Making art accessible
Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 11F
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s many people as possible should be able to enjoy Falls Arts Festival. That idea sparked John Frechette to host a print show and sale by artists in the Jackson area. Frechette is the owner of Made, a Gaslight Alley boutique that specializes in handmade items. For Fall Arts, Frechette is featuring affordable artwork by Teton Artlab artists as a way of overcoming that feeling people experience when they spend a lot of time looking at art they can’t afford to take home. “So much of Fall Arts Festival prices out most of the community,” Frechette said. “This show is all prints, so it’s all under $100.” A range of artists will donate prints for the show, which will raise money for Teton Artlab’s classes and school programs. Eight artists will be featured. Travis Walker, one of the featured artists, creates large oil and acrylic paintings, some of which are on display all month at Cowboy Coffee. Printmaking lets him to share his art with more people. “Prints allow people to start their collection in a way that’s accessible, probably more acces-
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John Frechette, of Made, has invited Artlab to make and sell reasonably priced prints at his gallery.
Artlab print-makers will explain their processes and make prints while the public watches.
sible than a painting,” Walker said. “That’s kind of a neat thing about a show like this.” Walker is the director and founder of Teton Artlab, a nonprofit committed to providing education opportunities for valley artists through residencies, performances, exhibitions and workshops. Made’s location in Gaslight Alley complemens Artlab’s seldom-seen activities, he said. It’s a good place for people to wander in and out. Along with having their work
The prints created during Palates and Palettes will be for sale that night and for the rest of the festival at Made. If last year’s event is any indication, they’ll go fast. The classes the print show will help fund offer instruction on some of the same techniques employed during the Made demo, Walker said. “It’s just a good chance to get out there and help people see our work,” he said, “and maybe get interested in owning or creating art themselves.”
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on display and sale, the featured artists will make prints on-site, on the spot during Palates and Palettes on Friday, Sept. 7. Every 30 minutes, another artist will step into the spotlight, demonstrate a printing technique and create a new print, Walker said. “We’ll have some etching, some woodblock, some monotype, some screen printing,” he said. “Sort of give people a chance to see the process up close.” Walker said he plans to cre-
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ate a new print based on the American Dreams series he’s now working on, featuring images of RVs and trailer parks. Other artists’ content will be totally different, he said. “We don’t really limit people as to what they want to create,” he said. “There will be some landscape work but also some more contemporary, edgier stuff too.” Along with Walker, the featured artists include local notables like Tristan Greszko, Aaron Wallis, Ben Roth and Wendell Field.
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