Mark Ritchie at Saturday U- Make 100 of Them?:  The Contemporary Artist Print in the American West
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2014-12-09

Mark Ritchie, Professor of Art at University of Wyoming, presented his talk on printmaking at Saturday U in Jackson, Wyoming at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in March 2014.

The paintings of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt of the Tetons and other Western landscapes reached the larger American populace through inexpensive works on paper, prints.  Their images helped Americans see these places as valuable and helped create the desire and political will to protect “wilderness” as parks. Artist and printmaker Mark Ritchie speaks about his own work and how he sees himself as an artist living in the rural west and building on these traditions.

Saturday U is free and open to the public. For more details, or to register for college credit or Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB) credit, call Susan Thulin, CWC outreach coordinator, (307) 733-7425.

Saturday U is a collaborative program connecting popular UW professors with Wyoming residents who have a desire to learn. Saturday University is sponsored by the University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming Foundation and the Wyoming Humanities Council. The program is presented locally by Central Wyoming College, National Museum of Wildlife Art and Teton County Library Foundation.

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