Art

The POP! Goes the West exhibition at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West opens on May 24. Holland-born artist Willem Volkersz shares his early impressions of the West and humorous takes on Yellowstone tourism in his art, using paint-by-number images, neon and found objects.

Photographs taken of Wyoming residents by photographer Robert Frank in the 1950’s are on display at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne.

A new exhibition on display at the Jackson Hole History Museum shines the spotlight on female photographers and painters in the American West at a time of great change. Their work offers an intimate look into the lives of creative women on ranches in Wyoming and Montana and offers a different artistic take on that moment in history.

Blue bears, purple moose and brightly-colored geometric shapes. This is the way artist DG House sees the animals and landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and how she brings them to life in her paintings. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, House has been part of the Indigenous Arts and Cultural Demonstration residency program at Grand Teton National Park for decades.

This year Yellowstone Revealed features a traditional teepee at all five entrances to Yellowstone National Park. The project explores the theme, “How the Land Remembers Us: Tribal Tipi Lodge and Buffalo Stories.”

A short film titled “How the Land Remembers Us” premiered at the Mountains of Color Film Festival in Jackson on June 9. The film documents efforts to shine a light on ongoing Indigenous connection to what is now called Yellowstone National Park through the Yellowstone Revealed project, which first took place in 2022 during the park’s 150th anniversary.

Every year, the Doodle for Google contest highlights creativity from student artists around the country. This year’s winner from Wyoming is Caroline Henson, an eighth grader from the University of Wyoming Lab School in Laramie, and she’s using her doodle to shine a light on mental health.

Starting your own business has become a much more realistic goal in the past few years, due to increased internet access and economic change. Wyoming has the highest rate of entrepreneurs in the country but Sheridan County has the most in our state. Some 50% of residents own their own business.

Women in the U.S. earn more degrees in the fine arts than their male counterparts, but female artists receive much less visibility and less sales for their art in comparison. A new exhibit titled Wyoming Women to Watch wants to shift that focus and bring attention to female creativity throughout the state.

Delbert Anderson is rallying musicians from the Four Corners region and online to perform his compositions, where one note comes every few months. In Farmington, New Mexico, Anderson teaches community members about the historical impact of the Long Walk of the Navajo.