Community Calendar

The National Museum of Wildlife Art will debut the traveling photography exhibition Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan, featuring Donovan’s stunning images and videos of wild wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Ellesmere Island in the high Canadian Arctic. Since 2014, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Ronan Donovan has examined the relationship between wild wolves and humans in order to better understand the animals, our shared history, and what drives the persistent human-wolf conflict.

The exhibition, created by National Geographic Society and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, will display images and videos—highlighting the contrast between wolves that live in perceived competition with humans and wolves that live without human intervention.

https://www.wildlifeart.org/exhibits/wolves-photographs-by-ronan-donovan

This youth art exhibit is an annual collaboration between the National Museum of Wildlife Art and art educators from Teton County schools. The several hundred works of art on display beautifully demonstrate how students grow as artists as they move through grades K-12. Each art educator and group of students interpreted the theme Transformation in their own way. The diversity of media and artistic approaches showcases the creativity of our students and the quality of art education in Teton County!

Transformation is an ongoing and continuous process of change. It can be biological, physical, mental, and spiritual. It reminds us that life can be richer when we embrace the changes that come our way, promoting growth, and showing us the path to how we can truly transform. Bringing us closer to who we truly are and can be. Enjoy this unique exhibit and we hope you explore the many ways in which people and the world around us embrace transformation.

Wild canines, including foxes, coyotes, and wolves, have held significant social and cultural meaning to humans worldwide throughout history. However, there are conflicted emotional opinions regarding these familiar predators. Foxes, for example, while prized for their beauty and their cunningness, are despised for preying on smaller livestock and poultry, such as chickens and ducks. Coyotes, a canine species native to North America, nearly brought to extinction during western settlement, are also part of some Native cultures’ cosmologies. Sometimes considered a creator, Coyote might also be wicked or a buffoon. Of all wild canines, wolves have perhaps caused the most dread historically. Feared by ancient farmers to present day ranchers, wolves that at times prey on sheep, cattle, and other domestic animals, have also been known to kill humans. Alternatively, the famous Etruscan sculpture of La Lupa Capitolina (The Capitoline Wolf) from the fifth century BCE depicts a she-wolf caring for twins, Romulus and Remus, who founded city of Rome. Still, the one thing that all wild canines have common is a genetic relation to our own much beloved domestic dogs.

For the Love of Canines questions humans’ relation and fascination with canines, whether love or loathing, through works of art from NMWA’s permanent collection.

For the Love of Canines is generously sponsored by Val & Dick Beck, Halloran, Farkas, and Kittila LLP, In Memory of Cynthia Quast, MJ Hunt & Bernie Little, Adrienne & John Mars, Tally & Bill Mingst, Singleton Peery Financial, and Wyoming Arts Council.

https://www.wildlifeart.org/exhibits/2120

UWAM is excited to host visiting Michiko Itatani for a public art talk discussing her work, inspiration, and her processes. Itatani’s exhibition Infinite Hope/High Point Contact explores the ideas of human existence within the larger universe and conveys optimism for humanity in her large-scale paintings.

Michiko Itatani is a Chicago-based artist. In her youth, she studied literature and philosophy and wanted to become a fiction writer. Following her writing teacher's advice, she decided to do something she had never done before in a place she had never been before. She came to the U.S.A. in the early 1970s and studied visual art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She started to show her paintings and installation work in 1973 and she has been active in the field ever since. Itatani is a Professor Emeritus at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In honor of Itatani’s exhibition, the University of Wyoming Art Museum has commissioned an original dance work from choreographers Aaron Wood (University of Wyoming) and Sarah Donohue (Utah Valley University), exploring the themes of human contact and understanding that resonate in Itatani’s series High-Point Contact. Paralleled Universe will feature duets by Wood and Donohue, as well as ensemble movements featuring UW dance students. Composer David Jacoby will create an original score.

The Art Museum will host a reception and Salvagio Artist Talk with Michiko Itatani on Thursday, March 30th. Performances of "Paralleld Universe" will happen in the museum galleries Friday evening, March 31st, and Saturday afternoon, April 1st. Performances are ticketed and space is limited.

John Burman Student Government is excited to announce the first talk in our annual Spring Panel Series!

Next Thursday, March 30, please join Nicole Crawford, Darrell Jackson, and Alyson White Eagle-SoundingSides for an open discussion about their work in art and artifact repatriation at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (UWAM), with information about specific objects that they are currently trying to deaccession from the UWAM, as well as information on other projects that are ongoing with Stealing Culture.

Held at the University of Wyoming College of Law (Room 178), this event is perfect for anyone interested in the process of the repatriation and deaccessioning of objects housed in museums, and the legal issues that come along with this topic. Refreshments will be served.

To properly plan for refreshments, please RSVP your spot by visiting: https://forms.office.com/r/fHPa2Bi6kA

Silver Dollar Bar, Jackson WY 3/30/23 7:30 PM

Oil City Beer Company, Casper WY 3/30/23 8 PM

The Virginian, Jackson WY 3/30/23 8 PM

The Colonel, Cody WY 3/30/23 8:30 PM

Join us live to ask our guests questions on a wide variety of topics or watch the video later at your own time and speed! Coming up we will be having guests speaking at 10 am on:

• Insect management in high tunnels, greenhouses & other indoor spaces - March 3, 2023
• Tips & tricks for healthy trees in Wyoming - March 10, 2023
• Wyoming hummingbirds & plants that support them - March 24, 2023
• Tips for growing in high tunnels - March 31, 2023

Join us on Zoom https://bit.ly/BBWYLive or Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/BarnyardsBackyards/

Busy Friday mornings? We try to record each show and post them on YouTube so you can watch them at your own time and speed. You will find links to recordings and resources mentioned during the show at https://bit.ly/BBWYLIveRecordings.