Jackson Hole Land Trust Hosts WyoView Art Exhibit and Celebrates New Permanent Home at Holiday Open House

 
The Jackson Hole Land Trust (JHLT) will host an art exhibit at their 2018 Holiday Open House on Friday, December 14, featuring the JHLT’s WyoView: Four Seasons project which showcases artwork created by 19 local and regional artists on 19 JHLT easement-protected properties. The open house will be held at JHLT’s new permanent office space, is free and open to the public, and runs from 4-7 PM.
 
With over 80 works of art on display, the exhibit features something for everyone, with prices ranging from $100 to over $3,000. Enjoy complimentary beer and wine, festive cocktails, hot cocoa, and light fare from Genevieve Catering while celebrating art and conservation and perusing the JHLT’s bright new office space, located at 690 S Highway 89, Suite 101.
 
The 2018 WyoView project unites art and conservation to cultivate a deeper sense of place in Northwest Wyoming. Formerly branded as View22, JHLT updated the project name to WyoView to reflect the regional focus of the organization’s conservation work across Northwest Wyoming. This year, each WyoView artist was paired with a JHLT-protected property in Northwest Wyoming, including Teton, Sublette, and Fremont counties, and asked to create place-based art.
 
The 2018 project theme was Four Seasons and prompted each artist to paint one piece per season, showcasing the seasonal changes on one property over the course of an entire year. WyoView facilitates visual and emotional connections that enable people to experience Northwest Wyoming’s beautifully unique open spaces through the paintbrushes of some of Jackson’s most talented artists with the outcome of raising greater awareness of the importance of open space protection for our wildlife, communities, and artists.
 
The project was launched in 2013 by the JHLT and local artists Kathryn Turner, Jennifer Hoffman, and Bill Sawczuk. In 2014, Kay Northup, Lee Riddell, and Travis Walker joined the project. In 2015, WyoView expanded in celebration of the JHLTs 35th anniversary – with 35 local artists working in a variety of visual media.
 
Veteran WyoView artist Katy Ann Fox said, “The WyoView project had an incredible twist this year. We were tasked to revisit the same property in all four of the seasons. I may not have visited my spot even once, but rather I had a yearlong relationship with the vistas and multiple moments taking in the view.  I am comforted in knowing the space I created my paintings with will remain protected due to the efforts of the Jackson Hole Land Trust. This ensures this valley includes wild, open space for all of us to enjoy whether we are standing on it or looking past it into the future.”
 
This year’s WyoView artists represent a wonderfully diverse range of local fine art galleries, studios, and independent artists from Teton, Sublette, and Freemont Counties: Diane Benefiel, Emily Boespflug, Richard Burke, Elizabeth Cogburn Birnie, Katy Ann Fox, Nicole Gaitan, Pamela Gibson, Alissa Hartmann, Gary Keimig, Charmian McLellan, Bobbi Miller, Bronwyn Minton, Erin O’Connor, Abby Paffrath, Lee Carlman Riddell, Susan M. Rose, Jocelyn Slack, and Kay Stratman.
 
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