Jane Lavino
Sugden Chief Curator of Education
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Jackson Hole, WY
(307) 733-5711
www.wildlifeart.org
N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), How Many Millions, One Can Only Guess, 1905, oil on canvas, 16 x 36”. JKM Collection ® National Museum of Wildlife Art.
What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why?
Above the Clouds: Art of the Alpine, at the National Museum of Wildlife Art this summer. A community exhibit that includes regional artists, visitors, and local school children. It features interpretations of the alpine ecosystem in a variety of media.
What are you reading?
Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven. It is this month’s selection for our volunteer and staff book group. The biologist/park ranger author befriends a fox and explores the relationship between humans and wild nature.
Interesting exhibit, gallery opening or work of art you’ve seen recently.
Artifact by Elizabeth Morisette at the Center Theater Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming. She creates eclectic, colorful tapestries made completely of upcycled materials.
What are you researching at the moment?
Albert Bierstadt’s butterfly paintings from the late 1800s. This is in preparation for our educational video series, Bisoncast. The creation was a magic trick of sorts involving a few daubs of paint, a palette knife and a folded piece of paper. I plan to demonstrate this technique on film!
What is your dream exhibit to curate? Or see someone else curate?
An exhibit of animal paintings of by Wyeth dynasty of artists: N.C., Andrew and Jamie. We have wildlife paintings by N.C. and Jamie in our collection. When I saw Raven’s Grove by Andrew Wyeth at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine I thought, someone needs to do this! —
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