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Emma VandenEinde/KUNCIndigenous art is often only viewed as a historical work of the past, but that art and the Indigenous people who make it are still present today. One Cochiti Pueblo artist showcases that concept in his latest exhibit at the History Colorado Museum in Denver. -
Black Tooth Brewing CompanyBlack Tooth Brewing Company is distributing Wyoming Golden Ale, a craft beer, to locations throughout the state this week, which will be available in two cans featuring UW and historic license plate designs offered seasonally.
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Elora Umbach, a Casper high school senior, won the state Poetry Outloud contest and competed in Washington D.C. -
The long-running, music-focused event was suspended indefinitely last fall due to a lack of funding and board members. Since then, several new board members have replaced previous ones, who have plans to revive the festival in 2024, albeit it with some changes from its previous format.
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Tim Hagerty, a broadcaster for the El Paso Chihuahuas, has released his second book, "Tales from the Dugout: 1001 Humorous, Inspirational & Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball." Some of the stories included in the book are ones that took place in Wyoming and also include his memories covering baseball games in the state.
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The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center released English translations of a literary magazine written by the incarcerated.Among the some 14,000 Japanese Americans that were incarcerated in Wyoming during World War II were a lot of people from the artistic and literary scene in Los Angeles.That community came together and started producing art, poetry and essays, but all in Japanese. The Japanese-language magazine was called Bungei, which roughly translates to “arts and literature.”
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Last year, a group of Wyoming women passionate about art came together and formed the Wyoming Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. By creating this committee, the group is able to nominate one upcoming Wyoming artist to the 2024 Women to Watch exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Sarah Ortegon High Walking will be that artist. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke with Ortegon High Walking on what this nomination means to her and what her art hopes to express.
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Sarah Ortegon High Walking will be the first woman artist to represent Wyoming in a national exhibit. The National Museum of Women in the Arts formed the Wyoming Committee last year in order to nominate artists from the state to display their work in Washington D.C.
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My Powerful Hair, a new book by author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Steph Littlebird, conveys the importance of hair in Native American culture despite the enduring traumas of the federal boarding school era.
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The Treefort Music Festival gives small bands, like ones from Wyoming, an opportunity to show off their music and connect with other musicians.
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The compilation features Teton County songwriters Aaron Davis, Michael Batdorf, Isaac Hayden and Inland Isle.
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A new mural is being painted by Francisco Saldaña Perez, who graduated from Jackson Hole High School and lives in Tlaxcala, Mexico. This winter he returned to Jackson to work, to see his mother and to paint a nearly 100-foot mural for the town.
