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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Teenage Bottlerocket in concert tonight in Cheyenne
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Buy local and buy handmade for the holidays
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Open Mic Night Nov. 17 at LCCC Theatre in Cheyenne
National Museum of Wildlife Art offers "Mix'd Media" Nov. 8 and Dec. 13
“The event title, Mix'd Media, suggests a perfect convergence of music, art-making, conversation, and delicious fare,” says museum director of marketing and development Ponteir Sackrey. “Given its multiple galleries, ample lobby, and fantastic catering from the Rising Sage Cafe, the museum is the perfect place to offer this sort of dynamic and ever-changing event, while the $5 cover keeps it affordable. We hope the ‘Mix,’ offered eight times throughout the year, will become a favorite new local gathering place.”
Scheduled activities for the first two Mix’d Media events at the National Museum of Wildlife Art will include:
• November 8: Mix’d Media: The Exquisite Animal
6-9 p.m., $5 cover (free with “I Voted” sticker)
Check out the work of Jackson Hole artists participating in the unique community exhibition, Exquisite Animal. Meet the artists, make your own silk-screened masterpiece inspired by exhibition artist DJ Vert-One, engage in a special interactive art project and enjoy the comedic perspective of The Laff Staff.
• December 13: Mix’d Media: Backyard Bonanza
6 – 9 p.m., $5 cover
Artist George McLean takes his inspiration from his wild Ontario backyard. Share your wildest animal encounter stories from Jackson Hole’s own National Parks and Forest backyard, listen to bluegrass, draw local birds from Teton Raptor Center and hear some of McLean’s own wild stories. Nature Mapping Jackson Hole will be in attendance, showcasing several years of citizen science results.
A member of the Museums West consortium and accredited by the American Association of Museums, the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States provides an exciting calendar of exhibitions from its permanent collection and changing exhibitions from around the globe. A complete schedule of museum exhibitions and events is available online at http://www.wildlifeart.org/. The museum is also active on Facebook at wildlifeartjh and on Twitter at@wildlifeartjh.
Media Contacts: Darla Worden, WordenGroup Strategic Public Relations, 307.734.5335, darla@wordenpr.com; Ponteir Sackrey, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307.732.5444, psackrey@wildlifeart.org
Photos: bottom, the National Museum of Wildlife Art; top, Jane Lavino, Bronwyn Minton, and Amy Goicoechea. Long-tailed spotty-legged fox. Ink on Paper. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. © National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Call for proposals: ArtPlace America
In an unprecedented private-public collaboration, 11 of America 's top foundations have joined with the National Endowment for the Arts and seven federal agencies to establish ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
ArtPlace believes that art, culture and creativity expressed powerfully through place can create vibrant communities, thus increasing the desire and the economic opportunity for people to thrive in place. It is all about the local.
ArtPlace invites Letters of Inquiry from initiatives involving arts organizations, artists and designers working in partnership with local and national partners (in fields such as economic development, transportation, neighborhood development, entrepreneurship, sustainability, health, etc.) to produce a transformative impact on community vibrancy.
If you or one of your partners wishes to apply, please review the guidelines and complete the Letter of Inquiry, both available here: http://www.artplaceamerica.
We look forward to receiving your submissions for innovative and distinctive projects.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Bid on artistic scarecrows to support Jackson Hole Public Art Initiative
Postmark deadline Oct. 31 for 2012 Blanchan/Doubleday writing awards
Postmark deadline is Oct. 31 for the 2012 Neltje Blanchan and Frank Nelson Doubleday memorial writing awards.
These awards are designed to bring attention to writers in Wyoming who have not yet received wide recognition for their work, and to support emerging writers at crucial times in their careers. Poets, fiction writers, essayists, and script writers who have published no more than one book in each genre and who are not students or faculty members are invited to apply by submitting manuscripts and an entry form by the Oct. 31, 2011, deadline.
The Neltje Blanchan Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script which is informed by a relationship with the natural world.
The Frank Nelson Doubleday Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script written by a woman author.
POSTMARK DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2011
Printable applications are available on the WAC web site at http://www.wyomingartscouncil.org.
FMI: Michael Shay, 307-777-5234 or mike.shay@wyo.gov
Blanchan/Doubleday judge is Susan J. Tweit
Susan J. Tweit was trained as a field ecologist. But over the years, while she mapped grizzly bear habitat, wildfire patterns and sagebrush communities, she had a revelation: “I loved telling the stories behind the data more than collecting the data.”
Susan is the author of twelve books that explore the interrelationships that form what Aldo Leopold called the "community of the land." Barry Lopez had this to say about Susan’s 2009 book, Walking Nature Home: A life’s Journey: “It's a lovely, brave, inspiring book.... Sometimes I think the highest praise you can give a book is to say that it helped. This book does that.”
Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers from Audubon and Popular Mechanics to High Country News and the Los Angeles Times -- and has been heard on the Martha Stewart Living Radio Network.
Susan has taught workshops at colleges, universities, and writing festivals from University of California-Riverside and Miami University of Ohio to Wofford College in South Carolina, as well as at home and online. Audiences as diverse as the International Xeriscape Conference, Collegiate Peaks Forum, Monte Vista Crane Festival, and the Walking Words Writing Festival have called her talks "inspiring" and "insightful." She coaches individual writers, reviews manuscripts for university presses, and contributes to “The Perch” blog of Audubon magazine and Story Circle Network's “Her Stories.” Her own blog is at http://susanjtweit.typepad.com/walkingnaturehome.
She belongs to an informal network of writers and artists who speak for the land, and to Story Circle Network, Women Writing the West and Colorado Author’s League.
She is a passionate gardener who grows her own vegetables, fruits and herbs, and also enjoys the challenge of native plant restoration and "wildscape" design. She lives with her husband, sculptor Richard Cabe, in a house heated and powered by the sun, on a reclaimed industrial parcel in a high-desert valley tucked in the shadow of the tallest stretch of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
These awards are designed to bring attention to writers in Wyoming who have not yet received wide recognition for their work, and to support emerging writers at crucial times in their careers. Poets, fiction writers, essayists, and script writers who have published no more than one book in each genre and who are not students or faculty members are invited to apply by submitting manuscripts and an entry form by the Oct. 31, 2011, deadline.
The Neltje Blanchan Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script which is informed by a relationship with the natural world.
The Frank Nelson Doubleday Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script written by a woman author.
POSTMARK DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2011
Printable applications are available on the WAC web site at http://www.wyomingartscouncil.org.
FMI: Michael Shay, 307-777-5234 or mike.shay@wyo.gov
Blanchan/Doubleday judge is Susan J. Tweit
Susan J. Tweit was trained as a field ecologist. But over the years, while she mapped grizzly bear habitat, wildfire patterns and sagebrush communities, she had a revelation: “I loved telling the stories behind the data more than collecting the data.”
Susan is the author of twelve books that explore the interrelationships that form what Aldo Leopold called the "community of the land." Barry Lopez had this to say about Susan’s 2009 book, Walking Nature Home: A life’s Journey: “It's a lovely, brave, inspiring book.... Sometimes I think the highest praise you can give a book is to say that it helped. This book does that.”
Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers from Audubon and Popular Mechanics to High Country News and the Los Angeles Times -- and has been heard on the Martha Stewart Living Radio Network.
Susan has taught workshops at colleges, universities, and writing festivals from University of California-Riverside and Miami University of Ohio to Wofford College in South Carolina, as well as at home and online. Audiences as diverse as the International Xeriscape Conference, Collegiate Peaks Forum, Monte Vista Crane Festival, and the Walking Words Writing Festival have called her talks "inspiring" and "insightful." She coaches individual writers, reviews manuscripts for university presses, and contributes to “The Perch” blog of Audubon magazine and Story Circle Network's “Her Stories.” Her own blog is at http://susanjtweit.typepad.com/walkingnaturehome.
She belongs to an informal network of writers and artists who speak for the land, and to Story Circle Network, Women Writing the West and Colorado Author’s League.
She is a passionate gardener who grows her own vegetables, fruits and herbs, and also enjoys the challenge of native plant restoration and "wildscape" design. She lives with her husband, sculptor Richard Cabe, in a house heated and powered by the sun, on a reclaimed industrial parcel in a high-desert valley tucked in the shadow of the tallest stretch of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
Wyoming Arts Alliance meets Nov. 13-15 in Evanston
From Lyndsay McCandless: The Wyoming Arts Alliance's annual Booking Conference is happening November 13-15 in Evanston
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Three Casper College music ensembles perform Oct. 29
The Casper College Concert Band, Flute Ensemble, and Brass Ensemble will be in concert on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 3 p.m. in Durham Recital Hall.
According to Douglas Bull, brass instructor, each group will perform a wide range of compositions. “The concert band will be playing Gustav Holst’s ‘Dance Of The Spirits Of Fire’ from the ballet ‘The Perfect Fool,’ ‘Britannic Variants’ of Eliot Del Borgo, plus the music of Philip Sparke and others.”
Halloween music will be featured when the flute ensemble takes the stage, and the brass ensemble will perform a range of tunes from “ceremonial to ragtime. It will be a pleasant afternoon of music for the fall season,” said Bull.
The concert is free and open to all. Durham Recital Hall is located in the Aley Fine Arts Center on the Casper College campus.
2011 John R. Milton Writers' Conference at USD has a real Wyoming flavor
Cody’s Mark Spragg will serve as keynote speaker for the John R. Milton Writers’ Conference at the University of South Dakota
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the 2000 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels, The Fruit of Stone, An Unfinished Life, and in 2010, Bone Fire. All four were top-ten Book Sense selections and An Unfinished Life, was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Spragg’s work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Wyoming
The three-day literary conference will include readings and book signings by award-winning featured authors, scholarly panel sessions exploring the conference theme of “Outlaw!: Law and (Dis)order in the American West,” as well as creative writing panels and pop culture sessions. Other conference highlights include a showcase presentation of USD graduate creative writing students, a conference book fair, as well as a poetry slam sponsored by the Vermillion Literary Project at the Muenster University Center
This year’s visiting featured writers will include Mark Spragg, Sherwin Bitsui, Kristin Naca, Karen Shoemaker, William Trowbridge, and USD visiting writer David Chan, who will give readings and book signings along with permanent USD creative writing faculty Ed Allen and Lee Ann Roripaugh.
The conference features an infusion of talent from Wyoming: Mark Spragg, Cody; Lee Ann Roripaugh, Laramie native; Robert Roripaugh, Wyoming Poet Laureate emeritus; Paul Bergstraesser, Laramie; Val Pexton, Laramie; Julianne Couch, Laramie (now in Ames, Iowa); Meg Lanker, Laramie; Jeran Artery, Cheyenne; and Michael Shay, Cheyenne.
The biennial John R. Milton Writers’ Conference was established in 1998 to celebrate the life and work of University of South Dakota English Professor and South Dakota Review founder John R. Milton. The conference pays tribute to John R. Milton’s lifelong engagement with and commitment to Western writers and literature. With respect to this year’s theme of “Outlaw!: Law and (Dis)Order in the American West,” conferees are invited to submit paper and/or panel proposals that consider (but aren’t limited to) some of the following topics: law and (dis)order in Western American literature, history, and culture; law and (dis)order in relationship to broken treaties, obligatory assimilation, as well as post-colonial and/or indigenous studies in American Indian literature, history, and culture; law and (dis)order in the American West with respect to environmental issues and ecocriticism; outlaw as myth and fantasy space in the American West; outlaw as Other; gender outlaws, and/or queering the American West; borders, border crossings, and boundary transgressions; virtual outlaws, and/or outlaws in the “new frontier” of cyber-space; and representations of outlaws and/or law and (dis)order in popular culture (including, but not limited to, HBO’s Deadwood and Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Westerns (both film and television), graphic novels, and science fiction.
This year’s event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of English, Barnes & Noble, South Dakota Review, the John R. Milton Endowment and the Wayne S. and Esther M. Knutson Endowment of the USD Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Riley, Jr., as well as by grants from the South Dakota Humanities Council.
For detailed conference information, please visit http://miltonconference.wordpress.com or contact the Department of English at (605) 677-5229.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Michael Cunningham reads in Jackson Oct. 20
Call for entries: High Plains Register
This comes from Karen Cotton, one of the editors of LCCC’s literary and arts magazine, High Plains Register:
The magazine is accepting submissions from:
Writers of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or drama
Arists
Photographers
Musicians
DEADLINE IS OCT. 28
Here are the submission guidelines:
All submissions, up to six per person, must include a cover letter with submitter's contact information.
Writing: Send typed hardcopy or e-mail attached Word document (10 pages maximum each; double space prose)
Artwork and music: Digital files preferred (CD or e-mail attachment)
ALL LCCC student submissions will be eligible for the High Plains Register Award for Best Poem, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Drama, Artwork or Music.
Submissions from the community also encouraged.
Send submissions to:
Liz Jackson
c/o LCCC Arts and Humanities
or e-mail LJackson@lccc.wy.edu
Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/
The 2012 High Plains Register release and public reading will be noon, Friday April 27, 2012 in the Student Lounge. Call 778-1330 or search for HPR at lccc.wy.edu.
Auditions Oct. 24-25 for CLTP's "She Loves Me"
From Cheyenne Little Theatre Players:
"She Loves Me" Auditions
Directed by Dr. Randall Bernhard
Audition Dates: October 24 & 25 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Callbacks: October 26 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Performances: Mary Godfrey Playhouse December 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18
Thursdays-Saturdays @ 7:30 pm, Sundays @ 2:00 pm
See our website for further information and audition requirements at www.cheyennelittletheatre.org
"She Loves Me" Auditions
Directed by Dr. Randall Bernhard
Audition Dates: October 24 & 25 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Callbacks: October 26 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Performances: Mary Godfrey Playhouse December 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18
Thursdays-Saturdays @ 7:30 pm, Sundays @ 2:00 pm
See our website for further information and audition requirements at www.cheyennelittletheatre.org
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Get set for Halloween: UW Theatre & Dance Dept holds costume sale Oct. 27-29
The University of Wyoming Theatre and Dance Department is liquidating the costume stock from the Centennial Singers. We have a variety of costumes designed by Carol Baalman and a collection of period costumes. The Costume Sale will take place at the storage facility at 1220 Bill Nye Avenue Laramie , Wyoming
The sale schedule will take place as follows:
Please direct questions to Lee Hodgson at hodgson@uwyo.edu or to Cecelia Aragon at ccaragon@uwyo.edu.
The sale schedule will take place as follows:
● October 27, Thursday: Invited Community College representatives, 1-6 p.m.
● October 28, Friday: Invited High School representatives, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
● October 29, Saturday: Open to the general public, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Please direct questions to Lee Hodgson at hodgson@uwyo.edu or to Cecelia Aragon at ccaragon@uwyo.edu.
Call for applications: USArtists International
Monday, October 17, 2011
Video of Sue Sommers, Pinedale artist
Video of Pinedale's Sue Sommers by Cheyenne filmmaker Alan O'Hashi: http://vimeo.com/30579172. Sue is one of the artists featured in the WAC fellowship biennial which opens Nov. 4 at the Art Association Gallery in the Center for the Arts in Jackson.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wyoming Arts Council holds board meeting and opening reception of fellowship biennial in Jackson
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| Albany County artist Penelope Caldwell (right) discusses one of her oil paintings with curator Nancy Bowen. Photo was taken during July's fellowship biennial selection trip to artists' studios around the state. Several of Penelope's paintings will be featured in the biennial exhibit which opens on Friday, Nov. 4, at the Art Association Gallery in Jackson. |
The Wyoming Arts Council (WAC) will hold its quarterly board meeting in Jackson 265 Cache St.
Agenda items include: Nomination, discussion and selection of recipients for the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards; discussion of the WAC’s long range plan, including a new communications plan; discussion of upcoming WAC-sponsored events; presentation by the Wyoming Arts Alliance about its 2011 block-booking conference in Evanston; review of Community Arts Partners and Folk Arts mentoring grants; and discussion of the Poetry Out Loud schedule for 2011-2012.
The board invites individual artists and organizational representatives to attend any part of the meeting to observe the board process, and to address the board during the public comment session beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4. Comments about the agency's policies, funding priorities, on-line granting system, and other arts-related topics are welcomed. For a detailed agenda, please contact the Wyoming Arts Council office at 307-777-7742.
After Thursday’s session, WAC visual arts fellowship judge and biennial exhibit curator Nancy Bowen will give an art talk from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Art Association Gallery. This is free and open to the public. Following Friday’s session, Ms. Bowen will join the fellowship recipients from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the opening reception for the fellowship biennial exhibit in the Art Association Gallery. This is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The mission of the Wyoming Arts Council is to provide leadership and invest resources to sustain, promote and cultivate excellence in the arts.
FMI: Rita Basom, WAC, 307-777-7473 or rita.basom@wyo.gov
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