Downtown

will be filled with pop-up

galleries during the springtime

stroll on Friday, April

26, that marks the annual Pinedale

Art Walk.

Art lovers visiting 14

business locations in any

order they choose between

4:30 and 7 p.m. will learn

that not at all “art” is hung

on the wall.

For example, at 6 and 6:45

p.m., brewer Emily Johnston

will give “The Art of Brewing” tours at

Wind River Brewery, and Cody Hamilton

will demonstrate “The Art of Coffee

Roasting” from 5:30 to 6 p.m. at Pine Coffee

Supply, where artist Jessie Gottlieb

will be on display. Tommy and Kelly Upp

with their Dynomite Donuts will display

the “culinary arts.”

Other “galleries” are Epic Wellness

Studio with artwork by Davis Klarén;

Richard Burke, Char McLellan and Emily

Boespflug at Jackson Hole Land Trust;

Cristy Anspach at Franklin Prestige Mortgage;

Mae Orm and her After-School Art

Club at Pinedale Art & Crafts; Eric Oram

at Two Rivers Fishing; Sandy Smith at Rivera

Lodge; employees at Heritage Quilts;

Kay Meeks at the Sublette County Visitors

Center; Pamela Gibson at Mystery

Print and Delsa Allen and Arnie Brokling

at Tegeler Insurance.

The group of Madisen Mitchell, Hunter

K. George, Warren Koppenhafer, Renee

Negranti, Joe Chandler and Jody Chandler

will display their creative works at Deer

Creek Creations/ Epik Tattoo.

Artists’ co-op

At the same time, nearly a dozen local

artists and as many perspectives are poised

at Art of the Winds for its grand opening

during the Pinedale Art Walk. The Pinedale

art co-op begins anew with returning

and new artists in a new location, 126

W. Pine St.

The cooperative effort brings together

one-of-a-kind furnishings, baskets, ceramics

and pottery, portraits and photographs,

encaustic paintings and jewelry.

Under one roof, the concept is the same

with artists taking turns working in the

shop, according to nature photographer

Elizabeth Boehm of Pinedale.

She calls her photography “a personal

adventure into the lives of wild birds and

animals,” doing her “best to intrude as little

as possible into their lives and fully respect

their space. Boehm prints, matts and

frames her own photographs to display in

the gallery.

Two new artists are Brad and Becks of

2B Love Creations, whose workshop turns

out custom antler, leather and “live edge”

furnishings “that come from the heart and

through the hands.”

Another newcomer is Kristen Draney,

of weaving winds, whose recent show at

the Pinedale Library of her nature-inspired

hand-woven baskets was a complete success,

with grasses, plants, driftwood and

horns worked into her designs.

Rita Donham is another well-known artist

whose creations come from the ground

and the sky. Her aerial landscape photographs

are instantly recognizable, as are

her Celadon River Ceramics crafted in

her solar-powered barn studio far up the

Upper Green.

Art of the Winds also highlights returning

artists who worked and displayed at

Painted Dreams.

Pat Poletti, of Bent Willow Furnishings,

has been working with willow for about 25

years and after retiring from the Cora Post

Office, started building and teaching the

traditional art.

“FearLis” Lisanne Fear and Melita

Snow are two more familiar and very

recognizable artists in both style and personality

from the gallery’s past, Fear with

her painted mandalas and Snow with her

watercolors and encaustics. Big Piney couple

Matt and Bobbi Geunthner return with

their popular line of Fallen Leaf ceramics

and creative but always functional accessory

pieces.

Art of the Winds’ spring hours are

Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m., with extended hours this coming

summer. It is located at 128 W. Pine

St. (the former William Twichell Law Office).

For more about the April 26 Pinedale

Art Walk, visit www.sublettechamber.

com.