Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Sunday & Monday
Free Admission
Centennial Complex
2111 East Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-6622
Email: uwartmus@uwyo.edu
County 10, July 13, 2021 ‖ Plein Air in the Parks is a collaborative weekend event presented this year by Wyoming State Parks, the Wyoming Arts Council, the Cody Country Art League, the Laramie Artists Project, and the University of Wyoming Art Museum.
Branding Iron, July 6, 2021 ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum is currently offering several exhibitions that are open to the public with free admission. The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Laramie Boomerang, June 18, 2021 (Pay Wall) ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum
is celebrating the longest day of the year — the summer solstice — by hosting its
annual celebration this Saturday.
Laramie Boomerang, June 4, 2021 (Pay Wall) ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum unveiled two new summer exhibitions Tuesday, June 1, for the public.
The two exhibitions are titled "Staff Selects III: From the UW Art Museum Collection,"
and "Seen/Scene: Celebratory Photographs from the Collection." They will be on display
until Aug. 7.
Laramie Live, June 4, 2021 ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum will be hosting
its annual summer solstice celebration Saturday, June 19, from 11 am to 1 pm.
This free event celebrates the longest day of the year and the official beginning
of summer.
Rocket Miner, May 3, 2021 ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum will host a free gallery walk-through featuring student award winners from the 46th annual Juried UW Student Exhibition from 5:30-7 p.m., Thursday, May 6.
Pinedale Roundup, April 29, 2021 ‖ A Pinedale native will be featured in the University of Wyoming Art Museum’s free gallery walkthrough this year.
ARTFORUM, April 2021 ‖ “Universal Archive” is a haunted show in which absence makes itself felt as presence. Even the artist is a kind of ghost. William Kentridge, with pitch-black ink, obsessively painted repeated variations of specific objects on pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. He used a “good brush,” whose point held its shape and could create fine detail, as well as a “bad brush” that left behind the calligraphic wisps of a comet’s tail. Yet the images in this exhibition aren’t the originals but are exactingly made linocut prints that unerringly trace the artist’s hand.
Laramie Boomerang, March 31, 2021 (Pay Wall) ‖ It has been especially strange and difficult for everyone, including the arts community, which has historically relied on in-person interactions and community participation in order to flourish. March 2020 brought empty venues, museums, and exhibits. Art museums began posting virtual tours, and entertainers gave intimate peeks into their homes as they performed from their living spaces.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle, March 7, 2021; Laramie Boomerang, March 10, 2021; Pinedale Roundup, March 11, 2021; Rocket-Miner, March 13, 2021; Cody Enterprise, March 15, 2021 ‖ It’s difficult for college instructors to break the mold (or Zoom window, rather)
in the era of COVID-19, but teachers at the University of Wyoming are using a medium
that wouldn’t typically be in every syllabus: art.
Melissa Morris, assistant professor in the UW Department of History, is one such instructor.
As a historian, she understands the power of imagery to reveal details about the time
period during which it was made. This is her first time, however, being part of the
UW Art Museum’s Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery.
Laramie Boomerang, February 26, 2021 ‖ The University of Wyoming Art Museum is now displaying selected student work for their annual student exhibit. Submissions for artwork are open annually to any enrolled UW student. The 2021 exhibition is juried by Meredith Lynn, assistant curator and director of galleries at Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle, February 7, 2021 ‖ The high plains of southeast Wyoming have little in common with the sprawling industrial city of Johannesburg, South Africa (other than their mining histories), but a University of Wyoming Art Museum exhibit aims to bridge the two cultures.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle, January 29, 2021 ‖ There is perhaps nothing more iconic to
the imagery of the American West than the horse. Throughout the history of Westward
expansion, this majestic beast has featured in romanticized versions of sprawling
landscapes, and as a companion to the lonesome, weary traveler. Consider the popular
symbol of Wyoming: the cowboy and the bucking horse.
Wyoming Public Media, January 22, 2021 ‖ When an insurrection mob violently pushed
through the entrance of the Capitol building on January 6, the American Alliance of
Museums issued a statement condemning the violence that occurred. They did so because
the Capitol is more than a workplace, it's a living museum.
Wyoming Public Radio's Naina Rao spoke to University of Wyoming's Art Museum director,
Nicole Crawford, on her perspective regarding the aftermath and effects the insurrection
has made on art, history, and museums
Laramie Boomerang, January 15, 2021 ‖ On a Thursday morning, the University of Wyoming Art Museum was empty, save for a welcoming young person sitting at the front desk behind a Plexiglas shield. The murmuring of a woman’s voice echoed through the hallways.
Follow the woman’s voice to the gallery space, and you may find that you’re the only one there. But, you wouldn’t be alone. Rather, you would find yourself surrounded by influential women captured in vibrant portraits. This is artist Lindsay Linton Buk’s “Women in Wyoming: Portraits and Interviews of Women Who Shape the West.”
Wyoming Tribune Eagle, January 10, 2021 ‖ Lynette St. Clair is one of 22 women interviewed by artist Lindsay Linton Buk for her Women in Wyoming project – a multi-layered piece that combines photography with in-depth conversations. Currently, it can be experienced online at www.womeninwyoming.com or in person at the University of Wyoming Art Museum through July 17.
Wyoming Public Media, January 4, 2021 ‖ University of Wyoming (UW) College of Law Professor Darrell Jackson, UW Art Museum Director Nicole Crawford and former UW law student have co-written a book chapter focusing on race theory.
Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Sunday & Monday
Free Admission
Centennial Complex
2111 East Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-6622
Email: uwartmus@uwyo.edu