lease join the Wyoming Wilderness Association and Jackson Hole Public Art at The Center for two moderated panel discussions featuring expert voices in wildland conservation and stewardship on October 29th at 5:30 pm, as they discuss the need for and future of wilderness within the Cowboy State, and stewardship through art.

Panel Discussions
5:30 – 6:30 Home For All: Reflecting on 60 years of Wilderness in Wyoming, moderated by Dr. Shane Doyle (Apsáalooke)
7:00 – 8:00 LandSignals: Indigenous Interventions and Stewardship Through Art, moderated by Ninabah Reid Winton (Diné)

The 5:30 panel will be led by Dr. Shane Doyle, panelists with a deep connection to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) will reflect on collective efforts in wildland conservation, including the challenges and opportunities for growth from the perspective of agency managers, Tribal representatives, and regional researchers. Using the anniversaries of the National & Wyoming Wilderness Acts as a lens, this panel will explore what future decades of comprehensive and equitable public land management within the GYE might look like.

Home for All Panelists
Linda Merigliano (Bridger-Teton National Forest)
Lauren Redmore (Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute)
Iva Moss (Indigenous youth educator)
Nolan Brown (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)
Colleen Friday (Greater Yellowstone Coalition)

A second discussion on LandSignals: Indigenous Interventions and Stewardship Through Art, featuring the LandSignals artists and curator Ninabah Reid Winton will follow at 7:00. LandSignals is a year-long public art exhibit highlighting Indigenous artists whose ecological knowledge, expressed through public artworks, can reveal ways to become better stewards of the natural resources and cultural heritage of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and beyond. Artists will discuss the themes, influences and motivations behind their art, as well as the creative processes, challenges, stories and successes that shaped their work with Jackson Hole Public Art. Discussion will further center on how art can encourage connection to the land; how Indigenous lifeways and thinking inform place and practice; as well as how cultural and artistic stewardship align to intervene in public spaces in pursuit of envisioning a future that authentically includes Indigenous voices and knowledge to better steward the natural resources and cultural heritage of the GYE.

LandSignals Panelists
Ben Pease, (Crow/ Northern Cheyenne)
Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota/Mohegan/Muscogee)
Rachel Berg (Mnicoujou Lakota, Mexican, and German lineages)
Nanibah Chacon (Diné [Navajo] and Chicana Artist)

LandSignals is funded in part with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from Mary Armour, Agnes Bourne, Petria and Scott Fossel, Leslye and David Hardie, Kate Jensen, Carrie F. Kirkpatrick DA Fund of CFJH, Marshall and Veronique Parke, Katrina and Brandon Ryan, Christy Walton, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, US Bank, History Jackson Hole, Center for the Arts, Wyoming Arts Council, Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, Wyoming Humanities, Wyoming Wilderness Association, National Elk Refuge, The Nature Conservancy, Grand Teton Association, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, JH Travel and Tourism Board, Jackson Hole Land Trust, Charter Communications and Ovation TV, Teton Recreation District, Fighting Bear Antiques, The Alpine House, Mountain Modern, Outpost, Town Square Inns, Snake River Brewing.