Don Stinson is a contemporary artist who uses traditional methods and materials. His painting I-80 Energy Romance portrays a western landscape, but also depicts a gas station sign, truck tracks, and windmills. Karen McWhorter, the curator of the Whitney Western Art Museum, said this landscape is clearly shaped by human hands. “But signs of human […]
If you have been to the Center of the West either of the last two summers, you have probably seen our Superheroes of Nature show. During the thirty minute program, we discuss the amazing adaptations of four or five of our birds. These adaptations are what allow these wild animals to survive in nature and are […]
At the beginning of the twentieth century, well-known naturalist and popular writer John Burroughs criticized a group of authors for their works of fiction featuring wildlife and nature, giving them the unwelcome label of “nature fakers.” Even President Theodore Roosevelt agreed with Burroughs’s criticism in a 1907 interview. The writers so labeled included renowned artist […]