fall arts festival 2010

Fall artsFESTIVAL

JACKSON HOLE

2010

Color danceWolf Kahn uses color to express the dance of nature, like a thicket trilling orangeand yellow

Wild natureFamed photographer Thomas Mangelsen travels the globe to photograph wildlifein the wilds

Fall gemsFall feels lush at Trailside with a vast collection of new works by more than 40 of its artists

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New anglesArt landscape remade with new galleries, new locations

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Thirty-thousand people daily on average drive by a piece of public art in Jackson. Winking

above West Broadway, ArtSpot – a repurposed chairlift tower now framing seasonal installa-tions like the current sculpture by local fi ber artist Doris Florig – introduces art into everyone’s everyday. Whether on your way to work or arriving in town for the fi rst time, the ArtSpot invites curiosity – an accumulation of glances – and serves as a sign-post of the arts that lie ahead. Like it, love it, hate it, analyze it: whatever the feeling, allow a reaction. Only when art stirs emotions – both amorous and antagonistic – does it achieve a pulse. May the art introduced during the Fall Arts Festival do more than sparkle, let it ignite conversation, an experience.

— Katy Niner

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Cover illustration features a collage of artwork:Astoria Fine Art Gallery“Barefoot” by Josh Tobey“Great Grey Owl #4” by Ewoud de Groot“Fish Dish” by Tim Cherry“The Tracker” by Greg Beecham

Heather James Fine Art“Melicope obovato” by Penelope Gottlieb“The Log Section” by Tim Hawkinson“Iro (mi) #288” by Kaoru Mansour “Jungle v.1” by Timothy Tompkins

Horizon Fine Art Gallery“American Kestrel” by Lona Hymas-Smith

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❚ By Kelsey Dayton

A gainst the backdrop of the global recession, a new art landscape has formed in Jackson, marked by new galleries and new locations.

With economic uncertainty has come opportunity to approach the art market from new angles. Through adaptation, the Jackson art world has continued to thrive and even grow.

For galleries prospecting an outpost in Jackson, the current market offered attractive openings. Long a dream of its owners, blue chip gallery Heather James Fine Art opened this spring in the new 172 Center St. complex, a sister to the galleries already established by owners Heather Sacre and James Carona in Palm Desert, Calif.

From displaying masters like Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet to introducing emerging contemporary artists, Heather James Fine Art bridges media, genres and periods. Antiquities, Latin American art, impressionist and modernist paintings, cutting-edge photography and avant-garde sculpture all live in the gallery.

“The art scene in Jackson has always been very vibrant,” said Lyndsay McCandless, gallery director of Heather James Fine Art. “It’s not something that is static. It pushes

out and adds something to it and becomes bigger and better each year.”

Since its opening, Heather James has seen traffi c beyond its expectations, McCandless said. The gallery welcomes everyone from high school students who “ooh and ahhh” over paintings to poten-tial buyers keen on expanding their art collections.

While galleries have suffered during the recession, the impact has been buff-ered in Jackson by the valley’s continued draw as a tourist destination, McCandless said. A wide range of people makes its way to Jackson, a diversity that supports an array of art.

“Across the board, it’s a community that really embraces culture and wants to expand their art experiences,” she said.

This mentality is what drew photog-rapher John Richter and his wife, Dawn Richter, to Jackson to open Richter Gallery in July.

After temporarily owning a gallery in Telluride, Colo., they scouted a new location. Of all the art fairs the Richters participated in across the region, Jackson Hole’s summer fairs brought the best response to his work. Jackson seemed perfect for the large-format photogra-pher, offering him access to the outdoor subjects he loves to shoot and to a com-

munity that appreciates art.Beyond new galleries, opportunities

arose for existing galleries in the form of prime vacancies downtown and com-petitive real estate arrangements.

In June, Wilcox Gallery relocated Wilcox II to 110 Center St., next door to the recently opened Moo’s Gourmet Ice Cream shop.

For Wilcox, the gallery space meant more room for more art. The second space complements the gallery’s original outpost north of town by establishing a downtown presence for the Western art purveyor, said manager Jeff Wilcox.

Other towns are closing galleries, Wilcox said. In Jackson, new ones are springing up and the community is sup-porting them.

“We’ve got an art market that’s here to stay and it’s staying strong,” Wilcox said.

Horizon Fine Art also made a move this year from Center Street to 30 King St. While smaller, the new space offers a bright ambiance more conducive to the gallery’s collection, proprietor Barbara Nowak said. And the new location lures more visitors.

In the spaces vacated by Wilcox and Horizon, building owner and longtime Jackson art entrepreneur Terry Kennedy and his wife, Joy, revived Raindance Gallery and added a contemporary com-plement, Vertical Peaks.

Astoria Fine Art also seized the opportunity to change its gallery space, expanding next door and remodeling the full 3,500 square feet to create a cohesive

gallery that better suits its stable of wild-life, landscape and fi gurative artists.

Also part of the downtown shuffl e, Rick and Hollee Armstrong’s RARE Gallery moved in May from 485 W. Broadway to 60 E. Broadway to be closer to Town Square.

It was all about timing, Hollee said. Scouting a move for several years, the Armstrongs waited for the right oppor-tunity. Recently, commercial real estate fi nally opened up, she said.

Since the move, RARE has seen more customers walk through its doors.

“It absolutely has had a profound effect on the business,” Armstrong said. “What we’re seeing is just a refreshing step into the art community in Jackson Hole.”

New galleries and moved galleries have refreshed the Jackson art map, help-ing to remake a centralized home for art, she said. Now, a greater diversity of art defi nes downtown.

“It’s a really refreshing change to see new works,” she said.

The moves and additions to the art community make Jackson a more viable place for artists to sell their work. The variety helps draw a wider audience of art appreciators and keeps the art scene interesting.

“It’s been a very pivotal time for moves for many of the galleries in Jackson,” Armstrong said. “The switch-up changed travel paths but increased foot traffi c. It allies all the galleries together and helps Jackson become that art Mecca we all know it is.”

New identityBeyond new galleries and

new locations, two Jackson galleries have adopted new names to better refl ect their creative vision.

JH Muse Gallery is now Tayloe Piggott Gallery, named after its owner, a change that refl ects the gallery’s increased activity in interna-tional contemporary art fairs and Piggott’s singular scope as curator.

Mangelsen Images of Nature Gallery also added its owner’s name to the title in an effort to attract those who didn’t real-ize the gallery featured works by photographer Thomas Mangelsen, gallery manager Dan Fulton said earlier this year when the gallery changed its name.

New angles

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Rick and Hollee Armstrong’s RARE Gallery moved from the diffi cult-to-negotiate fi ve-way intersection to 60 E. Broadway, right off the Town Square.

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Heather James Fine Art offers museum-quality work by masters, as well as top contemporary artists, Latin American art, antiquities and more, attracting many art appreciators.


❚ By Jennifer Dorsey

L andscape painter Reid Christie doesn’t require faraway places for subject matter. Wyoming scenery provides

an inexhaustible font of inspiration, from Cody, where he lives, to Jackson.

“I could paint that for the rest of my life,” he said.

Jack Terry, a painter from Georgetown, Texas, looks to his family tree, his friends and neighbors, and a lifestyle he loves for some of his favorite subjects: wranglers and ranchers.

One of his grandfathers was a ranch-er and cowboy, and, in addition to being a full-time artist, Terry is a part-time rancher who enjoys going on cattle drives and roundups and depicting them through his artwork.

“It’s a vanishing way of life,” he said. “I would love for as many people as possible to understand that way of life.”

Christie and Terry are both represent-ed in Jackson by West Lives On Gallery, Christie for about 15 years and Terry much more recently.

During the Fall Arts Festival, West Lives On, which specializes in traditional Western genres, will host a reception for Reid from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, to

celebrate Capturing Wyoming on Canvas, a one-man show of his work that ends Sunday, Sept. 12.

Reid will also be one of a dozen West Lives On artists at an all-gallery open house, with omelettes and Bloody Marys courtesy of The Wort Hotel, during the Art Brunch Gallery Walk from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19.

West Lives On will also host “History in Oil,” a show of paintings by Joe Velazquez, this year’s Fall Arts featured artist. It opens Monday, Sept. 13, and con-cludes Saturday, Sept. 25, with an artist’s reception 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. From 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 15, the artist will be at the gallery signing posters.

The Fall Arts Festival “has done such a great job of bringing people to Jackson Hole in September,” said Terry Ray, West Lives On’s owner. “It’s a great showcase for Jackson Hole and a great showcase for all our artists.”

Though Reid Christie and Jack Terry generally focus on different subject mat-ter, both are interested in light.

Christie still recalls a college profes-sor’s admonition: Never paint the sun into a painting.

“I thought, ‘Why not?’” Christie said. “The Hudson River [School] painters painted light into their paintings all

the time.”He often puts animals and people into his

landscapes to provide a sense of proportion. Some of his paintings in his Fall Arts show focus mainly on people, with the landscape as background, not subject. “Headed for Pierre’s Hole,” for example, shows a group of trappers in front of the Cathedral Group. “War Pony” portrays a Native American riding a pony in the Tetons.

Christie’s interest in Native American culture goes back a long way. In college, while working toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts, he minored in Wyoming prehistory, which gave him an opportunity to explore archeological sites.

Terry, having sat in the saddle herd-ing cattle, knows what it’s like to be a wrangler out in nature, focusing on the job at hand. When painting, he tries to convey different types of light at particu-

lar times of day and to show the varying terrain and weather conditions cowboys must respond to — rain, lightening, snow, burning sun and swollen rivers.

“They’re out there no matter what,” he said. “I’m always trying to capture the light, capture that special moment so people can sit back and feel like they’re part of that situation, feel like they’re there.”

Terry wasn’t sure he would be able to come to the valley for the Fall Arts Festival. Reid will be in Jackson for about two weeks, as he also has a painting, “Yellowstone Winter,” in the Western Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale.

“The Fall Arts Festival attracts so many people, both patrons of art and people who are just curious,” he said. “For my wife and me, it’s our Jackson holiday.”

West Lives On Gallery75 N. Glenwood St.734-2888

“Cathedral” and other paintings by Reid Christie can be seen at West Lives On Gallery, which will host a reception for Christie on Sept. 11. The Cody-based artist says of his work, “I want my paintings to be never-ending symphonies through which the viewer’s eye keeps moving and never leaving.”

Artists capture light, Western heritage

Living landscapes

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❚ By Katy Niner

Every summer day in Vermont, Wolf Kahn, 82, rises early and begins working, fi rst on pastels in a room

downstairs. Then he slowly migrates to his studio down the hill, where he paints until lunch: tomatoes from the garden, bread and cheese from town. Afterward, he returns to work. Some days, he goes out with a friend to draw places in pastels bound for paintings in his studio. When his eyes tire, he turns to gardening and mail. Then he eats supper, often in Brattleboro.

This daily diligence creates landscape paintings and pastels that sing with color and hover above abstraction and realism: a barn sloped by lavender and aubergine, a pink-orange tangle of branches, trees trill-ing purple and lime.

“He is using colors to express the dance of nature,” said Tayloe Piggott, whose gal-lery is hosting Wolf Kahn: Refractions of Light — Paintings and Pastels, a show curated by art advisor Camille Obering in collaboration with Piggott. The show offi -cially opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, during the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk.

Refractions of Light, which hangs until Oct. 24, features the breadth of Kahn’s land-scapes, from large oil paintings to small pastels. In his works, light seeps through layers of colors in closely related tones.

“He looks so much deeper,” Obering said. “It’s not what you see physically; it’s the atmosphere.”

His saturated scenes capture epipha-nies experienced in nature, particularly in

places like Jackson Hole, Piggott said.“If you look and really see, the colors he

is using are present, but not at fi rst glance,” Piggott said.

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Kahn was a precociously creative child whose tal-ent was nurtured by his family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. At the onset of World War II, Kahn was sent to England and later joined his family in the U.S.

Coming of age as an artist in New York City during the dawn of abstract expres-sionism, he developed a keen instinct for color.

“I enjoy color,” he said. “I fi nd lots of ideas of color, fi rst of all, in the paint box and the tubes of paint, and then my imagi-nation goes to work on those colors. Every now and then, I fi nd a place in nature that I can express in those colors. That’s what I do. It usually comes from the act of paint-ing, rather than the specifi c description I want to make.”

In New York City in the 1950s, he stud-ied under infl uential abstract expression-ist painter Hans Hofmann and became his studio assistant.

“The most important thing [Hofmann] did in his person and his ideas, he made it seem possible to do important work and be a cultural fi gure, not just be a decorator and a person who makes objects for people with disposable income,” Kahn said. “For him, being an artist was a high calling, like a poet or a composer. I think art is a high calling, and I try to act accordingly. I try not to be superfi cial and careless. I am a hard worker.”

Early in his career, Kahn felt confl icted about being an artist and tried different routes — getting a degree in philosophy, even logging for six months in Oregon, a job he found after researching the highest wages available to unskilled laborers ($1.65 per hour).

“I regained my confi dence working in the woods,” he said. “I found out, even though I was working in the woods, I was still drawing and painting with pen and ink, and I enjoyed the work.”

All along, Kahn has eschewed control, intention and description. Now, his macu-lar degeneration makes the portraits of his early years impossible but seems to have honed his relational sense.

“I see color and tone very clearly,” he said. “People tell me that I am doing my best work that I have ever done. I try very hard not to judge myself, to just do my work and let the devil take the hindmost.”

For decades, Kahn and his wife, paint-er Emily Mason, have spent summers in southeastern Vermont — the soil of his

paintings — and winters in New York City. In Vermont, he fi nds himself tending to the garden and the neighbors’ cows.

“I fi nd that I have an easier time work-ing in the city,” he said. “Right now, for example, all the fruits are ripe, the garden is full of good stuff. I hate like hell to see the caulifl ower go by. One gets busy with that. ... Painting sometimes takes second place. In the city, it always takes fi rst place.”

Boldly loyal to landscape, Kahn has paved a stalwart, sustaining path for himself.

“The act of painting is very enjoyable, especially when it’s going well,” he said. “It can also be depressing when it’s going poorly.”

Two years ago, in Yellowstone National Park, Kahn drew a slew of pastels, includ-ing one of a black moose standing against a dark band of bushes. In a picnic area near Old Faithful, he found a stand of lodgepole pines, all ordered in rows, with the ground dappled by buffalo droppings.

“There were these pools of colors,” he said.

Tayloe Piggott Gallery62 S. Glenwood St.733-0555

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Kahn fi nds ideas for color in his paintbox and then uses his imagination to apply them to nature. “If you look and really see, the colors he is using are present, but not at fi rst glance,” said gallery owner Tayloe Piggott.

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❚ By Dina Mishev

F ifty-two thousand. That’s how many frames wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen shot during the

month he spent this summer in Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland. Twenty-fi ve. That’s how many of the images will most likely make it into his Fall Arts Festival show.

Mangelsen is still feverishly sorting through and editing the images, but a handful of them, along with perhaps half a dozen others he took at other locations this past year, will premiere at the gallery during Fall Arts Festival.

A reception celebrating the new images is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11.

In addition to the Brazilian images, Mangelsen is releasing images of polar bear cubs he took in Manitoba, a wolf in Alaska’s Denali National Park and also some images taken much closer to home: a pine marten in Yellowstone National Park, male tanagers in a choke cherry tree just south of Jackson and a female great horned owl at the Gros Ventre Campground near Kelly.

Asked if he had a favorite, Mangelsen mentioned the wolf image. And then two from Brazil. And then one of two polar bear cubs playing. And then the tanagers. And then the great horned owl.

“I guess I can’t really say one,” he fi nally said.

While Mangelsen can’t pick a favor-ite, the Brazil images are at least a fi rst for him. He had never shot in that coun-try before. He was drawn there by the prospect of capturing a great diversity of wildlife: jaguars, hyacinth macaws, caimans, giant otters, toucans, parrots and cougars, among others.

About a decade ago, while in the Amazon Basin in Peru, Mangelsen got a brief — “maybe 10 seconds total” — glimpse of jaguars walking along a river.

“Ever since then, I wanted to see them again and photograph them,” he said.

The Pantanal is one of the best places in the world to see the big cats, which are considered near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The Pantanal is also one of the few places in the world you can catch sight of the endangered hyacinth macaw, the largest macaw and the largest fl ying parrot spe-cies in the world.

Mangelsen planned to spend two and a half weeks in the Pantanal. He canceled his plane reservations twice though, fi nally spending a month there.

“If I hadn’t had a trip to Kenya planned that I had to get back for, I would have stayed even longer,” he said. “It is that kind of place.”

The one animal Mangelsen had really hoped to photograph in the Pantanal that remained elusive was a cougar

“The Pantanal is a really wild place and, the cougars there aren’t radio-col-lared,” he said.

The photos from Brazil will only be a small part of the collection of new imag-es at the gallery.

“This past year, Tom traveled as much as he always does,” said Dan Fulton, director of Mangelsen Images of Nature Gallery. “And he brought images back from a diversity of places.”

Fulton said he expects crowds to par-ticularly enjoy the images of the polar bear cubs.

“They’re just really fun,” he said.One of these images, “High Five,”

is of a single cub with a paw up in the air. Another, “Polar Play,” is of two cubs playing just outside their den.

“With nature photography, there’s no predicting what you’re going to get,” Fulton said. “But Tom is patient.”


Mangelsen Imagesof Nature Gallery170 N. Cache Dr.733-9752

“Northern Dance,” one of the new images Tom Mangelsen will show during Fall Arts Festival, frames the dancing glow of aurora borealis in Manitoba, Canada. One legend explains the phenomenon as torches carried by departing souls on their way to the afterlife.

Mangelsen travels the world to photograph wildlife. With “Eyes of the Wolf,” he brings viewers face to face with a gray wolf in Denali National Park in Alaska.

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Trailside Galleries130 E. Broadway733-3186

❚ By Dina Mishev

Four shows, new work by more than three dozen artists, and one giant reception. That’s Trailside Galleries’

Fall Arts Festival.The gallery’s annual Fall Gold show is the

major event of the festival, as it has been for many years. Hanging from Sept. 1 through Sept. 20, this year’s Fall Gold features wild-life, landscape, fi gural and Western art in an array of genre and mediums.

Most of the gallery’s artists have cre-ated at least one new work for the show. These artists include Cyrus Afsary, Nancy Glazier, Bill Anton, David Yorke, Wayne Baize, Morgan Weistling, Gerald Balciar, Bruce Cheever, Richard D. Thomas, Brent Cotton, Andrew Denman, Kathy Wipfl er, Sarah Woods, Robert Duncan, Michael Godfrey, Suzie Seerey-Lester and Mian Situ, to name not even half of the artists participating.

“Fall Gold is one of the most important shows of the entire season, as there is no limit to the exceptional quality and diverse nature of work being featured,” wrote the gallery in a press release.

Running concurrently with Fall Gold

are showcases on three very different wildlife painters: Bonnie Marris, Kyle Sims and Ralph Oberg. Although calling Oberg a wildlife painter isn’t completely accurate. Fully focused on wildlife early in his career, Oberg now paints landscapes that often have wildlife in them.

Represented by Trailside since 2001, Marris produces wildlife paintings so real-istic they could almost be photographs, except they have more depth than photo-graphs. Photos don’t capture the personal-ity, faultlessness and emotional undertones Marris’ oil paintings do.

Marris has been studying wolves, foxes, dogs and horses since childhood. In college, she earned degrees in zoology and animal behavior. And when she wasn’t studying animals, she was painting them.

Marris cites David Shephard, the great British painter and preservationist, as a hero and mentor. His mastery of color and pure magic on canvas, she wrote in an art-ist’s statement, motivate her every day to

become more skillful, to make an animal seem to step off the linen canvas so that viewers hold their breath in preparation for the meeting.

She also wants viewers to see each ani-mal she paints as an individual and to con-nect with its soul.

“We all know our dogs and cats have personalities and their own ways of being,” she wrote. “Well, this is also true of griz-zlies, of horses, of wolves — of all of nature’s creatures.”

Kyle Sims also sees each of his subjects as a unique personality. Working predomi-nantly in the West, observing elk, moun-tain goats and bison as well as smaller species such as fox and cottontail rab-bits, Sims paints animals in their natural environments.

Every year since 2004, his paintings have been shown at the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale in Cody, including 2009, when his piece won Best in Show.

That same year, Sims was invited to the

Masters of the American West show at the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles. He also participated in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s annual Prix de West show for the fi rst time, where his piece “Summer Rumble” earned the Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman Wildlife Award, an award given to the best wildlife art piece.

Because of Sims’ popularity, all of his paintings in the showcase will be sold by draw. The draw sale will be the evening of Sept. 18.

The third artist to be featured is plein air painter Oberg, a signature member of the Plein Air Painters of America.

To celebrate his 60th birthday, Oberg traveled to Nepal and trekked in the Himalaya. Not surprisingly, he was inspired by the mountain range, so much of the work in this showcase is of Himalayan landscapes.

The reception for all four shows is 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 18.

Festival cornucopiaTrailside Galleries hosts new work by more than 40 artists

Whether painting a bull elk or a cottontail rabbit, Kyle Sims considers the personalities of his animal subjects. This approach is evident in “Northern Social,” a 30-by-60-inch oil painting.

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Astoria Fine Art35 E. Deloney Ave. 733-4016

❚ By Dina Mishev

With nearly double the space it had for last year’s Fall Arts Festival, Astoria Fine Art has three big shows planned for this year: Greg Beecham, G.

Russell Case and Ewoud de Groot. It is the fi rst time Case and de Groot are showing at Astoria. It is the third annual show for Beecham.

It was during last year’s Fall Arts Festival, when Astoria was so packed people had diffi culty moving, much less getting a good look at the art, that gallery co-owner Greg Fulton decided it was time to move forward with the expansion he had been considering.

Beyond offering visitors more elbow room in the gal-lery, the expansion also has allowed Fulton to bring on more artists, such as Case and de Groot.

A Belgian, de Groot lives and paints in a small town on the North Sea 30 miles northwest of Amsterdam. Fulton fi rst noticed his work at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale.

“I’d like to take credit for fi nding him, but that was entirely the museum,” Fulton said. “I noticed him at the miniature show, but it was the museum that fi rst brought him to the Jackson market.”

In Europe, de Groot is represented by a number of gal-leries and has work in the permanent collections of several

museums and corporations. While his main subjects are birds, in Europe he is recognized as a contemporary artist.

“The wildlife genre really doesn’t exist in mainland Europe,” he wrote in an e-mail.

De Groot paints his subjects in a fi gurative/impression-istic manner, while his backgrounds and surroundings are more expressionistic.

“The tension between the subjects and the backgrounds fascinates me very much,” he wrote. “In a way you could say I am on the frontier between fi gurative and nonfi gurative, or the traditional and the modern.”

Even though de Groot’s work is called one thing in main-land Europe and another in the U.S., he doesn’t change his style for the U.S. market, he said. For this show at Astoria, however, he has played with his subject matter.

“I’ve been painting bison and pronghorn lately,” he e-mailed. “I’ve been to Wyoming a couple of times now and observed these amazing animals a lot while fi shing.”

De Groot’s grandfather was a farmer who used to breed bulls, which de Groot would draw when he was a boy.

“Bison with their muscles and shapes remind me very much of my grandfather’s bulls,” de Groot wrote.

While de Groot will be fl ying in from the Netherlands for a reception during Palates & Palettes on Friday, Sept. 10, Astoria’s other new artist, Russell Case, just has to drive a few hours from his home in Utah.

“I had wanted to show Russell Case for some time, but

didn’t have the room,” Fulton said. “As soon as the expan-sion became a reality, I recruited him.”

Case paints sweeping, idealized Western landscapes. He was invited to participate in the Prix de West for the fi rst time this year.

Fulton said he decided to debut Case at Astoria dur-ing Fall Arts Festival “because he is worth featuring at our most important time of the year.” The gallery will host Case’s paintings from Sept. 11 through Sept. 19, with a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.

This will be the third year in a row Astoria is showcas-ing Dubois artist Greg Beecham during the festival. The last two shows the 2008 Fall Arts Festival poster artist had at Astoria sold out, and Fulton expects the same this year.

“He won the Prix de West wildlife award again this year,” Fulton said. “He’s only getting more popular.”

The gallery will host a reception for Beecham from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17. As in years past, his paintings will be sold by draw. “He’s just so popular, there’s no better way to do it,” Fulton said.

All three of the artists will be at the reception for their shows. Beecham also will be in the gallery from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 18, for the Best of Astoria recep-tion, which ends with the sales draw for his show. Other Astoria artists also will be in attendance that morning to showcase a new piece or two.

For information, go to www. astoriafi neart.com.

Room to growGallery hosts 3 showsin larger space

Belgian painter Ewoud de Groot makes his debut at Astoria Fine Art and participates in the National Museum of WIldife Art’s Western Visions Show and Sale for the fourth year.

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Raindance Gallery and Vertical Peaks165 N. Center St.732-2222 and 733-7744

❚ By Dina Mishev

F or two galleries that only opened several months ago, Raindance Gallery and Vertical Peaks man-

aged to fi ll their Fall Arts Festival sched-ules, thanks to their owners’ roots in the Jackson gallery world.

Next-door neighbors on Center Street, the two galleries are owned by Terry and Joy Kennedy. Focusing on Western and wildlife art, Raindance Gallery hosts shows for watercolor-ists Diane Perry and Karen, Bonnie and Rebecca Latham. Vertical Peaks, which Joy Kennedy described as “eclectic and contemporary,” has a show of work by painter Dave McNally as well as a gal-lerywide open house.

A revival of the Raindance Gallery Terry Kennedy opened in Jackson in 1997 and closed in 2005 (so he could spend his winters in Florida), this Raindance Gallery opened May 15. In addition to Perry and the Lathams, the gallery rep-resents wildlife painter Scott Storch and Western landscapist Gene Speck along-side Western sculpture and jewelry.

Vertical Peaks opened June 15. Alongside McNally, the gallery carries work by wood-carver Lona Hymas-Smith, sculptor Reg Parsons, sculptor/painter T.J. Feely and landscape painter Randy Van Beck.

The only artist the two galleries have in common in McNally, who has called Jackson Hole home for decades.

The Kennedys decided to return to the Jackson gallery scene when they found two of their Center Street proper-ties vacant, which wasn’t until April. The couple pulled two galleries together in the space of eight weeks.

“I won’t say it wasn’t crazy, but because of Terry’s background in Jackson and with art and jewelry, it was doable,” Joy Kennedy said.

Imagine what the galleries have done with an entire summer to pull together their Fall Arts events.

McNally’s show at Vertical Peaks opens during Palates & Palettes on Friday, Sept. 10. The gallery has paired with Four Seasons Resort for the event.

McNally will be there to talk about his work. Although he paints both land-scapes and portraits, this show will be only of his landscapes. The show hangs through Sunday, Sept. 12.

Next door, Raindance is hosting a reception for Perry from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 10. Perry, who has studied under Scott Christensen and John Fawcett, will also be there.

“We think Diane is just a charming art-ist and people will be excited to see meet her,” Kennedy said. Perry’s watercolors of an idealized Western life hang through Sunday, Sept. 12, and the artist will be on hand at the gallery throughout the show.

The following week both galler-ies unveil new shows. At Raindance, it’s a family affair, with Karen (mom), Rebecca (daughter) and Bonnie (daugh-ter) Latham all showing new paintings. The Lathams’ show opens Wednesday, Sept. 15. An opening reception is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. that day. The trio will be in residence at the gallery through Friday, Sept. 17.

The Lathams are among Raindance Gallery’s most popular artists.

“We have people who have followed the Lathams to this gallery,” Kennedy said. “Having them here for the show and reception is a bonus. Collectors will be able to make a personal connection with them.”

Although the Lathams paint with watercolors, you’d be hard-pressed to guess their medium when looking at one of their paintings. The three paint on panel, layering their watercolors and then painting a layer of ultraviolet var-nish on top. The end result doesn’t have to be protected behind glass like other watercolors, nor does it look like other watercolors. The paintings are so vibrant they could be confused with an oil or acrylic — at least from a distance.

Vertical Peaks’ second show is more of an open house, Kennedy said. “Nearly all of our artists — and there are close to 30 of them — have given us new work,” she said. The show hangs Saturday, Sept. 18 through Monday, Sept. 20. The opening reception is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19.

Jackson art historyNew galleries host popular artists

Dave McNally’s 36 by 42-inch oil painting, “A Grand View,” will hang at Vertical Peaks Gallery during the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk. Although McNally paints both landscapes and portraits, Vertical Peaks will laud his landscapes, many of which are set in the Tetons, a mountain range he knows well as a climber.

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Dan Schultz works with models in the fi eld. The result: paintings of fi gures within landscapes that feel fresh and natural. “Whispering Breeze,” a 26-by-48-inch oil on linen, can be seen in Galleries West Fine Art’s annual Fall Round Up.

❚ By Sarah A. Reese

More than 30 artists will showcase their best and newest work dur-ing the eighth annual Fall Round

Up at Galleries West.Visitors to the gallery during its annual

Fall Arts Festival group show will have an opportunity to meet many of the partici-pating artists and see them work.

“Being a group show without a specifi c theme, each artist is free to do what they do best and what they most enjoy,” gal-lery owner/sculptor R. Scott Nickell said. “This show is a wonderful representa-tion of just how broad the contemporary Western art movement is today.”

The gallery recently has welcomed several artists who create fi gurative piec-es, something the gallery hasn’t offered much of in the past, said Jennifer L. Hoffman, an artist who works in the gal-lery and will join the show.

Colorado artist Dan Schultz paints fi gures in landscapes working from mod-els in the fi eld, lending “that freshness of something that’s been done right on loca-tion, which is exciting to me,” Hoffman said. “I love his brushwork.”

Arizona artist Dinah Jasensky is per-haps best known at the gallery for her portraits of Western saloon girls, but she can paint anything, Hoffman said.

Jasensky began her career as a bio-logical illustrator, and her subjects range from saloon scenes to Native American children, according to her website.

The gallery will showcase work from some “wonderful sculptors,” including Nickell, Hoffman said.

Nickell creates Native American fi gures adorned with accurate beadwork and cos-tume. He often spends months studying before starting a piece to ensure all aspects will be historically accurate, she said.

Sculptor Diane Mason has a refreshing tongue-in-cheek style, Hoffman said.

“Who’s Watching Who” features an owl perched atop a fi eld guide with its head turned upside down.

“She’s the president of the Society of Animal Artists, so her animals are very anatomically accurate while still maintain-ing that sense of humor,” Hoffman said.

Former Jackson resident Bill Freeman, 83, is well-respected for his reproduc-tion Anasazi and Pueblo pottery. Native American cultures fascinate Freeman, who has spent decades re-creating pieces in his personal collection and in museums around the country. Freeman now lives in New Mexico.

Pat Jeffers, a native Wyoming artist who recently moved to Colorado, has been cre-ating baskets for years, Hoffman said. She uses traditional basket fi bers such as reed and jute and incorporates hand-dyed fabrics and nontraditional materials like sagebrush and juniper wood, antler pieces and beads.

“Most of [the baskets] are functional, but sometimes she does things that are sculp-ture and just beautiful,” Hoffman said.

The group show also will include an

array of landscape, wildlife and equine artists, she said.

Many of the artists will attend the reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15, that will coincide with the art walk. An artist will paint each day.

A gallery open house is set for Saturday, Sept. 18, starting after the QuickDraw and continuing until closing. The gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily during the festival.

Bring your best

Round Up lineup

The following 32 artists are in Galleries West’s Fall Arts Festival show:

Kevin BeilfussMichael CallesKim CasebeerMary Ann CherryJohn CoganKate FergusonGaylene FortnerBill FreemanJim GilmoreJudy HartkeJennifer L. HoffmanTerry IsaacDinah JasenskyPat JeffersJoan KoselD. LeeRichard LuceKarol MackDiane MasonMatthew MeengR. Scott NickellE. C. O’ConnorRoger OreMarilyn PaineDan SchultzChuck RawleJason ScullJerold SmileyMarilyn SalomonRobert StumpDebbie Edgers SturgesHubert Wackermann

Fall Round Upfeatures a bevyof artists

Fascinated by Anasazi and Pueblo ceramics, Bill Freeman, of New Mexico, re-creates the pieces within his personal collection and in museums across the country.

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Bill Davidson September 9, 11, 15, 16

Come by the gallery to view Bill Davidson’s new paintings for Fall Art Festival.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 9

Western Design Conference Lecture Series, noon to 3 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. A series of three one-hour accredited presentations open to the design community and the public alike. $15. www.westerndesignconference.com.

Made toasts artist-in-residence, print-maker Travis Walker, 5:30 p.m. 690-7957, www.madejacksonhole.com.

Western Design Conference Fashion and Jewelry Show, 6 p.m. doors open; 7:15 p.m. Fashion show at the Center for the Arts. A live-model jewelry show and champagne celebration, followed by a runway fashion show presenting Western couture collec-tions from both up-and-coming and estab-lished fashion designers. Cash prizes total-ing more than $22,000 are given to design-ers whose work exemplifi es the traditions and the evolution of Western design. Gala reception follows. $125 box seats, $100 main fl oor, $75 balcony. 733-4900, www .jhcenterforthearts.com.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 10

Western Design Conference Exhibit & Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pavilion at Snow King Resort. The world’s pre-eminent exhibition of Western furniture, home accessories and fashion brings together artists, scholars, collectors, inte-rior designers, architects and fashion designers with an interest in the West. Artisans display handcrafted functional art in leather, metal, accents, woodwork-ing, jewelry and fashion. $15 per day. www.westerndesignconference.com.

Studio Tours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at artists’ work spaces around the valley. Reception 5 to 8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Observe artists in action in their studios. Free. 733-5096.

Veteran Economist cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher gives an art talk, noon, in the ArtSpace Main Gallery at the Center for the Arts. www.artassociation .org, 733-6379.

Trio Fine Art demonstration, 4 to 5 p.m. Kay Stratman and Shannon Troxler work in the gallery. www.triofi neart .com, 734-4444.

Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk, 5 to 8 p.m. More than 30 galleries and restau-rants host openings pairing fi ne art and fi ne food. Free.

Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee Concert, 8 p.m. at the Center Theater, Center for the Arts. The music and poetry roundup hosts award-winning artists Juni Fisher, Patty Clayton, Al “Doc” Mehl and The All Star Cowboy Dance Band. The fi na-le invites the audience to come onstage for a Western dance party. $28. 733-4900, www.jacksonholecowboyjubilee.org.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 11

Old Bill’s Fun Run, 10 a.m. on the Town Square. More than 3,000 people gather in support of community philanthropy, with a run, walk, entertainment, food and non-profi t information booths. Old Bill’s has raised more than $67.5 million for local organizations in 13 years. Hosted by the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. 739-1026, www.oldbills.org

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pavilion at Snow King Resort. Artisans display hand-crafted functional art in leather, metal, accents, woodworking, jewelry and fash-

ion. $15 per day. www.westerndesigncon ference.com.

Studio Tours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at artists’ studios around the valley. Glimpse artists at work. Free. 733-5096.

Artists create inside Horizon Fine Art, noon to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow, 739-1540, www.horizonfi neartgallery.com.

Historic Ranch Tours, 2 p.m. buses leave Home Ranch parking lot. Visit ranches where Jackson Hole’s cowboy heritage still thrives. Tours end with a barbecue and Western music. $28. 733-3316

Montana furniture-maker Jeff Brandner works onsite, 2 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in Diehl Gallery, 733-0905, www.diehlgallery.com.

West Lives On Gallery toasts landscape painter Reid Christie, 2 to 5 p.m. 734-2888, www.westliveson.com.

Kathy Wipfl er paints en plein air, 3 to 6 p.m. near the Chapel of the Transfi guration, Grand Teton National Park. As part of the Artists in the Park program, spectators are welcome to watch Wipfl er as she works. Free.

A Horse of a Different Color hosts a reception for Sandy Graves’ contempo-rary bronze sculptures, 4 to 7 p.m. 734-9603, www.ahorseofadifferentcolorgal leryjh.com.

Mangelsen Images of Nature Gallery cel-ebrates photographer/owner Thomas Mangelsen’s new work, 5 to 9 p.m. 733-9752, www.mangelsen.com.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 12

Western Design Conference Exhibit and Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pavilion at Snow King Resort. Artisans display handcrafted functional art in leather, metal, accents, woodworking, jewelry and fashion. $15 per day. www .west-erndesignconference.com.

Taste of the Tetons, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Town Square. Valley chefs, restau-rants and caterers plate samples of their culinary best. Beyond nibbles, enjoy a wine tasting, silent auction and musi-cal entertainment by the Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee. $1 per-taste ticket.

Takin’ It to the Streets, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Town Square. An open-air, jur-ied art fair featuring 40 local artists. Art Association of Jackson Hole. 733-6379

Sculptor Sandy Graves demonstrates her process, 1 to 4 p.m. at Horse of a Different Color. 734-9603, www.ahorseofadifferent colorgalleryjh.com.

CIAO Gallery celebrates its third annual Call of the Wild juried exhibition, 5 to 8 p.m., 733-7833, www.ciaogallery.com.

Lawyer and artist Gerry Spence shares stories from his career and life, 7 p.m., at the Center for the Arts. $20, 733-4900, www.jhcenterforthearts.org.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15

Western Visions Jewelry and Artisan Luncheon, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shooting Star. Jewelry, fi ber and leather artisans preview their handmade items. Ladies-only event. To register, call 732-5412. $100 per person or $500 per person for Western Visions package, www.western visions.org.

Altamira Fine Arts hosts a reception for R. Tom Gilleon, Mary Roberson and John Felsing, and a quick draw and auction for artists Amy Ringholz and Jared Sanders, 5 to 7 p.m. 739-4700, www.altamiraart.com.

Poster signing with Fall Arts Festival artist Joe Velazquez, 5 to 8 p.m. at West Lives On Gallery. Velazquez signs posters of his “Season of the Mountain Men.” 734-2888, www.westliveson.com

Art Walk, 5 to 8 p.m. at more than 30 galler-ies downtown. Look for Art Walk banners.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 16

Plein air sketching workshop with Western Visions feature painter Mary Roberson, 8 to 11:30 a.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. $45. To register, call 732-5417, www.westernvisions.org.

Western Visions featured artist Simon Gudgeon leads a museum gallery walk, 1 to 2 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Free for members or with museum admission. www.westernvisions.org

Astoria Fine Art hosts a reception for landscape painter G. Russell Case, 3 to 5 p.m. 733-4016, www.astoriafi neart.com

Western Visions Wild West Artist Party, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Preview the Miniatures and More Show & Sale (on Friday), place ballots and mingle with artists. Food, full bar and entertainment. To register, call 732-5412. $200 per person or $500 per person for Western Visions package, www.westernvisions.org.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 17

Jackson Hole Art Auction preview, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Preview auction lots by past and present masters of Western art. 866-549-9278, www.jacksonholeartauction.com.

Western Visions featured painter Mary Roberson talks about her artwork and infl uences, 1 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Poster signing follows pre-sentation. Free for members or with muse-um admission. www.westernvisions.org.

Astoria Fine Art hosts its annual Greg Beecham Fall Arts Show & Sale, 1 to 3 p.m. Sales draw at noon, Saturday, Sept. 18. 733-4016, www.astoriafi neart.com.

Western Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale, 3:30 p.m. doors open; 5:30 p.m. bidding closes; 6:30 winners presen-

tation begins. Last chance to bid on works by more than 150 leading artists before the winning bids are drawn. To regis-ter, call 732-5412. $75 per person or $500 per person for Western Visions package. www.westernvisions.org.

The Wort Hotel hosts a reception for Joe Velazquez, 6 to 8 p.m. Unveiling of a his-torical piece that Velazquez created for the event. 733-2190, www.worthotel.com.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 18

Jackson Hole QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction, 9 a.m. on the Town Square. Artists race the clock as they paint and sculpt as spectators watch. The auction of QuickDraw artwork follows and includes sale of “Season of the Mountain Men” by Joe Velazquez, the featured painting of the 2010 Fall Arts Festival.

Best of Astoria reception, 10 a.m. to noon at Astoria Fine Art. 733-4016, www .astoriafi neart.com

Artists create onsite, noon to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow at Horizon Fine Art, www.horizonfi neartgallery.com.

Jackson Hole Art Auction, 12:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Auction featur-ing works by top Western artists includ-ing the Taos Society of Artists, deceased American masters and contemporary Western and wildlife artists. 866-549-9278, www.jacksonholeartauction.com.

Wilcox Gallery hosts artist demonstra-tions, 2 to 5 p.m. at both locations, 110 Center St. and 1975 N. Highway 89. From 6 to 8 p.m., the downtown gallery plates tacos, and the north branch offers ice cream sundaes. 733-3950 or 733-6450, www.wilcoxgallery.com

Trailside Galleries toasts its annual Fall Gold group show, 3 to 6 p.m. Also cel-ebrates showcases of Bonnie Marris, Kyle Sims and Ralph Oberg.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 19

Art Brunch Gallery Walk, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 30 downtown galleries toast their Fall Arts shows one last time. Art, brunch fare and Bloody Marys.

West Lives On Gallery open house with more than 12 artists, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 734-2888, www.westliveson.com.

Musicians Anne and Pete Sibley per-form for a hometown audience, 7 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. $15, 733-4900, www .jhcenterforthearts.org.


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In this photo by Brent McWhirter, of Jackson Hole, early morning dewdrops form on grass near the summit of Signal Mountain in Grand Teton National Park.


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Draw interestThe blockbuster sweep at Legacy Gallery continues with its annual group show and two showcases

Beguiling barkThe charming changeability of aspens enchant photographer Henry Holdsworth in his new show

Abstract targetsEschewing symbolism, Canadian painter Les Thomas uses animals as metaphysical devices, points of departure

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Fall Arts Festival poster artist challenges himself with every piece

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“Jackson Pollock was born in Cody in 1912. ‘Number 21’ is an exemplary embodiment of his signature prowess. The artist’s breakthrough ‘drip’ departed radically from the methods and concepts of traditional painting. Pollock rendered the polarizationbetween the linear andcolorist schools of thought — which dated back to theRenaissance and continued through the intervening years — a defi nitive end.”

— Lyndsay McCandlessGallery director, Heather James Fine Art

“Number 21”Oil and enamel on masonite

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Velazquez judges the success of a painting by the emotion it evokes in the viewer. To stir emotion, he plays with light, shadow and shade. And color. It is the story he wants to tell that dictates his palette. Sometimes his colors are bold and brilliant. Other times they are monochromatic and soft.

“We buy paintings that really speak to us,” said Sharon Waggoner, who with husband Lyle has pur-chased two large Velazquez paintings for their Jackson home. “We had been looking for pieces for the two most important places in our home for some

time, and then we discovered Joe.” The Waggoners fi rst bought a painting of fur trap-

pers shooting rabbits for their media room.“I knew from the moment I saw it, it was perfect,”

Waggoner said.Shortly thereafter they bought “Morning Rain” for

the billiard room.“I like to have one focus piece in each room,”

Waggoner said. “In each of the rooms we have a paint-ing by Joe, his is the focus piece. His style is so likeable, easy to understand and full of emotion.”

Velazquez will sign posters at West Lives On from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. Immediately following the signing will be an opening reception for Velazquez’s show at the gallery, which will hang through Sept 25. The reception ends at 8 p.m.

On Friday, Sept. 17, The Wort Hotel will host a recep-tion in Velazquez’s honor from 6 to 8 p.m. A special his-toric piece will be unveiled at the celebration.

The following day, at the conclusion of the QuickDraw on the Town Square, the original “Season of the Mountain Man” oil painting will be auctioned.

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❚ By Dina Mishev

Joe Velazquez wasn’t sure which of the three drawings he had submitted to the Fall Arts Festival committee would be picked to be the 2010 poster. Of course, he liked them all. As he does with every piece, he had meticulously

researched the details in each, from clothing to weapons and saddlery.

When the committee chose “Season of the Mountain Men,” Velazquez was charged with turning the drawing into a paint-ing. Since fi nishing that painting many months ago, though, he has been busy translating the other two drawings into paint-ings, which will be on display during Fall Arts at West Lives On Gallery. That’s just the way Velazquez is: always looking for the

next challenge. Part of the Jackson Hole arts scene

for more than 20 years, Velazquez has been represented by West Lives On for the past 12. Before that, he was with Galleries of the West.

“It’s nice to see him getting the rec-ognition he deserves,” said Terry Ray, owner of West Lives On Gallery. “I’ve always been impressed with his work. When Galleries of the West closed and no one picked Joe up, I jumped on him. But in my estimation, six or seven years ago, he really stepped up.”

In addition to West Lives On, Velazquez also is represented by Stuart Johnson Gallery in Tucson, Ariz., and has had work sold at the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction.

“It was such an easy decision to choose Joe to be the 2010 poster artist,” said Maureen Murphy, events manager at the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. “His work is amazing and so intricate. Looking at his paintings, it is intriguing how he cre-ates the detail that he does.”

A Coloradoan, Velazquez was attracted to art from an early age. During World War II, when his father was away from home, his mother would return from shopping trips with crayons and paper for him. During high school, people came to Velazquez to do drawings of family members, friends, sweethearts and movie stars. To help pay his way through Colorado State University, he made architectural renderings for local builders.

At Colorado State, Velazquez studied under John Sorbie, an internationally recognized Fort Collins artist who died in 1995. Velazquez said studying under Sorbie was “as though he lit a rocket and I was riding it.”

“It was exciting, challenging and motivating,” Velazquez said of working with his mentor.

Velazquez continues to challenge himself. “As a serious artist, you’re always looking to better yourself,”

he said. “When I start a new painting, my goal is for it to be bet-ter than my last. I’m always raising the bar on myself. I refuse to compromise. Good enough is not good enough.”

Velazquez looks at his work as storytelling more than paint-ing. With technical precision, he concentrates on fur trap-pers and mountain men, painting scenes dramatic in their simplicity.

Profound in their simplicity, Velazquez’s paintings spotlight intimate scenes, as in “A Letter Home.”

Joe Velazquez thinks of his work as storytelling more than painting. He narrates Western history in works like “New Vista.”

Color stirs emotion in Velazquez paintings such as “Bound for Fort William.”

With “Season of the Mountain Men,” Velazquez is this year’s Fall Arts Festival poster artist.

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Legacy Gallery75 N. Cache Dr.733-2353

Kyle Polzin’s Western still lifes — this is “The Lookout” — are so popular that paintings in his one-man show at Legacy Gallery will be sold via draw.

“Catnappers” is by Krystii Melaine, who paints wildlife and other subjects in a realistic style. Melaine will participate in Legacy Gallery’s Legacy of Nature group show.

❚ By Dina Mishev

A fter a summer of blockbuster shows — James Ayers, Gary Lynn Roberts — you’d think Legacy Gallery might not have anything left. You’d be

very, very wrong.Legacy Gallery kicks Fall Arts Festival off with a one-

man show featuring painter Kyle Polzin. A second show features fi gurative painter Robert Coombs. The gallery wraps up its 2010 festival with the 10th Annual Legacy of Nature group show.

Even though Polzin is barely over 30 — he’s 31 — this year is his third leading Legacy’s Fall Arts Festival sched-ule. The opening reception for his one-man show is dur-ing Palates & Palettes. Legacy has paired with Fine Dining Restaurant Group (Rendezvous Bistro, Q Roadhouse, Il Villaggio Osteria) for the evening.

A native Texan who now lives in Austin, Polzin grew up painting. His father is an artist, and both of his grand-fathers were skilled carpenters. From a young age, Polzin appreciated fi ne craftsmanship and the joy of creating something with his hands.

At Texas’ Victoria College, Polzin studied oil painting. After graduating, he found a mentor in master painter Dalhart Windberg, the offi cial “Artist of Texas,” named as such in 1979 by the state Legislature.

After working for several years as a graphic artist and Web designer, Polzin turned to fi ne art painting full time in 2000. He’s never looked back. Most of his shows are now sellouts. This show at Legacy will be sold via draw.

“There’s no other way to do it,” said Jinger Richardson, co-owner of the gallery with husband Brad Richardson. “He is so popular for a young man, we have to sell every-thing on a draw.”

Polzin’s work has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Texas Outdoor Journal and Western Art Collector. In 2007, Ducks Unlimited named him Sponsor Artist for the state of Texas. This year, the organization honored him as Texas State Artist.

The night after Polzin’s Palates & Palettes reception, Coombs will be at the gallery to talk about his paintings. His current show, which will include 10 new pieces of women and children, hangs through Wednesday, Sept. 15.

Coombs’ show at Legacy during last year’s Fall Arts Festival sold out.

Coombs grew up interested in art — he remembers that his favorite present as a boy was a set of watercolor paints — but it wasn’t until he was in high school that he emotionally connected with it. It was then that he saw for the fi rst time original paintings by Edwin Austin Abbey, an American artist, illustrator and painter who fl ourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the “golden age” of illustration, the late 1800s, and whose most famous work, “The Quest of the Holy Grail,” now lives at the Boston Public Library.

Coombs said of seeing Abbey’s paintings, “For the fi rst time in my life I could actually feel the emotional impact and power that painting could impart. I decided to seek after those attributes in my own work.”

If his popularity with collectors and the number of awards he has won are any indication, Coombs has been successful in this. In 2005, he was invited to become a member of Oil Painters of America and also won that group’s Hunter Editions Award of Excellence. The next year, Coombs won the best-of-show American National Award of Excellence, also from Oil Painters of America. A month after receiving that honor, he won an even big-ger one: the $10,000 grand prize in RayMar Art’s fi rst Fine Art Competition.

Wrapping up Legacy’s festival schedule is its annual Legacy of Nature Group Show, set for 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17.

As in past years, the gallery has secured new pieces by many of its biggest names. The show includes a new Ken Carlson painting (sold by draw), a new Tim Shinabarger sculpture, “Clash of Thunder,” which won the Frederic Remington Award for Best Bronze at this year’s Prix de West, three new wildlife sculptures by Ken Bunn, a large painting of an elk by Michael Coleman and several paint-ings by Luke Frazier.

Prime painters

Legacy Gallery hosts acclaimed artists, group show.

To his show at Legacy Gallery, Robert Coombs brings 10 new fi gurative paintings of women and children, including the serene “Ebb and Flow.”


Horizon Fine Art30 King St.739-1540

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❚ By Johanna Love

A fter a dozen years in the same loca-tion, Horizon Fine Art is getting its groove back in a sunny, contempo-

rary space at 30 King St.Since the opening of the new space

on Memorial Day weekend, proprietor Barbara Nowak says, clients and visitors have responded positively.

“We have a new location, new works, a fresh start,” Nowak said.

Several artists will be featured each weekend of Fall Arts Festival, each with a different medium and subject mat-ter. The artists will be in the gallery from noon to 5 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday, and several will demonstrate their craft.

The fi rst weekend, there’s a distinct Western theme. Texas longhorn rancher and painter Sherri Alexander will bring original livestock paintings and fringed accent pillows that have a giclee print as their centerpiece. Nowak promises “a slew” of new pillows.

Another rancher, Bill Yankee, of Lander, will showcase Western land-scapes, horses and still lifes and will demonstrate with pastels. He teaches art as well, so watching him is almost like attending a workshop.

Although raised in Colorado, palette knife painter Jill Hartley now lives on a ranch near Rock Springs, where she renders Wyoming landscapes with bold, sparkling strokes.

“My real subject matter is light,” Hartley said.

During the second weekend, Horizon showcases a diverse mix of work: oil landscapes, watercolor wildlife, intricate wood carving and bold jewelry.

QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction veteran Amy Poor, of Oregon, creates wildlife watercolors. A mother of three, she recently resigned as a teacher to paint full time, Nowak said. Her works at Horizon, including a grizzly, fox, wolf trio and river otters, will be joined dur-ing Fall Arts Festival with new paintings.

Poor also plans to work in the gallery on Saturday, Sept. 18.

Tim Howe, a New Zealand artist, will have new forestscapes on display.

Monica Jansen, a local jeweler, will offer new pieces too. Her 60-inch strands of chunky semiprecious stones allow the wearer to double or triple the necklaces for a varied look.

Master carver Lona Hymas-Smith recently won the world champion song-bird carving title from the Ward Museum in Salisbury, Md., for her rendering of a Steller’s jay. She crafts realistic-looking birds and fi sh from woods including Tupelo, bass and hardwoods, fi nished with acrylic washes, and carves their habitat: a gnarled branch, river rocks or a delicate marsh reed. She is so busy with commissions — like a big mouth bass going after a bullfrog, for country singer Brad Paisley — that new sculptures are hard to get, Nowak said. Eight to 10 new pieces will be featured the second week-end of Fall Arts Festival.

“I’m really thrilled,” Nowak said. “Lona works a long time to get a body of work together.”

As the gallery scene in Jackson has changed, Horizon has seized opportuni-ties to represent new artists. A couple of contemporary painters came from the closing of Center Street Gallery: “reverse painter” Frank Balaam and sumi-e spe-cialist Kay Stratman.

There are many works by Jackson Hole artists, including luminous paint-ings by Shannon Troxler.

Other intriguing works in Horizon’s collection include impasto painter Mario Jung’s Chinese poppies that jump off the canvas; varnished watercolor gouache animal paintings by Sarah Rogers that glimmer on clay board; and contempo-rary bronzes by Nano Lopez, accented with fun charms and bright colors.

Visit www.horizonfi neartgallery.com for a preview, or stop by during each Saturday and Sunday of the festival to visit with these artists and fi nd your own favorite.

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Master carver Lona Hymas-Smith hews realistic birds and fi sh in their habitats: a gnarled branch, river rocks or a slender reed.

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W ilcox Gallery’s annual Wildlife and Wildlands show gives the gallery an opportunity to show-

case during the Fall Arts Festival not only its roster of painters and sculptors but also its two locations.

The gallery represents about 40 paint-ers and sculptors — in general working in traditional, representational modes. They recognize the popularity and prestige of Fall Arts and supply their top-notch work for the occasion, said gallery director Jeff Wilcox.

“Nearly everybody gives us great new pieces for the show,” he said.

Wildlife and Wildlands runs Sept. 9 through 30 at the gallery’s downtown branch, 110 Center St., and its larger loca-tion north of town, at 1975 N. Highway 89, across from the National Elk Refuge.

With its relatively new Center Street location, Wilcox Gallery is accessible to val-ley residents and tourists who like to stroll around the downtown area and experience the gallery scene. And being in the heart of Jackson lets the gallery share the spotlight with other art venues during the Friday, Sept. 10 Palates & Palettes art walk.

“It’s a fun night,” Wilcox said. “It’s huge for the locals. It reminds them of what you’ve got.”

The Highway 89 location offers more of a destination experience, said Narda Wilcox, mother of Jeff and wife of Jim Wilcox, a landscape painter who founded the gallery in 1969. With 6,000 square feet of space, the north site can accommodate

a much wider selection of paintings and sculptures. Sculptures and fountains out-side set the tone. Inside, the artwork is grouped in several different rooms, includ-ing space upstairs adjacent to a greenhouse where Narda grows fl owers and tomatoes.

“People love to explore the nooks and crannies,” she said.

From 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, eight or so artists represented by the gal-lery will be working on-site at both loca-tions. The chance to observe a painter or sculptor at work gives observers insight into the artistic process and makes them

feel invested in a particular piece of work, Jeff Wilcox said.

“Not only do they see it happen, but they can talk to the artist and learn about a specifi c piece and the artist’s reference materials,” Jeff Wilcox said. “The painting, especially a painting with a title, becomes that much more meaningful.”

One of the artists who will be working on-site at the gallery is Tom Mansanarez, a painter from Idaho who focuses mainly on wildlife. His awards include Artist of the Year by the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, Artist of the Quarter by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Artist of the Year by the Mule Deer Foundation.

Another wildlife artist who will paint in the galley is Dave Wade, who lives in Wyoming. He’s a two-time winner of the Major General and Mrs. Don S. Pittman Wildlife Art Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s Prix de

West Show in Oklahoma City, Okla.Among those representing the “wild-

lands” facet of the show will be Jackson Hole resident Jim Wilcox, the gallery’s namesake. His awards include the grand prize in the Arts for the Parks competi-tion, and the Prix de West and Remington awards by the National Academy of Western Art.

After the afternoon of demonstrations, Wilcox gallery will offer another induce-ment for visitors to travel the two miles from one location to the other. From 6 to 8 p.m., the downtown gallery will serve tacos, and the north branch will offer ice cream sundaes.

On Center Street, Wilcox Gallery visi-tors can get a sampling of the art avail-able, and on Highway 89 they can explore each artist’s work in depth.

“It gives a little teaser, whets their appe-tite,” Wilcox said of the downtown loca-tion. “The two are a good combination.”

Location, locationJackson gallery whets appetite, north-of-town site delves deep

“Another Hometown Hero” is an acrylic painting by Don Weller. His latest work can be seen at Wilcox Gallery in the Wildlife and Wildlands show during the Fall Arts Festival.

Wilcox Gallery’s Wildlife and Wildlands show will feature new works by Carolyn Anderson including “The Red Skirt,” and other artists represented by Wilcox Gallery.

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Derek DeYoung knew pretty early in life he was a painter.

At age 6, he was already declar-ing to friends at school that he would one day be a recognized artist.

DeYoung’s work will take center stage when Jack Dennis Wyoming Gallery highlights him from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10 during the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk.

DeYoung has been so successful with his unique brand of contemporary fi sh painting that Simms, one of the most well-known fi shing gear companies, has an entire line of products with his art-work on it.

In a departure from traditional fi sh illustration, DeYoung places more importance on using a contemporary style and palette instead of painting a fi sh to look realistic. He uses a spec-tacular spectrum of color to capture the beauty of fi sh.

“To be an artist is more then just painting a scene on canvas,” DeYoung said. “An artist sees the world differently then most people.”

DeYoung lives in Livingston, Mont., and spends much of his time fl y-fi shing and painting. As an angler and artist, he fi nds fi sh fascinating.

“I fi nd fi sh so interesting and they are truly a challenge to capture on canvas,” he said. “When I paint a fi sh, I try to capture all the intricacies they possess, their scales, patterns, dimension and texture.”

DeYoung said being a fi sherman him-self helps in his art work.

“The act of pursuing trout and steel-head with a fly rod contains so many magical moments,” he said. “For me, the truly inspirational vision, both as an artist and as an angler, comes once I’ve landed a particularly beautiful fish. I hold it up, tilting the fish back and forth in the sunlight, allowing all the subtle colors and patterns to come alive.”

DeYoung has been featured in many publications, including Gray’s Sporting Journal, Fly Rod & Reel, Wild on the Fly, American Angler, Black’s 2008 Fly Fishing Edition, Fly Fishing in Salt Waters and Montana Fly.

DeYoung is brand new to Jack Dennis Wyoming Gallery. Located in the upstairs of Jack Dennis Sports on Town Square, the gallery specializes in landscape, wildlife and sporting art.


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A t any time of year, there will be something about aspen trees that makes

Henry Holdsworth want to point a camera in their direction.

In the spring, it’s the fresh lime green of new leaves. Months later, the bright yellow of fall foliage, sometimes frost-ed with snow, catches his eye. Come winter, bare branches bring the color and contours of the bark into focus.

Always photogenic, aspens are Holdsworth’s favorite trees, and he has been exploring them through a lens for 20-some years.

“They’re constantly chang-ing,” the Jackson Hole-based wildlife and landscape photog-rapher said. “And they look good in all seasons here.”

Visitors to Holdsworth’s Wild By Nature gallery can see his varied takes on aspens in a show that runs throughout Fall Arts Festival. For patrons who like food with their photos, Wild by Nature will participate in the Friday, Sept. 10, Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk with a reception catered by Nani’s Cucina Italiana.

It isn’t just the changeability of aspens that Holdsworth likes.

There’s a charm to their white bark, he said, that reminds him of the birch trees he grew up around back East. And since wildlife is a big part of his life’s work, he enjoys the birds and animals that hang out in aspen stands — bluebirds, great gray owls, fl ickers, sapsuckers and moose, to name just some.

All the qualities he sees in that one type of tree will be evi-dent in the Fall Arts show, a mix of older photographs and new ones that he calls Among the Aspens.

His classics include “Winter Aspens,” which appeared in National Geographic maga-zine and is among the gallery’s best-sellers. Its quiet blacks and whites contrast with the vivid and painterly “First Snow,” in

which rows of aspens in autumn color alternate with the green and white of snow-frosted fi r trees.

Some of the recent photos are pure landscapes. “Snow in September,” for example, cap-tures a stand of golden aspens against the backdrop of Teton peaks freshly whitened by a night of snow. Holdsworth got the shot just before dawn at Oxbow Bend.

In other images, tree details are spotlighted. In “Bear Claw Tree,” Holdsworth honed in on scratches left by genera-tions of bruins in the bark of an aspen tree in the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve. Another day, he was intrigued by the patterns and colors in a pile of leaves he and his daughter had

used as a backdrop to photo-graph a peeper frog. He moved in close with his camera, and now a handful of red, green and yellow leaves fi lls the frame of “Fall Colors.”

Animals share the stage with trees in several photos. Once, when Holdsworth took students to the Rockefeller Preserve to photograph red hawthorns and yellow aspens refl ected in a pond, a female black bear came along, sat in the water and stayed there, watching the humans. She’s now immortal-ized in “Soaking in Autumn.”

Holdsworth said it’s been nice to focus on landscapes this year. In 2009, his book “Moose of Yellowstone and Grand Teton” came out, and he was “in wildlife mode” all year, he said.

To turn back to scenery for a period “keeps it fresh for me.”

But fans of his wildlife pic-tures won’t go hungry. The show will include new polar bear images from a visit to Churchill, Manitoba. And “Last of the Druids” records seven remain-ing members of a once-mighty Yellowstone National Park wolf pack. Holdsworth got the shot on a minus-38-degree day in the Lamar Valley.

Still, the show is mostly about aspens.

“It’s nice to tie it all togeth-er in one show with a side of wolves and polar bears and a lot of new bison photos as well,” Holdsworth said.

Go to www.wildbynature-gallery.com to visit the gallery online.

Among the aspensPhotographer turns focus to trees

Holdsworth’s “Snow in September” can be seen in his Among the Aspens show during Fall Arts Festival. He took the photograph at Oxbow Bend.

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❚ By Richard Anderson

Don’t call Les Thomas a “wildlife artist.”

The temptation to do so is cer-tainly there. Smack-dab in the center in his typically square canvases or wood panels there stands a moose, a bear, a deer. Each is expertly rendered, depicted in a characteristic pose or gesture, but in lieu of its natural environment, Thomas places them in a sometimes dizzying fi eld of abstract designs, iridescent dots, hori-zontal lines or grids.

Despite the main subject, his work is no more wildlife art than Andy Warhol’s images of Jackie Onassis and Marilyn Monroe were portraits.

Thomas is the featured artist at Diehl Gallery during the Fall Arts Festival. The show opens on Friday, Sept. 10, for the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk, and runs through the end of the month.

As with every show at Diehl Gallery, collectors can assign 10 percent of the acquisition cost of one of Thomas’ paint-ing to a local nonprofi t, in this case the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

Thomas “uses the animal pieces as a subtext for his work,” gallery owner Mariam Alaskari Diehl said. “It’s part of his creative process. … It’s a perfect fi t for Jackson Hole,” particularly for collectors looking for something other than the tra-ditional wildlife art common to the area.

A native of western Canada, Thomas studied art and painting at the University of Alberta, the Slade School of Fine Art in London and the University of Calgary. At that time, the academic world consid-ered painting to be “dead.” Thomas spent nearly a decade painting small still lifes and landscapes in an attempt to under-stand what painting meant to him.

One day, he came upon an image of a diver going off a diving board.

“It fascinated me,” he said, perhaps because, divorced from any context, it was evocative without having any real meaning. He reproduced it in paint on a 4-by-4-foot canvas. “And that’s kind

of how I started doing these ‘targeted’ compositions.”

He then began to paint animals, “again, because they didn’t belong to any narra-tive at all, they were just an excuse for making a painting,” he said.

“It’s kind of a pop-arty idea,” Thomas said. The animal itself has no meaning, is not symbolic or representing something.

“They don’t belong to any story,” he said. But, forced into an abstract space that belongs only to human culture, they beg the question: What do we actually see when we look at these animals — or any animals — or any other object?

The fi nal ingredient is a dash of mys-tery, a sense of spirit.

“It sounds corny, but there has to be some integrity that goes beyond the abil-ity to draw something and have someone recognize it as your style. My paintings are more of a point of departure for contempla-tion for the viewer than a point of arrival.”


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Transplanted into metaphysical settings, the animals in Les Thomas’s paintings no longer carry ecological meaning but ruminate on the question of human perception. “It’s kind of a pop-arty idea,” Thomas said.

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Also during Fall Arts, Diehl Gallery will host a salon for Montana furniture maker Jeff Brandner, whose pieces evoke the rugged West. Not the pio-neer West, but the industrial agricultural West of tractors and grain elevators, railroads and warehouses. Brandner will be in the gallery from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11 and 12.

Brandner grew up in north-eastern Pennsylvania and studied painting and sculpture in school. Some of his work back East included large out-door sculptures, including two memorials to the 9/11 World Trade Center victims.

When he turned his atten-tion to making furniture, praise followed, and soon he was making custom furniture and manufacturing his own designs in his New Jersey studio. A few years ago, while on a road trip, he discovered Bozeman, Mont., and now resides there.

Furniture making “is a great medium,” he said. “It’s func-tional art I really believe in.”

Using recycled steel and wood that is either salvaged or taken from his family’s 180-acre farm back in Pennsylvania, Brandner combines industrial metal forms with wooden piec-es for tables, chairs and hutch-es that look contemporary but also evoke the 1920s or ’30s.

Diehl Gallery describes his work as a “harmonious bal-ance of old and new, Western and contemporary, organic and man-made. He fuses reclaimed 300-year-old black walnut with modern, industrial steel. He bal-ances sheet metal and aged sad-dle leather. He creates functional works of beauty with inherent style, grace, and strength.”

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Woodspeaks

❚ By Rich Anderson

T he Lorax, Dr. Seuss’ environmen-tally minded character from the book of the same name, spoke for

the trees. But the trees speak directly to wood carver J. Chester Armstrong, whose monumental work will be fea-tured at the Rich Haines Gallery during the Fall Arts Festival.

Roving mountain lions, bears poised to pounce, thundering wild horses — whole herds of wild horses, a creature for which Armstrong has a particular affi nity — reveal themselves to the artist in a bump on a trunk, a subtle curve in a bole, a ripple in the grain.

“The length, the depth, idiosyncrasies [the log] might have, like branches stick-ing out — I don’t get an idea in the ran-dom abstract,” Armstrong said, whose enthusiasm pours through in his voice, along with a hint of mischief and whimsy. “It’s a dance between the log and what it will allow you to do and your imagination and what you want to do.”

Once the log has whispered in his ear, Armstrong goes to work — with a chain saw.

“Michelangelo said if you have an idea, get it into the raw block, roughed out as fast as you can; don’t let it go stale,” Armstrong said. A chain saw allows him to work fast enough to keep his imagination fl owing, to move spon-taneously as the log allows or demands. Working fast, he said, helps to keep the sculpture alive.

Armstrong grew up on the West Coast, attending the University of California, Berkeley, and learning to handle a chain saw while cutting lumber in Oregon and Washington. He moved to Vermont, liv-ing and working in a tiny town on Lake Champlain, close to the Canadian border,

where he milked cows, built and recon-structed barns, and had his epiphany about his chosen woodworking tool.

“It’s usually used to cut linear line,” he said of the chain saw, “but I can, with a fl ick of the wrist, cut a curved line. I love it because it allows me dive into big logs and work it on all levels, all dimensions, and start focusing my idea.”

After two years in Vermont, Armstrong moved to Sisters, Ore., where he set up a shop with plenty of room to accom-modate the truckloads of logs delivered to his doorstep — Oregon pine and fi r, California black walnut and Canadian yel-low cedar — always well-aged downed snags, he said, never standing live trees.

Wood is “a resilient medium, slow and painful,” he wrote in his artist’s statement. “But it incorporates all the elements of the earth, water, air, soil and sunlight. There’s a sense of life in wood — it brings out the animals’ life and makes it the perfect medium for the subject.”

Using his slightly modifi ed chain saw, he removes up to 90 percent of the wood to reveal his subject, all the way down to coiled muscle or waving mane. The last 10 percent is removed using smaller tools — Dremels and chisels, grinders and lots of sandpaper — to bring out details and smooth and polish facets.

“Even to the end, the individuality of the piece is a process of discovery,” Armstrong said. “It’s an Old World art with New World tools.”

Armstrong will be at Rich Haines Gallery during the festival, posted outside demonstrating his technique. The gal-lery also will feature work by owner Rich Haines, a sculptor who works in bronze, and will hold a silent auction of work from its Salt Lake City warehouse, includ-ing original paintings and prints by such masters as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise, Idaho, features massive doors made by J. Chester Armstrong. Among the most impressive pieces in his oeuvre, according to Colby Larsen of Rich Haines Gallery where other works by Armstrong reside, the doors measure 18 feet tall and 10 feet wide.

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“This photograph was taken using a 4 by 5 camera with a panoramic back to capture the interesting patterns and claw marks left by bears in the trunk of an aspen tree. We are presenting this image printed on canvas, which is stretched and wrapped around the edges and then enlarged to the actual size of the tree I photographed, so as to appear as though the tree itself is hanging on the wall of the gallery.”

Henry HoldsworthWild By Nature Gallery

Bear Claw Tree16 by 47 inches

Henry H. Holdsworth

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Artist’s Reception

Artist in Residence

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❚ By Kevin Huelsmann

J im Chiaravella spent 30 years performing heart surgeries in Shreveport, La. Then, starting in 2001, Chiaravella bought a home in

Alpine, retired and began building mir-rors incorporating elaborate leatherwork.

Up to that point he had never worked much with leather — “The only thing I knew about leather was that it is on your shoes,” he said — but he had always felt a strong connection with Western art, a feeling rooted in a childhood summer spent in Arizona.

Since then, the complexity and crafts-manship of his mirrors have grown exponentially. For more than fi ve years, Chiaravella has exhibited his work at the Western Design Conference, and now he participates as a sponsor, too.

Chiaravella is just one of nearly 100 art-ists selected by a panel of design experts for this year’s 18th annual Western Design Conference. The disparate backgrounds of the artists account for an eclectic array of work, everything from jewelry and fashion pieces to wood and metal work.

What attracts many artists is the level of skill present at the annual conference.

“Every year you say, ‘Okay, what can I do to top everyone?’ And then you show up and it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this guy took a tree and made a bed out of it,’ ” Chiaravella said. “You get ready for so long and think, ‘Man, this is going to be it this year,’ and then you show up and see what everyone else has and I just don’t want to put mine out. This is people who are at the top of whatever they do.”

Artists compete for awards in a num-ber of categories, awards that come with a total of $22,000 in prize money along with the honor of being selected as the top artist in a particular fi eld.

The level of competition and diverse fi eld of participants and events — the con-ference includes a lecture series and fash-ion and jewelry show — have kept artists coming back year after year.

Lester Santos, a furniture-maker based in Cody, has been exhibiting his intricate work at the conference since its inception nearly two decades ago. He said the conference’s move to Jackson — Powder Mountain Press, based in Driggs, Idaho, took it over in 2007 — has brought with it a new, engaged audience. Judges too have taken notice of Santos for his innovative woodwork.

“My piece last year came from a dream I had about lying in a chair with birds fl ying all around me,” Santos said.

With decades of experience under his belt, Santos is able to turn a dream into a chair. Birds from his dream were carved into the back of the chair, perched atop leaves and branches. The chaise lounge also features blue fabric, which Santos said is a nod to his Art Deco tendencies.

“I have all of these ideas in my head,” Santos said. “It’s like a big stew, and I try to pull elements from that.”

Like Chiaravella, Santos came to his art by a circuitous route. While working as a Polaroid-trained engineer at a fi lm pro-cessing plant in Massachusetts — a job Santos compares to manning the Starship Enterprise — he saw an ad looking for an apprentice for a harmonium-maker.

He took the job and honed his skills building small hand- or foot-pumped organs under the tutelage of a man who made many of his own tools. After a year and a half, he parted ways with his men-tor to open his own cabinet shop.

Another advertisement — this time to build guitars — compelled his next move, to Longmont, Calif. When that company folded in the mid-1970s, Santos ended up in Cody, where he has lived ever since, running his company, Santos Furniture.

Santos’ mix of various design ele-ments is an approach echoed by many artists’ work at the conference. Machteld Schrameyer, a Dutch-born fashion

designer now based in Hopkinsville, Ky., melds the aesthetics of many cultures into her singu-lar pieces.

“When I started to do one-of-a-kind pieces, people would say that they looked Russian or Western or Native American,” she said. “I fi gured out quite a while ago that there is an underlying aesthetic to it all.”

This year, Schrameyer will exhibit capes and wraps that incorporate mul-tiple pieces of fabric.

Since moving to Kentucky from New York City, Schrameyer said, her designs have become more creative.

“In New York, you’re inundated with everything going on around you, and it can make you more of a follower of trends rather than being somewhere where you have to think on your own and create your own trends,” she said. “There’s little to do in Hopkinsville. You have to depend on your own imagination and being resourceful.”

Schrameyer’s work will be part of the conference’s Fashion and Jewelry Show on Thursday, Sept. 9, at the Center for the Arts. The fashion show, which features haute couture designs from artists such as Schrameyer, kicks off with a live-model jewelry show and champagne reception. A gala reception follows the fashion show in the Center Lobby.

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Western Design ConferenceSept. 9 to 12Snow King Pavilion and Center for the Arts

Thursday, Sept. 9

Noon Mary Schmitt of Cayuse Western Americana gives a lecture, “Back to Basics: How Function Infl uenced Western Design,” at Center Theater, Center for the Arts. Free with pur-chase of Exhibit + Sale day pass. 1 p.m. Mark Kossler of Vermejo Park Ranch, Roy Woods of Conran and Woods Architects and Peter Templeton of Tree of Life Woodworking gives a lecture, “Costilla Lodge — Locally Grown: Using regional materials and skills to create a greed building for tomorrow,” Free with day pass.2 p.m. Suzanna Cullen Hamilton of Hamilton’s Ltd. of Jackson Hole gives a lecture, “Western Design Today,” at Center Theater, Center for the Arts. Free with Day pass.6 p.m. Fashion + Jewelry Show, Center Theater at Center for the Arts. Tickets cost $125 (premium), $100 (main fl oor) and $75 (balcony).

Friday, Sept. 10 to Sunday, Sept. 12

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Western Design Conference Gallery Exhibit + Sale at the Pavilion at Snow King Resort. $15 per day.

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Local artist Brit West, known as Indigo Cowgirl, will exhibit the wide array of wares that she creates. West, a Wilson resident, designs jewelry, hats, hatbands, belts and cuffs, jackets, chaps, boots, purses and T-shirts, among other Western-style items.

Cody-based furniture maker Lester Santos makes intricate pieces, such as these chairs, that often play on his dreams. Santos draws inspiration from his long, varied history of woodworking to create pieces that juxtapose Western aesthetics with elements of Art Deco.

Kentucky-based furniture maker Dan MacPhail incorporates antlers into his designs. Whether creating a chair, a bed or a chandelier, MacPhail brings to bear his background in fi ne art and his intense level of attention.

Blase Mathern Jr. of Colorado is The Wood Maestro.

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life, each painting a current chapter.“The paintings change every day, because a person

changes everyday,” he said.He starts each day by entering an idea in his jour-

nal, and he then seeks out a place that will defi ne it through art. His paintings explore an emotion or feel-ing about a location, instead of a representation of physical characteristics.

“When I have an idea,” Felsing said, “I don’t want too much of an idea. It’s a place between abstraction and reality.”

As an artist, he tries to stay away from labels. They are artifi cial, he said.

“Labels put a boundary on something instantly, and the freedom is gone,” Felsing said.

Other featured artists at Altamira include sculp-tors Steve Kestrel and Greg Woodard. During the Sept. 15 reception, the gallery will also host a quick draw and auction for artists Amy Ringholz and Jared Sanders.


Altamira Fine Art172 Center Street739-4700

❚ By Samantha Getz

There is a fi ne line between abstraction and reality. For three artists, it defi nes their work and their passion and helps tell the tale of the past and the present.

A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Altamira Fine Art for R. Tom Gilleon, Mary Roberson and John Felsing. Their shows, already up, will hang through Sept. 20.

All her life, Mary Roberson knew she had a gift. At age 10, she sold her fi rst painting for $300 but felt she didn’t deserve the reward. Roberson said she has spent much of her life accepting that she is gifted and allowing the gift to emerge.

“When I paint,” Roberson said, “I know I have to give up knowing any kind of control that exists, and most of the time I fi ght that.”

When Roberson does let go of control, the result is an earth-toned canvas that ties realism with abstraction. Her subjects: wild animals and birds.

For her Altamira show, Celebrating the Surreal, it seems as if she chooses the same subjects over and over, but the oppo-site may be true.

“I’m not so certain that I choose them,” she said. “I think they choose me.”

Her deep love for animals fuels her artistic side. Now, many years later, the gift has become her passion and her profession.

In R. Tom Gilleon’s Altamira show, Blood Brothers, a com-mon subject exists.

“I can paint pretty much anything I want to,” Gilleon said, “but it keeps coming back to this being the most interesting to me: Native American subject matter.”

His original appreciation for nature and the American Indian life is deep rooted. Raised by his grandparents, Gilleon originally learned painting techniques from his grandfather, a Scottish immigrant, and a work ethic from his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee. Now, he resides among ancient tipi fi elds in the Cascade, Mont., area.

“It’s interesting to know that you are sitting pretty much where someone else was sitting over a hundred years ago,” he said.

Through his impressionistic style, Gilleon portrays legends of America’s past. His bold use of color and his representation of reality on a canvas are somewhat mythical.

John Felsing has just come back from taking a four-month hiatus from painting. He found that the locations he kept returning to for inspiration wouldn’t “talk to him anymore,” he said. After fi nding new sites for inspiration in May, he is back working on canvas.

Felsing’s show, Running with Ghosts, represents his present

Betwixt and between

R. Tom Gilleon channels his appreciation for Native American culture into paintings like “Blood Brothers.” He said, “I can paint pretty much anything I want to, but it comes back to this being the most interesting to me.”

In “With Buckeye” and other paintings, Mary Roberson melds realism and abstraction. Her Fall Arts Festival show at Altamira Fine Art is called Celebrating the Surreal.

John Felsing paints feelings tied to place, rather than physical characteristics, as in “Morgenstimmung.”

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Heather James Fine Art172 Center St. 200-6090

❚ By Katy Niner

T o see the forest for the trees means to grasp both the big picture and the detail, the group and the individual.

At Heather James Fine Art, the idiom titles a new show but also encompass-es the gallery’s ethos: Its collection spans both the forest — of art history — and the trees — of each artist represented.

New to Jackson, Heather James offers a breadth of breakthrough art. It spans periods from antiquities to contemporary, geogra-phy from Latin America to Asia, movements from impressionism to postwar, genres from photography to sculpture, masters from Pablo Picasso to Jackson Pollock, and a range of price points.

For its fi rst Fall Arts Festival, the gallery presents the shows Masters of Impressionist and Modern Art and Forest for the Trees, in addition to showcasing photographs by attor-ney and artist Gerry Spence (see sidebar).

A close look at select pieces in Forest for the Trees offers a cross section of the gallery’s expanse, as well as the show’s wide angle on the environment. Penelope Gottlieb renders extinct fl ora described in 18th century botan-ical journals in the lexicon of pop and expres-sionist art, a conversation made concrete in the gallery by the close proximity of her “Melicope obovato” to a Campbell soup can by Andy Warhol.

Robert Glenn Ketchum’s “Golden Light of Late Evening,” an embroidery transla-tion of one of his landscape photographs, builds upon the Meiji tradition of Japanese embroidery, represented well in the gallery. For two decades, Ketchum has collaborat-ed with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in Suzhou, China, on the devel-opment of techniques intricate enough to capture the essence of his photographs. Featuring 40 types of stitches, “Golden Light of Late Evening” took two years to realize, Lyndsay McCandless, gallery direc-tor, said. The exquisite result represents a merging of technology and tradition, she said. McCandless fi nds the juxtaposition of the two creative processes fascinating. The velocity of photography contrasts the medi-tation and dedication of embroidery.

Similarly situated between the traditional and the contemporary, a procession of bam-boo vessels by contemporary Japanese art-ists graces the gallery. Steeped in the ancient tradition of bamboo art, contemporary art-ists such as Kosuge Fuunsai Kogetsu chal-lenge the concept of container, even space,

with their diaphanous vessels, McCandless said. Each piece celebrates the wonder of bamboo.

“My art is inspired by the intrinsic beauty of my material and, more broadly, by the inexplicable grandeur of the natural world,” Kogetsu writes in an exhibition catalogue.

To comment on the constant bombard-ment of fl eeting broadcast images, Timothy Tompkins photographs scenes that splash across his television screen and lends per-manence by painting them in high-gloss commercial enamels on aluminum panels. In “Jungle v.1,” light seems to still be sculpting the pixilated jungle canopy. Tompkins believes image consumption is cyclical. The pictures he intercepts remind him of paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock and Claude Monet, McCandless said. At Heather James Fine Art, “Jungle v.1” is in direct dialogue with the mas-terworks Tompkins reveres.

During Fall Arts, Forest for the Trees shares the gallery with Masters of Impressionist and Modern Art, which features a lush “Water Lily” quintessential of Monet’s late style and Picasso’s “Buste de Femme Souriante,” a post-impressionist painting from his blue period. Also among the master mix: a surreal scene by Rene Magritte, a Lake George landscape by Georgia O’Keeffe, a rare painting on can-vas by Marc Chagall, an abstract expression-ist piece by Hans Hofmann and the organic cubism of Fernand Leger.

In such company, patrons can trace currents between pieces and periods: an impressionist brushstroke by Monet bor-rowed by Picasso, referenced by Tompkins; the botanical bam of Gottlieb tied to the pop explosion of Warhol; the Meiji embroidery of the 19th century echoed in the delicate stitches tracing Ketchum’s contours.

Cross sectionsA close look illuminates the breadth and depth of a collection

Light seems to be sculpting the pixilated jungle canopy in “Jungle v.1,” a Timothy Tompkins composition of commercial enamel on aluminum.

“Melicope obovato,” mixed media on wood panel, is the work of Penelope Gottlieb, who puts a modern spin on extinct fl ora described in old botanical journals.

Vessels by contemporary Japanese artists grace Heather James Fine Art. Nagakura Kenichi fashioned this one, “Worn” from rattan and driftwood.

See Spence’s photosDovetailing Gerry Spence’s talk on Sunday, Sept. 12, Heather James Fine Art will present 33 of his photographs, a show shared between the gallery and at the Center for the Arts. Preceding his 7 p.m. appearance, Heather James will host a reception for Spence from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and another following his talk in the center lobby from 8 to 9:30 p.m.


When he was in his 40s, Gerry Spence decided the law did not provide justice to people, that jus-

tice was just a myth. It is a concept he has wrestled with for

more than four decades and, at 81, he shows no signs of backing away from that struggle.

Instead of abandoning the fi eld, Spence has devoted his life’s work to improving it, albeit in a way that has not always followed the most-tread path.

“I require all of my students at the Trial Lawyers College to paint,” Spence said, referring to the college he founded. “You ought to see them cry. Sometimes it just opens them up, because they’ve never real-ly been there. The left side of their brains will be the size of a watermelon, whereas the right side, where things are created and felt, is the size of a walnut.

“I want them to paint so that I can teach them that trying a case is about telling a story, having feeling, looking at a blank canvas and putting that fi rst stroke, and when it’s time to put on the last stroke. You can easily ruin an entire painting with one stroke too many.”

This unorthodox teaching method underpins Spence’s entire approach to law and the problems he sees within the fi eld. It also shows his deep connection to art.

“By the time they get out of law school they have stamped the humanity out of them,” Spence said, referring to law stu-dents and scholars. “They can’t really relate to other humans.”

In his 40s, Spence quit praticing law. He

enrolled at San Francisco State University and moved to California.

“I went to school thinking that I would teach art,” Spence said. “I wanted to teach art because I think there is something in art that helps us understand life. But when I got there, they were doing photorealism, photos of junkyards and empty warehouses. It was empty, nihilistic work. I went to school there eight or nine days before I decided I didn’t want to go to school there anymore.”

However, Spence’s involvement with art continued as a photographer.

“Photography is something that takes an eye and it takes soul, but it is something people can afford,” he said.

Spence said his concern for the lowliest members of our society was not always at the forefront of his mind.

“I have committed my share of sins,” he said. “I started out as a prosecutor for insurance companies going after regular people. Insurance companies were at the top of the list. In my day you didn’t repre-sent any of the lost or forgotten or damned ... I remember how happy I was when I got the job, but I soon realized that it wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life.”

A specifi c case sparked Spence’s real-ization but he declined to describe it. Instead, he encouraged attendence of his Sunday, Sept. 12 appearance at the Center for the Arts.

Spence’s talk begins at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20. He said he was unsure of what he would talk about, and might ask audience members what they want him to discuss.

He might talk about the current state of affairs in the country: “We are at a cross-

roads. We’re at a dangerous place. People are hurt and angry. The justice system is not available to a large number of people. We are not a country that knows [how] to deal with a depression.”

He might discuss his age: “I’m 81 years old. I ought to start thinking about that next passage. It’s something we don’t always talk about. What do we do with it? What does it mean, if anything? How should we feel about it?”

Or he might touch on highlights from his long and storied career as an attorney. He has never lost a criminal case as a pros-ecutor or a defense attorney, and has not lost a civil case since 1969.

Refl ecting on his career, Spence said his proudest accomplishments have come from teaching up-and-coming attorneys at his Trial Lawyers College.

“The power of making the justice system work lies with lawyers,” he said. “The justice system is a tool, and lawyers have to know how to make it work. I am trying to empow-

er single lawyers who, in their lifetime, will touch many lives. I’m trying to make the system as accessible and give people law-yers who are truly human beings.”

Spence said he is happy with his career choice.

“Saying no would make me an ingrate to everything that the law has given me and everything that I’ve been able to do with it and through it,” Spence said. “But, could I have accomplished my goals in another venue? Yes.”

Spence still takes on cases and was unsure whether he would actually be able to make it to his Center for the Arts engagement because of an ongoing trial in Iowa where, Spence said, he is repre-senting “a poor black kid, who, at 17, was charged with murder of a cop, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. He was in prison for 25 years before a judge reviewed his case, found that he was wrongfully con-victed and ended up releasing him. Now I’m trying to get him justice.”


Gerry Spence7 p.m., Sept. 12Center for the Arts

Courtroom humanity

“Dawa and Burned Forest” is an example of lawyer and photographer Gerry Spence’s creative work. Spence fi nds the courtroom and creativity complement each other.

Lawyer, artist shares insights gained over the decades

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Jackson Hole Playhouse145 W. Deloney Ave.733-6994

Playhouse stagesa Broadway legend


T hroughout the history of theater, the rebellion of teenagers and the quest for love have been two enduring

themes. “The Fantasticks” is a story about both

of these struggles. Perhaps that is why it has earned the title of the longest-running musical on Broadway.

“It’s a really timeless story,” said Vicki Garnick, owner of Jackson Hole Playhouse, which has produced the beloved show for its fall run of Sept. 3 through Oct. 2.

Normally the Playhouse showcases boisterous musicals with Western ties dur-ing its summer and fall seasons. This year, however, Garnick wanted to try something different to appeal to the crowds that come to Jackson during Fall Arts Festival.

While “The Fantasticks” is still a musical, it relies more on acting than other shows Garnick has produced at the historic venue.

The story begins with two kids grow-ing up next door to each other. Their par-ents conspire to keep them apart, building a wall between the two properties to keep the children separated. Eventually, however, the children discover each other fall in love.

The show is a light musical comedy Garnick calls “endearing.”

“The Fantasticks” famous run started in 1960 as an off-Broadway production and didn’t close until 2002, making it the world’s longest-running musical. It remains a favorite for regional theaters and has enjoyed many revivals.

With a score by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones, and such memorable songs as “Try To Remember,” its music especially appealed to Garnick.

The cast of seven includes several actors familiar to anyone who attended this summer’s “Annie Get Your Gun.” The rest of the cast is fi lled out by members of a touring company.

Garnick had only a week after “Annie Get Your Gun” ended to get “The Fantasticks” open. Luckily, several cast members have performed in the show before.

“It is the most talented seven people I know,” Garnick said.

The Jackson Hole Playhouse is located at 145 W. Deloney Ave., in the oldest exist-ing frame building in town. Built in 1916, it has served as a blacksmith, car dealership and Jackson’s fi rst stage for live theater.

The show runs every night except Sundays. For information, advance ticket sales, reservations and dinner-and-a-show packages, visit www.jhplayhouse.com, or call 733-6994.

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Creative gemsJewelers show off new pieces, new lines

❚ By Dina Mishev

Just because you can wear it doesn’t mean it isn’t art. The earrings, brace-lets, pendants, and rings at these three

valley jewelers are works of art.When Hines Goldsmiths opened 40

years ago, the Fall Arts Festival wasn’t even an idea. The store was four cases in the space that is now the concession stand of the Teton Theatre. Today, Hines is 2,500 square feet of contemporary and Western jewelry and watches on the Town Square.

During Fall Arts, the store is highlight-ing the work of Patrick Murphy and Sam Ferraro. During the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk, Hines will host Murphy and Ferraro and serve light refreshments. Both artists will be in town all weekend.

Murphy, whom Hines owner Carolyn Hines discovered 20 years ago at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, has been a fi xture at the store during the Fall Arts Festival for “at least the last 10 years,” Hines said.

“My customers love his work so much,” Hines said. “He’s innovative and uses really unusual stones — collector’s stones.”

Ferraro, who lives in Bozeman, Mont., is a newer addition to Hines Goldsmiths but has still been in the store for “six or seven years.” Hines called him “a true cowboy — he’s got the mustache, hat, and boots.” His work has been featured in Cowboys & Indians magazine.

Ferraro’s most popular pieces are gold and silver animal pendants. Hines wanted to feature him during the festival to intro-duce his high-end work. In addition to the animals, Ferraro does pave and enamel bucking broncos and cowboy hats.

Hines is also using the festival to intro-duce three new lines: Kelim, handmade silver pieces form Switzerland, and B. Tiff, an amazingly affordable line of spar-kling stones set in stainless steel.

“It looks like diamonds in white gold, but a big ring is only $260, and earrings are $60 or $70,” Hines said.

This summer, Hines has added three new lines of charm wheels for necklaces and bracelets, which range from sterling silver to 14 karat gold. The shop’s resident goldsmith, Gary Smith, will also unveil new one-of-a-kind pieces.

On the other side of the Town Square, Dan Shelley Jewelers is featuring the work of Todd Reed, a contemporary jew-eler based in Boulder, Colo., whose work the store began carrying in the spring.

“He uses old mine-cut or raw diamonds and sets them in platinum and 18 karat gold,” said Dan Harrison, a designer/jew-eler who co-owns the store with Shelley Elser. “He’s one of the hottest up-and-coming contemporary jewelry artists in the country.”

Also being featured at Dan Shelley are pieces using stones mined in the West.

“Turquoise is so popular right now,” Harrison said.

Opal and diamond pieces by Christopher Corbett, a friend of Harrison’s who grew up in Jackson Hole but now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., will also be prominently displayed during Fall Arts.

“He uses some of the highest-grade opal in the world,” Harrison said. “His pieces are a must-see if you’re an opal lover.”

Just north on Cache from Dan Shelley, JC Jewelers is showcasing new jewelry and designs by local jewelers Jeter Case, Jeffrey Kaplan and Sage Craighead.

Case’s pieces are all one-of-a-kind with custom-cut colored gem stones.

“Jeter’s newest styles are made to be worn casually but have the style and qual-ity he is known for,” Jan Case said.

“We take the time to show customers a few pieces, and the quality and design difference is obvious even to the newest jewelry buyer,” Case said. “Last week, we had a woman in the store looking around and when she turned to leave she said, ‘So this is quality jewelry!’”

Pieces crafted by Jeter Case of JC Jewelers include an 18-karat diamond ring and a 14k white gold and diamond Teton ring.

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A symbol artists see the world as a place to interact with and play in. They surf waves, skate ramps and

snowboard mountains. “It’s the new generation in Jackson,”

said Asymbol Gallery manager Claire Johnson. “We’re working with people in the culture that we know. The snow, skate, surf and board culture.”

Befi tting their lives, their art exists online at www.asymbolgallery.com rath-er than on a Jackson gallery wall. Until now: Asymbol is hosting a “pop up” gal-lery in the hallway outside Teton Artlab in the Center for the Arts.

Asymbol began as a collaboration between professional snowboarder Travis Rice and artist Mike Parillo as a way to highlight the fine-art world that thrives within ’board culture. Asymbol exists mostly online, but the artwork is housed in a warehouse just south of

Jackson on Deer Drive.Twice before, Asymbol has hit the

road to stage “pop up” shows — tempo-rary gigs in galleries. So far, it has done shows at the Whistler Blackcomb ski area in Canada and in Aspen, Colo.

The Teton Artlab collaboration marks Asymbol’s fi rst time showcasing its col-lection in Jackson.

“Part of this exhibit is going to show our culture and our environment and

the emotion behind it all,” Johnson said. “We’re not going to have the whole col-lection there, but we’re picking out piec-es that represent the collection.”

After hanging in Artlab in early September, the Asymbol show moved to the third-fl oor hallway, where it will live throughout Fall Arts Festival.

Each piece is displayed with a brief artist’s explanation of the inspiration behind the piece, like Jamie Lynn’s

description of “Moonlit Polihale” (see above). The prints range from $250 to $1,350.

After Fall Arts, the Asymbol show will vaporize into its online-only form, which is largely the point: The Internet allows Asymbol to connect with a larger audience, Johnson said.

“I feel like we’re doing it the other way,” said Johnson. “We have the reach of the world.”


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Art ofactionAsymbol gallery pops up at Teton Artlab

The artists whose work is represented by Asymbol are part of the snowboard, surf and skateboard culture. Usually an online venue, Asymbol is showing pieces that represent its collection in a “pop up” gallery outside Teton Artlab at the Center for the Arts. Among the works there is this acrylic-on-masonite piece by Jamie Lynn, along with his explanatory text, below.

‘I had to paint it’On the west side of Kauai, there is a long, empty stretch of beach called Polihale. I happened to be on

a trip to the island once, in the mid- to late ’90s, at the same time as Bryan Iguchi, and we decided to go camp out and play on the beach there one night. There was a full moon out, and it lit up the ocean so bright that we were actually able to paddle out and surf.

I just have this snapshot in my head from being out there, looking back at the ocean and seeing this wave crest and break in the moonlight. Just the richness of these incredible turquoise-blue colors as they went into the barrel and the plume of spray that whipped off the top of the wave made such a striking image, it left a big imprint on my mind. I had to paint it. — Jamie Lynn

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❚ By Johanna Love

Ever look at a vase or painting and won-der how it came to be? From a glob of glass to a tube of Grumbacher cad-

mium yellow, raw materials are unremark-able until an artist takes them in hand.

Get a glimpse at the process of paint-ers and sculptors, or observe a blacksmith and glassblower, during the Jackson Hole Art Studio Tour on Sept. 10 and 11.

Stops are ordered in a logical fashion for folks who want to hit every one of the 15 open studios on the map.

More than half the artists on the third annual self-guided tour live on the west bank, so the curious can carpool and head for the fi rst stop starting at 10 a.m. Friday.

Number one is the studio of Eliot and Natalie Goss, a mile north of the Aspens on Highway 390.

Or begin with No. 7, Margie Odell’s painting studio, 5 miles south on Fall Creek Road, and work your way back north via watercolorist Huntley Baldwin and sculp-tor Amy Bright Unfried to blacksmith Terry Chambers, who recently moved his studio to 2155 N. Fish Creek Rd.

Chambers and his team craft fi replace screens, stairway railings, chandeliers, sculptures and more from raw bars of steel. During the tour, they’ll be working on their usual commissioned items.

“In these beautiful homes that people build, it’s the little details that really make the home,” Chambers said. “Everything I do is one-of-a-kind, which makes it even more special.”

In an artist’s studio, you can experience at least part of a creative process, watching paint being applied to canvas, glass melting or clay spinning on the wheel beneath the talented fi ngers of a potter.

Studio tour organizer and glassblower Laurie Thal said the experience gives insight into the artists and their work. “And it’s fun. I think learning more about your favorite artist is always a great experience.”

More than half the people who have ventured to studios in the past two years

are residents who want to watch.“Over and over last year, people would

come up to me and say, ‘I’ve always wanted to see you blow glass,’ ” Thal said. “This is a good opportunity. I think it’s a win-win sit-uation for artists, for locals and visitors.”

During the Palates & Palettes Art Walk on Friday, Sept. 10, a reception with the open studio artists is set for 5 to 8 p.m. in the Art Association’s ArtSpace Gallery. Those who stop by the Center for the Arts on Friday night can see a selection of works by each artist on the tour. That’s especially helpful for people looking to winnow their list from a dozen to a few studios.

“By seeing the actual work, they can really get an idea of where they want to go,” Thal said.

See below for the studio tour descrip-tion and map. It’s also available from the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce web-site, www.jacksonholechamber.com, or at Art Association in the Center for the Arts.

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Artist Huntley Baldwin creates detailed watercolors in his Wilson studio.

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The Ceramics Studio at the Art Association invites spectators to watch artists in the throes of wheeled and handthrown creativity.

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Glassblower Laurie Thal works with a furnace that heats up to more than 2,000 degress.

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1 Eliot and Natalie Goss Painting 3375 Aster Lane, Wilson 1 mile north of the Aspens 307-733-1890 / [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

2 Laurie Thal & Lia Kass Glass Blowing Demonstrations 3800 Linn Drive, Wilson Right on Linn Drive, 1 mi. north on Teton Village Rd 307-733-5096 [email protected] / www.thalglass.com www.liakassart.com Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

3 Meredith Campbell Oil Painting 2075 N. Rendezvous Drive, Wilson Hwy.22 to 390 (Teton Village Road), 1/4 mi. turn left on Nethercott, next right onto Coyote Loop, next right onto Rendezvous Drive, first left Flying Fox Studio. 307-690-1515 / [email protected] www.meredithcampbellart.com Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

4 Terry Chambers Custom Iron Design 2155 North Fish Creek Road, Wilson Call for directions 307-413-2289 / [email protected] www.customirondesign.biz Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

5 Amy Bright Unfried Bronze Sculpture 6245 W. Wooded Hills Ln, Wilson Go 1.6 miles south on Fall Creek Rd, Rt on Paintbrush Trail, Rt on Wooded Hills Ln. 307-733-4243 / [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

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12 Teton Artlab Etching / Woodcuts / Screenprinting 240 S. Glenwood Ave Suite 307, Jackson In the Center for the Arts, Level Three 307-699-0836 [email protected] / www.tetonartlab.com Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

13 Art Association Ceramics Ceramics 240 S. Glenwood Ave, Jackson In the Center for the Arts, Glenwood Side with the garage doors 307-413-4460(c) / [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

14 Sharon Thomas Painting 796 W. Sycamore Dr, Jackson South on hwy 89, right on south park loop road, right on melody ranch drive, right on sycamore drive. 307-739-1378 [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

15 Corrina Johnson Painting 7700 S Hwy 89, Jackson South on Hwy 89, past Game Creek and the Swinging Bridge. First driveway on left past white abandoned trailer. Beige manufactured home with garage. Go to the right of garage through carport to enter studio. 307-734-9023 [email protected] / www.corrinajohnson.com Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

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7 Margie Odell Painting 5445 Cottonwood Canyon Rd, Wilson From Wilson, go 5 miles south on Fall Creek Rd, Go around a bend on the right and see a round that says “Rivermeadows & Cottonwood Canyon rd”. Drive to the end, 1/3 mi. where a sign in driveway reads “Odell-5445.” Front door is up path on left 307-733-4360 / [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

8 Dee Parker Painting 750 Dakota Ln. Wilson 2nd Right off Wenzel Ln. 307-733-9206 [email protected] Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

9 Charlie Thomas Fine Woodworking 800 Wenzel Ln. Wilson Left turn .6 Miles down Wenzel at Magpie Acres 307-733-6121 [email protected] / www.magpiefurniture.net Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

10 Susan Thulin Painting 400 North Bar Y Road From the Alberston’s intersection, go west on Hwy 22 for approx. 2 mi. Take right on Bar Y Road. Go up .9 miles, driveway is on the right. House is a redwood stain, go thru the front door, studio is in the basement. 307-690-6266 [email protected] www.susandurfeethulin.com Friday & Saturday 10-5pm

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Peeking at process

Studio Tours10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,Sept. 10 and 11

Reception 5 to 8 p.m., Sept. 10 Art Association


❚ By Dina Mishev

One-hundred years ago, a Western quick draw would have involved wounded pride, guns and the

county coroner. On Saturday, Sept. 18, it will be artists armed with paintbrushes rather than outlaws with pistols who will entertain audiences on the Town Square during the 15th annual QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction.

It goes like this: At 9 a.m. the artists — 32 of them this year — take to their easels and sculpting tables as the clock starts. They are charged with creating a fi nished piece in 90 minutes — 30 minutes more than in years past. At 10:30, time is called and the works are collected for a live auc-tion, where each will be sold to the high-est bidder. The fi nal piece to be auctioned won’t be from the QuickDraw. It will be “Season of the Mountain Men,” the oil painting by Joe Velazquez that was cho-sen for this year’s festival poster.

Sounds diffi cult, doesn’t it? Even with the extra 30 minutes.

“We surveyed the participating art-ists, and they all liked the idea of hav-ing 90 minutes to work,” said Maureen Murphy, event planner at the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.

Despite the pressure of the event, the QuickDraw is popular with artists.

“We have a huge waiting list for art-ists wanting to get into the QuickDraw,” Murphy said. “We don’t need to sell the event to anyone.”

“Being a painter or sculptor is a very lonely job,” said Amy Ringholz, a Jackson-

based painter in the QuickDraw for the fi fth time. “We spend way too much time alone in our studios, and on this special day, you get to enjoy what you do with other artists and the curious audience.”

This year’s participating artists include perennial favorites Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, Lyn St. Clair, Jim Wilcox, Tim Tanner, Bill Smith, Bill Sawczuk, John Potter, Chad Poppleton, Chris Navarro and Gerald Balciar.

Murphy said that at least year’s

QuickDraw, Ringholz’s wolf painting went for top dollar, $4,200, at the auction.

“We recognize people have their favorite artists, but we also try to bring in a handful of new artists every year,” Murphy said.

QuickDrawing for the fi rst time this year will be Linda Tuma Robertson, Jared Sanders, Jeff Ham and Sarah Webber.

Between old and new, the artists work in every medium imaginable — oil paint, watercolor, pencil, acrylic, wood and clay

included. Murphy said one artist might even paint on glass this year.

“That’ll be pretty sweet,” she said. “The more different media there are, the more interesting it is for the spectators.”

Almost since its inception, the QuickDraw has been one of the most popular Fall Arts events with spectators.

“Many people return to Jackson year after year to attend the QuickDraw,” Murphy said.

Ringholz said, “The QuickDraw is a blast for artists and viewers for the same reasons I think — because of the wonder-ful energy and excitement of the time limit and the thrill of having so many extremely talented artists at arm’s length and within ear’s reach. And when you throw in the extreme weather conditions we can have in September, well, that only makes it more unpredictable and exciting.”

Murphy attended a QuickDraw as a tourist and fell in love with it.

“It’s an event that allows the commu-nity and art collectors to connect with the artists and see how they work, even if they’re working very quickly.”

Just because the QuickDraw artists are working fast doesn’t mean the pieces they’re creating aren’t legit works of art.

And don’t expect that because the piec-es take only 90 minutes they’re going to be a bargain. Occasionally you can pick one up for under $1,000, but more usual are pieces selling for several thousand dollars.

“These are nationally known and col-lected artists,” explained Murphy. “You pay for that.”

Watching, however, is free.

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❚ By Allison Arthur

C ome celebrate the fi nal day of Fall Art Festival by attending the last event, the Art Brunch

Gallery Walk on Sunday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

The 30 participating art galleries

around town will offer brunch dish-es and morning cocktails to patrons who want to explore the galleries at a more leisurely pace.

The Jackson Hole Gallery Association created the event as a way to close the festival with a bang, said Mary Schmitt, association spokesperson.

In a format similar to the Art Walk on Wednesday, Sept. 15, the brunch will offer food and drinks to visitors browsing Fall Arts Festival exhibits

Brunch finale

Stratman uses real and plastic leaves to add shape and texture to her work. There will be 31 other artists in the QuickDraw with her.

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One of Kay Stratman’s QuickDraw tricks is to work with a brush in one hand and a hair dryer in the other so she can fi nish a watercolor within the allotted time. This year, artists will have 90 minutes to work, 30 minutes more than in past years.

QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction9 a.m., Sept. 18Town Square

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Toast creativity by the light of day during the Art Brunch Gallery Walk, the buoyant fi nale to Fall Arts Festival on Sunday, Sept. 19.

for one last time. “This will be the event’s

third year,” Schmitt said, “It’s really fun. You can try different brunch fare, and you don’t have to fi ght through as many crowds. It is nice event to offer on the last day and allows people one more chance to really see the art around town.”

Even if gallerygoers have participated in other recep-tions during the festival, they may still notice something new, as many galleries change their exhibits up to three times dur-ing the festival.

Open to all, the Art Brunch is free of charge.


❚ By Caitlin Clark

The Fall Arts Festival is all about introducing people to new art and artists. But one gallery

seized on the opportunity to intro-duce two local artists to each other.

Kay Stratman and Shannon Troxler had never met before Trio Fine Art extended an invitation to them to do a tandem show during Fall Arts Festival. Since then, they have collaborated so closely their show belies their recent introduction.

Trio will host a reception for their two-woman show, Resonance, from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9. The show hangs through Sept. 25.

The gallery, which features work by its co-owner artists September Vhay, Lee Carlman Riddell and Kathryn Mapes Turner, decided that Fall Arts Festival was a perfect time to adopt other artists.

“We wanted to give other artists the opportunity that the three of us have enjoyed in such a relaxing, light-fi lled space,” Turner said.

The gallery put Stratman and Troxler in touch, giving then few guidelines but encouraging ingenuity. The two artists took it from there.

“Right away we decided to collab-orate,” said Stratman. “We’ve been talking about our approach, we’ve visited each other’s studios, and we communicate regularly.”

Successful collaboration does not mean their styles and approaches are the same — quite the opposite — although synergies do exist. Turner

describes Stratman’s work as Eastern and Troxler’s as more classical, but, Stratman says, “Our work is so com-patible that it doesn’t feel diffi cult to combine it into one show.”

Stratman practices sumi-e, the ancient art of Asian brush painting. Vibrant, saturated colors dance across gold and silver surfaces, bringing unex-pected dimensions to watercolor.

Stratman approaches her art in one of three ways: “I have a precon-ceived idea, I have that idea and then it changes as I paint, or I begin with no direction at all and just see where the paint leads me.”

Similarly, Troxler is interested in

exploration. “I’m always trying to push my own boundaries,” she said. Almost all of her pieces will be new and representative of this drive to grow and change.

Troxler’s still lifes and landscapes reveal classical training hidden beneath wholly distinctive brush-strokes. Her pieces balance radiance and reticence.

Troxler varies her work using oils, sanguine pencils and gouache (opaque watercolor).

An Asian aesthetic infuses both artists’ work, Troxler said. “They will complement each other nicely.”

Perhaps the pieces are so congru-

Opportune introduction

With a solid foundation in classical training, Shannon Trox-ler pushes her artistic boundaries with each luminenscent piece, such as “Peacock.”

Kay Stratman embraces the “controlled spontaniety” of sumi-e painting. “Woodwind Ensemble” fl owed from both the artist’s planning and the free will of the watercolors.

ent because, throughout the planning process, the artists learned from each other. For example, many of Troxler’s pieces are painted on metallic shikishi boards, a material and technique she learned from Stratman.

The artists have called the show “Resonance” — defi ned as the ability to evoke or suggest images, memo-ry or emotions — an apt description of what both strive to do with their work.

In case that one word isn’t quite enough, Stratman and Troxler are upholding the Trio tradition of the artist being present in the gallery for the duration of the show.

“The gallery is a wonderful place to see art but also to talk to the artist,” said Turner.

For the three-week run of Resonance, Troxler or Stratman will be in the gallery presenting, explaining and deservedly showing off the art they have created for the festival.

“Nobody can explain their work better [than the art-ists themselves],” Stratman said. “People really enjoy getting beyond that initial look at a painting and discov-ering more of the emotion or process.”

Preceding its Palates & Palettes reception on Friday, Sept. 10, Trio will host artist demonstrations with Troxler and Stratman from 4 to 5 p.m.

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❚ By Johanna Love

Sure, sculptor Rip Caswell displays some of his small pieces indoors. But his larger fi gures are most at

home outside.During Fall Arts Festival, Caswell’s big

bronzes will return to the garden area outside of Jackson Hole Roasters, the site of Caswell Gallery until two years ago.

Neither mountain thunderstorms nor blizzards worry Caswell; bronze is an enduring medium.

“Bronzes are made to last,” Caswell said. “They’re going to be around for thousands of years.”

Ahead of the festival, Caswell plans to tow in three shipments of sculptures, about 75 in all. They will be planted strategically to re-establish the sculpture garden at 145 E. Broadway, just east of Cafe Genevieve.

“I like to show people that kind of setting,” Caswell said. In particular, his monument-size forest creatures “seem to come alive in an outdoor setting with trees and rocks and landscaping.”

Viewers no doubt will thrill to the thrice-life-size elk, “Challenge Accepted,” which will grace the garden. There will be a realistic moose and cougar as well. A life-size cowboy will sit on a fence next to his dog in “Corral Companions.”

The garden and the art have a symbiotic relationship, feeding off one another. And the grounds won’t go hungry after Fall Arts concludes. Jackson Hole Roasters owner Stefan Grainda is happy to host Caswell’s works long-term, so the sculptor can resume his retail presence to the valley.

“I just really miss Jackson Hole,” Caswell

said. “It’s the most inspiring place. And I had so many clients and friends in that area. I’m thankful to Jackson Hole Roasters for allow-ing me to showcase my work there again.”

In addition to Caswell, more than a dozen other artists will show their work at the venue during Fall Arts Festival at the 2010 Artist Rendezvous, offering booth space in a tented pavilion next to the sculpture gar-den. He plans to make it an annual affair.

The opportunity is a great one for artists without Jackson representation, Caswell said. “It’s a hard market to break into.”

For information, call 690-9318.

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Sculptor Rip Caswell adds his works to the inaugural Artist Rendezvous he is organizing at Jackson Hole Roasters, the site of his former Caswell Gallery. His large bronzes, such as “Corral Companions,” will populate the building and sculpture garden.

Caswell works in various sculptural styles and scales, including fi gurative, wildlife and monumental works.

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❚ By Johanna Love

A fter a few hours of snacking, sip-ping, chatting and art-gazing dur-ing the Palates & Palettes gallery

walk, folks should be ready to take a load off and tap their toes.

At 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee’s Music and Poetry Roundup will offer an array of western entertainment for the ninth year, the third in the Center Theater at the Center for the Arts.

“We have a good feeling” about timing the concert after the art walk, said Kathy McCann, board member.

The concert spotlights award-winning national touring artists Juni Fisher, Patty Clayton and Al “Doc” Mehl, followed by Teton players Michael Hurwitz, the Miller Sisters and the Jackson Hole All-Star Cowboy Band.

Fisher, whom the Western Music Association picked as Female Performer of the Year in 2006 and 2009, was a horse-crazy girl before she ever picked up a guitar. If there was a campfi re at any of the hundreds of horse compe-titions she rode in, Fisher was there with her guitar, playing the western songs she learned from her father. She soon began writing her own music, and since her fi rst western release in 1999, “Tumbleweed Letters,” she has crafted three more discs and been lauded with a 2009 Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for outstanding western album, the fi rst woman to win the honor.

“Juni is really the biggest name on the circuit,” McCann said.

Fisher will be joined on stage by per-forming songwriter Patty Clayton and by humorist and cowboy poet Al “Doc” Mehl.

“All of these are songwriters as well as performers who have all done collab-orative things with each other,” McCann said. “So they’ll perform individually and together. It’s something they do in the western genre. We want people to see

and hear this.”Local favorites Michael Hurwitz and

the Miller Sisters, both backed by the Jackson Hole All-Star Cowboy Band, will round out the evening with a dance party on the stage, where the audience is invit-ed to join in the fun.

“People can ‘shake and howdy’ with these performers,” McCann said, “buy their CDs, get a chance to talk to them, come up on the stage and have a dance.”

Also for sale at the event (and in The Wort Hotel gift shop) will be the Jubilee’s compilation CD, “Music and Poetry Roundup.” Each track has been donated by past Jubilee performers, and proceeds will help fund future Jubilee concerts.

Tickets, which cost $28 each, are avail-able through the Center box offi ce, 733-4900.

Also, for a free taste of cowboy music, enjoy Pickin’ in the Park, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 13, in the Town Square.

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As the Artist in the Park program’s featured artist for September, Kathy Wipfl er will paint outdoors, for an audience, a Teton scene like “November Tetons.”


Grand Teton National Park has inspired artist Kathy Wipfl er countless times over the years.

About 80 percent of her paintings she does outside, so setting up an easel near the Chapel of the Transfi guration on Saturday, Sept. 11, won’t be a different pro-cess from other days she creates art.

The difference will be that people are invited to watch Wipfl er work from 3 to 6 p.m. as part of the Grand Teton Association’s Artists in the Park program.

The program features a local artist each month from June to September.

The artists choose a spot for a plein air demonstration, said Liza Millet, modera-tor and program coordinator.

Wipfl er usually picks her painting spots when the light catches her eye. Her work falls between photo-realism and hard-core impressionism, she said.

She doesn’t paint each leaf on a tree, but she does do more bold brush strokes than the impressionists.

She chose to do her demonstration at the chapel because it is easy to fi nd and there is plenty of parking.

“And there is a great view, of course,” she said.

Those who attend the demonstra-tions range from burgeoning artists, to established names in the art world to students and even just curious passers-by, Millet said.

Not only do the demonstrations offer a chance for people to witness the art-ist’s creative process, they also provide a unique perspective on Grand Teton National Park.

“When we’re in the park, we move all the time,” Millet said. “We never sit in one spot and contemplate the land-scape and watch the light change like an artist.”

In the early 1970s, valley painters Greg McHuron and Conrad Schwiering found-ed the program as a way to give people an intimate view of the area’s artists and the process of plein air painting.

Artists usually start with a blank can-vas. By the end of the three hours, the piece is nearly fi nished, Millet said. The artists vary in how talkative they are while working, but they all make a point of tak-ing questions and sharing their process.

“It’s meant to be a learning experi-ence,” Millet said. “It is meant to be open for comments and thoughts and ques-tions and sharing ideas.”

Visit www.kathywipfl er.com for infor-mation on Kathy Wipfl er.

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Kathy Wipfler welcomes spectators as she paints

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Eliot Goss opens the 2010 Artist in the Park series in June with a painting session at String Lake in Grand Teton National Park.

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With each changing season comes new fl owers and plants. Blooms tend to be more hardy, and deep-

er, richer colors take center stage.The fall season is a busy time, fl ower

and garden designers say. Local woman tend to plan their weddings in September, and those who care for outdoor gardens begin to think about cutting back, plant-ing bulbs and mulching.

“You’re into more substantial fl owers in the fall,” said Julie Reed, who operates Char-Ral Floral with her father, Jerry.

The dainty blooms of spring and sum-mer — peonies, tulips, iris and many types of native wildfl owers — are gone. In their place, asiatic lilies, roses, sunfl owers and daisies unfurl.

Outside, the colors in planters and gar-dens begin to change.

“Fall is a time for ornamental grasses,” said Sue Bullock, a partner at Jackson Hole Flower Co. “They look spectacular.”

Grasses go from green to incredible hues, such as burnt orange, she said, point-ing to a grass planted outside her shop in the West Bank Center, off Highway 390.

Jackson Hole Flower Co. offers an eclectic range of products and services, including garden design, installation and maintenance, indoor plant maintenance, and landscape architecture for commer-cial and private sites.

The business also is a full-service fl o-rist, and Bullock tries to create a fl ower market feel by putting out eight to 10 vari-eties of blooms each day.

“We’re trying to do something for every budget,” she said, from a single rose to a bountiful bouquet.

Jackson Hole Flower Co. is affi liated with www.bbrooks.com, a wire service that bills itself as a nationwide network of fl orists specializing in fresh, seasonal fl ow-ers “arranged with exquisite artistry.”

Bullock’s store is a gallery of sorts, she said, and customers will fi nd glass art by Laurie Thal and paintings by Jeriann Sabin, Judith Dragonette and Shannon Troxler.

Char-ral specializes in contemporary, high-style, large-scale arrangements and is among the top 500 preferred fl orists in the country affi liated with the FTD wire service, Reed said. The store also offers orchids and a wide variety of houseplants.

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W hether a person is interested in the history of the valley, wildlife, ranching or how a fam-ily business is run, the Jackson Hole Cowboy

Jubilee’s historic ranch tours are sure to intrigue.This year’s tours will visit the Porter Ranch, just

south of town, and the Snake River Ranch, off the Moose-Wilson Road. Buses will leave at 2 p.m. from the down-town Home Ranch parking lot.

The tours cost $50 per person, which includes live cowboy entertainment and a barbeque beef lunch pro-vided by the Jackson Hole Cowbelles.

The ranch tours began when Kathy McCann and the other founders of the Cowboy Jubilee decided to expand

the offerings of Western culture during the Fall Arts Festival. Already rife with Western art (gallery walks) and sport (rodeo), the festival lacked a window on mod-ern Western life.

In recent years, the ranch tours have grown in popu-larity. Some who attend are involved in ranching in other parts of the country and want to see how it is done here, McCann said. Some want to learn about the area and its history, while others are intrigued with how modern-day ranching works.

Not everyone has been on an operating ranch, Barbara Hauge, a member of the family board that runs the Snake River Ranch, said. So she and others at the ranch make time during the tours to talk about the history of the ranch — how it came to be and what the early days were like — as well as how it operates today.

The questions Hauge gets are diverse — from clarify-ing the difference between organic and natural beef to explaining the ranch’s business goals.

People often ask about land management practices. They want to know about the grazing program and what makes it effective or how fencing helps protect vegetation and wildlife. Even those who live in the area and know the ranch is there don’t always know what it does.

“It’s fascinating to go behind the scenes and hear about what the business has accomplished and what they are still wrestling with,” Hauge said. “Each business is a world unto itself.”

People often have misconceptions about ranching and animal management, Lance Johnsen, the ranch manger, said. “We like to put things into perspective and show

how the animals are really treated.” The welfare of the ranch’s stock is of foremost con-

cern, he said. Ranchers take pride in the way the animals are treated and the way the ranch is run.

“This is our business,” Johnsen said.Some people are surprised by the fact that, in many

ways, ranching is not much different now than it was 70 years ago, Johnsen said. Because things are so similar to the way they used to be, the modern ranch tours offer a living link to the valley’s Western heritage and history.

For information, call Kathy McCann at 699-3868 or the Chamber of Commerce at 733-3316, or visit www.jacksonholecowboyjubilee.org.


Tours open window on western heritage, history

❚ By Mark Wilcox

For folk duo Anne and Pete Sibley, there’s no place like home.

“This crowd has carried us since the beginning,” Pete Sibley said. “There is almost a family quality and an intimacy we don’t experience anywhere else.”

The husband and wife started their music career playing the Hootenanny at Dornan’s, but they gained nation-al attention when they won the 2009 Great American Duet Sing-Off on National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Recently, they picked up a new agent and manager and have begun to discuss

“larger, long-term plans,” some of which may involve moving out of the valley in pursuit of bigger goals.

The imminent change makes the Sibleys’ hometown concert on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the Center for the Arts all the more meaningful, as it may be their last local show for a while. Tickets cost $15 and are available at the Center box offi ce.

In the Center Theater, the Sibleys plan to debut some new songs for local fans.

“Our last Center show in Jackson was a truly magical evening for us,” Anne said. “I know it will be the same this year, especially with the probability of leaving the valley.”

Pete Sibley plays what might be con-sidered a “classical banjo,” the clawham-mer. It may not be the instrument itself so much as the player that makes it the least tinny and melodic banjo around.

“I have defi nitely toned it way down

because we’re just a duo — it’s hard for me to say this with a straight face — but to try and make the banjo sound pretty,” Pete said.

The duo comes from a classical music background, which shows in their tight harmonies and the strength of their mel-odies. Anne is the principle songwriter and draws much of her inspiration from

the valley, whether it be the mountains or the people.

Concert attendees can expect a unique show because of the friendly audience and hometown ambiance.

“We can try a lot of things with our home audience we can’t do on the road,” Anne said.

Visit www.anneandpetesibley.com.

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Barbara Hauge talks about the history of the Snake River Ranch during one of the Cowboy Jubilee’s historic ranch tours.

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Visitors examine the hay loft of one of the barns on the Snake River Ranch, which displays original carpentry from the barn’s completion in 1930. The tours offer a taste of cowboy life, information about ranching and a peek at historic ranches still operating in the valley.

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Mulling a move, Sibleys play Center concert

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Anne and Pete Sibley will debut new songs when they play an all-ages show Sept. 19 at the Center for the Arts.

Paul Lowham, center, has a look around the cattle chutes of the Snake River Ranch while other ranch visitors poke their heads into the barn.

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COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA45TH ANNUAL SALE AND EXHIBITION AT PHOENIX ART MUSEUM

Sale: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Exhibition: October 17 – November 21, 2010

For tickets and information visit caashow.orgThe Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition and Sale is organized by the Men’s Arts Council and Phoenix Art Museum. It is presented by Wells Fargo and with the continued, generous support from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Norris and the Dellora A. and Lester J. Norris Foundation. This Exhibition and Sale would not be possible without the continued contributions of Western Art Associates.

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❚ By Katy Niner

A n albino doe lives in the dense for-est near Claudia McCarthy’s home in northeastern Illinois. Locals

share sightings of her, including her seem-ingly regular 7 a.m. appearance along a school route. So on a misty fall morning, McCarthy set out with a visiting friend to fi nd the rare deer. Padding past oak and maple trees, they glimpsed the alabaster animal. McCarthy took a photograph of the ethereal encounter.

“It was really kind of magical,” she said. “The White Deer of Sweet Woods” joins

other wildlife art in CIAO Gallery’s third annual Call of the Wild juried exhibition. Having entered the fi rst Call of the Wild show three years ago, McCarthy is delight-ed to again join the wildlife consortium.

Channeling the primordial pull of nature from Jack London’s masterpiece, this year’s Call of the Wild show wel-comed submissions from across the country, including many returning artists like McCarthy, gallery director Michele Walters said. In just three years, Call of the Wild has drummed up a lot of inter-est among wildlife artists. A dozen will be featured during the Fall Arts Festival show. In addition to Palates & Palettes, CIAO will host an artists reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12.

The annual show complements Jackson’s autumnal allure as a wildlife art destination.

“This is one of the few places left where wildlife art is held in such high regard,” Walters said. “People come here because they appreciate that.”

CIAO offers a new twist on the genre by welcoming a sweep of styles from tra-ditional to contemporary abstract art, from

photography to drawings and sculptures. Most of the pieces in the show star

wildlife indigenous to the mountain region, such as the wolf of “Arctic Watcher,” by Scott Fabritz of Bozeman, Mont.

To aid in her search for wildlife sub-jects, McCarthy has recently turned to the “solunar” tables hunters use to chart animals’ activity. Since taking up nature photography about six years ago, she walks through woods more observantly now. Even a scampering squirrel sounds loud when all else is quiet.

In addition to its monthly juried shows, CIAO, an artists’ cooperative whose name is the acronym for “Collaborative. Innovative. Artistic. Originals,” always hosts an ever-changing array of works by its member artists. During the festival, the gallery will unveil work by new members, including abstract landscape painter Elise Palmigiani, of France.

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❚ By Dina Mishev

The art may be small, but talent looms large at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s 23rd annual Western

Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale. And at the museum’s sixth annual Photography Show & Sale, fourth annual Sketch Show & Sale and 12th annual Jewelry & Artisan Show & Sale. These last three are all part of the “More” in the Western Visions Miniatures and More title.

But Western Vision isn’t just shows and sales. Its featured artists, painter Mary Roberson and sculptor Simon Gudgeon, present a plein air sketching workshop (Roberson, 8 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16) and gallery tour (Gudgeon, 1 to 2 p.m. Sept. 16). Both also will give public talks about their work. Roberson talks and signs cop-ies of a poster of the painting she did for the museum, “The Living Forest,” at 1 p.m. Sept. 17. Gudgeon speaks in the museum’s galleries at 12:05 p.m. Sept. 9.

Roberson’s plein air workshop costs $45 and requires a reservation, but the talks and Gudgeon’s gallery tour are free with museum admission.

And of course there are parties. Sept. 16 is the 23rd annual Wild West Artist Party. With music by Derrik and the Dynamos, food from Rising Sage Cafe and the chance to rub elbows with Western Visions art-ists while previewing the work that will be auctioned off the following evening, the Wild West Artist Party is worth its $200 ticket price.

The sale part of the 23rd Annual Miniatures and More Show & Sale is Sept. 17. Doors open earlier than they have in the past, at 3 p.m. Bidding closes at 5:30 p.m., and the presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $75.

While the museum has added more to the “and More” part of Western Visions nearly every year, it is still the miniatures that are the heart of the event. One hun-dred and sixty-three artists have created work for this year’s show; eight of the art-ists are in the show for the fi rst time.

When it was fi rst held 23 years ago, Western Visions was the only show of its kind. An immediate success with both participating artists and collectors, it has since spawned many imitators. Today there are several dozen miniature shows at museums across the country.

Western Visions doesn’t dictate sub-ject matter or medium to the artists juried

into the show. Just size. Though with the addition of “and More” to the show’s title in 2002, even size is now open to inter-pretation. Most artists keep to the origi-nal specifi cations: no larger than 9 inches by 12 inches. Sculptures are slightly larger than a man’s fi st.

Works are sold in three auction catego-

ries: “Intent to Purchase,” “Sealed Bid” and “Silent Auction.” The majority of the show’s miniatures are in the “Intent to Purchase” category: Each item has a fi xed price, and winners are selected by random draw.

Sometimes artists set a reserve price below which bids will not be accepted, and the highest bidder gets to purchase the artwork. This is the “Sealed Bid” cate-gory, a group that included “The Witching Hour” by Jackson’s own Amy Ringholz.

The last category, “Silent Auction,” is simpler than a sealed bid but not quite so simple as the intent to purchase: Bids are cast on an incremental bidding sheet.

You don’t have to be a collector to enjoy Western Visions festivities and events. It’s worth a trip to the museum just to check out the monumental pieces Roberson and Gudgeon created as the event’s featured artists.

Thematically and stylistically similar to “The Mystic Forest,” a painting acquired by the museum in 2005, Roberson’s “The Living Forest” depicts “a complex realm that draws from her imagination as well as from her direct experience with nature,” said Adam Harris, the museum’s curator of art.

Seventy-eight inches tall, “The Living Forest” is part of the Western Visions sale.

“It gives visitors the chance to acquire a piece that is directly related to one of the works in our permanent collection,” Harris said.

Gudgeon’s bronze “Isis” is of a similar-ly impressive scale as Roberson’s paint-ing. Seven feet tall, “Isis” is “an elegant, iconic work of art that is to be lauded for its powerful presence and sensitive com-bination of sinuous shapes,” Harris said.

In 2009, Gudgeon was offered the rare chance to install a monumental (10 feet tall) version of “Isis” in London’s Hyde Park. It was the fi rst major outdoor sculp-ture mounted in the park in 50 years.

“That’s quite an honor for any contem-porary artist,” Harris said.

The museum has acquired another monumental casting of “Isis” for its Sculpture Trail, which will open in 2012.

Gudgeon’s 7-foot-tall “Isis” is part of the Western Visions sale.

“It will make an excellent addition to any sculpture collection,” Harris said.

For a complete schedule of Western Visions events and to buy tickets, go to www.westernvisions.org.

“Isis,” preliminary sketchSimon GudgeonAcrylic on canvas37 by 25 inches

“The Living Forest”Mary RobersonOil on canvas78 by 48 inches

“Plains Duo II”Mary RobersonMixed media7.5 by 7.5 inches

“Bucky Impressed”Mary RobersonOil on canvas and wood12.375 by 9.5 inches

“The Witching Hour”Amy RingholzOil and ink on canvas 48 by 36 inches

“Royal Prairie”Mary RobersonMixed media42 by 42 inches

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❚ By Angus M. Thuermer Jr.

F ighting Bear Antiques owners Terry and Claudia Winchell have one opening a year,

and they save it for the Fall Arts Festival.

For 2010, the couple has collected “the best of the best” that will exhib-it vignettes of Thomas Molesworth, Native American, Mission and European antler styles. Each corner of the gallery will be reserved for one of the four themes, and Terry Winchell promises extraordinary material.

“We always strip this place out, take everything off the walls” for the Fall Arts show, he said. While the festival offers an opportunity to exhibit special pieces, he said, they can’t be out of reach.

“Of course you hope somebody buys them,” he said. “We hope to have something that’s going to be irresistible to certain clients.”

Starting with furniture maker Thomas Molesworth, Winchell’s specialty, the festival show will feature a 1936 offi ce grouping from Billings, Mont., that belonged to the then-CEO of Northwest Airlines. Yes, there was a Northwest Airlines in Molesworth’s railroad era.

Winchell wrote the book, “Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design,” about the Cody craftsman and artist, so his char-acterization of the set as “fabu-lous” carries authority. Many make the pilgrimage to Fighting Bear Antiques to get his signature in their books.

“I can’t tell you how many peo-

ple have walked in from all over the U.S. with a book to sign,” he said. “You don’t make any money writ-ing a book, but it’s very fulfi lling.”

The Native American corner will feature beadwork from the Shipman collection in Denver. A Northern Cheyenne cradleboard will be the highlight, Winchell said.

Native American and Navajo textiles will round out the presentation.

From Chicago, a European ant-ler gun cabinet and desk will be the notable pieces. They come from late 1800s, Claudia Winchell said.

Representing the Mission style, a single piece and a set will domi-nate. A fi rewood holder commis-sioned from Charles Rolfs for a Butte, Mont., residence will be the anchor along with a set of Charles Limbert chairs, originally from Lake Hotel in Yellowstone National Park.

The style — Limbert referred to his work as being in the arts and crafts movement — was a rejection of elaborate European frills and fi nds its heritage in Dutch peasant furni-ture. Limbert was a contemporary of the more popular Gustav Stickley and is known for his use of decora-tive cut-outs, according to The Arts and Crafts Society that describes him online.

An Edgar Payne (1882-1947) painting of the Tetons, somewhat of a rarity, will augment the Mission corner. Terry Winchell said Teton connoisseurs will recognize the location.

Other accessories, including wall art of the vintage of each exhibit,


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A European horn armchair, circa 1880-90, made of fallow deer and stag, will be featured at Fighting Bear Antiques during Fall Arts Festival.

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Fighting Bear Antiques has gathered prime pieces in four groupings, including Native American antiques like this Apache puberty dress, circa 1890.


Terry Winchell, an authority on furniture maker Thomas Molesworth, fi nds pieces like this Molesworth side cabinet with routed Thunderbirds, circa 1935.


Among the beadwork from the Shipman collection in Denver, a Cheyenne cradleboard, circa 1880, will be a highlight.

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Molesworth, a Winchell speciality, will be one of four areas of concentration at antique gallery

will round out the corners, he said. The challenging economy has provided Fighting Bear with

some openings, he said.“There’s been some great buying opportunities,” he said.

A business that’s been confi gured for the long haul and that does not rely on a single sector — Terry Winchell said he’s had real estate and stock market investments and has boot-strapped himself through other down times — Fighting Bear has been able to buy and hold some valuable stuff.

He considers the store a local business that caters to those who walk in the door. Being successful is more about devel-oping relationships and less about designing snazzy Web pages, he said.

Learning not to overcharge is another key, he said. “In a small community, that’s so vital. We get a lot of

things back,” he said of one reason the principal is impor-tant. In such cases, customers or families who have been caretakers of certain pieces will remember what they paid; overcharging would ruin the store’s recycling function.

While Winchell said he operates on his grandfather’s axiom that a fast nickle is better than a slow dime, Fighting Bear isn’t all about money.

“I gauge business by people who come in and enjoy look-ing at things and learning about them and asking questions,” he said.

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A walk through David Brookover’s gallery is like taking a miniature journey through the American

West, said gallery director Tim Harman.That is why Brookover’s fi rst book,

released in June, is called “The Road.”During Fall Arts Festival, Brookover

Gallery will feature “The Road,” along with several new pieces of work from the landscape photographer.

The new book features 56 black-and-white and platinum works that give the book a clean and contemporary feel, Harman said. The book sells for $125. There also is a special addition that comes with a platinum print for $975.

“It gives people a chance to walk away with 56 of David’s images,” Harman said. “After 30 years of work, it’s overdue.”

Paper quality has always been impor-tant to Brookover, and his book is no exception. Brookover had it printed on the best acid-free paper he could fi nd, he said.

Brookover will be signing his book during the gallery’s Palates & Palettes reception, which will be catered by Amangani.

As per Brookover’s tradition, it will cost $5 to get into the reception, with all the money going to PAWS of Jackson Hole.

In addition to featuring Brookover’s new book, the gallery will also showcase new platinum and palladium prints.

Platinum prints are contact prints — meaning the negative is in direct contact with the printing paper. The fi nal print is the same size as a negative. The nega-tive is not put in a gelatin emulsion, so the image produced is matte with plati-num deposited slightly into the paper. Palladium, an element similar to plati-num, produces prints with a warmer tone, a softer image and deeper blacks.

There will be more than 40 platinum pieces hanging during Fall Arts Festival, including 25 new pieces. Brookover’s new work is from the Colorado Plateau, China and Japan.

In recent years Brookover has moved to working more in platinum, less in color. He wanted to separate himself from other landscape photographers. No other process comes close to the “noble antiquity” of platinum, Brookover said. “There’s nothing like a platinum,” he said.

Platinum lends tonality and a sense

of timelessness to the images, qualities enhanced by printing on archival hand-made papers, Harman said.

“What you get is these museum piec-es,” Harman said.

Brookover loves printing on exotic papers and knowing his work will be around for centuries.

In his nine years on the Town Square, Brookover has made his name in land-scape photography using an 8-by-10-inch large-format camera. Brookover waits for the perfect moment to snap a picture. “That’s really an exercise in patience,” Harman said.

He has become one of the most important emerging nature photogra-phers in the country, Harman said.

Brookover’s images are often framed simply, and nature is always at the cen-ter. This year, though, he is trying some-thing new: he is releasing one platinum wildlife print per month for a full year.

When Brookover started his gallery in Jackson, there were already so many wildlife photographers. He wanted to set himself apart, focusing on land-scapes with his large format camera. By now turning to wildlife, Brookover is challenging himself as a photogra-pher to capture something new. His use of platinum for his new wildlife prints will further set him apart from other wildlife photographers and continue to expand his platinum and palladium portfolio.


“Cixi’s Stroll” captures a spring 2010 scene from the Summer Palace in Beijing. It, too, is a platinum palladium print.

David Brookover’s “Yugas,” a platinum palladium print taken in Hokkaido, Japan, will hang at the photographer’s gallery during Fall Arts Festival.

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❚ By Cory Hatch

O n a sunny July day in Victor, Idaho, painter Scott Christensen stood just outside an art studio,

formerly a snowmobile garage, listen-ing to classical music and watching a dozen or so artists mill about his bucol-ic ranch-style home.

The scene, complete with trout ponds and a recently constructed 6,000-square-foot studio space, harks back to a bygone era when artists would convene at places like the Salmagundi Club in New York or the Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. At these retreats, artists could learn from each other in a safe environment where experimentation never resulted in failure, only a lesson learned.

“Scott showed me a vision he had,” said Kristie Grigg, Christensen’s business manager and wife. “A return to the tradi-tions of the old masters.”

“We found this property and fell in love with it,” she continued. “What the property has allowed us to do is build a place where artists can gather.”

For four summers, Grigg and Christensen have hosted artists at the property. The painters at Christensen’s retreat aren’t amateurs. They are profes-sionals, established or emerging.

Christensen, who has painted for 25 years, is considered something of a modern master. His paintings are mostly delicate oil landscapes that continue

the tradition of early impressionists responding to nature.

“His is not a real tight style,” said Grigg. “It’s a painterly, loose quality.”

“If you look at them, they have soft edges. ... an atmospheric quality,” she continued. “Edge work is something that he is focusing on.”

Christensen is prolifi c but also self-critical.

“He’s not a timid painter,” Grigg said. “He’s also not afraid to wipe off the can-vas if the piece isn’t going in the direction he wants. He paints a lot. He just doesn’t release anything but his very best work.”

As he prepares for his next lesson, Christensen walks around the grounds, politely mingling with the artists at the retreat. He looks almost detached, which Grigg explains is his way of getting into the proper mind-set, much the same way a professional athlete would try to focus before a big game. Part of that process is listening to music, especially classical.

“There’s a certain pace to the music that he wants and needs when he is paint-ing,” Grigg said. “When someone listens to music and they are familiar with it, it has a relaxing quality to it. When he is in a relaxed state, the painting comes to him better.”

Christensen once painted a tonal collection while listening to Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, completing 12 paintings that captured the feel of the music. For the show, he handed out a

playbill, and the symphony was playing in the background.

“He did a little talk about the analogy between composing music and creating fi ne art,” Grigg said.

Until now, the ample studio space at Christensen’s retreat has been dedicated mostly to him. But, starting Sept. 1, he and Grigg plan to start showing select works by his contemporaries, including other landscape, fi gurative and still life painters.

“We want to focus on living American painters [with blooming careers],” Grigg said. “People have come and experiment-

ed with their mediums. There’s really a story we’re trying to tell here.”

And, as with every story, there’s an ending. Historically at these some of these retreats, Grigg said, artists would release their pent-up stress with box-ing matches and other physical activ-ity. For Christensen’s colleagues, that release comes in the form of two days of skeet and pheasant shooting at The Lazy Triple Creek Ranch.

“This movement is really about col-laborating,” Grigg said. “When you are in the company of other artists who are doing their best work, you rise up.”

Christensen hosts artists’retreats at his home

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Rocky Vertone is a man of many talents.

He regularly picks up gigs around town as DJ Vert One. He owns Full Circle Frameworks. He operates two marketing websites and is a self-proclaimed “social media freak.”

On Friday, Sept. 17, Vertone will take on a role that he has not fi lled in quite some time: photographer.

As part of the Fall Arts Festival, Vertone plans to plaster the walls of his Glenwood Street gallery with 8-by-8-inch prints of photos he has taken in recent months.

“I don’t consider myself a photogra-pher, but I was just completely addicted to this,” he said.

The last time Vertone took photos in earnest was in the early to mid-1990s. A photo from that period — a skateboarder pulling off a trick with streaks of light running throughout the frame — still hangs in his frame shop.

What got him back into the medium was the Hipstamatic iPhone application.

“I started messing around with it and shooting things, playing with the differ-ent features, and just got totally hooked,” he said.

The photos focus on seemingly mun-dane objects — a sink, climbing shoes, fl oss — but, by using different fi lters, Vertone approaches them from singular angles.

He plays with the color of the photo, allowing it to burn out in some cases, using fi lters to distort colors slightly, and employing various lenses to tease out dif-ferent aspects of these objects that would

normally go unnoticed.The resulting photos look like they

have been picked up off the side of the road. They often look grainy and worn, like old Polaroids relegated to the corner of a second-hand store.

Through the iPhone app, Vertone has played with an endless amount of varia-tions on types of fi lm, lenses and different effects to achieve a certain aesthetic.

Although he has hosted numerous openings, Vertone said this will be the fi rst show of his own work at his shop.

“The gallery has been open for about two years and I’ve never had my own show here,” he said. “I thought it was time to do one.”

For information, visit the gallery’s website, www.fullcircleframeworks.com.


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“I resisted getting into the auc-tion business,” said Maryvonne Leshe, managing partner of

Trailside Galleries. “But now I’m cer-tainly happy I did. For me, it’s like a treasure hunt.”

The fourth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction, presented in partnership by Trailside Galleries, of Jackson, and Scottsdale, Ariz., and Gerald Peters Gallery, of Santa Fe, N.M., starts at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Center for the Arts. The auction’s approximately 250 lots are available for preview 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. the day before.

“We have a lot of very special paint-ings this year,” said Heidi Theios, the art auction’s executive director. “There is a major historical painting by Mian Situ, two major oils by Carl Rungius, seven major Bob Kuhn paintings, a classic E.I. Couse painting that has been in a private collection since it left the artist’s studio.”

Theios said there also are over 30 paintings created especially for the auction by top contemporary Western, wildlife and landscape painters.

The Jackson Hole Art Auction focuses on historically recognized Western American art, featuring work from past and present masters, includ-ing the Taos Society of Artists and deceased American masters.

Leshe said this year’s auction fea-tures more contemporary artists and fewer pieces by deceased masters.

“We feel there are a great number of collectors that enjoy auctions and want to collect art but cannot purchase the expensive deceased art,” Leshe said. “We are, of course, also interested in handling important works by deceased artists and have brought in important pieces each year … but our goal in the beginning was to be one of the best auctions for contemporary art and build on that.”

Another difference this year from years past is that the wildlife pieces aren’t limited to North American animals.

“We still have those,” Leshe said, “but instead of just the usual North America big game animals, we have lots more African wildlife, including some major works by the late Bob Kuhn.

“African wildlife is and has been

for some time quickly disappearing,”: Leshe noted. “It is important that art-ists are painting the animals.”

Leshe also said this year’s auction has a substantial amount of work by Chinese artists, including fi gurative painter Mian Situ, who was born and educated in China but now lives in the United States.

Situ made his U.S. debut in 1995

by winning Best of Show at the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition. His painting for the Jackson Hole Art Auction shows a Chinese family stepping off a ship in San Francisco in 1910.

Other notable works this year include pieces by William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, G. Harvey, Morgan Weistling

and Z.S. Liang.“I say this every year, but I think

this auction is the strongest one so far,” Leshe said. “As is typical for all auctions, we’re always panicking for the fi rst couple of months, wondering whether we are going to get any art, but then, as the deadline approaches, sometimes right at the last minute, we get these incredible pieces. It’s a real adrenaline rush.”

This year’s last-minute lots included a 30-piece museum collection.

“We had no idea it was coming,” Leshe said.

After the auction consignment peri-od had closed, an incredible Rungius paintings of two battling moose came in.

“Of course we put it in the auction,” Leshe said. “It is a major, major piece.”

Listening to Leshe talk about the Jackson Hole Art Auction, it would be diffi cult to guess she resisted getting involved.

“It takes art out of the gallery,” she explained.

But in 2004, when Leshe was talk-ing with Roxanne Hofmann, a private art dealer with whom she has been friends for over 30 years, about the two becoming partners, Hofmann made some persuasive arguments in favor of an auction.

Yes, an auction takes art out of a gal-lery, but it also brings in works that a gallery might not be able to acquire

“I’ve learned that it sort of balances out,” Leshe said.

In 2005, the two women began seri-ously thinking about it.

“We knew we wanted to partner with someone who had auction expe-rience,” Leshe said. “Gerald Peters was an obvious choice because he has a house here and has personal experi-ence with his own auction.”

The fi rst Jackson Hole Art Auction presented by Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery was held in 2007 and surpassed expectations with total sales of $8.4 million and a standing-room-only crowd. Every year since, the story has been similar.

“I really think our auction brings people to the Fall Arts Festival that would not otherwise come,” Leshe said. “There are lots of collectors that just buy from auctions.”

Visit www.jacksonholeartauction.com for a complete list of auction lots.

Important works by deceased masters include “The Corner in the Pueblo” by Oscar Berninghaus, a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

This year’s auction includes many works by Chinese artists, including Mian Situ, who won Best of Show at the 1995 Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition. His auction contribution, “A New Beginning,” depicts a Chinese family stepping off a ship in San Francisco in 1910.

Major marketJackson Hole Art Auction presents prime works by contemporary, deceased Western artists.

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Showcasing four artists while intro-ducing more than 18 added to the gallery in the last year, Mountain

Trails will have very heavy walls this Fall Arts Festival.

“It has been a pleasant challenge to deal with,” said gallery owner Adam Warner. “We’re really excited with the way the gallery has grown and evolved this past year.”

New artists to Mountain Trails who will have work hanging during Fall Arts (but not an entire show) include Antonio DiDonato, John Gibson, Shanna Kunz, Jerry Venditti, Kimbal Warren, Larry Riley, Denice Barker, Greg Overton, Lori McNee, Frederick Stephens, Scott Richardson, Nathan Bennett, Bryce Pettit, Raymond Gibby, Michael Hamby, Garland Sawyers, David Lemon and Dwayne Harty. The last is the offi cial artist for the Yellowstone to Yukon project and also the 2011 Fall Arts Festival Poster Artist.

While Mountain Trails is excited about its new artists — “The artists that we have added this year are a fantastic group,” Warner said — the majority of the gallery will be dedicated to the work of Ty Barhaug, Tom Saubert, Vic Payne and Dustin Payne during the festival.

“The Fall Arts Festival is the perfect time to display our featured artists,” Warner said. “I feel they represent a strong Western heritage and style that is highly collectible for discerning clients.”

Tom Saubert and Vic Payne were last featured in a showcase in October 2009. This Fall Arts showcase marks the fi rst

formal exhibition at Mountain Trails for Barhaug and Dustin Payne. The gallery will celebrate all four artists during a reception from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15.

The son of Vic Payne, sculptor Dustin Payne started his art career at the age of 10. Now 28, he has been featured in Southwest Art numerous times, including being named one of its “21 Under 31” art-ists to watch. He received that recognition at the ripe age of 21. At 26, he was invited to join Western Artists of America, a pres-tigious group that never has more than 24 members and doesn’t accept applications.

The younger Payne’s bronzes are simi-lar to those of his father, telling stories about pioneers, ranchers, explorers and the cowboy way of life. Payne knows the latter fi rsthand: When not sculpting, he trains and competes in team roping.

More established in his career, Vic Payne has monument-size works on dis-play throughout the country. Cabela’s, the outdoor sports superstore, is a particular fan of pater Payne’s work. The company has commissioned half a dozen pieces from him. Payne’s 20-foot-tall “When Eagles Dare” welcomes shoppers to the Hershey, Pa., Cabela’s.

Although this is his fi rst exhibition at Mountain Trails, Ty Barhaug has been painting professionally since 1990. You’d call his landscape and wildlife paintings photo-realistic if it weren’t for their depth and glow.

A Wyoming native, Barhaug has been invited to participate in some of the most prestigious Western and wildlife shows in the country. He often walks away from them with awards. At the Buffalo Bill Art

Show & Sale, he has won the Juror’s Choice Award four times. At the C.M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art, he won the Ralph “Tuffy” Berg Award, given to the best new artist of the year. At Meadowlark Gallery, he won the Sponsor Award.

Tom Saubert’s dreamy paintings of the historic and contemporary West —

especially of the people and culture of the Plains Indians — are included in the collections of Kevin Costner and Steven Seagal, among others.

“Each of these artist creates work of outstanding quality,” Warner said, ”and we believe the subject matter for this group is very complementary.”


Wyoming native Ty Barhaug lends luminosity to his almost photo-realistic paintings, as in “Among the Mountain Spirits.”

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A rtist Mar Evers has one rule when painting during the QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction. No coffee.

Evers, born and raised in Wyoming and currently living in Durango, Colo., will be one of two artists showcased by Shadow Mountain Gallery, located on the Town Square below A Touch of Class.

Evers will join wildlife artist Aaron Yount as Shadow Mountain Gallery’s two featured artists of the QuickDraw, an event that chal-lenges painters and sculptors to fi nish an auction-ready piece in only 90 minutes. For Evers, a nine-years-running participant in Fall Arts Festival, the Quick Draw is the one event that adds pressure to her experience.

“It’s nerve-racking,” she said. “Not every day is a great paint day. It comes together easier some days. But my rule is, no coffee. It makes my hands shake, and I can’t draw straight.”

The hour-and-a-half QuickDraw is far from Evers’ normal routine. She typi-cal completes a painting by working on it from 5:30 to 9 a.m. for about three to four mornings.

Evers was born in Rawlins and lived in Pinedale before moving to Colorado, where she’s resided for the past 32 years. Her love of backpacking and hiking in the Wyoming and Colorado wilderness shines through in her paintings. She focuses on representa-tional landscape and wildlife paintings, with a personal touch thrown in.

“You need a little drama,” she said. “Most

of that comes from simplifying what you see.”

Evers said her 12-hour drive to Jackson for the festival is always worthwhile.

“It’s a good group of people, and it’s a well-run event,” she said.

Yount will be making his fi fth Fall Arts appearance for Shadow Mountain Gallery. He works from his own personal experi-ences observing wildlife in national parks such as Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain. He paints in a realistic style, depicting wildlife and their habitats.

During the festival, Shadow Mountain will also feature several established art-ists who have been with the gallery for years. Theses artists be in the gallery at various times through the festival, painting on-site. Artists slated for demonstrations include Evers, Yount, Richard Biddinger and Richard Miles.

“Shadow Mountain Swans” is the work of Mar Evens. During Fall Arts Festival, she will give painting demonstrations at Shadow Mountain Gallery and participate in the QuickDraw Art Sale & Auction on Town Square.

Aaron Yount channels his experiences in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Rocky Mountain national parks into paintings like “Pack Ice.”

Aaron Yount paints wild animals and their habitat in a realistic style. This is called “Breaking From Cover.”

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The Art Walk on Wednesday, Sept. 15, is a great time to see the newest paintings and sculptures at galleries in Jackson.


One of the easiest ways to experi-ence all the creative fare Jackson has to offer is by taking part in the

Art Walk. This year, the event falls on Wednesday, Sept. 15, rather than its usual monthly routine of Thursday.

Patrons can join more than 30 Jackson art galleries for the Art Walk and explore the exhibits at their leisure. The easiest way to confi rm that a gallery is partici-pating is to look for the Art Walk banner each site displays outside.

“Galleries will be pulling out all their

stops,” said Mary Schmitt, spokesperson for the Jackson Hole Gallery Association, “so it is a great time to walk from gallery to gallery and see all the shows.”

This is the time of year when the best, newest art is always on display, Schmitt said.

Most galleries provide a few snacks as well as offer wine or beer.

Participating galleries are scattered around and near the Town Square; see the gallery map on page D7.

The Art Walk is free and open to the public. It takes place from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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For many, the phrase “Native American art” conjures up images of warriors wearing headdresses. But at Robert

Dean Collection and Two Grey Hills Indian Art, the artwork is jewelry made by artists of American Indian descent.

Bob Gonzales, owner of Robert Dean Collection, said he goes out of his way to ensure the quality of the jewelry he brings in. The items in his shop are handmade by individual artisans according to their American Indian heritage.

A tour of Gonzales’ shop will introduce buyers to, among other things, rare stones that can be obtained only from a quarry that closed in the 1930s, solid gold rings with handmade carvings, and intricately inlaid and engraved rings. All of the pieces bear an American Indian aesthetic. Turquoise inlays abound, but that is not what defi nes the collection’s style.

“Just because it’s turquoise doesn’t make it good,” Gonzales said.

Artist Myron Panteah’s work is replete with raised engravings that resemble petroglyphs. This gives it a distinct feel and makes it unique and recognizable.

“A person that wants a true piece of jew-elry made by an American Indian, they can fi nd it here,” Gonzales said.

It is that quality and connection with individual artisans that attracted Gonzales to the business.

“I like beauty, and I like things that are handmade,” he said. “I know it’s not made in China.”

Gonzales has built direct relationships with his artists. Since there’s no middle-

man involved, he often can offer prices that are lower than the competition’s. However, Gonzales said this shouldn’t be the main motivating factor for buyers.

“You don’t buy art because it’s a deal,” he said. “You buy it because you like it. You don’t buy it for an investment.”

Though town is crowded in September, jewelry store owners don’t report excep-tional business during Fall Arts Festival. In fact, very few proprietors host a special event during the festival, citing collec-tors’ focus on Western art. However, Gary Mattheis, owner of Two Grey Hills Indian Arts, does bring in a trader to do a “trunk

show” for Fall Arts Festival. Mattheis fi nds his jewelry appeals to afi cionados of Western art.

“It’s got a Western component to it, so people enjoy turquoise and the Western look of the jewelry,” he said.

Mattheis said about 90 percent of his wares are handcrafted by American Indians. Beyond jewelry, Two Grey Hills specializes in Navajo weavings and Pueblo pottery. It also carries a selection of hand-woven baskets.

“We have been here 34 years and have the knowledge and basic integrity to sell high-end Indian arts,” Mattheis said.

Using a fi ne handsaw, Myron Panteah engraves his handmade pieces with designs that resemble petroglyphs, a style unique to the Zuni artist.

Heritage by handHandmade pieces by American Indian artists carry authentic aesthetic

❚ Two Grey Hills Indian Art and Robert Dean Collection don’t have a monopoly on Native American jewelry in town. Boyer’s Indian Arts and Crafts, Crazy Horse and, to a lesser extent, Teton Art Gallery, also present silver and turquoise jewelry.

❚ Boyer’s Indian Arts was established in 1962, the fi rst jewelry store in Jackson Hole. “We’re prob-ably the oldest business in town under the same

ownership,” owner John Boyer said of the family business. To this day, the store carries 100 percent Native American-made jewelry.

❚ Crazy Horse, owned by Gisela Siwek, carries amber from Poland, but the rest of her jewelry is made by American Indian designers.

❚ Teton Art Gallery has several pieces of Native American jewelry as well, but most of its pieces are made by the gallery’s owner.

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Wildlife and Wildlands ShowShow Events:Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk September 10, 2010 from 5 to 8 pm

Artist Reception with painting and sculpting demos: September 18, 2010 from 2 to 6 pm

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Keen commentaryEconomist cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher shares cartoons spanning his illustrious career

Artist enclaveJuried art fair wrangles a herd of artists and artisans from the area to spend a day downtown

Up closeMaster printmaker brings his woodblock renditions of paintings by Chuck Close, Alex Katz and Richard Estes

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P hotos of fl y-fi shing. Drawings of snowboarding. Colorful prints of the mountains. This is the kind of art

you should be able to fi nd in a town like Jackson, fi lled with outdoor and sports enthusiasts. The mountain sports art genre, though, has been fairly untapped, and is not as readily available as the more traditional wildlife works abundant in gal-leries around town.

With her new gallery, Lines, owner Tarley Stevenson provides a venue fi lled with action- and sports-oriented artwork in vari-ous media, including woodblock, oil, pho-tography, and pen and ink. Opened in March, Lines is new to the roster of galleries wel-coming visitors throughout Fall Arts Festival.

Opening the gallery was the realization of a dream for Stevenson.

“I wanted people who come out and visit and do all the activities to be able to see art by people who do the same things,” she said, “and I didn’t feel like there was a gallery depicting all those things.”

Most of the art, she said, focuses on moun-tain sports, but Lines also hosts local artists even if they don’t work in that theme.

“A lot of them really don’t have a place to get their art out,” Stevenson said.

She recruited many of her artist through newspaper ads. Now she’s fi nding artists through word-of-mouth and when people stop in to the gallery to show their work.

During Fall Arts Festival, Lines will fea-ture a variety of works by many of its art-ists, including A.J. Best, who does colorful woodblock prints, mountainscapes and bird prints. She will also be showing works from Erin Smith, who paints snowboarding scenes, and art and jewelry by Kelly Halpin.

Stevenson expects former Jackson resi-

dent Patrick Clayton’s photographs of under-water fi sh and fl y-fi shing to be a big draw.

At Lines, Stevenson said, “We have a little bit of everything, with the focus on mountain sports.”

Prices range from $50 prints to $3,000 paintings. “I try to keep it very affordable,” she said. “To have a gallery that really has local work featuring activities you can do here allows you to bring a piece of Jackson back with you when you go home.”

As Lines’ fi rst Fall Arts Festival approach-es, Stevenson is excited about getting more people into her new gallery, which will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday from noon until 5 p.m. at 245 West Pearl Avenue.

The newly opened gallery Lines gives a home to works inspired by mountain sports, such as Kelly Halpin’s snowboard-themed “Wings.”

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Man cannot live on art alone. That’s why we have Palates &

Palettes. One of the premier events of the Jackson

Hole Fall Arts Festival — and the fi rst event of the annual festival for most galleries — Palates & Palettes teams up 30 or more gal-leries with a restaurant or caterer for a feast that feeds the eyes as well as the body.

Most galleries combine the downtown ’do with the opening for their featured Fall Arts artists. Add beer, wine and even live music in some cases, and you’ve got a party that attracts thousands, including many val-ley residents who otherwise do their best to avoid the Town Square in the summer.

“We try to show all the fi ne arts,” said Maureen Murphy, events manager at the Chamber of Commerce, which helps to coordinate the Fall Arts Festival each year. “And then we also feature the culinary arts, too, that Jackson has to offer.”

This year’s Palates & Palettes takes place 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.

During much of the summer, “a lot of locals stay away from the shops,” said Shana Stegman, manager and art director at Wild Hands on West Pearl. “I love [Palates & Palettes] because it brings people together again. And it’s a good reminder that the galleries are here for locals just as much as they are for tourists.”

Wild Hands fully embraces Palates & Palettes, rearranging the handmade and painted furniture it sells to make room for a generous spread of food and drink and the hundreds who stop in through the evening to enjoy it.

“It is the event of the year,” said owner Sue Thomas, “and it’s a thank-you to the locals. It’s worth it. People come out in hordes. There are only so many nights a year that people put on their calendar, and this is one of them.”

This year, Wild Hands almost bowed out. A particularly trying summer had pushed Palates & Palettes to a far back burner for Thomas. But in early August, Jim Williams, Thomas’ fi ance and a mountain guide-gourmet cook who has prepared the feast for Wild Hands in years past, brought the subject up.

“The other night he was like, ‘Isn’t Fall Arts Festival coming up?’ ” Stegman said. “ ‘Are you going to let me do it?’ ”

So Wild Hands will once again lay out a sumptuous spread of dips, cheese and vari-ous hors d’oeuvres.

“My specialty is things from around the world,” Williams said, whose busi-ness, Exploradus, has the motto “Culture through food — exploring the world one dish at a time.”

“We’ll try to make it tasty, exotic and fun,” he said.

That night, the gallery will celebrate the excellent work of its many local and regional artists and artisans, including Bert Feuz, a Buffalo Valley native who uses reclaimed oak to make beautiful, custom-made furniture; Bob Caesar, a metalworker best known for his steel silhouettes of the Tetons ranging from 25 inches to 8 feet; and Elli Sorensen, who “pretty much does everything,” Stegman said, including fur-niture, jewelry and pottery, but lately has been concentrating on fi ber and clothing.

Of course, Wild Hands could be just the fi rst stop on a long evening of cuisine cruis-ing. Andi Caruso, assistant manager at The Wort, is also the Palates & Palettes coordi-nator for the Chamber of Commerce.

“Typically, I try to contact galleries in May and June,” she said. With a list of who participated last year and with whom they were paired, she usually has a pretty good place to start, but this year, she said, there

are a lot of new galleries and new restau-rants, so she’s seen a lot of changes too.

As of early August, Caruso had a few fi rm pairings: Joe Rice’s new Ignight will cater the evening for Diehl Gallery on West Broadway, and the Westbank Grill, headquartered in the Four Seasons in Teton Village, will lay the spread for Vertical Peaks, a new gallery on Center Street.

Heather James Gallery, also on Center Street, is looking forward to an evening of food and drink by Cafe Genevieve.

“It’s a great night,” said Heather James gallery director Lyndsay McCandless, who is an old hand at Palates & Palettes, having survived many a Fall Arts Festival during her career as a Jackson Hole galler-ist. “So many people come into the valley, and that’s a wonderful thing. We’re here to support that.”

On the other hand, she might be a lit-

tle nervous going into her fi rst Palates & Palettes at Heather James.

“We have amazing, multimillion dollar, high-end art,” she said, “museum quality pieces, and to balance sharing that with everybody with defi nitely a lot of people ... it can be a stressful recipe for disaster.”

She’s confi dent guests will be respect-ful. But she also has experience with crowd control if needed.

If Palates & Palettes only whets your appetite, another chance to feed comes 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12, when 20-plus area chefs set up booths on and around the Town Square to offer small plates for a mod-est charge at Taste of the Tetons.

The Art Association’s “Takin’ it to the Streets” art fair takes place at the same time and place.

The chamber sells tickets for a dollar a piece, which diners turn in for each snack.

Most plates go for three to six tickets. Proceeds reimburse the restaurants and caterers — they usually are able to cover their costs, Murphy said — and go into the chamber’s piggy bank to help pay for next year’s Fall Arts Festival.

This year’s Town Square tastes will feature specialties by Bill Boney/Dining In Catering, Jackson Hole Fine Dining, the Cascade Grill, the Mural Room from the Jackson Lake Lodge, E.Leaven, Gamefi sh, the White Buffalo Club, the Snake River Grill, the Westbank Grill, the Rustic Inn, The Wort, Snow King, Lotus Cafe, Chippies, Cafe Genevieve and no doubt a half dozen others.

Also on the Square on Sunday, the Rotary Supper Club will host a wine tast-ing under the big tent on Deloney Street.

So, whether you’re an artist or an art lover, there will be no need to starve dur-ing Fall Arts Festival.

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While enjoying a night of free food, drinks and art, Abby Paffrath (center) visits with friends Molly Bagnato and Charity Brenner at Tayloe Piggott Gallery during the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk.

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Jenna McFarland, left, and Jordan Lutz stay dry last year as rain falls on Taste of the Tetons on Town Square.

Palates & Palettes5 to 8 p.m., Sept. 10DowntownTaste of the Tetons11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sept. 12Town Square

Galleries and RestaurantsA Horse of a Different Color Gallery ......... SweetwaterAltamira Fine Art .................................... Snake River GrillBrookover .............................................. AmanganiDiehl Gallery .......................................... IgnightGalleries West Fine Art ............................ Burke’s Chop HouseImages of Nature Gallery ........................ NikaiTayloe Piggott Gallery ............................. Dining In CateringJack Dennis Wyoming Gallery .................. Blue LionLegacy Gallery ........................................ Fine DiningHeather James Gallery ............................ Café GenevieveMountain Trails Gallery ............................ Gun BarrelTrailside Galleries .................................... Million Dollar CowboyTrio Fine Art ........................................... Trio American BistroTwo Grey Hills ........................................ Self CateredWest Lives On Gallery ............................. Silver Dollar GrillWild by Nature Photography .................... Nani’sWild Hands ............................................ Jim WilliamsVertical Peaks & Raindance Gallery ........... Westbank Grill

❚ By Samantha Getz

One gallery sets out to feature the rising stars of modern art who are reinventing the spirit of the

Old West. RARE Gallery’s name, an acronym for

“Refreshing Art Revealed Everywhere,” reveals its expansive ethos.

This sweeping, invigorating scope will be in full effect in the gallery’s Fall Arts Festival show, Art for the New West, which features works by internationally acclaimed artists Michael Kalish and Richard Hall, as well as pieces by other contemporary Western artists such as Tomas Lasansky, Carol Spielman, Am Stockhill, Claudio D’Angelo, Leo Osborne and Dave LaMure.

Art for the New West spotlights imag-ery of the classic Old West presented in a New World light.

“Basically, [it takes] that traditional view on art in a contemporary manner,” said gallery owner Hollee Armstrong.

Kalish, referred to as the “Warhol of this millennium,” according to Armstrong, creates iconic pieces in an innovative way.

“I’d be lucky to be spoken of in the same sentence [as Warhol],” Kalish said in response.

A self-taught welder, Kalish creates a metal canvas from recycled parts, vin-tage license plates, and Chevrolet and Ford tailgates. Each piece hints at a blend of infl uences, from John Chamberlain’s metal works, Warhol’s iconography and Robert Rauschenberg’s pop art.

“I wanted to create a new medium,” Kalish said. “I wanted to jump into the art world 18 years ago and make a fi ne piece of art that people are familiar with.”

He employs popular icons such as Elvis Presley and Bob Marley, but also re-creates Western legends and still lifes.

Armstrong felt most touched by Kalish’s portrayal of the Wyoming fl ag.

“It’s a very prominent piece that stands for where we are in America,” she said. “For those of us who reside here, I think it holds a special meaning.”

Kalish does not shy away from vibrant colors, even though he is colorblind.

“It really works out for me, because art is about creating what you see,” he said, “and the artist’s ability to put it out there as their interpretation.”

Defi ning his own contemporary genre on an international scale, Kalish has sold his works to top collectors, includ-ing Ringo Starr, Sharon Stone and the Reagans.

“When you look at a Kalish,” Armstrong said, “you are really viewing a segment of time for the art of today.”

British artist Richard Hall has a pro-found way of capturing the spirit of a location on canvas. Classically trained, he began his career as an abstract painter, then turned to majestic landscapes with detail focused on the sky.

“He is a very refi ned painter,” Armstrong said. “When you view one [of his paintings], it really takes you back.”

His brushstrokes are thinly layered, resembling a European style of paint-ing. Although he lives overseas, he fi nds much of his inspiration in the Tetons. The

majestic mountains, high-reaching trees and endless skies become his subjects.

“In the West, you can turn to your left and see a rainstorm,” Hall said, “and turn to your right and see a sunset.”

Such moments become a lively sweep of the entire area. Even though his land-scapes have earned him critical praise, over the course of the past year Hall has shifted his focus to still lifes.

“It’s a really fun change for his work,” Armstrong said.

Of his pieces at the gallery, Hall said his favorite is “Chip off the Old Block,” which depicts his grandfather’s wood-working tools. Each of his still lifes holds sentimental, personal value.

From abstract to landscape to still life, his art is constantly evolving.

“Who knows what the future holds,” Hall said.


Michael Kalish incorporates old car parts, licenses and other recycled materials into his portraits of icons such as James Dean and John Wayne. His work will be featured in RARE Gallery’s Art for the New West show during Fall Arts Festival.

New icons


“Oh my God.”“Wow.”“Hands to your sides.”

These phrases, uttered by various members of a family walking into By Nature Gallery on a recent afternoon, are some of the most commonly heard in the store.

Each time, gallery director Doug Bradstreet calmly emerges from behind the register to explain what is being ogled by the onlookers.

During Fall Arts Festival, his expla-nations might include short discourses about the complete vertebrae of a ptero-dactyl, a 15-and-a-half-foot-long mam-moth tusk and the skeleton of a Russian cave bear.

“Every piece in here has a story,” Bradstreet said.

Whether those pieces will actually remain in the store is uncertain.

Since opening last August, By Nature

Gallery has consistently attracted a steady stream of customers as well as a steady stream of museum-quality artifacts.

In the past several weeks, Bradstreet said, he sold an enormous crystal that weighs several hundred pounds, two massive tables made from petrifi ed wood, a woolly mammoth tusk and the skeleton of a fl ying dinosaur.

“The number one question we get here is whether we actually ever sell this stuff,” Bradstreet said.

But just as the artifacts fl y out of the store, new ones arrive.

By Nature recently received a com-plete skeleton of an anchiornis, a small, feathered creature that many consider the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.

The fossil, which came from China, is estimated to be between 110 million and 120 million years old, Bradstreet said.

“A lot of fossils just look like impres-sions, but then you get some where the

bones are basically just sitting right out there,” Bradstreet said. “This is one of those. The claws are incredible, and there are even some feathers that you can see.”

Another recent acquisition is a com-plete pterodactyl skeleton. As with the anchiornis, the bones of the pterodactyl appear to be sitting on top of the rock.

The fossil is estimated to be between 65 million and 250 million years old and came to By Nature by way of China.

Bradstreet said many of the store’s specimens come from the United States, Germany or China. Typically, the gallery is contacted by preparers, who buy the fossils from quarries.

“Generally we get a lot of the fi rst calls and fi rst rights of refusal when they

get pieces,” Bradstreet said, referring to preparers.

That reputation has even caught on among celebrities. On the gallery’s front counter, next to the pterodactyl skeleton, sits a photo of professional golfer Phil Mickelson and his wife standing next to the store’s owners, Rick and Frances Rolater. Between the two couples is a massive tyrannosaurus rex skull that Mickelson purchased from the Rolaters.

Aside from celebrities, the store attracts its fair share of sidewalk shoppers. The front windows boast showpieces.

In one stands a cave bear skeleton, posed upright with its two front legs raised in the air. The bear is probably from the Pleistocene era and was found in the Ural Mountains in Russia. Adjacentto the cave bear is a sabre-toothed tiger’s skull.

In the next window sits the complete skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar. The mas-sive bipedal predator fl ourished in Asia, particularly Mongolia, between 65 million and 70 million years ago.

Behind that skull hang two fossils of ancient fi sh. One is the complete skele-ton of a phareodus taken from the Green River formation in Wyoming. The fossil is believed to be about 50 million years old.

Each piece at By Nature Gallery is inspected with a high-powered micro-scope through which Bradstreet can detect any restorative work as well as any added elements.

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The art of natureGallery features paleontological showpieces

By Nature Gallery’s ancient treasures in-clude this fossil from China of a pterodactyl with a 24-inch wingspan.

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❚ By Sarah Lucas

Only three months after opening his gallery, John Frechette has it made.

His original concept of a retail home for his glass belt buckles and jewelry has blossomed into a venue for unbelievable fi nds — handmade, repurposed or found.

Located in Gaslight Alley, Made stocks unique gifts, houseware, jewelry and furni-ture. To nurture the local arts community, Made also hosts a different artist-in-resi-dence every Thursday.

“By having these artists, we’re constantly keeping the store fresh and new,” Frechette said. “There’s always more to discover.”

On Thursday, Sept. 9, Frechette will host a reception at 5:30 p.m. to kick off the Fall Arts Festival and to toast his latest artist-in-residence, Travis Walker of Teton Artlab.

Throughout the festival, Walker will display works inspired by his travels in La Jolla, Calif., Durango, Colo., and Moab, Utah, offering a collection different from

his usual Jackson landscapes. Walker’s use of acrylics and silk-screening also sets his paintings apart from many other landscapes found in Jackson galleries.

“I use a modern color palette, which makes my work different from a lot of what you’ll see around Jackson,” Walker said.

In addition to artists-in-residence, Made offers products by more than 40 artists from across the country who make jewelry, home goods, furniture, clothing and accessories.

“This is like the grown-up version of the pop-up shop I ran last summer,” Frechette said. “It’s really a little bit of everything.”

With more than double the space of his former store in the Broadway Shops, Frechette has been able to incorporate his love for “old stuff” — antiques he has found across the country such as a refurbished schoolhouse desk and a vintage bread rack used to hold greeting cards.

Unlike in many stores, all display pieces are for sale. “My least favorite thing is when you go into a shop and you fall in love with something, but it’s only for show,” Frechette said. “The fun thing about Made is that everything in here is for sale: the tables, the chairs, the displays, everything.”

Even with his ever-growing array,

Frechette continues to cultivate the art that started it all: his glass belt buckle and jewelry line. Previously known as Strapped Buckles, his company is in the process of changing to Strapped Glass, which will encompass the entire range of glass prod-ucts at Made, as well as future large-scale installations and Made’s in-house studio.

When Frechette opened, he planned to do glasswork during retail hours, a multi-tasking made diffi cult with heavy custom-er traffi c. As the off-season approaches,

he hopes to take advantage of the quieter months to use the studio area.

As Made moves forward, Frechette hopes to use the space in even more inven-tive ways, like the Belt Buckle Party he recently held for a local wedding, where bridesmaids enjoyed champagne and chocolates while being fi tted for belts.

“We’re excited to be located downtown right on the ‘beaten path’ for most tourists, but now we want the locals to come in and love the store too.”


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During the Fall Arts Festival, Made will welcome artist-in-residence Travis Walker, who brings color-soaked landscapes inspired by his travels through California, Colorado and Utah.

Glass artist rounds out gallery with eclectic wares

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❚ By Dina Mishev

C ayuse Western Americana is doing it again: sneaking in history lessons in the guise of

shows. As always, we thank the gal-lery for it, mostly because Cayuse manages to teach us while giving us some pretty cool stuff to look at.

As with past Fall Arts Festivals, Cayuse is bringing in master sil-versmith and jeweler Susan Adams to do a trunk show. Gallery owner Mary Schmitt has also curated a show on national park art.

“Susan’s pieces look super-con-temporary, but once you learn about them, you see they are very ground-ed in the traditional and historical,” Schmitt said.

And national park art?“The preponderance of art in

Jackson today is landscape and wild-life directly relating to the national parks,” Schmitt said. “I wanted to show how we got there.”

Both shows start the evening of Palates & Palettes and remain on dis-play through the end of September.

Susan Adams will be at Cayuse from Friday, Sept. 10, through Saturday, Sept. 12.

Schmitt’s idea for the national parks art show grew out of a paint-ing she acquired some time ago, an 1887 depiction of Old Faithful by James Everett Stuart. Schmitt said Stuart’s painting got her thinking about national park art.

“Many of these things are still accessible,” she said. “They’re not all in museums.”

After deciding on the theme of this Fall Arts Festival show, Schmitt began acquiring more pieces. There’s a Conrad Schwiering painting of the Tetons and a William Henry Holmes lithograph.

“The earliest national park art was created not as art for art’s sake, but to sell the parks,” Schmitt said. “The Hayden Survey needed to cap-ture images that would convince the government to set Yellowstone aside. Later on, railroad companies

hired artists, too, to promote parks, lodges and features.”

“The other side to national park art is art created by artists who lived in or near them and loved them,” Schmitt said.

Blackfoot carver John L. Clarke fell into this category. One of the greatest wood-carvers of the 20th century, he depicted animals and scenes from Glacier National Park. Schmitt has a carving by Clarke of a mountain goat in the show.

Olive Fell, who roomed with Georgia O’Keeffe at art school, spent her career living and painting in

Every Fall Arts Festival, Cayuse Western Americana hosts a trunk show for jewelry artist Susan Adams, who creates distinctive contemporary pieces modeled on vintage rowels (the wheel on the back of a spur).

James Everett Stuart’s 1887 Old Faithful painting is not only part of Cayuse’s national parks art show, it was the genesis. It got gallery owner Mary Schmitt thinking about the accessibility of park-related art.

The art of history

Artworks highlight decisive moments in national park history

Cody, just outside Yellowstone National Park. From 1919 until the late 1940s, she created a wide variety of workthat featured the park. She did everything from cartoon-y illustrations to a series of serigraphs of fl owers.

“She had so many sides,” Schmitt said. Fell and other artists featured in the show “are the ones who led us to where we are today,” she said.

Cayuse’s other Fall Arts Festival show, which runs concurrent with the national parks art exhibit, is Adams’ annual trunk show, which Schmitt has hosted every year since the gallery opened in the mid-1990s.

“She’s always doing great things,” Schmitt said. The past few years, Adams has featured spur rowel

jewelry. She researched vintage rowels (the small revolving wheel at the back of the spur), re-created them in silver and gold miniatures and linked them together for distinctive pieces of jewelry.

“They are supercontemporary and don’t necessar-ily look Western,” Schmitt said. “But their roots are completely traditional Western.”

Adams makes larger silver pieces in addition to jew-elry — a hammered silver water pitcher she made won Best of Show at the 2008 Western Design Conference — but her year has been so hectic she’s been concentrating on new designs for her smaller stuff.

“I’m excited to see what new way she’s thought of to bridge the traditional and contemporary,” Schmitt said.

The opening reception for both shows is during Palates & Palettes, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.

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❚ By Sarah Lucas

“Paper jewelry” might sound like child’s play, but Susan Fleming’s extensive jewelry line and new

store prove that this unique art form is not your typical arts-and-crafts project.

In conjunction with Fall Arts Festival, Fleming will celebrate the grand open-ing of her working studio and retail space, Workshop. Recently opened in the East Deloney cabin Ella’s Room vacated, Workshop features Fleming’s semiprecious jewelry line and her paper collection, in addition to hand-made work by various other regional and local artists.

Amid the displays of her own work and other artists’ ceramics, bags, pillows and kids’ goods, Fleming plans to do her own metalwork during retail hours. She will be using the studio space through-out the festival as well, allowing visitors to glimpse an artist at work.

“I think it’s nice for people to see you working on a piece, then be able to turn around and fi nd a similar fi nished product,” Fleming said. “[They] can see the equipment and watch the process happening. That’s also why we wanted to call it ‘Workshop’ — to highlight the openness of the space.”

Working in batches of about 20 piec-es at a time, Fleming begins her paper pieces by making a beveled setting in silver or gold. Then, she hand-cuts chi-yogami, a special type of silk-screened Japanese paper. The material, usually printed with fl oral, geometric or cherry blossom patterns, is most commonly used in book art.

“When I fi rst saw the way other art-ists used chiyogami, I thought it was so beautiful,” Fleming said. “I wanted to tie in the paper with my jewelry.”

After placing the paper into the set-ting, Fleming applies resin to the paper surface, to protect the design and make the piece waterproof. She started work-ing with paper jewelry over eight years ago when she lived in Bozeman, Mont. She fi nds the resin stage the most diffi -cult to carry out. While the malleability

Susan Fleming sets delicate slices of chiyogami — silk-screened Japanese paper — into gold and silver settings to create a unique pieces of jewelry.

Workshop artists❚ Pamela Bosco, of Portland, Maine

— sculptural “wrap” rings and bracelets

❚ Molly MacGrass, of San Francisco — laser-cut bamboo and paper prints

❚ Jennifer Christiansen, of Bozeman, Mont. — intricately woven beadwork

❚ Dormouse Designs by Daryl Peightal and Linda MacGregor, of Jackson Hole — kids’ line and embroidery work

❚ K Studio by Mary and Shelly Klein, of Grand Rapids, Mich. — line-stitched pillows in

eco-friendly materials❚ Poppy by Molly Stratton, of

Bozeman — handcrafted cosmetic bags and clutch purses

Artist opens retail shop, working studio

Wearable paper

of metals allows for revisions, the resin pro-cess is fi nal, making it hard to salvage the piece if something goes wrong.

“There’s just less room for error,” Fleming said.

Besides being a unique jewelry medium, paper is a “stylish” alternative, Fleming has found, to displaying kids’ drawings on the fam-ily fridge: Sentimental artwork can be trans-formed into a piece of jewelry. To keep the original piece intact, she scans the image and

uses the copy for the jewelery. “That way, it doesn’t matter if the original is

crayon, pen, pencil or paint,” she said.Through such custom orders, Fleming

has created jewelry from varied original pieces, from the scribble of a 1-year-old to an artist’s intricate drawing; from the date on an invitation to the stamped logo of a girl’s bat mitzvah.

“There are endless possibilities,” Fleming said.

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ties, but Kallaugher simply explained it as, “I’m only 5-10, and there’s only so far you can go in basketball.”

So, he started drawing caricatures of tourists at Trafalgar Square and Brighton Pier. While doing that, his interests started to turn toward politics.

“As an American living abroad, you are held per-sonally responsible for what’s going on here,” Kal said. “I started to get more interested. I already had the art background, and the two just melded.”

In 1978 he landed a gig at The Economist, the fi rst resident cartoonist in the magazine’s 145-year history. He parlayed that into jobs at newspapers such as The Observer, The Telegraph and The Mail before heading back to the United States to take a job at The Baltimore Sun.

Although he is no one-trick pony — he is well-versed in 3-D animation — Kal said he prefers cartoons because of their unique ability to engage readers.

“Cartoons reside in a special part of the brain,” he said. “They can be digested in fi ve to 10 sec-onds. Humor invites people in. It makes people take a chance. If you’re reading a newspaper and

you see an editorial and the cartoon next to it, guess what people are going to read fi rst? They’re always going to go to the cartoon fi rst and take a chance with it.”



Veteran cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher con-siders himself, fi rst and foremost, a journalist. Then a columnist.

Then a satirist. And lastly, an artist. “I’m always surveying the landscape to see what’s

going on,” Kal said during a phone interview punctu-ated by calls from his Economist editor in London about a cartoon he had just sent. “Then I’ll center in on some-thing where I think there is something important to say about it. I establish what I want to say, and that’s when the satire and artistry comes in.”

He turned news of heightened airport security mea-sures into a panel of images chronicling one man’s trip through a series of machines, including a mind reader, tumble scanner and “The Last Stretch,” which, true to its name, turns the man’s body into an S. As the man leaves the security area, he is told by an airport guard, “Now you can feel safe.”

Toyota’s safety woes morphed into a downhill ski racing competition in which an SUV careens through an Olympic course, knocking down two skiers before slamming into a wall.

President Obama’s attempts to forge a relationship with the Iranian government became a scene in which a seemingly friendly handshake offered by Obama to Iranian offi cials is greeted by trepidation, with one man warning “Be careful, the great satan is opening his claw.”

Starting Friday, Sept. 10, Kal’s work will be on display in the Art Association’s ArtSpace Main Gallery. The show, which features 40 pieces spanning more than 20 years of work, is part of a larger exhibition that has been shown in museums across the world, including in Seoul, South Korea. In Jackson, it opens with a Palates & Palettes reception preceded by a gallery talk by Kal at noon.

“A good exhibition is like a good cartoon,” Kal said, explaining how he selected cartoons from his career. “It is engaging, fun, artistic and has a message.”

The show draws from the 120 cover drawings he has done during his 33-year tenure at The Economist, as well as from stints at a host of newspapers, includ-ing The Baltimore Sun, where he worked from 1988 to 2006.

Included in the show is one cartoon from 1998 that depicts President Bill Clinton seated at a table draped in the U.S. fl ag, surrounded by a bevy of smiling wait-resses offering hamburgers, scoops of ice cream and slices of pie. It’s a cartoon Kal remembers fondly. He had originally been assigned to draw a cartoon for Clinton’s upcoming State of the Union address. At the time, the economy was booming, and the president was “like a kid in a candy shop,” he said.

Kal drew that scene, which in a matter of days took on an entirely different meaning.

“I was commissioned to do the piece on Monday, and on Wednesday the news breaks, Monica Lewinsky breaks,” Kal said. “So they have to change their lead story completely, but the editors looked at my drawing and said, ‘We don’t need to change anything.’”

Although he has made a career out of taking jabs at public fi gures and current events, Kal also has had to depict much more somber affairs, such as the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

On that day he was commissioned to complete two cartoons, one for The Baltimore Sun and another for The Economist.

“To be a satirist in those days and weeks after 9/11 was less about humor and more about making a point,” Kal said. “America on that day was a raw, open wound. It was more about trying to rally together and pull our-selves out of this. Abroad, it was a view of witnessing our suffering.”

Kal’s ability to synthesize such a traumatic event is one he developed over decades. After graduating from Harvard College in 1977, he took a bicycle tour of the British Isles and wound up playing semiprofessional basketball for several years. Kals website blames his departure from the team on the club’s fi nancial diffi cul-

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Self-portrait by veteran cartoonist Kal.

Kal’s work runs the gamut from humorous political jabs to poignant, touching images, such as the car-toon he did for The Economist that ran on Sept. 13, 2001.

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An Art Association show of Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s work includes this magazine cover from 1998. Kallaugher is the fi rst resident cartoonist at The Economist.

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Jackson Hole’s annual Fall Arts Festival has for 26 years brought the wild world of art to this corner of Wyoming. And for 11 of those years, the Art Association’s Takin’

it to the Streets art fair has offered some of Jackson Hole’s fi nest artists and crafters to the world.

The 11th annual Takin’ it to the Streets open-air juried art fair brings 40 local and regional artists to the Town Square from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 12, to display the wide range of talent abiding in western Wyoming and to offer the far-fl ung cultural tourists a chance to bring a piece of the region home with them.

Amy Fradley, the Art Association’s art fair director, promised some of the area’s fi nest artists, jewelers, arti-sans and craftsmen — from Jackson Hole, the Pinedale area south of Jackson, Star Valley, and Teton Valley in Idaho — and gave a guarantee of bright, sunny autumn weather for the outdoor event.

“Well, last year it snowed and hailed,” she said, hedging her bet. “But usually September is such a beautiful month, and it’s a beautiful day, and everyone is out and mingling.”

It’s no secret Jackson Hole is home to scores of gifted painters, sculptors, ceramicists, weavers, photographers, jewelers … but every year Takin’ it to the Streets pulls new talent from the woodwork.

New vendors this year include Randy and Oleta Corry, who make leather bags, backpacks and belts in their studio in Driggs; Pinedale photographer Delsa Allen, who specializes in scenes both grand and minute in the Wind River Range; and potter Matt Guenthner, whose Fallen Leaf studio in Big Piney creates bowls, baking dishes, cups, mirrors, vases and other works in clay, much of it featuring impressions of local foliage pressed into the clay.

“I was told it has a really nice feel to it,” Guenthner said of the fair. “The way I pick my shows is if it’s an environ-ment I really like … if the feel is nice, the people running it are nice, and it’s a nice place to go.”

And of course there will be dozens of returning artists,

such as local watercolor guru Fred Kingwill and jeweler Susan Fleming, who cuts small “scenes” from Japanese chiyogami papers and embeds them in sterling silver for colorful but understated earrings, bracelets, necklaces and rings.

“I’m really thankful to the [Jackson Hole] Chamber of Commerce for inviting us,” Fradley said. “Fall Arts Festival is such a vibrant event, and to be part of that is a wonderful thing for the Art Association.”

As has become tradition, Takin’ it to the Streets coin-cides with the Jackson Hole Chefs Association’s Taste of the Tetons event, when the valley’s culinary artists offer samples of their wares on the Town Square — just another reason to visit the Town Square on Sept. 12.

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T he photograph John Richter plans to release during Fall Arts Festival is a secret that even he didn’t know

in early August.

Richter will release the new image during the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk. The image will likely be from recent work in Grand Teton National Park or Yellowstone. A release party will not only celebrate Richter’s latest work, but also allow collectors a chance to get a fi rst-edition print.

Richter is a landscape photographer who often shoots using a 4-by-5 camera he hauls with him on adventures from Titcomb Basin in the Wind River Range to upper Cascade Canyon in Grand Teton National Park. His camera gear usually weighs between 20 and 50 pounds, one reason other landscape photographers similar in style opt to not shoot some of the places Richter explores.

Richter loves cannoneering and often rappels into remote slot canyons, swimming through icy waters with his camera equip-ment in a dry bag. Shooting such remote areas helps show people places they other-wise probably would not see. It also gives his pictures a sense of adventure.

Richter describes his own work as “inspiring” and “luminescent.” He is always looking for the perfect light.

“It’s just nature’s beauty in composition that really stirs the imagination,” he said.

His wife, Dawn Richter, said the work is lifelike. Images are printed on silver halide paper, which gives them the appearance of being backlit, making them seem 3-D and lending an archival quality, she said.

“You can step right into the image,” she said. “It’s like looking through a window at the perfect moment.”

The couple had a gallery in Telluride, Colo., but opened their new gallery in July. In their new location, Richter is inspired by the landscape of the area, but he also will continue to feature work from all over.

During the Fall Arts Festival, the gallery also will feature jewelry and leather prod-ucts by Brit West, a local jewelry designer. A few years ago, Dawn bought one of her necklaces and has wanted to collaborate with her ever since.

An opening reception for the Brit West collection will be held on Friday, Sept. 17.

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Photographer John Richter lugs his large-format camera deep into the backcountry to photograph rarely seen scenes, as in “Stone Waves.”

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Richter’s large-format images often have a 3-D feel to them, as in “North Creek Falls 2.”

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A t fi rst glance you might think Karl Hecksher’s works are paintings. You might marvel at the different styles,

so varied you would swear each was by a different artist. You’d be right.

Hecksher is a printer who cuts wood-blocks to re-create paintings.

Hecksher found printing gave him access to various painters’ studios. Instead of painting himself, as a printer he could work with a variety of artists — including blue chip artists such as Chuck Close, Alex Katz and Richard Estes — all whom have different styles. As a result, he got glimpses into each artist’s creative process.

About 16 of Hecksher’s prints will hang in the Loft Gallery and at Teton Artlab in the Center for the Arts in a show that opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, and hangs through Sept. 30.

“In the show, you will see abstract work and you will see realist work,” Hecksher said.

Hecksher has been creating woodcut prints for about 20 years, after discovering the art in college. His process depends on the painting. Often the original artist makes a study of the painting and Hecksher works from that, breaking the image down by color and then carving a variety of wood-blocks. Sometimes the image is reduced or enlarged in Hecksher’s print.

“It’s a lot of ingredients in the recipe here

that are continually adjusted and modifi ed until the print looks like it should,” he said.

Hecksher, who owns K5 Editions LLC, a print company, is one of the most famous printmakers in the art world, Travis Walker with Teton Artlab said.

Teton Artlab normally features local artists, but by bringing in Hecksher, who is based in New York and is a friend of an Artlab member, Walker saw an opportu-nity to expose local printmakers to one of the best.

While in Jackson, Hecksher will teach printing workshops.

“I thought it was a great opportunity to take our technical skills to the next level,” he said.

The show marks a fi rst-time partner-

ship between the Artlab and the Art Association. Part of the show will hang in the Loft Gallery, which has better security for the more expensive pieces, Walker said. Other parts, such as some of the wood-blocks Hecksher created and used, will be on display in the Artlab’s studio on the third fl oor of the Center for the Arts.

Hecksher carves wooden block in a Japanese style then applies color to the blocks. It is a technique few people know, Walker said.

“It’s a really intense process and I think it takes a lot of patience,” Walker said.

The result is a piece, done in the paint-er’s own style, that has a watercolor-like quality that rivals the aesthetic of a paint-ing, Walker said.

Richard Estes“Post Offi ce, 33rd and 8th,”2004Woodblock print on handmade Japanese paper.23 1/4 by 22 3/8 inches.Hand printed by Karl Hecksher using 11 blocks and 16 colors.

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Chuck Close “Self-Portrait Woodcut,” 2009Woodblock print on handmade Japanese paper.35 1/2 by 28 1/2 inchesHand printed by Karl Hecksher using 26 woodblocks and 47 colors

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It was the personality sculptor Sandy Graves gives her stylized horses that immediately captivated Jackson gallery

owner Cher Skillbeck.Some of the animals have just three legs

instead of four, and all have sections miss-ing, said Skillbeck of A Horse of a Different Color.

In “Carrots,” a girl reaches up to feed her horse a treat; negative space around its belly reveals a carrot already inside. Other pieces reveal a tender moment between mother and child or the satisfaction of scratching an itch.

“I really believe that the negative space and elongated legs give the pieces energy and movement that can be diffi cult to get in more traditional bronze,” Graves said.

Graves will bring about a dozen of her contemporary animal sculptures to A Horse of a Different Color for Falls Arts Festival.

Her sculptures usually start with one aspect, either an emotion or a part of the body. People commissioning work often ask for a sketch of what she’ll be creating, she said.

“It doesn’t work out because I don’t always know where the piece is going when I start,” she said. “It has to kind of create itself as we go along.”

Pieces capturing maternal interactions stem from the artist’s own experiences. She created many of them as a new mother, after the births of her 4- and 1-year-old sons.

For “Carrots,” Graves drew from the experience of taking care of her best friend,

a horse.“It’s the idea of plenty,” she said of the

carrot a girl holds up for her horse even as another rests in its stomach. “It’s a continu-ing action.”

Visual art speaks to the emotions, she said. Viewers of her work often identify either with an image relating to a past expe-rience or with the whimsical, fun nature of the patinas and forms, she said.

“It is kind of what people feel, and I like that,” she said. “I have fun creating them and I like that people have fun looking at them.”

Graves’ use of negative space shows her deep understanding of horse anatomy, Skillbeck said.

“Even though she’s taking parts away, she [knows] his body has to be this big compared to his head,” she said. “If you didn’t know what to take away, it would be a problem because you couldn’t convey the horse.”

“She really captures horse essence,” Skillbeck said.

In addition to her contemporary pieces, Graves created several representational sculptures that were commissioned by groups in her hometown of Scottsbluff, Neb., and her adopted home of Steamboat Springs, Colo.

It’s easy to see Graves loves what she does, Skillbeck said.

Growing up in Scottsbluff, Graves began riding horses at 8. She spent her childhood drawing them and fi rst displayed her work at county fairs as a 4-H member.

“It’s the subject matter that I’ve always had in my art, so it’s just part of who I am,” Graves said.

Equine emotionSandy Graves channels her lifelong love of horses into sculptures

Sandy Graves draws on her lifelong love for horses to create stylized emotive sculptures.

But she’s also having fun branch-ing out. To Jackson, she will also bring sculptures of an elk, moose and fox.

Graves will attend a reception from

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1 A Horse of a Different Color

Step through the door and find yourself in a special world. You will dis-cover a distinctive collection of American craft and fine art alive with color to excite your senses. The gallery features compositions in glass, clay, jewelry and paintings plus much more. All are contemporary in style and some with Western flair. Choose pieces to enhance your sur-roundings, present as the ideal gift or simply to indulge yourself. And, of course, you will always find a horse of a different color. [email protected]. 60 E. Broadway. 307-734-9603.

2 Altamira Fine Art

You should see Jackson’s newest and most exhilarating gallery, ALTAMIRA FINE ART. The focus is on Western Contemporary, with a modern take on the American west. A truly exceptional group of art-ists in a must see gallery; Nieto, Gilleon, Hawkins, Ringholz, Roberson, Woodard, McElwain, Sanders, Hagege, Dean, Indian Artifacts and more at 172 Center Street in the big brick building. 307-739-4700 and online at www.altamiraart.com

3 Astoria Fine Art

Astoria Fine Art was created around three principles: Quality, Variety, and Service. Astoria showcases work by today’s top art-ists and tomorrow’s rising stars working in all genres. Astoria also offers consulting services to help you find that rare or spe-cial piece. For something new, something exciting, something better... Come to Astoria. 35 E. Deloney Ave. 307-733-4016. www.astoriafineart.com.

4 Asymbol Gallery

(asymbolgallery.com) is an online gallery conceptualized by pro snowboarder Travis Rice and artist Mike Parillo. The Asymbol gallery features a collection of iconic photographs and art pieces from the snow, surf and skate worlds that have never before been available to the public for purchase. Each image is offered in a limited-edition run of archival-quality, signed and numbered prints exclusively worldwide through asymbolgallery.com. An Asymbol gallery exhibit is showing at the Teton Artlab SEPT 1st-19th, located on the 3rd floor of The Center For The Arts, 240 South Glenwood St. (2 blocks South of the town square).

5 Boyer’s Indian Arts

Since 1962 Boyer’s has been supplying the discriminating buyer with quality Indian arts and crafts. We have an extensive collection of Navajo, Hopi and Zuni jewelry representing high quality craftsmanship and materials. You will also find very fine selections of Navajo sand paintings, Acoma and Santa Clara pottery from the Southwest, Hopi Kachinas and hand-woven Navajo rugs. Member of Indian Arts and Crafts Association. 30 W. Broadway. 307-733-3773

6 Buffalo Trail Gallery

Buffalo Trail Gallery offers an inviting array of impressionistic and rep-resentational landscapes, figurative, and wildlife paintings and sculp-ture. We represent artists of Cowboy Artist of America, OPA, National Sculpture Guild as well as emerging artists. We offer assistance for the novice art collector as well as the art aficionado. We have artists in res-idence throughout the season. Located on the Jackson Town Square at 98 Center Street. 307-734-6904. www.buffalotrailgallery.com.

7 By Nature Gallery

Specializing in the finest quality fossil, mineral and meteorite speci-mens from around the world. We offer fossils from local Kemmerer as well as the very rare Tyrannosaurus Bataar from Mongolia and a fun kids corner with fossils and minerals for all ages. Jewelry, gifts, and a broad variety of petrified wood is also available. Open daily. 86 East Broadway on the Town Square. 307-200-6060. www.bynaturegallery.com

8 Cayuse Western Americana

Specializing in high quality Cowboy and Indian antiques. Great selection of chaps, spurs, beadwork, textiles, and antique and new hitched horsehair items. Vintage buckles, early western and Native American jewelry, old photography, art, prints, and lithos are featured and historic Jackson Hole, Teton Park and Yellowstone items. Exclusive local representative for Clint Orms buckles and Susan Adams cow-girl jewelry. 3 blocks north of the Wort Hotel (across from Nani’s). 255 N. Glenwood. 307-739-1940.

9 Christensen Studio

Tucked at the base of the Tetons, inspired by place, master art-ists gather to paint the light, the landscape and the people. Visit Christensen’s elegant studio and exhibition space to view original works by Scott L. Christensen, Daniel F. Gerhartz, Jeremy Lipking, Matt Smith, Alexey Steele and Scott Tallman Powers. Call (208) 787-

5851 or visit christensenstudio.com for details on the Collector’s Salon 9/15 at 5:00pm.

10 Cowboy Artists of America /Phoenix

Art Museum

Mark your calendar for the 45th annual sale and exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum October 16, 2010. The art event is the premier Western American art sale and exhibition in the coun-try. See over 130 never-before-seen paintings, drawings and sculptures. Sale is a ticketed event. Call 602-252-8382, or visit www.caashow.com.

11 DanShelley Jewelry Originals

Wyoming’s Finest Jewelry experience since 1976! This extraordinary gallery features wearable works of art from contemporary expressions in precious metals & unique gems, pearls & elk ivory to distinctive wedding sets. Of course, skillfully detailed Teton & wildlife originals are another specialty of the talented duo, Dan Harrison & Shelley Elser. This designer team transcends the ordinary. A visit to their exceptional gallery should not be missed. Downtown Jackson, 125 North Cache St.-in Gaslight Alley. 307-733-2259. www.danshelley.com.

12 Davies Reid

We are dedicated to creating beautiful one of a kind rugs. We make Western, Contemporary, and Traditional rugs, using only the best high mountain handspun wool, all organic dyes, and the most talented and creative weavers. We also carry exotic jewelry, architectural elements, home decor, textiles, and antique carpets. We are committed to quality of craftsmanship and ethical business practices both here and abroad. We are located on the town square and have stores in Sun Valley ID, Park City UT, Boise ID, and Paia Maui. 307-739-1009.

13 Daylite Stained Glass Studio

Daylite Stained Glass Studio can create designs that enhance both architecture and interior design. All products are hand-made start to finish with American-made Art Glass. Prices reflect the care and effort built into each item.The studio offers ideas for every taste and budget. Whether its a new building, remodeling, or redecorating, a handcrafted stained glass project can personalize every room of your home or buisness. 260 E. Howard Ave., Driggs, ID. 208-354-8219. www.daylitestainedglass.com.

14 Diehl Gallery

Diehl Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of national and interna-tional contemporary art. We specialize in world-class contemporary painting and bronze sculpture. Gallery services include collection development and curation, and on-site consultation. 155 W. Broadway Avenue. 307.733.0905. www.diehlgallery.com.

15 Fighting Bear Antiques

Esta blished in 1981, specializing in quality 19th and early 20th century American furniture. The gallery is nationally recognized for its authentic Mission and Thomas Molesworth furniture, early Navajo rugs, Native American beadwork and Western Americana. Located 4 blocks south of the Town Square at 375 S. Cache. Open Mon-Sat 9:00-6:00, Sun by appointment only. 307-733-2669. www.fightingbear.com.

16 Galleries West Fine Art

The home of resident sculptor R. Scott Nickell, Galleries West Fine Art offers fine representational works of art communicating unique views of the West and the broader American experience, including landscape, wildlife, Native American, and historical genres. The gal-lery represents established and nationally recognized artists along with carefully selected up-and-coming talent, providing outstanding selection and value to art enthusiasts and collectors. Visit our website for current works and show listings. [email protected] www.gallerieswestjacksonhole.com Located between Burke’s Chop House and Tayloe Piggot Gallery, the gallery is open late during the summer. 70 S Glenwood St. 307-733-4412.

17 Heather James Fine Art

Heather James Fine Art offers a rare look into art history’s past and present. Focusing on a wide breadth of genres, including cultural art and antiquities, Impressionist and Modern, Post-War and Contemporary, American and Latin American Masters, Old Masters, cutting-edge Contemporary and Photography. The gal-lery showcases blue chip and cutting-edge contemporary art, while still maintaining a respect for the integrity of antiquity and classical masterpieces. Heather James Fine Art, 172 Center St, 307-200-6090, www.heatherjames.com

18 Hennes Studio & Gallery

Visit this beautiful gallery overlooking the Tetons, 7 miles north

of Jackson at JH Golf & Tennis Estates, 5850 Larkspur Dr. (seemap). For over 40 years, internationally known artist JoanneHennes has been capturing the rugged Tetons, native wildlflow-ers and wildlife in oils and watercolors. Also displayed are silkpaintings, graphics and Hawaiian landscapes and seascapes. Meet the artist - open 9-6 Mon-Sat, Sunday by appointment. 307-733-2593. www.joannehennes.com.

19 Horizon Fine Art Gallery

We showcase the finest in Western, Contemporary and Internationalart thus portraying all the facets of the West and beyond. From thestark beauty of the desert, to the calm of the coastline; from the bustling energy of the city; to the mystery of foreign lands, we offer collectors a unique visual festival of color and originality for the dis-cerning eye. Horizon Fine Art: Enhancing the traditional introducing the innovative. 30 King St., Ste. 202, 307-739-1540.

20 Ingrid Weber Studio

Ingrid has been creating custom jewelry since 1986. Specializing in re-working bead jewelry, creating new designs, and jewelry repair. Ingrid’s jewelry is featured in Jackson at Amangani, Thoenig’s Fine Jewelry andThe Pendleton Shop; and in Driggs at Guchie Birds. Classes available. Please call Ingrid for an appointment. 307-733-0761.

21 Jackson Hole Art Auction

Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery will present the fourth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction in Jackson, Wyoming on Saturday, September 18th. The much anticipated event will be held in the Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. The Jackson Hole Art Auction focus-es on important works by the Taos Society of Artists, ContemporaryWestern Masters, as well as historically recognized artists of theAmerican West. A portion of the proceeds from the auction willbenefit the Center for the Arts. 130 East Broadway – 866-549-9278 – www.jacksonholeartauction.com

22 Jackson Hole Gallery Association

The Jackson Hole Gallery Association is dedicated to supporting the artistic and cultural heritage of the greater Jackson Hole area. The local galleries proudly present a broad range of work from “old masters”such as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington to internationally and nationally know contemporary artists. Fine western, wildlife abstract and southwestern art; photography, sculpture, pottery, handcrafted furniture, weavings and exquisite Indian art collections, including rugs and handmade jewelry. Jackson Hole offers a selection of art rarely duplicated. www.jacksonholegalleries.com

23 Jackson Hole Museum

Museum explores life in Jackson Hole: American Indians, fur trade,cattle and dude ranching, All-Woman Town Council, Boone & Crockett wildlife mounts, and more. Free children’s activity book with admission. Gift shop offers unique locally-made gifts, books, Harrison Crandall prints. Open Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. One of most affordable and culturally-rich family experiences in the valley. 105 N. Glenwood, 307-733-2414. www.museumofjacksonhole.org.

24 Kismet Rug Gallery, LLC

Antiques to contemporary, small to oversize, soft pastels to vibrant jewel tones, modest to generous budgets- Kismet has a rug for you. We have an extensive collection of outstanding Herizes, Serapies, fine Killims, Sultanabads, Gashgaies, Caucasions, Kashans, Kermans, Qum,Tabrizes, Sarouks, Bijars, turn of century tribal pieces as well as fine col-lectable pieces. Open Mon-Sat, 10-6. One block off the Town Square. 140 E. Broad way. 307-739-8984.

25 Langlois Studio / Tetonwood

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Formerly known as Rawson Galleries, Inc. for 30 years, we havetransitioned to a studio gallery featuring cards, prints and origi-nal watercolors by S. Langlois. Etchings by Richmond and seri-graphs by Noda are also available. All photolithographs or postersby Clark, Blain, Axton and Nieto are discounted. The gallery is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 12:30 - 7:00 on King Street. 307-733-7306

26 Legacy Gallery

Specializing in fine quality original oil paintings, watercolors and bronze sculptures. Featuring impressionistic and traditional Western works as well as wildlife and landscapes by prominent contemporaryand past masters. The gallery, whose heritage is one of personal-ized service and traditional values, provides exceptional assistance to both novice and seasoned collectors. 75 N. Cache St., on the NW side of the Square with another location in Scottsdale, AZ. Open daily. 307-733-2353.

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27 Mangelsen Images Of Nature Gallery

Representing exclusively the work of acclaimed wildlife photogra-pher Tom Mangelsen. Dedicated to the preservation of Nature and the respect of wildlife, Mangelsen has traveled all over the world to bring back unique portraits of wildlife and stunning sceneries. The gallery also offers posters, books, screensavers, videos and note cards featuring his work. The #1 gallery in Jackson. 170 N. Cache, 307-733-9752. www.mangelsen.com

28 Mortensen Studios

Local Jackson artist, John Mortensen, creates beautiful bronze sculpture and fine Western furnishings.Visit the studio and sculpture garden along Fish Creek. 5525 W. Main St. Wilson. 307-733-1519.www.mortensenstudios.com.

29 Mountain Trails Gallery

Moun tain Trails’ rich tradition in bronze sculpture and original oil paint-ings is unsurpassed. An outstanding collection of impressionistic and realistic works of landscapes, wildlife, Native American and traditional western themes are featured. Mountain Trails also hosts renowned sculptors and painters working on-site on their works in progress.155 Center St. 307-734-8150. www.mtntrails.net.

30 National Museum of Wildlife Art

Overlooking the National Elk Refuge, this architecturally stun-ning building houses the nation’s premier collection of fine wildlife art. With more than 5,000 items in the collection and changing exhi-bitions, there’s always something new to discover. Featuring Robert Bateman, Albert Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, William Merritt Chase, Bob Kuhn, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Carl Rungius. Children’s gallery. Museum Shop. Rising Sage Café. Open Daily. 3 miles north of town. 307-733-5771. WildlifeArt.org.

31 Raindance Gallery

A specialty fine art gallery that features wildlife, landscape western and bronze art, created by world renowned artists. Featuring a variety of artists in each genre, including the Latham family, Scott Lennard and the Teton and Jackson Hole paintings of local artist, Dave NcNally. We also carry fine handcrafted Native American jewelry. 165 North Center Street. 307-732-2222.

32 Raindance Indian Arts

Owner Terry Kennedy, a Wyoming native, has been in this same loca-tion for 30 years. Raindance specializes in fine Native American art, including jewelry, pottery, rugs, kachinas, and the largest selection of fetishes in the intermountain west. Fine handcrafted art from the Zuni, Navajo, Hopi, Santa Clara, Jemez, and Acoma pueblos is fea-tured in our store. 105 East Broadway. 307-733-1081.

33 Rich Haines Gallery

Rich Haines Gallery features a rich collection of art. Our space holds an extraordinary dichotomy between the Great Masters and today’s Contemporaries. From original paintings by Asencio, Aagard, Day, Trukhan, Coleman, Furlow, Middlekauf, Pino, and Smith-Harrison, to lithographs and etchings by Cassatt, Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Rembrandt, and Renoir, our collection is eclectic and impressive. Also showcased are beautiful bronze and wood carved sculptures. 150 Center Street, 307.733.7530, www.richhaines.com

34 Richter Fine Art Photography

Redefining Photography as Art! In Jackson’s newest gallery, acclaimed landscape photographer John Richter showcases a collection of large format images so colorful and vivid, one most experience them first hand. Using only the finest archival materials, even the discerning collector will enjoy theses photographs for a lifetime. Experience for yourself at 30 King St. Jackson WY. 307.733.8880 or online at www.johnrichterphoto.com

35 Rip Caswell Sculptures

Rip Caswell Sculptures hosts the first annual 2010 Artist Rendezvous. Rip Caswell is one of America’s preeminent bronze sculptors. He has invited his fellow artists to join him in what will be the first of an annual show to be held each year during the Fall Arts Festival. 30 artists, in a wide variety of media will be shown Sept 9 - 19. Located in the Sculptor Garden behind Jackson Hole Roasters building. 145 E Broadway. www.caswellsculptures.com

36 Robert Dean Collection

For 27 years in Jackson having the highest quality of authentic American Indian jewelry. Representing renowned award-winning artists Cody Sanderson (2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Heard Museum Show), Ric Charlie (2007 Grand Prize Winner of Santa Fe Indian Market), Cippy Crazy Horse, Earnest & Veronica Benally, Larry Golsh & Edison Commings. Also custom leather belts & wallets by Bill Ford. 160C W. Broadway. Open Mon. - Fri. 10am-7pm. Sat. 10am-6pm. Sun 11am-5pm. (307) 733-9290. www.robertdeancollection.com

37 Santa Fe Art Auction,

Gerald Peters Gallery

The Southwest’s largest auction of classic Western American art cel-ebrates its 17th annual auction. Saturday, November 13, 2010, at the Santa Fe Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For auction inquiries please contact Santa Fe Art Auction Limited, Co. or visit www.santafeartauction.com Santa Fe, NM 505-954-5858.

38 Shadow Mountain Gallery

Since 1988 offering quality collectible art for the discerning client. Emerging and established artists both locally and nationally known who paint, sculpt, and make prints from realism to impressionism in landscapes, wildlife, Western and Indian art. We serve clients world-wide. Located below A Touch of Class, 10 W. Broadway at the Square. 307-733-3162. 800-726-1803 www.topgifts.com

39 Tayloe Piggott Gallery

Specializing in contemporary painting, photography, sculpture and limited edition prints. We also showcase hand-blown glass and unique designer jewelry. Our mission is to assist clients with the intri-cacies of buying contemporary art. Our staff has the knowledge and expertise to help facilitate acquiring art as an investment or finding the right piece for one’s home. It is our hope to bring fresh vision to an already sophisticated arts community and further the appreciation of contemporary art. Our curator is available for private home art consultations and art collection management. 62 S. Glenwood St. 307-733-0555. www.tayloepiggotgallery.com.

40 Teton Art Gallery

Teton Art Gallery offers quality handmade silver, gold and leather jewelry that represent the wildlife, scenery and activities in the Yellowstone and Jackson Hole area. Our jewelry utilizes turquoise and elk ivory, as well as other semi-precious stones cut and polished by the owner. Making items by hand means each piece may likely not be exactly like any other. Minor variations are part of the charm and personality of handmade items. 47 W. Deloney, in Gaslight Alley. 307-733-6334 www.tetonartgallery.com.

41 Trailside Galleries

Trailside Galleries is the discerning collector’s first choice for the finest in representational works of art. Established in 1963, the gallery fea-tures an unparalleled collection of western, impressionist, landscape, figurative, still-life and wildlife art as well as works by many deceased masters.We have relocated to a spacious and newly remodeled 15,000 sq. ft. building, ideally situated by the town square, fine shopping, lodging, restaurants. Additionally, Trailside Galleries is home to the annual Jackson Hole Art Auction held in September. 130 East Broadway 307-733-3186 www.trailsidegalleries.com.

42 Two Grey Hills

For 34 years, Two Grey Hills Indian Arts has featured distinctive Southwest Native American jewelry by Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Santo Domingan artists. Their museum quality Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery and hand-made Southwest Indian baskets will please the most discrim-inating buyer. 110 E. Broadway 307.733.2677. www.fineindianart.com

43 Ulrich Fossils

Art and home furnishings created by nature, revealed by hand. See timeless wonders from the fossil beds of Wyoming at Jackson on Pearl. Each piece has received meticulous care, transformed into treasured gifts from the earth - whether the end result is artwork, kitchen coun-ters, tables or flooring. Ulrich Fossils is the original legal source of fossil specimens for art and architectural designs. 307-413-2267. 270 W. Pearl Ave., Ste. 102, www.fossilportal.com

44 Vertical Peaks Fine Art

This exceptional new gallery is pleased to present contemporary art and sculpture created by an exciting array of nationally and inter-nationally recognized artists, as well as rising artists. We specialize in western landscapes, wildlife, bronze, American impressionism and modernism, all in a variety of media. 165 North Center Street 307 733-7744.

45 West Lives on Gallery

Discover an impressive collection of fine arts reflecting the rich heri-tage of the American West. Featuring Western, wildlife and landscape art in original oils, acrylics, watercolors, and bronze. We represent over 50 local, regional, and national artists. We can help you fill your walls and pedestals with fine art from both living and deceased artists. Conveniently located at 75 N. Glenwood across the street from the Wort Hotel. 307-734-2888. www.westliveson.com.

46 Wilcox Gallery & Wilcox II

Jackson’s largest, now in its 40th year. Featuring original paintings, prints, sculpture, fine crafted wood, jewelry and pottery by nation-ally known artists. Two locations - the original, 2 miles north of the Town Square on Hwy 89, is spacious & exciting. 733-6450; Wilcox II is located at 110 Center St. Open 10-6 Mon-Sat. 307-733-3950. www.wilcoxgallery.com.

47 Wild By Nature

Visit our gallery of fine art photography featuring local wildlife and land-scape photographs by Henry H. Holdsworth. Nationally recognized for his work with publications such as National Geographic, Sierra, Birder’s World, National Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation, Henry’s unique and striking images are available in limited edition prints, notecards,and books. Located 1 block west of the Town Square. 307-733-8877. 888-494-5329. 95 West Deloney. www.wildbynaturegallery.com.

48 Wild Hands

Considered one of Jackson’s most unique galleries, Wild Hands is off the beaten track, but definitely worth the short stroll. Featuring an eclecticselection of fine art and hand-crafted furniture, the gallery also has anextensive collection of pottery, jewelry, blown glass and wrought ironaccessories for the home. Whether decorating a new home or remodel-ing an older treasure Wild Hands is worth a look-see. Located 3 blocks off the town square at 265 W. Pearl. Open every day. 307-733-4619. www.wildhands.com

49 Workshop

Hand. Made. Things. The working studio of jeweler Susan Fleming & the home to Dormouse Designs custom embroidery, Workshop offersan array of handmade jewelry, clothing, pottery & other unique gifts.Opening in July of this year, Workshop is one of Jackson’s newest additions with fresh ideas & a modern feel. Located just off the townsquare at 180 E. Deloney, it’s a must stop on your gallery stroll.

50 Wyoming Gallery

Offering the finest in landscape, wildlife and sporting art, we feature localand national artists in a variety of media. Our gift gallery offers home accessories including furniture, books, frames, crystal and much more.Located upstairs in Jack Dennis’ Sports on the Town Square. For more information, call 307-733-7548 or visit www.jdwyominggallery.com.

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