Crochet across cultures Feb. 1 in Jackson

From the Teton County Library in Jackson:

The Crochet Circle meets at the Teton County Public Library on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 6:30-8 p.m.

Crochet across cultures and learn basic stitches, how to shape a project, and have fun making vests, hats, scarves or flowers with Chilean crocheter Carmen Gloria Rodríguez Sanzana. Bring your own yarn and hooks. Drop-ins welcome. Location: Conference Room. Free. Latino Programs Coordinator, Patty Rocha, 733-2164 ext. 237 or procha@tclib.org. In Spanish and English.

"The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos" exhibit comes to UW Art Museum

From a UW press release:

The University of Wyoming Art Museum galleries, after being closed for over a year, will reopen Friday, March 6, with the international touring exhibition "The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos." The exhibition will be on view through May 9.

Curated by Laurel Reuter, director and chief curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art, the exhibition presents the work of 26 Latin American artists who have incorporated their personal and cultural experiences of the "disappeared."

The opening reception on March 6 at 6 p.m. launches many public programs for the exhibition, which include a gallery walk-through March 6 at 10:30 a.m. and an art talk with Reuter March 7 at 10 a.m.

Reuter writes in the exhibition catalog, "The word 'disappeared' was newly defined during the mid-20th century military dictatorships in Latin America. 'Disappear' evolved into a noun used to identify people who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by their own governments in the later decades of the 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela. Columbia with its 50-year civil war and Guatemala with its own 37-year civil war further expanded the meanings and uses of 'disappear.'"

"The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos" comes to UW from the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. In addition to other U.S. venues, it has been displayed in museums in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Guatemala and Columbia.

For additional information on the exhibition and the series of related public programs, call the UW Art Museum at (307) 766-6622 or visit www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum or the museum's blog, http://www.uwartmuseum.blogspot.com/.

The museum is located in the Centennial Complex at 2111 Willett Drive in Laramie. The museum is open Mondays from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.

Photo: Nicolas Guagnini's "30,000" is among works in "The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos" on view March 6-May 9 at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (North Dakota Museum of Art).

Los Llaneros in Pinedale Sept. 28

Los Llaneros (Los Yah-NEH-Ros) will perform at the Pinedale Auditorium on Friday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. This group "brings to the stage the energetic and haunting melodies of the Colombian/Venezuelan Llanos or plains that surround the vast basin of the Orinoco River in South America. The Llanos music evolved from the contact between nomadic Indians and Jesuit settlers five hundred years ago and remains one of Latin America’s best kept secrets."

This is a Pinedale Fine Arts Council season event. Individual tickets are available two weeks prior to the performance. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $7 for students and are available at Rock Rabbit, Pony Express Photo, The Cowboy Shop, Office Outlets (Big Piney & Pinedale), the Big Piney Library and at the door. For information on purchasing season tickets ($50 adults, $28 students), call 307-367-7322.