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Local artist, Adrienne Weber, was selected for exhibition at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) in the show Above the Clouds: Art of the Alpine in Jackson, Wyoming. Her oil painting, “Tincup Pass, Colorado” will be on display from June 25 to September 18, 2022.

The exhibition features 36 juried works from regional artists (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming), and art from local K-12 students.

Julia Spencer, assistant curator of education, says, “We are so excited to have such a broad range of artists sharing their vision of the beauty, fragility, and resilience of alpine ecosystems that inspire these works. This exhibit provides a fantastic opportunity for the Museum and for our community to see many fresh perspectives on wildlife art and to connect to the alpine environment, which few people get to experience and spend time in.”

 

“The National Museum of Wildlife Art is the world’s premier museum of wildlife art. It is an honor to be selected for this exhibition alongside such esteemed artists and distinguished work,” says Adrienne.
 

When asked about her creative practice, she says, “The process of capturing the intrinsic beauty of a particular time and place with oil paints brings me great joy. I am captivated by the interaction of the clouds and their relationship to prominent peaks, wildlife, bodies of water, and vegetation of the "Heart of the Rockies" where I was born and raised.  Tincup Pass in the Sawatch Range is one of the highest roads in Colorado. This high alpine habitat is home to wildlife, flora and fauna that inspire me to use oil painting techniques with gentle and subtle brushstrokes. The highlights and shadows create emphasis, atmospheric perspective representing the vast mountain range, textural features of rugged alpine peaks and pine trees, and the details that define the wildlife's form and movement that are indicative of the art of the alpine.”

 

The National Museum of Wildlife Art, a nonprofit founded in 1987, is a world-class art museum holding more than 5,000 artworks representing wild animals from around the world. Featuring work by prominent artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Robert Kuhn, John James Audubon, and Carl Rungius, the museum’s unsurpassed permanent collection chronicles much of the history of wildlife in art, from 2500 B.C. to the present. Built into a hillside overlooking the National Elk Refuge, the museum received the designation “National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States” by order of Congress in 2008.