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      • May 2025: Wyoming Wilderness
      • June 2025: Large Abstract
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        • January 2024: 22nd Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2024: Anything Goes
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        • August 2024: AVA's MINI 5x5 Art Matters Auction
        • September 2024: Ceramics Show
        • September 2024: Mark Wigner Showcase
        • September 2024: Party Line Project
        • November 2024: AVA Members Invitational
        • November 2024: Watercolor Group
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        • February 2023: Anything Goes
        • March 2023: CCSD Student Show
        • April 2023: Patrick Love and Irene Daly
        • May 2023: Extreme
        • June 2023: John Dumbrill
        • July 2023: Drawing and Painting
        • August 2023: Harvest
        • August 2023: MINI 5x5 Auction
        • September 2023: John Werbelow
        • September 2023: Christopher Amend
        • October 2023: Lettering and Favorite
        • October 2023: Everybody's Photo Club
        • November 2023: Watercolor Group
        • November 2023: Functional Art
        • November 2023: Donated Art
      • 2022 Exhibitions >
        • January 2022: AVA's 20th Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2022: Wyoming Textile Artists
        • February 2022: Inkteraction: Prints from BHSU
        • March 2022: CCSD Student Show
        • April 2022: Trees
        • May 2022: Behind Our Masks: A Featured Exhibition by Daniel Florin Tomiaga Lerwick
        • May 2022: Donated Art Pop Up-Show >
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        • June 2022: Mixed Media
        • June 2022: Embracing Imperfections by Irene Daly
        • June 2022: Propulsion by Rachael Anderson
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        • August 2022: Less is More
        • August 2022: MINI 5x5 Auction
        • September 2022: Florence Alfano McEwin and Bart Fetz
        • October 2022: Edie Reno & Anugraha Norstegaard
        • November 2022: Loved Ones
        • November 2022: Watercolor Group
      • 2021 Exhibitions >
        • January 2021: AVA's 19th Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2021: Still Life Exhibition
        • February 2021: From Pen to Pencil
        • March 2021: CCSD Elementary Student Show
        • April 2021: Photography Exhibition
        • May 2021: CCSD Senior Student Show
        • June 2021: Mixed Media
        • July 2021: Drawing & Painting Exhibit
        • July 2021: Three Loose Screws
        • August 2021: Chasing Light
        • October 2021: Symbiosis
        • November 2021: Cartoons
      • 2020 Exhibits >
        • April 2020: VAST: Spaces of the West
        • June 2020: Larger than Life
        • July 2020: Man's Best Friend
        • July 2020: Drawing & Painting
        • August 2020: Abstract Invitational
        • September 2020: Mark Wigner
        • September 2020: Watercolor Exhibition
        • October 2020: Haunted
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 Myths and Totems
  Florence Alfano McEwin, Red Riding Hood Speaks , Works in Print  
  Bart Fetz, Clay Constructions of Animal Figurations

Myths:
 “A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining
  some natural or social phenomenon….”

Totems:
 “A natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance…. “

In her prints, Florence Alfano McEwin consciously plays with the myth of Red Riding Hood, revising its’ content to envision a life after Red Riding Hood and the Wolf have set up household together and  are dealing with 21st century tensions.  Within her revisionist works, the real, the interpreted and the imagined find their way as mixed metaphors.  Present, are male - female tensions considered with a playful twist of feminine empowerment.  She approaches these prints in a manner that is conscious of the materials and the applications. They are hand pulled non-traditional photo intaglios, with chine collé of found or invented  applications of paper. Within this process, she re-contextualizes the pleasures of childhood play – paper dolls, books and puzzles.  Ephemera of magazine imagery and story books are processed through the imagination and manipulated, embedding the prints with visual innuendos while reflecting on her  surroundings ,social mores  and myths of the American west.  

Bart Fetz states that animal forms inhabit his work through unconscious impulse and conscious decision. Within his process, layers of significance - form and surface, image, content, visual cohesion, and functionality - are combined providing the object with a  vital energy.  Further, he endeavors through the utilization of asymmetry to find the symmetry of the process. This contradiction brings life to his objects as it occurs in the natural world. Within series of Fetz’s on view  the Rabbit figures prominently to do this very embodiment of  natural spirit.   His clay is a totemic expression of nature as it has been used universally by all societies ancient to contemporary.  

Alfano McEwin is a Wyoming artist of print and paint mediums who often merges the two pursuits, while exploring concepts beyond the making process. Her prints of Red Riding Hood Speaks presented here are wry commentaries on daily male/female interactions and mundane domestic chores. She often entwines observational landscapes of her surroundings and animal drawings of her pets into these images. Her paintings and prints have been appreciated by international and national audiences including those in Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, the Netherlands and France. Among her awards for these works are the prestigious George and Helen Segal Foundation Award in Painting ( NJ), both 2017 and 2009 Wyoming State Art Fellowships and  an international print award in Beijing China, to highlight a few. Her works are included and written about in the art appreciation text, The Aesthetics of Art, Liza Renia Papi ,Cognella Publishing 2017, St. John’s University , NY.  Alfano McEwin holds a Ph.D on the aesthetics of art from the College of the Visual Arts at Un. of N. Texas, Denton.  She is a Professor Emeritus, Western Wyoming Community College, now pursuing her art full time.     

Bart Fetz is in charge of the Ceramic and Sculpture Program at WWCC. His work is shown and purchased nationally and internationally, from NW College in Powell, Wyoming to Tokyo, Japan and is included in public collections across the country.  His work reflects a celebration of nature and an appreciation for its’ animal inhabitants.  He received a Masters of Fine Arts form the College of the Visual Arts , UNT, Denton after graduating from UW Laramie .

Myths and Totems: Florence Alfano McEwin & Bart Fetz

Bad Luck Day
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Singing In The Rain
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Relay Race
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Stand Off
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Queen In The House of Cad
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Let’s Go Jack
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Ever After
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Dizzyland
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Why Didn’t You Fix The Plumbing When I Asked?
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Cat’s Cradle Gone Awry
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Grandma’s
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Leadership Is More Than Howling
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Hopscotch
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Covid Suspension
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The Spring of Global Warming
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Teeter Totter ( ci- ça)
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Covid Courtship
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1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
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I’m Staying, Adam
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Cat Bottle with Lid
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Cat Bottle with No Lid
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Rabbit Bottle
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Soldier - Large Rabbit Jar
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Soldier - Red Medallion
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Boo - Rabbit Form
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One Palm - Soldier
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Weebles - Rabbit Bottle
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Sleepy Boo - Cat Bottle
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Soldier - Not Heavy, My Brother
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Cat Cups
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