Bronwyn Minton is a mother, a passionate teacher, and a talented artist. As the Executive Director of the Art Association of Jackson Hole, she has been a driving force behind the organization's success in promoting art in the local community.

Originally from New Hampshire, Bronwyn developed a deep appreciation for the breathtaking landscapes of Wyoming during her summers spent at a camp in the Wind River Range. Her love for the state led her to make Jackson her permanent home more than 30 years ago in 1992, after leaving bustling cities such as New York and Portland.

In this episode, Bronwyn shares her nostalgic memories of spending summers at a camp near Pinedale, and discusses what motivated her decision to settle down in Jackson. Stephan and Bronwyn delve into the Art Association's extensive community programs and events, including the exciting "WhoDunnit" mystery event. They also reflect on the rich history of the Art Association, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Furthermore, Bronwyn shares insights into her artistic process, describing how she channels her emotions into visually stunning works of art.

To see Bronwyn’s art, visit BronwynMinton.com

Learn more about the Art Association of Jackson Hole at ArtAssociation.org

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I will begin today's episode with a little thought, for my wild and wacky brain.

Hope this makes sense.

Allow yourself to be creative and to learn something new.

You will definitely have failures.

I fail all the time and you will not find perfection.

None of us is perfect.

What you will find is creativity and the joy of finding what

is hidden inside of yourself.

And also, don't forget to smile.

Remember to smile, you are listening to episode number 229.

And today's guest, Bronwin Minton.

Bronwyn has been connected to Jackson Hole for several decades.

Well, she's been living here in Jackson Hole for several decades, but she's

been connected to Jackson Hole in this state of Wyoming since she's a kid.

And Bronwyn is the executive director of a 60 year old organization that's, The

Art Association of Jackson Hole turned 60 years old this year, and believe it

or not, Bronwyn finds time to explore her own creativity as an artist, which

you can find on the internet or through some local representation in town.

Bronwyn shares herd life today as a camper here in Wyoming, and

what it was like to come out here.

Then become a counselor at this camp out in the rural area and

the Wind River range of Wyoming.

and what drew her back to this beautiful place that we all call Jackson Hole.

Bronwyn, thank you for joining me today here at the Jackson Hole Connection.

You are the first Bronwyn that I have had on the show out of 229

episodes, so congratulations,

Thank you.

Well, I always say there aren't very many of us and I'm really glad to be here.

Have you run into another Bronwyn

Yes, I've known a few, actually, since I've been in Jackson, there have been

at least two or three other ones, which

Only in Jackson.

I know.

whole life I never ran into another Stephan, but in

Jackson there's like four of us

See we're That's funny.

I've been here a pretty long time, so it's funny.

Well start off sharing how you landed in this beautiful place

we call home of Jackson Hole.

I am from the East coast.

I'm from Vermont and New Hampshire.

Were you born on the border?

sort of close.

I grew up in Putney, Vermont.

and, I was born in Brano, Vermont and lived in Putney, nice and close by, and

then moved across the Connecticut River into New Hampshire, and grew up there.

And then I started coming to Wyoming when I was 10 years old.

. Uh, mom had worked on a ranch in Pinedale, uh, when she was 20 for a

couple of summers, and they also had a kids camp and horses and pack trips.

and I, had been hearing about Wyoming as if it was like the promised land

when all growing up, and, and so.

Said, yes, I would love to go to camp.

So I ended going to camp for a long time and being a counselor and doing pack trips

for these people and did hunting camp.

And so I had a very, uh, awesome Wyoming kid, summer life.

Uh, and then after college I lived in New York for a little while.

I went to art school.

and I didn't love being in New York.

And so I met a couple friends out here.

, in the very early nineties, and I've been here ever since.

Co friends that I'd worked with on the ranch . So, yeah, it's a, it's great.

I love it here.

How, how cool, and is that ranch still in operations?

it a little bit n no, not as a camp.

Um, the.

The cool old cowboy who my mom had worked for and that I worked for is no longer

with us, but, his wife is still there and they, yeah, they have some cows

and horses, but they're not running any of that part of the business anymore.

But still it, what's really great about it is all of the people that

I sort of knew growing up, there were a lot of people that relo.

because of their experience, with, with this place.

So , it's, I have, I have old, old friends who I've known since then.

What a phenomenal story to go to a camp from the East coast out here to Wyoming

Yeah.

It, I mean

the summertime.

It was pretty cool.

I was, yeah, able to, you know, fly by myself at 10 years

old and like, get out here.

And that was a big adventure and like, and then just being here, you

know, I go, I go to the airport now and the airport seems so fancy and

so big because in 1980 it was maybe it was a very small building, so.

The, the snack shop was, um, the vending machine of candy bars and bags

of chips, and then the other vending machine that was the soda, probably

Yeah, exactly.

It had one of those coffee machines that would plop the cup of coffee

down and, and pour it out like that.

Not even.

I remember those even being there.

Did you get to experience, uh, lots of wildlife at that camp?

Yeah, so it was, uh, for the camp, it was about a month of, or maybe th

it was a month long, I think three weeks of, you know, riding horses in

the morning and after lunch all day.

And then we did a week long pack trip up into the winds.

and so there were, yeah, there were all kinds of opportunities for.

, you know, seeing all kinds of animals and fishing and, and riding and swimming in

those amazing glacier lakes and really, yeah, it's just incredible up there.

do you recall a story of an interaction that you all as a camp itself had with

some wild animals, with some of nature?

let's see.

I'm trying to think about, yeah, I mean, what's interesting is that we,

you know, we had a lot of horses.

We had some, you know, kids and we had some sort of really great, interactions

with some, not really, but some black bears just sort of surprising us.

And they were, you know, it was really great and fun to be able to see them.

and moose.

you know, yeah.

It's just beautiful up there.

And being able to, I'm trying to think about one of the sort

of higher lakes we were at have California golden trout in them.

And so, you know, and they're just really beautiful.

Let's see.

Yeah, nothing, nothing like weird or scary or anything, but just

being able to be, sort immersed in such an amazing landscape.

you know, it's, it's kind of breathtaking.

All the hiking and the, you know, everything you can do when you

get up that high is amazing.

, so,

And when you were out there as a camper and then a counselor in the summertime,

did it ever snow on you as well?

Oh yeah.

A a lot.

I remember at one point, yeah, we made snowmen and on the 4th of July, it,

And one of the summers that I actually worked for them, I, I spent over 40 days

in the mountains, with, with guests.

I was, I was cooking and wrangling and you know, doing all of that kind of stuff.

And that, yeah, that summer was really fun.

We would come back to town and be like, I don't even know what this is.

Like, get me back to the mountains.

It's, population overwhelming,

Yeah.

overload is what I think, what I was really trying to say.

Population

It was beautiful.

It, it takes some time and my guess is, well that was even before, cell

phones and all that technology, but my guess is them even having a telephone

was probably a big deal at that ranch.

Yeah, we did.

Yeah, we had a, we had a dial telephone on a wall.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It, it's really, yeah.

Amazing experience,

So when you decided to relocate back to Jackson or relocate and say, Hey, I'm,

I'm gonna set down some roots here.

How old were you when you decided to do that?

How many years ago?

So it was, uh, I think this is year 31

Okay.

I've been here, yeah.

I went to art school at, on, on the East Coast.

the Rhode Island School of Design.

I lived in New York for a little while, and then I lived in Portland,

Oregon for a little while, which are both really amazing cities.

Portland, it started to rain and it was November, and I was

like, I, I don't wanna have a

Hmm.

So, yeah, I came back in, you know, the early winter, and

have been here ever since.

That's awesome.

92 . So,

And share with people the meaning of your name, Bronwyn, where it comes from.

so it's Welsh.

I'm not Welsh.

My mom had a really good friend in, college named Bronwyn.

And then also she loved a book, about.

Welsh coal miners called How Green was My Valley, and the heroin's name was Bronwyn.

So that is where, that is where that came from.

That's beautiful.

And now that you are in Jackson, you've been here for 31 years, you

probably had only one place that you've worked in the past 31 years,

Yes, exactly.

what, what occupies your time nowadays?

So I am the Executive Director of the Art Association of Jackson Hole,

and I'm also a practicing artist.

and yes, I've had a lot of different jobs, , but for some of them for quite a long time

for, I worked for a custom photography lab for of like probably 10 years.

I've worked retail.

I have actually, uh, interestingly, always been associated, always done

things with the art association.

I had one of my first exhibits in like 1993, I think at the art

association, and taught for them.

and my child has taken classes here, so I've sort of been on.

all parts of what's going on, with what we do.

and I also was at, I've, I worked at the newspaper for a little while.

I, worked at the National Museum of Wildlife Art as a curator and

an educator, uh, both of those things for almost 14 years.

and, you know, uh, always a, a lot of things aren't related.

Hmm.

because that is, you know, a really big part of, of, you

know, what I do and who I am.

I feel really lucky to be, be here in this community is so amazing and I feel

like the Art Association is such a.

It's such a great resource for artists.

you know, for, and I'll, and I will just say this, the Art Association is

turning 60 this year, which is one of the oldest, arts nonprofits in Jackson

So, it's the oldest visual arts nonprofit.

The music festival is three years older.

, that's

Oh, is it?

So, uh, or so, yeah, I think I may be getting some of my numbers wrong, but

that, that is pretty incredible that there were, you know, some really amazing

people in the sixties who wanted some art education and they wanted some, ways,

that artists could, one of their big things was trying to provide, new skills

for people, cuz it was in the sixties.

the village hadn't even opened yet.

And , they, one of the things they talked about was trying to teach

people to make things so that they could sell, sell what they had been

making to supplement their income.

so what I really love about that is that the art association's still doing that.

You know, we're still providing a place for people.

learn new things and enhance their lives through creativity.

and we still are running the art fairs that are almost that long for,

for local and regional and national artists to be able to sell their

work, to, you know, all the amazing people that come through the valley.

So it's, it's fun.

now, are you guys gonna have a big blowout, a big party for 60?

Yes, we are, we are nailing down some details that I, um, will, that I will

roll out in the, in the near future.

Okay.

Sounds good.

And earlier, before we started the show, you said that as we're talking, what,

tell people what you're doing right now.

Oh, I am doodling.

I am a, I learn things, Visually and hands on which, uh, you know, everybody

has like different ways that they learn auditorially or that kind of thing.

I don't know what kind of learner or listener you are, but I am much better

at gathering my thoughts and thinking and talking with people if I do it a little.

So my.

My meeting notebooks and or anything that I'm doing have a lot of drawings in them.

so that, and that helps me remember the conversation and

helps me remember, you know, maybe some things that I need to say.

it also, yeah, it's a, it is interesting cuz there have even, you

know, there have been studies on.

The way different people need to be in the workplace or in, you know, in their lives.

And I think it's cool to be able to, you know, acknowledge that and, and

think about the different ways people need to see go through the world.

. so I'm making, I'm just making my doodles

you're the only person that I'm aware of that has doodled while

I've done an interview, and I think it's really neat to hear that.

And your, your, your journals and notebooks must be fascinating to see.

they're not, actually, they're pretty boring.

But the like, so the, uh, this one has some circles around

some words and some dots.

. So

Well, it's, I mean, better than what my handwriting

Well,

looks like.

And, and it works for you.

It's how you remember what the conversation is of whatever situation

that you're in, you know, doesn't matter the meeting or, or the conversation.

When you said that you've, you're an artist as well.

and you mentioned that how the art association's

involved with the visual arts.

What medium of materials do you practice for art?

So I am like perpetually curious about, about mediums and media and.

So I oftentimes will come up with an idea for a piece that I'm making, and

it might be the idea that tells me what, what thing I need to use for it.

So, you know, I'll do a lot of drawing.

I do a sculpture, I, which I use wood, and I, I use a lot of different things for it.

So in some of my sculpture, it's, sometimes it's clay, sometimes it's paper,

sometimes it's wood, sometimes metal.

so yeah, I think I am, have been curious my whole life.

You know, different, how to use different things to get your

message across and tell your story.

so I, I feel like I have a pretty good quiver of tools, , that can

help me, tell whichever visual kind of story I'm wanting to tell.

I've done, film and video.

sometimes digital illustration, but more, more often.

I come back to, kinds of things that feel good in your hands.

in my hands, I should say.

So yeah, clay paper more, maybe some more natural, natural things.

yeah,

where do you think that curiosity comes from?

So, my parents are both really creative people and my dad, always was, sort of

trying to figure out new, new, new things.

so growing up he would.

let's, what's a good example?

he would just say, okay, I don't know.

Let's ma let's make that thing.

And then he would figure out how to do it.

So I did.

I got that from him.

trying to think.

A good, a fun example is, when I got married, I wanted to make

all of the wedding invitations.

I hadn't done that much paper making, but my dad said, great, we're gonna do that.

So we made a really cool mold and like, and handmade all of

these, handmade paper flowers for our wedding invitation together.

So , it was, and that was really fun.

Figuring out how to make the mold and then like making them, making all of.

paper flowers and, and putting that together with him.

so I, yeah, I, I got sort of a curiosity of mediums from him and

my mom is a really amazing, farmer slash gardener and a really good cook.

So some of that stuff that's ha, you know, making food for her is really creative.

And so I feel like both of them are kind of hands on people.

My dad's a po.

Your dad's a what?

He's a, he does ceramics.

He's a potter.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

yeah.

And both of them were, uh, both of them are Ed, were educators, uh, teachers.

and so I also, I think, got a lot of that from them.

And I'm, I love learning and teaching, you know, all kinds of different things.

Talk about curiosity and.

For adults and for kids of allowing ourselves to explore that

curiosity, how important that is.

You mean in like in general or in the In art making or just in Yeah, in general.

I think

Well, what it does for us and health wise and overall.

for me, I think, it is, Let's see, how would I think about this?

I love learning new things, and so my curiosity feeds into that.

I also feel like it's one of those things that, you need to

be able to allow, yourself too.

If you're trying to learn something new, you need to be able to allow yourself.

Practice it . So, I mean, I'm, I'm, uh, you know, thinking more in terms

of like my creativity and curiosity that you need to be able to practice

and also allow yourself to fail or allow yourself to not make something

perfect every single first try.

So being curious enough to, and give yourself enough space to say, okay, great.

That first one I did isn't very good, and it's maybe it's ugly, or it doesn't taste

good if you're talking about food or if it's anything like that, Being able to

tweak something and know that maybe you can't hold that paintbrush as well as

you can if you practice it for a while.

Or maybe, you know, like mixing paint is you first make a pile of mud out

of if you're mixing all the colors.

But you know, being able to be curious enough to.

and give yourself space, I think, and not be so critical, in the beginning.

I, I think that also ties into curiosity in, in my mind, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

Giving, giving yourself space and, and a place to not be perfect.

And I feel like that could go anywhere.

It could happen with anything you're doing.

It could happen with writing.

I mean, we see that a lot with, you know, if you're writing an essay or

if you're writing something, you're probably gonna have to edit . So

if you're filmmaking, you're not going to, you're gonna switch words out or

you're gonna cut that scene out and wish, you know, you put something else in.

So it's, uh, you know, constantly trying to be.

Being a let the, some of that flow happen where you can really,

you know, let let something work its way through the process.

I, I so appreciate what you have just said, and I know you

said it relates to how you.

, are involved in your art and when you get into new things, and I do

feel is that even that might be your perspective on that it's a very, freeing

perspective, especially how you said give yourself some space to not be perfect.

And te, when you've taught classes in the past, do you still teach classes?

Yeah, I do.

Uh, on and off.

Yeah.

Do you?

Do you find that with today, because we see so much information in front of us

that we as people or society have trouble to allow ourselves not to be perfect.

we have concerns.

We probably do feel that way, but we, I know, you know, in my teaching and

a, a lot of the stuff we do at the art association, we want to provide a place

where everyone can feel comfortable coming and not knowing how to do something.

one of the sort of classic.

Things that I've come across a lot in, in people trying to learn something,

you know, artistic is that maybe there's a period of time where, I

don't know if it happens within their, your, their selves themselves or, what

it has to do with, but there's like a time around age 10, 11, 12, where.

I think people either have been told that they can't make art or they like just

decided that they can't, so they have this thing that they go through in life that

is like, oh, no, I'm not creative at all.

. And, and one of the things that I feel really strongly about is that

if you are really interested in doing something and you're, you're

freaking out, you're so passionate.

you're gonna spend more time on it and then you're gonna get better at it.

So it could, that could go across any, anything.

It could have to do with athletics, it could have to do with writing.

It could.

So, you know, if you say, you're like, well, I never really had much of an

interest in drawings, so I didn't get ver, I didn't get any better

at it then great, your passion is gonna be about something else, like,

and you're gonna get good at it.

So I feel like just telling people that it just takes practice to do something.

is a, a really great opening way to trying to learn something new.

and we see it.

I know.

Yeah.

You have have kids too.

Like it's the same thing.

Like, okay, if they're really into soccer, they're gonna

get better at it, , you know?

Or if they're really into skiing, they're gonna get better

at it cuz they like doing it.

So I feel like with, if you like doing something and there's a

place that it where it's fun to be.

, you're gonna get really good at drawing, or you're gonna wanna make the best

film you can, of, you know, anything.

Or maybe you could apply that to what you're doing.

Uh, , you know, interviewing somebody like you probably had to maybe practice

some and you've been practicing a lot , so for a bunch of years, which,

you know, which is really great.

And there's always, I think the thing afterwards when you have made something

that you go, oh, next time I'm gonna change this part and do it differently.

Like a learning when you're practicing something I think is really cool.

That's, I, I like that Bronwyn.

Thank you.

That's beautiful.

Yeah.

My, you know, kids today are really g great at Maneuvering advice because

they like it and they practice it, and it's very easy for them.

And I, yes, as a parent we do struggle with.

helping the kids understand you might not be good at it right now, but

when you do it several times playing soccer, try ice skating, skiing.

You didn't show up to the slopes knowing how to just ski down and do

a hockey stop and transition your weight from one ski to the next.

You've begun learning that and you've learned it over time.

So it's just with anything else.

If you give it an a try, . It's not gonna be the best the first time,

but over time you will get there.

it is true if you are, uh, you know, whatever, on whichever.

kind of media platform you're looking at, the stuff that we're seeing are

the clips of the people doing the best possible thing they've ever done.

And it is easy to go, oh, well I could never do that . But, but really what

went into them getting to that clip that we're, you know, that real or whatever

it is we're looking at is like years and years and years of obsession and practice

Mm-hmm.

So,

Yeah, some of that obsession.

Ouch.

Ouch.

For sure.

Brandon, we're gonna take a quick break to get a word from one of our sponsors,

and then we're gonna come back and learn more about you and the art association.

Welcome back I appreciate what you just shared with us as far as

practicing and learn, learning that creativity to be, whether to draw.

To write, to practice anything you gotta put forth the effort and

we gotta allow ourselves to fail.

And over the years, the art association, you were saying that it was initially

created because it was a way to help teach people how produce something and then

they could go sell it here in Jackson.

Now people listening in, not everybody here in Jackson is, has, understands

the history and the importance of back in the sixties of what that meant.

Could you share with people why that would've been so important,

especially back in the sixties and up to a certain point here in Jackson?

Yeah.

so I mean, all of this I is sort of all, all that I know and that we know a about

then, and the, you know, the creation of the art association, is, you know, some.

Stories and quotes from some awesome people.

But yeah, they also were trying to get more art in the schools.

Uh, so, you know, provide more art education for kids and, you

know, more skills for a adults.

and I don't know, um, trying to, Sort of imagine some of those classic

pictures of Jackson from the old days.

you know, I know in the early seventies there was one stoplight and I think there

were not very many paved streets in town.

Yeah.

I think something like the main highway

yeah, exactly.

the one that came in from the south of town and the one that went up

into the park was paved and maybe by the, I think it was a, before the

road in front of the wart was paved.

And my husband moved here in 1972 and he remembers the one stop light

. Mm-hmm.

so, I think it was, you know, and we didn't have the winter

activity that we do now.

you know, they were, I think, yeah, snow King was happening, but

we didn't really have, you know, that kind of tourism and activity.

And so I can imagine that.

The winters were really, really long and cold.

And, you know, the, a lot of the stuff that was happening here was

summer, summer based getting to the park and that kind of thing.

So, uh, yeah, I can, I can sort of imagine, people trying to also fill

their time with something constructive.

, when the days are short and it's cold.

So,

And do it indoors.

exactly.

. So, I, yeah, I think we've been, uh, sort of reflecting on that with,

you know, this six year anniversary and like, what, you know, what was

it like, and h you know, how many.

I don't know, just a really, it's a really fun marker when these kind of

things happen in this town where, where you can actually, because it's not very

old, you know, it's young in the grand scheme of things, and we've sort of

documented it so we can imagine and think about how much change has happened, know?

That in that amount of time, which I think is really wonderful.

And some of the people we, we know still , so you know who

were, who were there, , so.

what a, a remarkable practical vision that some people had to, to bring forth and.

. I can only imagine what maybe the art was in the school system back then

Yeah.

compared to what's available now.

And I've seen the class schedule for what the Art Association offers, and I

remember when guys, the Center for the Arts Open and you guys got that space and.

you have a ceramics room and so many different mediums of facilities.

Yeah, so we, we have over 10,000 square feet of classroom and

offices in the Center for the Arts.

We're one of 21 nonprofits in this building.

we take up the most space just by a tiny bit, little bit more than dancer's

workshop, but, a lot of times when I am, you know, touring people that

haven't been in here before, you know, it really comes back to me that it is

like a very small college art department.

It, it's amazing.

The, the kind of equipment and opportunity and studio space that we have available

to all ages in our community is amazing.

So we have, you know, we.

, toddlers coming to class and we have lifelong learners, coming to class

and any level of, you know, ability.

and making it, we have professional artists working in our studios and we

have brand new people who are wanting to learn how to, you know, paint

with watercolors or any other medium.

Yeah.

We have a, an incredible ceramic studio.

We have a multipurpose studio that, has a great jewelry making section.

We have we have fused glass.

We have a very small woodworking area.

We have.

Let's see.

I mean, you name it, we, we have probably three or four

different kinds of printmaking.

We do regularly.

We have a, a great, digital, a digital lab.

and that has, we do, and we have a ton of iPads.

So we do animation and photography with kids.

We have a wet dark room, and so we do some alternative process and black and

white photography, digital photography.

really great.

So if, if people are wanting to like, learn something new, it, it's such a

great place to be able to come with a.

And say, Hey, let you know, or with your partner or, or whoever.

Like, let's go take a one night class, or let's take a five or six

week long class and learn and learn something new or hone a skill.

Think of the impact that the art association has made and that you've

made in people's lives to help that creativity come alive within them.

Yeah, I feel like it, we're so lucky to be able to have organizations like this

and at the moment I'm helping steward it, but there, there have been a lot of other

people stewarding it in some, you know,

Well, Karen Stewart was one.

yes.

Karen.

Yeah.

Karen led the art association for 17 years, , so, and yeah, and was, and

gave me a lot of my first opportunities in a bunch of different areas.

It felt really great as a young, you know, 20 something to come here and have

this kind of a facility and this kind of an organization be really supportive of,

you know, newly person out of college.

I feel like that with a lot of different things that we have in

Jackson that we are, we are so lucky with the kinds of resources

that we have for all areas, and.

it's amazing.

it.

It's, and to see the art community here and how it helps.

people think and live freely

Yeah.

what's so cool about, about this building is that.

, you know, we have a really great music school and we have dancers workshop

doing dance, and we have, you know, you name it, the Writer's Workshop,

public art, the, you know, film it.

, and I'm just naming a few that are coming to the top of my head.

But it's really fun to be able to work with all of those organiza, all of

these organizations in the building.

we offer camps with Teton Music School.

We offer camps with the theater groups.

We, you know, so there are ways to.

Really, get active with all kinds of, uh, artistic mediums.

It's, it's neat

And I think I saw a flyer recently that you all have an event that's pretty

become pretty popular in town coming up.

Yeah.

Who done it?

It's coming.

Yes.

Who done it is such a great.

, it's one of our big fundraisers and it's also a great community event.

And, so it's, and I'm not gonna remember how many years we've doing it.

We've been doing it, but quite a few.

so Art, all artists, anybody can participate, can.

get a six by six canvas and paint on it, and you don't put your name on the

front, you put your name on the back.

And so the whole idea behind the name of it who done it, is

you come to an anonymous art show in sale and bid on a piece.

And who knows?

You know, maybe you can figure out whose style that is, but, Surprise when, when

you, bring your piece of art home and it might be made by you or by me or by

one of our kids, or, you know, anybody in the community can participate.

And we also have people making in by invitation, artists making 12

by 12 canvases and 18 by eighteens.

Uh, and there are some jewel people making jewelry as part of it.

it's a really great community event.

Because it is anonymous and because anybody can participate

And with that, who done it?

At one point due to Covid, it was online.

Is it now just all back in person?

No more online.

Correct?

we're using a online bidding system.

but everything is.

Being as we speak, hung in the building, in our gallery and in

other places in the, in the center.

and we will have a few, a few meaning, I don't know, 20 or so

pieces that are just, you will have to be there in person to bid on them.

but Yeah, if, if you weren't coming to the event, you could bid on a piece

still, through our, digital platform.

but the event itself is really great because you're able to see the artwork

in person and visit with everybody.

Well, it's always good to visit with people and it's not about rubbing elbows.

It's about shaking hands and giving people hugs and sharing experiences.

Yeah,

Yeah, great.

Bronwin, if people want to connect with you and learn more about

the art association and your art as well, how can they do that?

So at the Art Association, we have a really great,

website, art association.org.

and my email is bronwin art association.org.

and I would be happy to visit with anybody.

and if you're interested in looking at my work, uh, my website is bronwyn

minton.com and I have an Instagram, which is Bronwin Minton Studio.

and let's see, I also have have a few pieces of work at the Art Shop in

Moose, which is a really great store.

and then, yeah, for my other work I.

It's either on my website or, um, I'm working on a couple

of prospective, installations.

Exhibits.

So

I love it.

I love it.

Well, Bronwin, I appreciate what you're doing for people's creativity.

in this town and spreading that along.

And for everybody listening in, if you don't live here in in Jackson, find

a place in your community that can help you, build on your creativity.

Cuz we all have it.

just a matter of do we allow it to, to come out and be alive.

And, and that's so important.

We have to give it an opportunity.

We all can do it.

Exactly.

It's been very wonderful to be talking with you this afternoon.

Thank you so much for in, for inviting me.

You got we'll see you soon.

Maybe at a Rotary.

Yes.

fight today.

I love Rotary

Yes.

Rotary is a beautiful organization, very impactful around the world, and go have a

great day and enjoy time with your family.

You

too.

Thanks.

You too.

All right, bye Bronwyn.

To learn more about Bronwyn Minton and the art culture here in Jackson

Hole, visit the Jackson hole

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