Touring Exhibition Service The Touring Exhibition Service offers exhibitions at no charge to Wyoming organizations plus one-way shipping (roundtrip shipping to out of state organizations). These exhibitions are designed for sites such as libraries, schools, community centers, galleries, and museums. Insurance, press releases, publicity photos, and exhibition interpretation is provided by the University of Wyoming Art Museum. For information and to schedule any of these exhibitions, please contact, 307-766-6622. Scroll down or click on the exhibition title below for more information: Avian Wildlife of the Northern Rockies: Prints by Hans Kleiber People of the Plateau: Native American Photography by Edward S. Curtis Joel Ostlind The Red Desert: Photographs by Martin Stupich, 2000 – 2006 Art Express: Touring Exhibition Service is funded in part by the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum with additional support from FMC Corporation. >Main Outreach Page

Avian Wildlife of the Northern Rockies: Prints by Hans Kleiber Drawn from the University of Wyoming Art Museum's collection of more than 400 works by Hans Kleiber (1887–1967), Hans Kleiber: Avian Wildlife of the Northern Rockies conveys Kleiber's love of wildlife, and birds in particular. He had a special fondness for ducks, which he depicted more often than any other bird. Born in Germany, Kleiber immigrated with his family to the United States in 1900 when he was thirteen years old. He arrived with an abiding love of the outdoors and a desire to see the wild terrain of the West. His opportunity came in 1907 when he took a job with the newly-formed U.S. Forest Service and relocated to Dayton, Wyoming. His work with the Forest Service took him all over the Northwest, from eastern Washington to the international boundary of northern Minnesota, a diverse and beautiful region that would eventually inspire his artwork. Kleiber did not have any formal art training, however, in the 1920s, he learned printmaking to earn extra money for his family. He built a press and began producing and selling his illustrations. His imagery of nature and wildlife was popular among outdoor enthusiasts in both the United States and England. In 1924, he resigned from the Forest Service and devoted all his time to art. By 1929, Kleiber was exhibiting widely and developing a reputation as an important Wyoming artist. Schedule 2008 Jan 7 – 25, Cokeville Branch Library, Cokeville Feb 1 – 28, Lander Art Center, Lander Mar 3 – Apr 30, White Mountain Branch Library, Rock Springs May 1 – June 30, Sweetwater County Library, Green River July 14 – 25, Lyman Public Library, Lyman Aug 4 – Sept 25, Carbon County Museum, Rawlins Oct 6 – 31, Park County Public Library, Cody Nov 10 – 26, Homestead Museum, Powell Dec 8 – 25, Glenrock Branch Library, Glenrock 2009 Jan 12 – 23, Riverton Branch Library, Riverton Mar 1 – Apr 3, Camplex Heritage Center, Gillette May 4 – June 26, Pioneer Memorial Museum, Douglas 2010 Sept.13 – 24, Kelly Walsh High School, Casper Oct. 11 – 22, Uinta County Public Library, Evanston Nov. 8 – 19, Meeteetse Branch Library, Meeteetse Image: Hans Kleiber, Pheasants III, Etching, 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches, Gift of William and Carole Ward, University of Wyoming art Museum, 91.0021.146.
People of the Plateau and the Plains: Selections from the North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis The photogravures of Edward S. Curtis presented in People of the Plateau and the Plains pay homage to a way of life firmly grounded in time and place. Elegantly composed and hauntingly beautiful, these images speak to both the photographer's skill as an image-maker and to his deep respect for the subjects depicted. Photographed early in the 20th century, this selection of images represent only a small fragment of Curtis' monumental opus, The North American Indian, yet they begin to tell the story of what Curtis sought to achieve in this, his life's work. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Curtis studied books about photography and began his career by taking pictures with a camera of his own making. In 1887, he and his family moved to Seattle where he established a successful photography studio specializing in portraiture. An avid outdoorsman, he spent time hiking and photographing the Puget Sound region and the North Coast Indians that lived there. Curtis' interest in photographing Native Americans was secured following an expedition to Alaska in 1899. He spent the next 30 years documenting the Indians of North America. Schedule 2008 Jan. 7 – Feb. 22, Glendo School, Glendo & Chugwater Mar. 10 – 21, Kelly Walsh High School, Casper April 6 – Aug. 21, Dakota Discovery Museum, Mitchell, S. Dakota Sept. 8 – 26, Meeteetse Branch Library, Meeteetse Oct. 13 – 24, Moorcroft Public Library, Moorcroft Nov. 3 – 14, Johnson County Public Library, Buffalo Dec. 1 – 12, Glendo Historical Museum, Glendo 18 framed works from the University of Wyoming Art Museum collection plus introductory text; 1 crate Image: Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868-1952), A Child's Lodge - Piegan 1910, photogravure, 7-5/16 x 5-5/16 inches, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, gift of Mr. Thomas G. Gorman, 82.0105.327
Joel Ostlind Wyoming born and self-taught, artist Joel Ostlind says, "I was raised in Wyoming and have chosen . . . to live in this region and work to interpret the things I value here: the light, the land, and the people who move through it." In this exhibition, Joel Ostlind, the subject is one that the artist knows well: cowboys, horses, and cattle in the open lands of the western landscape. Following in the footsteps of Wyoming's earlier cowboy-turned-artists Hans Kleiber and Bill Gollings, Ostlind draws on his cowboy life experience as the subject of his images. "I am working through my slice of life savoring the atmospheric volume, watching the light change by the hour, the seasons shift day by day. The fun for me is trying to catch, in two dimensions, enough of what refuses to be caught so that as you stand looking at these images you will remember how the light really is, where the mountains are blue like that, why the songbird sings . . . ." —Joel Ostlind Ostlind is a master printmaker who moves fluidly between the intaglio printmaking processes of etching, drypoint, aquatint, sugar lift, and lithography. All of these processes are represented in this exhibition in addition to that of monoprint, a process of applying ink to a flat surface that results in a single, unique print. Ostlind was born in Casper and lives near Big Horn, Wyoming. He has degrees in Soil Science and Ranch Management, and worked the cow camps in Texas, Wyoming, and Montana. Today, he is a full-time artist. Ostlind was the featured artist of the Coors Western Art Show in (2002, 2005), and had a solo exhibition at the Bradford Brinton Museum in 2004. Schedule 2008 Feb 4 – Mar 31, White Mountain Branch Library, Rock Springs Apr 1 – April 30, Sweetwater County Library, Green River May 1 - May 30, First National Bank, Laramie June 9 – July 31, Carbon County Museum, Rawlins Aug 4 – 29, Park County Public Library, Cody Sept 8 – 26, Sublette County Library, Pinedale Oct 6 – Nov 28, Sheridan Artists Guild, Sheridan Dec 1 – 26, Campbell County Public Library, Gillette 2009 Jan 1 – Feb 29, Natrona County Library, Casper Apr 13 – 24, Uinta County Public Library, Evanston May 11 – 22, Cokeville Branch Library, Cokeville June 8 – 16, Headwater Community Art & Conference Center, Dubois July 13 – 24, Carbon County Library, Rawlins Aug 10 – 21, Lyman Public Library, Lyman Sept 14 – 25, Fremont County Library, Lander Oct 1 – Nov 30, Camplex Heritage Center, Gillette Dec 8, 2009 – Jan 29, 2010, Converse County Library, Douglas & Glenrock 2010 Feb 8 – 19, Kelly Walsh High School, Casper Mar 8 – 19, Riverton Branch Library, Riverton April 5 – 23, Meeteetse Branch Library, Meeteetse May 10 – 21, Moorcroft Public Library, Moorcroft June 14 – 25, Glendo Historical Museum, Glendo Image: Joel Ostlind (American, b. 1954), Rorschach Riders, 1996, 8-7/8 x 11-3/4 inches, sugar lift, 36/96, lent by the artist
The Red Desert, Photographs by Martin Stupich Since 2000, Martin Stupich has photographed extensively in Wyoming's Red Desert with an urgency to record it in the midst of its changing. Through his images, we see an expansive landscape, diverse geology, evidence of the earliest human occupation, boom and bust towns, and present day industry. Collectively, an image of this place emerges, revealing the human history of our connection to the landscape--this landscape. It is a complicated and fragmented portrait, one that tugs at the perception that this is a barren place of little value and one that encourages us to look again at the Red Desert in all its wonder and wildness. Funded in part by Richard and Judith Agee, the Guthrie Family Foundation, the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum, the Argosy Family Foundation and the Haub School and Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, UW Program on Ecology, the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, and the Wyoming Arts Council through the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts which believes a great nation deserves great art Schedule 2008 Jan 7 – Feb 22, LCCC Library, Cheyenne Mar 3 – 21, Platte County Public Library, Wheatland April 7 – May 23, Pioneer Memorial Museum, Douglas June 9 – Aug 30, Little Snake River Museum, Baggs Sept 1 - Sept 26, South Pass City Historic site, South Pass City Oct 6 – Oct 24, Washakie Museum and Cultural Center, Worland Nov 3 – 28, Lander Art Center, Lander Dec 3 – 26, Northwest College, Powell 2009 Jan 5 – 23, Kelly Walsh High School, Casper Feb 9 – Mar 20, Casper College, Casper April 6 – May 22, Homesteaders Museum, Torrington June 8 – Aug 21, Sheridan College, Sheridan Sept 7 – Oct 23, Crook County Museum & Art Gallery, Sundance Nov 2 – Dec 31, Johnson County Public Library, Buffalo 2010 Jan 11 – Feb 26, Natrona County Public Library, Casper Mar 8 – Apr 23, Campbell County Public Library, Gillette May 3 – 28, Sheridan Artists Guild, Sheridan June 7 – July 23, White Mountain Public Library/Sweetwater County Library, Green River/Rock Springs Aug 2 – Sept 24, Fossil County Frontier Museum, Kemmerer Oct 4 – Nov 26, Uinta County Pub. Library, Evanston Dec 6, 2010 – Jan 26, 2011, Headwater Arts & Conference Center, Dubois 2011 Feb 4 – 20, Park County Library, Cody March, Glendo Historical Museum, glendo April, The Phoenix Gallery, Centennial May – June, Riverton Branch Library, Riverton July – August, Uinta County Museum, Evanston Sept. – Oct., Meeteetse Branch Library, Meeteetse Nov – Dec, Big Piney Branch Library, Big Piney 2012 Jan - Feb, Pinedale Library, Pinedale Image: Martin Stupich, 19th Century Inscriptions on Independence Rock, marking the emigrants' passing from the Great Plains west into Red Desert country, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 2006
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