Many Thanks...

As Natalie said below, First Friday was a great success! I couldn't believe our Art It Forward basket...so many amazing donations came from all sorts of artists. I hope that I don't forget anyone here: Jenny and Sam Dowd provided about 40 sculptures which we handed out as art/drink cups (cut our waste production down tremendously!), Steven Glass, Carrie Geraci, Arcy Hawks, Susan Thulin, Rich Goodwin, Alissa Davies, Rachel Kunkle-Hartz, David Gonzales, Matt Flint, Megan Stohridal, Jeremy Kusmin, Tom Woodhouse, Emily Boespflug, Ben Roth, Bryce Billings, Wendell Field, Babs Case, Emma Adkissson, Micah Richardson, Nicole Burdick, Ben Carlson, Brooke Kemmerer. DJ Mr Whipple must have handed out 50 awesome music mixes. Tony Birkholz's video installation added a whole other artistic element to the walls. Tristan and Travis from the Teton Art Lab were excellent partners for the night...creating Obama prints and encouraging participation. Anomaly Farm stars Mark Dunstan and Owen Ashley were handing out impromptu pocket-art pieces too. Clint Green was printing away and actively getting people involved in the community canvas.

Loved the public art petting zoo that Bland Hoke set up as the Center of Wonder's Public Art Ambassador. Juliet and Sarah were there from Pursue Balance enlightening everyone about the 10x10 initiative. Mareike and Tyler from Teton Literacy Program served up drinks and info about their fundraiser out at the village in March. Shannon from the Planet had a voting booth set up and was letting everyone know about their "Best of Jackson".

Thank you to all of our gallery-goers who were so enthusiastic about participating in the whole art experience. We will get photos up soon of the community canvas that was created. We are all looking forward to more events like this in the future.