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WY OMIN G Artscapes WYOMING ARTS COUNCIL NEWS SUMMER 2012 Summer 2012 Festival Fun Just a partial list of the summer the Arts; featuring Naomi Shihab 12 – Gillette College, 6:00 pm festivals around the state, keep an eye Nye, Brandon Mull, Anita Diamant, 13 – Casper performance sponsored by out for county fairs, one-day arts and Margaret Coel, as well as editors, Artcore, 6:00 pm crafts festivals, house concerts and agents, and resident faculty. 18 – Lander City Park, 6:00 pm 19 – Pinedale, American Legion Park, town pioneer celebrations. Not to be July 6:00 pm forgotten for summertime enjoyment 20 – Rock Springs, Bunning Park, are Wyoming’s wonderful state parks. 4-Aug 18 – Grand Teton Music Festival 6:00 pm st In its 51 season, GTMF features 25 – Lander City Park, 6:00 pm June orchestral and chamber concerts every night of the week except 6-8 – Big Horn Mountain Festival, Buffalo, 22-24 – NicFest, Casper, Nicolaysen Art Sunday and Monday. Wednesday Johnson County Fairgrounds, featuring Museum; featuring Mexican Folk nights feature an eclectic mix Michael Martin Murphey & The Rio Life. Lineup: 3 Twins Broadband, from jazz to bluegrass and beyond Grande Band, Houston Jones, Sons Cory and the Crew, Jalan Crossland, in the midst of the Festival’s and Brothers, Northern Departure, Flores de Colores dance troupe. renowned classical fare. http:// Travers Chandler & Avery County, 22-24 – Donkey Creek Festival, Gillette, www.gtmf.org Spring Creek, Jalan Crossland, Troxel & Krieger, Too Wet To Plow, Pick & Gillette College. Lineup: Matt Hard, th 4-25 – In its 13 year, The Wyoming Holler. State mando, banjo, fiddle and Boom Chick, Sophie B. Hawkins, Shakespeare Festival Company Pam Drews Phillips, Big Horn Big guitar contests and championships. is making its annual summer Open mic sign-ups. Band, Freddy Rodriquez Quintet, tour around the state, to perform Big Swing Trio, Blind Dog Smokin’, Shakespeare in the parks. This 11-15 – International Climbers Festival, Euforquestra, Pokey Lafarge and year’s play is King Lear. Performance Lander, featuring the photo exhibit, the South City 3, The Steeles, Joe schedule follows: Tribute to Bobby Model, the Telluride and Vicki Price, Square Peg, Nicole 4 – Lander Valley High School, 6 p.m MountainFilm Festival, and jewelry Madison with Keith Phillips Duo, 5 – Dubois Museum/Dennison Lodge, maker Kate Rutherford. James McMurtry. 6:00 pm 12-13 – Yellowstone Jazz Festival, Cody, 28-30 – Jackson Hole Writers Conference, 7 – Cheyenne Botanic Garden, featuring Dotsero, vocalist Sunny Jackson, Jackson Hole Center for 5:00 pm Wilkinson, and the Yellowstone 11 – Lander City Park, 6:00 pm Continued on page 6 Jenny Glenn Wuerker is a Wyoming Arts Council 2012 Visual Arts Fellowship recipient. Artist statement: “I paint the expanse of the West. The subject of my work is as much the act of painting outdoors as it is the landscape depicted. Painting on large-scale canvas, entirely outdoors and immersed in the elements, feels like the X-sport of landscape painting. I only paint outside and enjoy the adventure of dragging huge canvases into the landscape and working through changing light, wind, and the occasional rattlesnake. The paintings are completed over many sessions; I mark the spot where I stand exactly and return at the same time every day to record the beauty of a specific place. Because I paint outside, every painting has a story.” Hazelton Peaks, 2011, oil on canvas, 44 x 60 inches. Wyoming Arts Council Staff Manager’s Message Ι Ι Rita Basom – Manager Evangeline Bratton – Administrative Assistant WE HEARD YOU! Linda Coatney – Publications Editor / Over the past couple of come online late this summer! Wyoming Poetry Out Loud Coordinator years, the Wyoming Arts We’re working on a new WAC Council (WAC) has held a brochure, new business cards Camellia El-Antably – Arts Education round of Town Meetings, for staff, new stationery and Specialist / Deputy Manager numerous Focus Groups, and much more. It’s all very exciting more recently, community for us, and we hope you will be Anne Hatch – Folk and Traditional Arts meetings with Warehouse excited as well. Specialist Twenty One staff to gather We were not able to make Karen Merklin – Grants Manager input for the development of all of the changes that were our five-year Strategic Plan and suggested during the above Michael Shay – Individual Artist Programs our new Communications Plan. mentioned meetings and Specialist for Literary, Visual and Performing Arts We’ve done several different surveys. We have a limited staff surveys, both on-line, and at (currently 8 full-time and one 3/4 our gatherings. You talked, time) and our agency is part of a and shared many ideas and much larger Department of State suggestions, and we heard you. Now, we are Parks & Cultural Resources. A sincere thanks to all of you entering into a new The State has rules that we must who took part in one or more of follow. Some suggestions would these meetings and surveys! “era” for the WAC, require a much larger staff, Now, we are entering into with a new look, which just isn’t going to happen Wyoming Arts Council Board a new “era” for the WAC, with new approaches in these tough economic times. a new look, new approaches to However, I think we are on Duane Evenson – Gillette grants, revision of our database to grants, revision the right path, and making very lists, revamped newsletter of our database positive changes that will better Janelle Fletcher-Kilmer – Laramie format, and redesigned website, serve all of our constituents, lists, revamped Neil Hansen – Powell among many other things. newsletter format, all of the time. And that’s our The new logo accompanies primary goal – to serve our Ila Miller – Aladdin this article. We hope you like and redesigned constituents in the best ways how it illustrates many things website, among possible. David Neary (chair) – Lander about the WAC. So, watch for the new “look” Bruce Richardson – Casper • The Ripple Effect: many other things. on WAC products, enjoy the Various studies show new website when it comes Chessney Sevier – Glendo the positive ripple effect that the arts on-line, and be have on communities. From economic sure to read the Leslie Shinaver – Afton development to cognitive development new guidelines Karen Stewart – Jackson in kids, the arts play a key role. The logo for WAC visually captures this ripple effect in a grants before Tara Taylor – Mountain View creative way. you submit an • Connected: Art surrounds us. It is in application. everything we do. We can’t live a day As always, without experiencing some form of art. we look Newsletter This connectivity, which is represented in forward to the logo, helps tie communities together working with Wyoming Arts Council newsletter and fosters growth. you! Published quarterly • Pizzazz: The logo itself is a piece of art, and sets the tone for the arts in Wyoming Funded in part by the NEA and with “pizzazz,” thanks to Warehouse the Wyoming Legislature Twenty One’s graphic designer! http://wyomingartscouncil.org Just wait until you see the fall issue Rita Basom Managing Editor – Michael Shay newsletter, and the new website that will Wyoming Arts Council Manager Editor – Linda Coatney Buffalo Logo Design – September Vhay Printing – Pioneer Printing Table of Contents Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition .............. 3 Poetry Out Loud ........................................... 6 Click! recap ..............................................4-5 Grant changes .............................................. 7 Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients .............4 Funded grants .............................................. 7 Marirose Morris retires ............................... 6 2 Tony James, Devil’s Garden #2, photograph Georgia Rowswell, Paint Pot, Yellowstone, Sonja Caywood, Mercer Pair in Adelaide, oil Christine Meytras, Land4, acrylic compressed fiber 2012 GCAE artists New venue for the Alta: Michele Farrier; Buffalo: Gary Huber, William Jennings, Paul Prosinski, Jenny Wuerker Governor’s Capitol Casper: Michael Flicek, Jerry Glass, Karen Henneck, Chuck Kimmerle Cheyenne: Mike Beeman, Vanda Art Exhibition Edington, Tony James, Marian Kline, Looking for a site that would allow Western tradition, but after my experience as Eric Lee, Mike McIntosh, Lynn Newman, expansion of the Governor’s Capitol Art the 2012 juror, I can testify that the artists of Catherine Nicholas, Connie Norman, Exhibition, David L. Newell, Curator of Art Wyoming have embraced what it means to be Win Ratz, James Robinette, Georgia for the Wyoming State Museum reports that an integral part of the American West while Rowswell, Tom Shaffer, Ken Smith this year’s show will take place at the Hynds adopting the latest concepts and national Dayton: Sonja Caywood, David Building, 1602 Captiol Avenue, in downtown artistic trends.” His Juror’s Choice selection McDougall Cheyenne, adding, “We wanted to is included in the show. Dubois: Gary Keimig accommodate other activities associated with Last year’s show featured 43 works, 17 the show in a centralized of which sold. This year, Evanston: Mike Conaway “... I can testify that setting.” 70 works by 53 Wyoming Gillette: Tom Ford, Joan Sowada, Fairy The show will be on the artists of Wyoming artists are included, Todd display Saturday, June have embraced what it chosen from a record 203 30 and Sunday, July 1 at submissions. All artwork in Green River: William Hart, Shane Steiss the Hynds Building, with means to be an integral the show is for sale, as well Jackson: Greg McHuron, Christine the awards reception and part of the American as works in the new “Artist Meytras presentation ceremony on west while adopting Alley.” All sales benefit Saturday evening from 5–7 the purchase fund for the Kirby: AB Word p.m. the latest concepts and permanent art collection Lander: David Schuster This year’s juror for the at the Wyoming State national artistic trends.” Laramie: Joe Arnold, Mack Brislawn, Niki annually held show was Museum.