The NEAT Show
(Native Emerging Artists Training) 

April 2-May 14, 2010

Buffalo Feast Reception April 2 from 6-8 p.m.

From top, clockwise: Jola LeBeau, Waylon Bonatsie, Helene Oldman, Vicki Giles

This exhibition is the culmination of the Native American Emerging Artist Training which began in the fall of 2009. The purpose of the training was to teach Native Emerging Artists how to enter a juried show. The training began with 22 artists and 14 are included in the show.

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Lander Valley High School and Starrett Junior High School
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March 2-March 27, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, March 5th 6-8 p.m.

This exhibition of local talent honors Youth Art Month. This is always a popular show, displaying the artwork of high school and junior high school artists. A wide array of media is represented including oils, acrylics, printmaking, pottery, drawing, pastels, stained glass and computer-generated art.

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January 5 - February 15, 2010
Opening Reception January 8, 2010, 6-8 p.m.

          Winter's Splendor

Jerry Antolik will show a wide array of works from a lifetime of art.  Well-known locally for his striking murals and mountain landscapes, Antolik earned a degree in illustration from Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, and worked as a graphic artist before moving to Colorado and eventually Wyoming to paint the West.

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Northern Front:

NorthernFront.net is a virtual art venue showcasing a collective of emerging artists from Laramie Wyoming and the northern portion of the Front Range. Many fine artists, photographers and craftspeople are represented with in this area including the cities of Laramie and Cheyenne and communities ranging north from Fort Collins, Colorado.  This exhibition consists of works by12 artists with works in oils, pastels, acrylic and colored pencil.  Many thanks to Dannine Donaho for curating this exhibition.

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Transformation:

Found Materials and Contemporary Works of Art

Artwork 'America will not turn back' by Arel Mishory

The exhibition will include local, regional and national artists whose ingenious and unique approach to found materials forces the viewer to look beyond their current frame of reference. Through the artistic process of alteration, the found material is given new context. The dialogue between viewer, object and artist is transformed anew as the object’s history takes on a new meaning with or without reference to a past life.

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30th Annual Audubon Red Desert Wildlife Art Show

September 2 through September 25, 2009

Opening Reception September 4, 6-8 pm

Artwork:  Best of Show, "Grand Teton Bison" Pastel by Susan Grinels

The Lander Art Center will once again present the Audubon Wildlife Art Show.  For this 30^th Anniversary we will once more be recognizing the best local wildlife artists in children, teen, amateur, advanced amateur and professional categories in various media.  This show is well-attended by the general public and usually shows the work of about 40 artists.

Members Show 

An impressive body of work from 42 Lander Art Center members.

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Looking and Seeing

Photographs by Neelon Crawford 

March 30 through May 15, 2009

Opening Reception April 3, 6-8 pm

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Lander Valley High School & Starret Jr. High

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February 16–March 27, 2009

Opening Reception February 20, 6-8 pm 

Family/Treasure

January 2- February 13, 2009

Opening Reception January 9, 6-8 pm

Skinner portraits by Dannine Donaho

This show is about collections. Some of us prefer precious objects, works of art.  For many of us the most important one is the collection of people that surround us. 

Local portrait painter, Dannine Donaho, will represent the family in art.  Also featured, will be the collections of Jim Jereb.  Jim is a Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.  He will be sending us an exhibition of historical printmaking artworks ranging from 1493 to 2000, including works by Andy Warhol, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Honore’ Daumier, Francisco Goyo, Kathe Kollwitz and George Bellows.  Print techniques represented will include etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and screenprints.

Art as Politics

September 29 through November 14, 2008

Opening Reception October 3, 6-8 pm

The Lander Art Center presents Art as Politics, an exhibition exploring art with a political message. The exhibit features works from Thoughts on Democracy by The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida.

The exhibition begins with Norman Rockwell's 1943 four freedoms paintings (Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Fear and Freedom from Want) that were inspired by President Roosevelt's 1941 speech to Congress on four basic human freedoms. The Wolfsonian-Florida International Museum invited internationally recognized contemporary artists to re-interpret Rockwell's images. The Art as Politics show includes over 35 contemporary images from Thoughts on Democracy.

Additionally, cover art from the New Yorker, political cartoons, and politically inspired quilts by Wyoming fiber artist Marta Amundson will be included. Amundson melds the fiber arts and images of ranch animals common to her Wyoming background to illustrated complex ideological concepts, including Cock and Bull Story and Sacred Cow.  These colorful and well-executed quilts pack a powerful political punch.

Created in the final years of the New Deal, Rockwell’s four freedoms paintings translated Roosevelt’s words into accessible images enabling the American public to understand why the United States should engage in World War II. The power of these images is within the simple settings—anywhere U.S.A.—where the characters exhibit basic everyday activities. The government translated these paintings into posters advertising war bonds. These posters the first time that the government embraced images as propaganda with a mission of winning the "hearts and minds" of the public in a well-planned media campaign.

The re-interpretation of the four freedoms paintings brings the Rockwell images new life and ever more relevancy in our contemporary world.

Thoughts on Democracy is supported by the Knight New Work Award from the Funding Arts Network (FAN), in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; The Miami Herald; and Continental Airlines, the preferred airline of The Wolfsonian.

Art as Politics is supported by the Wyoming Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

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University of Wyoming Faculty Art Show

May 5-31, 2008

Opening Reception May 9, 6-8 pm

Artists include: Mark Ritchie, Printmaker; Patrick Kikut, Painter; Ricki Klages, Painter; Margaret Haydon, Ceramics; Shelby Shadwell, Drawing; Leah Hardy, Metal and Ceramic Sculpture; Doug Russell, Drawing and Painting; David Lawrence Jones, metal sculpture; Diana Baumbach, mixed media; Jennifer Venn, Graphic Design.


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Altars, Shrines, Icons, and Mandalas:

Spiritual Imagery in Art

April 7 through May 2, 2008

 
This exhibit is about the construction of hope and empowerment by artists through individual, cultural or traditional symbols.  Through the exhibition of Altars, Shrines, Icons and Mandalas we can see how stories gain significance through imagery.  The love and dedication that artists pour into their work is exemplified by these works.  This show features icons by Lander artist Melissa Strickler, former Lander resident Laurie Gudim and John Macik (son of Luke and Lisa Macik of Lander), altars by Susan Grinels, Chris Parr and Sonjia Weinstein, photography by Neelon Crawford and Sara Wiles and multi-media works by Andi Burns, Richard Gould and Sally Watt as well as images collected by Lander Art Center members in their travels.