber.com.

307.733.3316 + jacksonholechamber.com

SEPTEMBER 6

Wine Down Wednesdays. Wind Up to Fall Arts.

5 pm | The Wort Hotel Showroom | Tickets $50

SEPTEMBER 7

Western Design Conference

Preview Party + Fashion Show

6-10 pm | Snow King Event Center

$100 General Admission | $175 VIP | 5:30 pm entry

SEPTEMBER 8

Palates & Palettes

Presented by Build Magazine

5-7 pm | Participating Galleries | Free

SEPTEMBER 8 - 10

Western Design Conference

10 am - 5 pm | Snow King Event Center | Tickets $30

SEPTEMBER 9 - 17

Western Visions Exhibit Opens

10 am - 5 pm | National Museum of Wildlife Art

SEPTEMBER 10

Arts On The Green

10 am – 6 pm | Center For The Arts Lawn | Tickets $6

SEPTEMBER 13

Featured Artist Poster Signing

1 - 4 pm | Astoria Fine Art | Free Event

SEPTEMBER 14

Western Visions Show + Sale

5 - 9:30 pm | National Museum of Wildlife Art | Tickets $195

SEPTEMBER 15

Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes

10 am - 4 pm | Homesteadmag.com | Tickets $125

SEPTEMBER 15

QuickDraw Artist Reception

5 - 7 pm | Town Square | Tickets $100

SEPTEMBER 16

Jackson Hole Art Auction

10 am | Center For The Arts | Free Event

SEPTEMBER 17

Sunday Art Brunch

11 am – 3 pm | Jackson Galleries | Free Event

QUICKDRAW

The Jackson Hole QuickDraw is one of the most highly anticipated live art events in the nation. Renowned artists create paintings and sculptures in 90 minutes on Jackson’s iconic Town Square, immediately followed by a live, fine art auction unlike anything else.

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Pop goes the mobile art

jewelry, as well as exhibiting local and regional ceramic artists, jewelry makers, painters and woodworkers.

By Lacey McNeff

Yellow House Collective is on the move.

Shana Stegman is taking her mobile Yellow House Collective out and about town. During the Fall Arts Festival, Stegman will continue to promote and sponsor local artists, artistic events and art classes.

In collaboration with local businesses, Yellow House Collective will be popping up around town. The Yellow House Collective pop-ups will provide opportunities for people to see and interact with art in unexpected locations; hopefully expanding the impact and outreach of the Fall Arts Festival.

At the pop-ups Stegman will be showing her watercolor paintings and

There will be “try-it” tables, providing an opportunity for people to try their hand at watercolor painting. The “tryit” tables give participants a glimpse at the wonderful classes Stegman provides through the Yellow House Collective and the Art Association of Jackson Hole.

Throughout the year, Faherty Brand Clothing hosts Yellow House Collective’s pop-ups, highlighting local art and supporting nonprofit organizations. Faherty will be hosting Yellow House Collective’s Fall Arts Festival pop-ups along with Accentuate clothing store, D.O.G. restaurant and Edward Jones.

The Yellow House Collective popups will be fun for all ages. At certain events, food and drinks will be provided. Specific dates, artists and locations can be found on the Yellow House Collective’s website and Instagram @yellowhousecollectivejh.

Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Shana Stegman, seen here with daughter Evvy Wren, is taking her mobile Yellow House Collective out and about during the Fall Arts Festival. In collaboration with local businesses, Yellow House will be popping up at unexpected locations.

Stegman, a watercolor painter and jewelry maker herself, houses the work of other local artists at Yellow House Collective.

Dusk Dinner Club celebrates creativity

Dusk Dinner Club at Ringholz Studios

160A E. Broadway

Wednesday, Sept. 13

$250-$300

307-734-3964

AmyRingholz.com

By Britney Magleby

Despite featuring some of Jackson’s most recognizable artwork by one of town’s most sought-after artists, Ringholz Studios on East Broadway was never meant to be just an art gallery.

When Amy Ringholz opened her gallery in 2014, she also opened a chic new event venue called Dusk. Normally available only for rental by private parties and intimate celebrations, Dusk will open its doors for a public, ticketed event centered around celebration, connection and creativity on Wednesday, Sept. 13, during the Fall Arts Festival.

In its third year the Dusk Dinner Club invites art lovers to a beautifully decorated space to enjoy dinner, drinks and live music inside a world-class art gallery.

“We all need a little joy and happiness infused into our crazy lives,” Gallery Director Ashley Quinn said. It’s an art event. It’s a food event. But most importantly “it’s a fun event” intended to celebrate the community and the season, Quinn said.

The menu, which will feature creations by a local chef, is paired with curated drinks served from a custom-made rolling bar.

“Everything will be unique and locally sourced,” Quinn said. “Partnering with local small businesses is part of Jackson’s culture that Amy wants to hold onto. It’s about locals supporting locals.”

Attendees can expect to walk into a setting that is artistic in every detail and instantly inspires creativity. Quinn said the gallery will be transformed with a tablescape and ambiance carefully designed by Ringholz.

“Amy takes her artistry and brings it into the event,” she said.

The only thing more impressive than the art of food and drink is the art itself.

Stimulating creativity in the space is a major goal of the event. In addition to a talk and a live art presentation by Ringholz, guests should be prepared to indulge in some creativity of their own.

Everyone will “make art with your own hands,” Quinn explained. “We haven’t decided on the exact project yet, but each individual person will have their own art kit” to create something unique.

And typical of the community-focused artist, connectivity is the overall objective of the Dusk Dinner Club. Ringholz is known to champion her local com-

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munity through various events and projects. She is a vocal advocate for encouragement and support within the art community of Jackson Hole. And from her perspective, that is art buyers, residents, visitors and art enthusiasts as well artists.

“At the Dusk Dinner Club you’re most likely going to sit across from a stranger that could become a friend,” Quinn said.

Tickets can be purchased through the gallery. Space is limited to about 30 guests.

Contact Britney Magleby by emailing fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com

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Dusk Dinner Club, an evening of food, drinks and art, will be held in Amy Ringholz’s studio on Sept. 13.

Offering works by Frederic Remington, Martin Grelle, G. Harvey, Howard Terpning, Bonnie Marris, Carl Rungius, Nicholas Coleman, Steve Hanks, Pino, Garmash, Stephen Holland and more great artists!

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Astoria goes big in Masterpiece Series

Gallery events

Wednesday, Sept. 13: Poster signing with Ewoud de Groot, 1-4 p.m.

By Kate Hull

For the summer season and Fall Arts Festival, Astoria Fine Art founder Greg Fulton challenged the artists he represents with a larger-than-life ask: Create a museum-scale and quality piece to debut in the gallery.

Nearly 50 of the gallery’s artists answered the call with an incredible breadth of large-scale work, some of the most remarkable pieces of their careers.

“I didn’t want to dictate anything to the artist,” Fulton said. “I gave them this idea a year ago.”

The fact that Fulton didn’t give any parameters heightened the anticipation.

“Not knowing what they are going to do or exactly at what scale they are going to be is very special,” he said. “Some artists have said, ‘Wow, this is the biggest painting I have ever done in my entire career.’ To show people something they have never seen before is wonderful, and it really is the best of the best.”

Throughout the summer Fulton and Astoria have showcased new artists and their accompanying grand pieces during the

Summer Masterpiece Series.

During the Fall Arts Festival the gallery will host the finale of this jaw-dropping collection of museum-scale works with the last of the unveilings with pieces by Brett James Smith, Laura Robb, Pete Zaluzec, Jill Soukup, Adam Smith, Robert Peters and Jeff Legg.

“The series culminates in the Fall Arts Festival,” Fulton said. “All the unsold pieces will be there. Besides the six that will make their debut and are never before seen.”

Beyond the Masterpiece Series, Fulton has a stacked calen-

dar coinciding with the works of Ewoud de Groot, the featured artist for the 2023 Fall Arts Festival and an Astoria Fine Artrepresented artist.

A Dutch wildlife painter living in Egmond aan Zee, Holland, De Groot is known for wildlife art that he refers to as figurative-style painting that blends the realism of his subjects with a more abstract background. His “Twilight Elk” is the cover art for this year’s poster.

“He bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary,” Fulton said. “His work reads very modern because of his unique

Grey

Thursday, Sept. 14: Joshua Tobey and Astoria Artists Open House 1-4 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 15: Astoria Artists Open House 1-3 p.m. (25-plus artists in attendance).

Friday, Sept. 15: Ewoud de Groot, 3-5 p.m. “An Afternoon with the Featured Artist.” Champagne reception and opening of De Groot show.

Saturday, Sept. 16: QuickDraw reception, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

contemporary background and palette. But he also shows off his talents with the quality of the animal. When people see his work they don’t look at it as wildlife art; they see it as a beautiful work of contemporary that happens to feature an animal.”

Astoria will host “An Afternoon with the Featured Artist” from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 following the Astoria Artists Open House that begins at 1 p.m.

“He is coming to celebrate the fact he is the featured artist and to meet people and debut his new works,” Fulton said.

“You take subject matter that

everyone in Jackson Hole cherishes — lakes, mountains and elk, but with a completely different approach with an international artist — it really puts Jackson Hole in the spotlight.”

The open house will feature more than 25 artists represented by Astoria, alongside new works for the Fall Arts Festival.

“Each are bringing or shipping new pieces,” Fulton said. “During that week the gallery will have a lot of fresh artwork on the walls.”

Astoria Fine Art will also be showcasing the works of contemporary sculptor Joshua Tobey, a former featured artist of the Fall Arts Festival.

Contact Kate Hull via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Ken Carlson, a participant in Astoria Fine Art’s Summer Masterpiece Series, is a renowned wildlife painter with more than 40 pieces at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. His 30-by-48-inch oil painting “Dos Lobos” is a follow-up to his famed “Wolf” for the Masterpiece Series.

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Admission is $6 for adults; free to children under 12

By Jeannette Boner and Kelsey Persyn

Takin’ It to the Streets, for years a Fall Arts Festival attraction on the Town Square, is now Arts on the Green, scheduled to be held on the Center for the Arts’ big open lawn on Sept. 11.

“I love Arts on the Green because it hosts a lot of local artists and it’s a fun community event,” said Jill Vatter, the founder and designer of Fox and Lupine.

“There are always really high-quality artists. It’s super well-organized and pleasurable to walk through and discover so much art.”

The Art Association of Jackson Hole has adapted with the years to accommodate the needs and desires of the regional artists it features during Fall Arts while creating a festive and fun space for patrons, browsers, shoppers and other visitors.

Arts on the Green is a fundraising event for the Art Association, with admission and artist booth fees directly supporting the local nonprofit. That support enables the Art Association to provide adult and youth art programming, art therapy outreach for 30 valley organizations, gallery exhibitions and open studio access.

More than 50 area creatives — from those who have displayed their work on regional, national and global stages to those who are new to the art scene — have been invited via a jury process to participate in the fair and offer work done in a wide variety of mediums.

“As we celebrate our 60th anniversary this year we are able to look back on our six decades of supporting artists and see Arts on the Green as a shining example of our mission in action: supporting artists in their professional endeavors and providing exposure to a wide variety of visual arts to the community,” said Anika Youcha, director of communications for the Art Association.

New this year, the Art Association opened the application process up to artists from states that border Wyoming in hopes of increasing the variety of artwork during the Fall Arts Festival.

“We are proud to encourage a vital, creative community by providing everyone with exposure to, education in and enjoyment of a wide variety of art experiences,” Youcha said.

The fair is also a place where visitors and residents can get a broader feel for what Teton-area artists are creating and selling in shops around town. Pop-up

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years of outreach programs bridge generations past and future.

By Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

In 1963, Teton County’s population hovered around 2,500 and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort had not yet been built. Wendy Morgan and her four sisters were kids in Wilson at the time.

Morgan remembers low property values and nothing to do in winter. Their mother, Georgie Morgan, was like most Wyoming mothers: a bit alternative, especially in education.

Instea d of ski lessons or television, childhood in the Morgan household looked more like rolls of butcher paper, unwaxed and stretched across their ho me to be painted or drawn on at any time.

“She was keeping us busy during long winters,” Wendy Morgan said of her mother. “It was kind of a babysitting time too.”

Her gr andmother was a fan of Rudolf Steiner, Morgan said, the Austrian philosopher who believed children are active agents of their learning, driven by innate curiosity. Steiner founded the experiential learning pedagogy that is now known as Waldorf Education.

That wasn’t the American way of education, with its focus on measuring children against universal standards, passing tests and memorization. And thus the parents of 1960s W ilson banded together to supplement their children’s education with music and art.

Pam McCool arrived on Fish Creek Road in 1949 at age 16 to spend summers with her grandmother. Later in lif e, when she finally moved her family from Connecticut to Wilson, her kids were already in elementary school.

“Wilson was small, but there was nothing, absolutely nothing,” McCool said. “There was a whole building devoted to automobiles.”

There, though, is where McCool met the likeminded Georgie Morgan.

McCool, 90, has long been an artistic force. As she now moves from Victor, Idaho, to an assisted living facility in Idaho Falls, she’s struggling to find a place for hundreds of paintings. Her talent, though, was “incidental” to her interest in bringing art into education. That she attributes to motherhood. It was a group of mothers who gathered informally at first in monthly lunc heons.

“You had to be creative,” said Lisa Morgan, one of Georgie’s daughters and former director of Dancers’ Workshop. “You were problem solvers. You were fix-its. You had to get from here to there while raising kids.”

Morgan and McCool initiated what would later become the Community Visual Art Association, a name first referenced in a 1967 edition of the Jackson Hole Guide announcing the Christmas Bazaar art fair fundraiser.

One of the first outreach programs was a bus filled with activities and art supplies driven to those corners by

Reade Dornan, who now serves on the Teton County school board.

Programs grew from passion projects to part of the school system with gr ants secured from the state and donations from local philanthropists, a list of do nors McCool can still rattle off from memory 60 years later.

Growth meant being flexible as the Art Association battled the rising cost of rent, moving from the former Barlow gift shop to the basement of the A merican Legion Hall — also called “the dungeon” — to the Center for the Arts building, completed in 2006. Despite the usual uphill battle of surviving by donations, Wendy Morgan said growth of the organization felt natural and almost inevitable.

“It was always going to pull through,” she said, “It was too strong a group of people.”

With a plethora of popular classes for children and adults, plus grade-A makers spaces, the Art Association has stayed true to its roots by bringing art and creation out into the world, often to those who otherwise would not be able to come to them, like the nursing homes and residential treatment programs for youth.

“ It’s a bright spot when they are having a hard time,” said Bronwyn Minton, executive director of the Art Association. “It’s bringing a place of calm or relief, a place to be funny and creative.”

People are also able to express what can’t be expressed in other places, processing sadness or anger through a nonverbal language.

As the economy of Teton County grows, alongside income inequality, so too has the need for an organization that distributes opportunities to create.

Those co nnections transcend time, age and access to money, McCool

said, sounding like the Austrian philosopher who inspired her mother.

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Artist Bronwyn Minton serves as executive director of the Art Association of Jackson Hole.

Gunpowder, cereal boxes and brushstrokes

the festival. Hartley’s “luminous and glowing” paintings often start outdoors to capture the natural lights and shadows, infusing her works with the feel of the moment.

By Lacey McNeff

The horizon sees no limits at Horizon Fine Art Galler y, especially during the annual Fall Arts Festival, when the downtown gallery transitions from quiet exhibition walls to a demonstration space with live music showcasing six artists, beginning Friday, Sept. 8.

Chelse Wren, a local artist who uses gunpowder and other mixed media, will discuss and demonstrate some of her explosive processes. One of last year’s Q uickDraw artists, Wren uses yarn, cereal boxes, plants, charcoal and, of course, gunpowder to create her dynamic paintings. Her works of art explore the intricacies of wildlife and landscapes.

Kay Stratman will also work in the live studio. Stratman is a Wyoming watercolor painter creating simple and surprising pieces. Every piece contains subtle and striking details. She says about her work: “Each drip, splash and brushstroke exists to be studied, savored and enjoyed.”

Oil painter Jill Hartley will also be demonstrating her process during the first weekend of

Wyoming artist Gary Keimig will be showcasing his painting process using oil, watercolor and gouache.

Horizon Fine Art Gallery owner Barbara Nowak said Keimig’s art reflects his love of West.

“He is touched by the awesomeness and simple spirit of nature,” Nowak said, “and considers his work successful when the viewer is equally touched and, in turn, catches a glimpse of that enduring spirit of wilderness and meaning within themselves.”

B. Shawn Cox is a mixedmedia painter from Austin, Texas, creating playful and vibrant works.

“His current body of work explores layered compositions of materials, pattern, color and texture,” Nowak said, “as well as narratives from personal and collective social mythology linked to iconographic figura-

tive stereotypes.”

Oil painter and Cache Valley, Utah, native, Kathryn Ashcroft, lets her connection to animals shine through in every one of her pieces. She only paints animals she has personally seen and studied in the wild. During the Fall Arts Festival her work will also be displayed at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

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Go loubetski and David Mensing will not only participe in live demo nstrations at the gallery but also take part in the QuickDraw on the Town Square on Saturday, Sept. 16. World renowned artist Goloubetski will be in residence at Hor izon at the beginning of September. Goloubetski will demonstrate his techniques Sept. 11 to 17. Whether it’s through his floral landscapes, cityscapes or pieces depicting the region surrounding Jackson Hole, the St. Petersburg, F lorida-based painter “takes you into the art and draws in the color,” Nowak said. Oregon-based painter Da-

vid Mensing will also be in the gallery with live demonstrations Sept. 15 to 17.

Mensing ’s pieces are something to behold in person. They are moody and atmospheric with their quiet but intense

colors. The more you look at them the more they come alive and change with the shifting of the light.

Contact Lacey McNeff via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Painter Gleb Goloubetski will demonstrate at Horizon Fine Art during the Fall Arts Festival.

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spirit of nature.” BarbarA Nowak

The metamorphosis of the Tetons

By Tibby Plasse

Camille Obering grew up in Jackson Hole. Left for school and went on to explore the world before choosing New York City to work in the art world. In 2008 she returned home to the West Bank to open her fine art dealership, curatorial service and art advisory firm.

“I came back to Jackson with the idea that there was a growing interest in modern and contemporary art, rather than primarily landscape and Western art, which had traditionally been the focus,” she said.

Obering’s thesis was correct.

“People are seeking to learn and expand themselves intellectually, and our community of supporters is growing both in Jackson Hole and in the larger art world,” she said.

That also means that the art of curating a collection in Jackson Hole has also evolved from its documentary-style origins to a more contemporary focus.

“Art, since the earliest times, has been a form of documentation,” Obering said. “The first European explorers to the region documented what they saw through drawing, painting and then photography.”

Everyone who visits and resides in the greater Yellowstone region is indebted to Thomas Moran. His paintings of the region from the 1871 Hayden expedition were sent to Congress as an argument for creating the country’s first national park.

“Now known as Yellowstone, protecting it from development and democratizing it so that anyone could see this magnificent place — this was a pioneering idea at the time,” Obering said.

“Yellowstone was the first national park, and this action formed how we started to value landscapes, cultural monuments (World Monuments Fund is an extension of this) and set a new path for tourism and exploration,” she said.

For Obering art is about communicating experiences, perspectives and emotions. As a consultant and collector she looks for work that is visually engaging “and has a thesis behind it, which is proven out in the aesthetic creation. The best work does all these things well,” she said.

“It was not one artwork or artist that turned me onto this profession,” she said. “I’m a curious person, and I loved the way that art taught me about different experiences and perspectives that people have.”

Obering said the subtle feelings that art evokes are powerful and addictive and the community of people who are attracted to the art world tends to be dynamic and interesting.

Which she also notes is the foundation for curating your own collection — or to begin collecting in the first place.

“The primary value is in enjoying the object, its visual pleasure, the learning, the reciprocation of ideas and the dynamic ways it can bring interest to your life. Though I advise not to buy works led by ideas of monetary appreciation, it often looms over the conversation.”

Obering said she’s happy to provide assessments of what makes one artist more likely to appreciate in value than another

but as collectors become more seasoned their choices become more confident.

“As they continue to learn they pay more attention to the nuances in what they like, what is meaningful to them. They build confidence, take more chances and make decisions without seeking validation from their peers.”

And what of attending an art festival where the opportunity to purchase art abounds? The Fall Arts Festival may not take place in Miami, Mexico City or London, but the schedule is just as robust, as is the availability of art and access to an abundance of artists.

“Do your research in advance so you have a game plan to meet those objectives and not get lost in the enormity of the experience,” Obering suggests for art buyers who are serious about packing up pieces to hang at home.

For buyers homing in on their collections of a certain artist, Obering says to take your keenness and translate it into research: What works is the artist show-

ing? Are they primary (from the artist) or secondary market (from a previous owner)? What about provenance, condition or price?

“If you are serious about acquiring something specific, then all of this groundwork should be done in advance, and the fair is simply a formality for you to see the pieces in person and commit,” she said.

“Depending on the fair and demand, you could have other persons interested in the piece. The likelihood of you getting the work could come down to preparation and your relationship with the seller.”

Employing an art advisor, she said, can facilitate navigating the bustle of the annual event and purchase process.

“If you are at the fair to soak it in and learn, but not with a specific intention to buy, I always like to have the map and methodically go through the aisles and take notes of things and artists I like at various galleries so I can research them later,” she said. “That way I know I haven’t missed anything.”

When Obering returned to Jackson Hole from New York City — where she worked at The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and RxArt — she initially curated shows for local galleries and the Center for the Arts and did pop-up shows in her townhouse and in vacant spaces in Jackson before establishing a multipurpose space, Guesthouse, in 2019 with husband Ben Musser.

“At Guesthouse we offer a compelling alternative to the traditional art experience, which serves both art world veterans and the newly initiated,” she said. “For many veterans of the art world, art fairs and galleries have become formulaic and transactional, void of the spark that got people curious about art in the first place.”

Obering said Guesthouse offers artists a platform to show their work to new audiences and to experiment outside the spotlight of press and criticism.

“Trends do not dictate our programming,” she said. “Shows hang for five to six months in a spectacular setting where the artists can live with the work for a short period of time and experience it in various light, distances and times of day.”

There’s an opening party, but all other visits are by appointment, during which one-on-one conversations about the work can take place with the art, emphasizing quality time with limited pieces for a deeper experience.

Obering has seen Guesthouse’s community of supporters grow in Jackson Hole and in the art world at large

“Several of our artists have gone on to have major museum and gallery shows from work that began at Guesthouse,” she said. “I’m proud of our program, artists, community and our unique place in the art world ecosystem.”

New Orleans-based painter Mallory Page’s show, “A Cleft of Light,” opened in August at Guesthouse and will be on-site through Jan. 28. Viewings are by appointment only. Visit CamilleObering.com.

Contact Tibby Plasse at tplasse@ jhnewsandguide.com.

The Teton art market has evolved from cowboys and landscapes.

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Camille Obering returned to her hometown of Jackson from New York City, where she worked at The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and RxArt. She and her husband, Ben Musser, established a multipurpose art space in 2019 that they call Guesthouse.

Mallory Page’s “a phantasmagoria” is a 70-by-84-inch acrylic gesso on linen. Her show at Guesthouse, “A Cleft of Light,” runs through Jan. 28.

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This is the first year Altamira will operate during the Fall Arts Festival under new ownership.

By Billy Arnold

Years ago a woman stopped to ask Geoffrey Gersten about his paintings, which often splice imagery from old, Western-themed photographs over more modern, colorful, pop-arty backgrounds.

But she was in disbelief and asked him a simple question about one of his works: Was it really a painting?

“Yes,” Gersten remembered saying. “I was there the entire time, so I’m quite sure it’s a painting.”

This year Gersten, is one of three artists set to showcase recent work at Altamira Fine Art during the Fall Arts Festival. His collection, titled “Silver Screens and Cowboy Dreams,” will complement work from two other Altamira artists.

Mar y Roberson, a Hailey, Idaho-based painter who creates impressionistic and surreal depictions of wildlife, will show some of her recent work. So will Travis Walker, a Tetonarea painter who paints angular scenes from Jackson Hole and the surrounding landscapes, often with a twist: a moose in the pool at the Virginian Lodge or

Mark Tarrant, the Jacksonand Scottsdale, Arizona-based gallery’s longtime owner, recently sold the shop to Carrie W ild, a Jackson-based painter, and her husband, Jason Williams, a Jackson photographer and businessman.

Wild and Williams are now operating Altamira alongside Gallery Wild, their other Jackson art space.

“Gallery Wild will stay in its lane and Altamira in that lane with more contemporary Western art,” Williams said.

Gallery Wild, he said, will continue to focus on wildlife and nature-oriented art.

Getting to know Altamira’s artists has been a real pleasure, Williams said. Last year he met Gersten at the QuickDraw, an annual event where artists have 90 minutes to complete Jacksoninspired works before they’re auctioned off to the crowd. Gersten’s piece set a QuickDraw record, selling for about $20,000.

Gersten was surprised, but doesn’t feel pressure to reproduce that. Instead he has been gathering old, black-and-white photos for inspiration. He now has piles of beautiful, nostalgia-invoking Western scenes from Montana and Wyoming ranches: cowboys, rodeos and the like.

“I love old black-and-white photos,” he said. “I buy one at least on eBay every day if not five or six or eight.”

For inspiration Gersten shuffles them around on his table to see what catches his eye. When something does, he paints a figure from the image: A Marlboro cowboy, an old sign, or a larger black-and-white scene.

Then, he tries to spruce things up with a splash of color, or some Warhol-esque dots.

But how Gersten makes things

more eye-catching depends. It’s all about the feel.

“People are always like, ‘What does it mean, what does it mean?’” he said. “And sometimes it’s just as simple as it looks freaking awesome.”

Recently, he’s settled on two words: “The end.” He’s realized that makes things pop.

“If you take one of those romantic images of a cowboy charging over the landscape, and then you add ‘The End’ to it, it’s like a movie,” Gersten said. “It’s

like the last scene of a movie.” But Gersten won’t stick with his current style forever, even though it’s popular. Ideas, he said, are always shuffling, just like he shuffles the black-and-white photos around for inspiration.

“I can’t do the same thing for very long because I’ll get bored and I think life is too short,” Gersten said.

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Gallery Wild combines styles and personalities

has kind of been getting in back into his wildlife photography. And so it just was natural, it was obvious to put us together for this show.”

By Michael Carmody

Gallery Wild will be in constant motion during this year’s Fall Arts Festival, hosting two duo shows and hosting live painting events throughout. The action kicks off with “Dual Spectrum,” juxtaposing the vivid acrylic paintings of gallery co-owner Carrie Wild against the spare, organic wildlife photography of her husband and gallery partner Jason Williams.

“I paint in super rich, vibrant colors,” Wild said, “and my work definitely has a feminine side to it. Whereas Jason, his work is a little bit more masculine. He has been working on his photography; he’s been purchasing these handmade papers from a woman-owned business in Japan and printing in black and white on those. Every piece comes out a little bit differently. The color of the papers even end up making the pieces look like sepia instead of black.”

Wild is pleased to share this show with her husband, as it results from his renewed focus on creativity after a period when it had to take a back seat to business.

“We used to own Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris, which we sold about a year and a half ago,” Wild said. “He founded that company so that he could be out there doing photography all the time. And then, you know, that became a huge success for him, so he found himself behind the desk a lot. He just this past year

“Dual Spectrum” opens with the Palates & Palettes event on Sept. 8 and will hang through the 11th. Gallery Wild’s second Fall Arts Festival exhibition, “Living Color,” will showcase new works by painter Patricia Griffin and sculptor Jeremy Bradshaw and opens with a reception at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13. Though the artists’ media and styles differ greatly, Wild believes they make a natural combination.

“Their personalities, the personalities in their wildlife, the things that they focus on for their subjects,” Wild said.

“Patricia spends time out in their fields and photographs every single animal that she paints. She only works from her own photographs. So she’s had all of those experiences, and she’s using her ability to paint to kind of share that with the viewers and really tries to connect them to that moment. And Jeremy does the same thing with his pieces as well.”

Wild said Bradshaw spends countless hours just watching wildlife and how they move, taking in those observations to share an animal’s individual personality.

“They both make their animals into individual subjects so that you’re able to really connect with them.”

The final Gallery Wild event of the festival will be the Sunday Art Brunch and Gallery Walk, celebrating all the featured artists from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 17. Keep an eye on the gallery’s schedule during the festivities for info on live painting events, occurring from Sept. 6 to 17.

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A grand perspective on art in the Tetons

Hennes Gallery

5850 Larkspur Drive

By appointment

307-733-2593

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By Michael Carmody

Few among the sprawling Teton arts community can boast of a career longevity that compares with that of landscape painter Joanne Hennes. Drawn in by the call of the mountains, she and her husband moved into the area more than 50 years ago, and she has been painting the Tetons from a first-person perspective ever since. “ I’m from Illinois, and my parents brought me out here when I was 10,” Hennes said. “That’s when I decided I wanted to live here, but it took quite a few years to find a place.”

A world traveler, Hennes started painting in the Swiss Alps, and her love for mountainous landscapes made her resettlement in Jackson Hole a natural one. But at the time of her arrival there existed very little in the way of a loc al art scene.

“When we moved here there were almost no galleries,” said Hennes. “We used to show on the balcony at Jackson Lake Lodge. And that was the only place we had our paintings. There were no galleries in town.”

Eventually, she found just the right spot to build a house, studio and gallery — 7 miles outside Jackson at Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club. There she is surrounded by natural splendor,

even while indoors.

“We have quite a lot of windows and they all have a good view,” Hennes said. “I’m looking right now at the Grand Tetons right out the front window. My view is just like a painting out of e very window.”

Hennes has 150 houseplants, plus Norfolk pines that are 12 feet tall.

“I’ve got 10 orchid plants; right now there’s three of them blooming,” she said. “It’s really beautiful to look at the Grand Tetons with these purple orchids right in the foreground. I enjoy nature but since the winters are so long, why, a lot of our garden is in the house.”

Famous for her renderings of the Tetons in both watercolor and oil, Hennes has sold more than 3,000 paintings in her time in the valley, and she has new pieces on display in her gallery now. Though she knows her gallery is off the beaten path for the usual Fall Arts Festival activities, she hopes people will take the short trip to visit — but would prefer they call ahead for reservations.

“I like when it’s one group at a time, rather than having a whole mob of people come on one day,” Hennes said.

“It’s kind of an education for people that like the area; I can tell them where the trail is where I painted a certain painting. And so I try to make it more personal and tell about the surroundings around those places that I painted. They are all real places, not just made up. You don’t need to make it up here. It’s so beautiful just the way it is.”

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Landscape painter Joanne Hennes paints from the call of the mountains. She and her husband moved into the area more than 50 years ago, settling north of town, where the painter has a gallery and studio.

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A summer sampling at Heather James

Heather James Fine Art

172 N. Center St.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday

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By Tibby Plasse

Over 25 years in business and 15 in Jackson Hole, Heather James Fine Art continually stuns art enthusiasts with its selection of The Greats. This summer surpasses all expectations with works by Claude Monet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Paul Signac, Wayne Thiebaud, Andrew Wyeth and Andy Warhol hanging in the downtown gallery.

Sarah Fischel, marketing director for Heather James Fine Art, said most people see the works as classic but sometimes forget that these artists were frontiersmen in their own right, pushing boundaries in the art world.

“It’s so funny when people come in and they are so excited to see a Monet,” she said. “They see him as classical and so aus

Hockney, and one of his renderings of Yosemite.

“ We are lucky enough to have a Hockney iPad drawing, which is really cool and contemporary,” Fischel said. “He has such a wide breadth of art. He’s well known for his swimming pool series, but I think people forget that he has always been at the forefront of what’s new in technology.”

By organic forces, the gallery has three gelatin silver print photographs by Ansel Adams of Yosemite National Park to complement the Hockney.

The diversity of work at Heather James Fine Art makes for a must-stop while making the rounds at this year’s Fall Arts Festival, if only to just hang with the art. The number of master artists nearly renders the gallery a boutique museum exposition.

But late greats are not the only works of art that Heather James manages. The gallery offers consulting services, which are about to become a more prominent service at all its locations to serve an international client base — and those just emerging “You don’t have to be an established

Western wear fashions new era of cowboy couture

Jackson’s hat culture is no hype, it’s a heritage way of life.

Sing Hat Co.

330 N. Glenwood St., howdy@singhatco.com, singhatco.com, open by appointment

JW Bennett

55 N. Glenwood St. Suite E, 307201-5669, jwbennett.com, open by appointment

Encounter Hat Company

65 W. Deloney Ave, schedule a fitting online, encounterhatco.com

By Kate Ready

The higher the head, the closer the art. Or so say Jackson milliners who weave history and craftsmanship with their wearable art pieces: hats.

“I think it’s just a Western novelty item that people want to wear while they’re here,” Christy Sing Robertson said.

Robertson founded Sing Hat Company in 2018. She said she couldn’t sew a button on when she started. Now her store is creating two to three hats a day, inspired by the simplistic style of Georgia O’Keeffe and Ralph Lauren.

“I just love that clean look,” Robertson said. “Polished, clean, classic. Never out of style.”

While the appetite for Western wear has spiked following the popularity of Kevin Costner’s “Yellowstone,” Robertson focuses on “slow fashion,” preserving the art form inherent in millinery in an era of cheap global manufacturing.

“We do things as more of an art form rather than from a production standpoint,” Robertson said. “Everyone is

encouraged to make slow fashion, small batch, slow hats. Here we let things dry on the block for 24 hours to a week sometimes.”

Robertson said her shop strives to make a hat so perfect that its wearer doesn’t need a hatband.

“We stand apart in our simplicity,” Robertson said.

Where Robertson’s hats are simple, the hats of JW Bennett are more accessorized with beads, feathers and the image of mountain ranges.

Sarah Kjorstad, JW Bennett’s founder, said her contemporary hats are inspired by her history as part of a multigenerational Wyoming ranch family. Her greatgrandfather was one of the first physicians in Wyoming, she said, but it’s her grandmother who greatly influences her aesthetic.

“My grandmother was a fashionista, so that dichotomy of the two is kind of what I try to express with my brand,” Kjorstad said. “The ranching and the Western heritage along with my grandmother who liked to dress to the nines every day.”

Kjorstad’s brand is a combination of these two influences: JW was her family’s cattle brand, and her grandmother’s maiden name was Bennett.

W hen first deciding on her creative endeavor, Kjorstad thought of making beads for hats. Until her embedded sense of Wyoming self-reliance kicked in.

“But then, because I’m a rancher girl and from 4-H, I don’t want to just make the beads for the hat,” Kjorstad said. “I want to make the whole thing. I just want to make all of it myself.”

Both Robertson and Kjorstad make

the entire hat, as opposed to reshaping existing hats.

Kjorstad said they may be the only two shops in Wyoming that make their hats from scratch.

It’s about 37 steps, Kjorstad said, from blocking, firing, ironing, cutting the brim, putting the liners in, and more. Every JW Bennett hat is lit on fire to reduce the amount of sanding needed to rid the hat of excess hairs.

Many of the materials that go into Robertson and Kjorstad’s hats are sourced solely from the United States, from beaver felt to sheepskin leather to Robertson’s signature elk antler buttons.

“We take extra time for everything,” Robertson said. “We’re not in the business of production, we’re in the business of art.”

One hiccup for the art form has been a “giant” ongoing felt shortage as more people get into the business of hat making, slowing down her already slow fashion.

Robertson and Kjorstad said it can sometimes take a year to get felt. Once it’s in her hands, Robertson “never forgets that the beaver felt was once alive.”

Another shop, Encounter Hat Co. has been around for eight years and focuses on reshaping existing hats. Owner Kyle Theret said he was inspired by the Jackson Hole Rodeo.

“I started at the rodeo by taking some old cowboy hats and reshaping them to what fit visually,” Theret said. “From there we dialed in the process and created our own unique style and shapes while also being able to create a proper hat worthy of any rodeo.”

Theret’s hats feature bright colors such as robin egg blue, crimson and mustard gold. Pink and lavender hats are available as well.

Theret said he loves how deeply personalized hats are.

“One thing people don’t know about the hat making process is that an important part is being able to recognize a face shape and create that hat that works best with their facial structure,” Theret said. “It takes experience and many hours of work to be able to create a hat that is perfect for one’s overall look.”

Theret said Jackson is the perfect environment for people to get an authentic, made-in-the-USA product that “matches the quality of the land and people within.”

“Hats are deep rooted in the history of Jackson, and we are happy to be a small part of it,” Theret said.

With locations in Denver as well as Jackson Hole, Theret said he’s working to open another location in New York this fall, with a couple other locations to follow shortly after.

Hat-making also invites the buyer into the process of creation, Kjorstad said.

“My favorite part is to see people come in and enjoy creating their own hat and styling from all these little ingredients that I have made and create their own personal style,” Kjorstad said. “It’s almost like a recipe that you’ve got a bunch of different ingredients and people come in and put them together in a way that I’ve never even thought of myself. And so that’s really exciting.”

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Christy Sing Robertson’s Sing Hat Company takes extra time in its craftsmanship. “We’re not in the business of production,” she said. “We’re in the business of art.”

Transcending trends at Turner Fine Art

Turner Fine Art

545 N. Cache St.

TurnerFineArt.com 307-734-4444

By Kate Hull

Kathryn Mapes Turner, the principal artist and owner of Turner Fine Art, describes the gallery as timeless, with works that transcend trends. Inside the North Cache Street space Turner has curated an “artists’ gallery” that’s known for its top-tier work and intimate setting. For the Fall Arts Festival, Turner Fine Art invites the public to come experience the boutique fine art space.

“We have a long-standing reputation for being very much an artists’ gallery,” Turner said. “Folks who are partly drawn to our gallery are other artists, and I believe that is because of the quality of work they find here. We are not necessarily a traditional gallery or one that is super contemporary. What we like to think is the work we share is timeless and it transcends the trends. We are a boutique gallery.”

Curating a space that’s equal parts about the art and the artist is rooted in the fact that the owner is an artist herself, first and foremost. “I am very proud of the gallery and at the end of the day am an artist,” Turner said.

The 2023 Fall Arts Festival will be the peak of the summer for Turner Fine Art artists. The gallery is featuring the work of Stacey Peterson and Michael Albrechtsen, as well as Turner’s new paintings and Paul Rhymer’s sculptures, along with special events.

“We have one beautiful show after another every month with a lot of variety, but the quality is truly top quality,” Turner said. “We are excited to feature some of the artists whose work has been particularly celebrated. We are featuring the work of Stacey Peterson and Michael Albrechtsen in a duo painting demonstration at the gallery.”

An oil painter with a love of the Rocky Mountains, Peterson is an award-winning artist celebrated for her

Gallery events

Saturday, Sept. 9, 2-4 p.m.: Stacey Peterson and Michael Albrechtsen demonstrate their techniques at the gallery. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, Sept. 10, 4:30-7 p.m.: Triangle

X Artists Paint-Out. Join Kathryn Mapes Turner and other featured artists for a plein air event out on the ranch. Ticketed event, space is limited.

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 3-5 p.m.: Turner

Fine Art’s very own Kathryn Mapes Turner will give a painting demonstration at the gallery.

Friday, Sept. 15, 2-5 p.m.: Sculptor Paul Rhymer will demonstrate his sculpting skills at the gallery.

ethereal depictions of mountain landscapes. For each piece she draws upon her time spent outdoors and works on location using plein air studies.

Peterson has been the featured artist at the Grand Teton Music Festival for three years running, a distinction that places her artwork on the cover of the festival’s printed program and other material for the festival.

“That is how much the festival loves her work, because it is spectacular and stunning,” Turner said.

Peterson will be partnered with award-winning landscape painter Michael Albrechtsen. “His work has been recognized by the Salmagundi Club in New York City, which is the oldest art club in the country,” Turner said. “His work is timeless and masterful in his ability to capture light. Two fantastic artists at the top of their game.

“Stacy is a master when it comes to painting mountains, and Michael is very well known for his masterful sky work,” Turner said. “They really have great respect for one another.”

During the Fall Arts Festival, Turner will also be debuting her latest paintings, inspired by the vibrant summer season in the Tetons.

The Jackson Hole native’s work is intrinsically inspired by and linked to the landscape that surrounds her. An

award-winning painter, she has received top honors from the American Impressionist Society, the National Academy of Equine Ar t and the Southeast Wildlife Exposition as the 2017 Featured Ar tist. She was recognized as the Wyoming Best Watercolor Artist in 2001.

“ The pieces I am particularly excited to share are the ones that are fresh off the easel of my plein air work and are directly inspired by the natural world because I am out in location,” she said.

“This is a very beautiful summer because of the moisture and clear skies, with vivid, crisp air and colors that I am really taken with and inspired by.”

Turner is excited to welcome another Fall Arts Festival and showcase the many artists’ works that not only make her gallery so distinctive but continue to place Jackson Hole on the cultural map, she says.

“I am always so inspired and impressed with the great job the chamber does and the hard work the galleries do to make this festival one of the top in the country each year,” she said. “It is a giant collaboration between all the artists, all the galleries, and puts Jackson on the culture map.”

Contact Kate Hull via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Gallery offers ‘RARE’ views of the West

Kivie has said in an artist statement for the gallery. “Each event is spontaneous while trying to organize the chaos.”

Glynn says he creates mixed media artwork that presents a “fresh perspective of items and images of intrigue from our past.”

By Deb Gruver

Two artists featured during the Fall Arts Festival at RARE Gallery take a contemporary view of Western culture.

It’s evident from the neon in Miles Glynn’s work and the visceral images in Kivie’s paintings and photographs.

RARE Gallery co-owner Rick Armstrong said Glynn will show seven new pieces and Kivie five during the festival. Fun fact: Kivie is Armstrong, though he doesn’t always identify himself as the artist.

Kivie creates oil paintings of mountains, abstract landscapes and photography, and Glynn focuses on textural, mixed-media pieces based on actual landscapes but with an abstract appearance, Armstrong said.

Kivie is a Jackson resident, and Glynn lives in Bozeman, Montana.

“I believe in the portrayal of energy and motion. Every image and stroke become a thought to be shared,”

“I enjoy the challenge of presenting these once prolific but now largely forgotten items and images — wallpaper, pulp fiction magazines, home sewing patterns, and classic photographs — and injecting them into our present conversations and contemporary spaces.”

Glynn presents the resulting imagery in the hope that viewers can find “familiarity, curiosity and resonance” in his work.

A RARE Gallery planned to hang new work for both artists starting Sept. 5.

“We just try to bring something every year that people find interesting, things you wouldn’t see other places,” Armstrong said. “They will have an element of the West in them but are more contemporary.”

Their new work will be shown along with the gallery’s main stable of artists, he said.

Armstrong has co-owned the gallery for 14 years, and it endeavors to bring modern, contemporary art to Jackson.“We show national and international artists to get there,” he said.

You can contact Deb Gruver via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Stacey Peterson is celebrated for her soft, stunning depictions of the Mountain West as seen in “Delta Afternoon,” a 24-by-20-inch oil painting on show at Turner Fine Art. On Sept. 9 she will demonstrate her technique at the gallery.

“Westernish No. 53” is a 60-by-48-inch mixed-media piece by Bozeman, Montana, artist Miles Glynn.

Where traditional meets contemporary

By Michael Carmody

The staff at West Lives On Traditional and Contemporary Galleries is looking forward to another great Fall Arts Festival this year, and with some help from their friends at The Wort Hotel, they will be cooking up more than just art. Owner Terry Ray is excited about all of this year’s events.

“On Friday night the 8th is the Palates and Palettes event,” Ray said, “and we’re participating in that with The Wort Hotel. And then on the next Saturday we have four of our artists participating in the QuickDraw on the square.”

The West Lives On artists entered in the Sept. 16 QuickDraw are painters Jennifer Johnson, Nancy Cawdrey, Laurie Lee and Trey McCarley, all with their own specialties.

Johnson is an in-demand Western artist who was recently inducted into the C.M. Russell Museum’s prestigious Russell Skull Society of Artists. Cawdrey’s contemporary take on wildlife and Western art emerged from her studies at the American University in Paris and the Sorbonne.

Lee’s rich, life-infused portraits of people and animals have been widely published and exhibited. And McCar ley, an apprentice under the well-known Robert Moore, has developed an impressionistic landscape style all his own.

But that’s not all.

“Then on Sunday, we have an all-gallery open house,” Ray said. “We’ll have probably 15 to 20 of our artists here showing new work.”

Those who attend the Sunday, Sept. 17, event will find a delicious brunch waiting for them.

“The Wort also comes over and cooks omelets,” Ray said. “Bloody marys, mimosas and omelets for break

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Longtime West Lives On artist Gary Lynn Roberts will have new paintings this month at the gallery. This is “Out of the Mist,” a 28-by-40-inch oil.

“Beavers’ Butterfly Effect” by Helen Seay

“PollinatingGeometry”byLyndsayRowan

West Bank artists set new course for pedestrian art tour

West Bank Studio Tour

Wednesday, Sept. 13, and Thursday, Sept. 14, 12-7 p.m.

Laurie Thal: 3800 Linn Drive, 307-690-2491, thallaurie@gmail. com, danaltwies@hotmail.com, ThalGlass.net

Miga Rossetti: 1710 Fish Creek Road, 307-690-7077, tutti@rossettidesigns.com, rossettidesigns.com

Annie Band: 2945 Hunt Lane, annieband.com

By Kate Ready

Bipeds, amblers, strollers and saunterers, step aside. Cycling is the new form taking over Plein Air art viewing.

A group of West Bank artists are inviting folks to jump on their bikes and head out of the hustle of the Town Square for a self-pedaled tour of their work in the places in which they were crafted.

Unlike storefronts or booths, visiting the studio of each of the artists — glassblowers Laurie Thal and Dan Altwies, painter Miga Rossetti and jewelry maker Annie Band — offers you an intimate peek into the creative environment and process of each artist.

“You’re getting a glimpse into how it’s done,” said Thal, a glassblower since the ’70s. It’s a unique opportunity to visit where the “magic happens” and meet four different artists, she said.

The tour, comprising the “three ladies and Dan,” as Thal put it, invites art lovers to step inside each artist’s habitat.

Thal’s bright and airy studio features perfume bottles, bowls, vases and sculptures. The work of her and her partner, Dan Altwies, has been featured in the Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Altwies sandblasts Thal’s glass creations, deftly curving lines that at times mimic the shape of autumn leaves, solar flares or ocean coral.

Thal also loves to showcase her home — laden with custom window panels and multipanel glass installations. It’s a testament to how custom-made glass pieces can fuse together your passions. Thal’s own love of masks inspired her and Altwies to create a sandblasted one-of-a-kind glass lamp above their staircase, inspired by the Hawiian water goddess Namaka.

The other two stops lie a short bike ride away, down Fish Creek Road in Wilson.

Landscape painter Miga Rossetti’s work is layered, colorful and vibrant. Even the shape of her studio, a polygon, she described as “funky.”

Rossetti’s studio features north-facing windows, giving festival-goers a chance to step inside the inspiration behind many of her paintings.

“I can honestly say I’ve painted that at least two dozen times,” Rossetti said. “And it surprises me every time how different I can paint the same view.”

Most of her paintings have 10 layers, she said. She may not know what the painting will look like until it’s on its third layer, or whenever she feels it begins taking on its own “life force.”

“I might use collage materials, I might sand through, I might scrape through,” Rossetti said. “I might put tape on and then paint over and then peel back the tape and see what’s revealing. ... I love the secrets that pop out when I’ve covered something up and brought it back out.”

Jewelry maker Annie Band is a sevenminute-cycle away from Rossetti. For Band this is her first-ever open studio tour. She said she’s excited to welcome those who may feel uncomfortable with the formality of booking a formal appointment and just want to drop by.

Band is educated as a wildlife and conservation biologist, and her necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings focus on textures from nature that have “talismanic meaning.” She focuses on protection, inspiration and spiritual messages; sometimes a particular quote is inscribed on the piece which is made by casting a mix of metal clay adorned with recycled

or cultured gems.

Certain gems have been found on the land her studio sits on, in a historic Triangle Q Ranch cabin. The ranch has been in her husband’s family since the 1920s.

“The oldest artifact actually ever dated from Jackson Hole was found in our yard. It was an arrowhead dated to be 11,000 years old,” Band said. “So there’s just this tremendous history and really powerful energy to this spot.”

Band said she’s still waiting for a certain museum to uphold its promise to return the arrowhead to Jackson Hole. But that ’s a story in itself.

“I think having this historic cabin in

the woods that is just visited by all kinds of animals is kind of indicative of the way I like to work and where my inspiration comes from,” Band said. “So I think people do enjoy seeing that, and I do find that people who are kind of sensitive to the energy of places ... they really do feel it here.”

Rossetti said the artists aren’t just united by their West Bank locations but represent a constellation of friendship.

“ We’ve all visited each other’s studios,” Rossetti said. “So it’s really more about welcoming people into our personal world.”

Contact Kate Ready at 732-7076 or kready@jhnewsandguide.com.

Miga Rossetti’s “Linger 2023,” is an acrylic and mixed medium on board. The painting began as an homage to the spring growth trying to come out on the aspen trees, then winter came back with a vengeance and wouldn’t leave, delaying the growth. Rossetti and several other West Bank artists will open their studios to visitors on Sept. 13 and 14.

Annie Band created this rose gold ring with diamond and turquoise.

Silver and pink lotus mandala earrings are by Annie Band.

Winter’s Bloom is by glass artists Laurie Thal and Dan Altwies.

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Borbay ‘remasters’ renowned works

to him — and Borbay is happy to evoke the lineage when speaking about his own art.

“Picasso said it best. He said good artists copy, and great artists steal. And so there this modicum of theft in every piece of artwork, whether it’s the medium that you use with a composition or a style that you use to create something new,” he said.

By Tibby Plasse

Aconsummate reveler in material culture, Jason Borbet, the artist behind Borbay Studios & Gallery, has been enjoying not just classic images and icons on his canvases as of late — he’s digging into classical works of art and rediscovering the timelessness of true mastery.

The artist has just completed his third remastered piece, a neon approach to Pablo Picasso’s 1937 oil painting “Guernica.” Perhaps one of Picasso’s most well-known works, it is fueled with anti-war symbolism and is physically enormous.

“This all started with a commission by some lovely people in Jackson who wanted me to create a neon version of ‘American Gothic’ the famous Grant Wood painting,” Borbay said. “And so I did that painting, and then all of a sudden I found myself in this reeducation phase.”

The artist said he’s been envisioning this series as a kind of returning to class, studying nuances and revisiting why these works of art are considered masterpieces.

“There’s no area in the canvas that doesn’t activate another area,” he said.

Does Borbay see the exercise as appropriation, maybe? — he’s not alone and is following in the ideological footsteps of artists who have not shied away from pop culture on the canvas.

And the artist said Picasso felt similarly — or at least one famous quote is attributed

“At this point in human history it is almost impossible to create something new, but it ’s something you always try for,” Borbay said from a silver couch in his Victor, Idaho, studio. “I’m really excited about this piece.”

This will be a different Fall Arts Festival for Borbay.

He has opted out of the QuickDraw this year to work on a fledgling offshoot of the Jackson festival by working with Teton Valley, Idaho and Wyoming artists, encouraging open studios and gallery events to celebrate the abundance of talent on the west side of the Tetons.

“I just felt that with the advent of the Teton Valley Fall Arts Festival, I really wanted to pour my focus and energy into that,” he said. “The whole idea behind this has come from just looking around and seeing my peers. There really are a lot of artists living over here.”

He said that though he will not be participating in the QuickDraw he considers it “a magical experience.”

“The stress of QuickDraw was very intense, and with this going on I didn’t think I’d be able to focus my attention on both,” he admitted.

Borbay Studios & Gallery will be open through both art festivals for gallery tours. Catch one from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 10 or 11, 1 to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 or 13, and then also 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 16. Contact

Romantic realism heads west at Cordair

stylizes all her paintings from her home studio to work with natural light. Most realism painters are working with photographs.

By Tibby Plasse

Tucked down the hill from the Town Square on Deloney Avenue, Quent Cordair’s gallery is a passageway into genres less represented in the Western-dominant art scene of Jackson.

Specializing primarily in Romantic realism, Quent Cordair Fine Art abounds in figurative representational artwork. The gallery represent over 30 artists, painters and sculptors internationally. Cordair’s first gallery opened in 1996 in Napa, California. He and his wife opened the Jackson gallery nearly three years ago.

As the Cordairs have been getting their footing and filling a niche for still life paintings and pieces that Linda Cordair refers to as “positive art,” Quent Cordair has been watching on the sidelines as his neighboring artists take on the nearly Olympic feat of the QuickDraw competition. This September, Cordair is joining the early morning creative spectacle and highly anticipated live auction.

With variable weather and

only 90 minutes, Cordair is looking forward to the event with excitement and some dread.

“ We’ve represented 30-plus artists for 27 years, and a lot of that experience has been working closely with other artists and knowing how they work,” he said. “For a lot of us, creating art is a very private and personal experience. We do it at our respective paces. Doing something like this in public under a pretty

severe time is a novel situation,” he said.

But what Cordair does recognize about the QuickDraw is that it creates an immediate narrative for the art buyer, building a relationship between art and buyer.

“At the end of the day, art is a journey for the artist,” he said. “Something is done over time, or in this case a short time, and is a recording of that artist’s process.

It will never happen again. Ninety minutes is a unique situation.”

Building relationships takes many forms at Quent Cordair Fine Art, and this festival season the gallery will present two solo shows simultaneously with stilllife painter Linda Mann and relief sculptor Bill Mack.

Mann is a rare painter in the field, and perhaps one of the most authentic Romantic realism artists painting today because she

Mann does not paint in one layer, known as alla prima painting, or wet-on-wet, where layers of wet paint are applied to wet paint. Instead she employs an older style of one layer over one glaze, using the process of layers. This highly technical approach is called impasto.

Though the genre is classified as traditional, the 15-piece show at the gallery, along with Mack’s sculptures, revitalizes classical forms for the modern wall.

Mack’s “alto relief” is an uncommon form of sculpture with origins in ancient temple friezes and marble sepulchers. His resume includes many medallic works for St. Louis’ and Baltimore’s Bicentennials and works for General Motors and Pillsbury. His sculpture of the basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in the NBA Hall of Fame.

“His extensive experience with porcelains, acrylics, resins, silicons and epoxies work to provide the perfect combination of crafted skill and artistic vision,” the gallery said.

The gallery did not have artist receptions and demonstrations finalized at press time but said events will be announced on its website, Cordair.com.

Contact Tibby Plasse at tplasse@ jhnewsandguide.com.

A recent commission to create a neon version of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” has inspired a new series for Victor, Idaho, artist Borbay called “ReMastered,” a fresh look at historic masterpieces that includes reimaginings of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” and Picasso’s “Guernica.”

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Quent Cordair is one of nine galleries worldwide carrying artwork by relief sculptor Bill Mack and the only gallery in Jackson with a focus on still lifes.

Zusman bends the lines at Diehl Gallery

seem modern yet exude an Old World sensibility all at once. Her light, airy pieces, primarily made from ebony, ash and walnut, come alive as daylight moves through the space, the light and shadow shifting constantly.

By Michael Carmody

Archaic woodworking techniques meet modern methodologies in “Bending the Line,” Diehl Gallery’s showcase of the organic, expressive sculptures of Heather Zusman. A relative newcomer to the gallery, the artist’s elegant bentwood wall hangings have proved popular.

“Heather’s pieces represent the gallery through their contemporary lines, feminine form and relatively unique medium, all with an organic component, like much of the work at Diehl Gallery,” Gallery Director Chad Repinski said. “We have had tremendous success with her work, so we wanted to present her art to the discerning and large audience the festival brings.”

Zusman’s unique work is the result of a rather unusual path into fine arts. While pursuing a course of study in fine furniture making at the revered Waters and Acland Furniture School in England, she developed a new technique of building shapes from bent str ips of wood, laminated together using no heat, no water and no steam.

This process, which she calls “free form lamination,” allows her to create soaring, flowing, lyrical shapes that

“Heather’s pieces reflect lines often seen in art nouveau works of the late 19th century,” Repinski said, “while the medium reinforces the idea that the genre often bridges fine art and applied arts. Add modern lamination techniques, and you arrive at a wholly new expression that’s still familiar and comforting.”

“Bending the Line” will be Zusman’s first solo exhibition at Diehl Gallery. The reception will take place Friday, Sept. 8, from 5 to 8 p.m., during Palates & Palettes, the kickoff e vent for the Fall Arts Festival.

The gallery is partnering once again with its neighbor, Hatch Taqueria & Tequilas, which will provide delicious margaritas and modern Mexican favorites. All of Diehl Gallery’s exhibitions benefit nonprofit organizations, and “Bending the Line” is no exception; funds raised will go to the Animal Adoption Center.

On S unday, Sept. 17, the gallery will offer a light brunch with choice of mimosas or bloody marys as part of the Sunday Arts Brunch and free gallery walk. As is the gallery’s tradition, a salon-style exhibition of work by Diehl artists who have been juried into the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Art Show + S ale will be on display.

Contact Michael Carmody at fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com

Heather Zusman’s work reflects lines often seen in art nouveau works of the late 19th century but with modern lamination techniques.

Mountain Trails stars

for Fall Arts

something going on,” she said. “We have artists in residence all week answering questions, creating, explaining their process, and buyers can purchase pieces straight from the easel.”

By Britney Magleby

Located on the corner of the Town Square, Mountain Trails Gallery is a bustling hive for artists and buyers. Boasting some of the biggest names at the festival — Troy Collins (last year’s featured artist), Bryce Pettit, Edward Aldrich and Lyn St. Clair — the gallery transcends its walls to become the epicenter of the annual art event, hosting gatherings all week long that hold a little something for everyone.

“It’s an exploratory, fun atmosphere with art appreciation at the center,” Gallery Director Caralyn Ross said.

Never stuffy and always welcoming, the gallery is filled with pieces that are understandable yet thought-provoking, wild but attainable

Last year three lifesize bronze monuments set the tone at the corner of Center Street and Deloney Avenue. Towering in the parking lot, the art greeted visitors, sparking awe. Inside they were greeted by a massive oil painting by last year’s featured artist of abstract aspens lining a mountain trail. Across from Collins as he added the finishing touches to his field of wildflowers, the lifelike wildlife portraits by St. Clair and colorful tipis by Colt Idol bookended the gallery as Pettit chiseled the ear of a 24-inch bear cub.

Ross refers to the gallery as a “turntable” during the festival. “There’s always

True to Ross’ words, the gallery is constantly changing throughout the 11 days of Fall Arts. With representation yearround of over 75 artists, Mountain Trails has one of the most diverse collections in Jackson. Pettit, St. Clair, Idol, Collins, Tamse and Aldrich will be on-site throughout the festival week for meetand-greets.

No individual shows are scheduled at Mountain Trails during the festival. Rather, the work of the attending artists will be the focal point of the gallery throughout.

“I’m excited to see a lot of new work from everyone,” Ross said. “Lyn’s subject matter is really interesting this year. ... and it will be exciting to see Troy pass the torch after being the featured artist last year.”

One work that Ross is particularly excited to install comes from sculptor Pettit.

“It’s a lifesize version of Summer School. Four bear cubs will be walking into the gallery; then the mama will be right at the entrance.”

Most Mountain Trails artists participate in the Jackson Hole QuickDraw or Western Visions Auction. Idol, Collins, Pettit and St. Clair are annual participants in the 90-minute QuickDraw, which auctions art before the paint is dry.

A homegrown favorite, St. Clair, has been in the QuickDraw for 20 years. Her first year painting was alongside her father, Ross said.

Contact Britney Magleby via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Mountain Trails Gallery’s roster includes Renso Tamse. Born and raised in Rotterdam, he regularly travels to North American and European locales to study his subjects in the wild for paintings like this watercolor, “Silver Morning Kingfisher.”

By Michael Carmody

Of all the art outlets in Jackson Hole, few can claim the longevity, enduring popularity and reputation for excellence enjoyed by the twin Wilcox Galleries.

As the 2023 Fall Arts Festival rolls around, that has not changed. The galleries will once again host the renowned Wildlife and Wildlands exhibition, a perennial draw for Fall Arts Festival crowds. This is a group show spotlighting new paintings and sculptures by dozens of acclaimed artists, with a focus on natur al settings and imagery of the Old (and New) West.

“Our artists bring in a lot of new art for Fall Arts Festival,” said Jeff Wilcox, gallery director.

The Wilcox Gallery was established in 1969 by Jeff’s father, Jim Wilcox, a painter of traditional landscapes and nature scenes who has since won a record number of awards at the annual National Academy of Western Art Show, including its highest honor, the Prix de West Award.

His namesake gal lery is now the oldest in town still operating under the same owner.

“When the gallery was opened by my parents in ’69,” Jeff Wilcox said, “there were two galleries in town, two total. And so that’s obviously changed over the years.

“We have a great community that loves art, we have a lot of tourists that love art, and I think we’ve

made it better because the more good galleries we have, the more people come here to buy art — and the more people come here to buy art, the more good galleries we have. It’s just kind of a snowball rolling down the hill.

“The collectors keep coming and artists keep coming, and so we’ve got on any given day about 1,000 artists represented in the galleries in Jackson Hole. And on any even day we’ve got about 1,000 artists trying to get in. I’ve got about 500 artists a year trying to get in the gallery, and we’ve got about

48 in the gallery, total.”

With such a reputation under its belt the gallery doesn’t often take on new artists to re present. “But when we do,” Wilcox said, “we get to be picky.”

This year the Wilcox Galleries will also enter four of their artists into the QuickDraw: Jim Wilcox, wildlife oil painter Tom Mansanarez, impressionist landscape artist Allie Zeyer and Western/wildlife master Julie Jeppsen.

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Julie Jeppsen’s oil painting “Dinner on the Fly” measures 12 by 18 inches.

Gleb Goloubetski “Morning Wind on a Lake” 40x30, oil on linen

By Mark Baker

Katy Ann Fox not only likes to collect art, she likes to collect artists. The two go hand in hand at Foxtrot Fine Art.

“You collect people along the way,” said Fox, who’s been running the Foxtrot gallery for the past 19 months. “So this is a collection of the artists that I’ve had along the way,” she said, sweeping her hand around the gallery from her desk by the front door.

“And then I got these walls, and I get to tell their stories and be excited about the cool things they make and share them with other people.”

One of the more prominent artists on Foxtrot’s walls since it opened in February 2022 has been Taryn Boals, a native Illinoisan who now makes her home in Freedom, an unincorporated community of fewer than 300 souls that straddles the Idaho/Wyoming border between Etna and Thayne.

Boals is the featured artist at Foxtrot this month. You’ll find “Three’s Company” and “Sisters” on the walls. Both works depict horses in the American West, and both contain mysterious figures atop them. Are they the same people, caught in Boals’ brush in different moments in time, or is something else happening in the swashes of white, gray, red and charcoal?

Fox said these pieces depict a woman named Evelyn Cameron, an English woman who made her way to Terry, Montana, around the turn of the 20th

Century. She arrived in the plains of eastern Montana with her husband, a British ornithologist who wouldn’t live long after their arrival in the U.S. But his dream of homesteading a large ranch came true through the perseverance of Evelyn.

“And this whole series is based on that woman, Evelyn Cameron,” Fox said. “It’s history and overlapping and how we do the same things, in the same places, over and over again.”

It’s an exploration of time, space and the Western way,” Fox said.

Boals told the News&Guide last year that she is a “huge history fan.”

“I’m constantly watching Ken Burns documentaries and you name it, because I’m really intrigued about the history of place. ... and the kind of people that came before and where we are now.”

Where Fox is now is in “a space with tall beautiful ceilings” and having “so much fun.”

“I like the support and conversations I have in here,” said Fox, who grew up in Grangeville, Idaho, a town of about 3,500 some 200 miles due north of Boise, at the base of the Idaho Panhandle.

“It’s even better than I hoped it would be,” she said. “It’s been really cool to see how connected this community is to so many other communities. Great conversations. Sometimes, I even remember them.”

Fox, who studied art at the Academy of Art in San Francisco before landing in Jackson for a few years, is thrilled to be a part of Teton Valley’s burgeoning art scene.

“It’s amazing how much turnover I’ve had,” she said.

“I had no idea what was going to happen. I sold almost $200,000 worth of art last year, which is nuts. Isn’t that kind of rad?” But, she said with a laugh, “I’m still broke.”

Contact Mark Baker via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

“Three’s Company” by Taryn Boals, of Freedom, will be on display at the Foxtrot Gallery in Driggs, Idaho, for September.

“I’m really intrigued about the history of place. ... and the kind of people that came before and where we are now.” taryn boals ARTIST

Clockwise from the top: Jeremy Bradshaw, Jerry Markham, Brett James Smith, Ezra Tucker, Mark Eberhard, Daniel Smith, Kim Randleas

Teton Valley to roll out inaugural arts festival

Events will celebrate creative talent on west side of Tetons.

By Jeannette Boner

Over the years, artists in Teton Valley, Idaho, have opened their studios and homes to the public, welcoming in locals, travelers and appreciators of all mediums of work.

This fall a collective groundswell of artists in Teton Valley will roll out a more formal collaboration aimed at showcasing the deep well of local talent.

The new event is called the Teton Valley Home Grown Arts Festival, and it is set to be held all over Teton Valley — from Victor to Driggs to Tetonia and Alta, Wyoming — and all places in between the Big Hole and Teton Mountain ranges. The new festival will start on Saturday, Sept. 9, and run through Saturday, Sept. 16.

“This is a community festival,” said Jason Borbet, an internationally renowned painter based in Victor. “All I did was to plant a seed. ”

Teton Valley has an eclectic and growing community of artists who continue to elevate the community’s pride through their work and creativity.

“Things are happening on this side of the Tetons,” said Borbet, who is known as the artist Borbay. “I think this is a perfect time to try our hand at a festival like this.”

The festival has been created as “an appetizer,” to the Tetons’ main course, the Fall Arts Festival.

“We don’t have any desire to compete with Jackson but only want to provide another option for folks coming in to see more art,” Borbet said. “And maybe people would extend their trip to Jackson and come to Teton Valley?”

Br ian McDermott, the executive director of the Teton Regional Economic Coalition in Driggs, got onboard with gusto after Borbet called last winter asking if the chamber-like organization would get behind the festival.

“Jason called me up last November and said, ‘Hey McD, Jackson has their chamber sponsor the art festival over the hill, and I think we should commit to something like that too,’” McDermott said. “The idea fits for us as a business and tourism management agency.”

McDermott acknowledged that Teton Valley was in a good position to grow its offseason, becuase tourists tend to taper off after Labor Day as Jackson Hole continues to hum along at a steady pace through the fall.

“Restaurants on this side are still open and not ready to close for the offseason just yet,” said McDermott of the shoulder season in Teton Valley. “Not only do we want to recognize the talent in the Teton Valley art community, but we want to celebrate those folks and put a spotlight on them. We also want to bring them some paying customers.

“This is part of TREC’s charter and the charter of Teton County: to encourage small businesses,” he said. “That is the best way to have a strong economy, and it gives me personal joy to help make something like this happen.”

Working with the Driggs Downtown Association, Teton Arts, Foxtrot F ine Arts in Driggs, mayors, community members and of course, artists and

more artists, the festival has come together as what McDermott is calling a “modest and diligent” first festival.

Events, celebrations, food, drink and fun will define the weeklong festival that has something for every member of the household.

The f estival kicks off at 9 a.m. Sept.

9, at the Driggs City Center with the Teton Valley Art Market. You are not going to want to miss the steamroller woodblock art-making event hosted at the Tribe Artist Collective in Tetonia that day starting at 10 a.m. and running through 4 p.m.

The Badger Creek Cafe, Dave’s Pub and the Tetonia Club will provide music, street food and a festivalst yle atmosphere on Main Street on the north end of the valley in Tetonia throughout the day.

Other highlights of the week will include the Teton Valley Music Alliance’s sho wcase of talent hosted on the Driggs City Center main stage starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

13. Wander into the Teton Geotourism Center that evening for local photographer Howie Garber’s collection, “Cliff Notes of Nature Photography.”

Thursday evening, Sept. 14, starting at 5:30, the Driggs Downtown Associatio n will host “An Evening of Three Operettas: Miracles, Sacred Clown and Mercy Killing” with the Color ado Chamber Opera in the Driggs City Plaza.

The Teton Arts gallery opening is slated for Friday, Sept. 15, with a reception at 5 p.m. at the Driggs City Center. A “So Long Soirée and Mixer” will cap the week at Borbay Studios & Gallery on Main Street in Victor.

A final calendar of festival events can be found at DiscoverTetonValley. com and in print around Teton Valley in September.

Contact Jeannette Boner at 307-7325901 or schools@jhnewsandguide.com.

Dave McNally works on one of his Himalayan mountainscapes inspired by his time trekking and mountaineering in Nepal. McNally, who lived and worked in Jackson for 35 years, opened his Mountain Light Studio in Victor about two years ago.

“Four Heads and a Hunter” is by Mike Piggott, who moved into a studio in Victor, Idaho, about three years ago after a long tenure in Jackson.

Painters set their sights on Star Valley

Star Valley Plein Air

Monday, Sept. 18, to Saturday, Sept. 23

Sale is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 22 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 23

Paintings on display at Western Skies Fine Art Gallery

912 Washington St., Afton StarValleyArts.org

By Deb Gruver

After a successful debut of Star Valley Plein Air, organizers are hoping to double the number of participating artists.

This will be the second year for the Star Valley Arts Council’s outdoor painting event, said Lxi Weber, executive director of the council. It’s scheduled for Sept. 18 to 23.

“ We’re hoping for 60 painters,” Weber said. “We get a lot of local and regional artists. The event is open to a 60-mile radius of Afton as far as the painting goes.”

Artists will be entered into one of two categories: beginner or experienced.

“ We want everyone to join us,” Weber said, stressing that beginner painters truly are welcome.

Artists gather Sept. 18 to have their canvases stamped. That’s done to ensure works are created during the event.

“No studio or digital work is allowed,” Weber said. “Artists will be given a map of some locations around the valley that we think would be especially nice.”

Weber participated last year, oil painting a scene based on a cut flower farm near her home. Flowers were in the foreground with barns in the distance.

“I thought it was wonderful,” she said of the event.

The public is welcome to approach painters during the event, she said.

“If you see artists on the side of the road it’s OK to talk to them,” she said. “I would love it if someone would want to watch me paint for a while.”

Due to the nature of plein air painting, most work will

be landscapes. But styles of painting will differ widely. Artists will have four days to paint, submitting their creations Sept. 21 to Western Skies Fine Art Gallery in Afton. Last year 90 paintings were created, and $10,000 of art was sold.

Judging will occur Sept. 22. Cash prizes will be awarded. The top prize will be $2,000. Artist Mariah Cottrell won the top award last year. There will be three sponsor prizes and six judged prizes. The sponsor prizes will be $2,000 for first place, $1,600 for second, and $1,200 for third. There also will be four judged cash prizes, People’s Choice awards,

a Fine Art Connoisseur Award, and others. Prize amounts will be determined as the event gets closer, Weber said in July.

Western Skies will display all art to the public during sales from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 22 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 23. Art will be sold by silent auction. An awards ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Afton Civic Center, 150 S. Washington St. in Afton. The Arts Council keeps 20% of sales.

You can contact Deb Gruver via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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Star Valley Plein Air will run Sept. 18 to 23. This is the second year for the Star Valley Arts Council’s outdoor painting event, which could see as many as 60 painters.

Living out west is an art

lists. The self-guided tour, which was canceled last year due to the hesitancy among homeowners as COVID still loomed, returns in 2023 with a wide variety.

The event was started by Homestead publisher Latham Jenkins in 2013.

By Britney Magleby

There’s no shortage of art to be found in the valley during the Fall Arts Festival: paintings in oil, watercolor and acrylic; sculptures in bronze; the art of food and drink — and, of course, there’s the art of living out West.

The Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes is a rare chance to explore what’s normally behind closed doors. Four exclusive estates will be open to tour participants to celebrate the teams of talent that manifested everything from staircases to fireplaces to perennial flower beds.

This fundraising event, produced by Homestead Magazine, allows attendees to access the rare architecture, unique design and inspirational functionality of Jackson homes while engaging with the process of the architects, designers, landscape architects and builders who problem-solved and delivered on wish

“ We’re very excited about this year’s event, having four committed homes that offer a great range of architectural styles and interior design,” Jenkins said. “Attendees have been highly appreciative, both seeing the project work and meeting the professionals behind it.”

From the moment attendees arrive at each home site, the Showcase of Homes is an immersive and intimate art exper ience. Guests can explore grounds with water features and landscaping feats, discover hidden halls and personalized Teton views and be inspired by design styles from modern to rustic, mountain to ranch. The intimacy between attendees and professionals, however, may be the highlight of this event, Jenkins said.

“When the [professionals] are highly engaged in the event, it makes a huge difference,” he said. “I compare it to the difference between touring a museum with a docent versus being on a selfguided museum tour.”

This year’s collection of homes includes a delivered and installed “ski chalet” by Stack Homes, an antique-inspired villa by Ankeny Architecture and Design, a contemporary alpine abode nestled into a hillside by KT814 Architects, and a selfproclaimed “gem in the forest” by Molly Murray Interiors and South Fork Design.

Each location varies in style, material, inspiration and accents, providing sparks of inspiration for anyone who attends the showcase.

“ It’s a great format for meeting the talented professionals in Jackson that do home design in all its various fashions,” Jenkins said.

S ince the homes are spread across the valley and tucked into unique cor-

ners, ticket buyers are given the freedom to see each location at their leisure.

“ We’ve heard from attendees that they enjoy the self-guided pace of the event,” Jenkins said.

Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., guests are welcome to visit the spaces in whichever order they choose and spend additional time where they like.

While the event is put on by Homestead Magazine, the publication does not profit from ticket sales. Instead, true to the goals of a community event, the Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes is a fundraising event for local nonprofits. Homeowners who choose to par ticipate in the show are allowed to select a nonprofit of their choice, and all proceeds from ticket sales will be divided among the four charities chosen.

The Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes “has been nothing but an overwhelming success,” Jenkins said.

For local professionals it provides the opportunity to showcase their work. For attendees the event inspires new ideas and offers connections to Jackson’s design talent pool. And for the community the showcase has raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity.

Contact Britney Magleby via fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

“I compare it to the difference between touring a museum with a docent versus being on a self-guided museum tour.”

Latham Jenkins HOMESTEAD MAGAZINE

Gallery puts Star Valley on fine art map

town end up staying for longer than a week,” he said. “There’s just so much to do in Jackson during that week, so we don’t want to take away from that, but we’re happy to extend it a little bit.”

Star Valley Plein Air will run Sept. 18 through 23.

By Charlotte Flood Kane

An hour’s drive south of Jackson, art lovers can find work by emerging and regional artists not on view in Jackson.

But the caliber of unknowns at Western Skies Fine Art Gallery might rival the notable names on the Square.

Western Skies opened three years ago as the only fine art gallery in Star Valley and is run by Afton resident and artist Doug Monson.

Monson has been making art for as long as he can remember and never had any formal training. His charcoal drawings of Western animals are showcased in Wilcox Gallery in Jackson.

The Fall Arts Festival is such a busy time in Jackson that it can be hard for people to make it down to Afton. So last year Monson started hosting a festival called Star Valley P lein Air the week immediately following Fall Arts.

“ We’ve found that a lot of the collectors that come into

The first year was popular, with 350 people voting for the People’s Choice Award. Thirty-four artists participated, and this year organizers plan to double that number. Notable Wyoming artists involved include Charles Dayton, Grant Redden Jr. and David Dean.

The artists go out, paint for four days and then put their best three pieces on display for silent bidding.

“It’s a really neat event because people could see artists all over the valley during the week,” Monson said.

Because the event is a fundraiser, the Star Valley Art Council receives 20% of the proceeds of each piece sold. Last year artists sold about 60% of the finished works. Monson modeled the festival after similar ones in Driggs, Idaho, and Jackson.

“We patterned it off of those events, a few twists here and there,” he said.

“It is really good for us to help us get established so that people know we’re here,” he said. “And good for the artists as well.”

For people unable to make the festival, Western Skies represents 36 regional artists from as far away as Minnesota and Kansas. Half of the artists are up-and-coming, and half are more established.

“I may be the only artist

who is represented in Jackson,” Monson said. “Most of our artists here are different.”

Rick Kennington creates realistic oil paintings in a looser st yle inspired by horses and the cowboy lifestyle. Although he is based in Utah, he grew up

spending time on his grandfather’s ranch in Star Valley.

“

I’ve watched him for years at these different workshops, and the thing that really stuck out to me about Rick was how hard a worker he was,” Monson said. “It really shows with his work.”

Western Skies is situated inside a former hay barn.

“We’ve got a beautiful entryway with a 3D mural in the front, so it looks like you are walking into an old cabin with paintings and light-up trees and leaves,” Monson said.

The gallery has a studio up in the loft. Monson said he is usually working on something and often loans the space out to artists to come in and work while in town. Monson’s wife, Donna, sells her pottery in the gallery, and their six kids help out from time to time.

“We were kind of worried about trying to open a gallery down here as opposed to Jackson, but we’ve been surprisingly successful,” Monson said. “ We’re really happy, and we’ll be here for a long time.”

The gallery doubles as the unofficial home base during the plein air event and is a great way to extend the fun of Fall Arts another week.

Contact Charlotte Flood Kane via email to fallarts@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Josh LaBenne’s 20-by-16-inch oil painting “The Turn Around” is hanging at Western Skies Gallery in Afton.

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s mission to engage, entertain, educate and inspire through exhilarating musical experiences does not stop when the summer ends.

As part of our commitment to share our passion for music, GTMF provides a variety of events and community programs throughout the year. Visit gtmf.org for more info on our year-round programming.

We greatly appreciate the support of our community, donors, board, musicians and sta , all which help to ensure that great music in Jackson continues.

SIR DONALD RUNNICLES, MUSIC DIRECTOR JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

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New faces, old favorites meet at museum

Western Visions auction offers a diverse roster.

By Jeannette Boner

Traditional favorites and new artists converge at the 36th annual Westerns Visions art auction, the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s largest and longest-running fundraiser and a highlight of the Fall Arts Festival.

“The roster of Western Visions artists is continually changing, and while we love to welcome back our longtime supporters and favorites, we also strive to offer opportunities to first-time participants,” said Michelle Dickson, programs and events director.

Among the artists participating in Western Visions for the first time this year are Starr Hardridge, Andrew Bolam and Stella Nall. While Hardridge is new to Western Visions, he is represented in the museum’s permanent collection. Hardridge, an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, mixes pointillism and southeastern woodland beadwork. His works are marked by a bold use of color and geometry, bringing a modern twist inspired by Muscogee patterns and designs.

“ With nearly 175 works in this year’s show and sale, there is a wide variety of subjects, style and media represented,” Dickson said. “For example, Allison Leigh Smith paints on an aluminum board, which adds luminance to her work and is quite eye-catching. While traditional mediums are well represented, we also have artists utilizing feathers, found materials and maps.”

This year’ will also feature small-format works for the “intent to purchase” sale. Paintings are within 320 square inches and sculp-

ture is within 18 inches in any one dimension.

“There are many pieces in the live auction that we are excited about this year,” said Madison Webb Stanko, director of marketing for the national museum. “One that stands out is Robert Duncan’s painting entitled ‘Winter’s Refuge.’ A returning live auction participant, Duncan’s piece last year sold well above its high estimate.”

Duncan’s painting this year depicts a snowy scene with trumpeter swans and elk.

“It should feel familiar to Jacksonites, as the setting is the National Elk Refuge,” Stankosaid. “Duncan said that ‘The painting is a tribute to those who have had the courage and foresight to save and protect vital spaces for the creatures we share this planet with.’”

The money from the fundraiser supports the museum’s operating budget. The week’s events at the museum draw an international crowd to this critically acclaimed gathering. During Fall Arts Festival (and year-round), the museum is a hub for art lovers, wildlife and outdoor enthusiasts, and more.

The exhibit opens on Saturday, Sept. 9, at the museum with the signature event hosted Thursday, Sept. 14. Doors will open at 5 p.m. with the live auction beginning at 6:30. Public sales will begin Friday, Sept. 15, at the museum and online at 10 a.m.

The 2023 Western Visions Show + Sale in-person ticket includes access to over 170 artworks, 34 of which are live auction pieces, and the fixed price “intent to purchase” draw. The evening features complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages, live music, dessert reception and the opportunity to meet many participating artists.

In-person tickets cost $195 and are available online at WildlifeArtEvents.org.

Contact Jeannette Boner at 307-7325901 schools@jhnewsandguide.com.

Starr Hardridge is participating in Western Visions for the first time this Fall Arts Festival. Pictured here is the artist’s “Feral Heart,” an acrylic and acrylic-based Venetian plaster on canvas. The 20-by-16-inch painting is available by draw for $4,000.

Art walk and brunch create mellow finale

“There’ll be a number of artists in town, so they can come in and meet the artists and at the same time get some beverage and food and enjoy the art,” West Lives On owner Terry Ray said.

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By Charlotte Flood Kane

Before art enthusiasts and artists bid adieu, the Sunday Art Br unch Gallery Walk catches the final brushstrokes of the Fall Arts Festival with complimentary bloody marys and mimosas.

Many people use the more leisurely brunch as an opportunity to return to the artists they’ve met and pieces they loved during the week.

“It’s the wrap-up to the whole event,” said Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce Special Events Coordinator Navarre Heard. “Everyone is just like, all r ight, that was a whirlwind. It’s over. And we can walk around and reconnect with the people we’ve seen throughout the week.”

Jason Williams, owner of Altamira Fine Art, concurs: “I’d say that it’s more relaxed,” he said. “Palates and Palettes is pretty busy and high-speed. Art Brunch is a little more mellow.”

The nine participating galleries will be offering light sweets and savory bites along with drinks on Sunday, Sept. 17

The West Lives On Gallery will be serving made-to-order omelets in the contemporary gallery in partnership with The Wort Hotel. Desserts will be offered in the traditional gallery.

Astoria Fine Art will be serving bloody marys made by Josephine Tobey, the wife of Joshua Tobey, a longstanding featured artist in the gallery.

“ What we do different as a gallery is the bloody mary,” said Greg Fulton, managing partner of Astoria Fine Art. “We had been serving them for a while, and they were not that good. Josephine was like, ‘You’ve got to try mine.’”

Astoria has been serving up JoJo’s famous recipe now for the past 16 years.

At the culminating event, many people choose to buy the big pieces they have been eyeing over the past 12 days.

“It’s the biggest buying day of the entire event,” Heard said. “A lot of the galleries are excited for Sunday Art Brunch because a lot of people coming in are really looking to leave with something.”

“Sunday becomes the decision-making day,” Fulton said. “They’ve seen everything and decided that this is what they take home.”

The gallery walk is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A walking map and list of participating galleries will be available at the Chamber of Commerce, participating galleries and JacksonHole-

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Art fans mingle with artists and converse with collectors on the final day of the Fall Arts Festival with closing event, the Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk.

Ringholz breaks free in new ‘Superbloom’

By Michael Carmody

“Superbloom” isn’t just a colorful natural phenomenon this year — it’s also the title of Amy Ringholz’s dazzling solo show during the Fall Arts Festival.

The painter and owner of Ringholz Studios has made some dynamic changes to her characteristic painting style, and her eagerness to show her new work to the public is palpable.

“It will be a beautiful show,” Ringholz said, “with something completely fresh from me after I’ve been doing this for 20 years. I am very excited about it.”

Those familiar with Ringholz’s work no doubt recognize her style instantly: wildlife subjects rendered in organic fields of bold colors delineated by lines of black ink. Her newest work drops the demarcations from the equation, freeing the living being within each painting from its boundaries — and Ringholz’s too.

“Yeah, it’s very freeing for me that I’ve dropped the ink black lines I’m kind of known for,” Ringholz said, “and letting that painting just be as abstract as I can make it.”

It is easy for artists to develop habits in their work that at first define their aesthetic but eventually become kind of a prison. Ringholz recognizes the importance of escaping those selfimposed restrictions, and the difficulty, too.

“It’s really hard to get there,” she said. “So when you finally do break through, oh, it’s so liberating. I’m a happy painter at the moment.”

In addition to her solo show, Ringholz also looks forward to the QuickDraw, a beloved festival tradition.

“ The reason it’s so special is that there’s a lot of really talented artists there,” Ringholz said, “and then to get to actually see behind the scenes of making a piece bridges the understanding of making art and the appreciation of it. It just gives life to going into galleries and seeing the work later on that day that you actually saw created that morning.”

The electricity and emotion of the QuickDraw brings art alive in real time, right before the public’s eyes.

“There’s an energy to the event,” Ringholz said.

She has more up her sleeve for the festival, too, including a special dinner party with limited seating.

“‘Superbloom’ is on Tuesday. And then I do something really special on Wednesday night where I host my own dinner party, in my gallery, where we do events in there,” she said. “I’m calling it Dusk Dinner Club, and it’s just this really fun, intimate night at the gallery, where I get to really lead the evening. We usually do something creative. I talk about the work, I answer questions. We have a four-course delicious dinner. It’s just a special, intimate experience with an artist during the Fall Arts Festival.” (See story on 12B.)

Ringholz Studios will wrap up the weekend with Sunday brunch and a High Noon art talk on Sept. 17.

“It’s always fun,” she said. “People can just come and hear me talk about the work. So it’s a great little opportunity to get something to eat, sit on some benches and hear from the artist.”

Contact Michael Carmody via fallarts@jhnewsandguide.com.

Amy Ringholz’s “Icon,” an oil and gouache on canvas, reflects her new style of painting.

2023 Fall Arts Festival Schedule of Events

Read more about individual gallery events and exhibits throughout this guide. Events are often added after this program has gone to press, so it is best to regularly check with galleries about additional receptions and demonstrations. For more information visit the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce at JacksonHoleChamber.com/events/ annual-events-festivals/fall-arts-festival

Wednesday, Sept. 6

Wine Down Wednesday & Wind Up for Fall Arts

5-7 p.m.

The Wort Hotel 50 Glenwood St.

307-733-2190

Thursday, Sept. 7

Western Design Conference Preview Party + Fashion Show

6-10 p.m., $100-175

Snow King Sports and Events Center 100 E. Snow King Ave. WesternDesignConference.com

Friday, Sept. 8

Western Design Conference

10 a.m.-5 p.m., $30

Snow King Sports and Events Center 100 E. Snow King Ave

WesternDesignConference.com

Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk

5-7 p.m., free

Various Jackson galleries JacksonHoleChamber.com

Saturday, Sept. 9

Western Visions Exhibit Opening

10 a.m.-5 p.m.

National Museum of Wildlife Art

2820 Rungius Road

WildlifeArt.org/support/events

307-733-5771

Western Design Conference

10 a.m.-5 p.m., $30

Snow King Sports and Events Center 100 E. Snow King Ave

WesternDesignConference.com

Teton Valley Art Market

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Driggs (Idaho) City Center, S. Main St.

Steamroller Woodblock Festival with Michelle Walters and Katy Ann Fox

10 a.m.-4 p.m., Free

Tribe Art Collective, 6263 S. Main St., Tetonia, Idaho

208-497-5111

Sue Tyler Open studio

11 a.m.-3 p.m., Free

6375 7th Ave., Tetonia, Idaho

Mona Monroe Open Studio

11 a.m.-3 p.m., Free

4240 Leigh Lane, Alta

Jo Ann West Art Exhibit

1 p.m.-6 p.m., Free

High Point Cider

7565 Lupine Lane, Victor, Idaho

Stacey Peterson and Michael Albrechtsen demonstration

2-4 p.m., free

Turner Fine Art, 545 N. Cache St. TurnerFineArt.com

Music, Food Street Fest

4 p.m. Main Street, Tetonia, Idaho (Badger Creek, Dave’s Pubb, Tetonia Club, Tribe AC)

DiscoverTetonValley.com

Steamroller Roll Out: Art Exhibition

6-8 p.m., free Tribe Artist Collective, 6263 S. Main St., Tetonia, Idaho 208-497-5111

Sunday, Sept. 10

Arts on the Green

10 a.m.-6 p.m., Free Center for the Arts lawn 240 S. Glenwood St. JHCenterfortheArts.org 307-734-8956

Western Design Conference

10 a.m.-5 p.m., $30 Snow King Sports and Events Center 100 E. Snow King Ave WesternDesignConference.com

Tetonia Art Market 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tribe Artist Collective, 6263 S. Main St., Tetonia, Idaho

Jo Ann West Art Exhibit High Point Cider, 7565 Lupine Lane, Victor, Idaho

1 -6 p.m., Free

Triangle X Artists Paint-Out

4:30-7 p.m., ticketed event TurnerFineArt.com

Cliff Notes of Nature Photography with Howie Garber

5-6 p.m., free Teton Geo Center, 60 S. Main St., Driggs, Idaho

Monday, Sept. 11

Jo Ann West Art Exhibit at High Point

Cider 1-6 p.m., free 7565 Lupine Lane, Victor, Idaho

Open Gallery at Borbay Studios & Gallery 1-7 p.m., free 10 S. Main St., Suite 203, Victor, Idaho

Tuesday, Sept. 12

Open Gallery with Jordan Potter Art Noon- 6 p.m., free 936e 5000s, Victor, Idaho

Jo Ann West Art Exhibit at High Point

Cider

1-6 p.m., free 7565 Lupine Lane, Victor, Idaho

Open Gallery at Borbay Studios and Gallery 1 -7 p.m., free 10 S. Main St., Suite 203, Victor, Idaho

Kathryn Mapes Turner painting demonstration 3-5 p.m., free Turner Fine Art, 545 N. Cache St. TurnerFineArt.com 307-734-4444

Independent Artist Showcase

5-7 p.m., free Various galleries in Jackson JacksonHoleChamber.com

”Superbloom” opening reception

5-8 p.m., free Ringholz Studio, 160A E. Broadway AmyRingholz.com

Wednesday, Sept. 13

Featured Artist Poster Signing with Ewoud de Groot

1-4 p.m., free Astoria Fine Art 35 E. Deloney Ave. AstoriaFineArt.com

West Bank Studio Tour

12-7 p.m., free

Thal Glass Studio 3800 Linn Drive ThalGlass.net

307-690-2491

Miga Rossetti 1710 Fish Creek Road RossettiDesigns.com

307-690-7077

Annie Band 2945 Hunt Lane AnnieBand.com

Patricia Griffin and Jeremy Bradshaw reception

2 p.m. Gallery Wild 80 W. Broadway GalleryWild.com

307-203-2322

Cliff Notes to Nature Photography by Howie Garber

5-6 p.m., free Teton Geo Center, 60 S. Main St., Driggs, Idaho

Dusk Dinner Club

6 p.m., $250 per ticket Ringholz Studio, 160A E. Broadway AmyRingholz.com

Thursday, Sept. 14

Western Visions Show + Sale with Live Auction

5-9:30 p.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius Road WildlifeArt.org/support/events

307-733-5771

West Bank Studio Tour

12-7 p.m., Free

Thal Glass Studio 3800 Linn Drive ThalGlass.net

307-690-2491

Miga Rossetti 1710 Fish Creek Road RossettiDesigns.com

307-690-7077

Annie Band 2945 Hunt Lane

AnnieBand.com

“An Evening of Three Operettas: Miracles, Sacred Clown and Mercy Killing” with Colorado Chamber Opera

5:30 p.m., free

Driggs Plaza, 60 S. Main St., Driggs Idaho

Teton Valley Artisan’s Fair with Jess Trescher and artisans

2 -8:30 p.m. Driggs Plaza, 60 S. Main St., Driggs, Idaho

Friday, Sept. 15

Jackson Hole Art Auction Preview

9 a.m.-8 p.m. Center for the Arts

240 S. Glenwood St. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com

Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes

10 a.m.- 4 p.m., $125

HomesteadMag.com/2023-jackson-hole-showcase-of-homes

NMWA’s Open Public Sale

10 a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius Road 307-733-5771

WildlifeArt.org/support/events

Paul Rhymer sculpting demonstration

2-5 p.m., free Turner Fine Art, 545 N Cache St. TurnerFineArt.com 307-734-4444

”Afternoon with the Artist” reception with featured artist Ewoud De Groot

3-5 p.m. Astoria Fine Art 35 E. Deloney Ave. AstoriaFineArt.com 307-733-4016

QuickDraw Artist Reception

5 -7 p.m. Town Square JacksonHoleChamber.com

Miracles Operetta & Legends and Lessons of the Last Locust Presentation 5:30 p.m., free Foxtrot Fine Art, 60 E. Little Ave., Driggs, Idaho 208-352-2203

Dwayne Harty- Painter & Dioramist

5:30 p.m., free Teton Geo Center, 60 S. Main St., Driggs, Idaho

Open Studio with Portrait and Abstract Artist-Alison Brush 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Free Alison Brush Studio, 4540 Fox Creek Village Drive, Victor, Idaho

Open Studio with Dave McNally Noon-8 p.m., Free Mountain Light Studio, Togwotee Center 7168 S. Hwy. 33, Suite 6M

Saturday, Sept. 16

Jackson Hole QuickDraw 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Town Square JacksonHoleChamber.com

Jackson Hole Art Auction Free preview 9 a.m.-noon Auction starts at 12:30 p.m. Center for the Arts 240 S. Glenwood St. JacksonHoleArtAuction.com

TVHGFA So Long Soirée and Mixer 6-9 p.m. Borbay Studios & Gallery, 10 S. Main St., Suite 203, Victor, Idaho

Sunday, Sept. 17

Sunday Art Brunch Gallery Walk 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free Various Jackson galleries JacksonHoleChamber.com

High Noon Art Talk Noon, free Ringholz Studios, 160A E. Broadway AmyRingholz.com 307-734-3964

Thursday, Sept. 21

Star Valley Plein Air Paintings on display at Western Skies Fine Art Gallery, 912 Washington St. in Afton Sept. 21-23

Gallery.Wild GalleryWild.com

JACKSON HOLE FALL ARTS FESTIVAL 2023

CARRIE WILD & JASON WILLIAMS

DUAL SPECTRUM

September 8th - 11th | Jackson Hole, WY

Artist Reception September 8th 4-7 pm

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

September 8th - 17th

Gallery Wild artists will be painting live throughout Fall Arts Festival

JEREMY BRADSHAW & PATRICIA A. GRIFFIN

LIVING COLOR

September 13th - 23rd | Jackson Hole, WY

Artist Reception September 13th 2-6 pm

ARTIST BRUNCH

All Artist Celebration, Brunch & Art Walk

September 17th 10 am - 2 pm

DOYLE HOSTETLER SILAS THOMPSON

AMBER BLAZINA

JEREMY BRADSHAW

CARRIE WILD

PATRICIA A. GRIFFIN

JENNA VON BENEDIKT