Well, it’s officially August, which means summer is speeding to a close! Even for those of us who aren’t in school, it’s hard to resist a little twinge of regret that it’s almost over. So this week, I’ve included a couple summer exhibits at Wyoming museums, in case you haven’t found the time to see them. Summer’s not over yet!
Reading Wyoming: Women of Mystery
Tuesday, August 4, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Pine Bluffs Branch Library, Pine Bluffs
Humanities Forum: Across the Great Divide, by Dorene Ludwig
Sunday, August 09, 2009 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Town Hall, Hudson
Dorene Ludwig offers first-person vignettes of early western schoolteachers, physicians, artists, homemakers, missionaries, ranchers, and scouts — all of them female.
Second Nature, Jorge Santos
Continuing through August 22
Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center, Casper
From their website:
The retrospective exhibition will feature about two dozen works created by Santos, primarily, during the past 10 years.
Santos (b. 1959) spent his childhood in Angola on the coast of Africa and moved to the United States in 1982. He is an entirely self-taught artist, but was always fascinated by the act of drawing. His incredibly realistic and surreal figurative paintings possess a strange narrative style where the world is tilted off its axis and normal rules of social interaction and even physics sometimes do not apply. As a painter, he focuses the composition on interactions and moments that are not the main event, but are more psychologically interesting.
Special Treasures of the Brinton
Continuing through Monday, September 7
Bradford Brinton Memorial and Museum, Big Horn
From their website:
The museum is open to the public Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Brinton Memorial will also introduce free admission on Sundays, when hours are from noon until 4 p.m. The BBM&M’s summer season ends on Monday, September 7.
This season’s featured exhibition in the Helen Brinton Gallery is Special Treasures of the Brinton. This show reveals the breadth of Bradford Brinton’s personal collection, which includes items such as an original Abraham Lincoln letter, sculptures and paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell and original etchings by artists as diverse as Edward Borein and Pablo Picasso.
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