Advocacy for Visual Arts
The Advocacy for Visual Arts, Inc. is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of the visual arts in our region by working in partnership with the community to support a place for inspiration, expression, and education.
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AVA Receives $5,000 for Art & Leadership Program - 6/9/2008
Thank you to First Interstate Bank of Gillette and First Interstate BancSystem Foundation for supporting the AVA Community Art Center... More |
$500 for Childrens' Scholarships - 4/28/2008
AVA was a recent recipient of $500 from Pearls of the Prairie at their annual Awards Dinner on April 26,... More |
Foundation Coal West, Inc. Donates to AVA! - 3/7/2008
Foundation Coal West, Inc. on behalf of the employees of Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines operating in Campbell County,... More |
AVA Awarded $5,000 for Art & Leadership - 1/17/2008
Rocky Mountain Power Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the 2008 AVA Art & Leadership Program, which encourages and supports youth... More |
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Marte Stines
Multi-Media Artist
Marte Stines is a contemporary Wyoming artist whose passion for "outside the line Creativity" is vividly expressed in her mixed-media paintings and collages and batiks. She is continually exploring new media, techniques and tools, keeping her spirit challenged."My ever-evolving artistic interest is based upon diverse influences; recent research, personal discoveries, archtypes, fascination with ancient and present mythologies and mysticism. . ."
With a background in the graphic arts and education in Applied and Art History, Marte devotes her talents full-time to professional art. She lives and works in Northeastern Wyoming.
"Living in Wyoming has altered me, and allowed exporations of isolation and connections to the natural world in my creative process. I am constantly inspired by the vastness of the Wyoming sky, the energy of a mountain crag or the introspection of the smooth prairie, and how they are relevant to my art and life. At this time in my life and art, collage especially has become like my mental relief map. It seems to identify my guideposts, yet requires a deeper reading of the map, by myself and the viewer.I love the ambiguity, the revealing and discovery over time of new layers of meaning or textures within or a shift in the light exposing another possibility.
Art is my communication of life; feeling and meanings concealed as if in shadows, then an opening of emotional curtains, a revealing of more mysteries."
Marte is represented on line by Art-Exchange in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She is a member of the Advocacy for the Visual Arts (AVA) in Gillette, WY and is in the on-line Artist Gallery. Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the country and Eastern Europe and has been shown regionally in numerous juried exhibitions.
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