Art

A Tucson artist created a Monsoon Sound Booth so that listeners can hear cicadas, wind chimes, heavy thunder and rain. Her goal is to increase water activism through her work.

Students from the Wind River Reservation worked with a Wyoming artist to make a piece that depicts the ‘Four Hills of Life.’

Ever dreamed about creating a big painting? A really, really big painting? For artists across the state, now’s their chance – the Teton County Fair and Fairgrounds and Jackson Hole Public Art are looking for an artist to brighten up one long wall inside the fairgrounds’ recently renovated community building.

The Ucross Foundation is preparing for its 40th Anniversary Gala. Wyoming Public Radio’s Grady Kirkpatrick spoke with a recent artist-in-residence about her experience and the event.

ARTCORE is a Casper-based arts organization that has provided opportunities for artists in a variety of disciplines to showcase their skills. It recently began its season, which runs through next year. Wyoming Public Radio’s Hugh Cook spoke with ARTCORE executive director Carolyn Deuel about what to expect.

Back before cameras existed, artists would paint in front of their subjects, whether that be a person or a landscape. Since photography was invented, many artists instead rely on photos of their subjects. But Tony Foster is a watercolor painter who backpacks into the wilderness to paint the landscapes he finds. His most recent exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West focuses on his adventures along the Green River.

In Wyoming, July 3rd is known to some as “Treaty Day” – a day that commemorates the signing of the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868. The Eastern Shoshone and Shoshone-Bannock tribes signed this treaty with the U.S. government 155 years ago, creating what is now the Wind River Reservation. This year, the Fort Bridger Historic Site made some changes to its annual Treaty Day celebration to emphasize the on-going presence of tribal communities in the area.

Indigenous 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.

A collaboration between artists and scientists has led to the creation of new artwork that reflects how climate change is affecting Colorado and the Mountain West.

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.”