Sunday, January 3, 2010
1:00 - 4:00PM
1:00 - 3:00PM: Art Project in Classrooms
2:00PM: Concert in Cook Auditorium
Free to area locals!

Enjoy kids' art projects, refreshments, and galleries. This month, children and their caregivers will be able to make their own animal adorned beeswax candles.

The OutFit kicks off the Museum's 2010 Community Concert Series. This hip-hop/nu Jazz dance band features six local musicians playing all original compositions. Join us at the Museum to explore the music created by Kyle Johnson, JT Schoonover, Corey Wheeler, Justin McCalla, Mac Monroe, and Chris DeMarco.


First Sundays is generously sponsored by Wells Fargo.
Community Concert Series is generously sponsored by Jan & Larry Finch and Caroline & Ken Taylor.

 

Award-winning photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen will discuss his work in the exhibition, The Natural World: Photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen in the galleries. Join him to learn more about the amazing scenes he captures through the lens.

Looking for a way to enliven your lunch hour? We'll satisfy your cravings for great art and tasty food. Lunch available in the Rising Sage Café at a special price! Call 307-732-5438 for details.
Generously sponsored by Lisa & David Carlin.

Thursday, January 28
5:30 - 8:30PM
$10 members, $15 non-members, children 18 and under are free!

Kick-off the Jackson Hole Winter Carnival at the Museum. More than a dozen renowned artists of particular local and regional interest will have just one hour to create an original work of art. The artists include four emerging artists from high schools in Jackson Hole. All works of art will be available for purchase by silent auction the evening of the event. Included in admission are Rising Sage Café's famous "Chilly Bar" and the Snake River Brewing "Beer Quick Draw."
Generously sponsored by Sara & Stephen Brandenburg.

Jesse Cole improvises a brush holder during the 2009 Winter Quick Draw.

Saturday, January 30
7:00PM Film & Discussion
FREE!

Humans like to think that once they've climbed a peak, they've somehow conquered it. But they can only ever be visitors to this hostile world. Planet Earth introduces the 'real' mountaineers and discovers the secrets of their survival on the mightiest peaks of our planet. Welcome to an extreme landscape of rock, ice and snow; a vertical world as alien to humans as the surface of another planet. Planet Earth takes you on a tour of its mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest. Mountains are home to some of the shyest and most secretive animals on the planet, and this program will show how they rise to the challenge of mountain life. (Synopsis from the BBC web site. Finalist, Limited Series, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, 2007.)

The Nature Conservancy is a leading international, nonprofit organization that preserves plants, animals, and natural communities representing the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. To date, the conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of over 14 million acres of land in the United States and have helped preserve more than 83 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Pacific. For more information, visit Nature.org/Wyoming.  Generously sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Mondays in January
10:30 - 11:15AM
Free for members or with Museum admission

Always popular, Young at Art is weekly art classes for toddlers age five and under with their adult caregivers. Programs focus on the simple art concepts of color, shape, texture and line.  Children will learn about art and animals by looking at works in the museum galleries and doing fun, hands-on activities, while socializing with their peer group.  Parents will spend quality time with their child working with exciting materials and instilling an appreciation of art.   Pre-registration is unnecessary except for large groups.  Call 307-732-5435 for more information.

Sponsored by First Interstate Bank and The Thanksgiving Foundation.

Left: Stella is all smiles as she works on her project at Young at Art.

Business Member Wildlife Expeditions of Teton Science Schools supports the National Museum of Wildlife Art's Invite a Friend to Join Membership Campaign by offering a chance to win a Sunrise or Sunset Wildlife Expedition for four.

You can become eligible for this prize by encouraging a friend to join at any membership level from Pika to Rungius during the month of January.  When your friend's application is processed you both get entered into the drawing.
 
To get your membership application, you can:

• Visit Teton Science School Welcome Center on Coyote Canyon Rd.,
  
• Visit the Museum's Admissions Desk, 
• Call 307-732-5447, 
• Visit online.

Be sure your friend's name is added in parentheses so we know to enter you both in the drawing!

Museum Membership
Always free admission, valuable benefits including invitations to National Museum of Wildlife Art events, Call of the Wild magazine, and a 10% discount in the Museum Shop and Rising Sage Café.

Join Today!

Or simplify your trip planning by buying tickets online before you visit the Museum.
You can even download a complete calendar of upcoming events.

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