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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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JERRY ANTOLIK: RETROSPECTIVE
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:
An Artist's Collective from the Northern Front Range
November 16, 2009 – January 1, 2010
Opening reception Friday, November 20, 6-8 p.m.
Ronda Eden
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
September 28 – November 13, 2009
Opening reception October 2, 6-8 p.m.
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 30th 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._______________________________________________________________________________
LANDER ARTIST'S GUILD MINI-SHOW
AUGUST 17-28, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION AUGUST 21,6-8 P.M
"Compassion" by Colleen Drury
The Lander Art Center is proud to welcome the Lander Artists Guild for a special mini-exhibition (short Duration, regular-sized art). This original parent group of the Lander Art Center will show works by local artists in oils, watercolor and many other media.
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JUST BELOW THE BORDER:
A Compendium of Contemporary Ceramic Art From Colorado and Beyond
June 30 through August 14, 2009
Opening Reception July 10, 6-8 pm
Sam Harvey and Alleghany Meadows are ceramic artists with extensive knowledge and passion for the ceramic arts. Alleghany Meadows will bring his expertise to Lander, curating a special ceramics exhibit for our Art Center, featuring exceptional clay artists from Colorado and Beyond.
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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
Neelon Crawford will display an array of works that he has produced over a productive lifetime of photography. Well-known for his work on mechanical abstractions, NASA installations and NSF photo tours of Antarctica. This award-winning artist has traveled and photographed many subjects since the 1950’s. He is also known for his work in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, his earlier images of steam locomotives and aircraft, and his later images of research telescopes and particle accelerators.
This Lander Art Center exhibition includes a selection of pictures made by Crawford over the last 35 years using a variety of photographic processes. The most recent images of Wyoming have been produced since he and his wife Susan Hill made Fremont County their home in 2001.
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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
This exhibition of local talent is our offering for Youth Art Month. This is always one of our most popular shows, showcasing the artwork of high school and junior high school artists. A wide array of media is represented including stained glass, etched glass, printmaking, pastels, computer generated art, pottery, silk painting, oil painting, watercolor and pastel.
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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.
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Fiber Arts Guild Exhibition
November 17 - January 2, 2008
Opening Reception: November 21, 2008 6:00-8:00pm
Come see the wonderful fiber creations in knitting, weaving, felting, needlecraft and rug hooking in wool, silk, cotton and linen. Selected items will be available for purchase for the holidays.
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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 settingsundefinedanywhere U.S.A.undefinedwhere 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.
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Lander Valley High School and Starrett Jr. High
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March 3-31, 2008
This is our most popular exhibit of the year as people from around the community come to see the phenomenal works of art from our young people for Youth Arts Month. Our young artists have produced beautiful work in a wide range of media.
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Altered Books
January 9 through February 1, 2008
Opening Reception Friday, January 11, 6-8 pm
"Altered Books" is a body of work based on a collaboration of 24 artists using the idea of “book” as a starting point and are presented in a variety of structures in mixed media. The resulting works explore a range of ideas from mapping and place, to secrets, celebrating the ordinary in daily life, to passage, alchemy and perception, trees as metaphor, list making, home and the cycles of life, to name a few.
