‘Crude’ screens at Center for the Arts; ‘Crude’ screens at Center for the Arts;

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

By Kate Balog

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar nominated “There Will Be Blood” provided the public with a historical and cultural background to the story of oil. In its timely screening, the film “Crude” supplies a geological perspective and history.  Presented by The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the Center for the Arts, “Crude” begins its story in the dinosaur age, spanning 160 million years to link geology and history by covering oil’s origin, discovery and resulting impact on everything from our food to our fuel.

Filmed in 11 countries and across five continents, “Crude” was the winner of Best Earth Sciences Film and Special Jury Recognition awards and a finalist for Best Writing at the 2007 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.

Arrive at 6 p.m. Monday at the Center for the Arts Theater for pizza and beer, watch the film at 7 p.m. and stay for the 8:30 p.m. discussion from Geologist of Jackson Hole about oil and the Wyoming landscape. General admission is $5. Purchase tickets online or call the Center for the Arts Box office, 733-4900.

“Crude” is co-sponsored by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival organization, which has promoted awareness of conservation and wildlife habitat around the world since its creation in 1991. It encourages the production of natural history programming around the world by providing the filmmaking industry with an international forum to conduct business, test technology, and expand the role of media in understanding wildlife in their habitats. This organization hosts the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in the fall of each odd-numbered year, in addition to year-round special screenings, lectures, and education programs. For more information about the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, call 733-7016.

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The Art Association brings three new shows to the Center for the Arts this month. “Labor of Love” returns by popular demand. Professional artists and occasional dabblers were invited to start building and painting, with any medium and in any size - as long as the piece fit through the door. Due to an enormous response (80 entries) and limited space, The Art Association has closed the application process. The show starts on Friday and remains up through March 20 in the Artspace Main Gallery.

Adjacent to the Artspace Lobby Gallery, established local artists and writers present “The Book as Art: Jackson Hole Artists Interpret,” a show in media ranging from traditional drawing, bronze, photography and encaustic, to mixed media incorporating seaweed, dried pond skimmings, felted yarn and denim jackets. The show hangs on Friday through April 30.

Upstairs in the Artspace Loft Gallery, Brooklyn-based William Mebane presents his portraits, “In Nepal: Photographs by William Mebane,” a project he completed in 2003 on a Fulbright Fellowship. Mebane documented everyday life in Nepal and the incorporation of the modern, globalized world into their traditional, Maoist-shielded reality. This show hangs through March 20. The Art Association’s next visiting artist workshop starts at the end of this month and features “Encaustic and Mixed Media Painting,” by Shawna Moore. In her class, Moore will introduce the medium of an ancient art form of wax painting, where collage and image transfer are achieved with the use of transfer papers, text, rice paper and toner images.

The class will also experiment with oil stick, etching and oil washes in combination with the wax. Expect to work all day in the studio, learn the basics as well as more advanced techniques and leave with finished paintings. Moore lives in Whitefish, Mont., and her work will be featured at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary at its March First Friday Event. Moore’s class is February 29 through March 2, and all exhibitions and classes are located at the Center for the Arts building, 240 South Glenwood. Call 733-6379.

Freelance photojournalist and Wildlife Expeditions guide Ben Kinkade opens his photography show "Lost Light in the Tetons" at the Brew Pub this weekend. Kinkade has been a field biologist since 1998 and has worked for Grand Teton National Park, Northwoods Limited Falconry, The Peregrine Fund, and Olympic National Forest. The opening party starts at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Snake River Brewery, 265 S. Millward.

Courtesy-Allison Brush's Interpretation of the Book as Art.

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